skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not refuting your valid points but just another angle to consider, do all websites need to work all the time? If my family knows they can go to apitman.com to see my latest trip photos, if it's down occasionally that's not going to significantly impact their experience. They can just try again later.

That said, when I imagine self hosting from a phone I definitely think the phone + USB drive in a closet approach makes more sense.
China’s Economic Miracle Is Turning into a Long Slog
Indeed. Hence, we get the latest FBI public execution of a “right wing terrorist”: a 75 year old obese mobility-scooter-bound vet.
> That turned out to be the direct opposite course of action needed.

I wonder, in hindsight, what would have been the better course of action.

Taiwan did that and their mortality and contagion rate is orders of magnitude lower than in the US. Same goes for Japan. Hell, even most European countries have a lower mortality rate than the US. All of these countries have also a higher population density than the US.
Not OP, but here's my take: I have two machines, one with NixOS, one with Mac. I use the same configuration on both. Keeping both machines in sync is a matter of two commands, adding a new machine is also a matter of two commands.

I have tried multiple orchestration options before, but they always fail in some way, ansible for example always work until I have to run something from scratch, then it fails miserably because of something that changed after the 20th time I've ran the script. On Nix, that's not even a consideration.
This sounds like the start up I left a couple years ago. I was employee number 3. I took a deep pay cut to join them. I shared a cubicle with the ceo and cto, the two cofounders. Tight nit group.

A year later, we had our first round of vc fund. I had a slight bump in salary, but owned stocks so all is good. My role was, make-things-work-at-all-cost. I'd be on calls with customers and their engineers to make things work. I'd generate specialized reports by merging data locally, I'd get a calls on my personal phone from customers. We did the things that don't scale.

Year 2, we are 30 employees getting ready for another round of funding, the ceo and cto spent all their time in vc meetings. I worked in all my waking hours, it was unsustainable. I told them I needed a break, the way they responded showed me that I was just another replaceable employee.

I packed my stuff and left, they tried to screw with my stocks, but i fought back and got it all. They got their second funding. They never replaced me. Instead of hiring 2 or 3 people to do my job in a scalable manner, they stopped offering the service all together. Instead they went with buzzwords in AI.

Fast forward 3 years. The company was acquired, the stocks are worth 0 dollars, and most employees got fired. Though the linkedin post sounds like a success story.
You're mischaracterizing the concern, I think. I agree with you about Luddite alarmism based upon ignorance. This (the concerns voiced by many leading researchers in the field of AI) absolutely isn't that, I promise you.
Not all engines use NaN boxing, for example v8 uses pointer tagging:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63550957/why-does-v8-use...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985390
I think more than anything this demonstrates the “my context must be everyone’s context” fallacy.

The VC world is a little slice of the tech world. Hacker News is a wee little slice of the tech community.
I'm not sure if I've ever tried to pitch Nix or NixOS.

I can't imagine going back (and might give up computers to live in a tree if I had to), but I don't really try to ~convert people who aren't ready for it.

I'll share if I suspect someone is ready, or if I see them struggling on something it ~solves. I might lend a little time helping them bootstrap a basic environment for a project so that they can see benefits upfront.

But I want them to sell themselves on it. This is mostly because Nix is a bit of work, and I feel like slowly selling myself on its vision by reading different articles circa 2015-2017 was an important precondition for succeeding when I finally decided to take the plunge after my previous Windows system flamed out in early 2018.
Exercising at a VR gym
OK imagine you’re the founder of a fast growing startup.

How do you organise the software development ?

What’s a great way to keep it exciting and fun and productive?
Go with proven people. Whoever is already proven to meet your requirements, use them. Grow slowly, but steadily.
Wow, an Atom N270? I'm envious, I've always wanted to find a fun way to make use of old hardware like that. I have a Google Cr-48 chromebook with a similar CPU and 2GB of RAM. I'd be interested in learning more about your setup to see if I could get something similar going.
Presumably something like "a string is a sequence of characters" would be a good first answer, though it might prompt some follow-up questions.

I love how questions like this suddenly become more complicated when you have a deeper understanding of the internals. Your first instinct of an answer might not be 100% correct. If I were asked this question unexpectedly, I'd probably trip over myself a few times as I thought through it out loud.
The Scary Math Behind the World’s Safest Assets
My main takeaway is that you can easily 3D print a small device that converts a semiautomatic gun into a fully automatic gun, and apparently having one of these devices (a “switch”) has become a status symbol
I agree that his descriptions are less "principles" and more like "heuristics". The overall message of the book, as the referenced reviewer points out, is "do what's sensible." As someone so young, what is sensible to me is not obvious, so I find value in this.

What, in your opinion, defines what is sensible in business and leads to your frustration with Dalio's message? Can you give personal anecdotes?
Remarkably, Intel has managed to move from 8-bit computers to 16, 32, and 64 bits, while keeping systems mostly compatible.

Well, the move to 64 bit didn't quite turn out as Intel wanted it, and they had to copy AMD's version of it. This is acknowledged in footnote 20, but the article itself sounds like Intel was infallible and never mentions AMD at all...
Then I sincerely hope he played the kickbacks-and-favors game correctly and the reddit post is just for optics.
BTW, what is "orange site"?

I googled it and at least the top few links don't seem relevant.
For point 1, they could easily diff the already tracked to the new ones right ?

Interesting nonetheless, I never liked staging in git but I never hit the case you mention so now I realize there's a need for a phase between a file system and a commit
Yeah that 5 to 10 % seems about right.

I recall a teamwork study that found few if any superstar team players can really make any given team better, but they did discover that one bad apple can easily kill a team’s productivity, happiness and etc.

I once worked for a company that was really great about “no finger pointing” and lots of trust of employees to do the right thing.

We acquired a small troubled company along the way, they were a mess with finger pointing and empty accusations. Within a year they had infected our entire department:(
How did your stock wind up being worth $0? Down round or a "practically an acqui-hire" type of acquisition?
Do you help Debian then?
Maybe this is a reverse fizz-buzz filtering test. I.e. they want to self-select themselves out of positions that require them knowing such basics.

Either that or they're completely incompetent. Likewise it takes a special kind of stupid to think they could wing it.
I've answered your question on another conversation, so here's my second example: I've borked my system last week doing some forbidden incantations. I've then restarted, chose a previous revision on Grub, and there I was with everything just the way it was before.

On another distro, that would be at least a day of work lost setting up stuff.

EDIT: lol I've replied on the wrong comment, at least it's the same author...
>Hitler was a devout capitalist.

Is this tongue in cheek?
I go in slightly different directions on both of your proposals. I think intellectual property in general should be eliminated, though I think copyright is a good olace to start. As for the artistic endowment, I think that the task of deciding what counts as an artistic endeavor is an intractable problem and that universal basic income is much more simple and equitable.
As part of that < 50% investment the articles of incorporation are going to change to give them at least some control. Unless you're an outlier like Wework and we all know how that ended: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wework-downward-spiral-could-...
There is a great quote I read here about how your life changes once you are read into valuable info that no one else has. It was Daniel Ellsberg giving advice to Henry Kissinger when he first got his security clearances:

>You will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn’t, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn’t even guess. In particular, you’ll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn’t know about and didn’t know they had, and you’ll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364718
You can recommend it in what context, from openapi (as they claim https://github.com/fern-api/fern#starting-from-openapi ) or from their ... special ... definition schema?

For those wanting less talk, moar code: https://github.com/fern-api/fern-java/blob/0.4.2-rc3/example... -> https://github.com/fern-api/fern-java/blob/0.4.2-rc3/example...

Regrettably, I wasn't able to readily find a matching openapi example, likely cause they really seem to believe their kid-gloves format is the future (or lock in, depending on how bitter one is feeling)

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confusingly, their repo has a "YCombinator 2023" badge on it that just links to the badge itself. Some Algolia for Launch HN didn't cough up anything, but there was a Show HN I found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34346428
Rather than do their job of balancing competing priorities, many of the elected policy makers handed the keys over to a bunch of insane public health officials. In many places said unelected, unaccountable public health officials had the authority to enact all kinds of crazy crap. That’s why many blue state cities continued to have mask mandates, vaccine mandates and more well into the three year mark.

If 2020 taught me anything, it’s that technocracy is a horrible form of government. If “heath-care experts” were given the chance, I fully imagine us still playing covid theater to this day.
This might be a good time to review the number of failed rocket launches we've seen in the last few years.

Now, imagine them with nuclear materials aboard.
I also did Flash for a long time. 10 years later it’s not like that experience is mostly lost. When I write typescript I get a dejavú to AS3. Plus knowledge of VMs, garbage collection and all the other programming concepts translates to most languages
A coin cell, presumably for the clock and not much else: https://youtu.be/TYF527DqnwY?t=139
Everyone is on limited mobile data. The end.
I sort of mixed up “wager” and “mugging” here but you get the point
This kind of justification of events is the exact same blockchain fanatics have been using. Needless to say, that doesn't make your argument look very strong.
It's a grab bag, tell-me-something-interesting icebreaker question. I'm looking for some evidence of the fact that you can differentiate the two in some meaningful way.

Not intended to be a gotcha question! Just a quick test of basic CS knowledge to get the candidate comfortable.
Interesting to read about the hysteria in the US at the time. I find it interesting how largely forgotten this period seemingly is and also how utterly bizarre it was. It seems reminiscent of current times and the hysteria/conspiracies many politicians try to openly sow. Also interesting to see the strength the Catholic Church had to influence the Irish state and how relatively quickly that power has disappeared almost entirely.
> Set up your whole system in a config file.

How does NixOS compare to the usual way of doing this, which is to manage your personal computer with Puppet, Chef, or a similar tool?
The big issue is that fake meat is more expensive, maybe less healthy and not as tasty as real meat. It's just much better to just find a tasty vegetarian alternatives. It turns out that after you stop eating meat most people stop craving it after a while. If you're going to go vegetarian, there's no reason to deal with fake meats.
What are cringe moments, exactly? Is everyone's cringe the same?
IIT PRC collapcist think some how CCP proactively managing economic risks with 5% growth is a sign of collapse, almost every other major economy is in recession by that standard. Like tech crackdown, three redlines on real estate, local gov deleveraging, cracking down on bad banks (henan), and now Trust drama - they're problems PRC regulators has been seeking out to manage because they have the economic and political headroom to do so. And they can do so relatively responsibly, i.e. actual deleverage, and punish bad actors, not just print dollars/bail out like US (due to dollar privilege), precisely because CCP has political power to push unpopular interventions without breaking the economy. They don't always take, but they're more powerful levers/tools than what democracy offers. The very fact that this article is about Trust Companies trying to circumvent regulators means PRC still needs more authoritarianism, not less.
Sure fine but if the question is 'how does an engineer know what's good to do' the answer is, "get good". Ask questions, learn what's important, and think about more than code.
Yup, things like “portal to portal” rules for Amazon warehouse workers have their origin in the subterranean portals of a mine, because coal companies didn’t want to pay their workers for the hour ride down or up the mineshaft. Which is the analogy Amazon drew to their frisk lines at the exits, even if they require it it’s not “part of the job” etc.

Coal companies were the Uber of their time, “innovating” in a space and time when the law hadn’t kept up with industrial progress, and obviously one of the places you can extract value is from the welfare of your workers.
My sense is the opposite. Billions of people use Facebook & X because hosting their own website is too hard. It’s very likely millions of people would love a simple way to host a website from their phone.
So executing software actually isn’t an infringement of copyright, as an exception exists in the law? An explicit exception is an actual exception (unlike “fair use” which remains technically illegal until brought to a trial). AFAIK, IANAL.
Alignment with human norms and values. Yes, that's not a well-defined thing. But to paraphrase, "I know misalignment when I see it", for example when an AI suggests something like "feeding the homeless to the hungry".

No one is claiming that alignment is a well-defined thing with crisp edges. They're saying that the mechanisms of AIs will favor solutions without regard to any specific constraints we haven't explicitly stated.
https://students.tools/weight-to-objects/

This is a very handy tool. I have actively searched for something similar via google for a while now but never came close to anything good. This "toy" of yours is excellent
All CPUs didn't consume much power back then even at full load (several watts[1]), and thus leaving the CPU in a busy loop was the norm.

[1] http://www.cocoon-culture.com/lib/noise-report/external-docs...
This may drive DBAs nuts, but in some cases, perhaps you could have a naming_convention variable that is filled out first, and it has a certain number of limited values, and it determines the number and order of "name" fields that get filled out. Then you have a catch-all naming_convention that just produces one "name" label that's very long, and you put the whole name in there.

Then you can have, say, "Western" naming convention, "Asian" (reverse order), "Spanish", "Catalan", "Hungarian", "Ancient Roman", and some of these are going to look very similar. And then if Madonna Ciccone or Beyonce Knowles comes around, you just use the catch-all for the mononymous.

It's not an elegant solution and it's not going to work for user-oriented forms, but perhaps on the backend, I don't know, for Wikipedia or something. Wikipedia already tags many biographies with the naming convention that is used.
It's more like that's the right form, not just "works too", for the reason I said about third and second person forms.
Yeah true. I don't mean to argue this is a good end state. Just that the threat of 'colleges as we know them are going to vanish' might get people to start caring about fixing them.
Yeah, calling this an about-face on right-to-repair seems wildly optimistic.

Making some products that are repairable is really not the same thing as supporting your right to repair any product you own.
In the byod era not so much. And besides that, you're asking to spend money on an mdm solution that solves a problem only hawks really complain about so you don't know if it's really even a problem of just politics
This is a community of people whose career revolves around precise language.

You knew because you're intelligent and were able to piece things together. Many in society are not so fortunate for one reason of another and so it's important to be precise.
Show HN: Run LLaMa2 on the Browser with Ggml.js
You can now build serverless AI inference web application with ggml.js's LM backends.
> Oh settle down

Maybe you should be more riled up.

The point is it happened and there were no consequences or accountability for the judge involved.

If you think more minor “controversies” don’t happen every single day, enabled by this sort or legal reasoning, I cannot help you.
I use NixOS with my 3070 and it seems to be working fine. What's wrong with it?
The author would do himself a great service if he chooses some other resource for learning algorithms.

CLRS isn't bad. It is meant for a reference, and it also assumes that you are taking the course in college with an instructor teaching you.

There are other great resources out there.

Two I recommend are:

- Algorithms, Coursera (Sedgewick, Wayne)

- The Algorithm Design Manual (Skiena)

I have recommended self-taught programmers in the past, which all of them liked:

- A Common Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, PragProg (Jay Wengrow)

- Algorithms Illumited, book or Coursera MOOC (Tim Rougharden)
I tried paperspace but their pipelines feature bugged out. The support was entirely unhelpful.

I would say not production ready.
The team has a culture that knows full well someone is brought in for who they are ... what they know might need some catch up.

I'm not saying this is right in all circumstances. I wouldn't do this with, for example, realtime embedded.

For what I operate in, fairly bland web applications and stacks.

It works fine, exceptions excepted.
A bigger reason we should be able to run websites on our phones is to run decentralized or local-first web apps, but this requires also solving that our phones' network become accessible (e.g. implement Ipv6, but preferably bootstrap some fancy mesh network on-the-fly)

We should be chatting p2p through wifi/bluetooth by just letting our friends scan a QR code that links to our phone's web server that serves a p2p client for real-time chat in the middle of the jungle

In that same way, we should be playing games, take notes, run fair micro elections / lotteries, and hundreds of other coordination apps
No paywall: https://archive.is/7nRIs

>>The Congressional Budget Office regularly updates its long-term budget forecasts and says that U.S. debt held by the public will surpass gross domestic product this fiscal year and that interest on that debt will equal about three-quarters of discretionary, nondefense spending.

Insanity.
Strong agree, I've been talking about it as "fearless development"
I’m unable to recognize any of them, with the exception of ( I think ) Arnold Schwarzenegger.
There would definitely be issues with the keyring being outdated which you have to know/search how to work around. And from time to time Arch also requires some manual interventions in the package update process (that are posted on archlinux.org) – you'd have to deal with those all at once if Arch wouldn't have been updated for a very long time. But, other than that, I can't think of other reasons why having a less often used Arch installation would give you trouble.

Then again, I haven't used Arch in such a manner, so you might as well be right.
I assume here you mean to denote by "space" the number of human spacecraft, and not the negative pressure contribution in the cosmological stress-energy tensor. In that case, why should it be likely to expand exponentially in the future?
/s ?

Ackshually, plenty of policymakers have no clue about the topics they decide on, and that's a big issue.
Customer-facing implementation engineer, more or less.
We must be looking at different levels or roles or something. Most job postings I see say something like Must have experience in “x, y, z or other modern language”. Maybe extreme specialization is more common in front end ?
> I have not tried installing/using NixOS

It's like Nix-Darwin but without any setup issues, spared from breakage related to OS upgrades, but also with fewer escape hatches (Flatpak is the main easy one it does provide, also steam-run) for app installation. If you do enjoy Nix-Darwin once you get it going and you at least somewhat enjoy Linux desktops, you'd probably enjoy it as a daily driver.

I would say that for users new to the Nix ecosystem, NixOS on a spare machine is the most gentle and pleasant way to introduce the module system and declarative Nix config. It tends to be smoother than Home Manager or Nix-Darwin, and it's a lot more complete than either, both because it has more users. But a spare machine is a good choice for those who aren't yet sure that they like or care about Nix, because if something is missing or non-obvious, the only way out is through— you have to dive deep.

NixOS is so mature these days compared to when I first picked it up, though. Packaging work just to get by on the day-to-day is way more rare, and there are a lot more examples around. A Linux hobbyist who is prepared to struggle a bit can definitely just dive right in and have a good time, for sure.
Reusability helps with long term reliability. You would probably want to avoid launching nuclear material on a new rocket, but a human rated rocket like Falcon 9 would be totally fine.
MemoriesCable (2015 – 2020)
Depending on the design, failure during launch can be anywhere from "meh" to "basically high-altitude Chernobyl" — random actinide decay products (and plutonium fuel) are bad, unreacted uranium fuel is mostly a heavy metal hazard rather than a radiation hazard.

(Could be worse, but the Orion drive is currently illegal by treaty and hopefully nobody is dumb enough to use that in Earth's ionosphere anyway).
Again this is your viewpoint.

Very naive of you to think that religion, scripture, or existence of God are unprovable problems.

Many people don’t agree with you on the both sides. Many think there is definitively no God and many think there is.
I like this one the most. Sums up my experience after drinking the kool aid. I feel invincible now whenever I make changes to my machines or dev environments.
For the most part, yes... but a vegetarian sausage or burger at a BBQ is decent if you're around meat eaters.
In that later part of the curve, you've made your bed and now you lie in it. So relax - it's not going to fly you to the moon.