skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the recent upheavals in the Nix community, I have no doubt this is just the first fork, and we’ll see more in the coming weeks and months.

Nix is my daily driver, and I’ve been seriously considering ditching it until things settle down in the community and some fork becomes the favored option.

Before I’d consider Lix, frankly I need more information about the core team and their view of the events of the last 6 months. I’m primed to want to like this project, but I’m feeling really cautious after experiencing the particular kind of toxicity that was at the root of the turmoil.
Reasoning Through Arguments Against Taking AI Safety Seriously
> This has been the running meme since mid 2000s. You have to see that Glest, 0AD and Spring RTS are in some ways anomalies.

Those aren't the games I'm talking about.

> A ridiculous amount of these RTS games will not make any impact to the genre, of the few which are released.

That's true of any genre. There are notable FPSes every year, but for every one of those, there's probably fifty random ones hardly anyone's ever heard of.

> It’s always a great year for RTS games, except it never is.

AoE4 seems to have done well for itself, it has a stable and decently high player population on Steam. But yes, most of them fail or sputter out.

> the last big RTS title was in 2010: Starcraft 2.

If your bar for 'big' is SC2 then the only big RTS title ever was SC2, since it was definitely the biggest budget and most anticipated. Most of the golden age RTSes were made in a couple years with moderate-sized teams on moderate-sized budgets. Hell, Brood War came out in the same year as Starcraft 1.

> And starcraft 2 is by communal investment dead as most of the serious players migrated back to SC1.

Not even close to true? Korea moved back to SC2 a long ass time ago, and Blizzard abandoned SC2, but it still has community support.

> Most action you’ll see today is on SC1 and AoE.

No, the biggest RTS is SC2. But after that, BW, AoE2 and AoE4 are the next biggest.
What do you do when you buy a ticket and the only way of receiving the ticket is by email? It won't be encrypted on their side. Do you just never travel?

What do you do when someone just sends you an email anyway? You have no option to prevent them from sending it.
Orwellian? Maybe, but in the same way we teach our children what is true and how to determine what is true.

We want to raise these pseudo-humans to be useful upstanding members of society. Knowing fact from opinion, knowing right from wrong, knowing what is real and what is imagination, are important for any intelligence. Otherwise our silicon-children will grow up to be dumb, harmful, or both, while being trillions in number.
Ah, the best of New Orleans based bomb throwing.
FreeDOS Project turns 30 years old
Twice. Both worked out well for me.

Neither was a startup though.
Yes, we made this as part of an internal hackathon project. We are looking for contributors to make this better.
What is this dvfs you talk about? desktop virtual file system? Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling? Google doesn't know, or well, the first page doesnt know.

DVCS stands for distributed version control system, it has nothing to do with binary blobs, whether or not it supports it, is an implementation detail.
Author listing: Katy Blumer, Kate Donahue, Katie Fritz, Kate Ivanovich, Katherine Lee, Katie Luo, Cathy Meng, Katie Van Koevering

For people unfamiliar with common English names, all of the authors have first names similar to or derived from Katherine.
I had a titanium ring cut off my middle finger that swelled from high blood pressure and weight gain. It took a long time with a ring cutter at a jeweler's in Chico, CA, but it worked.
> Chevron deference is the reason the US works at all.

A judicial doctrine concocted by conservatives in 1984 so that the Reagan administration could let an oil company pollute more is “the reason the US works at all”?

A more liberal Supreme Court might have sided with the environmentalists and upheld the decision below (written by none other than the notorious RBG-she hadn’t been elevated to the Supreme Court yet). It’s a good thing that didn’t happen, because then the US would have stopped working
I mean it's definitely a niche, though we're finally seeing indie Starcraft-descended RTSes trying to expand that (there were many other attempts, but generally in other subgenres): Zerospace, Immortal, Stormgate, Battle Aces.

Unfortunately, most of the other attempts to expand the RTS playerbase were incredibly wrong-headed. Almost all of them were obsessed with simplifying the genre to appeal to more people, but in making the game easier to play they also made it less interesting, which is why it's the big traditional RTSes (SC1, SC2, AoE2, AoE4) that have the biggest playerbase, and therefore the most total casual players.
Also known as "bswap ax", and research shows that it does something surprising but consistent on almost all hardware: It zeros the register.

https://www.ragestorm.net/blogs/?p=141

https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=268

However, this page, now gone, suggests that some CPUs (early 486s?) did something different: http://web.archive.org/web/20071231192014/http://www.df.lth....

Unfortunately I have not found any evidence nor reason to believe that this "inner swap" behaviour you mention exists in some CPU --- except perhaps some flawed emulators?
The Dred Scott of Our Time
wowza - is it this post?
[Show HN: Xs, a concatenative array language inspired by kdb+/q and forth]
https://cryptm.org/xs/

How is that life anyways? I know very little about it?
That's competitive, not anti-competitive.

Anti-competitive means others are not allowed to do the same.
Reviewing the opportunity for AI "pick and shovel" startups
I used a throwaway account because I was hired through HN. The work environment was terrible, extremely stressful, and led me to become very depressed. It wasn't until I shared my experiences with a friend, who was shocked and convinced me to quit, that I realized how bad it had been.

This hasn't completely discouraged me from being hired through HN in similar situations, but I will definitely do more research on the company beforehand.

This comment was rewritten by AI to anonymize the writing style.
> I've been using Debian/Ubuntu for 15+ years and never really experienced dependency hell.

Debian (or derivatives) too here and once in a very rare while I encounter some dependency hell.

IIRC the last problematic one was trying to add JPEG XL support to Emacs. Emacs uses ImageMagick under the hood to display pictures (for example from image-dired) if I'm not mistaken. But the version of ImageMagick shipped with the latest Debian stable (Bookworm) doesn't support JPEG XL yet.

Something like that.

It does happen but I do agree that it's highly uncommon.

> Why would I want to roll a system back to an (definitely insecure) state of a few months ago?

A just question!
see the publications section here for more of his books:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
Really? I wouldn't have thunk that this place would have contract roles. Were they w2 or c2c or 1099? The last 2 are super hard to come by. Got any tips to share on where to find such roles?
Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests
Ages ago, I found a player on here who was looking to move to where my team was (Seattle).

They had a good "vibe" from their I want to get hired post.

Got them their first gig in the tech space. Now with me at another tech play.

This place is great for connecting, the signal is way above noise.
OP is likely referring to epoxy and resin lining. It is a potential solution for some use cases (sewer lines that are very expensive to dig up, especially runs under foundations and concrete slabs), but failure rates are high when used on potable water supply lines (the epoxy eventually flakes, damaging valves and clogging downstream runs).

Trenching and repiping is expensive but necessary in this scenario, from the street main through the branch service entrance until you get to the main shutoff in the home, as this will ensure longevity of the new service commensurate with the investment in the replacement.
The Killers Presented with Two Guinness World Records Titles for Mr Brightside
Then what use are they?
Out of curiosity, I switched it back to fstatat and compared, and found no significant difference. Must've been some other change I made at the time, although I could've sworn this was true. Could be a system update changed something in the three months since I did that. I can't edit my post now though, so that wrong info is stuck there.
The site is down. Here's an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240711030040/https://sabr.org/...
To a first approximation none of it is, because it’s drowned out by the absurdly massive amounts of piracy.

When it comes to text-only groups there’s still some spam but a lot of it is cranks howling into the void about their insane world views rather than unsolicited and off-topic commercial offers, though those do still exist too.
Time to bring it back for an special episode where House say's it's not lupus, but it turns out it is and they find out thanks to an intern, and then they cure it using this new therapy.
for some reason I started thinking about trying to describe the taste of a fruit to someone who hasn't tried it as something that can be similar to this as a non-visual sensory modal in humans
>Or if you're sitting down, you will most likely be staring at someone's pelvic area because the convention is to stand FACING the chair in front of you if you're standing in the middle of the car (I still find this so strange but oh well so goes convention).

I don't know exactly why the convention is this way, but imagine if it was the reverse: you'd have someone's butt in your face, and if they fart...
I like this approach to AI powered strategic work flows. Look forward to seeing how it ensures diversity in what it considers facts.
Flatlined: Exposing What Flat Earthers Believe [video]
That was actually ancient ToS language -- good catch. Has to be updated.
Although the question is - obviously the ex-employee is likely to be found guilty of copyright infringement (civilly or criminally or both). But what is the copyright status of the resulting work? Does its infringing origins condemn it to always be infringing? Or at some point if it is refactored/rewritten enough it ceases to so be?

Imagine the ex-employee open sources it, and I’m an innocent third party using that code base, ignorant of its unlawful origins. Am I infringing their ex-employers copyright (even if unintentionally)? For (2), obviously “yes”. But what about (3) or (4)?
I’ve been in the US for decades. My hope for the future of the country has faded to almost nothing in recent years.
> geniously recognized the value of free and global trade and invested heavily in its Navy to enable and protect said trade

This reads like a person taking credit for the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.

United States is rich for three reasons:

Firstly USA stole textile and other technology from the British empire.

Secondly, gen 1 ‘non-free trade’ empires like the British got demolished in the war. All of the world’s industrial nations were in ruins.

Third step, the ‘genius’ was the Marshall Plan, was giving reconstruction loans to British and the French that they could only spend on American products - remember their industry was demolished, further stimulating American economy.

Global trade grew after 1955 when we invented containerisation.

And USA does not really believe in global free trade - that’s for its club of friends. Everyone else gets a sudden 100% solar panel tax or a 100% ev tax when they want to export to US. Or they get a sudden coup if their government wanted to stop exporting bananas to US
Funnily enough, I was taught how to spot rip currents by guys who thought they were a good thing. I was probably nine or so, and they were college students, showing me how to body surf. We spent a couple of hours jumping into a rip, riding it out, swimming out of it, and riding waves back in. Move down the beach to the next break, rinse, repeat. It mystified me for years afterwards when people would talk about rip currents like they were dangerous. I mean... What?

I get why people get into trouble. I do think the advice to Don't Panic might sink in more easily if rip currents weren't generally talked about like they're instant death.

I've inadvertently floated into one a few times. Once, with a friend who was a better swimmer than I was - I can't remember whether he said it or I did - the moment he grokked that we were in a rip current he started to panic like we were definitely going to drown. Once he calmed down we easily swam out of it.

The real danger is that someone who isn't a confident swimmer will be pulled out of their depth, or that someone who may be will end up in waves they're not capable of handling. In both cases, realistic skill assessment and a conservative approach is key. Poor swimmers use floatation. No one swims when the waves are more than they can manage. Follow those rules, and rip currents needn't be scary, and can even be fun.
In my experience, whenever a site installs lean processes, somebody gets the bright idea that if it works in manufacturing, then surely it can work in R&D. Every senior (hardware) engineer has a story of this happening at a past workplace.

The compromise is to tidy the workplace as well as possible, call it "5S", fill the dumpster with stuff that's really junk, and let each engineer stash their Undecidable Things under their desk.

As for software, maybe the best thing is to just not let hardware concepts such as "designing" and "manufacturing" creep in. Especially when those things imply a social hierarchy.
Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
as an early seam miniapp contributor, this tool has already made it 10x faster to make miniapps. this is especially great because writing code is my favorite form of self-expression, so when there's something cool happening on seam (like a community-made font), now i can create miniapps in time to catch the trend. keep it up!!!
What is AI going to solve that API as a Service currently does?

Generate an API with an AI? Perhaps..

Maintain that API and make sure its scalable etc? I dont think AI is currently going to do that for you.
You’ll probably end up with dupes (and removing these files won’t have the effect you intend) but I don’t know that there’s a good way to handle and report such soft links anyway.
thanks - well one interesting thing is that by including humans in the workflows it's not just AI deciding what to think... yes everything is deeply researched and fully cited - but where it gets powerful is humans-in-the-loop adding their wisdom and experience as well.
Hey: do you have any stomach problems? Because that was me (up to and including the arthritis part) and then my "IBS" turned out to be Crohn's disease and once I started treating that 90% of my other shit vanished. Things were so bad back then that I was seriously considering a hip replacement to make the pain stop, but today I just hopped off the exercise bike and feel totally fine.
Tested these problems with llava-v1.6-mistral-7b and the results aren't bad. Maybe I just got lucky with these samples

Intersecting Lines
https://replicate.com/p/s24aeawxasrgj0cgkzabtj53rc

Overlapping Circles
https://replicate.com/p/0w026pgbgxrgg0cgkzcv11k384

Touching Circles
https://replicate.com/p/105se4p2mnrgm0cgkzcvm83tdc

Circled Text
https://replicate.com/p/3kdrb26nwdrgj0cgkzerez14wc

Nested Squares
https://replicate.com/p/1ycah63hr1rgg0cgkzf99srpxm
That's the internal API used by the hangout_services extension. It's the extension itself that is undocumented.

A user might reasonably expect that web pages do not have access to the system.cpu API by default. And that's mostly true, but thanks to the pre-installed but hidden hangout_services extension, google.com does have access to this API. That's at least a little dubious.
It’s okay since that statement technically marginalizes anyone it applies to I don’t think it can apply to anyone
Seems to be fixed - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/219893
> Through making several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (namely, that parents are myopic, perfectly knowledgeable agents who pick a name based solely on its “uniqueness”)

What a weird assumption. We named our daughter picking four names, starting respectively with the letters 'G', 'A', 'T' and 'C'.
nvim+lazyvim+telescope (which uses ripgrep and/or fzf). Fantastic, that's the gold standard for finding files, grepping, looking for references to variables etc. Love it.
Perhaps the administrative capacity dried up with the lack of free money once interest rates rose?
> others are not allowed to do the same.

it's usually the case where the sponsor is the sole sponsors (aka, the course does not teach both X and Y, esp. if X is given to the uni for free).

It's anti-competitive to allow companies to embed themselves in general courses, despite it not being so by the letter of the laws.
I grew up a damn good HPB Q1 player at 250ish ms.

If you type and wait for the letter, I could see that being annoying. My brain works more in waves, my hands type a block and it's there on the screen. I've never once thought of character latency, but maybe that's my HPB roots.
Still doesn't justify going back to usb-hub land for me
I assume you've read the team page? You just want more specific opinion?

https://lix.systems/team/
Please let me add an iCloud family member to Minders.

Offer a "Family Plan" price to cover selling two copies that feature-enables you to make Minders into you and another person's private twitter feed.

Don't make Path from 2010 for 50 people (amazing when it started in 2010, lost its way a bit, gone now):

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-path-3486483

Just make your thing, but for a couple or a family, exclusively in their own shared iCloud storage.

And yes, please, add one-time purchase.

Related note to iOS devs: if you only offer IAP, companies can't buy your app for employees on company devices or BYOD. Apple doesn't support a company any way to provide IAP. My employees get company-paid-for iOS apps... but only apps the apps and books manager can buy for roles or individuals.
What stage was the company at and what was your role?
I was hired, just reached out to the contact on a "Who's Hiring" thread for a company doing work I had some experience with but was looking to expand on. So far so good.

For background the hire before that was through a colleague and the job I got before that was through a news list. I don't really ever get any success through more traditional job seeking services.
PID or even just PI are often used to control missile airframe roll rate. Pitch and yaw may be more advanced systems, sure.
I was extended a good opportunity to do entry level web dev but left the interview because I felt the coding puzzle was too hard for the role, even tho I could’ve solved it. Computer Science/math heavy and easy if already familiar. I still feel bad and entitled about that but I acted on the signal I felt and told the truth.

Aside, I am all for suitably difficult challenges, and I distinguish engineer from developer. Dev shouldn’t get CS stuff, Eng should. Mention it to benefit other hiring managers who may be reading, if it rings fair.
> Autoimmune diseases, of which lupus is but one of many, are essentially black boxes.

Hardly. Treatments are down to the kinase level these days, which is just one step away from the gene transcription factors.

In fact it is pretty amazing how well understood the complex mechanism of autoimmune diseases are.
I was hired after interacting in a comment thread with a founder that was building the same thing I was NIH-ing at my current job. Easy fit to come on since I was currently doing it, but not ultimately a great fit. It pulled me out of my first five year gig at a huge corporation and helped me see the extreme opposite of that, and paid hugely better. I don't think it was a huge resume pad, as it wasn't a well known FAANG, but I appreciated the perspective it gave me and the redirection of my career.
Now Jeff needs to hire himself at a fulfillment center.
Elusive mid-sized black hole spotted at center of swallowed galaxy
Not really-they don't care about this despite multiple complaints from users. As it is non mainstream browsers (having their own rendering engine that isn't Blink or Gecko) are few and far between.

It's exactly the same attitude of 'this site requires IE6' from the early 00s, but with worse results.
Same thing happened to me. We had an “interview” and then ghosted me. Shortly after, his product was Sherlocked and I was ecstatic.
This is going onto be extremely unpopular, but I think an argument could be made that we need to give AI research an exemption from copyright enforcement until we have a significant lead on China in AI development. They sure as hell are not going to obey Western copyright law in training their models.
ABC. Always Be Cageing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDX6wF3BLc&t=25s
Sounds like you're saying that these operations cannot be clean? Is it really wasted money, tho? Isn't it good they at least tried? Maybe I misread you. Why do they hate Forrest?

My take on the article is...I get the potential theft of IP being a legitimate concern and legal issue, similar to the Waymo/Tesla thing (IIRC). But, I also feel: take a step back, is it really so important? Like surely there are more pertinent issues pertaining to: A) a massive miner; and, separately to, B) a green energy (green mining?) startup. Especially given our current environmental / economic / political context, right? I don't know.

Also, seems like, if the opportunity is real there's plenty of market for everyone to benefit. I don't get why "the story" is about some tiff between former teammates when surely there are bigger stories out there relevant to either party.
Seattle is closing cohort schools, which are essentially schools that allow gifted children to skip ahead in curriculums.

> The district counters that the old model of cohort schools for highly capable students is highly inequitable. For decades, highly capable programs across the country, like SPS’, served a small number of Black, Latino, Indigenous, Alaskan and Pacific Islander and low-income students and taught more white and Asian students. In the 2022-23 school year, 52% of highly capable students at SPS were white, 16% were Asian, and 3.4% were Black.

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/why-seattle-publi...
Privacy Focused Onlineheicconvert.com
Landscape Design Principles for Residential Gardens
HEIC converter is an online heic file converter which converts HEIC files to various other formats such as PNG, JPG, WEBP, PDF. It is privacy focused and only converts your files in browser.

When I saw most of the online converters use servers but with the new AI age everyone was changing there terms and conditions for getting data for AI training. So, I thought I don't know how are they using my data. SO that is why I created this I needed it for my Mac you can check it out.
And some autoimmune treatments started out as failed attempts at developing cancer treatments, too. Happy accidents!
Wow, that's a massive amount of money for just one individual. I'm disappointed to hear that.
> We often say "real time" when we mean "fast." But in audio real time means "really fast, all the time" and somewhat deterministically.

As a former developer of real time software, the usage of "real time" to mean "fast" makes me cringe a bit whenever I read it. If there's a TCP/IP stack in the middle of something, it's probably not "real time."

"real time" means there's a deadline. Soft real time means missing the deadline is a problem, possibly a bug, and quite bad. Hard real time means the "dead" part of "deadline" could be literal, either in terms of your program (a missed deadline is an irrecoverable error) or the humans that need the program to make the deadline are no longer alive.