skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > > Hilariously, OpenBSD is closer to systemd in its philosophy than anything else ...

> > Hilariously, this is premise is entirely wrong.

Note that you originally asserted:

one umbrella project developing all parts of the OS

And I responded with what I feel confident is a statement of fact:

Systemd is not the OS.

> Then take KDE as example (an umbrella project with many separate, independent projects below it, all of which are separate binaries, but many work better when used together, or depend on another). Or Gnome. Or any other such umbrella project.

The examples you provide are umbrella projects, no doubt, but none are Operating Systems. Neither is systemd.

While the term "OpenBSD" can be used in the context of a distribution (common), OS (common), and the tools used to initialize same (uncommon), systemd only qualifies for the latter.
> I reached out to the Linux Foundation, multiple times, for clarification or statement. After 5 days, I had not received any response.

> Likewise, I contacted Charles Wood, who declined to comment with the following statement: "I'm not sure I want to go on the record with anything at the moment. You're welcome to comment on anything that's already out there."

> Kim Crayton, who posted the complaint, was also given the opportunity to provide her views and provide further information: "My viewpoint is well documented and I have absolutely no desire to explain it further"

But somehow this still warranted a 1,590 word post from a podcaster about an event they don't have any knowledge about other than some public tweets. It's like a Linux-oriented shock jock trying to drum up controversy in the absence of a complete story. Speculation is pretty entertaining, I guess.
This isn't an increase in the cost of transport, this is an increase in the cost of trucking. There's a subtle but very important distinction there because the actual human cost of trucking (ie wages, healthcare etc) is likely much smaller than the costs of fuel, maintenance and many more externalities.

Yes, if you could magically teleport goods from one location to another, that would be fantastic for the economy and terrible for truckers. I think it's more magical thinking however to look at one statistic and assume that it would lead to doom and gloom, as many did when Seattle decided to change the minimum wage to $15.

That said, if we believe that reducing the cost of trucking at all costs is important to the economy: Why not just remove all worker protections? In fact, why not just not pay workers at all? We have plenty of prisoners that could be truck drivers.

We can kick out all of the high earning truck drivers being leeches on the economy by increasing the cost of transport and replace them with something far cheaper until automation comes along. That sounds like a good idea, yeah?
the word Kek made me think of the alt-right meme. I was pleasantly surprised that is was something else.
It’s also one of the dumbest consensus protocols in use. It’s a compromise to get what they wanted out of blockchain but nobody will admit it. Which makes me wonder about the rest of their claims. It’s intellectually dishonest and money is involved. No thank you.
No, a group full of software engineers definitely couldn't start a news room on their own in a day, week, or month. But there's definitely still a huge hole in the news room for folks who "know how to code [together]", or at the very least folks who know how to build the support infrastructure. At many of the biggest news rooms, it's often a single person building infrastructure, ETL pipelines, performance tuning, visualization, etc etc. Taking away a lot of the drudgery of dealing with ETL pipelines could go a very long way for the news room. The competition for these jobs is so high that newsrooms end up with data folk who can wield magic, but with very little pay, support, and equipment (one data reporter I talked to had a windows machine with 4gb of ram!) to fulfill their jobs.

My point being that there's a middle ground where we simply have more software folk inside, or close to, the news room. Consider that as more information is created/stored (regardless of government, corporations, or private), the requirement for collecting/parsing/cleaning through that information for the news room will become harder and harder. I'm sure some phase transition will happen, but probably not for a while.
The definition of a weird number is one that is abundant but not semiperfect.

I looked for the "semiperfect" label on that stupid fucking diagram for like three minutes.

It isn't fucking there. That diagram can burn in the library of shitty diagrams.
There are things you don’t have to try to know you don’t want it. Like poop, for instance.

I already have an uncomfortable detente with notifications on my devices. Upsetting that delicate balance is so obviously a bad idea that I don’t need to try it to tell you “no, not even a little”
How would it make your life worse if in addition to the usb-c ports there was a sd card port and usb-a? Does switching away from magsafe make it more likely or less likely for the MacBook to get accidentally pulled to the floor?

I'm not saying that no one will find usb-c useful or that it works for no one's workflow.

I'm saying that going all usb-c doesn't provide much, if any benefit. They could've given you your usb-c ports and included the other ports.

If it works for you, great. The problem is that they could've made it work for a lot more people, but they chose not to in their Don Quixote-like chase for thinness and aesthetics.
while the headline is technically correctly phrased, it buries the lede on the interesting bit here: the bi-directional feedback mechanism. robots that walk/run/jump like humans have existed for decades, but a bipedal robot that literally mimics the movements of a particular human, and sends force feedback to that human for real-time control is novel. that’s the neat part.
But I don’t need to buy more stuff. I’ve already got that handled.
That’s research.
Does this not just spread the disease?
More: https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/172972/hedge-fund-j...
How would you define 'conscious' in an empirically testable way?

I'm not being a smartarse here, I'm sincerely curious -- because it seems that you're confident that non-biological consciousness is impossible, and also that p-zombies (beings that give every outward appearance of consciousness without actually possessing it) are impossible. So you probably have some specific beliefs about the necessary limits of non-conscious 'intelligence', and I'm interested in what they are and how you've arrived at them.
Yeah, I don’t know or care about any of these people. I have no idea who the author is or why they’re relevant. I only clicked this link because I’m a sucker for clickbait and am pretty bored rn.

> Since we are focusing, in this article, on the banning of the individual from an event -- we are going to start with the initial (to my knowledge) and primary public complaint posted by Kim Crayton and directed to the organizers of the conference (KubeCon).

So as soon as I got to that point, I got suspicious. It seemed awfully convenient to start a story at that point.

> I am keeping my personal opinion out of this article. Just facts, so you can make up your own mind on what, if anything, all of this means.

Not sure if they think they’re getting away with it or if they legit don’t know how biased this reads to someone, who once again, has no stakes in the situation. I actually went ahead and googled and situation and I don’t claim to know the full story from 15 mins of reading different hot takes but boy...

Anyways, that’s enough Silicon Valley tmz for me for tonight.
No, you can test and gauge the quality of that data. At this point, you're not really even making a point about whether or not we should introduce biases in our models to make them match our worldview - you're saying the entire endeavor of trying to build a model is worthless. If what you're saying is true, that we can't measure what decisions are successful or unsuccessful, then there's no point in trying to build a model because we no way of knowing whether the model is working or not.
Iraq: The Winds of Change
Disney+ content warnings on sensitive depictions causes stir
There is such a thing as elastic demand. If you can't find people to pick strawberries without paying $150 an hour, you are probably going to go out of business. That is usually considered a labor shortage.
Think about the lifetime value the advertiser who influenced your mom is earning!
> Ah yes, the teamsters... who will no longer have to compete with independents.

Not to overstate the obvious, but that's pretty much the entire point of unions: by working collectively, individuals aren't directly competing against each other, forcing management to pay higher wages, with the goal being that the wages paid are higher than any individual could make if the union didn't exist.
This is a great list. I feel a little happy with myself that I knew about most of these.

Except for identifying each request, I had never heard about that. It's so simple yet so brilliant, gotta start doing it.
Dockerfile provides as much reproducible environment as bash shell script.

This is why I have beef with docker, it was marketed to solve multiple things, but ultimately it becomes over-glorified zip file. It absolutely fails in reproducibility and I constantly see scenarios where Dockerfile that worked one day broke another day, or it worked on one machine and broke on another and so on.

Yes, you can put extra effort and make your dockerfile reproducible, but similarly you can make a reproducible bash script.
s/especially/exclusively/
"Content creation" is oversaturated. I'm willing to pay for the content I consume, but it is evidently true that most people are not - and I don't blame them. Would you really pay for a Logan Paul video? Without ad revenue, many lowest common denominator content creators (and other parasitic scenarios like "instagram influencers") go away. I fail to see that as a bad thing.
I interviewed with TGS and two friends of mine work there. They're not "the secret Renaissance Technologies." The only commonality between them is that they're both successful quant hedge funds. They have completely different origins and tend to hire researchers from different areas of science. You might as well call Edgestream the secret RenTec since it also flies under the radar and was founded by someone from Renaissance.

This is an editorialized title which isn't endorsed by the article's content. Moreover it's from 2014. I'm not sure what sparked the sudden interest in these companies on Hacker News this week, maybe it's the new book about Simons and RenTec. But the article's pretty out of date and it doesn't give much info.

Worth noting that TGS is also several times smaller than RenTec. They only just passed 100 employees very recently. It's true they're secretive and they like to hire academics. But that describes a large number of really good quant shops. By design, you don't know who they are and they like it that way. Most don't even have websites!
I've always found it interesting that the Dunning-Kruger effect especially applies to software engineers. And I think the reason is actually really simple - software engineering is actually really easy to get started and start making an impact. Think of the early engineering projects college students learn: mechanical engineers might develop a racing chassis for FSAE, civil engineers may design a small-scale structure to withstand an earthquake simulation, electrical engineers can build a superheterodyne receiver - all of these require planning for hardware because it's not as easy as recompiling software. The amount of time and work the compiler magics away is utterly astounding, and an extraordinarily small percent of software engineers appreciate it. The reason software engineers think they are so smart is because they are operating in one of the easiest work-to-reward environments imaginable, and this is only reinforced by their high salaries.

That said, the opportunities for learning and growing as an engineer are just as large in software engineering as other disciplines (probably greater given the current economic environment). Most software engineers have shaken off a lot of this hubris by the time they have 'senior' in front of their title.
What kind of monster doesn’t map Caps Lock to CTRL??
The fact that I could see a doctor today, see a different doctor tomorrow, give them different scenarios and both will think of it as the truth is a bigger problem that needs to be solved
I used this repository to make Half Life’s Dr. Kleiner sing “I am the very model of a modern major general”:

https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1171806394783326208?s=2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koU3L7WBz_s

Then @jonathanfly deepfaked Dr Kleiner’s face onto a live performance of the song, which was hilariously unexpected. The AI twitter scene is awesome:

https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1171907301231513605?s...

There is some promising new work in the GitHub issues. For example, someone has been training on ~10,000 additional speakers.
That might explain why they chose it, but it doesn't give me (or anyone else who isn't familiar with Swift already) any reason to consider it.
He did tweet that unlike many engineers, he can't be productive unless he gets a full 8 hours of sleep (IIRC).
> > Not according to here[0].

> Okay, let's click on that. First sentence "It doesn't". What were you trying to argue again?

And the second sentence says:

What it requires is a service that
implements the same set of APIs as
systemd-logind.

Since GNOME requires either systemd-logind or something that behaves exactly as systemd-logind, how does that not express a transitive dependency on systemd?

So what are you trying to argue again?

> > Know that an init system, any init system, does not design nor define an Operating System.

> Are you purposely confusing systemd-init and systemd the project?

No, what I stated I thought was quite clear: an init system does not design nor define an Operating System.

This is orthogonal to the question you present.

0 - https://www.quora.com/Why-does-GNOME-3-require-systemd
Jim Woodring deserves way, way more attention from geeks than he gets.
I’ve been doing this, as prompted by being assigned a touchstrip MacBook at my last job.

Have to say I was able to retrain pretty quickly. jj is now my first instinct even on full-sized keyboards. I now think it’s really an improvement. All about staying on that home row as much as possible..
I think that was their point.

Xhampster only has a relatively few and relatively easily identified and relatively clearly defined things to look for, compared to youtube and faceebook and others, which have a universe of nebulous things to try to identify.

xhampster (probably) doesn't even try to figure out if something is subtly antisemetic or anything like that. If it doesn't have kids or an actual not-faked death in it, then it's ok.
Balance io: Interfaces to the open financial system is shutting down
Another one bites the dust. You only need to do a few problems on Kaggle to know AGI is a long, long way away, if achievable at all.

AGI proponents tend to claim that we know everything about physics and biology, and that replicating it is feasible. This is science fiction.

There are much more pressing concerns in the AI space. Godspeed Carmack.
Please post this on the site itself so others can hear your opinion
Facebook absolutely helped put local newspapers out of business.
Please take this as nothing more than my subjective opinion: I believe that humans don't have GI but HI - we have a "world-view" that is very idiosyncratic to being human, which is essentially heuristics all the way down - in other words, I don't believe there is a magical novel concept that explains HI, but that it is a collection of party tricks that evolved over time, i.e. hacky engineered system.
Increasing mail volume by one newspaper per household will not result in a comparable increase in mail carriers -- they're making the trips anyways.
They’re saying that underrepresented voices will have trouble being modeled. That matches my experience with this project: for example, I had a very tough time cloning female voices compared to nerdy-sounding / deep male voices.
Riches from Rags
$ ktrace /bin/ls >/dev/null
$ kdump | grep brk | wc -l
0
$ kdump | grep mmap | wc -l
130

glibc, musl, and jemalloc got the memo, they just couldn't be bothered to stop using brk by default. They're all capable of using mmap exclusively, however, because whether or not brk is actually dead, there's long been consensus that mmap is the better abstraction on balance, particularly given the benefit of ASLR. So there's little reason to support brk instead of mmap for compatibility. Presumably it was chosen for the convenience of WebAssembly implementations--contiguous, flat memory is a great simplifier of VM, JIT, and even traditional AoT architectures.
> > Systemd is not the OS.

> Certainly seems to want to become it.

touché
This is pretty much the status quo for the industry at this point. If you're in CS then your political presentation should be Democrat and progressive, the implolite right gets punished far more frequently that the impolite left.
Thus avoiding a race to the bottom where truckers drive all day just to feed themselves and our insatiable desire for free shipping.
This is the realm most Car Ads fall under.

Their purpose isn't to randomly convince someone to spend $20-30k on a brand new vehicle.

The purpose is to convince people who've already bought the car that they made the right decision and to feel good about it - and to rave about their new exciting, big purchase to their friends/family.
Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting
Regardless of whether other websites' 2FA is useless, you need to make it clear when you do something different from them.
Not to mention all the mathematicians who contributed to the theoretical foundations of machine learning.

This announcement is meaningless IMO. Those who will make meaningful, core contributions to AI tech are doing it with pen and paper, not computers.
Again, you went wide. Specifically, Walmart is not responsible for Dean's bankruptcy, which was all we were discussing.
I'm interested in what devices fernly has that use mini-A.
Not exactly true. The current lead maintainer for Perl 5 is in his mid 30s at a guess, a large chunk of us are between that and our early 50s. This puts most of us around a decade or two out from retirement.

That said the Perl community does lack a steady stream of fresh young people ready to do impossible things because they don't know they're impossible.
http://archive.is/YFG4Z
Geotechnical users were always the second or third biggest users of supercomputers after national security users. Big oil always had the most astonishing data centers.
Coming from the self-taught perspective, I disagree that software engineering is not difficult. It is difficult. Otherwise everyone would be doing it just for the money.

Though I do agree with you on the other points, although it seems like you are bitter about something.

That said, I work with a company that makes stuff that does contribute to society in a positive way, and because of that I make less than most.

When I started to teach myself, I knew I never wanted to work on something that was involved in ads, data collection for ads, or making junk software, which seems to be the focus of the majority of software companies.
Motorola razr folding phone has been unveiled
We've switched to the HTML doc title and added 2014 above. Submitted title was "TGS Management – The Secret Renaissance Technologies", which broke the guidelines ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." — https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

It's a great submission otherwise! not discussed before on HN as far as I could find.
I have not heard of them but from reading their website looks like using AI to help charting efficiency and to squeeze more blood out of the turnip so to speak by making sure you get all those HCCs. This is the direction I’ve thought AI in medicine will go for a while: speech to text, suggested diagnosis and then suggested treatment plans. When you can get a HIPAA compliant way to record what the pt is saying and write the note (an AI scribe, so to speak), that is where I think it will start.

How is m*modal, have you used it?
When one considers that the median experience of asking a question on stackoverflow is "immediately closed as a duplicate of a vaguely similar question from six years ago", this seems like a pretty superfluous change.

A far more meaningful way to reward askers would be to simply change how dupes are handled. Instead of closing questions with a link to a related question, give users a mechanism to answer questions with a link to a related answer. Then if the link really does solve the problem the asker can accept that answer, and if not the original question can stay open.

I get why SO chose their current aggressive stance on dupes, but it's probably time to try something else.
> What Silicon Valley companies have put workers out of a job since let’s say 2000?

Push it back to the mid 1990s and answer the same question.
A lot of what he did in PC graphics was very original, but in the old days it was narrowly applicable, while by the time Doom 3 was in development, his gfx programming could be more widely applied to other things. I think his fast inverse sqrt was VERY impressive, which he didn't invent first but may have come up with independently.
Ok, given that and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21531193, and frankly just about all the other comments here, we'll take newness out of the title above. Makes the story more interesting actually.
...yet. Maybe it will be 100 years in the future, but I think there's a good chance of it.
Can you elaborate on how they're different?

The general point was that they are a quant fund comparable to RenTec but even more secretive and less well known. I understand they have very different origin stories
Sorry, that keyboard has screwed me too many times.
Being a rails dev for the last 10 years is shameful?
I'm surprised nobody has made the connection with the announcement of Horizon. Carmack joined Oculus in order to build the next generation of 3d Virtual worlds. It's done, other than some polish, which means he's not needed anymore.

However Horizon turns out (I'm bearish on it tbh), Carmack has had his shot to build the digital future, it's now turned out how it has, and there's not much flexibility left for him to maneuver, it's time to move on.

I think AGI is going to turn out like his shot at Rocketry, big and complex enough that he'll find his niche and contribute, but not make any significant breakthroughs.
I think the big red warning is pretty clear.

> Warning: For security reasons, GitHub Support may not be able to restore access to accounts with two-factor authentication enabled if you lose your two-factor authentication credentials or lose access to your account recovery methods.

https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/r...
Reading the link, it seems that Jeremy Howard only tried out Swift because Swift for Tensorflow existed. I got the impression from your comment that using Swift for this purpose was somehow "in-the-air" at the time, and many people independently considered it, but I don't think this is true. My impression is quite the contrary - when they announced Tensorflow support for Swift, I think many people were surprised.