skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wandering to God: From the Soul's Confinement to God's Expanse
>>Fisher became founding Chairman of the University of Cambridge Eugenics Society, whose other founding members included John Maynard Keynes

Keynes was the leading economist of the 20th century. He has some ideas I think are dubious, and his followers have doubled down (I still can't believe people believe in fiscal multipliers greater than 1). Nevertheless, it would be an incredible cheap shot to label Keynes a "eugenicist" when criticizing his economic theories.
The one thing I wish people would internalise about git is it's an append only data store. To get work into the store, you commit it. Once in the store there is not a command in git that can remove it.

This is how the reflog works. Whatever you do, you can get back to a previous branch state and restore the work from the data store.

But git can't help you if you don't commit. So just commit. Commit all the time. If you think it's too much overhead and you always forget to commit, fix your tools. If you're writing code all day you should be committing at a minimum every hour, in general.
Doubt YC actually charges anybody for use of the board. More likely they're offering a useful service free of charge to collect something even more valuable: attention. YC gets free advertising that passively selects the most relevant users, and users get a free link aggregator with unobtrusive ads relevant to our interests. Everyone wins!
according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414135 IQ tests aren't truly banned in the US
I didn't much care for that as a slogan. It doesn't really say what they do. It needs to be a call-to-action, not an identification of the problem.

I understood it as a reaction to the sheer amount of lies passed off as news that influenced the 2016 election, and has not gotten any better. But I don't think "darkness" is a good metaphor for it. The problem isn't too little information, but too much, most of it bad.

They needed something that said more clearly "We are committed to giving you the truth as best we can." I think they were hoping it was implicit, but I don't think it landed.

That said, ditching it on the eve of the inauguration is just fantastic. Following their failure to endorse in 2024, it shouts, "Yeah, we're just throwing in the towel on that whole 'truth' thing".

My advice, though: for a new slogan, find the guy who came up with "Take America Back". That's pure gold. It manages to say both "We're going to reinstate a whole lot of manifest injustices" and "The country should belong just to us, and those other guys don't deserve to live here" all at once, with just a hint of violence.
Note that SpaceX's whole schtick at the beginning was to specifically go for a very cheap single use rocket. All of their design decisions were based around making the Flacon 1 and later the Falcon 9 easy to mass produce. This was the prevailing philosophy after the Space Shuttle's reusability failed to bring down launch costs. SpaceX tried that and they failed to achieve the cost savings they wanted. That's when they pivoted to reusability, which did work, propelling them from well branded newcomer to dominant player in the launch market.
Why not always default to using transactions?
Side question: How does the bubble-merge effect on the home page[1] work?
[1] https://keygen.sh/
The default sorting is "new first", but perhaps a better first impression would come from selecting "more significant first":

https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sort=significance
> I’m not sure if by "optical print"[0] you mean a film developing process (like C41), but the info is not lost and stays on the film.

You have a negative, which you develop.

For photos you then have to transfer that to paper. For cinema you want to distribute it, so you have to take the originally captured image(s) and make copies to distribute.

In both cases, because it's an analog process, and so things will degrade.

Of course if you scan the negative then further copies after are easy to duplicate.
I just use separate folder for the low-frequency feeds that I intend to keep up so they don't drown in everything else.
your probably leaving money on the table then

i’d find that unacceptable as a ceo

you got to do the work to do what’s best for the company, not yourself
Upcoming firmware update for Bambu Lab printers will break OrcaSlicer
One interesting recent discovery at Pompeii was what appears to have been, for all intents and purposes, a fast food restaurant - complete with a serving counter set up much like a modern-day steam table. Many of the original wall paintings are intact - it's not hard to imagine what it would have looked like, and it's surprisingly familiar.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/archaeologists-excav...
They still provide a price and the call is optional.
The thing is that a lot of internet scale stuff tends to be non-critical. It’s not a big deal if 1% of users don’t see a post to a social network site. It’ll show up later, maybe, or never, but nobody will care.

On the other hand, with transactions like banking or licensing or health insurance, it’s absolutely essential that we definitely maintain ACID compliance for every single transaction, which is something that many “internet-scale” data solutions do not and often cannot promise. I have a vague recollection of some of the data issues at a large health insurance company where I worked a couple years ago that made it really clear why there would be an overnight period where the system would be offline—it was essential to make sure that systems could be brought to a consistent state. It also became clear why enrolling someone in a new plan was not simply a matter of adding a record to a database somewhere.

Not to mention that I suspect that data such as bank transaction records or health insurance claims probably rival “internet scale” for being real big data operations.
In my experience, most enterprise leads will still cold email you with their requirements. It's relatively rare for me to receive a cold booking or cold trial, but this is there to not lose those leads who would otherwise not send that cold email. The point of #nocalls is to dip out of the dance, not all communication.
I've been using rss feed for few months but recently it became borderline useless. For example here is grep of pubDate:

$ wget -qO - https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml | grep pubDate
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:43:10 +0000</pubDate>

So since 6th november there were only 21 articles. Longest streak was 10 days and common is 3 days without any news whatsoever.
Yep NetNewsWire all the way. It syncs to iCloud. I use it to subscribe to important GitHub project releases, blogs, news, and even some YouTube channels.
China is leading AI race with their open source deepseek-v3.
It is laughable to think they this regulation with stop them. USA should actually collaborate, not isolate.

China engineers have capability to get around these silly sanctions, by renting cloud GPUs from USA companies for example, to get access to as many compute as they want. or to use consumer grade compute, or their homegrown Chinese CPUs/GPUs.

USA should actually embrace open source and collaborate together, as we are still in the very beginning of AI revolution
But part of doing what's right is considering opportunity cost.

If buying something would be a win for an org takes up too much organizational bandwidth because of how hard it is to procure, then it's not worth fiddling about trying to buy it.

The org gains a whole bunch of time he's not wasting on useless calls.
So invention itself is not laudable because it’s inevitable? That’s an odd attitude. Newton’s laws of motion would have been discovered by someone, somewhere, so there’s no point in remembering and praising Newton for his work? It’s nihilistic.
Who are Apple, Android, Samsung, etc. in this analogy?
But using them can put a company at risk of a lawsuit. So many companies avoid them and use indirect methods to estimate intelligence.
> Regardless of his politics, xAI is a market leader

Lol what?

The only people who think this are Elon fanboys.

I guess you think Tesla is the self-driving market leader, too. Okay.
Yup. I remember saying to someone at the time, BlackBerry can scream "tools not toys" all they want, but I'm pretty sure Apple will have no problem adding encrypted work email to the iPhone whenever it becomes a priority... but the effort required to reinvent BlackBerry into a friendly, approachable device that people actually want to use, on the other hand, yeah.
It would be nice if there were some sort of standardized tests for skill competency. Like an employer could state, "we need someone who can handle C at level 5, JavaScript at level 3, and Fortran77 at level 9", and leave it to a third-party to test the candidate in a fair way.

Then the interviews would really be about cultural fit and project interest, not trying to prove if the candidate _actually_ knows C, JavaScript, and Fortran77 well enough.

\end{slightly-off-topic}
> The only advantages of the Switch at this point are Nintendo exclusives and better support

Err what? This has always been the point of a Nintendo console.

It’s like saying “the only reason people buy Windows/macOS is because they want an easy to use OS.” Like, yes. That is indeed the point.
> Is violence an appropriate response to hate speech? The Cato 2017 Free Speech and Tolernace Survey finds most Americans say no. More than two-thirds (68%) of Americans say it is not morally acceptable to punch a Nazi in the face. About a third (32%), however, say it is morally acceptable.

https://www.cato.org/blog/51-strong-liberals-say-its-morally...

Your implication that Muslims are more accepting of political violence doesn't seem to bear out in the facts.

> Maybe you’re right and it’s repeated publication of muhammad images that deserves violence.

Thats not what I said.

> Or maybe you meant that violence against anyone who does anything may be justified (?) because of some other thing that they may be doing.

This is clearly the least charitable take one could take in response to my comment. "It's ok to punch Nazis" is not a take that usually gets this much pushback.

Edit: Actually, technically, I guess it does usually get this much push back (68%) but still the slippery slope argument is trash
I think this is the right approach. Give management an honest try, but if your life is miserable or not enjoyable, become a dev again.
There's still a price shown _and_ a direct link to start a trial. It's reasonable to assume that more people paying over 1k/mo would like a discovery call more than a free trial right away, so this option is more prominent. But both are available
Why will they stop working eventually? Assuming they are all self contained and you don't upgrade even node js for that project

Edit: Oh right, OS upgrades could do it. Or network keys changing etc...
I understand, after all, they are the Disney of gaming in terms of IP.

It’s just strange, this is the first time I’ve seen them so…lazy. The Wii U was a flop, but it was a bigger leap than this. SNES at least had more buttons and significantly better graphics.

I think they’re just gonna milk this till streaming takes over.
> Lots of potential customers are clueless but excited and in order to book large contracts, you need someone to be a steward to work the contract through the byzantine maze of leadership and procurement.

That's called exploitation, not stewardship.

It is what it is, but let's not pretend that the relationship here is anything but adversarial. The incentives are such that dishonesty and malice brings in more sales, so honest salespeople get quickly outcompeted by their dishonest co-workers, and companies with honest business models get outcompeted by those with dishonest ones. Buyers are in no position to change this, but that doesn't mean they have to pretend it's fine, or play along.
Apple pulls AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines
Yes! Katie and I made it into a zine because I was such a huge fan of her work on https://ohshitgit.com/. (you'll notice she's a coauthor of the zine)
iOS 18.3 disables Apple Intelligence notification summaries for select apps
It's not out of business. It merged with Bayer. It's a change in ownership, and to some degree a change in upper management, but large swathes of the company are unchanged.
When you start wanting decent RAM, SBC end up being expensive.

Kontron (Fujitsu) have some very low-power, efficient motherboard, the Kontron K3843-B. Also, Odroid-H4+ deliver a good bang for the buck. Excellent devices for low-power NAS / server. But a different form-factor than SBC.
>There is much to learn from considering this reality

Like what?
I see the return of cold war computing model, where many countries had their own computer platforms and programming languages.

Which apparently might be a good outcome to FOSS operating systems, with national distributions like Kylin.

As European I vote for SuSE.
Those are clearly the exceptions.
Actually, in the long run, it's likely to make good engineers a lot more scarce.
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This rss is not exactly an rss with articles from the main page, but a newsletter I send manually every few days once enough significant stories happen to warrant an email. Each newsletter issue includes 2-5 main articles and 3-7 trending articles.

https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/
I am shocked to learn that Gen AI does not produce reliably accurate information! Shocked, I say!
Would be amusing if they just allowed it anyway and if you use an Xbox controller, you just suck at the game. Pressuring MS to add gyro.
Tech-Noir: How One Scene in 'The Terminator' Changed Science Fiction (2018)
Redundancy is a method of providing fault tolerance, the existence of other methods doesn't make it less fault tolerant.

Nothing is tolerant to all possible faults. Fault tolerance refers to being able to tolerate specific types of faults under specific conditions.

Fault tolerant is the proper term for this.
David Lynch's final message to the world:

https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...

_____

May everyone be happy.
May everyone be free of disease.
May auspiciousness be seen everywhere.
May suffering belong to no-one.
Peace.
Jai guru dev
__________

.

RIP David Lynch, 20 January 1946 - 16 January 2025
IANAL, nor in HR - but I'd assume that "directly related to their ability to perform the job" is the key.

If you're hiring rocket scientists, I'd bet you could ask 'em some tortuously difficult questions about rocket science. Or brain surgeons about brain surgery, or nuclear physicists about nuclear physics, or ...
This has to be a parody.
How would this compare "significance" of news about the ceasefire in Israel/Palestine vs, say, a genocide that's large in numbers but smaller in world attention? (edited for clarity, given your reply)
I'm not sure about Amtrak boarding processes, but regarding Moynihan vs Penn:

- Penn Station is directly under Madison Square Garden. There used to be a large building similar in scale to Grand Central Terminal, but it was rather controversially torn down in the 60s [1], and MSG built on its site and the train station portion becoming a bunch of tunnels beneath it.

- Across the street from Penn was a big post office building, with a grand Neo-classical design. As an attempt to somewhat remedy the destruction of Penn decades earlier, NY state decided to turn that into a train hall, which opened in 2020 [2]. It's the same station stop as Penn, so you can really think of it more as just an expansion of it. Take the stairs on the western (toward the Hudson river) end of the platform and you'll emerge into a big open space with an atrium that looks like an actual train station, instead of the basement of MSG. (They've also been doing good work raising the ceiling and widening corridors in Penn, so there's more light and air, but you're still basically in the MSG basement even if it's less cramped now).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Penn_Station#Original...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Train_Hall
Soil nitrate fixation is also energy intensive. The nitrogenase enzyme takes about 27 ATPs to break a single N2 bond. Legumes feed about a third of their entire photosynthesis output to their nitrogen fixing nodules in order to generate significant amounts of nitrates.

There is no free lunch.
Why not put tariffs on their data? That's more inline with his policies...
Return was a phenomenal mix of things. It didn’t match the vibe of the original too often, and when it did it was probably weaker. But overall? Some of the best television.

The Mitchum (sp?) brothers arc evokes so much joy it’s just hilarious.
ASCII art Reed–Kellogg sentence diagrams are probably hard to find anywhere, and Graphviz can't really express Reed–Kellogg diagrams. But Reed and Kellogg published their somewhat ad-hoc diagram language in 01877, 78 years before what we now call "linguistics" was known in the West thanks to Chomsky's work in 01955. These are among the reasons I thought it might be a good idea to use the form of sentence diagrams used by linguists instead of the more compact Reed–Kellogg diagrams.
>Until then, no one's toes are being stepped on. Everybody whose work was used to train the models still holds the same rights to that work that they held before.

And yet artists don’t feel like their work should be used for training.

I’m not sure how you can argue that the intentions are unknowable, when clearly you and the AI companies don’t care about the people whose work they have to use to train their models and these people’s wishes. Motivation is greed.
This will feel very weird in April 2025, when we celebrate the 20th anniversary of git.

I was there. And at some point I wondered if I should learn git, darcs, or bazaar, to replace SVN or CVS. Or did I try mercurial too ?

I wonder if the "GitHub" effect has basically killed the need for a newcomer in the space of VCS. Maybe at some point, the yak is shaved enough ?
It's also their P75 target load time.
But is it untrue?
Thank you. The problem is the custodian who makes me scared is not in my jurisdiction, but rather in the US...
Fair enough. The point of #nocalls is to dip out of the dance, not of all communication. :)

You can take it to the extreme, like I did for a long time, or adapt it for yourself.
David Lynch's final message to the world, a video he sent to a fundraiser for his foundation last year:

https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...

___________

May everyone be happy.
May everyone be free of disease.
May auspiciousness be seen everywhere.
May suffering belong to no-one.
Peace.
Jai guru dev

_______

RIP David Lynch, 20 January 1946 - 16 January 2025
Usage-based pricing makes sense when you’re buying infrastructure products. For (most?) other things, the price is based on value, not material cost.

The cost of that PDF generation might as well round up to zero, but developing the tech cost multiple man-years of work. How do you price that “objectively” unless you’re given a breakdown of the company R&D expenses, operation costs and margins. That is not a reasonable request. Either you’re happy paying $X because it solves your problem and brings equivalent value to your business, or you’re not.

I do agree seat-based pricing is often ridiculous, but that’s a problem for the free market to solve. Alternatives usually pop up given enough demand.
Top software companies try to hire overqualified candidates though.
Many orgs want to save costs while using open software. In a world after xz incident they are now in very difficult place. It is all about whom do one trusts. As someone who works in such costs aware business as gamedev I think Rust has unique chance to capture trust market. If major Rust organization sponsors will donate information about even a fraction of what they had audited that can create safe heaven for smaller orgs and startups. Even large orgs that still have history of audits for decades and long list of C/C++/C#/Java projects they trust might buy in. Because it is not reasonable to expect that they can keep up with each open project updates.
Commit is what causes git to make a copy of the file(s) internally. It's vitally important. But there is no point typing in silly messages like "more fixes" etc. What I do is make an initial commit with something like "(WIP) too feature", then keep doing amend commits until I'm happy, at which point I remove the "(WIP)" from the message.
This NASASpaceflight stream is up now: https://www.youtube.com/live/3nM3vGdanpw
I've been using Git for almost 15 years, and have twice built programs/products that use Git internally to achieve certain results (that is, the program/product itself uses Git for things, not just using Git to manage the source code for the program/product) and... sometimes before doing something a little gnarly in Git I'll still just do "cp -R .git ../git-backup" or something like that, so I can replace my entire .git dir with an older copy if I screw it up too bad. It's a ton faster than figuring out the right way to un-fuck any particular operation or set of operations.
Watch: SpaceX launches Starship on 7th test flight, tries to catch booster [video]
Can you extend that - what was the domain, how did you start? I would like to give this a try but am not quite sure I get it?
Anyone care to give the non spacey folks like me the highlights of this launch?
Yeah, this is definitely lacking on our pricing page; thank you for flagging it.

We charge $0.08/minute for macOS runners [0] which has 8 CPUs, 24 GB of memory, and 150 GB of disk. They run with M2 chips, so the closest GitHub-hosted macOS runner is the arm64 one with 6 CPUs at $0.16/minute [1].

It's also worth mentioning that we charge by the minute but track by the second. Whereas GitHub actually rounds up to the closest minute. So a 10-second build on Depot is 10 seconds, and you don't get charged a minute until you've accumulated a minutes worth of build time.

[0] https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/runner-types#macos-run...

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your...