skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah def not the whole story being told. this wouldve at least been a nice acquihire for somebody if it were a valuable business. if this founder ran a 7 figure business into the ground with no cash shortage pressure he cant blame VCs for that.
If you search on Google "Steve Jobs" "beer test", and ask for only 2020 records, the only records that come up are pages that have this 2023 story in their 'also' links.

Pretty sure this is not a legitimate story.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Steve+Jobs%22+%22Beer+Tes...
The built-in culture of risk taking in US can't be underestimated. Yes, we joke about Florida man and lament about the excess funding for startups. But with great risk comes great reward, and chances for inexperienced founders to prove themselves. Nowhere else on the planet are you able to do that with such magnitude, not in Japan, not in Europe, not in China (now that they're broke and in a Great Depression, and Xi is killing off entrepreneurs).
Organizations are structured as trees as a strategy to combat N^2 complexity. You talk up, or down. The tradeoff is of course N^2 relationships still exist in reality , so you duplicate effort, and sometimes collide, but it's a good tradeoff.
> Courts have ruled that merely executing an exe file is itself an act of copyright infringment, because the OS copies the contents into RAM

You can't just drop an extraordinary claim like that without a citation. When I search those terms, your comment is the only one I can find that remotely resembles anything like the case you're describing.
> Abolishing qualified immunity leads to situations like Uvalde where police won’t want to intervene for fear of reprisal.

This couldn't be more wrong. Despite the existence of qualified immunity, the Texas police still cowered like cowards, and are using qualified immunity to shield themselves from the lawsuits of the families whose children they failed to protect.
Discussions and having a peer group seems like it would be helpful for learning philosophy.
> If I was looking for a job, I'd say that I have no professional Android experience but I'm confident that I could hit the ground running at a senior level and mentor juniors for Android

I can say I’m a little teapot. But without demonstrated experience, why would you hire me over one of the million developers with experience and have at least shipped an app?

> If I was interviewing someone and they said something like: "I have no experience with Android, but I know Kotlin and I'm confident I could pick it up. I did a similar thing with x,y,z" then sure.

Yes because “positive thoughts” without experience means you can be effective
It is potentially bad in small town anywhere just dude to the low population, maybe one or no news source and etc. Lots of power in a few hands, little oversight.

Small town not far of me there were billboards up about how the local police are crooks and on and on. Someone really felt strongly about that topic.

The businessman who bought the billboards did an interview. Story was businessman supported the local police chief's election. Then business man's business partner was being investigated for selling drugs and the state police raided their business. Businessman called the local police police chief and told the chief to call off the cops. Police chief said he couldn't do that because he knew business guy and had to stay out of it.

Businessman got upset and bought a bunch of billboards about "corruption".

One man's corruption is another man's ethical choice.
At least your numbers are positive, doing much better than me.
Even with webapps, duration a binary rollout you can have clients reaching different versions of the app on each request (that's basic version skew).
https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
"Following the end of Clinton's term, Summers served as the 27th president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty, which resulted in large part from Summers's conflict with Cornel West, financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with Andrei Shleifer, and a 2005 speech in which he offered three reasons for the under-representation of women in science and engineering, including the possibility that there exists a "different availability of aptitude at the high end", in addition to patterns of discrimination and socialization.[8]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers

I think we're quite far from "strong evidence" anyway if you want to argue that there's "less aptitude at the high end" of either gender.

I'm more thinking of something falsifiable maybe? You know, strong evidence?

Ps: He's still employed by Harvard, I'm not seeing a ruined career here.

Edit: "The company fired Damore for violation of the company's code of conduct.[2] Damore filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, but later withdrew this complaint. A lawyer with the NLRB wrote that his firing was proper.[3][4][5][6] After withdrawing this complaint, Damore filed a class action lawsuit, retaining the services of attorney Harmeet Dhillon,[7][8] alleging that Google was discriminating against conservatives, whites, Asians, and men.[9][10] Damore withdrew his claims in the lawsuit to pursue arbitration against Google.[11]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_...

This guy is not a scientist and was fired by a private company for his conduct - has nothing to do with the subject.
How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers
Hah I think Yury leads the Clickhouse development now. I interviewed with him and he seemed like a very interesting guy
how about some p2p web server when you go offline, another node picks it up?
But QI still exists, and Uvalde happened. It wasn’t fear of reprisal, but fear of being shot. So your argument doesn’t work.
Yes, a trust is a non-bank financial institution that is responsible for packaging risk or directly extending credit to for example, local real estate / development projects.
What I got out of the post is – "My business was on a path to success because of my own efforts, and failed only because of those pesky VCs and their money". With an attitude like that no wonder they lost what they had.
> counter = (counter >> 1) + priority ... Note that counter >> 1 is a faster way to divide by 2 ... This means that if a task is waiting for I/O for a long time, and its priority is higher than 2, counter value will monotonically increase when counter is updated.

Actually the effect is that counter will exponentially decay up to 2 * priority (if the task is not runnable). You can sanity check this by looking at the limit: if counter is 2*priority then that expression will leave it at its current value.
Archive: https://archive.is/WcGsS
Yes. We are saying the same thing. Treat json in Postgres as a little blob of unstructured data and do not design things in Postgres as you would in mongodb. Minimize json in Postgres or you will have a bad time.
There's an archive at https://archive.is/WcGsS which gets around that issue.
Warning shots can safely be fired into the ground.

If using a shotgun, which is probably the best choice for home defense, very little penetration through walls will occur. You won't accidentally hit someone on the street unless you shoot through a window.
Scientists invent new resorbable biomaterials for implantable medical devices
> When I read this, I think that the system works.

It's possible to assume that the system works if you assume that this is also the only time this has happened. How many times have corrupt cops such as these used the force of the state to silence their detractors and gotten away with it?
> it’s an obvious choice to use coroutines.

I agree, but the other choice is to have traditional threads of execution that block. This simple strategy has delivered more successful projects than any other.
Open Core usually fails the FOSS community when the company either 1) makes some essential features like OAUTH/SSO or 2FA Enterprise only, or 2) is openly hostile toward open source components that compete with its own Enterprise features.

How well would your example companies deal with a PR adding open source macOS platform support, or an open source JIRA bridge?
Elements of this story indicate a founder who simply lost control of their company, which is their job as a founder. I don’t think the VC is the villain here.

They raised at an inflated valuation and seemingly received a favorable multiple (100-10x “7-figure” revenue). The fact that they rode out the company to 0 means they had board control and were never fired. So they are ultimately responsible for every decision they made. Including over-hiring and not firing their clueless VPs.

I say this as a founder of a yc-backed company that was acquired. I know the pressures of short-sided VCs. I also know that the job of a founder is to pick which advice you follow.
They will use it, but they don’t know it’s Windows or what an OS is. They’ll just say it’s a Microsoft computer or PC. Or “not Apple”. Maybe even Android.
> using my brain power on business problems not what makes me more productive

This doesn't make any sense. It's like saying you prefer hitting rocks together to make music because you don't have to use all your brain power at operating something complex like the sax or the piano.

Tool enable, or kill, creativity. I'd rather not use my brain power to fight an obtuse tool, like Go can be, but instead choose to become a violin, or Lisp, virtuoso. The real issue is that many people don't want to become virtuoso, but just want to learn as little from their tools to make rent. That's fine, but let's not blame the tool, then.

You know who doesn't like rockstars and soloists? Large companies, so they make us feel as if we're weird, unruly, opinionated, just because we don't conform to the Standard Programmer mould to fit inside the cubicle. Whenever I hear someone mention rockstar engineers, I wonder if they mean it as an insult, instead of something to be encouraged and celebrated.
Fake meat: As Beyond Meat sales fall, have we had our fill?
I find open educational resources just so dang heartwarming.
> seems to mean partition

> Is this new overloaded APFS terminology?

Yes and yes. It's like a PV in LVM, or a partition in ZFS or BTRFS. What Apple calls an APFS volume is like a logical volume in LVM, or a BTRFS subvolume.

Edit: Had this backwards, at first.
NixOS: Intentionally breaks compatiblity with a lot of scripts and binaries due to not having /usr/bin/bash and not putting libraries in a standard location despite the fact there is still /usr/bin/env and a bunch of symlinks to things under some obscure folder in /run. It will make sure that every user has to learn Nix because you won't be able to run things from the internet without going through Nix's documentation trying to figure how to package something when you just want to run it and get on with your day.

If you enjoy packaging then this OS is for you.
In addition to your last point, an employer may have good engineers and not even know it if their system discourages excellence. A lot of what the author mentions can cause good engineers to coast because merely changing a string can be an absolute slog of PRs, spurious feedback cycles, and code deciphering. Cash is king, so as long as an engineer gets paid and isn't totally driven insane, they'll stay just for the paycheck. Yet the whole time the employer has extra talent sitting there just being wasted.
The more adoption of nuclear technologies with practical application, the better.
Any truth to this? Somebody must have ran a benchmark at least?
Unfortunately, it was just a series of yes/no radio buttons. Not much room for nuance or spinning.
Much/most of Java 1 will still compile, at least (FWIR). The evolutionary progress of java 1... to whatever it is now (current one I'm using is 17, but I know there's more past that) has largely been adding of new libraries/methods, etc, and the majority of your java skills from 10-15 years ago are still valid (although might not be the most efficient any more).

I've watched people go through Flash/Silverlight/Actionscript, multiple MS tech stacks, and many many other promising tech. Many have had to large scale reinventions of themselves and cram 'new to them' tech as the old stuff has gone away.

It's definitely easier to evolve with a tech stack over the years. You get a better sense of idioms, best practices, etc. that is hard to replicate overnight.

And yeah, some tooling is different over the years too, but yeah, vi still works :)

Shiny new 'hey look at this' ideas can pop up in newish langs, but diving deep in to them isn't often the best path for most people. The truly good and impactful ideas tend to get recognized and adopted in the more mainstream ecosystems over time, giving you most of the benefits without needing to throw out much of your experience.
I think that very well could be true, depends on how that generality was obtained.

I would not be surprised if a multi-modal LLM (basically current architecture) could be wired up to be as general as a cat with current param count, and with the spark of human creativity (AGI/ASI) still ending up being far away.

But if you made a new architecture that solved the generalization problem (ie baking in a world model, self-symbol, etc) but only reached cat intelligence, then it would seem very likely that human-level was soon to follow.
Closing an academic program, let alone 32, will be extremely unpopular among faculty so much so that it might lead to a vote of no confidence. Using a consulting firm as a political shield is likely necessary if you want to make such a move and maintain your position as president.

You pay the consulting firm ~ 1 million, they confirm what you already know, "these 32 programs are costing the University 10 million or whatever a year with few enrollments. The only logical thing to do is to close those programs and reallocate those funds." You, as the president, hide behind a report from an independent third party but still get to make the correct but unpopular opinion to cut bloat.
I was being facetious, a commentary on people who ardently defend the US on the merit of its economic strength over everything else, including many basic amenities much poorer countries take for granted.
Is the right of a handful of people to run a web server on their phone more important than the right of millions of "unsophisticated" users to not be scammed / abused by malware?

Since it's inception smart phones have been a consumer platform, used for consuming content. The platform for tinkerers already exists. It's called a PC with Linux installed. Every platform does not need to cater to your needs.
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The OP should hire someone to handle VC requests (better say to send most of those requests to /dev/null with a nice chocolate & flowers wrap) and keep customers happy with his productive five employees. Growth would come naturally over time.
There is a finite number of register windows, usually 8 but only 7 can be used because the 8th serves as "sentinel" to detect over- and underflow.

Once register windows are full (a function call wants to activate the next register window but there is no unused window left) window overflow occurs and a trap handler is activated.

The trap handler "unwinds" the register windows and stores all the contents in memory (stack). Now the next function can continue with an empty set of register windows. Once you return from the function, the contents of the windows have to be restored (window underflow trap).

Problem is that the trap handlers can't know which of the registers in each window were in use. Therefore all have to be saved/restored. This ratio will worsen when you write smaller functions that use less register and nest deeper.

So there are two issues: 1. You can't really know at which point in your program that underflow/overflow occurs because it changes depending on the exact path of execution through the program. 2. Unnecessary memory write/read operations. While ca. 120 x 32-bit words is not that much, with an 8-bit wide SRAM, some waitstates and EDAC this might be noticeable. (Consider that the LEON processors have a data cache for read access but for writing only a "store buffer" that queues few memory writes)

Using -mflat every register is saved by the caller/callee (as ABI demands) on the stack. This means that the memory accesses are predictable and spread out over each function call.

So, my personal conclusion is that register windows are an intriguing idea on the surface but become useless when you aren't writing 80s spaghetti code. There were many similar ideas at that time, e.g., Am29000.
Colleges urged to produce better information on how they spend money
That's true for basically all the "gig economy" apps, which are just enormous money sinks which fuck over (disrupt, according to their propaganda) whatever market they enter and then either collapse leaving a rotting corpse where a functional market used to exist or become monopolists and then proceed to level the market in order to milk it up as much as possible. And then they collapse anyway.

If we had any kind of sense, as a society, this shit would have been banned years ago.
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In vim, :%!sort... does the trick.
So they are strapping a nuclear power plant to a huge vessel of explosive liquids..

Will the first launch be on PPV?
Can you not do that from recovery on external media, just like installing the OS?
Why would you need root access for the most common posts on the internet?
This is an incredibly bewildering argument. It seems to imply that getting rid of the worthless lightning connector somehow means the entire company can't focus on other aspects of the product?

By this same...train of logic. We shouldn't legislate phones won't explode. Or Samsung won't innovate in other ways, because they're too busy keeping their phones from exploding!
WHAT!? You can use M-x magit-log-buffer-file with an active selection and see only the changes to the selected portion? This is so obvious in hindsight and so cool... Thanks a million!
Not to out myself and my level of skill, but it took me several days off and on just to wrap my head around the minutiae to get Apple signing for macOS and iOS to work just right. Learning the rest of the ecosystem came along eventually, but I think the real point is with a couple of days worth of intense study, I, and any other developer worth their salt, can bullshit your interview that requires a specific language, but no one requires a specific language for interviews anymore because everyone knows that!
Unless that device has an Apple logo on it it is 100% possible.
Feedback adds liability. no upside to them. at least, they should have send a rejection in a timely manner though.
A linux distro targeting old apple handsets would be excellent for this. Even it only EOL devices were supported itd still be very useful to have a lightweight arm server with battery backup.
Nothing in there is specific to Kansas, or really small town America. See if you haven't read it yet, the amazing Ferguson Report - extremely concise and readable for a government report - which collected testimony of corruption every which way and concluded with doing nothing and a full trust in the locals sorting it out for themselves. And then again and still higher scale, cities around the San Francisco Bay Area and all the way to San Francisco. The specifics vary greatly and creatively (?) but the overall theme is there.
Sorry but the claim in this article is not correct (on Android) and is proposing a bad solution to the problem you're trying to solve.

First, nobody is stopping you from doing this. I just spent 30 seconds installing the first app I found on the Play store and 1 minute configuring my router, and now I have a static web server that I can hit from anywhere in the world.

But the real issue is that it's the wrong way to build a personal web server for your phone. The right way to do this is to host a server in a datacenter and install an app or service that pushes content to that server. Other users can hit that server to see that data you push. Tons of advantages of doing it this way (reliability, battery life, capability, throughput, cost, security, support for multiple devices, support for multiple kinds of devices, ...)

The reason that people don't build things like this isn't because they are evil or protecting their "walled gardens", it's just a bad design.
Does the Mac Studio have an internal battery?
I'm really impressed with the comprehensive range of text and image prompts available on this platform. Navigating through the collection was a delightful experience, and it's evident that this website caters to all the prompt needs I encounter in my daily tasks. The diversity and quality of prompts provided here have truly exceeded my expectations. Kudos to the team behind this tool for curating such a valuable resource
Whenever we hit upon copyright battles in the USA, I’m reminded that the national anthem steals its tune from a well established English drinking song. A drinking song — basically understood that it “belongs to everyone and is shared for when we collectively drink and be merry together”.
Read further down. DFU prevents bricking.
AFAIK, the main Arch Linux project isn't very interested in supporting the ARM architecture at all. This decision probably has more to do with that than anything else.
It's even cover a month of daycare and it pays out over a year, so it's beyond useless. This would cover 3 months of aftercare for me, which I'd only need to have because I was going into the office. Why would I opt into that extra expense, especially when it's significant.
You mean a hedge fund with a sideline in education as a tax dodge.
I suppose that's a tangible benefit to hiring well- you don't have to ask your team basic questions like these. Presumably the engineer well knows to check licenses.
I can condense this to 'I thought CEO was a nice title but I failed at taking it seriously and allowed others to lead my company whilst I held the title'.

The results are predictable. Note how there is no acceptance of personal responsibility.

I also note that there isn't a shred of evidence for this whole story, and $100M to $0 does not seem like a believable trajectory (nor does $0 to $100M, but the other is much less believable).
New study finds ‘sweetness gene’ that makes lupins palatable
^ This is just a load of rubbish. It makes absolutely no sense. Thanks for proving my point.
The moment you cave and get them their own device, it's all over, they'll be different people from that moment forward. Even with screen time and firewall rules in place. You are doing good seeking advice, continue to pull the best ideas and incorporate them into your plan. Then stick with it. Period.

I wish we had.
And in what sense are we better off for this?

Is the claim that innovation only happens in the USA? That the only good companies are US companies? What are the specific benefits, other than merely indulging the startup fantasies of a relatively small number of founders, that come from this "high risk, high reward" environment?
Another wiki describing the term:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Parallel_Construction
I'm sure this will make the user experience even worse. It seems we've the wrong lessons from Windows Vista's constant "Cancel/Allow" prompts.
I see, thank you. You would assume that one would use tactics accordingly.
In principle, not following an unjust law is a moral obligation. Yes, you can argue the edge cases. I also agree that there's some good in obeying a particular law even if it is a little bad (to uphold respect for law in general).

This doesn't refute the general principle though - unjust laws should be broken.
Historically enough repulsive stuff was mandated by law.