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Nice one, to me it sounds a lot like a xylophone though. But the spiral positioning is very interesting, it shows the relationship between the higher order much better than a normal keyboard.
> specifically paying into a ubi fund whenever human jobs are replaced by ai.
Then existing firms will just go bankrupt, and new firms which never had human employees will use AI, and you’ll have the same job losses but no direct replacement and no payment into the UBI fund. Instead, just tax capital gains and retained corporate profits more than currently (taxing the former the same as normal income, with provision for both advance recognition and deferment of windfalls so that irregular capital income doesn't get unfairly taxed compared to recurring income), and fund UBI with a share of that is initially basically the difference between status quo taxes and the new rates. That realigns the incentives, such that an increased share of the economy being capture by capital (a natural consequence of goods and services being produced in a more capital intensive, less labor intensive way) drives more money into the UBI fund, without needing a specific job-level replacement count to drive the funding.
Iran has an active nuclear weapons program which the Israelis keep sabotaging.
Investing a trillion dollars for a revenue of a billion dollars doesn't sound great yet.
> Berkshire's investment in Apple is responsible for ~50% of its portfolio success in the last 20 years.
And by all accounts, that investment was suggested by his son. He famously said that he didn't understand technology enough to invest in it.
> Language model capability at generating text output.
That's not a metric, that's a vague non-operationalized concept, that could be operationalized into an infinite number of different metrics. And an improvement that was linear in one of those possible metrics would be exponential in another one (well, actually, one that is was linear in one would also be linear in an infinite number of others, as well as being exponential in an infinite number of others.
That’s why you have to define an actual metric, not simply describe a vague concept of a kind of capacity of interest, before you can meaningfully discuss whether improvement is exponential. Because the answer is necessarily entirely dependent on the specific construction of the metric.
For some people, money is not for buying things, but just for keeping score.
You can see this behaviour in online multiplayer games that have a currency aspect --- some people will spend almost as quickly as they earn, while others will save some and buy items as they can afford, and then there are those who will just keep saving and saving, rarely buying.
The operative word there is "primarily". Simon comments on a variety of topics and has far more interactions that don't link to his blog than do.
Simon's posts are not engagement farming by any definition of the term. He posts good content frequently which is then upvoted by the Hacker News community, which should be the ideal for a Hacker News contributor.
You say "it's humble by billionaire standards" - I think it's relatively humble by ~$300k a year standards. The thing I love about this house is that I think it represents just about the maximum real utility one can get from a home.
He had 3 kids, and a 3500 sq ft house is, IMO, an extremely average size for any decently paid professional where I live with a family that size. It basically looks like something that had everything he needed, and anything beyond that that you so often see in rich people houses is just for show and bling.
He could have a discrete security detail nearby.
Genetic fallacy. Like all propaganda it's suspect, but not all propaganda is fake.
Give it a rest already, there aren't logically perfect solutions to be had because we don't live in a world of simply binaries, so people compromise on best-fit solutions rather than obsessing over the edge cases and ending up doing nothing at all.
> Do we start sinking Russian flagged tankers in international waters?
Absolutely not. But in cases where the ship was originally identified with faulty registration and is otherwise behaving suspiciously, it’s fair to forcibly board.
That said! This will vary based on what’s on that ship. If it’s drone killers, that’s annoying but fine. If it’s anti-ship missiles, that’s putting American sailors at risk.
> AI is not even close to that level
Kagi’s Research Assistant is pretty damn useful, particularly when I can have it poll different models. I remember when the first iPhone lacked copy-paste. This feels similar.
(And I don’t think we’re heading towards AGI.)
Do we start sinking Russian flagged tankers in international waters? Preferably unloaded, when possible.
Inside China’s Shadow LNG Fleet Offering a Lifeline to Putin - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-china-russia-lng-sha... | https://archive.today/9dehG - December 29th, 2025
A Warning From Onboard the ‘Old Piles of Junk’ Ferrying Russia’s Oil Across the Baltic Sea - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-russia-shadow-oil-fl... | https://archive.today/jpSjX - August 22nd, 2024
> similar to the confusion and fierce debate I see around wrestling control of TikTok, which have largely been blamed on China, but the concern around uncensored videos of atrocities committed in the middle east
I worked on the TikTok bill. Middle East stuff never came up.
It might have had a role in New York and Michigan. But most of the debate, drafting and lobbying was in respect of national security, trade policy and a touch of Taiwan policy.
When you have a pet issue you tend to see everything through it. My pet war was Ukraine. For a time I had to fight the impulse to classify everything as a derivative of it.
> The power delivery was doable even 15 years ago.
Not really. It took a long time for solid state lasers to make it to 100KW. That's the power level military people have wanted for two decades.
Megawatt chemical lasers are possible, and have been built. But the ground based one was three semitrailers, and the airborne one needed a 747. Plus you ran out of chemicals fairly fast.
BCS Phase II connects Russia through Finland [1]. What would be the consequences to Russia if it were turned off?
(I suppose one could also drag an anchor across this guy [2].)
[1] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/bcs-north-...
[2] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/kingisepp-...
The question is whether this language can be well understood by LLMs. Lack of declarations seems a mistake. The LLM will have to infer types, which is not something LLMs are good at. Most of the documentation is missing, so there's no way to tell how this handles data structures.
A programming language for LLMs isn't a bad idea, but this doesn't look like a good one.
> Maybe there should be some kind of annual ISO privacy certification for companies that resell any customer data in any form
Why is this better than requiring deletion?
Why one time? Why not a 1% wealth tax on over $1bn?
Hell, make it revenue neutral—use it to cut everyone else’s taxes by a per-capita amount. (About $875/voter/year [1].)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_locations_by_voter_...
Uh, I think every form of (physical or virtual, with some pedagogic exceptions) machine code beats Nerd as an earlier “programming language not built for humans”.
I think it will stick around, but I don't think it will have another year where it's the hot thing it was back in January through May.
The Verisign investment was a minority holding.
And this bit is tripe: “Buffett is the avatar of monopoly. This is a guy whose investments philosophy is literally that of a monopolist. I mean, he invented this sort of term, the economic ‘moat,’ that if you build a moat around your business, then it's going to be successful. I mean, this is the language of building monopoly power.”
Seeking moats isn’t monopolistic. It’s inherent to competition.
This is spoken like you've never done any reps at all?
> If your knife is dull enough you will eventually cut the shit out of yourself because it takes so much effort to cut that a slip becomes a stab.
Also, a dull knife will, 100%, slip more in use than a sharper knife.
Love that show! TV version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6FLHpgC5E
other good episodes:
I seem to recall the secret service was driven crazy by Bill Clinton going for a run out of the white house only to pick up a Big Mac at McDonald's.
This deserves the black banner.
They operate a public package hosting interface, how is a search one any harder?
what other unintended consequences this may bring.
A "right to rewrite history" that will distort reality for historians in the future.
How did HN become effectively pro-DRM?
> Can we talk about how literally every single paragraph quoted from ChatGPT in this document contains some variation of "it's not X — it's Y"?
I mean, sure, if you want to talk about the least significant, novel, or interesting aspect of the story. Its a very common sentence structure outside of ChatGPT that ChatGPT has widely been observed to use even more than the the high rate it occurs in human text, this article doesn’t really add anything new to that observation.
> There's just no way in hell ChatGPT at its current level is going to guide you flawlessly through all of that if you start with a simple "I want to build a raytracer" prompt!
I mean, maybe not "flawlessly", and not in a single prompt, but it absolutely can.
I've gone deep in several areas, essentially consuming around a book's worth of content from ChatGPT over the course of several days, each day consisting of about 20 prompts and replies. It's an astonishingly effective way to learn, because you get to ask it to go simpler when you're confused and explain more, in whatever mode you want (i.e. focus on the math, focus on the geometry, focus on the code, focus on the intuition). And then whenever you feel like you've "got" the current stage, ask it what to move onto next, and if there are choices.
This isn't going to work for cutting-edge stuff that you need a PhD advisor to guide you through. But for most stuff up to about a master's-degree level where there's a pretty "established" progression of things and enough examples in its training data (which ray-tracing will have plenty of), it's phenomenal.
If you haven't tried it, you may be very surprised. Does it make mistakes? Yes, occasionally. Do human-authored books also make mistakes? Yes, and often probably at about the same rate. But you're stuck adapting yourself to their organization and style and content, whereas with ChatGPT it adapts its teaching and explanations and content to you and your needs.
It's not live yet (https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/coming-soon.html), you can subscribe to email updates (https://cppa.ca.gov/webapplications/apps/subscribe/).
Can we replicate the process of reaching muscle fatigue/failure to spur muscle growth without the strength training or anabolic steroids? Think GLP-1RAs but for this specific biological pathway.
https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/lilly-terminate-obesity-t...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...
BRK is now (since the last 10-20 years) large and diversified enough that it more or less tracks the S&P 500 and the overall stock market. There isn't some genius trading strategy in there. Buffett himself tells everyone who will listen to buy and hold a diversified index fund for a long period of time.
Actualy, he didn't. He's probably the one billionaire alive today for which you could not make that case. I know of one other (but he's dead).
Vehicle fire sinks cargo ship bound for Mexico carrying EVs and hybrids - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44375457 - June 2025
Never mind the CO2 released in making the ingredients and recycling them.
Just plant a tree, harvest it to make lumber.
The article's method might be useful in a submarine or spacecraft.
So, who invented the Satellite then? What about the steam engine? The helicopter?
Sometimes the inventors are so far ahead of their time that the materials science first has to catch up (in some cases only a few millenia) before they can realize their devices. Effectively it is then the first person after whoever did the materials science part to create the device that gets to claim the invention.
So we get Sikorski, and not Da Vinci.
We get Arthur C. Clarke who claims the 'communications satellite' even though the moon was there all along and the Sputnik was the first working very crude device (it was one way only, it said 'you lost the space race' in a single bit of message).
We get Newcomen, Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont (I had to look that up, I can never remember the man's full name), and Hero of Alexandria competing for the steam engine title, with all of them holding some part of the credit.
Pointing at an inventor is hard, and 'who built the first working device' is one way of doing this but it assumes a singular effort whereas most things are team efforts and misses the bit that the idea itself can be an instrumental step in getting your 'true' inventor to make their claim, standing on the shoulders of the giants before them. In isolation, we all probably would invent the hammer in our lifetimes, if that.
Great work! Can you manage back pressure towards webhook senders in the interface? For example, responding with 429 when volume is potentially approaching or exceeding throughput capacity.
What he's missing is that there's always been a market for custom-built software by non-professionals. For instance, spreadsheets. Back in the 1970s engineers and accountants and people like that wrote simple programs for programmable calculators. Today it's Python.
The most radical development in software tools I think, would be more tools for non-professional programmers to program small tools that put their skills on wheels. I did a lot of biz dev around something that encompassed "low code/no code" but a revolution there involves smoothing out 5-10 obstacles with a definite Ashby character that if you fool yourself that you can get away with ignoring the last 2 required requirements you get just another Wix that people will laugh at. For now, AI coding doesn't have that much to offer the non-professional programmer because a person without insight into the structure of programs, project management and a sense of what quality means will go in circles at best.
I think the thinking in the article is completely backwards about the economics. I mean, the point of software is you can write it once and the cost to deploy a billion units is trivial in comparison. Sure, AI slop can put the "crap" in "app" but if you have any sense you don't go cruising the app store for trash but find out about best-of-breed products or products that are the thin edge of a long wedge (like the McDonald's app which is valuable because it has all the stores baacking it)
Retail memory price history: https://whereismyram.com/us
I've done something similar a long time ago; using raw read commands, reversing the descrambler output, and then statistical accumulation on the actual bitstream. By showing the output in real-time on a bad-sector you can actually see the signal appearing above the noise.
It's strange to see no mention of cleaning the drives themselves, although maybe it was implicit --- if you have a pile of old drives sitting around, chances are they're not going to be perfectly clean. A tiny bit of dirt on the lens can have a huge effect on the read signal, especially on a marginal disc.
Related article from 18 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21242273
Can't recommend a foot pedal faucet enough. They're not expensive!
She was a model cooperator and was sentenced only to 2 years, so this isn't a surprising outcome.
> Preheat watery vegetables in the microwave
There's actually a lot of stuff you can halfway-heat in the microwave.
Air frying frozen <anything>? Nuke it for 2 min and air-fry for 3 min, instead of air-frying for 12 min.
Ice cream rock solid? Nuke a pint for 15 seconds. It won't melt, just soften.
Cold ketchup in a dipping bowl? Nuke for 5 seconds to bring it to room temperature, so you're not putting cold ketchup on warm food.
But the best? You know how tomatoes get a mealy texture when kept in the fridge, which is why everybody says not to keep in them in the fridge, even though they last so much longer that way? That's only as long as they're chilled. Nuke for 10 seconds to bring back to room temperature. The texture returns 100% to normal.
Thank you for your team’s work to preserve this collection.
Wildly different situation: the DnD thing was simply a tabloid and evangelical moral panic. Not a real thing. Nobody sensible expects those two sources to have anything to do with truth. As far as I'm aware there aren't similar stories from tabletop RPGs at all, that made it to court?
This is an actual court case where if a human had sent the messages they would be facing charges.
One bit of the story which isn't widely recognized is that the Japanese language and music are remarkably legible to westerners.
In particular, westerners "just get" the emotional tone and rhythm of Japanese and right away feel the emotions of anime characters. My wife is skeptical of my Japanese obsession but she frequently remarks that she finds commercial Japanese music surprisingly relatable. I can still sing Japanese theme songs from old Rumiko Takahashi anime like Urusei Yatsura and Ranma ½ regardless of knowing or not knowing what they mean -- it's just easy.
This is not at all the case for Chinese, where the conflict between grammatical tone and the tone in music is immense, where Chinese music frequently sounds like the worst of Eastern European traditional music, and where I struggle to feel the feeling behind Chinese speech despite pop culture exposure and taking every chance I can get to watch the faces of Chinese speakers while they converse. No wonder games like Azur Lane, Genshin Impact and Arknights default to Japanese vocals in the West.
On top of that, Hollywood productions seem like they were made by the people who were too cool to hang out with me in high school, whereas anime is in the space of fantasy and science fiction that I grew up with. (Frickin' O'Neill colonies in 1979 Gundam)
I'm inspired by the story of how Kirby, Ditko, Lee revolutionized comics in the 1960s but even more inspired by how Type/Moon made a low-budget game, then a series of increasingly complex games culiminating in the multi-billion Fate/Grand Order, or how web novel authors get a publishing contract and then a manga and an anime that becomes a global sensation. Or how anime's reach often exceeds its grasp like the botched ending of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the bungled first firing of the wave motion gun in Space Battleship Yamato or the flawed anime of Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon with terrible character designs that turned me on a light novel that I greatly enjoy -- Hollywood just doesn't do that.
And it's about the superfan. Maybe you spend a bit on a Crunchyroll subscription but when my son got into Bocchi the Rock! he's spent hundreds on collecting volumes of the tankobon as soon as they come out. Anime fans care whereas Hollywood slop mostly washes over people.
There's a reason that ORA have huge credibility in technical publishing, and have for decades: a reliably good product.
I still use Windows 7. The only problem I have with it is some software doesn't run on it anymore. I had to get a separate Windows 10 laptop to run my scanner and access some websites.
> How many times did you leave a comment on some branch of code stating "this CANNOT happen" and thrown an exception?
My code is peppered with `assert(0)` for cases that should never happen. When they trip, then I figure out why it happened and fix it.
This is basic programming technique.
If someone has a contact at Goddard, can you put me in touch? Will connect with folks who can receive and custodian the collection. I assume they will not be willing to part with some items (and those will be warehoused and will remain some flavor of safe until a new administration), but there will be some items that would otherwise be tossed that could be saved.
Also interested in anyone with context about what records could be FOIAd to collect a catalog of the total corpus, if available.
> The only solution we have is put less in the air in the first place
That’s not a solution either, because the developing world is not going to stop increasing their CO2 output until they fully industrialize. They’re just not. Feel free to seek reductions where you can, but don’t think of it as a solution because it’s not.
The technical problems with CO2 capture are far more solvable than the sociological problems with net zero emissions.
I don't see the economic pressure pushing for that.
To first order, the bigger a vehicle is the less you worry about the cost of the pilot/driver. The biggest untold story in aviation is the battle between the pilots of small "regional aircraft" vs "mainline aircraft", the former of which generate less value for the same amount of work and necessarily get paid less. Unions have enforced "scope clauses" that have prevented a new generation of slightly larger regional aircraft which could lower costs at small airports and have no trouble getting filled as those lower costs get passed on to consumers. As it is small airports are dying out, harming smaller cities and towns and giving the "left behind" all the more reason to lash out.
Similarly there is a lot of a talk of crisis in truck driving, both at the local and long-haul levels. My brother-in-law has a CDL and he is always talking about how inexperienced drivers seem to wedge their trucks on a bridge in Binghamton once a month, stall out on the highway and get into accidents, etc.
I get what you're saying, but couldn't this be used in a place with high concentrations of CO2, like factory chimneys?
The bond market is intelligently pricing future macro outlook, and rightfully ignoring simple short term money cost signaling.
Whatever influence Israel may or may not have over US policy, attribution of that power to a "Jewish diaspora" is straightforwardly antisemitic.
It was perfectly accessible on Windows 3.x days, I learnt Smalltalk with Smalltalk/V.
It was the .NET of OS/2 and getting into enterprise, until Java came to be, and IBM one of the big Smalltalk backers, decided to pivot into Java.
What I can't get is that the platforms don't understand that the scam ads reduce trust in the good ads -- when I see something on YouTube that looks legit and like something I want I am very inclined to be skeptical because I just saw five obvious scams in a row. Accepting those scam ads is penny wise and pound foolish.
Some of it is that the radical acceleration in productivity isn't real. See Brook's "No Silver Bullet". You certainly have those moments where you describe a bug and ask if it can understand it and get an answer in two minutes, but when you consider everything that goes into the "definition of done", 10x just isn't realistic.
My take at work is that I'm not running much faster, but I am getting better quality. Some of it is my attitude, but with AI I am more likely to go back and forth and ask things until I really understand what is going on, write tests even when it is a hassle to write tests, ask the IDE questions about the dependencies I use so I can really understand how they work, try two or three possible solutions and pick the best, etc.
When it comes to things like that memory leak it is very hit and miss. If you give it try it might solve it, it might not. It's worth trying. But you can't count on something like that working all the time.
It's about which market segment gets priority in the company. Doesn't mean they'll stop making gaming cards altogether
All the transcendental numbers are "manufactured in a mathematical laboratory somewhere".
In fact we can tighten that to all irrational numbers are manufactured in a mathematical laboratory somewhere. You'll never come across a number in reality that you can prove is irrational.
That's not necessarily because all numbers in reality "really are" rational. It is because you can't get the infinite precision necessary to have a number "in hand" that is irrational. Even if you had a quadrillion digits of precision on some number in [0, 1] in the real universe you'd still not be able to prove that it isn't simply that number over a quadrillion no matter how much it may seem to resemble some other interesting irrational/transcendental/normal/whatever number. A quadrillion digits of precision is still a flat 0% of what you'd need to have a provably irrational number "in hand".
My bedroom regularly gets to 3000 at night, and the flat in general is around 2000. This is in the winter, when I don't open the windows for days because of the cold. The flat is very well insulated.
> it will cook us over time, just longer.
The largest sous-vide cooking pot ever...
Or maybe clone the comments from where it cloned the source.
This is the general rule, but not for ones the size of OpenAI. There’s always a secondary market for prominent enough companies.
Yes. I just debugged problems with our RSS feed at work. I have my own intelligent RSS reader called YOShInOn which learns my preferences.
Is it though? When I ask an LLM research questions, it often answers in 20 seconds what it would take me an entire afternoon to figure out with traditional research.
Similarly, I've had times where it wrote me scientific simulation code that would take me 2 days, in around a minute.
Obviously I'm cherry-picking the best examples, but I would guess that overall, the energy usage my LLM queries have required is vastly less than my own biological energy usage if I did the equivalent work on my own. Plus it's not just the energy to run my body -- it's the energy to house me, heat my home, transport my groceries, and so forth. People have way more energy needs than just the kilocalories that fuel them.
If you're using AI productively, I assume it's already much more energy-efficient than the energy footprint of a human for the same amount of work.
> Highest rates seen in American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander women
Asian + Pacific Islander is such a stupid fucking category. There is no way Japanese people, Pakistanis, and Samoans have remotely related biological factors for gestational diabetes. Or any other meaningful thing the government might care about that would justify grouping people together.
Just a tiny part of the operation will happen in space. The result of that will return, then will be made into chips on earth.
Pretty neat project. I never thought you could do this in the first place, very much inspiring. I've made a little project that stores all of its data locally but still runs in the browser to protect against take downs and because I don't think you should store your precious data online more than you have to, eventually it all rots away. Your project takes this to the next level.
Opal is Optimizely AI name, but I guess Google's being Google, they are the ones that need to now change the product name.
As long as there is no real liability for getting hacked and as long as companies don't want to pay for proper software development. And note that FreeBSD is one of the harder nuts in this sense. Any codebase beyond a few hundred lines will have one or more of these if you look hard and long enough. But: these 50 are now squashed and that's a nice Christmas gift.
If the companies that use this stuff commercially would contribute back 1% of the value they derive from using open source this could be bullet proof.
When I worked at PayPal back in 2003/4, one of the things we did (and I think we were the first) was encrypt the datacenter backhaul connections. This was on top of encrypting all the traffic between machines. It added a lot of expense and overhead, but security was important enough to justify it.
I don't know either way but every company does this, it's not saying anything meaningful to say that a new company is taking an "investment year" or two or ten.
I do know that in the late aughts, people were writing stories about how Amazon was a charity run on behalf of the American consumer by the finance industry.
See "Sonic Finder" for the Macintosh.[1] Heavy folders made bigger thumps when opened, or dragged and dropped. It was not widely used and disappeared. I did try it once. Cool, but not useful.
[1] http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~ben/references/gaver_the_son...
Where does this say it's vibe coded?
CPD generally does whatever NYPD does. The difference is that New York isn't Chicago. Different geography, different forces at work. Peter Moskos wrote a whole book about how NYPD turned things around in the 1990s, and "stop and frisk" and "broken windows", whatever Malcolm Gladwell wants you to believe, don't feature prominently in it.
If it were me I'd have a bicameral legislature and have one with Sortition and another elected the usual way.
Back when diclofenac + dmso was rx-only and crazy expensive I tried making my own formulation with ibuprofen and dmso for back pain hoping it wouldn’t tweak out my stomach. According to what I read, ibuprofen would be very well absorbed with dmso.
After applying the ointment I got an upset stomach in minutes so yeah…. It was well absorbed.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3141840/
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/21230-diclofenac...
Filippo is another maintainer, of extremely similar open source software with entirely the same customer base, offering (important) advice to a peer, so I don't think policing his tone is helpful here.
Look, I go to the only church that has a sacrament proven to induce more spiritual experiences than a placebo and I still think the drug references are cringe. And who's to say that
College graduation < Male Orgasm < Female Orgasm < LSD < 5-Meo-DMT
Agreed. This comes off as self-absorbed and entitled - 'how dare the security team not recognize my ascended morality and technical genius! Suppose an evil hacker does plan to disrupt the event - the only thing that stops a bad guy with a Flipper Zero is a good guy with a Raspberry Pi running wireshark!'
and the federal government doesn't always need to follow copyright
It's worth noting that most if not all works created by the government are in the public domain. There are some exceptions but PD is the default.
It's not like they're banning them across all of NYC... it's just security at the inauguration event. "Large bags" are banned too.
> When a policy bans specific devices rather than behaviors or capabilities, it creates ambiguity for people on the ground.
To the contrary, how the heck is someone working security at the entrance supposed to check for a device's "behaviors or capabilities"? This is a quick visual inspection, this reduces ambiguity.
Presumably, the cops are aware of previous disruption with these specific devices, or threats thereof. And it's not like they're going to say exactly what, nor should they, lest it give people ideas...
> Today it’s Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero. Tomorrow it’s BeagleBone Blacks, Arduino Qs, ESP32 dev boards, Teensy boards, Pine64s, Orange Pis...
Which is totally fine. There's no legitimate purpose in bringing any of those to a high-profile political event. Drones, laser pens, and beach balls are prohibited too.
I had those brass-looking cylindrical coolers[1] from Zalman, and the two of them next to each other was quite distinctive.
Like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Abit_dua...
The article is talking about $1.5 million in stock-based compensation (i.e. equity) per employee. That's in addition to cash salaries.