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My biggest problem with flakes is that it is too much added complexity for tiny incremental gains (as per my limited understanding, happy to be corrected). Not only do most users gain very, very little from it, it also deters users from using nix for two reasons:

1) There is more to learn now.

2) Split ecosystem.

I'm looking to be educated, I've made contributions to nixpkgs (two "mid-sized" changes) but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to learn flakes ... Although that could have been because they were in limbo.

I have to say though, nix is increasingly becoming a nerd thing philosophizing over minute issues rather than "getting shit done" to benefit the maximum number of users ... :-(
This is nice, but personally, I'm a sucker for the Windows 3.1 starfield.
Shouldn't your name(using Gates example) be "Gates_III" than just "III"?
> Today

Exactly. If we established all law based only on what we currently observe, without considering future implications, then we would fundamentally only be a reactive legislative system and not proactive.

> Calling this a human rights issue is like calling your ability to order a sandwich for lunch a human rights issue

No, that is a gross misrepresentation. The simple fact is that if you don't require the right for a user to modify their general computing hardware, that right will never be awarded systematically, and will in fact be repressed. It's the definition of a slippery slope, because anything can be justified from that point.
US companies figured out the cheap-enough way to hire remote talent decades ago. And they found that those remote employees come with their own set of problems, leading to offshore outsourcing firms managing the remote talent locally. So you don't see hundreds of thousands of remote non-US programmers working for US companies. Instead you see a small number of large outsourcing firms and agencies hiring and managing people locally and contracting back to US firms. They can continue to pay local salaries because demand for decent jobs in places like Bengaluru or Dhaka, and the difficulty of getting a visa and work permit and relocating to the USA, means those remote employees will have to settle for salaries far below what people doing the same work get in the US.

US companies offshore mainly to reduce overall labor costs, in other words. That works if the employer can reduce the work and work product to well-defined tasks that they can farm out to just anyone. It doesn't work for high-end creative work that requires specialized knowledge or business domain expertise.
It's like Linux on some strange hardware, if something is missing, you code it by yourself, aosp is open source, so making lte compatible is possible for your device, just not what other ppl a interested in. Or you can use a fork that has the fix
The article mentions that they are using virtualisation (arm Linux and Windows on Arm MacOS and M1) not emulation (Ubuntu and Debian x86 by emulation on arm on MacOS and m1).

Emulation is slow sadly. Virtualisation is approaching native speed.

“Both Ubuntu and Windows run at native speed since they are virtualized instead of emulated.”
Well I agree with, for example, band restrictions set by the FTC which allow fair use. Individual freedoms are only enabled by restrictions against parties who would otherwise conspire to ignore them.
Do you remember when we used to have to pay for the next OS version upgrade, and for a program that would put your screen to sleep? Which, after you bought it, would be on floppy disks?
It's code in SF to send stormwater to the regular sewer.
> They're not completely autonomous, but a remote driver can take control if there's an issue.

Waymo says they don't try to actually drive with a remote human driver, because lag. The control center can give hints, presumably along the lines of "turn around and take an alternate route", or "OK to go around obstacle", or "park and wait".

As they get more experience with these systems, they may be allowed a bit more autonomy after signal loss, enough to creep to a safe stopping position.
I was totally expecting this to be an article explaining how sha256 works.
In the context of a CPU's memory model, I wouldn't call it style because a byte--as an abstract term for the smallest addressable unit--is subdivided into nibbles (digits), where the size of a nibble dictates what base makes sense.

A 9-bit byte is subdivided into three 3-bit nibbles/digits (2^3=base-8) [000, 777].

An 8-bit byte (octet) is evenly subdivided into two 4-bit nibbles/digits (2^4=base-16) [00, FF].

In documentation--given that the majority of computers use 8-bit bytes--the base we choose to represent 3-bit fields is a separate topic, and could be called style.
If copyright laws were still reasonable, like the original term of 14 years - renewable once for 14 more if the author is still alive - none of these 70+-year-old recordings would still be under copyright.

The U.S. Constitution authorizes copyright as a limited monopoly granted to authors and inventors, for a limited time, in order to promote progress in science and the useful arts. A system that allows lawyers to bury old works 70+ years after they were created, by authors who are long since dead, is clearly out of control.
No problem, thanks for checking.
'Data Have Spoken LK-99 Is Not a Superconductor,' Says US Research Center
I've had some great results using Orbstack's x86 Linux VMs, though primarily for Linux development.
Even single tasked systems like MS-DOS still had interrupts. You could HLT the processor and a keyboard interrupt could wake it straight back up and resume execution anywhere in the MS-DOS kernel. It's just that the typical TDP of a CPU back then was a couple of watts so there was literally no point in HLTing instead of busy-waiting so nobody bothered.
> 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?

Are you familiar with the false dilemma?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

> The platform for tinkerers already exists. It's called a PC with Linux installed

I would love for you to make the case that a modern touch screen phone is not a Personal Computer. And you fail to address the very real scenario in which companies are conspiring to provide fully locked-down hardware and software ecosystems.
> It’s an important distinction.

Is it? New York City grew from 60,000-ish to 3 million from 1800 to 1900 - did a person from Europe that move to New York city in 1816 or 1876 immigrate or settle? They were not getting 40 acre land grants!
This is a complete straw-man argument and deserves no further consideration. Refrigerators are not personal computers and in this case, the less digital tech a refrigerator contains, the better.
Orbstack

I thought https://orbstack.dev/ is what people are using these days instead of UTM.

Am I mistaken?
That is hilarious. The Waymo Jag did an excellent job.
agreed this video goes over the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dNuR16gJ2A&t=140s

How people with 10th gen feels snappier then the fastest of current gen for various reasons. I've noticed too that just a basic quad core mini pc can "feel" snappier to the eyes and normal usage then a gaming rig with top cpu gpu.
Companies that doesn’t provide flexible WFH will simply be less competitive in the jobs market. Ending up with candidates that aren’t good enough to work for WFH flexible companies.
2000-2020 want exactly peacetime.

The US declared war on the concept of terrorism in 2001, directly invaded two nations as part of that effort, and overthrew multiple governments before ultimately abandoning the war and handing a broken Afghanistan back to the Taliban in 2021.

We did an excellent job of making sure the war was fought on foreign soil and largely stayed out of our daily life back home, but we definitely were at war.

(I'm focusing on the US here, but there were quite a few other major conflicts and military coups around the world during the same time)
Reaction...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nobody_ever_went_broke_undere...

And plausibly "nobody ever made money by overestimating the intelligence..."
It would save us a lot of money wasted on experiments, the motivation is strong, so why are we still experimenting? Because you can't get from the model what is not in the model. But you just ask a LLM to review papers, it's not completely useless, you can get some manner of feedback. I used the prompt "write an openreview.net style review on this paper" + attach PDF, on Claude with 100k token window.
Did Gates/Bezos/Ballmer/Allen/Musk/Page/Brin grow up in mansions?
> Only if all the programming you do is assembling widgets, which given your tone might be the case

Oh hello there my old friend no true Scotsman. I'm a compilers researcher so gee hmm I wonder if maybe possibly I'm not just simply aggrieved.

> For some it is a form of art, just like a paintbrush or a musical instrument.

There's no such thing. Even me, a literal researcher, ultimately answers to the capital motive (the university's). You're not an artist. We are not artists in so far as we're paid for a service.

>Imagine if we were in a bizarro world where you go to violin university not because you like it, but because it's a good career that pays well; after 20 years doing 40 h/wk playing the violin for a nameless Big Orchestra playing day in day out what is frankly trite crap for pointy haired composers, you'd find it very hard to imagine a world where people play the violin for fun.

This isn't bizarro world or bizarre. This is the world. I'm very good at compilers research but I did not pick it for my PhD because I enjoyed it (as the username suggests, I did math in undergrad) but because it pays the best. I trade time for money just like you, just like everyone else.

> I sense a LOT of hostility on your part against me defending what is just, simply a tool, because Big Orchestra has killed your creativity and imagination. Again, it is not the tool's fault.

Whenever someone says this I'm like I didn't come to you attacking lisp but you did come here and start a debate about whether people just want to pay rent. So I'm hostile supposedly for responding to your condescension but you're not hostile for... being condescending? The math isn't mathing as they say.

>It's not a tool that meshes well with pointy haired bosses, and sadly they rule the world.

You're aluding to the deep cultural depth and brilliance of a ... comic strip. And unironically. You really think this is a valuable contribution to any conversation?

> I doubt all this rage comes because of deep seated trauma with S-expressions themselves.

I'll say it again: there's no rage or trauma, there's only you and your condescending remarks about paying rent and lack of virtue or virtuosity or whatever. If you hadn't said that people "just want to pay rent" I wouldn't have bothered to say anything at all.
I get "www.w3.org refused to connect." Is that expected?
Mobile phone use in America's downtowns since Covid is down at least 33%
I have heard similar but the consequences always seemed weird to me. Following this if something is important and also should look visually different, I should use both <strong> and <b>. However If something is important and I don't want it to show, I should use <strong> alone and <b> alone only for the case where something should look important but that has actually no meaning as the meaning conferring tag would be <strong>.
VCs are secondary. You need customers more than VCs.
Any Android phone already doesn’t usually get security updates after a year or two and you want to run a web server on it?
Hmm, do you experience the same effect here?
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/daft-punk-veridis-quo-tab-s3...
It could be just the other instruments providing harmonics and changing the feel of the melody
Yes, I agree that there is a market for this. But I am not part of that market - I really want more beefy cores with lots of AVX units (I'm perfectly content if these beefy cores have low base clocks to conserve power).
Johnny Castaway was great too.

And then later on Folding@Home was an interesting screensaver.
Can’t we just send up the propulsion system and the fuel separately? So like, ya, either could fail, but one is just some fancy equipment being g destroyed and the other is…unert uranium or plutonium coming down, needing to be cleaned up but not in a particular dangerous mode. Then once in orbit and the risk of crashing into earth is much less, put them together, fire up the reactor and go?
If I follow your comments, the journalists and random passer-by who were killed by gleeful American helicopter pilots in Baghdad are just collateral damage, and Assange is to blame for his own predicament and should just let the US have its way with him (maybe locking him up for life, or maybe taking pity, as the President wishes). Apparently, all is fine and this is how it should be.
So a tech clown show is blaming a techbro-hipster clown show....got it.
I hope people start expecting less magic from AI.
Thermodynamic Linear Algebra
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I was trying to make a web browsing ai agent a few days ago and I was shocked to find that hacker news comments are implemented as table inside table inside table.
This is a class of problems known as constraint solvers, and a program like Solvespace is actually using a symbolic algebra system under the hood to 'solve' the layout as you constraint the sketch in the GUI in nearly the exact way that SymPy is solving the puzzle above.

There are various approaches; Solvespace uses a modified Newton's method and was written in C++ making use of just the Eigen lib.
> Over in Japan, some of the taxis now play ads (obnoxious audio included!) for the passengers to watch.

I was in Boston like 10 years ago and saw this.
LOL, instinctively I hit "q" instead of the back button.
What’s this “neural information retrieval system” thing about?

I’m just hacking away and presenting the LLM with some JSON data from our metrics database and making it answer user questions as a completion.

Is this embedding thing relevant for what I’m doing? Where should I start reading?
It's a different model of file management that some people might find more familiar or comfortable.

It's not my preferred style (I was a Norton Commander fan), but XTree was wildly popular at one time, there must be something to it.
> items with the same L + W will have the same area(this is where I might have gone wrong),

Unfortunately yeah that’s not right. Think of a 1x3 and a 2x2.
> Because it breaks the universe?

It does not. People use packages that has binary patches applied all the time, and they work just fine.

The issues you linked to refers to a fixable issue that's completely unrelated to binary patching. It's what happens when you directly use the linker without supplying the required flags.

> patchelf is a working hack short term, but what's the long term solution?

Patching binaries isn't a short term solution. It's the only solution for retargeting proprietary binaries to make it run on distros it wasn't built for. Besides, making a few edits to ELF metadata isn't the end of the world. It's the universally accepted solution across distros.

> I mean, if a simple error message change can sit open for more than a year, is there really any hope for fixing anything truly substantial?

My point still stands. All software other than the most trivial ones has non-zero number of unresolved issues at any given moment in time. This is true even for software made by multi-billion dollar companies. Yet you seem to expect much more from a volunteer-run project with limited resources.

You have a legitimate point regarding flakes, except that issues are constantly being fixed. It's just that some issues you happen to care about are receiving less attention than you'd like given the limited amount of resources available.
That's not such a bad result. $1.2bn is a small amount of money to throw down the drain, assuming we learn the lesson that DAC is a complete irrelevance to our current efforts to mitigate climate change.

This "throw money at whatever companies ask us to" phase of climate change mitigation is pretty wasteful but hopefully we will learn some hard lessons at least.
is yoshinon an acronym or am i missing something?
YouTube gets more aggressive in pushing adblock warnings with countdown timer
If you can tell from the first meeting, why was this person even hired in the first place? The only time i experienced something like that was when the CEO hired someone without asking anyone else to vet them.
Immigration is fuel for growth - it’s America’s secret power

See all those other posts about countries not having enough babies ? The US just imports full grown adults for free
> The thing about airlines is that they operate in a very carefully crafted environment.

They do now, as the consequence of many crashes.

> And that's not always the case

I liken this as "humans have two legs" and the riposte is "not all humans have two legs". Notice the requirement to insert a missing word, "all". I hope you'll forgive me, because I am rather testy about this sort of waste of time. If I mean "always" or "all" or "100%" I would use those qualifiers. Those qualifiers exist for a reason.

> Born with a damaged brain or body?

Oh criminy. I shouldn't have to add that if you're mentally deranged none of this applies. In fact, I believe I even wrote somewhere here "of sound mind and body" because I know somebody would pipe up with "not everybody likes ice cream".
The way I understand this matter: TSMC runs a process in which ASML is a tool, an important one, that needs to run TSMC's process reliably.

Both the process and tool needs to innovate to enable each other to get the most out of both.
Quanta is running out of cool, deep materials
There’s a lot of room below the median
> “forget gate”, “input gate”, “output gate”

These are legit:

cell_h = cell_(h-1) * forget_gate + tanh(linear(input_h)) * input_gate

out_h = cell_h * output_gate

see? forget_gate masks input by multiplying with numbers in [0, 1], input_gate controls the external input, output_gate controls the output of course
5G towers are now kept hidden behind fake structures
And now we illustrate the 2nd-order of the fallacy of the undistributed middle.

1. Situation X in my mind is jaywalking.
2. We should legalize Situation X.
3. Therefore, we should legalize jaywalking.
(Accidentally?) Omitted: Situation Y is jaywalking. Should we legalize Situation Y?
There’s a modern one that is quite nice.
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The problem (I’m not in Poland but I’m in Berlin, which also has strict rules about firing long term employees) is that senior talent has a lot of choice of where to go to so why should they bother with a place that would only give them a 1-year contract at first?
Multiple data center vulnerabilities could cripple cloud services
For the posed question you could assume that each rectangle has area 1, so the square has area 5. From there its pretty easy to find the lengths of relevant sides, which can then tell you how much you need to scale by.

Of course for more complicated layouts this method won't work as well, but at least for this simple one this method seems easier.
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I would love to connect with you. Anywhere i can reach out?
I would add:

The Machine Stops (1909,1928)

A rare sci-fi story from E. M. Forster, more famous for period dramas - A Room with a View, A Passage to India, Howard's End.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
It's usually the case that people are using several different competing tools rather than one specific "latest" tool, isn't it?
I put it on my M1 MBP for all of 15 minutes before giving up - I did not have high expectations as I am aware it's cutting edge stuff but it wasn't even remotely usable for me as a daily driver - the touchpad was wonky, konsole kept crashing and also anything drawing on the screen was annoyingly slow. Maybe the desktops work better?

Good on them for trying and I don't mean this as a discouragement but realistically I just don't believe there will be a day anytime soon where it works even as good as standard Linux distro on a x86 laptop now a days. After all not even recent Intel Mac Laptops worked well with Linux.
But as a leader, if you don't know - then it's an opportunity for you and the team members to learn it together, the real point of which is teaching the team members how to adapt. Half the crap people ask me, I don't know, but I'm happy to find out with them. And maybe next time they'll be able to figure it out on their own.
It’s a discovery, it’s just not one that changes your handicapping of the odds of if life exists elsewhere or came from elsewhere. The headline is just taking a discovery and making it click bait.
Many people might be shocked with those comparisons - either with or without capital removed - but don't forget that in many cases we are comparing levels of culture thinking we are comparing the economies.

Case in point: almost all people who aren't frequent in either country (but don't limit their Russia experience to downtown Moscow), say that Belarus is richer than Russia, while in fact it isn't. It's just a lot more civilised owing to a higher share of European (Catholic) population. Thus much better maintained and cleaner streets, almost no trash, no homeless, less crime, people are better dressed, fewer are fat, everyone is polite and well-behaved, etc., making an impression of wealth even if most people barely make ends meet.

I bet comparing England to Mississippi (never been to Mississippi), raises about same feeling.
Indeed there are. I pay high premium to alternatives, which has monthly cancel options.

Some of these cost me > ~35-40% long-term, but it reassuring that, if I am suddenly in misfortune or tight spots, I could rapidly rid myself of some luxuries in a blink. :)
But if this is a WWW page doesn’t it open up individuals to D/DoS attacks- don't use it then, just like when ppl don't use sideload and the feature is locked unless they allow it
I don't know, but I reject the premise of the question (i.e. there is a consensus). But I'm no pollster.

Speaking for myself, to virtualize arm64 *nix on an M1/M2 Mac, UTM has worked whereas other alternatives didn't work for me (such as VirtualBox). I haven't put my hands on the glowing orb yet; I'm sure it will be mesmerizing and tell me to do things like watch Inception (inside a VM) ^ 4.

And Orbstack has a comparison chart with UTM: https://docs.orbstack.dev/compare/utm
Maybe it's still getting out there? First time seeing it, looks super promising. Thanks for sharing :)
Weeds May Be a Better Friend to Pollinating Insects Than We Assume
Really fun! I agree with the earlier comment about wanting more drifting. Overall this is wonderful -- awesome control scheme! Works better than most other browser games I've played!
Then came iframes, also terrible.
Definitely good to have it buried. Perfect.
This is just a definitional issue. Older thinking was that having several instructions in progress at once was enough to be superscalar. Modern thinking seems to be that you have to initiate multiple instructions on the same clock cycle. Sources differ.
Here's a good overview of the CDC 6600.[1]

Multiple execution units yes, multiple operations in progress yes, scoreboard yes, retirement unit no, branch prediction no, reordering no.

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Courses/CS252.S96/Le...
Wow! I'm glad that everyone joined in your cause as well and the CEO offered you so much to stay. The best thing you could have done (and did!) was leave. Very happy for you.
Soon ios will allow sideload, so not sure if www server will be a problem then
So what's going to happen when we get a big earthquake? It sounds like the streets could end up clogged with driverless cars confused by the debris and unable to communicate, blocking emergency vehicles.