skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a whole lot of asm experience here- what does it mean for a register to be vectorized?
Same for me.

Key is that it is a “micronap,” in my recliner (<15 minutes, sometimes, repeated, once or twice).

I feel a bit “fuzzy,” on waking, but I’m 100%, after just a couple of minutes on my feet.

If I lie down, my day is done.
Important to note that this method only works on Hermitian (usually AKA symmetric) and positive-definite matrices, both of which are often pretty big qualifiers.
Right -- I mean if I was compelled by some weird fascist law to pick one brand to trust, I'd probably pick Apple. The fascists with the nicest things, for one thing, but they have also made commitments to privacy against which they can be measured.

But I find it uncomfortable how much brain time we allow for making value judgements about brands -- it's a purely one-way emotional judgement, because as a general rule, not a single one of the people who run them would so much as piss on you if you were on fire in return.

[ Edit: This is not particularly to be taken as an argument for open source; I don't think people in the open source space are inherently more trustworthy; they have just built mechanisms where I don't have to trust them individually or severally.

We have to stop supporting "teams" in the tech world -- even at the level of employee loyalty. It's damaging, and not just to open source, but to human progress more generally. ]
Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does the U.S. Have So Few of Them? [video]
No, the licence is the thing that defines what they'd be fine with. I don't think it's possible to write a licence that allows you to do things with the software that the licence forbids.
"can run linux if you want" - but it's difficult enough that most of us just give up and run one or the other and it's definitely not user friendly enough to ever teach a relative. I've been a casual Linux user for 25 years now. I've officially given up dualbooting. One software update by Microsoft or accidental EFI change the house of cards seems to fall apart.
The second project; it only does caching of the keys. It's a big advantage to use your software without any SDK or client code. You should make it clear that it's optional.
More on the rat story: https://gwern.net/maze
> backdooring and censorship are two very different things

Parent poster talked about backdooring being documented in the US, not comparing the two in general. I posted links about non-US governments making it illegal to document the backdooring or other things the government may worry about an unpopular reaction to. The practice of the 1st amendment in the US offers very strong, but not absolute, protections against this.
> "no errors, at any cost"

Meaning of course "no errors reported, at any cost".

Programming language language has redefined "error" - to substantial cost to programmers.
Article appear to be from 17 November 2021.
> If I have an arch system now, how useful is it to use Nix or Homemanager on a non-nixos linux system? I dont really want to dump a working system and duel booting always has whatever you need on the other system.

100%, I recommend people to start with home-manager before NixOS as it's easier to escape the Nix when you're out of depth than if you're on NixOS. It'll manage your user systemd units and everything else within your user, it's great.
Nor the briefly titled, "The Great Power-Line Cover-Up: How the Utilities and Government Are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazard Posed by Electromagnetic Fields".
> Salesforce uses the same lean product development concepts that we espouse here. They test messages and products and then make R&D investment based on real customer demand.

The crucial difference is being honest to your customers that this is your process, versus trying to hide it so that only your most savvy long-term customers know it's a mirage.
>Sure in theory they could be selling access to anyone’s Gmail account to the highest bidder, but that’s going to lose them money by actively driving their customers away.

I'd say that doing so might drive some of their users (i.e., product) away, but would be a boon for their customers (i.e., advertisers).

And IIUC, they are already selling access to the information they glean from reading the contents of gmail accounts by using that data to "target" ads at gmail users. No, Google isn't literally selling the contents of email messages, but they are selling access to user information based on the content of those email messages.

Based on their behavior to this point, one can be pretty confident that Google/Alhpabet will do whatever they think will maximize revenue and profit, regardless of the impact that might have on their product (i.e., you)>
It’s actually an amazing editor. Zero setup, does a lot of useful things out of the box, starts instantly.

If that sounds like 15 years ago, it’s still true (high praise!) except it is more capable.
Grant Imahara from Mythbusters is another one. 49 and in ostensibly great health, taken out by an aneurism. Life is short, at best, but for many of us it will fall shorter even still.
Didn't secure boot fail because someone at Microsoft leaked the encryption keys?
Yes, it is true, sometimes it is hard to find alternatives right away. It is not easy because the price of everything is so high. Our high-growth economy has given us two things: a high paycheck, but in exchange for selling our soul and becoming drones. I left full-time work a while ago, but I admit, it can be VERY scary, especially after being exposed to so much capitalistic propaganda.
> but what has been everyone's experience so far in 2023 trying to find a new job?

I’m done. Not even trying anymore. After a year of bullshit I’m convinced the only reason I ever made it into this field is because that stupid guilder age in the 2010s driven by cheap money, cargo culting, and naive idiocy. Even the non tech companies aren’t hiring much anymore.

Seriously I had an easier time finding a job when I was 18, had no formal education, and no real work experience.

I used to console myself with that fact that if I didn’t have anything else, I at least had a decent career and now I don’t even have that.

Recruiters disappeared over night. I occasionally get a few every once in a blue moon, but they always end up with nothing. I did my last interview a couple weeks ago, only for the recruiter to call me back as confused as I was whether the answer was yes or no. Cold applications are worse. I did managed a couple interviews out of those, but was rejected within a few days. Not sure why, those were some of the best interviews I’ve had recently. And the worst are the companies who send me an email months after I’ve applied just to say “we cancelled this position, lol”. I’ve also had family friends and others reach out and ask me if I’d like to consult for them, only for them to ghost me as well.

Now to be fair, some of this was my fault as well. I didn’t recognize how fucked the market was quick enough. I was desperately focusing on remote jobs, primarily because I really didn’t want to incur that costs and work that come with a move. I did a few interviews that were for in site positions, mostly for practice, and usually progressed further in those than for the remote roles, but ultimately didn’t seriously pursue them for the reason I just stated.

Meanwhile I’m in one of the worst real estate markets in the country, with my savings having been battered by all sorts of unexpected emergency expenses. I’m honestly half convinced that 2023 is trying to kill me. At the very least, I suppose I won’t have much left to lose sooner rather than later.
> If you're doing it to get a job, forget it.

This is very country-dependent. In some countries, there is a glass ceiling in commercial, government, and even politician jobs for those without PhDs. I was surprised to find folks pursuing a PhD simply as a career move, but apparently* it exists.

* The folk I met sure were convinced and were motivated enough to obtain the PhD to get access to better non-academic careers.
A more recent and substantial study disproves that idea.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243788/

Workers with heavy exposure to asbestos have a similar risk of lung cancer as persons with low or no exposure 20 years after the exposure has ended.
Just how many such business travelers between Houston and Dallas are there really? How many trips do they do per-year? You need these numbers to make the argument you're making. I suspect the number is minuscule by comparison to what it needs to be to justify this investment [expense].
Check out my recent full-GPT-4 generated HN parody as well:

https://crackernews.github.io

(featuring coherent comment threads!)

P.S. the prompts and the code I used can be found here: https://github.com/crackernews/crackernews.github.io/blob/gh...
To be fair, it was 'select all that apply'.

Personally I find it hard to believe that people use it as their default ides and write a lot of code in it.

but dunno
macOS already wake up itself lots of time but keeping the display and other services off, it’s called PowerNap. It downloads mails and updates, so the same for the malware protection would not be a bad idea.
It's ok for nerds to share their experiences with other nerds who like that sort of stuff. This is the content for them.
Making the source available wouldn't give you any guarantees about what is running at that site, so I don't see how that would help.
Please provide sources for all of your claims.
Meanwhile the development world has more or less shrugged its shoulders. The mass exodus of Github never happened, and aside from the dogmatic, VS Code seems to have a firm grasp on mindshare.
> When a child comes home excited with a great mark, say, “you deserve it! You worked really hard for that mark.

Ok, putting aside it's important to be emotionally warm towards your children and ensure they understand you love them "unconditionally"[1], I do think it's also important to help them to learn retrospect and to work smarter.

"What a great mark you've earned! What do you think was working about your approach?" (then praise and encourage them for whatever they say so long as it's remotely reasonable). I just say this because I feel like the "work hard" mentality actually hasnt served me in life. Once you work for a business no one cares how "hard" you work, if it's not smart first. Smart is the more powerful variable, you can work Smart and not hard and be quite successful. But work hard on stupid things? No one cares and you'll be overlooked and even hated on at times.

[1] - I'm not a parent, but honestly everyone has a limit, and frankly love should not be truly impossible to lose. My love will stop if they butcher my wife, burn down my house, and call me fat.
(From hasura)

Came across this blogpost that happens to describe where something like hasura sits and how it decouples product dev (app + bff) from data api (microservice + db) dev.

Think of Hasura as a GraphQL BFD (backend for data) instead of a GraphQL BFF.
Yes, you are very right and point out some valid criticisms. Because the typical 9-5 style has been so effective (it out-competes other life-styles because it is the most useful for our capitalistic, consumerist society), our entire infrastructure is designed around it, which further eliminates alternative options or at least makes them more scary.
This one works well on macOS 13
https://github.com/robertventurini/FlyingToasters
no, foss means free and open source. you're still able to use a license that dictates how it can be used
This is trivial for Microsoft to bypass. They've already been consolidating and moving server addresses. Unless you block all internet traffic, you have no idea what's getting through. They can update the opaque code at any time. This is not a solution.
When will we see some usable containers for Windows from Microsoft? You can't use Nano or Core for building C++ code with Visual Studio / MSBuild, so you're bringing down the whole Windows container (3.4Gb compressed) which is effectively as heavy as a full VM.
There are some good ideas here, but it's a false dichotomy. The key takeaway should be, don't tell children they're fundamentally bad at something. This is different than not praising ability.

Effort is important, but it can be wasted. Low effort high results is more important than raw effort. Effort and ability are equally important.

Now, think about ability itself. This is the recognition of an individual to be able to perform results. However, it confuses the results with the child. Results are what is important, and without them there is no ability. It's wasted ability. So instead of praising ability directly, I'd suggest praising results. Effort + results.

Telling a child they are bad at something is also important. They may need to be told this so they can improve, but this is the crucial bit. They need to have a path open to improve. People change. If you say they cannot enough, and they believe it, they truly cannot.
> You just lie down and listen to an audio track.

> you stay awake

Yeah... If I lie down, I will not be staying awake.
I don't understand how the author can praise NHS for providing this expensive surgery free of charge, whilst simultaneously noting the hundreds/thousands of patients who die while on the surgery waiting list.

Not to be morbid, but every time a patient dies before this surgery, the NHS saves £50-100,000. So is it really a successful system if the only way to make the budget work is letting folks die? Why on earth would the author not be gleefully prepared to pump a little bit, or a lot, of his private funds into this system in order to improve on his chances of survival?
While VSCode itself is open source, some of its most useful add popular Microsoft-owned extensions does not seem to be open. And I hate how reliant I am on those. The list includes remote ssh, Python etc. Without these extensions VSCode loses a lot of edge over other editors like sublime or notepad++.
There is no technical limitation, the kernel is free to schedule whatever it wants. The appearance that everything never stopped running is an illusion the kernel does active work to implement - heck, in the case of hibernation it is even after a normal cold boot like any other.

Resuming to only run specific processes - or resuming to run an entirely different, temporary userspace - is trivial from a kernel perspective.
As having written a lot of Haskell, I can tell you that people do create bugs there as well, (IMO) to a similar degree as in other languages. The choice of languages seems to come down to personal preference, as does the propensity to create bugs (come down to the specific developer). ;)
I remember this, such a dumb screen saver but really fun to watch. It was all the rage at work in the old days.
It's less cumbersome for them to write their content, yes. There's initial upfront effort, but their subjective experience of actually using the system to do what they want to do is better.

It's the same reason why people invest dozens or hundreds of hours in configuring their editor - yes, the defaults work fine, but you can make them work better for you. And yes, you're probably not going to make that time back... but if the actual experience of using it is better, it's still a net win for the author.
For me it is. Of course I would have preferred to "just write Plim" and have the browser understand it.

How cool it would have been if the browser would understand different markup flavors (symbol-heavy, white space based etc.) and have integrated templating...

But it's ok, after the Makefile is stuffed with the pinned dependencies, I can forget about that and just write.
> $10k-quadrillion

love those units...no idea what they are but love them
Jack Black's Mom Helped Create the Abort System That Rescued AP 13 Astronauts (2021)
Did your body say it was tired or thirsty when you were young?
It's an odd instance: the step schedule is fixed, and just takes big steps in the middle. Since it's fixed and can't adapt, it's essentially blind but still manages to work better than small steps:

> Grimmer found that the fastest sequences always had one thing in common: The middle step was always a big one. Its size depended on the number of steps in the repeating sequence. For a three-step sequence, the big step had length 4.9. For a 15-step sequence, the algorithm recommended one step of length 29.7. And for a 127-step sequence, the longest one tested, the big central leap was a whopping 370. At first that sounds like an absurdly large number, Grimmer said, but there were enough total steps to make up for that giant leap, so even if you blew past the bottom, you could still make it back quickly. His paper showed that this sequence can arrive at the optimal point nearly three times faster than it would by taking constant baby steps. “Sometimes, you should really overcommit,” he said.

Not really sure what is going on with the fractal structure, however:

> The results also raise an additional theoretical mystery that has kept Grimmer up at night. Why did the ideal patterns of step sizes all have such a symmetric shape? Not only is the biggest step always smack in the center, but the same pattern appears on either side of it: Keep zooming in and subdividing the sequence, he said, and you get an “almost fractal pattern” of bigger steps surrounded by smaller steps. The repetition suggests an underlying structure governing the best solutions that no one has yet managed to explain. But Grimmer, at least, is hopeful.

(It's explore-exploit all the way down...?)
Yes. We will find/build a way for customers to verify their account in these cases before pausing compute.
I concede that -- and there are some jobs specifically for PhDs. However, I was actually more saying that the reason why I DON'T recommend it for most people is that a PhD could be very frustrating if the only reason why you're getting it is to get a job. OF COURSE, if the job you get is one you truly like afterwards, then it's not so bad. But then, in the case that you mention, there should be a clear path towards that, and not some vague notions that it MIGHT get you a job.
I think that’s mostly my point. GP release source code, presumably under a license that permitted this use. It’s okay to not be happy that it was used this way… but that’s life
Thanks for the explanation... so yea... it sounds like everyone dips their fingers into the pie and by the time you take ownership, you've paid almost as much as a regular house purchase. I mean "paid" not just in the financial sense, but also in time/energy/sanity.
`fetchTarball` with a github archive link is much faster than `fetchGit` for bootstrapping nixpkgs.
But, how do you limit your naps to 20 minutes? What if it takes 19 minutes to fall asleep and then your alarm goes off after 1 minute of sleep?
Would you mind recommending a few companies from your experience? May look into that path myself.
They probably write a lot more html than setup code. And reducing friction while authoring is a big deal for many people - often the difference between things being written at all vs not.
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There's a class of conspiracy theorist who ties everything into a grand unified theory, usually anti-Semitic. Some are anti Jesuit. They're not picky about conspiracy theories, they like them all. So the moon landing was faked, argument over the origin of Covid was suppressed, mkultra happened, because ... The Jews, somehow, for some reason. This is usually who is meant when "conspiracy theorist" is used.

A recent example is Epstein. Epstein ingratiated himself to powerful people to preserve his human trafficking operation. Some of those powerful people partook in his sex trade. He may have had connections to intelligence agencies. This was all varying degrees of a conspiracy theory ~five years ago and some people got this right.

But you have to be careful because there's a lot of conspiracy theorists who believe that Epstein's operation was harvesting adrenochrome from children for the benefit of those powerful people. Either as an anti-aging drug or as a satanic ritual, which explains how the powerful people became powerful. Epstein and his associates were/are evil perverts, they're not satanically powered.

The people who manage to avoid the adrenochrome level of theorizing are interesting and may be worth listening to on certain subjects. It's unfortunate that there's not more people in that category. They mostly dodge the label "conspiracy theorist", depending on what they talk about.
For a more present-oriented, yet archaic in its delivery, news coverage I recommend the Medieval Content Farm: https://tidings.potato.horse
qoppa PDF studio. we're happy paying customers 7 years. biggest obstacle to using it widely is that people are used to Adobe Suite.
Fire them. They are wasting your time. Their yo-yo output will be something that is noticed by the rest of the team which is demotivating for them. You gave them a chance.
If it’s offline, bundle it with Electron, release the source code and make the build process public!
Hah, I went this route a few jobs ago. The TA loved the place, but unfortunately their engineering culture turned out to be complete trash.
5 Misconceptions about Communal Living
Most single child-free people perhaps. "Move somewhere cheaper" is about as helpful as "stop buying Starbucks" for an out of work breadwinner. Moving my kids away from their friends and school is an absolute last resort.
I think Sublime Text does a good job of being both good and cross platform.

But yes I also remember the days when lots of software just didn’t exist for macOS and I was thankful for a webtech version.
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Don't know, I have a Surface Laptop 4 with a cracked screen and it's cheaper to buy the whole laptop on eBay than it is to buy the replacement screen from Microsoft Store.
Teaching growth mindset is probably not an effective intervention [1]. Another casualty of the replication crisis.

[1] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-14088-001
This one is actually quite hopeful! https://www.notyet.news/news/2023-08-13/1
idk, I've been dual booting for awhile with secure boot and haven't had any issues. It was definitely less stable like 10 years ago sure, but nowadays I think a lot of the wrinkles have been ironed out.
I know people who have joined AWS because their OSS contributions opened doors for them.

It is a great suggestion imho.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37111497
What feedback or retrospect have you gathered about why you're not making the final rounds?
Not as weird as this meme. You assume it’s some signal expression rather than that I would just pay Google money every month to provide search results that don’t prioritize advertisements over more accurate results that don’t calculate a margin.
If you can sleep in one of those you were probably too sleepy to safely drive home. Possible lifesaver.
you think it could be wrong?
I don’t think the high P/E is from a longer time horizon but from expectation of a steeper curve.