skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A parse of the topic on the style guide doesnt suggest anything of the sort

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
Sure, if the user can build their own phone.

Otherwise they're competing with a lot of other people interested in what the phone should and should not do.

If they own a hammer, they can do what they like with a hammer, but a phone is not a hammer. It's a complex arrangement of molecules, licenses and competing group interests.
I would much rather have a locked down phone which is secure, as I rely on it for many important functions in my life. I’ll leave the cheap web servers to a Raspberry Pi, CDN, or VPS thank you very much.
really? my phone is useful as a tool to: communicate with friends and family, do work via writing, reading, checking metrics, watching videos, and 10000 other things.

and i live in vim on a computer. this tech-centric “i need a terminal and full access to the shell for it to have any worth” is pretty juvenile. phones are real tools for millions of people— the greatest technological innovation of the century.
Experiment design is largely about those assumptions and interpretations I was talking about. What do you consider to be the established truth? Which aspects you should take into account and which you can safely ignore? What do you expect to happen when you perform the experiment? What is the connection between the observations you make and the outcome of the experiment?

Many of those answers will likely be based on your interpretation of the scientific consensus.
I love NixOS but this made me lol
Don't most contemporary high performance processors support unaligned memory operations? An eight byte load with non-zero vaddr[2:0] from an all zero one
And despite all that, it still feels like a breath of fresh air.
Sorry, I was saying that because I thought the poster was saying "you'll need a real host (instead of a free one) if you get more than 1k visits a day". But looking back, I think "real host" meant "not a phone" and not "not a free host". So my comment here didn't really make much sense.
> food on the table

That point has nothing to do with WFH. If you get paid you can afford food, regardless of where you work. In fact WFH is better because you can save up to 2 hours a day not commuting and instead can spend it on cooking, grocery shopping, food prep, gardening, or any other food on the table related task.
In my limited experience, how Arch works out depends on how you're using Linux. If it's your daily driver and you stay on top of updates it's probably going to be fine, but on the other hand if it's a secondary OS on a multiboot system or a VM or something that only gets updated occasionally, chances of things breaking are much higher and something like Fedora might make more sense.
The title as it is this moment on HN was better for me at least, it made it clear that it was in context of ongoing investigative research done by the newspaper against the police.
But you can use `envfs` to "restore" that compatibility ;)

Or something heavier like `steam-run`
Seems a little naive to believe engineers don’t make arguments from authority all the dang time…
Just what we'd need - a new security attack vector :rolleyes emoji:
And what total chaos of a review! The title seemed interesting but the review put a quick stop to that.
Even relatively small tech companies can afford overseas offices with full time employees nowadays. The kinks and legalities have largely been worked out.

It's just a matter of time really. The US automotive industry, consumer electronics industry, and even the chip industry were thought to be invulnerable until, one day, suddenly, they weren't. And most coding isn't a fraction as technically difficult as the engineering done in those industries.
Your mobile internet is behind NAT and your WiFI router would need port redir to point external traffic to the phone inside the LAN anyway.

So even if you can run it at port 80 you can't really do that without NAT or tunnel somewhere and if you need that you can just NAT to get it visible on 80 from the outside

It's mostly imaginary problem
I interviewed a guy the other day.

CS degree.

"I have a proven track record of building and leading amazing engineering teams."

"Okay. What's the difference between a character and a string?"

*crickets*

We all have our specialities, but jesus ¢@&#ing christ: if you're interviewing for an engineering role, of any sort, you should be able to answer basic questions.
New crappy music.
Nothing about an engineer includes having good sense at other things, either.

In fact, many of the best engineers are profoundly bad at figuring out what to work on.
Sorry, but you are mistaken. From TFA:

> 1. Punch line: The facts; no adjectives, adverbs or modifiers.

> 2. Current status: How the punch-line statement affects the project.

The facts are: I crashed the car. The status is: I'm OK.

(The real lesson here is that this methodology is not always a good idea.)
/usr/bin/env is required by POSIX, but bash's location already varies across distros and operating systems. NixOS's choices there are fundamentally correct.
They don't care. They undoubtedly know this and knowingly just lie about it. There's no point in typing that stuff out.

Of course, then I fell for it to. Politics here is bad enough but when people repost the lowest effort, lowest thought string-of-words they've been trained on... I mean, I could just go read Truth Social directly.
What are you gaining by entering this fight? Step aside.
Set up your whole system in a config file. If you mess something up you can rollback any time (or in fact boot directly into past versions). You can patch bugs anywhere in your dependency tree easily. C/C++ packaging works. You can also deploy these configurations to remote machines.
I have several issues with that study, starting with the fact that they left out 63% of the participants for no clear reason, which is even more damning given the fact that the cohort controlled by the authors themselves. Furthermore, their positive results are based on 280 individuals, not the initial sample.
Uh, you know phones can be rooted since the smartphone revolution, right ?
Many employers feel very insecure when their employees don't spend the majority of their waking hours fixated on their job.
Also the ability to connect to external displays is missing - which is a pretty big one.
For instance I am currently trying to file a patch for a TS project. It is advertised as an npm module, which means if you pass a string to a function expecting a number it will happily do string concatenation on it instead of addition. There are no internal checks because TS, but that only works if you call it from TS. Otherwise authors have a false sense of security and make bad decisions.
Just to amplify on your point about lithium: the tritium production function is critical. Every fusion neutron needs to produce more than one tritium atom on average, so that the reactor is sustainable (there are inevitable losses & tritium also decays radioactively) or even making excess tritium (to bootstrap other reactors). This is challenging b/c even in the best case each neutron can produce maybe 2 tritium atoms, so there's not much margin. The lithium needs to comprise most of the material surrounding the plasma, limiting the fraction that's available for other functions (structural supports, heat shielding, cooling, plasma control & heating systems, sensors, etc).
Have you ever taught a class?
Almost every business out there has costs associated with it.
That’s an odd thing to say. Almost as if you’re in favour of nuclear for nuclear’s sake? Plenty of people have reasonable reservations about use of nuclear, not least the social /political ones of where to store waste that are still mostly unsolved. Blasting fission cores into space on rockets with fairly high failure rates in absolute terms seems like a fairly fine balance to strike?
Changing priorities or did someone leave who was pushing them to publish?
Isn't the need to drive a car indicative of living in the suburbs "holding you back"?

Code generation (and modification) tools are there to help you. You can choose to walk everywhere but once the car becomes ubiquitous, why walk?
Surprised that these stories get 200+ votes but stories on the weaponized federal police (DOJ) get flagged to death
It’s in fashion to dislike fibers, but they’re a simpler solution that, IMHO, beats coroutines for the wide majority of cases. Even threads are a better solution for most cases. Coroutines are like the checked exceptions of C++.
You think it's gotten easier, since 2022, to get an A-round term sheet without first getting a seed round?
“…and now I bootstrap!”

because you paid yourself $300k for 5 years despite having such low performance
How? Profits are short term indicators while equity is longer term.
Yes, but money! She gets money because she says these things.
Japan it's a gerontocracy (old far goverment/ruling) and it hates innovation and
standing out for yourself. They are highly anti-indivualistic. Not socialistic, not even that. They put age and supposed "wisdom" over anything else. Telling someone higher in the hier about how what he is doing it's utter crap it's taboo in Eastern Asian cultures, they are "losing face" in public.

They have a medieval mindset in a capitalist society. And both concepts 'ruling' together are doomed to fail spectacularly.

It's like mixing an alkaline with an acid.

If anything, science and technology 'hates' tradition. They seek correctness and it doesn't seek purity in a past which never was in first place.
Build yourself a Windows install USB stick with Rufus using its automatic ISO download system. When you write the image it has an option to make the installer create a local account and turn all the stupid prompts off.
I end up just using patchelf since getting the alternatives working is harder. I would prefer if NixOS is going to give up on moving everything into /nix that it just makes symlinks in the standard paths so users don't need to find something to do it for them.
> The reason I think this is needed is because a large percent of Internet users cannot afford hosting personal websites

What? You can host a personal website for free. People are just not interested in it
Same for me: vi (later vim, later neovim) since the late 1970s. I used ed in the early days, too, and that may be why I love the fact that vi* lets me type ":" to do powerful things.
This is wrong and unnecessarily snarky. I don't pre-encrypt all data, just PII/PHI. Doing this, or tokenization with a vaulting servjce, is pretty much standard recommended practice for storing sensitive data.
'you'll never be afraid to break things again'
There's a perfectly cromulent Wordpress app, and no doubt equivalents for less wizened personal platforms.
NixOS is the distro for people that want to give up on the concept of a distro. If you want to abandon the entire concept of system libs and set up a custom environment (or if you're lucky, have someone else write the multiple config files) every time you want to run something, NixOS is for you. If you want to embrace the fragmentation in linux and make it so no dev can ever expect a consistent set of libs, NixOS is for you. If you want to play around like your home desktop computer is for a business and do some cargo culting, NixOS is for you.

That's not to say nix is bad. But NixOS definitely is.
Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (Chemistry)
The bytes it takes up and how it can be cast? What answer would you be looking for
Yeah because people can use their brains? Just because Trump was in bed with his Justice Dept doesn't mean Biden is. I haven't seen a SINGLE shred of evidence that Biden has even so much as thought about Merrick during the last 3 years.

It's almost like a police force trampling on first amendment rights is appalling like a candidate trying to subvert the results of an election, incite a riot, pressure election officials, put up a knowingly fraudulent, illegal fake voter scheme, or pay off a porn star.

Whatever, you know this, you don't care.
> Lacros is exactly those changes, though.

Lacros doesn't give Firefox the APIs that ChromeOS utilizes from Chrome that Firefox lacks. E.g. web battery API, web bluetooth API, web USB API, etc. These are the changes I'm referring to. That's my point. That's what I mean when I said:

> [this] would involve adding several APIs to Firefox that chromeOS relies on.
I’ll give you that this isn’t a half bad idea to give someone that spark of interest early on. A phone is a lot harder to mess with, in ways that I think a lot of people older than 20 did when they were kids to their PCs.

However, a server is such a specific + utilitarian thing. And on a phone it really serves very little utility. Some kid would get a kick out of making a website their friends can visit, but beyond that, not being able to run a server is more a symptom of how locked-down and uninspired phone OSes are, rather than a thing that specifically NEEDS to be implemented.
If you were trying to elicit a chuckle, then... yes you're doing it very right!
> “It was really funny because [the Cruise] got quite hot and fogged up to the point that the windshield was completely fogged over — in any other context, in any other vehicle, that would be an actual problem,”

Hahahahaha. So on the one hand this is a (somewhat?) positive article, even if it's looking for trouble. In that it's normalizing the self-driving car. It's taking it as a given and writing about something else. That's intesting in showing acceptance.

On the other hand, the developers are then going all "we are actively working to put a stop to that". This is why we can't have nice things.
RTGs do not use fission and do not create fission products. Nuclear fuels are harmless in comparison to Strontium-90 and Cesium-137.
Based on the "Show HN:" in the title, I would assume so.
Man you just harshed the vibe of this free spirited Netflix love-in thread.
On the other hand, France doesn’t treat women with hijab well (with state bans and laws against hijab)!

Both states restrict freedom, in different ways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in...

https://time.com/6049226/france-hijab-ban/

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985475584/french-senate-voted...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/france-football-hijab-...
"Becoming"?

I'm pretty sure the evidence points to the contrary -- police are less corrupt than ever before.

That doesn't mean there isn't still corruption (such as is claimed in this case), but you're claiming this is something getting worse.

I really don't think you want to go back to policing in the 1960's and 70's.
Fear of reprisal < fear of automatic weapon fire. Trust me.
> literally the entire linked article is about them doing this work

Lacros doesn't give Firefox the APIs that ChromeOS utilizes from Chrome that Firefox lacks. E.g. web battery API, web bluetooth API, web USB API, etc. These are the changes I'm referring to. That's my point. That's what I mean when I said:

> [this] would involve adding several APIs to Firefox that chromeOS relies on.
I only remember the lab leak theory being discussed seriously once Biden had been elected. Prior to that, it was treated as unenlightened racism.

Not that I'm a Trump fan. But the man was a lightning rod like I've never seen for the left here in America.

Then again, just flippantly referring to Covid as the "Kung Flu" just might have something to do with it.
For some kinds of data and queries, it doesn't matter if the data in the index is encrypted. For other kinds of data, you could build the index on an expression that produces decrypted or anonymized values. Sadly postgres doesn't have per-index permissions, so you can't prevent a user with access to the table from using all of it's indexes.
Loose lips sink ships, right?

Yeah, this is why hedge funds keep secrets, and sell side analysis isn't very trustworthy in the investment world. If their info was so good, they would act on it instead of publishing it.*

* some people act on it, then publish it in order to push prices in their favor.
Untrained people might want to read these books:

* The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

* How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business.
MS is(has?) merged Xbox with PC PC gaming. Counting Xbox separately might not make much sense anymore when they are no different to locked down budget gaming PCs which can only access the MS store.
It is more efficient to hire a native speaker educated in a foreign language who speaks good English to teach the language than it is to educate an English speaker in the foreign language well enough to teach it.
nvi came standard on FreeBSD at least through 5.x, iirc.
"Well, we inflate tuition so we can give enough assistance so we don't have to pay taxes, because that makes use a tax exempt charity. And then we stuff nearly all the money into our endowment. Which is quite a lot because it barely takes the tuition the freshman class pays to pay for all the education of all of the students we have. And then we expand the Administration so we can milk more alumni and donors."
> "I'm okay, the bull is not" presents Dad with a mystery, delays the onset of anger, and likely lowers the peak of anger, as the fun of unravelling an interesting and unique mystery probably takes up some of that mental energy.

No, it sounds annoying and tiring to deal with that kind of riddle-speech.

If your parent has anger issues it would just result in something like "what fucking bull, what the fuck did you do?", not some riddle mystery game you think...
Shape ID 0010000100 is blurry.

I enjoy how the IDs are descriptive. I don't like the nanny filter. It's culturally insensitive because it only blocks a hand symbol that's considered rude in one cultural context but not another.

For instance, shape ID 0011000110 would be considered rude in England, but it's not filtered.

It also reinforces the cultural power of the symbol, which is the opposite of what is probably intended. See: Streisand Effect.
For indexing/searching on encrypted fields we use a blind index (lots of good resources if you search for that term).

On the other hand, sorting on encrypted fields has proven to be a difficult challenge. There are some possible approaches but they lower the security of your encryption.
Yes, just got to that part, thanks.

Investigating DFU, apparently it needs a second laptop to bootstrap it, like a mobile device. I don't like the idea, but it won't happen often, hmm.
NixOS is the first meaningful counterpoint to Pike's "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" talk. Or, put another way, the most meaningful advancement in UNIX in about 30 years. (Nix is itself 20 years old).

https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.pdf
I'm might steal this and have this open up NixCon ;)
Good one indeed.

Apropos of Eisenhower, there is an incredible (fiction) book by Larry Collins, called Fall from Grace. It is about a brilliant long term plan and actions by British and French secret services to deceive the Germans about where the final Allied invasion would happen on the shores of France near the end of WWII. According to the novel, the ruse helped win the war.

Interwoven with a doomed romance.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fall+from+grace+larry+collin...

I read the full book some years ago, and it was gripping, though slow in parts.
I don't think you know what those companies do...
I used to be a big Android advocate years ago when I wrote a lot of code myself. Now I prefer a locked down iPhone that always works at maybe a bit higher cost. It feels like many more people have gone through that switch.

Even though I'm not idealistically aligned with the locked down App Store approach Apple takes, their ecosystem just works well for my needs.
Pro consumer means different things to different consumers. Like I could care less about ease to fix. But make it light with good battery life and good performance that’s what I care about as a consumer. If you have sacrifice any of those to make it easier to fix then it’s a bad “consumer” trade off IMO.
Rightly so.

You don’t really want the bar to entry for the roll of magistrate to be too high.

The page you linked states a magistrate must be at least 21, have a Batchelor’s degree, undergo a training program within one year of commencing the roll, with restrictions on their abilities until that and other milestones are met.

This points to the idea that any reasonable adult, with a proven ability to pass at least a baccalaureate, ought be able to administer the law to at least a level of basic competency while they simultaneously commit to the career path by undergoing relevant training.

Magistrates who are licensed attorneys have fewer restrictions and can progress faster.

Is there some other set of rules you would prefer?

Should the average higher-education-qualify adult be prevented from participating in the judiciary?

That doesn’t seem like an argument a citizen of a democracy wound intentionally make.
This is what I find amazing about a lot of the replies I see here. I saw the writing on the wall four months ago that I was probably going to be “Amazoned” soon after my manager left.

I’ve been warming up my network like crazy over the past four months, preparing my resume and career document, etc. I keep my network semi-warm regardless.

When the day came and I had the offer to quit and get big check or stay, I chose the quit option, before my last day, I had one
manager trying to create a position for me, a second round scheduled with another former company and a third and final round scheduled at a third company.

All based on networking.

It’s foolish in this market to hope something is going to happen quickly by randomly uploading your resume to an ATS and keyword stuffing your resume like an SEO technique from the 90s trying to juice your position on Altavista.

On the hiring side, a hiring manager also needs a network that they can call on when trying to find candidates.
The point is not about how Larian built this particular game. The thing to examine is how they were able to put themselves in the position to make this game. It was not an accident, or luck. It was at least 15 years of toil just to be the kind of company that could do this.

This meant tireless focus on the nature of making an enjoyable game. Not addiction science, not investor pandering, not holiday release cycles... fun, story, and player agency.
So the result of me writing this was that John Gruber was added as the BDFL of Markdown. Creator, sure, BDFL, that's a stretch.
Anything specific you would mention if you had 30 seconds? (meaningful examples we can share on that point)
If we can build them in space I would be interested
Meanwhile, in the real world, the thought of getting Nvidia's binaries running inside NixOS on their Jetson platform (based on a completely different version of libc) to make it a usable system, fills me with fear.
No, stop repeating propaganda. People are free to do what they want in the public space (see edit). Religious symbols are banned in schools and for public employees.

*Edit: with the exception of full face covering in public (different from hijab) which is banned regardless the method.
It’s not actually “great” risk, is the secret.

The advantage is not in American recklessness, it’s in American shamelessness. The only risk made is in the money, someone’s “honor” doesn’t play into it, for the most part.
> There is a plethora of way to finance any projects besides either be financed by the government or large corporations – and luckily much research is funded in other ways.

Do you believe this money doesn't carry any obligations?
>> I am glad that in America even communists are not locked up for voicing their views

Let me introduce you to when the US locked up its own citizens without cause or due process: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri...
The best solution remains writing asynchronous code in a way that is explicitly asynchronous.

Who would have thought?
Nix is preventing the issues Docker tries to solve.