skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three might be a crowd but four appears to be the magic number when it comes to conversation. And, according to an academic who has spent decades studying how we socialise, William Shakespeare instinctively understood that.

Professor Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at the University of Oxford, is known for “Dunbar’s number”, which alludes to his theory that most of us are able to sustain about 150 social connections.

But his research has also explored how people act in smaller groups. At Cheltenham Science Festival he explained that when it comes to having an enjoyable chat, the upper limit is a gang of four. When social groups have five or more members, the chances of them laughing together plummets.

He said: “You very rarely get more than four people in a conversation. In the normal run of things, when a fifth person joins a group, it’ll become two conversations within about 20 seconds.” Alternatively, a “lecture” situation develops in which one person holds court and the others act as an audience.

In larger groups, “you have to decide whether the person who is speaking is really so important you’d rather be standing there saying nothing”, he said. If the speaker is not very interesting, the audience tends to splinter into groups of four or fewer. Dunbar believes that the underlying reason is that we can only track what a certain number of people are likely to be thinking at one time.

Scientists call this the “theory of mind”, which involves being able to see the world from another person’s perspective. Also known as “mentalising”, it is crucial for conversation because people often use imprecise language, which makes context important. “The language we use is full of metaphors and unfinished sentences. The listener has to be able to figure out what it is the speaker is trying to say,” said Dunbar.

Additionally, the speaker must track whether those they are talking to are following their meaning. Dunbar believes that the limits of our ability to predict the thoughts of others in this way explains why groups that work in challenging situations — such as SAS patrols and surgical teams — tend to do best when there are four members.

In The Social Brain, co-authored by Dunbar, he argues that Shakespeare must have intuitively known about this phenomenon as it is rare for his plays to have more than four significant characters speaking in one scene.

He wrote: “[Shakespeare] instinctively understood the mentalising capacities of his audience. He was anxious to ensure his audience wasn’t cognitively overloaded by the number of minds in the action on stage. [It is] a masterclass in the study of human psychology.”
That may aso be a factor, but in general machines under 500 euro cannot be repaired economically as it easily costs 100-200 before the manufacturer even has a look. And this usually results in replacing a subassembly like the entire PCB at a very inflated price of say 200. I wouldn't be surprised if the economical-to-repair threshold is well over 1000 for a lot of product categories. Third party professional repairers are all but extinct. Only for certain specific product categories (e.g. washing machines) you still have them. But as most washing machines cost around 500 euro, and are expected to last only 5 years, I would think the number of repairers are declining (why repair a 3 year old 400 euro machine for 250, for at most another 2 years of utility if a new one can be had for 400?).

I would love to know if there are professional shops where one can get e.g. a capacitor on a PCB replaced, but as far as I am aware all these kinds of repairs are done by amateurs in garages like myself.

The other day someone even gave me a broken 750 euro Jura coffee machine. The owner was not interested in getting it back, they had happily switched to nespresso. Still haven't figured out why the pcb will not power on the heater though
when i say FLIR i mean the things that militaries use, not the little doodad you plug into a cellphone or a handheld device with a screen and a camera. I was under the impression these things loitered much longer than any commercial quadcopter or normal battery powered aircraft. if my understanding is correct, that leaves two options - a glider, which is weight constrained so probably just a gopro or two, or a fueled aircraft, in which case, FLIR makes sense because that's a decent platform.

the reports were "flying around for hours" but that could be exaggeration and it flew a pattern several times over a couple of hours but was landing to swap batteries or whatever. IDK. I think this is all much ado about nothing.
These ecelebs are just like prostitutes. You're not really having a relationship.
Linux not even mentioned once, it is Ubuntu®©

Who is their target audience? definitely not me
make it open hardware!
Was rather surprised to see Russian / Urdu with the strong preference for the former. I do not speak either.

I wonder if the founder being Russian is related to the virtually unlimited availability of reliable training data? :)
I've used git effectively and painlessly for many years, and pretty much all commands I ever use are commit, pull, push, checkout, merge and rebase. :) And diff if for whatever reason my IDE is not open already.
No we can't cause it was absolutely a turning point in Google's trajectory.

After Reader, it was Currents, Google TV, Picasa, Google Now, Spaces, Chromecast Audio,Inbox, GCM, Nest, Fusion Tables, Google Cloud Print, Google Play Music, Google Bookmarks, Chrome Apps, G Suite....

Reader keeps coming up because after Reader, Google's motto turned into "Do be Evil"
The one thing keeping me from switching fulltime is the friction of keeping unstaged changes in the repo. It's pretty common for me to have some throwaway lines like DEBUG = true or setLogLevel(LogLevel.VERBOSE) that are "permanent" in my dev environment but I never want to commit.

With git I can just `git add --patch` and skip over these at commit time (which I like, since I review my own code as I'm staging it), but jj doesn't have the index and pushes you to commit all changes by default. I know there are workarounds like `jj split` but it ended up being more work than git, where I can just not add those changes in the first place.
I spent forever trying to drag the year slider, until I realized it wasn't a slider but a text box.
I would probably go for a sob story about why a right-wing conspiracy theorist with a talk show caused me $1B in damages by saying nonsense 99.9% of the US and none of my employers believe. While simultaneously using the notoriety created by said loon to beg for money for cancer treatment.
You have very quickly glossed over on why would the tech people be unable to reboot the entire service, and immediately jumped to hand-waving as "stealing the IP". The company is bankrupt, it does not need the IP. And the customers still need their product that you promised to support. And if you have not promised, you should be forced to promise, otherwise what's the point? It's like selling air that can escape at any time. Nope. I'll steer away from those businesses like I always have, and like most sensible people do.

> Holding startup founders personally liable if their product or business fails before 7 years and their business can’t be open sourced would create a very bad business environment, to say the least.

Maybe. That's a conjecture; a hypothesis at best. At the same time it might introduce pressure to have the licensing craziness tamed and streamlined. It's way too complex and hinders innovation, as you half-alluded to.
Sorry but the linked article shows the exact opposite phenomenon: when parents had to pay a late-arrival fee, the number of late parents noticeably increased.

In open source the free-loaders are the entitled ones, expecting maintainers to move mountains to accomodate them.

In fact, I am led to believe that they superficially look the same, but are very different phenomenons with very different results. I feel that the open source maintainer burnout is not driven by price, but by sheer scale of reaching so many "customers" worldwide of any type, which includes nasty people. If 1% of people are narcissists, and your modest library on GitHub is used by 100,000 people, you'll have to deal with 1,000 potential entitled idiots, which is very stressful for a non-paid volunteer job. I bet that if your library was sold for a nominal price, as your link shows, you'd get even more entitled users. The fact is that not many paid products reach as many users as any average open source project. Most of the world is much poorer than the Western countries, and their only choice often is open source.
You don't necessarily need to believe the AI is a human for it to tickle the ingrained social instincts you're looking for. For example, I'm quite aware that AI's are just tools, and yet I still feel a strong need to be "polite" in my requests to ChatGPT. "Please do ...." or "Can you...?" and even "Thanks, that worked! Now can you..." etc.
Maybe on bankruptcy, any source code or data should not be part of the sale of the company to potential buyers, but first examined to see if it should be owned by the customers instead. Also relevant to 23andMe.
You can drag the red dot on the timeline.
Neither Scaleway, Oracle nor AWS ever asked me to scan an ID document to prove my identity. I presume my debit card details were sufficient.
Too much growth can be a problem too, according to this other article strings are at most 255 bytes long:

https://retro64.altervista.org/blog/garbage-collection-commo...

Which would limit the loop to 1 + 2 + 4 ... 128 = 255. You could start off with this, but making it work and filling exactly 8000 might be too complicated.
Hi, author here!

The HTML version can be "printed to PDF".

There is no "manually layouted" PDF available however. That requires manual typesetting the whole book, which is weeks or months of extra work. I will do that if I ever make it into a physical book. At that point an official PDF would also become available.

That said, many of my readers like having the HTML version in a window next to their code window. I think it is the best experience on a computer. On the iPad I would probably read the EPUB. But if you prefer PDF, then print the HTML version to PDF.

Have a nice day! /Karl Zylinski
You mean like Thousand Sails [1]?

1. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/06/china-launches-its-rival...
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And you need the private keys, the certificates, the cloud domains.

Can’t release those publicly, so you’d need someone to hold the domains, the certs, they private keys, and operate the servers. That costs money, so they’d need to collect payments and manager customers. Starting to look an awful lot like running the company again.

You probably also need the customer database including user accounts and user data. Obviously can’t release that, so you’d need some process to release everyone’s data individually on some ongoing basis.

And you couldn’t release any code that was licensed rather than owned, so users couldn’t build most software anyway without acquiring their own licenses for that 3rd-party code.

There are so many problems with this idea that would prevent it from being viable.
Makes sense. That said, fidgeting and moving around is spontaneous when on the floor, you don’t have to be reminded to do it. Also, no chair is cheaper than an expensive chair.
The joke is, the federal government isn't big due to employee headcount, it's big due to all the shit it spends money on. The headcount is only 2.87 million. Cutting that headcount isn't going to do a thing for "small government".

Meanwhile, between NY State and NY City, there are a total of almost 1 million government employees. I can tell where the inefficiency lies and it's not the fed headcount lol.

But who knows, maybe they'll finally cut social security and medicare that makes up 55% of the federal budget. We'll have rampant homelessness on every street from old people, just like the pre-1800s, but that's the vibe they are going for.
The TimeMap is in fact loading the data from OpenHistoricalMap on the deep zoomlevels (streets) so if you edit OpenHistoricalMap roads and houses it will be displayed there.

See Lille for example - and play with timeline here:

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions#position=13...

You will see directly how the town center has developed, fortifications, railways or highway... damn cool! :-)
I think you know more than me on the subject. I have never cared about calories in my life and never really cared about my weight.

I lived abroad for a year and, when coming back home, started eating healthily (i.e. more greens and less reds, avoiding added salt). In about 3 months, I managed to reduce my weight by 10% - about 6kg. Although I have to admit, if anything, I wanted to keep those kilograms because it was helping me for weight-training lol. My objective was never to lose weight.
I really really like the concepts of Bazel, but it feels like you have to jump through a lot of hoops to use it in a non-monorepo setup :/

I hope to find the time to build a PoC one day…
Thelio Astra ARM64 is now available
What claim do you think I'm making?
There is zero new information in the responses from Hetzner. Their claim to have sent an email but that claim was already relayed in the mastodon thread.
> Neither FBI nor Pentagon have ability to fly drones in the US airspace at will.

And neither of those agencies ever did anything they're not "able" to do... regularly...
I think it's a matter of tact, that not all doctor will have equally. How they approach the topic, how compassionate they are when doing so, and how much they pester you about it.
> And many will prevail in sizes you can't even imagine.

Been more than a year, still waiting.

Sure, it might take 50. But the AI craziness is made no less crazy in the meantime. Way too much time and money thrown for fairly marginal benefits.
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Some of it is confusion about what say a 404 entails, is it the endpoint that does not exist, or that say /api/users returns an empty array for the given search parameters. Some libraries even throw an error if they receive a 404.
Probably ambiguity in the HTTP spec.
Fire and foxes, presumably.
Is it really "all totally wrong"?
I did find it odd when this news reporter said of the craft "it's really difficult to show you with our camera, so we have to show you with our phones." You'd think a broadcast-grade camera rig would be better than a smartphone at this.

At the 11-second mark: https://youtu.be/M186uZ1RCxU?t=11
None and the problem I see is we have too many tools
There's a blog post here about using Odin for making operating system: https://flysand7.hashnode.dev/writing-an-os-kernel-in-odin
We've also had a couple generations of folks trained to treat 'foreign' sounding speakers as authoritative, due to most call center and support work being shuffled to non-US-based places. Calling a 'local' cable company and getting someone in Phillipines or India giving support is the norm, and many folks are now accustomed to giving details and account authorization for things to people who sometimes can't form coherent or natural-flowing sentences.
Attracting attention in one direction can be misdirection. I have no idea if that is the case here, simply felt like it's an avenue not considered.
6 months ago, I would have recommended my Carbide 3D Pro line, but starting 6 months ago, parts started failing one by one, it is now a CNC of Theseus. I had to buy a new controller board because sensors kept failing and Support would send me new sensors gratis, but I'd be down for a week while I waited and then attached the new one. After a handful of those, they guessed (still don't know how correct that guess is) that it was the controller board, but they didn't send that gratis, I had to buy that. When waiting for that to arrive, I received my most recent replacement sensor that was DOA. So I had to do some wire splicing and create a few Frankenstein's Sensors to get me through the holiday. So far my splices are holding up, but I don't have faith they will for long. After the Christmas Season, I need to decide if I'm going to keep repairing or go for a much better machine. In the $5k price range, they are all SO MUCH BETTER than what I have, and I paid nearly $4k in 2022.
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Which is probably good, as 100mw focused in a very tight beam could cause considerable mischief.
Call me crazy but I've never seen 'nitpicking' in the definition of history: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/history
Dollar's surge sparks biggest fall in emerging market currencies in 2 years
This technology may well "fill in the blanks" with small flying objects too. Make them look like the most common i.e. airliner or helicopter.
That would reinforce my causal suggestion no?

We have two places that fat shamed, one got fat, one stayed lean. That tells us fat shaming doesn't seem to be a factor in getting fat or not.

But the place that has low level of obesity still fat shames. Where as the place where everyone is fat stopped fat shaming. So that seem to show that when the majority is fat, fat shaming tends to stop.
It's possible to create a custom network for libvirt, but you have to add a static route to in the router for the other hosts in your LAN to see the VMs.

Using virsh, you can dump the default network with net-dumpxml, which is the default bridge libvirt creates, modify it and create another network. Add the modified file with net-create (non-persistent) or net-define.

This way the VMs can participate in the LAN and, at the same time, the LAN can see your VMs. Works with wifi and doesn't depend on having workarounds for bridging wifi and ethernet. Debian has a wiki entry on how to bridge with a wireless nic [0] but I don't think it's worth the trouble.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_wi...
Are the signatures available to the end user? I would love to set up a call screener that only accepts verified calls, as most spam uses spoofed numbers. I'm assuming that the major players implement the protocol at least .. I'm ok if the filter rejects things that aren't real land lines or cell phones.
Problem is metadata is taking much more time/space to fill in and context to be encoded will be awful lot of typing for a person.

When writing code context is encoded in the code and if you start on new project you need to read documentation and ask people around to pass you the context so you don’t need metadata. Or so to say all stuff that is in tickets and documentation plus what is in other teammates heads.

There’s just no way it will be efficient to somehow drop all of it while you want to do the code.
Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder but Pijul claims to be "easy to learn and use".

https://pijul.org/
Yep, we know already which sub cultures will dominate.
Could you give an example? Like a specific year when the map is not accurate?
What you’re suggesting is a ban on licensing closed source software.

Any country that did something like this would see every hardware company immediately relocate to a different country that didn’t have such weird laws.

Regulation like this is how you completely crush a country’s tech industry.

> landfills are overflowing

Tech waste is a tiny fraction of all garbage. People throw out more volumes of household trash in a week than they might discard tech devices in many years.
Yeah it's a mess as a consumer you have to verify that even the most basic things work. Years ago I was using Nord when I discovered that it was silently failing to actually connect me to the VPN despite showing I had connected, so I reported the issue and they told me not to worry it was a known issue. To my knowledge, they never issued any security disclosures.
The company owners did. But the phone operators were (to my understanding) reasonably well paid. However income dropped off with the introduction of video chat(first on sky TV, then internets).

One of my former colleagues bought a flat in london with the proceeds from their dancing in night clubs. Which I thought at the time, and still do, is might impressive. They keep that private, for a number of sadly obvious reasons, however they are not ashamed of it.

They refused video chat, because it was less protected, and less anonymous. In a (good) club, you are protected by bouncers, no phones, no intimidation. OF and the rest you have limited control on who shares your stuff, so its much harder to be a part time model.
Not as high tech as Starlink - one geostationary satellite - but twenty years ago I was using Thuraya, a Dubai based satellite service, to communicate from Tibet in a way that was not officially allowed by the Chinese but they couldn't do much about unless they searched my luggage for the phone I guess.
> The company is bankrupt, it does not need the IP

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how bankruptcy works if you don’t think the IP is important in bankruptcy.

> Maybe. That's a conjecture; a hypothesis at best.

It’s not conjecture, it’s simple fact.

If you introduce laws making founders personally liable if their product fails within 7 years, you create a hostile environment for startups. It’s very simple.
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AI thought knee X-rays show if you drink beer–they don't
The research paper is at:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79838-6
Thank you for the help, I really appreciate it. I wish for you to find the mentorship you're looking for
..and Abichandani is reported to be an actual academic (in drone swarming technology) at a prestigious university that is local to the observations, not an enthusiast or politician!

In next room, I have a nearly 100yo man who, in a small group of people using computers with (literal) core memory, invented the technology, satellites and delivery systems to do Reconnaissance from orbit and more importantly, to spot the first signatures of arial weapons systems, yet downvoted here in the dystopian future when I merely correct the peanut gallery for spreading obvious fiction that America's ability to spot drones does not go back further than 20 years (or that the internal proprietary code of the latest ESP32 series Chinese MCUs has the well known ability to receive firmware updates via RF, even from Chinese balloons, Chinese LEO Starlink competitors and yes, drones).
Still waiting for what? When OpenAI gets another 100 billion net worth?

Marginal benefits? Even just Github Copilot itself is absolutely worth it, itself probably a billion dollar company, and changed the world.
Dioxus is the only web-platform technology toolkit that I see having the ability to be cross-platform and use Javascript as little as possible - glad to see their native WGPU rendering stack progress (check out the videos by Nico Burns on Blitz, Taffy etc)
I think you need more how-to video content vs theoretical explanation. How to source motors, how to source batteries, what batteries are best, what is a converter, etc. I think if you ramp up the video production, maybe find a local shop or other local youtube content creators working on cars to collaborate on a project car. Essentially you need to prove to the audience that you can help them on an EV conversion project.

To make it scale, do what other content creators do and create a private, paid content area with more detailed videos or create a paid course people can go through that steps them through a conversion process.