skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you have to patch things at the level of ELF, your basic architecture needs work.

May I ask why? It might sound uncommon, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. Nix only patches pre-built binaries targeting other distros. It patches the expected path of shared libraries so that the patched binaries can use versions of libraries that work best.

This is not even a Nix thing. It's standard practice when packaging pre-built binaries. You can see this for yourself in Debian code search:

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=patchelf&literal=1

All Nix does is automate the process that other distros end up doing anyways.

> The project management of Nix feels like a disaster

That's not a fair take when the reason for that is a single issue you care about not being fixed fast enough. Nix has merged 41 PRs in the past month alone, so it's not like there hasn't been any progress. The devs are doing the best they can with the resources available.

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulse/monthly
Could you explain the metaphor? Are you asking me if I'm a sport fisherman who wants the largest fish, or a commercial fisherman who wants a large haul?

It probably doesn't help that, I don't fish. What I know comes originally from Alan Dean Foster's serialization of "The Last Starfighter", at https://archive.org/details/laststarfighter0000fost_f6k9/pag... :

> There weren’t many fish to be had in the small desert lake nearby. That didn’t worry Mr Boone. As any true fisherman knows, catching fish has nothing to do with fishing. The catching is an adjunct, a corollary to the actual art of fishing, which consists of killing time on a small boat as simply as possible, utilizing only the minimal amount of energy necessary to maintain life while simultaneously consuming as much cold beer and snacks as the body will tolerate.
How many newspapers engage in raids upon police chiefs? Clearly it's the police who is doing the raiding.
> Im a bit anxious and introverted and thus like to get my part done and focus on other things.

> This always results in rest of the team losing will to go far and beyond.

The logic chain here is not very clear, I'm wondering if you actually understand what's going on.
I'm white, and I'm curious -- do you think this isn't a problem?
Yeah, I can't understand how people can think that those in power and riches have power and riches!
> can we get past this already?

I'd love to. Do you have any thoughts about the article past the second paragraph? As a person of color, do Seeta Peña Gangadharan's findings resonate with you?
The carrot misdirection had sincerity behind it. That doesn't apply to the other examples, so I don't think it's a good term to use.
Ken, you have this statement in a footnote:

> I haven't been able to find any instruction set before the Datapoint 2200 that required memory addresses to be loaded into a register.

For a direction to look, look at the CDC mainframes (the Cybers, the 6600 and 7600 models, and possibly earlier models). A too great many years ago now while in college for my EE degree the college had a pair of CDC's (I think a 6600 and 7600, I only ever had access to the older one for a mandatory "assembly programming" class) and one of the 'quirks' of the CDC CPU design was that the CPU had (if memory serves) eight data registers and eight address registers, and to perform a memory read, one loaded an address into one of the first six address registers, which would cause a memory read from that address, storing the result in the corresponding data register (so A0 caused a read into D0, etc.).

For a memory write, one loaded an address into either A6 or A7, which caused the CPU to perform a memory write using data from the corresponding data register (A7 caused D7 to be written to memory).

The "production dates" for these CDC systems is relatively contemporary (for a reasonable fudge factor around "contemporary") with the Datapoint terminal, so these might be an example of another architecture from a similar time range (or quite possibly before) that loaded an address into a register in order to access memory.
A quick look back at the first IBM PC that launched 42 years ago today
I eagerly await the post about how the writer on Substack has been raided...
So if you're dealing internationally, and names actually matter. You may need to think a bit harder about names.

Although the proposal still doesn't solve all edge cases. And the current edge cases have presumably found a solution, like my girlfriend that has 2 last names, and is from a 'western' country.

My parents address is stupidly long and doesn't fit in to most address boxes, so you also need to allow arbitrarily long addresses.

Oh, and your email validator is wrong too.
All true, but another trick is to do extensive web searches to see what kind of problems people have had with the new approach.
Interesting. Why so many roles initially, and how did you safely consolidate to 5?
convincing other people that you are right is fundamentally politics. Not science.

good science has objective criteria and does not require political justification.
The revisionism seems to be in the other direction. Perhaps this wasn't the case in some of the US (and I commend those states for that), but in the UK there definitely was a good year of on-and-off restrictions involving significant periods where it was outright illegal to meet up with your friends indoors, and businesses had capacity limitations extending well into 2021, even if they may not have been legal requirements at later stages. And even when the restrictions were lifted in 2021, there was much screaming and crying, predictions of medical apocalypses, and accusations of granny killing. If we'd carried on "following the science" (for what it came to mean) we'd barely be out of lockdown now. And when I say "The UK" I'm really talking about England - Wales and Scotland had even harsher lockdowns
Larry Summers was forced out of Harvard in part for mentioning the greater male variability hypothesis. James Damore was forced out of Google for similar reasons.

This despite fairly strong evidence for that hypothesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis#Modern_...

Both made the mistake of citing research that contradicts diversity initiatives.
Sorry, do I know you? Did I mention Trump in the discussion? Can you be any more rude?

The point here is that the part of appearing in the media to "provoke an emotional response" they accuse SBF of, is part and parcel with what the media do already to in any major case, and what the defending AND the prosecuting teams do in the "court of public opinion". Regardless of Trump or whoever you might have in mind, which the world doesn't resolve around.
not a single person here agrees with you. The title didnt say who performed the raiding. A police chief could be raided by the FBI.
There was a guy that started a mobile sex-box-truck in the Bay Area a few years ago - you could pay to have it pick you up and drive around while you have sex in the back while he drove around...

Now, with robotaxis you dont need to worry about the driver - but how many cams are in the cab of the robotaxi

"welcome to Johnny Cab"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
Also see - what happens when you leave a jock in charge of Microsoft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc (Ballmer: Developers, Developers, Developers! Extra Super Sweaty Edition)
Because I'm evil ( •̀ᴗ•́ )و

Just kidding - I understand the recent hate directed at Red Hat and IBM, but there are always two sides to every story: https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-sof...

Fedora is an excellent distribution, my second favourite F-word, and a sage choice for providing a polished long-term experience on Apple Silicon.
At a past company, we went from 3 promotion levels to 10. There is a document that outlines what engineers at each level should be working on, much like https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

The goal of the company was to provide standard ways to calibrate engineer levels for promotions and performance management.

Guess what happened: Most managers started rating engineers on exactly that rubric. If you miss something in the rubric, you get a lower rating. So engineers started following the rubric precisely. Which meant, every senior engineer spent more time on managing 2-3 junior engineers. Wrote at least 1 RFC every 6 months. And basically checked boxes on the sheet so as to not miss out anything during a performance review.

Nothing got delivered from the team. Morale in the team dropped. And nothing really mattered except the career ladder document.

Engineers spent more time managing the career ladder document than actually delivering anything.

Managers spent more time rating people than actually delivering anything.

Features were half-assed, customers started getting frustrated. And clueless upper management started putting more pressure on engineers instead of looking at themselves and asking how they can improve processes.
I agree here. The opening statement of the article is simplistic and inaccurate. Sure, most big corp jobs might be rather dull, but you can lit that spark in the right circumstances.
>edit: that you need to get a throwaway to argue you point tells me you know this shit is indefensible

Wrong, I just don’t wanna argue the morality of lolicon images using my real name.
If they're wrong, they've lost whatever credibility remains. That's the problem with these huge bet propaganda pieces. If you fail in your prognostications, the reader will disregard what you have to say in the future.

CIA would be wise to learn this once and for all, most of their popular public-interfacing pundits and talking heads have zero credibility left.
From TFA

"But the main reason is that there have been many issues surrounding the maintenance of ARM packages for Arch Linux, and that the Fedora team is both capable and willing to provide provide the support needed to provide a truly polished Linux experience on modern Macs (the main goal of the Asahi Linux project). By moving to Fedora, the Asahi team can focus on reverse engineering Apple hardware while the Fedora team can focus on maintaining the distribution itself on the Apple Silicon platform. This combination of Fedora with the Asahi boot components and drivers for Apple Silicon is called Fedora Asahi Remix."

This is a bidirectional relationship, the Asahi linux developers also benefit from the people and infrastructure in Fedora.
It doesn’t say the paper was the entity engaged in the raid. If I didn’t know the broader context, I would assume that sentence meant “A newspaper was investigating a police chief at the time the police chief’s home was raided by another law enforcement agency”. That seems way more likely than a newspaper being referred to as “him”.
The suicide rate is not that high. Fewer than 50k last year in the US, an all-time high, from a population of 330M.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/cdc-data-finds-...
I just read a bunch of stuff about her from her son. About how he took care of her in her advanced years and her alzheimer's disease. Sad but also peculiar about her DoD work and how she "never talked about it". I wonder what it was? trying to get an alien craft working again? developing anti-gravity weapon? a ship? a hoverboard? please say it was a hoverboard.

Her claim that "You can take a bowling ball and place it and it will stay." is fascinating. I would love to see footage/video of this. Small electro marbles and globes are one thing, a bowling ball or other large non-magnetic object!? man oh man!
"Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine" by Bromley&Lamson was also written using Concordia AFAIK. The Symbolics documentation also has Jensen&Wirth "Pascal User Manual and Report" and Harbison & Steele, C: A Reference Manual.
since when is having a surplus of basic needs a bad thing?

When there was economy destroying debt used to create it and people aren't buying.

The problem is debt and you are only looking at the comment you replied to, not what the thread is talking about.
Lessons learned from that post:

(1) "I was told to hire a lot of people. Put fuel on the fire they said. Bring industry experts who can move the needle. All this BS you hear all day. All failed. I hired VPs and bloated my payroll. Ultimately I ended up with a bunch of highly paid employees who don’t know how to do anything but to “build and lead amazing teams.” Imagine you hire someone to scale an area and their solution is to divide that area into 5 sub areas and hire someone for each of them to figure it out, etc. that’s their solution."

(2) "I ended up focusing my efforts on hiring and ramping up those VPs and dealing with their dumb ideas instead of focusing on my 3 core tenants: build, sell, and deliver."
You're just arguing semantics. And the example given can go the other way: if your Ford motor plant closes and the only places hiring are software shops, you'd also be "fucked".
Have you ever built something at $DAYJOB where you thought, "how is there not a service that provides this?" or "why do I need to build this in-house?" or "this vendor's sales process sucks -- this could be self-serve."

Marinate on those projects a bit.
I’d also argue the implication of the title is also misleading.

“Look Gates and Jobs ban their kids from what they made!”

Yeah and if someone brews beer but doesn’t let their kids drink it, I guess that also makes them a hypocrite?
> how the fuck isn't this comment deleted yet? dang?

There's no CSAM in the /comment/, just a lament that masotodon.social and pawoo don't federate with each other. Want to take action against a service you find (extremely) distasteful? Great, take action -- dig through their DNS, figure out where their servers are hosted, talk to the FBI. But invoking /dang/ to do something about it (to...protect the emotionally fragile HN community from being exposed to the existing of something vile?) just isn't that action.

I for damn sure won't defend the folks running pawoo, but we ought to defend to the death omoikane's right to talk about it. Free speech runs both ways, and sometimes that sucks.
>"Hopefully he is t killing them now.”

I like the active example of your point ...
Ask HN: Describe some work scenarios for which one PC on the table is not enough
It’s a very common mistake in funded startups.

You think you need to bring the tenured exec in with all of the industry contacts, but they are often a terrible cultural fit or experienced in the last iteration of your industry. They also want to hire under them rather than work the tools themselves and do this bait and switch after you’ve hired them.

You are then stuck with high salaries for ineffective people or an expensive and disruptive exit.

VCs also seem to push these people onto you as they think that is what constitutes a real company and/or they want a nice gig for their friends.
The title doesn’t say the newspaper engaged in the raid. There are other agencies that could raid a police chief’s home. It would be reasonable to assume some agency like the FBI conducted the raid based on the same information that prompted the investigation. That’s not actually the case here, but I think that is a way more plausible reading of the sentence.
It's the Internet's big class distinction: the "creators" (0.1% with decent audience, 1% with any audience, 10% commenters) and pure lurkers/consumers (the rest).
RIP stability for Asahi
It's difficult to defend a stance like one you're adopting, because of how quick to judge the general public is. They'd never know that someone like Ted Kaczynski actually held a PhD and wrote an interesting essay before committing to his campaign of terror. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski)

It's rather strange that people will choose to wholly dismiss a person based on one thing, without realizing that even "evil" people have more facets than a simple bevel.

Ted killed himself in prison a few months ago. What benefit could society have gained if someone had heard him out and took some measures to help the environment? Most people won't ask that question, because they have the intellectual and philosophical depth of a puddle.

One of the most illuminating things in my life has been discovering what the "bad" and "evil" side of humanity actually thought, instead of the version that the authorities or victors give us.

There's also this modern tendency to assume that whatever you read, you become. So superstitious.
We are heavy postgres users, and we do both SOC2 and a more stringent audit demanded by our corporate parent. Lots of roles, lots of RLS, encrypted media, additional column-level encryption for some specific things for not great reasons).

The postgres roles in particular were a recurring mess until we built provisioning that stuff in to our onboarding automation. If you are going to have individual named users, I highly recommend taking humans out of the process, we make too many mistakes.

And yes, there are multiple advantages to enforcing access control as close to the data as possible. I tend to think of databases as "data structures that can defend themselves" - not just security, but type and data validation, relational references, etc. all can both save you from bugs and help you find them earlier.
Here here’s This is a key point.

Even without all this, the world’s existing systems of Government have a challenge ahead of them with emerging digital intelligence.

We rarely can predict or even conceive of the next era when the previous era is in retrograde before big changes, though people like to pretend it’s all very linear and predictable in history books.
I think this just incentivises cartels or elaborate corporate structures.
Hey Bryan! Liked what you have done.

Big +1 for #1. A brilliant IC that has an impressive contribution history tells only a small fraction of the story. Skeletons may lay behind that green square matrix!

Also big +1 for #4. It may slow growth for some start-ups, but I think it's always better in the long term if hiring is deep, versus shallow.

As for compensation, those certainly are controversial. I believe in honesty, but your extent of it is quite...towards one end of the spectrum? Certainly interesting.
1) How can you be in an "executive job at a FAANG" and not know this is how the VC model works?

2) > I hope this part is clear because it’s the crux of the misalignment between founders and VCs.

This is the crux of the misalignment between small business owners and VCs. The large majority of the startup founders I've met all have dreams of building a rocket ship, not of building a happy small business. If you're in the latter camp, as I have been several times, you usually know better than to take VC money.
Deno package management is saner but more limited
Please make your substantive points within the site guidelines and especially please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
By employing high-pressure sales tactics to trigger fomo in candidates, except it never worked. He climbed the ladder at a well known tech company, almost to the very top, and tried to use those same "skills" in a startup context.
There are very good reasons to go native for a mobile app. React-native can be a huge time sink depending on what you want to do with the app.
Why is he so sweaty?
Almost certainly that was $100M valuation.
The trick with these kinds of questions is to take a page from a politician's book and not answer it directly if you feel like you'd have to say "no".

"I built X system in [somewhat adjacent domain]", "[hyper specific domain] is a subset of my work in [more general domain]" etc.
Yes, incremental novelty of the sort where you go somewhat further down an apriori promising path and show some somewhat stronger results than the previous paper.

But I don't think any community ever has truly rewarded dissent. It's just that sometimes a truly valuable idea will push through in spite of the resistance to it. Case in point - around 2014 I knew CS/AI/ML profs who were very dismissive regarding deep learning and thought it to be a dead end and basically missed the boat and took them very long to get up to speed again. A few years before that, and it was difficult to get papers published that used neural nets. Everyone knew that the modern way was the theoretically well-founded kernel methods and similar techniques.

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There's no overarching one thing called science. There have been over the last 150 years a few towering results that propelled our understanding of the universe and our technological capabilities forward immensely, on whose wind we are coasting today -- but many of them came before the current professionalized, job-ified massive system we know as "academia" today. Without peer review, in informal letters between gentlemen scientists persistently pursuing topics for their leisure, often with extreme concepts of "work-life-balance". We have no idea what exactly brought about those successes, and so we are building a cargo cult, somehow imitating it, LARPing it. Thousands of papers, salami-slice publishing, citation metric-chasing, quantification and metrification, incentives to hop from place to place, endless grant writing and documentation/administration. This is a very specific system that was mostly created and solidified over the last 50 years. It should not be equated with science itself, which was already a very productive endeavor hundreds of years ago, while being intimately intertwined with mysicism, alchemy, esoteria and theology. This particular utilitarian paper factory of today isn't equal to "science", even if it has taken over the buildings.
They were so clueless that they didn't even know that doing this is a bad idea.
I could be wrong, but per my assessment many Boston-area grads are spending way more than necessary living in "cool" flats. I don't understand why, though? Lofts, hostels or something less expensive (maybe live in Dorchester instead of Cambridge/Somerville?) would make more sense.
A fine road was extended, and it became a one way street.

As always the people pay the price for the governments inabilities.

Hence why, in general principle, governments should always be accountable to the people.
This title is confusing
It’s not worth taking VC if you aren’t going to put it to work.

And if you put it to work to any degree, you start growing and accruing costs.

You are then in a race against time for the next raise and you are off to the races.
This is your second off-topic comment to me, that focuses on Trump, in this thread.

I take it you have taken to some kind of crusade in the comment section, because I wrote something in some other thread and post, potentially months or weeks ago, in support of Trump? God forbid anybody ever does that. Then they are bad people, with bad ideas, and the good people must go from thread to thread to tell them so.

Not that it would be diffucult to just answer: "More like the wining and dining with business owners and oligarchs from several countries, to use your father's influence, with his full support and abuse of his position, to get bribes and do them favors, and then using the same power to thwart the story in the mainstream media for years". Seems like the world is more complex than bad guy vs good guy, "my side, right or wrong", but who cares when there's partisan fun to be had...
Shouldn’t this distro require little management?
> IMHO, the key thing that we need to do is to teach our kids how to create "things" instead of just "consuming". This is important no matter which era you are in

You say it as if kids prefer reading books over building with LEGOs :)
I agree, "his" is ambiguous at best and seems to refer to the police chief (a person) rather than the paper (an organization).

A simple change would make it clear:

Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on owner's office and home
Why would someone doing executive work at a massive and well-established corporation be expected to know how VC works?