skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that point the enormously powerful central players like big tech and militaries and tax collectors will be more than incentivezed to use every remaining resource they have to bring everything back online and re-centralize power. And if they can't - society and power wasn't exactly more distributed in the distant past lol. Your local warlord/military dictator/whatever will probably not be supportive of nerds acting independently.
Weird. I haven't had a problem with my System76 laptops.
The Bahia Emerald. Wired's article on it was good The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Ruins Lives:

(57 points, 6 years ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18105371

(19 points, 8 years ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13808146
>Also people want the same tool to handle both python version and venv creation and requirement installation

This is the part I don't understand. Why should it be the same tool? What advantage does that give over having separate tools?
Decades ago, when I was a teenager, and saw that “master/slave” was a technical term, it made me uncomfortable- like, it has so much baggage for a technical term.

I’m guessing that the master branch is not a master/slave reference, but “master copy”. But I think main is just as good, so I really don’t care that it got caught up in the movement. This is just language naturally evolving, which I know many people are fundamentally against on an ideological basis.

To me, fighting the changes of language over time is like yelling at the wind. Just let it go and focus on what’s truly important (almost everything else). People will advocate for changes and they will stick or they won’t. If you are an effective communicator, you really shouldn’t have too much trouble keeping up.
The frequency and severity of enforcement are the distinguishing factors here.
>But start with the wealthiest please.

(Very) wealthy families already face stiff inheritance and/or estate taxes at both Federal and State levels. Important note, most middle class and all lower class families and individuals will never face inheritance/estate taxes.
I sure hope they are already well into fixing the issues and that the resignation is just for posterity and shareholder appeasement, otherwise, any significant change will take half a year at minimum!

I’m now annoyingly used opening my Sonos app once, closing it, opening it again to get the damn ui to load current streams on any of the speakers.
Yet another reason to self host your VCS. Only thing hosted to “the cloud” these days are my backups - split between S3 and GCS.

~$25/mo
If Jeff is using DataCenter XYZ, and then letting me use his API to manage my VMs on his "cloud", and I decide to rent a cage at the exact same DataCenter XYZ on my own servers, I'm now "self-hosting".

Same Datacenter. Same reliability infrastructure wise - power, earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons, black plague, monkey pox, etc.
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Convenience is nice.
The best way to get into any company is to get a strong referral from someone who knows you and can speak meaningfully to your abilities. I think this is especially true for big tech due to the massive volume of applications they get.

However, realistically I think this is a difficult time to be trying to get into big tech. A lot of these companies have been doing layoffs, while ramping up their hiring of H1Bs and moving jobs out of the US. At the same time, it feels like there is kind of an informal hiring freeze while companies wait and see how AI develops before possibly deciding to jettison a large fraction of their workforce completely.

Sorry I don't have better advice, but this is my personal take from someone who has worked in big tech in SV.
they will change their mind when they are all unemployed.
I often see "recycled" or similar as a signal for more expensive.

That's just because of this new wave of eco-virtue-signaling that's become popular in the past few years. Before that, recycled meant lower quality and cheaper.

See also: "vegan butter" or "plant-based butter" instead of "hydrogenated vegetable oil".
Not sure where this title is from, the page is: Auditing Algorithms @ Northeastern (but maybe this was a deep link that was stripped during submission?)

Ah, looks like this should be the URL: http://personalization.ccs.neu.edu/Projects/PriceDiscriminat...

PDF: https://personalization.ccs.neu.edu/static/pdf/imc151-hannak...
If they give it a budget of $75M, maybe they’ll make $765M in revenue from the movie.

Not that the guy would see any of that money either though.
Why would I introduce randomness where I don't have to? I'd regret this as soon as I had to debug something related to it.
we moved into a home that had wired speakers installed in every room all to a central Sonos enabled device - it is all old. It worked perfectly until this.

Funny thing is, we thought it was silly when we moved in - then we grew to love it. Now I hate them!
I know next to nothing about landfills, but isn’t that bound to happen anyways, just over a much longer timespan?
> The council said that excavating the landfill site would let harmful substances escape into the environment, endangering residents with "potentially serious risks which raises public health issues and environmental concerns," the ruling said.

The extreme unlikelihood of finding the drive in a salvageable condition combined with the near certainty of polluting the local community makes it a pretty clear decision to me.
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I've implemented both UPnP discovery and mDNS, and mDNS was quite a bit easier to make reliable than UPnP. However, if they did have a reliable UPnP system, it would almost certainly destabilise the software for any transition like this. There's just so many different network issues to deal with, it's tough to debug when a user reports a problem and it's probably an issue with their router which is only sold in Germany. It is very frustrating class of bugs, when the app just doesn't find devices on the network.
I'm hoping you're wrong. I just made a simplified version, which is just the concertina-ed paper without the parallel reverse folds to angle the keyboard up. Its made from a 96gsm a3 sheet.

My reasoning for thinking it's safe is that 451F/230C would probably damage/burn/melt the cheap plastic table it normally sits on.
They just recently snuck bombs into a supply chain and then remotely detonated them in positions where the caused civilian injuries. I would assume the comment has nothing to do with religion/race, and everything to do with the actions taken. Even for someone that is a supporter of that government, it's hard to deny they've taken some actions that are unsupportable.
The market has matured, but as of a year ago, there isn't another solution that I could drop in that could replace my SONOS system. SONOS is so far ahead and had to establish themselves by solving for so many fringe use cases that they are generally the only ones who have things like the connect:amps to bridge wired outdoor speakers and architectural in-ceiling/in-garden speakers within the same ecosystem

I'm sure that at some point, Samsung or Google or Sony or some upstart will catch up, but it will be a long time before someone eliminates SONOS from contention despite this multi-year setback
How much land do wildfires burn in the US?
OpenAI is a big famous company. Why should I trust you guys with code, when I’m too lazy to clean out sensitive stuff?
This is, in a significant part, the flip side of the housing crisis coin. Some of these mums and dads saved up but many, many more of them grew their wealth alongside their home values.

Zoning policy, building regulations, and interest rates are a massive gate guarding generational wealth, for better or worse. Having personally suffered a lot for my parents poverty and homelessness, I have my biases, but then again don't we all.
This is a silly straw man argument with lots of claims and little evidence supporting them.
Have my server infrastructure on NixOS. Huge boost in productivity and stability, would never go back to standard linux. But man if something breaks it's a nuke going off. Sry for the long post, but thought I share my experience:

Mass storage on a big encrypted RaidZ array of spinning rust, no issues. Bootloader, /boot, Encrypted Root and Databases on Mirrored NVME Drives. And man is that a nailbiter on each update. Setup my drives during 22.11 following NixOS Root on ZFS instructions [1], which were amended following reports of systems becoming unbootable [2] and mostly removed later [3].

Besides initially being a broken setup [4] with an increasing amount of mounts each update stalling any system writes and causing updates to fail, it became a well running machine after that was fixed. Then during the 24.05 update and with no config change, the system became unbootable [5]. After a tough recovery [6] I never figured out how to do mirrored bootloaders again, switched to a single bootloader setup. To this day I have interactions I don't understand and am trying to fix [7], which sometimes causes updates to knock services offline due to the `nixos-rebuild switch` process stopping services, going to update the bootloader, failing due to missing mounts and exiting with services being offline, prompting manual intervention.

[1] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/blob/1211e98faf1f37a...

[2] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/commit/1211e98faf1f3...

[3] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/commit/4fb5fb694f44c...

[4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/214871

[5] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/issues/531

[6] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/issues/531#issuecomm...

[7] https://discord.com/channels/568306982717751326/132854109967...
Self hosting as an alternative (excluding the 3rd party) or self-hosting as a method of redundancy (in addition to the third party)?

If you self host as an ALTERNATIVE to the 3rd party you have all of the same problems - more because you know about them, and the 3rd party can make all these claims you can't verify until they fall over with a "load balancer misconfig" story you also can't verify.

If you self-host redundantly to a 3rd party you have no special benefit (it does the same thing) AND the additional cost of a redundant infrastructure.

Why not just have redundant 3rd parties (so-called "multi-cloud") if you can't or won't trust your 3rd party.
People keep saying "FORK FORK FORK". You have to remember, that all hosts that are deploying WordPress rely on the main provider. Thousands of hosting companies use WordPress deploying after registration and auto-updating the installations. How are you planning to make this kind of a major change? All the plugins that are in wordpress.org. How will you inform every WordPress site owner to go through this type of transition?

I think this "fork" idea comes from a bizarre cancel/woke culture influence.
> industrials are paying more for sugar

I'm not sure that more cheap sugar is a good thing
The profits of those companies making these products.
Still can't believe that people don't understand that words can have multiple meanings depending on their context and don't instantly start thinking about politics when they use them
I'm curious to see what the backlash to the backlash will be in 2-4 years.
About a year later, I got the P3-550 that overclocked to 733. Not quite as good of an overclock in terms of percentages, but I ran that machine for 5 years with no issues.
The Manhattan Institute is so biased that it is not worth spending the time to actually engage with their articles and determine their truth, because their game is not truth, it is politics. If what they say is true, there will likely be other, less politically-motivated groups that say the same.
Again, clearly we are in a Cold War with China. Why are they allowed to be connected to the Internet? Hopefully, on day one of the next administration, backbone operators will be prohibited from connecting to any network that connects to China.
> The company wants you to have to pay them money every month and control how you interact with the product, so that they can be a services company with recurring revenue.

Yes! This pervasive trend has nerfed so much consumer tech. I simply won't buy any more hardware that relies on proprietary clouds
HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers
Wow! This is basically a master class in performative mediocrity.
Looks like we found the “things that never happened” double Jeopardy for today
A bit more context: Very few people in Europe travel internationally by train. If you need to go fast you go by air, or if you need to go cheap you go by bus.

Train travel works well within some countries (a decade ago, I took a train from Rome to Venice and back for a 1 day conference - driving would have been around 6 hours each way), but for international travel it's usually not worth it. You are also dealing with different ticketing and scheduling systems, not to mention theres a bunch of big mountains in the middle of Europe meaning it's geographically hard to cross.
Sorry. I could have toned down my reply.

> nobody actually is writing documentation of the type that would answer the questions I really have.

That’s a choice though, right? The tools enable you to document in ways you haven’t before.

The most valuable use case I have seen is code that’s not too long and is read a lot of times. That’s when getting every decision, diagram, etc in one place helps a lot of people.

I have one particular case at work where every line of code has had several meetings about it to ensure the parameters are correct, etc.
Out of curiosity, is there any technology that could spot the hard drive underneath all the other trash? Some sort of radar?
Good luck quietly digging through a decade plus of refuse by yourself.
This would make an excellent movie, something like Titanic showing the luxury onboard and then the deterioration of the situation albeit not as dramatic.

Two rescuers died while attempting to reach the stranded passengers.

https://youtu.be/hYa51nRB344
I understand your point and thank you for raising it. The article mainly discussed the UK where a similar steep 40% estate inheritance tax exists for values above a certain threshold. There is also the 7 year rule that completely avoids inheritance tax. Elsewhere in Europe the situation is not as "progressive" and it's more frequent to face inheritance taxes. At the same time, it feels like there are many loopholes around these for the truly wealthy.

Though, the perspective of the article reads like it's accusative of upper middle class families (and not higher).
Corporate social media is population-scale brainwashing in a candy wrapper. Far worse than TV ever was.

Nobody is going to care about the invasion of Taiwan when Musk puts his finger on the algorithm’s scale as a quid pro quo to sell more Teslas abroad.
I think the notion of a “BIPOC coalition” has many angles. Many black political thinkers and academics focus on a black/white binary, and extending the concept of “black” to “people of color” was natural. This was also appealing to white democrats, whose coalition with black people is heavily focused on fighting purported racism and discrimination in return for loyal democratic voting.

Couple that with the prospect of America becoming a majority non-white, it’s easy to see why the broader left of center embraced the rhetoric and policies they did over the last decade—e.g. reframing policy issues like immigration and policing in racial justice terms.

The problem is that “white racism” as a lens for understanding America—widely shared by modern liberals—is a poor tool for understanding Latinos and Asians.
3 Fronts are mentioned:

1. Agentic systems

2. Digital core

3. Generative UI

Generative UI seems interesting to note as it's presented here as a way to create personalized UIs. Which means... that Generative AI creates a UI for each user? What are the implications of such a world? How does support work with this? How does a knowledge base get created to educate customers? How do you have a standardized way of discussing the UI?
Well that's not obviously bad I don't think? If Canadians want to be mad about pro-farm regulation, they should look to dairy; milk tokens, cheese availability, etc.
>But it shouldn't be the tax payer who picks up the tab.

Rebuilding is exactly what paying taxes are for. We've been giving too much of it to corporate interests, why not give some to the citizens? What are we, nodes of the Matrix, supplying the machine with labor for nothing but an illusion of a decent life?
oh it’ll be craaaazy :)
I wish I could make this work without the mess though. Maybe an AI moderator could throw some of these away. Not that we need AI for everything, but I don’t have time to edit comments on my blog.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting approach. As other commenters mentioned, article could do well with some hypothetical images. Maybe on a follow-up blog post? Also since you mentioning your Company's name you missing an opportunity for marketing by not providing a link.
The article says that it was known at the time to be likely to be within a 2000m^2 block, narrowing beyond that will be harder since the rubbish is distributed across it (bulldozers keeping it somewhat level as dumping proceeds, rather than keeping it date-sorted). At the time that he first understood his loss the prospective value was $7.5 million: far from negligible but not a slam-dunk proposition for sifting through 10,000 tonnes of mixed bulk waste while continuing to operate the landfill.
I still wish Pharo took more pride in being a version of Smalltalk.
This is a tiresome motte-and-bailey argument. You are trying to conflate the OP comment with something it's not (base antisemitism).

Just like companies founded by say former operatives of the CIA, NSA, MI6, etc. would (and maybe should?) be viewed with skepticism, so too are companies founded by former members of Unit 8200.

Mentioning that Israel's military (like many others) has engaged in some less than ethical behavior is not equivalent to antisemitism. Trying to pretend otherwise is ridiculous.
Which hard drive?
that's not surprising, my server is already getting slammed by AI agent traffic

(and to be fair, I'm building intelligent automation tools myself, so I'm part of the problem)
I wouldn't mind RTO so much if the cities where most tech jobs are were affordable. I'd rather be a millwright in my middle-of-nowhere mining town with a 10 minute commute in a 250k house versus a software developer with an hour long commute and a million dollar mortgage in big-metropolis. For now, I am making hay while the sun is shining and getting the best of both worlds while squirreling away as much cash as possible.
I am a little confused. He was intentionally sabotaging performance?
It appears that Chinese merchants don't seem to be as confident that Trump won't do anything:

https://www.newsweek.com/trade-surplus-china-economy-exports...

Apparently Trump can't do this because Biden cut off his options..?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/trump-unleash-nearly-40...

Trump can't cancel MFN because Biden already cancelled MFN?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/04/trump-pntr-status-china...

I think you're taking Trump too lightly.
I mean, recycling a plastic bag is probably more expensive than making one.

Collect enough, and you can melt them into solid blocks that could be used like this laptop stand. Recycling common plastic of the same type (PE, PP) is actually easily done with commonly available equipment, unlike paper.
Sure, there are other studies that reach the same finding: https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Rep...

But I wouldn't be surprised if this is also discarded as biased. The issue is that the allegation of bias is often justified by the outcomes of the research, thus statements like "the research showing people overestimate racism is biased" becomes tautological.

Also, do you have specific critiques of the study? Or is your dismissal solely based on the authorship of the study?
How the hell that is connected to a private software company?

Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Intel is full of ex-8200.
For over 20 years I've been clicking on pg's essays, knowing that I can look forward to an interesting and insightful read. I can no longer assume that.
Nobody will back him with that sort of cash - there's a high likelihood he never had that much bitcoin.
Is it possible to download a zip of a repo through the GUI?
I've thought they blew it by not calling it "sweet corn syrup".
How should we test AI for human-level intelligence? OpenAI's o3 quest
I think you've missed the point: it's Americentric to assume that Navy SEALs and Army Rangers are inherently pure, good and have done nothing evil on behalf of the American government when we largely know that to be untrue.
Who is "they"? Are we talking about Snyk? IDF Unit 8200? The IDF as a whole? The state of Israel? Jews in general?

The reason why OP's comment feels like a racist dog whistle is because it's an enormous and dangerous generalization that seems to encompass an entire country. Israel has mandatory military service—if everyone who's ever served in the IDF is untrustworthy because they served in the IDF then you're by definition excluding nearly every Israeli citizen from trust. I guess that's not strictly antisemitism—maybe you're happy to trust Jews that don't live in Israel—but it's definitely an unsavory position to take.
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i am making a distinction between meetings in a conference room (those are fine remote, generally IMO) vs having conversations
"The Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi - Part 1" should win a prize.

These days, high quality, dry British humor is hard to find, however this 787 page tome on BCPL programming for "young persons" is perfection.

I am breathlessly awaiting part 2.
IMO the dashcam footage of a car crashing into Shrek was way better with the old Dalle
> It's terrible terminology to be sure

It's a fairly common pattern in English: e.g. "moral - amoral - immoral", or "political - apolitical - anti-political".

> it's surprising that no one in the chain of publication for this article flagged that.

I think the choice here is deliberate: the century stands accused of being hostile to social life, ergo it is anti-social, not asocial.
Ugh why is the text center-aligned?
I think you would be suprised just how many people are no longer active on social media anymore. I am honestly not sure who still uses Facebook regularly.
It seems to me that there's no place for it precisely because of what PG calls "woke". Class consciousness doesn't work if it's not reciprocal. Obama put up great working class numbers, but the modern Democratic coalition isn't willing to pander to socially conservative views, so it doesn't work so well anymore.

A pithy but I really feel important example: a party with no room for Joe Rogan in it is definitionally not a party of the working class.
I don't get why there would be any risk of polluting the local community. Just create a second-landfill, properly lined - in exactly the same way thousands of landfills each year are created near to the first one - then just run an industrial-conveyor from Landfill A -> Landfill B. Create a spill-container underneath if you want to be 100% super certain 0.000% of pollution.

Run at a reasonable rate - should be relative straightforward for a team to pick through the garbage, particularly because it's metal.

This project gets rebooted when/if bitcoin hits $1mm.
Anybody have the actual paper? Found the actual publication in PNAS [1] and the author's page that has some of the prior work on lava zones [2], just not much about the actual paper or water reservoir area they're discussing. Looks like it went to conference back in 2023. Be nice if these folks had a pre-print server like Arxiv...

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415155122

[2] https://pages.uoregon.edu/leif/markdown/