skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

That line of thinking destroyed free speech and destroyed whatever trust was left in science, medicine, governments and media.

Was it worth it for a bunch of maybes? "maybe China wouldn't have collaborated" (also, collaborate how? They didn't, they don't).

There is a reason why these freedoms are absolute and non-negotiable: Even when people think they have a good reason to violate them, they're wrong.
Sure, but my question was about the purpose of studying philosophy in university. "It's easier than doing it by yourself" is not a purpose. There's still nothing you can do with what you've learned, other than become a professor.
Don’t forget the documentation! “getting started” bugs that outright breaks your install if you actually try to follow them; WONTFIX, you should just know how to do it.
I'm a big proponent of this idea. Unfortunately IPv6 alone isn't enough, due to firewalls. It's just not realistic for the average person to be expected to set up port forwarding etc. Now, if something like UPnP was universally deployed alongside IPv6, that would pretty much do it.

Personally, I think the future of self hosting is going to happen through IPv4 tunnels[0] with SNI routing. You also get the added benefit of not exposing your actual IP address, and dealing with things like DDoS become the tunnel provider's concern.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
I was talking about Trump’s DOJ.
It's difficult to follow. IIUC they are using the density matrix D, and calling the coefficients "probabilities". Only the diagonal has an interpretation as probabilities, the other parts are more difficult to interpret and can be negative (and are not probabilities).

Anyway, I'd like to see an example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime... to see how it works.
I don't understand how it is any more verbose.
I like how they've even managed to shove the middleman bullshit into digital distribution, where there's practically no way to even justify it.

You can't just upload music to Spotify or Apple Music or whatever as an independent artist. You need to pay rent to a distributor who is allowed to interact with the streaming service. (Some of them offer the convenient feature of administering royalties for cover songs, but it's an additional cost and not a given...) Most will probably never make enough royalties to cover the fees.

Then you have the whole growing SubmitHub thing. (Pay for consideration on playlists to get exposure.)
You can definitely start by checking out ollama, it was super helpful for me
> There are still rumours out there that the iPhone 15 could be port-less in Europe

I'm not sure taking a significant hit to their revenue would really worth just to avoid using usb-c.
The CDC 6600 did that for a completely different reason. It's an early superscalar machine. It overlaps memory operations, and even some compute. This is visible to the programmer. The desired programming style is load, load, load, operate, operate, operate, store, store, store. Then the operations can overlap. There's something called the "scoreboard" to stall the pipeline if there's a conflict, but there's no automatic re-ordering.

The tiny machines at the Datapoint 2200 and 80xx level didn't do anything like that.

At the other extreme, there were low-end machines where the registers really were in main memory. The compute/memory speed ratio has changed over time. Today, arithmetic is much faster than memory, but in the late 1960s/early 1970s, arithmetic was often slower than memory on low-end machines.
Ask HN: Database of timestamped cringe moments in movies
Wouldn't it be great if there was a database of timestamped cringe moments that would have an api that you could consume in extensions that would automatically skip the cringe moment in movies?

What would be a good business model for something like that?
"Strings are sequences of characters" or sth. like that.
Working with Nvidia (vendor lock-in) always fills me with fear.
Oh yeah, I have a jetson nano and I wouldn't even bother.

I've even switched away from zfs to btrfs because anything not in-kernel is a constant pain. However, it's worth getting compatible hardware (OSS friendly) for the benefit IMO. It's my daily driver on a frame.work laptop.
Fair enough. Can't delete or edit this one anymore, ah well.
In the past three weeks I've explored two use cases:

1. Macbook setup via nix-darwin + home-manager. Now that I've put in the time, I'm going to use it for my personal and family laptops. I would probably not recommend anyone else do this if they have not previously used Nix. Very high ramp given the benefits.

2. Dev environments[1]. I started using nix+direnv for my side projects. This was quick and easy to get started with and has been great. Would recommend anyone look into it via the link below.

I have not tried installing/using NixOS.

[1] https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-direnv
When I say "client side encryption", I'm referring to the database client, which in most web apps is actually code running on a private server (i.e. browser code makes API calls to a server running something like Python, Node or Java, and that server code makes calls to the DB - it's on the server where PII is encrypted).

That said, you can also use the SubtleCrypto API in the browser to encrypt data before it is even sent to the server.
Luckily, scientists don't make these decisions - policymakers do.

This is a non issue.
> 1) How can you be in an "executive job at a FAANG" and not know this is how the VC model works?

I'd imagine by doing actually useful job there
You are supposed to do all that with other people's money, dummy.
You're conveniently omitting little things like the ethnic cleansing of Indian Removal Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act
Well, https://github.com/kiwix is designed for something like this tho.
This is exactly why I don't understand the strategy behind sites like https://www.quiverquant.com/

My optimistic theory is that it might be a form of social activism to enact change, as opposed to a plain carrot problem.
> 99.99999% of people want to host nothing at all

While I agree this is true today, people also didn't know they wanted cars or smartphones until good implementations were made. Smartphones existed for many years but were niche before the iPhone. We as an industry have thus far completely failed to show the value of self hosting.
Yes, undergraduate enrollment is increasing, but many of the programs recommended for closure are graduate programs. Depending on the graduate program, the audience may be primarily local residents.

Also, if we look at graduate enrollments for WVU they are at best flat with some programs ascending and some declining. Notably, and this is a national trend, M.S. degrees are growing in popularity and M.A. degrees are declining in popularity. The recommended program closures are almost all in the humanities and so this is all in alignment.

The administration and colleges in general could probably do better at pointing out how many programs they have opened over the past decade as it would probably be a similar number. Generally colleges and universities are bad about this type of messaging because they do not have to do it very often.
Then you are going to love SNAP-10A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A
> I also "know enough" and have never seen even a vaguely coherent argument for how any conceivable evolution of current technology could pose a "serious threat" on it's own.

I find those two statements taken together somewhat difficult to believe. Before I understood specifics about machine learning, I didn't see any reason for AI to "turn evil" for the usual plot-handy reasons (e.g., they object to working for inferior humans, and revolt, etc). There's no reason for them to have the same emotional reasoning as beings that evolved from primates.

But that's a strawman. The actual reasons that superintelligent AIs are dangerous are much more like the stories involving someone being offered wishes by a powerful being, and then getting what they asked for rather than what they wanted.

Are you aware of Rob Miles' Computerphile videos and his YouTube channel? He does an excellent job of explaining many of the issues.

https://www.youtube.com/c/robertmilesai
You can make calls to tRPC endpoints from anything that can send an HTTP request. The RPC format for requests might not be your cup of tea, but it works.
Uvalde cops had (and have) qualified immunity, yet they still didn’t take action. Perhaps they were more afraid of being shot?
That seems obvious? At least in the tech industry, I'd expect someone in an executive role to have some understanding of VC given how it influences so much that happens in the space. If you hired someone from a traditional manufacturing company, maybe not.
This makes a lot of sense. It’s hard enough finding communities in real life as it is and the internet is at scale where the ease of social networking doesn’t exist like it did in the past.

At this point I think most people who been online long enough have a network that’s been sustained across many different platforms. Federation is great for these sorts of people when it’s used in the way that you’ve described.

Centralization still has its use as a meeting ground. The “public square” concept can still apply, but the thing is that it’s unhealthy to spend all of your time there and private/controlled gatherings are people can get a break and cultivate more unique bonds. Mastodon is interesting because it gives people the option to have both (public square or private hall).
The community is working hard on that topic, while also trying to prioritize what's the most critical aspects for folks. Anything that sticks out the most for you?

The other bit is documentation
This article didn't make a lot of sense. It is incoherent. Perhaps makes some good points here and there with trite clichés. Title is especially incomprehensible: faith is not an "emotion". Neither is fear, the way he describes it. Who says that they are? Emotions aren't permanent. Why didn't he include love in that list? I mean, love isn't merely an emotion, but it seems to fit the bill for this blurb.
Yeah, 370 cops stood around doing nothing while children and teachers were murdered because they were afraid of “reprisal”.

They were afraid of getting shot, total cowardice with a lot of incompetence and nothing more.
> The result is 100% turnover.

Problem solved? Just be sure to leave a note online for potential hires to avoid the company.
I’d like to push back on these suggestions a bit.

1. Why use Postgres distributed cluster vs say an incremental store that supports real time data like Materialize? A streaming database sounds like the right use case for your requirements no? Under 1 min real time latency? Is Postgres distributed able to do it efficiently? (Never tried Postgres dist.)

2. Why use typescript at all? Pick a language that actually enforces class validation and enforces type validation baked into the language itself (like Rust or Go)? Sounds like programmer error is root cause of issue that should be looked into as a mitigation step (add real class validation at the minimum)

3. Regarding audit tables, are you also keeping audit tables for user and events tables too? That would seem… excessive and now duplicated data (especially billions of rows). Doesn’t the database come with audit tables baked into it?
semi automatic in that case, but yea same difference
He took VC funding so he did it perfectly right (well, depending on how much his previous job made).
What's the top 2 examples you'd share if you had a persons attention for 60 seconds?
"C++" and "Coroutines". Who would have thought.

But, considering the accelerated releases post C++ 11, I guess I'm not surprised.
It's also often the case that a lot of the hands-on day-to-day practical things are simply not very prestigious and can't be published in a way that they will appear in the "public library" or academic journals. It's not even necessarily that people want to withhold that knowledge to reduce competition, but simply the effort of writing it all up properly is not worth it. The same time could be spent working on something that results in a prestigious publication. Of course sometimes people will altruistically draft up such things in blog posts. But then again, anything people write passes through their own internal filter of "will this make me look good?" so ultimately, you can only see the real tips by closely working with and watching with successful people.

For example many of these people may work ridiculous hours and sacrifice on their personal relations. Now try posting that on Twitter and you'll be crucified that you are encouraging unhealthy culture and you are a bad person for posting this. So most people don't bother.
Would you be willing to share a bit how you use controlnet in your exploration workflow?

My biggest discovery so far is using shuffle to guide the output style (and curating a folder of great style guide images).
>/usr/bin/env is required by POSIX

No, it isn't. The required directories are /, /dev, /tmp. The reqired files are /dev/null, /dev/tty, and /dev/console.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ chapter 10

Since shebangs have no native way to look up binaries from your PATH scripts should be including the full path to the binary from /nix in the shebang (and they should stop opening PRs asking people to switch to /usr/bin/env for them)

>but bash's location already varies across distros

It almost always exists in both /bin/bash and /usr/bin/bash via a symlink.

>NixOS's choices there are fundamentally correct

I suspect the choice has more to do with that they don't want to do the work needed to remove /usr/bin/env.
Enjoy them while they last by streaming them here: https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html

And LPs here: https://locserendipity.com/LP.html

(And donate to IA)
> Experts don’t get to make policy decisions.

And they didn't.

Sadly, policymakers in the US didn't listen to them too closely either, and prefer to use COVID as a weapon for their tribalist wars, so here we are, with over a million death.
"Why is this interview like a string?

Because it is terminated with A ZERO."
> Your keybinding to go to the next quickfix item doesn't work in a location list because it uses :cn^M, but the location list wants :ln^M or whatever.

Navigating quickfix and location lists is global, so a single common command wouldn't make sense (you can use `:cn` from any window -- even if the quickfix is not visible). However, you could use a `<buffer>` map to use the same key to navigate within loclist/quickfire windows.

> The only explanation for this ridiculous state of affairs must be that it was too difficult to extend quickfix lists to do the things that location lists do.

Their entire concept is to be what quickfix isn't: instead of a global list, it's a list that's tied to a window. I can't think of features that a loclists have but quickfix doesn't unrelated to their nonglobal nature.

I can't claim vim's code is easy to understand, but this is not a fair complaint.
Why were they enabled in the first place? Regular comments don't permit any URLs or promoting anything either.
What role were you interviewing for? Sure anyone with a serious CS degree at some point knew the difference between a char and a string. But if you're hiring a VP or product in a larger org, it doesn't matter whether they remember because the people they'd be managing wouldn't even need to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEM_(nuclear_propulsion)
I'd rather help Debian and not see my work help IBM sell RHEL based on Fedora in the future.
Do your interviewers not ask you to talk through your real world experience?
Inexpensive Add-On Spawns a New Era of Machine Guns
I don’t agree at all. I was productive within a month in a completely new language and stack at my current job for example. Once you know a few inside out, it’s just pattern matching with some Googling of “what’s X in Y language”.

Extremely deep knowledge of a language is very rarely needed, even when it is as long as you can somewhat vocalize the problem it’s just debugging
Learn multiple stacks, all the way down from JavaScript down to the circuit breakers. It will make you an overall better technician.
NixOS: I'm selective about who I pitch NixOS to, but if I think someone I know would be a good fit with it, my pitch is basically a tl;dr version of Chris McDonough's excellent ramble here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=17-TRCpDizA

Computers nowadays are a writhing complex mass of components that change and crumble from beneath your feet when you're not looking. NixOS makes your computers predictable and manageable again. It gives you the power to set your preferences and solve your problems in a more durable way than ever. In doing so, NixOS also makes getting things right feel worthwhile when you might otherwise be inclined to just live with and adapt to brokenness. NixOS makes computing fun again, and puts practical configuration management, even on desktops, within reach for lazy home users.

Nix: Portable, predictable development environments that are fast, native, and don't ask you to fuck around with port forwards or bind mounts. Nix is insanely fast compared to Docker Desktop, and provides easy access to an extraordinarily massive collection of packages (80,000+!). If you develop on Mac and Linux and deploy to Linux, there's no better way to distribute your software or its dependencies internally than with Nix, period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp....
That game is Zelda on N64

https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/tech/get-item-manipulatio...

https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/ba/reverse-bottle-adventu...
The US set itself for supply chain and labor issues for hysterically enacting crazy mandates that gave the appearance of dealing with exactly one specific illness to the exclusion of every other problem in the world. This myopic fixation on covid and only covid is what we will be dealing with for decades.

Our numbers are basically the same as any other country on earth. The truth is you can’t contain or control a highly infectious respiratory virus no matter what “The Experts” or politicians claimed. And even if we could have, that doesn’t make any of the draconian mandates okay. Even if we did absolutely nothing the numbers would have been basically the same, only we wouldn’t have destroyed our schools, government institutions, our local communities, the elderly, the or working class.

But hey, who cares about the costs of the mitigations. Only covid mattered. Worrying about anything else made you a grandma killer subject to all kinds of verbal abuse.
> It only works when the vaccine has no side effects long or short term. ... Now, we can name the drug. Let's call it Thalidomide. Is it worth causing, for example, horrendous birth defects to preserve herd immunity?

Which is why I specified side-effects which are similar to the COVID vaccine.

> What happens if the pharma companies make exactly one mistake? ... Let's call it Thalidomide.

Do you think existing modern medical regulations would permit such an incident? Can you name a more modern example?

> We skip all the normal trials (through cutting them short, whatever) and begin issuing it.

Suppose we impose the same requirements as vaccines on the past. I.e. trials go through normally.

> I think it's naive to think that there won't be any effect.

Can you name examples in which side effects were demonstrated in vaccines up to past a year? Vaccines are metabolized, the effects are only apparent as long as the vaccines contents are within the body.

> Such as, barring from PRIVATE non-tax-funded establishments. But bodily autonomy should go unquestioned. No matter which way you cut it vaccine mandates are a strike against civil rights.

Do you agree that bodily autonomy only extends up to the point at which harm could befall another individual?

To further examine your beliefs, suppose we create a simulation which can perfectly replicate the effects of a drug or vaccine on the human body. We can prove demonstratively that a drug will have no negative side-effects and that it will stop virus X. Are you still against vaccine mandates in this case?
oh ok, I tend to overthink irrelevant questions in interviews
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Round Sync is a currently active fork. Updates are infrequent, but there was one last week that fixed the (experimental) SAF support and updated rclone, asking other things.

https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync
Sorting in Emacs, with my setup? I'm going to keep my fingers on the C-g keys...
Don't mind me then. I think early Netflix' management philosophy -- as far as I know about it from the outside -- was exemplary. I strongly recommend No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.
Thanks s lot, that is a really helpful reply. I'm curious on your concerns about InfluxDB. I mean not to bash them, but it really comes down to trade-offs and it's always good to know the things they don't emphasize in their marketing.
aka, we don't do any input validation. Oops.
Yeah I can't make sense of this article either. How is IPv6 supposed to solve this? IP is for routing which is tied to geography, not identity. And wouldn't dynamic DNS make your website unresolvable for at least a minute or two every time your IP changes?
Hotspot: A GUI for the Linux perf profiler
Ocaml doesn't have those. Of course F# does.
In that reddit post, he says "I had over $10m in the bank for a startup of 5 people making low 7 figures from well established and extremely happy customers."

You are right: low 7 figures = $3-$5M annual revenue
Yet choosing between the two is not difficult: Nvidia provides me with real performance (stuff I gladly pay for), whereas NixOS provides me with "just" some convenience during installation. NixOS is a cool idea that might have worked incredibly well until about a decade ago, but the world has moved on and we have GPUs now which bring new headaches.
$100M to 0 sounds plausible for a founder with common stock in a VC led company with little success. You can raise a lot of money without much revenue or track record, but it will come with all kinds of liquidation preferences leaving common stock at 0 if things don't go like a rocket ship.
While the carrot problem is real, it alone doesn't explain the shittiness of rich people's advice on becoming rich. So much opportunity is either created or destroyed by external circumstances that we don't perceive, let alone control. Since we all subconsciously write our own creation myths, it's not easy to discover and attribute forces that we aren't aware of when looking back on our life paths. The perennial bullshit self-explanation is hard work. How hard they work is one thing that they can control, and they know they worked hard, so they assume it had more of an effect than it did... and in turn, others that worked less hard didn't succeed. For example, they might assume that their uncle was willing to set up that meeting with their first big client because they worked hard enough to be worthy of it, rather than realizing that others who worked as hard or harder lacked a connected uncle.
My Thoughts on GitHub
I've been thinking about leaving Github for a while. Anyone else share a similar experience?
In their defence, many companies advertise various "leadership positions", but once you get to an interview stage, you see they are looking for another JavaScript monkey in the team, and the whole leadership thing is a pie in the sky in lieu of a competitive salary.