skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope the parent was being humourous.

1 tab is 1 byte, 4 spaces is 4 bytes, so it doesn't actually work anyway.

And you can't rely on it being multiples of 4 anyway, so you'd have to iterate and check the bytes to check they are actually spaces.

So no, it's be slower, but not enough to matter.

Edit: or is the parent proposing the opposite? I sti hope they're being humourous as it still doesn't really matter
Here's another carrot problem:

You see people all around you appearing to be cooler and more popular by proclaiming there's no point in working hard because the whole system is rigged. Not working and riding to the top of HN on your cynicism sure is tempting if you can justify it. But you don't know whether the people who claim that are actually secretly successful and just trying to win points by appealing to popular discontent. And you won't find out whether studying and working could have made you successful, because now you feel it's not worth trying.

Even in the slacker 90s where we were all convinced we'd never earn as much as our parents, the self-pitying cynicism wasn't this rampant.
We’d considered using mflat, but we’re not that performance constrained (and prefer the slightly smaller binary size with register windows enabled). I may do some profiling of the under flow/overflow interrupts though since you’ve now got me second guessing myself.
> * And the average American doesn’t know that things they take fir granted are luxuries even to Western Europeans.*

Such as? Name three examples, please. "smartphones and cars" doesn't cut it, those are pretty common even for low income citizens here in Germany at least, and we don't really need air conditioners on account of being located in higher latitudes – everyone has heating, though.
Lisp Revelation in SICP Course: Metacircular Evaluator [video]
I'm no engineer, but it sure seems to me like you could either split things up into multiple launches, or potentially manufacture the fuel in orbit, no?
Obama did not "cheer" it and did not kill it. The coal industry had already been dead for years. He was the first president to refuse to commit to continuing the political fiction it wasn't, and to offer an actual alternative.

We could have debated the alternative - it had problems! - but instead the argument formed, and still forms, around the outright lie that coal mining could have continued. Even as it was already not employing people anymore!
Grad students are both apprentices and employees. Typically the university charges tuition which is waived if they TA (teaching assistant) or their research advisor (or department) funds them out of their grant or operating budget. I don't know for sure if this is the reason but it is a sleight of hand to either get more grant money into the operating budget. Grants typically allow some percentage overhead, I don't know if research associates are included in that or separate chargeable "line items".

Anyway it is like this all across academia except for the "exceptional" students who are recruited. They tend to get everything paid for.

UCLA, UCSC, all of them pay poverty wages. Grad students have started unionizing though to get better conditions. In reality grad school in the US is basically an immigration pipeline. We should import the best and brightest. The New York times says 80% of US grad students are foreign [1]. This is the reverse of 80% of all US college students being US citizens.

That's absolutely crazy to think about. Why aren't more US citizens going to grad school?

Either they are not qualified, which means we are not educating our college students to a sufficient standard, the poverty wages are so detrimental that only foreigners will put up with it. Something is clearly broken.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american...
The assumption that an operating system should allow the user to do everything is quite restricting.

Under this view, every device should be a standard-issue military-grade turing-machine. There would be no individuality, every device would be the same GPL licensed Free Operating System.
I don’t think you can ever really learn from what a person says helped them do X. You have to look at the person themselves and try to figure out what about them made X happen - people have too much of a blind spot comparing themselves to the world outside their bubble, or understanding how other people perceive them. They lack the perspective to really know what about them is different

For example most successful founders and CEOs in my experience may say taking meeting notes or setting a high bar helps. But really what helped is that they had personality traits leading to these behaviors which are what truly drove the benefits - they are meticulous and detail oriented so they want to use writing to nail down ideas, they set high standards for themselves and others so they do whatever it takes to avoid a bad hire or lazy decision. It would be considered impolite for the CEO to say that about themselves, and maybe they don’t even notice how much of an outlier they are in those traits, so instead you get told the effect rather than the cause of their success. Someone without those traits trying to ape out the processes won’t be able to realize the benefits.

Similarly I think to a degree the whole “be connected or privileged from birth” is meant to be taken implicitly rather than ignored altogether, sometimes. Nobody wants to launch into a discussion about social class or inequality in some PR puff piece that’s like “oh mr startup ceo why are you so rich and successful”. Like in tennis nobody is going to say the secret to success is to have tiger parents and access to facilities and training from a young age that 99% of people can’t afford. When people say “leverage your connections” they’re kind of saying Joe Average without connections is out of the game until they build those connections, but politely.
The example is brilliant and leaving it hanging for the reader is the intended purpose (e.g. a far-away third-party like me reading a team's report doesn't have a reason to care past that)
Not at all, science is science math is math. Black women playing the victim card time and time again makes us all look like children who can't reason with the real world. It's beyond embarrassing.

Wanting attention and pursuing excellence are two very different ways to go about your professional or academic career. Looking for perfect racial distributions in all fields is beyond a fool's errand.
No, that’s mostly a PSYOP too, my 五美元 friend.

LLMs go schizophrenic long before they get anywhere close to human intelligence:

https://chat.openai.com/share/f5341665-7f08-4fca-9639-042013...
Surely not those now dead people
My feeling on this is that Common Lisp implementations should support classes in a way that idiomatic usage is just about as fast as structures. This is nontrivial, but I think it could be done.
> and not as tasty as real meat

Exactly this. Fake meat is a frankenfood and you have to beat millions of years of evolution signaling to humans that meat tastes good.
I only use one, which is nvidia. It's already a nixos option, so I just set them on my configuration file.

Three options to be exact:

hardware.nvidia.modesetting.enable = true;
services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
hardware.opengl = {
enable = true;
driSupport = true;
driSupport32Bit = true;
};

First enables nvidia modesetting, second enables the driver, and the third enables opengl, with a special flag to also enable it for 32bit stuff (like old games on steam).
My point remains that this has always been the case and if anything is getting better, not worse.

You can always cherry-pick examples of individual things getting worse, but I ask again: do you really want to go back to the 60's and 70's? Because yikes.
Not sure about camera film, but there's certainly a need for 'low-background steel' for several applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Isn’t there a way to achieve the same intended goodness that these tools aspire to with libs for plain functional languages that already exist and at battle tested?

I’ll never understand the obsession with DSLs.
If you want a hard-and-fast definition of "consensus" you won't find one. There are still people who'll argue against evolution, but that pretty much IS a consensus.

On the other hand, lab-leak was NOT a consensus. It was a Party line. A real consensus doesn't emerge in just a few months. There isn't time for contrary evidence and arguments to emerge.
Does God exist? Maybe?

Theological differences are interpretations.
for the Robot Rock one, the author should've clarified that it's not referring to the actual `rock. robot rock` voice part, but the part where the guitar chords sound like that. skip to about 1:50 in the linked video to hear the robot voice, then listen to how similar just the guitar chords after 2:00 sound like the robot voice saying `rock. robot rock.`
> It isn't rocket surgery.

You are right, it's worse: it's metaphysics.

> If you have a cold, wear a mask.

I have even a better idea: everyone should behave according to my biased, subjective whims.
There won't be any fission products in the fuel if the chemical launcher fails to take the nuclear payload to orbit. The reactor activates for the first time after the initial orbital launch. The virgin fission fuel is less radiotoxic than RTG fuel.
I don’t think we need experts, we need polymaths, people who are sufficiently good enough not in one thing, but in multiple things and work at the intersection of the information needed to make proper decisions.
I actually went ahead and asked Linus Torvalds himself. He said he'd never use spaces, and always used tabs from the get go. So, my theory fails :)

> What? No.

> It always used tabs.

> And by "always used tabs" I mean "mistakes probably happened, and there may be spaces in some places", but afaik I've always used hard-tabs as the normal indentation.

> If you see something else, you probably have some archive that has been reformatted.
In that he was devout in any economic theory it was capitalism. Crony capitalism but capitalism. He literally made slaves work for private companies, you don’t get more capitalist than that.
A mishire situation is what usually this advice is about. Maybe if you hire only people you previously worked with you can bring the mishire rate way down but for majority that rate will probably be very high is what I commonly hear.
"Policy makers", aka the government, should be weighing actions depending on their outcomes as projected by expert consensus.
That weighing should be to optimize according to a pre-defined value system, which of course is a matter of political deliberation.

To prefer personal interests (like not to have to wear a mask) over common interests (to protect against pandemic effects) incurs the negative consequences irrespective of whether one pretends to know better than the experts.

To let others play dumb and act against society is to be dumb yourself.
Peace time = smart phone incrementalism, social media, ad tech, Bitcoin, NFTs, WeWork, low interest rate malinvestment, Twitter/Tumblr pessimism

Cold war = rocket science, new fuels, materials science, major computing advancements, supply chain changes, innovation, science hype, broad optimism

I know most of this is happenstance and that peace time doesn't itself cause lackluster development, but it is interesting and palpable.

I was so down on 2000 - 2020, but the decade ahead is exciting, and I'm filled with motivation.
Didn’t even Obama face some of this in his campaign because he wasn’t “black enough”? I think SNL even had a running gag about it.
I've recently been trying to learn algorithms as a self-taught software engineer. I've made it quite far without much deeper knowledge of the area (I do have some basic overview of course), but it has always been on my mind that I should to study up.

I've tried CLRS, but oh boy it's a) a slog to go through, b) very sparse with explanations. You might say that the whole book is one explanation after another, and you'd be technically right, but there's nothing more frustrating than an overly complex explanation that might be absolutely precise yet complex to understand. I also often feel like the language is needlessly complex.

On top of that, for example, the mathematical explanations often skip steps that are obvious to authors. You might think it's reasonable, but to a struggling newcomer, this is a huge drag.

Unrelated to algorithms (but not totally), I am now studying Discrete Mathematics for Comp Sci [0] since I felt like my math knowledge (or lack thereof) is holding me back in reasoning about algorithms. Even those courses have a fair share of skipping obvious steps in mathematic explanations, but it's doable so far (especially with tools like ChatGPT and Wolfram Alpha to check my understanding).

I'm just trying to be a better engineer, and I'm having a really hard time trying to find a suitable resource to learn from.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/specializations/discrete-mathematic...
Thanks for the defense, but to be honest I think GP has a point.

Why on earth I would have used 2's complement conventions for what is truly just a boolean/bistate flag is far from obvious, and it ought to be (better) commented.

One thing I would say in my own defense is that one aspect of remote-distributed cooperative development is that sometimes the conversations you have with others (e.g. on IRC, or mattermost or even discord if that's your thing) can sometimes feel as if you've just "written the documentation", even though it will generally vanish into the ether. I think that is what happened here. I remember discussing it with others on our IRC dev channel, but I don't keep logs.
Probably depends on your risk profile. Do we find new ways to safely generate energy using nuclear, or slowly cook ourselves alive on the planet's surface?

Or to put it another way, at what point should we throw a Hail Mary in the energy demand game?
I always recommend 'A Common Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms' as well but I'd like to call out the 2nd edition has expanded the recursion chapters and in general the end of chapter assignments are better. The 2nd edition was born from several years of teaching material from the first edition.
We are just more full of shit in America. Being passionate and changing the world is Silicon valley kabuki theater that lasts just long enough to cash out the stock options you have.

There is also an entire generation that has been trained to pretend what they happen to do for a living is exactly what they are passionate about in life. To say otherwise with the slightest doubt would be to feel like the biggest failure.
I really enjoyed Objective-C some very powerful ideas around message sending and handling. And you could just use C and C++ I loved it. I never got to use smalltalk. And Objective-C felt as close as I could ever get.
I find that people place too much emphasis on "hard" work and not the "right" work. Personally, I know too many people who have worked their butts off... on the wrong problems.

It's quite simple to continue sweating on the same path, if not easy. But it feels like people prefer difficulty to complexity.

Of course, even working hard on the right problems carries no guarantee. Yet, life isn't about guarantees, but about rigging the dice in your favor.
No, that was my actual theory for what happened, but apparently not true at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37104012
On Pentium or higher. 486s and earlier didn’t really have an HLT instruction, iirc
By saying you have one hand behind your back you're implying holistic subjective theology has value. Why does it have value?

"Personally I think understanding the story should carry equal (or greater) weight when compared to examining the letters and paint used to write it."

Why?
Why an unremarkable racist enjoyed the backing of billionaires
> wouldn't proprietary drivers rely on hardcoded versions of libc, for example, causing a dependency hell?

You can have multiple copies of glibc on NixOS and it's fine as long as you don't need two different versions of it in the same process. Have you run into this on NixOS?
Well look at the number of missions with RTGs on board and you don't have to imagine, nuclear powered probes and satelites are not unheard of. The soviets also had an entire series of fission powered spy sats way back.
> Having to visit fifty personal sites would be a pain.

Which is why RSS (and Atom, but I’m just saying RSS because it’s less to type) was such a brilliant invention, and also why it was “killed.”

Everyone is talking about things like “ActivityPub” and “interoperability” and “personalized algorithms” nowadays but RSS supported many of those features twenty years ago.

Yeah, it didn’t solve the account portability problem (you’d still need a separate account for each forum and blog you wanted to comment on; OpenID almost solved this issue but was a nightmare to work with, Mozilla Persona (which is not the same thing as Mozilla Personas, wow that company is bad at naming things) would have definitely solved this issue if that company had spent more than twenty minutes promoting it), but it did solve the actual fundamental issue that most people seem to be getting at with these modern systems: it offered a way to collate and display updates from a wide variety of mutually incompatible Internet sources all together in one place.

It’s an incredible simple pitch, even to non-technical people: display your YouTube subscriptions, Twitter follows, blogs you’re interested in, and news sites that you read all in one place, in software that you control.

The problem is that operating a “platform” rather than a website got to be too profitable, and suddenly the goal shifted from serving useful content to make you want to come back to a site to serving enough content that you never want to leave to begin with. Many people believe that if Google had made Reader the center of their social strategy rather than killing it to pursue a short-sighted attempt to compete directly with Facebook, we could be looking at a much healthier Internet today (and Google probably could be earning a lot more money than they currently are, considering the abysmal adoption rate of modern Google services is often argued to be directly linked to fear of shutdown).[1]

Personal websites died for the mainstream because Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram offered a better interface for the average consumer. But they could be brought back by a system that made the good parts of those sites interoperable. Frankly, this is the kind of thing that I want to see Mozilla pursuing again, not...whatever the heck they’re doing now. (You go their website and they’re selling Pocket, which is basically a bad centralized version of what I’m talking about; a rebadged VPN service; an email alias service; and Firefox. What happened to the people who tried to do things like Persona?)

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-r...
Thanks, this is a wonderful recommendation
And supposedly, layoffs aren’t legally allowed to be performance or merit-based! You’re supposed to lay off only for eliminating a position. When projects are shut down, that’s a natural one, but when it’s a X% cut of all engineering staff, for instance, it’s meant to be almost random, on paper at least. Of course in real life nobody would lay off the absolute most genius 10x developer, but nobody’s supposed to be laid off because they’re slackers. If they’re slackers that should be a separate issue and a PIP.
I wanted luks encrytion and TPM features (requiring systemd-boot) and swap and hibernate. Hibernate and swap w/zfs are right out unfortunately.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/106093

I'm quite a zfs advocate so it's a bitter pill, but for laptop use its reasonable. btrfs seems fine, if a little limp.
TL;DR: 2 DAC facilities, one in Louisiana, one in Texas hope to capture ~1million tonnes/year / facility, starting 2025/2026...

The largest currently operating one is Orca in Iceland and it can only do 4k tonnes.
I also don’t mind tech all the time, and I also see it as competition among cities for young talent.

I guess my line of thinking is that young professionals will eventually find SF trendy again once NYC becomes passé for being too expensive, overhyped, attracting too many of the charlatans and clout chasers. People love different parts of the country for many reasons but I think in aggregate SF is generally a number 2 choice after NYC for many young professionals if cost is not a (big) factor. Which is why I think if the trend continues and NYC gets more and more expensive vs SF, 23 year olds will start picking SF over NYC
These two are not the only two options: the nix model is clearly superior and is not as error prone as each.
For me it’s a conclusion I personally came to after reading various studies and papers on the matter from the two viewpoints. I don’t think the alternatives are impossible but to my engineering brain it’s the most likely explanation.
Speaking of, one way we verify old wine is through background radiation!
This is not the problem. The problem is that thinking in terms of these distinct subject matter is at the very heart of the problem. Reality doesn't have a clear divide between different subjects.

You can start from anywhere and build knowledge from there, there is no faculty that gaurantees some knowledge being objective. There is only conjecture and criticism.
"Stop screaming numbers at people as if they were true. What you’re doing is not science, it’s screaming."

Even if 50% of those deaths are incorrect the number is massive. I'm relaying stasticis by saying I'm screaming you're trying to counter my argument with an unrelated attack.

"Science can be perfectly faked"

Yes it can, is that happened here? Did doctors around the county all decide to lie for the purpose of?

What evidence do you have it's fake?
As I mentioned in my blog post, I also really like Arch. And I definitely understand the benefits to sticking to a single distro on multiple systems.

But as a long term Fedora user who used Arch as a daily driver for a year and a half because of Asahi, and now just switched back to Fedora because of Asahi, I have a solid appreciation for the benefits that Fedora provides over Arch.

In short, I like Fedora more than Arch (and I really like Arch). Of course, everyone is different, but if you start using Fedora Asahi Remix, there's a good chance you'll put Fedora on everything after a few weeks... just like me, Linus Torvalds, and everyone else who joined the dark side ;-)
Why? Every sandboxed application will have a directory it can freely read from and write to, and if developers do their job (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/app_sandb...), files selected using the system open/save dialogs will still be readable/writable by the application.

That page describes a couple of other scenarios, so Apple at least has given this some thought.

So, developers will have to do more. I think that’s acceptable for the additional security that the users get, but that’s another discussion.
Hiring extremely good engineers is hard, but hiring good managers is far harder. They also are much better at driving out the good talent tan a bad engineering hire is.

"People join companies. They quit managers."
And will ensure that all messages will be kept safe:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66486034
What does that mean to let some information out in case it changes?

Science doesn't change it's a process, a way of understanding the world.
Fears over Disney plans to ditch DVD and Blu-ray Discs
I think the type of young professional that lives in NYC mostly would prefer SF over a 3rd place, ignoring costs, or at least enough of them would that SF would get a leg up in attracting talent.
Prompts for ChatGPT for sales, marketing, HR, bizdev
Isn't there a way you can shoot the whole apparatus into the sky while it is inert and then activate in space?
And the 31 RORSAT reactors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BES-5