skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran Gentoo for a few years, but the distros I used most in the years immediately before discovering NixOS were (based on) openSUSE, Arch, and Ubuntu.

NixOS is more similar, culturally (rather than technically), to Debian than it is to Ubuntu or Fedora, both in the sense that it's not backed by a large corporation and also in the sense that it doesn't promote a particular vision of the Linux desktop.

On a technical level, its package management approach will feel like a larger paradigmatic leap, coming from a Fedora or an Ubuntu, than it would from a Gentoo. NixOS doesn't have quite the same notion of a repository as either of the former. The concept of 'overlays', used to extend Nixpkgs, would be familiar to a Gentoo user but not a Fedora user.

That said, an Ubuntu user won't notice a lot of compilation from source, and in fact they'll likely find Nix pretty fast as a package manager. And likewise, NixOS is more different from any of those than it is similar to Gentoo.

An Ubuntu user switching to NixOS will likely be

- impressed with the wide selection of packages
- happy with how easy it is to iterate on a config
- delighted by the rollbacks
- pleased with how easy it is to add most software to Nixpkgs
- eventually frustrated by the inflexibility of having to package things for Nix to get them to work well on NixOS
- appreciative that their system doesn't accrue cruft over time
- perplexed with having to learn slightly different processes for packaging things in different language ecosystems in Nixpkgs
- blown away by the knowledgeable and helpful community

depending on how deep they go with NixOS. Overall, I can't say if you'll like the whole declarative paradigm or not, which will be the biggest difference. But bear in mind that you can enjoy many of the benefits of Nix while still keeping one foot 'in both worlds', by using Nix on top of Ubuntu or Fedora rather than jumping in with NixOS.

Jumping right in with NixOS is a good idea if

- your needs are simple, or
- you have a bit of packaging experience (for any distro), or
- you have an interest in functional programming, or
- you like learning new things, or
- the reproducibility and uniform management of your system's configuration is highly appealing to you.

If you have less Linux experience, or you feel less inclined to commit to the whole paradigm for any reason, try giving yourself a taste of Nix and NixOS' declarative style by running Nix and Home Manager on top of your existing distro of choice! I think NixOS is in a mature enough state that there's just a ton of functionality and packages in it, and lots of Linux users could be happy with it as-is. But for those who are thinking about getting into extending it and molding it to fit their own needs but aren't sure about the hairy details of that kind of work, running Nix on foreign Linux can be a good, noncommittal way to get a sense of what that work looks like.

On the whole, I think any experienced Linux user will at least find it interesting. But the more common response from those who really get a handle of it is 'I could never go back'.
I’ve known Lucas Chess for a long time but the UI is still confusing to me. Many functions seem similar/duplicate and AFAK the interface doesn’t provide any instant help. Sure, there is a online help but reading through pages long instruction to use a program is honestly too much to ask from today users. IMO, it’s much better to provide an instant help through hint and status line, which is a common practice in desktop apps. Perhaps it’d be better if the author restructure the app into 3 main areas:
- tactics exercises and play for young players, beginners
- play and exploring the plethora of chess engines included in the bundle, and
- improve skills through: tactical exercises, learning opening, end games and building a personal chess database

Such structure will make the menu much clearer for (new) users and therefore I believe it’ll significantly improve its impact.
Yeah just a little joke. Good job on the film though, that was definitely influential.
> an object is a struct with associated functions.

That's true, and if you add an “apply” operator (`operator ()`), then your thing becomes a “function object” and your instance variables are the closure environment. quod erat demonstrandum.
That "home" timeline is admittedly an anti-feature, but

(a) it's fairly simple to turn off.

(b) it's a fairly obvious artefact of being ad-driven, and so needing to increase "engagement" at all cost that Musk has also identified as the main problem and wants to reduce as much as possible.
I would assume they started with low hanging fruits- so you’re simply seeing 80/20 rule [0] reflected on the progress / commits.

[0] Often 80% of the work might take 20% of the time, whereas the remaining 20% might take 80% of the time.
Yes... That's exactly what it is?
You're conflating demands for capital with an artist's desire to create, and most artists would do the latter regardless of the former. In fact, you even said it yourself - artists who create for capital are forced to produce more shallow art for the masses. Art is a pursuit of the divine, not capital, and pursuing one will come at the expense of the other.
How old are you? I bought a model 3 performance when I was 27 and sold it a year ago. I was paying 285/month with Allstate (before Tesla started offering insurance). I drive my old ICE now and pay 108/month. Clean record.

From what I understand the older you are the less you pay.
You sound like a pagan worshipper in Ancient Greece, commenting on the sacrifices we must make for the gods on Mount Olympus.

I’ll try to respond in the rigid language of the mythical Homo Economicus. If Taylor Swift could control the ticket booking process herself, she could choose which of those 400,000 fans got tickets, instead of being forced to accept those who make TicketMaster the most profits. She can go for maximum short-term financial gain for herself, or perhaps long-run profits, or even some kind of artistic consideration. This is why TicketMaster having control both over supply of venues (by virtue of its exclusivity contracts) and distribution is a problem that needs to be solved, to introduce elasticity into the market that can respond to demand.
And Tandy TRS-80
Particularly uncomfortable opinions that are usually (not always) thought through carefully and hard to dismiss.
Fully agreed. I first misunderstood the article as mocking AI alarmism, but it really does the opposite: It's parodying articles that underestimate the potential of the tech, because applications are not a 1:1 drop-in replacement to what we have today.

Hence references to such future-proof technologies as delivering messages or cargo(!) via carrier pigeon.

Doesn't bode well for artists if they are essentially compared with carrier pigeons here...
Why on earth would you say that someone is not worried about losing a $44 billion investment?

That’s really not based on reality and the number of random changes they are currently pushing with zero strategic foresight makes it very clear that despite the blistering they are very much concerned.
Hahaha you've never met a real man, neat.
Air speed zero? Otherwise I’ve seen some Cessnas hover :)
Less than half of Twitter's remaining employees signed up to work for Musk
If We Build EV Batteries Like This, We Can Extend Their Lifespans
Mayor Adams Signs Legislation to Fight Rats, Build Cleaner City
‘Why am I talking to 10 guys?’ The rise and fall of dating apps
Or you could be great at selling yourself honestly. It also doesn't really seem polite to tell people they are the true imposters because they are good at something.
There's accommodating to minorities, then there's the enabling of a totalitarian group that terrorizes others under the pretext of diversity and inclusion. Most people are reasonable and willing to accede to the former. On the other hand, people who claim that a small change in language can't harm are missing out the point that they're doing the latter. This is not a hard dichotomy to understand, but somehow people are failing to do so, and then it's us vs them and going at each other's throats.
Yes, a lot of people want to watch Rome burn in it’s final days.

That’s a terrible metric to use when you think about it.
It's bad practice.
I'm 46ish now and the only toy I still have since growing up are my Micro Machines (probably about 50 or so).
That’s very normal. Lots of Manga is translated from German for the smaller markets in Europe.
Lies of the police doesn't constitute entrapment - only forcibly coercion does. Nobody forced Ulbright to hire an assassin - they only lied to him, but his decision stands none the less.
Why would or should men be included in something they are excluded from by nature, by biology, and by logic? Especially when it's regarding medical information.

For example, you're not included in my family, not legally, not biologically. If you ask/demand to be in my family simply because you say you feel like you are I'll say no but it will not mean I hate you, you're just not one of my family. My saying you're not is not anti-you or you-phobic. Your saying it wouldn't harm anyone to allow you and/or others to identify as being part of my family is simply nonsense, especially if my family disagree.

Thus, I'd like to see some justification for your claims.
If they’ve undergone medical transitioning procedures (e.g. hormones), then yes, quite possibly.
Grading in school is never anonymous so it’s hardly bias-free.
My theory is teachers like obedient pupils and that’s why they prefer girls over boys.
> I’m not saying there’s a 100% chance of that; no one is saying that; but it’s greater than it was.

Okay, but going from 0% to 0.0001% is also "greater than it was". What are you saying? Is it 90%, 50%, 20%, 10%, 1%?
This article is for paying subscribers only.

It baffles me. Do people wish to pay to read stuff like that? I mean, what the point to write a polemic article and severely limit the access to it?
(import ./default.nix).eval {} ''

That's no S-expression.
Is it a joke? He claims to be able to solve pain in most diseases with basically the same fusion device:

https://primerfieldfoundation.org/issues-treated

He cites three papers on Cell, Nature. The one on Nature does not seem to be related to this "array of magnets"

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54d7e4ece4b0a551f3b3a...
I have a friend whose ovaries were removed when she was a child, and, as a result, she was never fertile. She's not trans, an effeminate male or a butch woman. This would be the case even if she did not receive hormone therapy. She's a woman, and it's not 'reductive' to separate being a woman from reproductive function or hormones.
Those three drawbacks are barely drawbacks at all nowadays. Not being able to return/resell your ticket is a big issue though.
Can you link to what you are reading? I am a nuclear engineer, I suspect they are using a very loose definition of critical, one that would imply the entire universe itself is critical.
Hacking SSD’s: how a hobby project went out of control
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the CIA
I enjoy "learning the distribution". It's ok if it is high variance if we can have a decent sample size. You learn about all the crazy things but that creates a map that is useful later.
> I'm honestly hoping that they re-consider deploying a properly-developed Unix personality again, but that ship has sailed.

Agreed. WSL1 was incredibly ambitious, and that alone made it exciting. And what it does manage to do, even in its unfinished state, is also impressive in its own right.

(FWIW, I actually had WSL2 in mind when I was talking about bugs. Switching to a VM-based approach solved some compatibility issues but WSL2 definitely still has problem.)
> I know that can be turned off but way too many people don't and then they end up engaging in topics they know nothing about.

This is 95% of social media, including HN.
If you're open to believing that we are underestimating AI you may also be interested in people who say the same thing about solar and batteries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj96nxtHdTU
Greg Bear has died
> The namesake, lambda calculus, doesn't have it (I think?).

Lambdas in the Lambda Calculus have to be closures, how else would you build functions of multiple arguments? Think:

λx.λy.(x + y)

If they weren't closures, `x` would be unbound in the inner lambda.
If they're bold enough to do it for a physically intensive job despite the clear absurdity, why wouldn't they do it for something else where it's easier to get away with? The people driving this phenomenon are the same in both cases. Good riddance.
A new ETL with desktop management app and web interface for graphs/statistics for an office in a banking group. All with C# and, unfortunately, Visual Basic and the web stack.

Quite a challenge that took ~1 year all alone.
Ha ha, I had the same initial reaction. That's regular Nix code, which is used to run the Lisp code (the stuff between the first '' and the last '').
Digitizing Analog Video Through a Digital Camcorder
Software engineers in my first hand experience have been able to organize around coordinated action to get their employer to improve their conditions and pay without unions necessarily. One simple example of that is to coordinate around pay transparency
Web3, the Metaverse, and the Lack of Useful Innovation
Mostly just O, if it's caching.
> Also congrats to all the people with XX chromosomes who are infertile and are now men.

You’ll notice I didn’t define the female sex as the ability to get pregnant, nor that all of them can or want, just that it’s reserved to the female sex.

You guys always do the « reverse argument trick » where you try to put words in the mouth of your victim. It’s more obvious than you think it is.

> Pour one out for all the women who’ve had oophorectomies due to medical complications or women born with vaginal agenesis and androgen insensitivity syndrome.

If you want to think of all the exceptions you cannot ever say anything. I’ll stick to the 90+% of humanity.

The fact is, having ovaries is reserved to people of the female sex, which once again doesn’t mean all females (sex) have ovaries because of all you say. Ok, except for that one rare syndrome where men can sometimes develop ovaries, but again, we can’t possibly consider all the cases every time we speak if it means we can’t properly talk about the vast majority of the world population.
Very interesting point. I wasn’t aware of it. It would be some kind of psyop of the Chinese government where its own citizens are served intelligent content and get progressively smarter, while the citizen of the enemy are served retarded content and get progressively more stupid. This would actually seem to match what we see nowadays in western society. Virtue signaling, Russophobia, LGBTQ propaganda, and so forth.

The other day it came to me that the huge number of American girls doing porn is actually a sign of how a country has effectively reduced its own women to nothing more then prostitutes. There is a huge irony there, since the populace itself actually still thinks they live in the greatest country in the world. Thankfully, most of them don’t have a passport to go and check the rest of the world.
Can’t go to the moon? This crater in Canada is the next best thing
I think we are talking past each other.

> Truth in pure mathematics doesn’t really have any meaning, because you simply invent the rules

Yes, I was saying that you can view mathematics like that. Not everyone does though, so I question that it necessarily is as you say.

I’m further saying that science is not simply belief or faith based, because otherwise all its achievement would look like one big miracle. And that seems contrary to the claim that it would be faith based. Without first philosophy and a logico-metaphysical “foundation”, whatever that could be, to whoch the trilemma could be applied. I think the very idea of something epistemically stronger than practical success that will prove science right is a flawed idea from the outset - what will prove it right? But please try to apply the trilemma - I would be interested. I often learn surprising new things here.

If you read my reply above you will find that I said that primitives are not axioms. These are the things axioms talk about, sometimes also referred to as atoms. But you may refer to them by no matter which word you like if you make it clear. Important is only that we understand reach other, though we will likely not agree. It’s a complex topic, and this medium is not necessarily made for that.

And lastly, my point about the presentation of the trilemma still stands. I did not quote the full sentence to not make this too long, not to make a cheap point against a straw man.

The trilemma is a practical hammer that can be used against first philosophy that tries to prove how everything is from the armchair. But make it a first philosophy itself, and it becomes self defeating.
Musk publicly fired Sr Staff Eng Eric Frohnhoefer and others who supported him
>HelenOS is open source, free software. Its source code is available under the BSD license. Some third-party components are licensed under GPL.

https://github.com/HelenOS/helenos#license
All of Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix
Hesitant to endorse committing a json file that can expose secrets in plain text to version control.

Encrypted S3 with versioning still seems more appropriate.
true, but the threat to them is not from superior technology, but from good technology coupled with a different monetization approach.

Google’s inertia comes from the fact that their entire organization is built around ads. An AI-powered assistant will likely not be monetized the same way.

I can totally see a situation where Google’s management rejects AI adoption because they can’t think of a way of monetizing it with their current models.
LOL this happened with us too. We were 2 indians and 2 white guys from norway in the team. We needed to add more jr devs to our team to carry out some of the tasks. They only ever sent us resumes for women and when we finally hired 2 women they thanked us for being a open and accepting team. We had to weed out 18 candidates before we settled on the only good ones. so it was almost 2/20 hit rate
> Sex is not a social construct, gender is
What science supports this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_differentiation
Good idea. Let’s go beyond merely testing in prod
I don’t know, ask him.
> 7M is the population of a good-size city. Twitter has something like 24M/day active (including bots. lots of bots!).

According to Statista [1], you're off by an order of magnitude (237.8m mDAU), and that number should exclude bots (though I don't know how accurate it is).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily...
I'm 31. I was under the impression that it was mostly a big step change in your mid to late 20s and then mostly remained stable.

Also if the issue here were age, I assume that GP would also pay more for an ICE car.
Electric heat storage (Night Storage Heaters) (2019)
Oh much better, for sure, it'll be so much worse...
Sure, that's why I said that I can't know for sure - because it's a sentence that can be used truthfully or it can be used as a polite lie.

I just feel that if it were possible to track every time that sentence is said it would probably be significantly more often used as a polite excuse rather than as a truthful statement. (And even then, that's my gut feeling / assumption, I may even be wrong about which use is more common).
Is it "mental illness" or is it acting out?
Is it brain issues or behavioral issues that are the problem?

We have known for millennia that original sin is carried and transmitted by everyone in the human race. John Bradshaw posited the thesis that shame is carried in families, across generations. We all know that cycles of abuse happen again and again, passed father to son, mother to daughter, uncle to niece.

Psychiatrists flail about and disclaim any knowledge about the genesis of "mental illness". But we know the causes. The causes are preventable, but sometimes the cost of prevention is everything we hold dear.
Python-Run
Replied to similar comment and linking here in case you have comment reply notifications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33679697
The point, I presume, is making money.
People calling out an objectively clear dumpster fire are not the ones being "emotional". Words like that and also "hysterical" can only be applied to the new CEO.
Nit: why is it "Hindu-Arabic", or even more egregiously just "Arabic" ? There is negligible innovation on Indian mathematics by the Baghdad school; these people just get cited for mere transmission and translation (no doubt important at the time).

I don't cite by postman for delivering the journal paper, now do I ? Another thing to put into my 'the West hates India and its 'heathens' so deeply that is now considered a blasphemy to question the zeitgeist' bin.
What exactly do you mean by "fine", that you're so sure of?

I hear the phrase a lot, "the planet will be fine". Sure it'll continue to be a ball of matter that orbits the sun a few billion more times, so in that regard it'll do pretty fine as a planet. That's not what people are concerned about when they say they're worried about Earth though.
Also I have a question, where do Indians appear in these stats? Under Asian?
I have a practical example to explain what, at first glance, doesn't seem to add up. Many genomics analysis contain a step to clean up DNA sequences. For this "Read Trimming" step there exist no fewer than 40 open source tools. Let's say you need this step in your project and use one of these tools. You find an issue the original creator is unwilling to fix: just choose another tool, problem solved. You find that the tool does not perform well enough on your data: choose another tool, problem solved. So while the articles points are true, they in practice often don't lead to a real pain.
From Apollo to Artemis: 50 years on, is it time to go back to the moon?
Wow. Well at least it was 100% good faith your side. Can’t really help it that some tools can be dual used
There's a daily thread of "Twitter is terrible, I'm moving to Mastodon" with lots of "yeah, Mastodon is great, Twitter will not exist 12 months from now" comments.

What general negativity are you talking about?
When it's more than 2-3 lines of shell script it's better to just use Python (used to be Perl).
Take a look at your comment at the start of this thread, including the quote from the article:

>> Shameless plug: I understand how to make and launch exactly this kind of system, at least technically. If you want it built, please contact me.

> I cannot roll my eyes hard enough - if you can, then do it already. Why the hell do you need the encouragement?

There is no discussion of partnership. The point is, some people know how to do something and they want to work on it just because they would find the work enjoyable. In which case they may not care who owns it. If they are always working on someone else's product then they are used to not owning their work. They would just rather work on something they feel good about working on.

In my case, I have significant decision making power and all of the engineering work is open source, so I will maintain access to the IP no matter what. I would have to pay for a robot in the future if I want one of my own, but that is a very low cost compared to the years of engineering I've done that I have not had to fund myself. But I don't really know if I want my own farm. It was a dream I had six years ago, but now I have other dreams. Mostly I am happy that I am able to provide these machines for people who need them.
I have been trying to find the name of this software (Outpost Firewall) on-and-off for a year; wondered what happened to it... sad that it is gone. Any good alternatives (I was never a fan of the Zone Alarm one)?

Edit: specified Outpost