skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Authentication is currently a tire fire all across the web, regardless of framework. It's not unheard of for login issues to consume the efforts of a full-time senior dev on a team. Not including RESTful APIs, the "best practice" for auth has shifted rapidly in the past 10 years from OAuth2 to OpenID to JWT... these frameworks take considerable effort to learn, add to that the fact that the major identity providers (FB, Google, etc.) are undergoing major legal challenges across the world. It's becoming the case that only large teams can actually put together a login page. In this environment, I think hesitancy is warranted.
I'll peek at people playing star citizen on Twitch from time to time. It seems like the game crashes a lot, and it takes forever to get into actual action (like getting your ship and leaving the atmosphere takes like 10+ minutes), but the game has come a long way.

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Star%20Citizen
What's with all the cow probing?
Indeed. I was actually looking at very small / embedded cores which do lack SIMD. Think ARM M0/M3/RISC-V-IMC.
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That’s why paid ads on google search exist; so people can reach them easier
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Could someone provide a good comparison to Nix?

As in:

- What differentiates the two?

- What are respective drawbacks / advantages?

- How usable are they? How painful is the manual creation of packages?
You need to look at what powers the ads.

It's never "just" an ad. Like the way you see an ad in a newspaper. It's the spyware that comes with it and the fact that tons of them are animated!

And yes, I consider it spyware and virus-like behaviour to track me wherever I go and I will actively do what I can to stop it. Even if it means you don't get paid... you chose that seedy medium to make money, not me. It's not my job to validate your business model.

By all means block me. I will go elsewhere.

Browsing the internet without an ad blocker is actually impossible for me now... whenever I rebuild a machine I have those few hours or so before I get the ad blocker installed where the internet is a horrific assault on the senses with everything trying to steal my attention away from the thing I am there to see and slowing down the page load (significantly in some cases)

I still remember when plenty of the internet was running fine from hobbyists and whatnot without resorting to ads and tracking... it costs practically zero to run a website (granted, at scale it's a whole other ball-game but how many people have that problem?)

The internet would survive fine without ads. It would have a different mix of behemoths and hobbyists sites but it would survive just fine.

That being said... I do remember trying to punch the monkey to win :D

Edit: added stuff for clarity
>and the government raising minimum wage ( hurts the economy, regressive against low income individuals, bad for the individual, bad for employers

Government raising the minimum wage is:

* Bad for profits (the main effect is to redirect cash flows from profit to wages).

* Progressive for low income individuals (it raises the bar on low wages - raising wages just about the minimum). The inflationary impact is very muted compared to this.

* Positive for GDP growth - the multiplier effect of money going to low wage earners is much higher (>3x) than profits (<1x) because they have a higher proclivity to spend the money than profit recipients will.
The "person forced from home bought 30 years ago by rising taxes" bit must include "and collects a profit from the increase in value of home."

Property taxes pegged to market value are an incentive for liquidity in the real estate market.
> He promised autonomous driving 2 years from 2016... Given 1 or 2 more years of incremental improvements, your tesla would be capable of driving you most places I would think

I think it's way further off than that, like, 10+, and almost certainly not without extra hardware being added to Teslas

As of today, Tesla's autopilot page says "All new Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features today, and full self-driving capabilities in the future—through software updates designed to improve functionality over time."

This claim imo is at best overly optimistic, and at worst outright fraud. I'd be surprised if they don't get sued at some point over this. (their website used to be much more explicit about promising full self-driving too)

Full self-driving is 90% edge cases. Adaptive cruise control is not a few incremental steps away from full self-driving
I received this when asked for feedback:

"Unfortunately, it is not Stripes’ policy to provide detailed feedback for interviews."

That's totally ok, I just think that a good company should give honest feedback to people to understand where to improve or if the decision to not go forward was based on other criteria.
You know who else works remotely? Astronauts.
Ad supported also competes with entirely free, by having more resources for development and, go figure, more marketing/ad dollars to promote their services elsewhere and gain usershare, for cases in which everyone-is-using-it matters—so, social media and messaging. Paid services aren't the only things that can/would replace spyvertising-funded services.
> A lot of people want to trash Musk and Tesla

A lot of people also seem to forget that it is in the very nature of outrageous statements to be challenged and criticized.

Musk was right with his predictions a few times, but the same could be said about his challengers.
We use Slack, Zoom, Google Docs, Github, and a handful of other widely-adopted technologies. They're really good and we couldn't do this without them, but they're probably not the lynchpin to making this work at scale.

We're working constantly on improving the integration of peers throughout the company. Something Stripe Atlas does, for example, is schedule time for the team to low-key socialize without an explicit agenda, in part because by default some decisions get made in a hallway and some information travels at the speed of coffee, and we've learned we should go out of our way to be inclusive of employees who don't passively benefit from those factors.

I cannot conceive of a reason we'd track screen time for employees, remote or otherwise. I can model why a company which had an adversarial relationship with employees might want to do that (to discourage shirking). We do not have an adversarial relationship with our employees, and (hopefully) have more interesting utility functions than that.

I expect we'll continue publishing what we learn on this in Increment, our engineering blog, and other places. It seems unlikely to me that five years from now instituting this policy will be very contentious at well-run tech companies; that implies we, as an industry, have to get much better at this very quickly. We're always happy to share what we've learned.
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I guess I will go against the grain and state that I don't really mind Epic's aggressive foray into the marketplace, it seems like their best bet against incumbents and a prove strategy in the marketplace.

People had the same reaction to Uplay (No exclusive games but you still need to have an account) and Origin (Only way to play EA Games) and while the services still don't compare to Steam they were absolutely hated when they came out and now people mostly tolerate them to get access to the big AAA games (Apex Legends came and went but few people complained about Origin Exclusivity).

I'm pretty ambivalent when it comes to Steam, the client has become quite bloated with tons of unused / deprecated features and Steam Marketplace feels super scammy full of bots and phishing attempts, and their Chat leaves a lot to be desired but I still use it daily.

Only other services I can think of that has exclusive games and people have a positive / non negative reaction to is the Blizzard one but that has like 8 games in total.

I have read that Epic has no plans to remove the game from Steam so we shall see about that, but I for one am fine with more competition if it means that:

A) Exclusivity deals result in more stability for the devs in terms of receiving large cash inflow

B) Forces both parties to improve their services
> There would be no need for a minimum wage if we had UBI but thay kind of thing is too far off.

This is my primary reason for supporting it.
Nobody's talking about throwing away cars, he's talking about throwing money at cars. There are definitely people who have spent an extra $20,000 on a car that they didn't need to spend, with no expectation of getting a return on investment out of it. Lots of people have done that.
Thanks for that. For a while I had been meaning to create a script that would archive favorites/likes/etc across multiple websites (eg. soundcloud also) using cron + youtube-dl.

Nothing sucks like saving a video, forgetting about it, seeing a [Video removed] in your favorites and Youtube not even telling you what it was. That's just bad UX imo..
It has always been interesting to me that developers hate LoC metrics but brag about writing a Twitter "clone" in a weekend.
I've been thankful of sample data before - eg auditioning online image editors, I didn't want to hunt around and upload something but just wanted to get right in to editing to get a feel for the apps and whether they're so what I needed.

In general though: most onboarding I've disliked, too slow, but some with "click here to do this, or elsewhere to end the tutorial" have been good.
You interpreted their written communication correctly; it was just poor communication.

They wrote as if they were speaking, and it would only have been understandable when speaking because of context and intonation. "I would have been, like..." works when you then act out what you would have been like.
Mexico is part of North America, remember NAFTA? (North American Free Trade Agreement)

It's as easy to hire Mexican remote employees as Canadians, see W8-BEN
does this imply that the universe somehow rewards structures that engender 'compressibility' (coarse graining)? it does seem like our brains subjectively enjoy identifying it, to the point of over-optimization in the form of phenomena like pareidolia
In the state of California, sales tax is imposed on the retailer. The retailer has the option of collecting that tax from the buyer.

https://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqtaxrate.htm#1
Look it’s the greatest reality show ever. Sometime in the future we invent time travel and we send drones back to look at stuff. People have found them and decided, “hey, this obviously works let’s ‘invent’ it.”

So of course they cover it up, they don’t want competition, for the idea they stole, from the future.

Just assume time travel is possible, what makes more sense, traveling back to our own planet or some other super advanced civilization inventing FTL, finding us, and giving a shit to buzz around and mess with us?

Who doesn’t want a sweet 21st century photo to post on future Instagram!
I'm saying that being excessively questioned in a situation where you are detained against your will IS a form of torture, I'm not sure how I can be more clear?
My experience is that some people genuinely are less productive without the social pressure net of their co-workers around them, or literally the boss on-hand as a sort of "productivity enforcer." It's varied wildly from job to job, office culture to culture, and at an individual level, but I take all those experiences with me and it tints my perceptions of productivity as well.

I remember when I was a recruiter it was a life of KPIs handed on down from on high. Management would pat you on the shoulder as they walked by if you were on a call, expressing approval of your activity. We'd crack jokes only somewhat ironically like "any time is a good time for a client call!" If you were still in the office at 7, you could expect a heartfelt appreciative email from management. If you hadn't been on the phone for an hour, a boss may shout across the room "bit quiet over there, someone check if komali_2's napping!"

Then on the days that all of management was at an off-site, things got a lot "looser." Less calls, less grandstanding, more hanging out in the kitchen, longer lunch etc. I don't know if productivity was actually lower ( it probably wasn't ) but it felt that way, because of the culture of our work place.

To that business, the idea of working from home would be laughable. Never mind that there were independent recruiters working out of their house and pulling in literally millions in revenue. How could you be as productive as an office of hardcore recruiters with their managers setting excellent KPIs and tracking goals and establishing milestones and shouting "a bit quiet over there!" occasionally?

Of course now that I'm an engineer I'm easily more productive on my own at home or at a cafe than I am in my office for a multitude of reasons. My purpose is to explore and explain why some people, particular management, believe remote to be less efficient.
Presumably its a sort of tragedy of the commons type thing. Any one rich person could act, but (reasonably) doesn't think they could solve everything by themselves. They could try to persuade their rich friends, but unless enough people do it they might feel that their efforts and their precious, precious hoard would have been wasted
Seems like a good hunch. They've certainly got the capital, bandwidth and experience to do this, and id would be a HUGE competitive advantage. If the states get really aggressive going after the small vendors selling from their own websites, it'll even drive them to work through Amazon...

Great for the AMZN stockholders, but not so great for the ecosystem...
Daily stand-up meeting, weekly staff meeting – or no meeting?
> but when you refuse to unlock it, it could mean that the device is confiscated indefinitely

Has that actually happened in the case of a device belonging to a person legally authorized to enter the USA? That's rough.

In any case, I typically travel with a wiped (but backed up) phone and an encrypted (but backed up) laptop.

One thing I haven't fully figured out is how to manage travel photography - it's not easy to back up tens of gigs remotely, so I usually just end up traveling with it encrypted on my laptop hard drive but not otherwise backed up.
Well the problematic example given in the article was NTFS where the whole filesystem can disappear, but the problem applied to local files too, eg if their size is changed by another process.
You've used thread_local for the sigjmp_buf.

Are you sure the mechanism used by thread_local is safe to use in a signal handler?

Relevant bug from Rust: "TLS accesses aren't async-signal-safe", https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43146

I'm thinking even if it works on certain OSes, it's not guaranteed, because a signal handler's context is not a thread context - or is it?

E.g. the thread_local mechanism might depend on compile-time options (affecting how thread_local, whether it allocates memory on demand, and how it relocates the memory block when loading a shared library), whether it's main program or an -fPIC shared library, and the type of thread library (different ways of implementing pthreads).
Same. 9 times out of 10 I don't want to learn a new tool, just use an intuitive, predictable UI. If I need to "read the instructions" first, your app is probably trying to do too much.

Keep it simple and only use onboarding if your app is truly novel.
Binary compatibility is only a pressing issue if the majority of the software you run is closed source and not provided by your distro.

Why waste time maintaining something which is not needed?
One other problem is, magazines end. They have X articles, of which you find Y interesting enough to read, and then that's that. You read it. It's done. You go do something else.

Digital feeds never end. There's always something new, always something interesting. There's always something. You can keep staring at the screen endlessly. And if one app doesn't give new stuff anymore, there's 10 other apps within a tap away to give you more.
The bank can't take your property unless you fail to meet your obligations, which means you, not the bank, are in control of the situation.

I understand the point being made. It's a commonly held opinion, and it's fine for inspiring people to get out of debt, but legally it's not correct. Your home is your property, even with a mortgage.

Also, a foreclosure is not the only way to lose your property. Stop paying your taxes and see what happens. Even unpaid unsecured debt (like credit cards) can lead to your home being taken in some situations. Or the government can take your property via eminent domain.

So there is no such thing as REALLY controlling property, in terms of excluding any way it can be taken from you. But you do have specific legal rights to your property, and those apply to mortgages too.
The thing is, in each if these lessons, it's not the engineers who have anything to learn, but the people making business decisions. Every one of these stories has an engineer saying, "I think this is a bad idea," only to be overridden by someone making business decisions.

There is more value from these lessons being be taught in MBAs, and I don't think they are.

No amount of engineering safety can overcome unsafe business leadership.
One of my close friends joined the team as a programmer not long ago, and he's said that since then the team has grown massively. Say what you will about their way of investment (ridiculously overpriced ships and whales throwing ten's of thousands at the game for things that don't exist yet), they're not squandering that money. They've gone all out on hiring talent, and a huge amount of investment is still going in.
Sure! It'a common misconception that the brain is completely separated from the immune system. If it were, it would take one evolutionarily successful pathogen to threaten the existence of our species.
The brain is indeed (usually) impenetrable to immune cells circulating in the blood stream, but there are "resident" immune cells protecting it from everything that manages to pass all the other barriers. You can read more about it on Wikipedia [1].

By "factor" I didn't mean a biological entity, but rather... well, a factor contributing to the development of the disease. (As you might have noticed, English is not my native tongue, and I couldn't come up with a sophisticated synonym to "a thing that makes a contribution to sth" ;-))

It's been long postulated that AB/tau proteins are only a symptom of Alzheimer's and not a causative agent (which would explain why, so far, no treatment has been successful despite pre-clinical successes). According to some hypotheses, what we observe is the effect of "strayed" lymphocytes going postal and attacking brain cells after being activated by a microbial agent – and HSV is one of the suspects.

Hope that helps. If something is not clear, feel free to ask and I'll try to explain :-)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroinflammation
By naming it "Autopilot" they take on that responsibility.
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Sounds like the "this year" was 2018, in which I don't believe they raised money in
There is quite a bit of indie developers. I personally published Rob - robot programming game. Basically a port of RoboZZle (which btw exists on Android and iOS too).
They just had the better approach: Fully releasing a game with a minimal but high quality feature set that gets extended over time.

It is a great game for some people. If you want to try the first generations of VR, I think this game is the reference for that.

They didn't have the marketing of Star Citizen, but were better in everything else they did.
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> After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, most reactor builders had tacked on a slew of new safety features. KHNP followed suit but later realized that the astronomical cost of these features would make the APR1400 much too expensive to attract foreign clients.

> “They eventually removed most of them,” says Park, who now teaches nuclear engineering at Dongguk University. “Only about 10% to 20% of the original safety additions were kept.”
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Is there a GUI/TUI for it? Like something akin to aptitude or at the very least muon?

And does GUIX/Nix has something similar to Recommended/Suggested packages in Ubuntu/Debian land? Or is each package an all-or-nothing kind of deal?
i don't know why you got downvoted. The engineer in charge at the latest autopilot meeting explicitely mentionned snow as not beeing specifically adressed yet.
He did also mentioned that the autopilot performed quite well under snow right now, but that was indeed very surprising to hear that snow condition wasn't been specifically addressed yet, and yet they talk about robotaxi for next year.
That's a good point. Another one I forgot to make: given the established empirical reality of 'everything is correlated', if you find a variable which does in fact seem to be independent of most or everything else, that alone makes that variable suspicious - it suggests that it may be a pseudo-variable, composed largely or entirely of measurement error/randomness, or perhaps afflicted by a severe selection bias or other problem (such as range restriction or Berkson's paradox eliminating the real correlation).

Somewhat similarly, because 'everything is heritable', if you run into a human trait which is not heritable at all and is precisely estimated at h^2~0, that cast considerable doubt on whether you have a real trait at all. (I've seen this happen to a few latent variables extracted by factor analysis: they have near-zero heritability in a twin study and on further investigation, turn out to have been just sampling error or bad factor analysis in the first place, and don't replicate or predict anything or satisfy any of the criteria you might use to decide if a trait is 'real'.)
It's not "so people can't move," inflexibility is a side effect of rent control. The "I can't move because I'm locked into a rent-stabilized lease" phenomenon is real, painfully so in NYC.

It's also a problem that's essentially invisible to anyone who bought into the market at a good price, or is wealthy enough to pay market-rate rents. But for the rest of us, it hurts.
Your helping hand is welcome! Even coordination of developers toward solution is helping a lot, because we have no free but dedicated managers. We are developers after all.

Create ticket in bug trackers of all major distributions and describe the problem and your proposed solution. If your vision is right and attractive, developers will join the movement. This isn't hard, it's just time-consuming.