skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was tasked with packaging an app so that it would run as a root LaunchDaemon. So a bit of launchd config work, a bit of pkg install scripts, weird workarounds in code for having the “daemon app” run in the login session of any user.

It needed a bit of sleuthing which I liked, it’s the other non-code stuff that I disliked.

Oh I realized now that you probably meant how I found, as in searched for the job, not how I liked it. Well I had a small button in the middle of the front page of “The low-tech guys” that lead to this page: https://lowtechguys.com/business

The copy is different now as I wanted to take another stab at helping my friend get into consulting. He just had his second child recently so we stopped that idea.
sbin is a SYSVR4'ism ... it's complicated. /etc had a bunch of binaries in it like fsck. MACH systems had that as well (well technically it was linked to /private/etc which then linked the binaries to /usr/etc - here's an openstep screenshot I just took: http://9ol.es/usr-etc.png). It's /etc/mkfs /etc/route ... they got moved to /usr/sbin/ and /sbin in R4 - by then, SYSV systems were using /home and the initial purity of every owner of every process being an equivalent class user had been broken by pragmatism.

The invention of /sbin/ /usr/sbin is all R4, see
https://archive.org/details/unixsystemvrelea0000unse_t8i3/pa...

Unix 1980s history is a complicated mess ... that's why there were multiple conflicting standards groups that tried to fix it. The X/Open group had the "single unix specification" which is different from POSIX and say, the Open software foundation (which did OSF/1). Here's a nice crash course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification

Explaining the history with the motivations is probably around 10,000 words. AFAIK it hasn't been written. I'd be one of the handful of wackos who'd actually do that and I haven't seen it.
In Spanish asymmetric conversations have always been a thing, e.g. student-teacher, patient-doctor or younger-older conversations where the former side uses V and the latter T.

The V is gradually being dropped in Spain and in the last few decades the process seems to have accelerated, though, definitely it seems faster than in French (although I don't know that much about French). I don't think my 4-year-old son will have much use for the V in his life. And like your parent comment, I also think that's probably for the best in our case, although it does sound like it's probably different in Persian.
My father roasted chestnuts every Christmas. I think it held on longer in Italian-American households.

I was going to do it this year, but couldn't find any locally in time.
(Submitted title was "American Chestnut Foundation Ceasing Distribution of Blight-Resistant Seeds". We changed it belatedly. Thanks!)
As I said, neither side will get all that they want. Taking slogans as literal negotiation positions isn't realistic. All wars end in compromises even when one side capitulates.
I have an example of this I've been using, only gpt4 and nous capybara 34B have gotten right:

> what is the song from the deadpool movies that begins with arf arf.

I get some wild examples and many llms get stuck insisting it is "Shoop".
Or just call a loved one for a chat out of the blue. :p
Well that's probably because they've been disfigured through their misuse. Now they are a political tool, e.g. a 'human rights violation'.
I think the hardest part is getting the basics straight, and by that I mean things like understanding oscillation produces sound, amplitude influences the spund level while the speed of the oscillation influences the pitch. Understanding that by modulating pitch and amplitude you can already create a ton.

The biggest challenge for students in my experience is grasping all these obscure words and acronyms, with VCOs, LFOs, keytracking, Envelopes, ADSR, Triggers, Gates, CVs, oscillations, overtones, frequency graphs, filter cutoff points, resonance, ...

It is just a lot of concepts at once. Sometimes it can pay of to take a step back and limit one's arsenal and figure out how far you can get only using one or two of those.
Ya I took a leap from original question, but I was just pointing out how it's hard to just blanket pardon people.
Can vibrato be considered FM synthesis?

Edit: aaah, should have read further into the article
Trolling, as it may make children not trust your words if what you say is consistently a lie/joke. The children may be also laughed at by their colleagues if they repeat your words at kindergarden/early school.
>If they don't want the accusation they shouldn't commingle civilian enterprise with communist party goals.

I fail to see how this is worse than what most Western countries do on a daily basis. Who pays for schools (especially higher education) in the US? Do they not decide what goes and not goes in the schools? Do SpaceX employees chant "SpaceX SpaceX SpaceX" at every launch or is it "USA USA USA"? As a non-American the US party goals seems way more commingled with civilian enterprises than the Chinese. We are not any better - just different. The sad part is most that say otherwise have not even experienced both systems first-hand, but just go online and talk FUD. Some because they don't know better, some even though they do know better.
I was going to reply to op but you said everything so well that I don't need to!
Glad I’m not leaving nearby. But this is fascinating. Has anyone read a good book or longer article about landfill operations?
No offense but I think you do not understand how privileged you are.
If you don't need root to run it, don't install it in */sbin/.

Packages are installed into /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.

Locally-built software (e.g. `./configure --prefix=/; make; make install`) is installed into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin, which should still always require elevated privileges to write to.

~/.local/bin is convenient but dangerous, because a process should not be able to overwrite itself on disk (unless the user has allowed it to auto-update itself, instead of using a package manager with out-of-band public key retrieval)

This is all probably in the discussions,

A. "Audit all binaries run as root" (TODO lookup the probably CIS control URL for this; look for disk-resident programs that run with elevated privileges)

A.1. Find setuid and setgid files:

sudo \
find / -type f \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -exec ls -ld '{}' \; \
2> find-setuid.errors \
> find-setuid.files

A.2. Find setcap binaries

A.3. Find extended filesystem attribute permissions with e.g. getfacl

A.4. List everything in */sbin that only root users should need to run (*)

A.5. Find everything that's `chown root; chmod o-x`;

(When you remove the e(x)ecute bit from a directory, that user/group/other can't list the files in the directory; which is logged to stderr when e.g. `find`

Nowadays we can just do the SBOM tool on everything in every */?bin direcotry and just check those

If "merge sbin into bin" isn't already changed in the FHS spec, I'm -0 to -1 on the idea and don't see really any benefits.

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

Disadvantage: Users would inadvertantly exec() programs they don't need to run log exec()s of, if /sbin and /bin are merged; there will be more binary enumeration log messages to parse.

Disadvantage: Other distros won't merge /sbin and /bin, so the paths in log messages in support issues and mailing lists would be less universally searchable
I guess one would need to get the genomes(?) for all the plants involved in this Menage A Tree, and see if shared sequences exits? If not, it would indicate "vision"

But what we dont know is if plants have an EMF 'voice' that they may use to communicate?
I think everyone who comes from a different literature where academic "rigor" is higher and similar results already exist (in the author's case, he is aware of Kernel results) is infuriated by ML papers like "Attention is all you need".

They are, in fact, not really good academic papers. Finding a clever name and then choosing the most obtuse engineering-cosplay terms is not a good paper. It's just difficult to read. And so next, many well known results get discovered again to much acclaim in ML and head scratching elsewhere.

For example, yes they are kernel matrics. Indeed, the connection between reproducing kernel hilbert spaces and attention matrices has been exploited to create approximating architectures that are linear (not quadratic) in memory requirements for attention.

Or, as the author of the article also recognizes, the fact that attention matrices are also adjacency matrices of a directed graph can be used to show that attention models are equivariant (or unidentified, as the author says) and are therefore excellent tools to model Graphs (see: the entire literature of Geometric deep learning) and rather bad tools to model sequences of texts.

LLMs may or may not collapse to a single centroid if the amount of text data and parameters and whatever else are not in some intricate balance that nobody understands, and so they are inherently unstable tools.

All of this is true.

But then, here is the infuriating thing:
all this matters very little in practice. LLMs work, and on top of that, they work for stupid reasons!

The problem of "identification" was quickly solved by another engineering feat, which was to slap on "positional embeddings". As usual, this too didn't happen because there was a deep mathematical understanding. Rather, it was attempted and it worked.

Or, take the "efficient transformers" that "solve" the issue of quadratic memory growth by using kernel methods. Turns out, in practice, it just doesn't matter. OpenAI, or Anthropic, or Meta simply do not care about slapping on another thousand GPUs. They care about throughput. The only efficiency innovation that really established itself was fusing kernels (GPU kernels, that is) in a clever way to make it go brrrrr. And as clever as that is, there's little deep math behind it.

Results are speculation and empirics.
The proof is in the pudding, which is excellent.
> History didn't begin on October 7, 2023.

That's right, it began in 642 CE ;)
Alternatively if you have a simple DAC you can just route an output back to an input and record in any free DAW. It simplifies things so much.
One side fights to survive, the other to make a few billionaires a little richer. Their motivations are not the same.
I'd take a look ROCm docs: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/rocm-hub.html
Related:

TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573765 - Dec 2023 (58 comments)

The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576771 - Sept 2023 (4 comments)

American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621570 - Aug 2022 (155 comments)

American chestnut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333498 - Feb 2022 (73 comments)

The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441593 - March 2021 (85 comments)

The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26363660 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Scientists are close to bringing it back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846891 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)

American chestnut poised for return to America's forests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855137 - March 2017 (1 comment)

American chestnut trees are “technically extinct” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13478910 - Jan 2017 (120 comments)
> The paper is a “wonderful, impactful, and much needed contribution to the literature,”

This finding would be predicted by both nature and nurture. How is it a "much needed contribution"?
I might be having a Mandela Moment, but I thought Buick was EOL about 15 years ago. Was it resurrected, or was the cancellation cancelled?
Yup and I cant see when I need to replace them.
Compare English with Esperanto, which, in spite of being much easier to learn than English, still hasn't become anywhere near as widespread (at least in terms of number of speakers).

Ironically the one biggest thing which presents an ideological advantage for Esperanto is that it's native to no nation, so all the people who speak it are closer to being equals in that regard; yet it is the imperialism and a large number of native speakers which has helped to make English so prevalent. So just being technically and morally superior doesn't win you adoption by a long shot, even if you try.

And it may be of note for this post that the original author of Esperanto was very conscious of this whole formal/informal issue, which is why he opted to introduce only the plural second person pronoun into practice.
FWIW: For your non-profit work, I'd recommend charging full price as donation if your tax jurisdiction allows this.
Yep. Sorry!
- Debian GNU/Linux

- GNU Emacs

- Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)

- Mozilla Firefox
A caveat to this would be that "caring for the autistic and/or disabled" is generally not viewed as "high status" in human society.

If you have a disabled child, a lot of the time, the other children don't wanna hang out.

If you're a disabled young adult, nobody probably wants to date you (or at least a very limited subset). You're already below 7-8 on hot or not for most.

If you're a disabled adult, a lot of time, people don't "really" wanna deal with your needs (work/home/businesses)

If you're a disabled elderly, you're probably in a home.

Plus, a lot of societies for (pretty much since humans existed) have shunned the disabled as untouchables / failures / curses / diseased / bad-genetics / unlucky

And in human society, "high status" often correlates with "expensive" or "high wealth". Also "pretty" or "desirable".
It was just weird to me. The title specifies /usr as the prefix. If you meant the division in general you could have just left off $PREFIX altogether.
This finding is even less surprising, since it could come about by either nature or nurture — whereas height is mostly determined by nature, in the absence of malnutrition.
In the theological context evolution is unlikely to exist.
Renting isnt as much a thing Romania. It’s a bit rare, like ownership in the UK.

Rent and prices for decent quality are similar. I know because I made investments there. Folks here are quoting some rather below par prices, that local usually stay away from _if they seek decent housing_. There are rundown areas, such as that where Tate lives - next to a cemetery - but a few streets further away and prices double. You dont see the upper extremes as in vest europe but for “regular” folks the col is similar.

Also there’s a lot of “under the table” money involved in buying property, so actual prices are way, way, higher than official figures. Typically if you wish to make some _very_ high margins you invest in bucharest or cluj. British expats living there extatic, not just because they could afford to buy (working locally albeit for western companies), but also because they made decent profits if they bought 5-6 years ago.
It’s a nice gesture kinda like holding the door open for you date.
Not in mine. But you surely build a barrier of “respect”, I learned that early in my career. I was too formal and “too respectful”, that built a barrier with many people, a barrier other teammates didn’t have. That barrier can be useful though, but you need to be aware of it.
The fact that nobody was injured in the previous incident is fortunate for anybody who might have been injured then, but doesn't diminish the importance of addressing whatever flaw caused the explosion. Considering that we're talking about a lot of liquid helium being improperly vented, the next time something goes wrong it could end up asphyxiating a hundred people.

Just because nobody was in the danger zone the first time it exploded doesn't mean you should count on nobody being in the danger zone the second or third time it might explode. This is the reason work site safety officers yell at people to report all near-miss incidents, not only the accidents that get people hurt. If something went wrong and nobody got hurt by chance coincidence, it might happen again when people are actually near it. Therefore a near miss incident needs to be addressed with the same seriousness as an accident that actually caused injury.
There is an implication that they will bring human unity.
Mushrooms already do that. And they don't sound like super asbestos.
> why on Earth don’t we collect a deposit and offer deposit return to anyone who turns them in?

that's exactly how it works in Germany. By law batteries must not go into household trash and retailers are required to take back used ones free of charge.

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/waste-resources/pro...
There are a bunch of people who make enough money to live on the App Store, even without subscriptions. I'm one of them. I've heard of a few others as well.

There are a lot of things that suck on the App Store, but it's definitely possible to make a living.
No, but it is not so high minded and praiseworthy as your example implied.
Easy big money right now is actually the techbro field.

Becoming a doctor just for the money would be the hard-mode way to do it. (Grueling pre-med weed-outs, med school applications, med school, residency competition, residency, specializations, etc.)

Doctors do have status/respect, deservedly.

Techbro stereotype is that of overpaid dimwit, from how we assume that big paychecks confer intellectual status, and confidently open our mouths on topics that other people actually know.
> The two blue lines are RIVERS. One in Egypt the other in Iraq.

This sounded suspicious to me, and brief research shows it to be untrue.
> For example you could have a /nix/state that had a directory for each program.

NixOS already has that. It's called `/var/lib`.

> Each program could have its own global and user specific state it could manage from within its directory.

The user-specific state is (and should be) in each user's home directory, not scattered around in a bunch of system-wide directories, one for each application...

That's not just for convenience, but also for security (and privacy) reasons.

I'd be interested to know who gets to manage the user-specific state in your proposal. Does each app have it's own per-user directory for each user? i.e. if you have 1000 apps and 10 users, do you need exactly 10,000 user-specific directories? And if not, who gets to create these directories and when are they created/removed?

To be honest, it sounds like you're not aware of all the complexities and implications / consequences of what you're proposing, i.e. it sounds like you didn't think this through. But on the off-chance I'm wrong, I'd be happy to be proven so.
The first few times Windows 95 told me that I had performed an "illegal operation" I freaked out and was literally afraid the police were on their way.
How to Create and Use Templates in Logseq
That disaster won't happen. MS and everyone knows that if the limit was hard, then people would just stay on win 10, making them look bad.

But of course it turned out that the limits are artificial, not a hard technical requirement. A few registry hacks, and Win 11 is happy on old hardware.
It was simply flagged by a lot of users.
Pascal was used in the USA for a time on the high school AP tests (advanced placement) which are often used for college applications. So some know it from that.

As well, Wirth was an influential computer scientist and he had many students who went on to do many other things in both the Pascal family of languages and others as well. So his former students have influenced computer science also.
Ok, but it doesn't change the moderation point about swipes. Commenters here need to edit them out* because they move conversations flameward and evoke worse from others. As one can always make one's substantive points without resorting to them, this shouldn't be a problem.

* This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Given how frequently I can’t tell whether I’m talking with a human or robot, it seems certain that it has passed. There are some constraints, like what GPT is willing to discuss, how long it takes to respond, and forgetfulness in long conversations. But even those would be expected in humans to some extent.
Mostly, more work put into implementing features requested by users and fixing bugs reported by them, that’s what got me the most money.

Some might say that spending more time on marketing is what gets more money, and that’s a bit true. But only after you have a good base and you’re confident in your app being stable and providing utility. Otherwise, the advertising peaks will not result in sustained revenue, they’ll be just that, peaks.
>Should the military not be advertised as a career choice

I'm not from the US and to me it sounds completely batshit insane to have anything military in the school - career wise information or not. Never in my many years in the education system have I seen anything from the military. Why should I? It is not a recruiting ground (or is it?!). Private enterprise, the military, etc. have absolutely nothing to do in the school system.
Exec at a B2B software company. Joined when it was 12 people with no money, customers, or product - Unicorn company today with same exec team.

1. Agree

2. Agree

3. Chasing VCs was required for us. I have been in 100s of VC meeting supporting our CEO through two companies and many rounds of funding.

4. Agree

5. Agree

6. Full stack devs preferred. The right UI and DB specialists are game changers though.

7. Agree

8. Invest in a marketing lead machine from day 1. e.g. Glengarry Glen Ross :)

9. Agree

10. I am not a hugger. I prefer to hire people who do not give up. Everyone wants to convince you what ever you are trying to achieve will not work. If you hire people who do not do well with failing, they will really struggle with a failing fast approach.

11. Cannot relate

12. Cannot relate

13. Big companies can be helpful. But, when you are small, the numbers you generate are round off errors in their financial reports. It is very hard to align a win/win situation that keeps them interested.

14. Cannot relate

15. Agree

16. Agree

17. Agree

18. Agree

19. Agree

20. I admire companies that have grown by bootstraping. Bootstrapped high growth companies are rare. You will most likely need funding to grow your idea - great talent is not cheap.

Add: You need both a developer and a sales person to start a software company. You have to build and sell software to stay alive. #9 is very true.

Ideally, you start selling before you build - definitely sell before the product is ready. This gives many developers anxiety. Do not underestimate how hard or how long the sales process is. The worst situation to be in is that you wait for the product to be ready before you try to sell it - this is death to a start up.
> No explanation of how the hashtags were determined.

> Our presentation of data starts with Uyghurs and Tiananmen Square because those were two topics specifically called out at the March 2023 Congressional hearings, and TikTok’s CEO explicitly denied that in either case were posts on those topics suppressed or in any way demoted on the platform
1400 of 73k posted. Which boggles my mind. Would they actually hire all of those or are a significant fraction ~duplicated postings where there is one headcount but they are willing to accommodate a range of experience/levels?

Evidently Walmart employs 1.6 million in the US and 2.1 million worldwide: https://corporate.walmart.com/askwalmart/how-many-people-wor...

Even more mind-blowing, there are some ~165 million workers in the US, so nearly one percent of all US workers are employed by Walmart.
Some fun archaic ones on German[1]

Interesting to see the use of “Er” as a put down.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Höflichkeitsform