skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent almost no time on other people's payrolls (other than 1Y as part of a buyout) and have made it to semi-retirement with money in the bank, so avoiding 9-5 absolutely can be done.
AlphaFold2 has correctly predicted novel folds: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03357-1
Fair source sounds like a really bad idea. The problem is if you let someone else define what reasonable limits to competition are, you end up in court and learn that it can be anything. Say a company sells me fair source, but I don’t like the company so I fire them and take over for myself? Well, now I get to try to convince a court that I’m not competing, despite clearly having cost them one customer. Just study the history of the constitutions commerce clause, where everything can and has been construed to affect interstate commerce.
The paper has an odd feel about it to me too. Doing a gate estimation as a text explanation without a diagram makes it too easy to miss some required part. It wouldn't need to be a full gate level explanation but blocks labeled 'adder'.

Seeing the name de Vries in the first paragraph didn't help my sense of confidence either.
I'm fine with the idea of "fair source", but not the name. It should be named for what it is, "ajar source".
I switched to Ubuntu recently on a Thinkpad Z16 and had some compatibility and battery life issues.

I think Linux is great for more mainstream models that have already been out for a few years, but unfortunately I can't recommend if you're buying a new or more niche machine.

It's really a shame, as I absolutely don't like the direction either Microsoft or Apple is going. I keep ending up back at MBP due to overall polish/hardware quality, but I prefer linux to MacOS. I hope Asahi Linux can get fully up-to-date with latest models and resolve the various QoL issues
Another version of the how to draw an owl, this time for real
If you only ever support HTML, but not the wider web linking syntax / IANA Link Relationships registry that might be fine, but I don't think it's ideal for a new protocol.
i enjoy my holidays in my garden writing code. been creating them (holidays) since i could program which is now almost 45 years. I always have more fun in hindsight than my friends who do whatever 'the public likes' and took insta shots. each their own: if you can find joy in your head, it is easy to be happy forever.

* you obviously need the means to do this ; I went for money early on and I regret it but then again; I basically have been living of interest for most of my life now from selling my first company that literally almost killed me, 2 times (ambulances and the whole crap).
The state of nature is it is your property so long as you can protect it. There are lots of different ways to do that. Many animals have concepts of owned territory which they protect in various ways.
Well, it’s certainly increased the number of “lean” startups that are just churning out (and repeatedly pivoting to) different OpenAI wrappers.

As someone who does startup investment advisory, I started cutting through all the “AI for X” hype and asking directly for ARR and pipeline figures. Either your idea has paying customers or it just isn’t worth investing in, AI or not…
>What else was the "Out-of-the-box" Windows installation trying to do while they were running the benchmark?

It's trying to maximize the performance to power usage ratio out of the box. The default power profile is very conservative, which on a laptop means better battery life and reduced heat. Given that this comparison didn't do even rudimentary power consumption, heat, or CPU frequency scaling measures, it is overwhelmingly likely as the difference.

> there are dozens of things clamoring for the attention of the scheduler and using CPU

Linux machines have hundreds of processes too. It simply doesn't matter in 2024. That isn't a factor and isn't relevant, nor is the scheduler to blame.

This is a silly misleading benchmark that is de facto clickbait. Pretty surprisedto see it doing well here.
It wasn't recent by Internet time but when the debate on walrus operator drove out the BDFL that was the obvious break. Python has been circling the drain ever since. A lot of motion, yes, but to what end?

- - - -

Oh! How could I forget!? The creeps actually banned Tim Peters!
Do they go around threatening fines and suspension of their business license?
At least for my ISP, SLAAC installs a default route and uses link-local addresses to route traffic (I actually didn't know this would work until I tried with OpenBSD 7.6). This allows the PD LAN subnet to be routed out to the internet.

YMMV!

edit: I may be slightly misunderstanding, and it might not be needed. Regardless, my router can now ping internet addresses while running slaacd.
The only thing Windows is better at (almost equal) is 7-zip decompression. I wonder why.
i saw peccaries napping in corcovado - magical place.
cerro cirripo is on my list for our next trip. their permit website needs work though
cheers
Except Kotlin is a multiplatform language now thanks to Jetbrains efforts (kmp project), it's not anymore intertwined with JVM.

Using Java library will limit your program only to jvm platform. Using a kotlin library like this one (given it's written in pure kotlin and doesn't uses any jvm platforms specifics) will allow you to build it to whatever target kmp supports (macosx, ios, android, js, mingw...)
kgrep: small search engine, no fluff
C++ has lambdas and local classes. Local classes have some annoying arbitrary limitations, but they are otherwise useful.
This is something that can be handle easily with static analysis and should not be a language feature
The genesis block has a message from a relatively obscure British newspaper in it (The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks). Not something I would expect a frontier Canadian in their 20s to be sourcing from.

That and various other evidence (coding style, british-english spelling) has suggested to me for a long time that it's an older gentleman from the UK, likely with an academic background in economics or related distributed systems. I don't know either way, but it seems borderline libel to suggest without much more substantial evidence that it's Peter Todd.
Do you think it's impossible to have a nuanced discussion about monopolies? Their net effect may be wholly negative while having some interesting aspects
Agreed, and "fair source" in regards to modification is too vague. I know the author intentionally left it vague, but say the conditions for modification are a non-compete.

What if the producer moves into a field that I'm in and is now a competitor - have I suddenly run afoul of the license, even though I wasn't before?

There's very little protections there.

Source Available vs. Open Source is already clear. Can I modify & redistribute or not.
pathetic display from their ops team, so little coms and seemingly the exact same thing that brought down nearly the whole of the EU yesterday.
Your documentation will tell when you need an abstraction. Where there is something relevant to document, there is a relevant abstraction. If its not worth documenting, it is not worth abstracting. Of course, the hard part is determining what is actually relevant to document.

The good news is that programmers generally hate writing documentation and will avoid it to the greatest extent possible, so if one is able to overcome that friction to start writing documentation, it is probably worthwhile.

Thus we can sum the rule of thumb up to: If you have already started writing documentation for something, you are ready for an abstraction in your code.
I'm not sure that's a very good fix because the data of how much was paid for the assets may not be available after their owner is dead. The system in the UK seems to work ok for the most part. No CGT on death (the equivalent of step up basis in the US) but 40% inheritance tax on most of the assets over £325K.

We do have the odd exemptions like Clarkson's Farm which was bought partly for inheritance tax avoidance, but you don't have to do that.
> I recently sold my Macbook, bought a Thinkpad, and am running NixOS full time, and I have to say that desktop Linux has gotten pretty excellent since the last time I ran it full-time.

I'm using MBP with macOS since 2013 and I'm quite happy... don't need all that much speed (I upgraded my mbp2013 to MBP with M1 in 2021) but rather that it's "fast enough" and stable and is silent :) While I like Linux on the server I had weird issues with it on the desktop (network lost, not waking up…) so I'm a bit weary... though I fathom that my next machine will have Linux (most likely with ARM) but that's still 3-5 years in the future :)
I haven't, though in reality almost none has been permanent for someone else.
I couldn't agree more. The first time I used Windows 11, I was absolutely horrified with how anti-user it is and how much of a vehicle to sell Microsoft services it has become. It's so bad that it was affecting my normal workflow and it forced me to look for greener pastures. While Windows 11 has some great technology under the hood, I installed Linux for the first time as my production desktop and I couldn't be happier. It's an environment designed for the user first and foremost and the experience, while it has some warts, is leaps and bounds better than the latest that has come out of Redmond.
> firehouse of money from search

It’s not just search. They make such vast amounts of money because they hold a monopoly across several layers of the stack: web browsers (65% market share on desktop, 67% market share on mobile), internet search (90% market share), and internet advertising (AdSense and Ads together hold 67%).

Interestingly, this dominance isn’t the result of fair competition, but rather acquisitions. Google was allowed to buy YouTube, Android, and numerous online advertising companies. You can see the list there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

I believe most of these acquisitions should have been blocked by the FTC or DoJ, but they weren’t, which has allowed Google to become a vertically integrated monopoly.
Honestly, it's disgusting.

Have these people even read the white papers that Google releases? They are mostly marketing pieces.

When systems and technologies are not publicly reproducible, why should scientists and (most) engineers care? I will not take Google at its word and would not recommend it to others.
Anything frame-accurate or smooth scrubbing has always been a challenge with he abstraction level of the video element.
I don't have an exact answer from you, but you might look around the web codecs space, where more performant examples are being built at a lower level. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebCodecs_A...
It's definitely not Wayland, although maybe Wayland has forced tech debt reduction in other areas. I've been running Desktop Ubuntu 100% of the time for the last ~3 years and I still can't consistently use Wayland. On the other hand old school X11 mostly just works for me these days.

I get some occasionally glitches when changing DPI settings (usually when switching between my desktop monitor and my large 4k TV) and the annoying flashing when logging in/logging out which I can easily live with.

Best of all, all the games I care about run on Linux now and in many cases they run better on Linux than they ever did on Windows!
The majority held this power as long as we’ve been a social species. Even a Pharaoh lives with consent of the majority even if they’ve convinced that majority they are divine.
I jokingly suggest that, by definition, the only person who uses English properly and speaks without an accent is the King.
A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide
Absolutely.

Also whether or not he is a hypocrite is up in the air - the post you responded to certainly didn't make that case with any merit (despite implying it).

David Gilmour's point is correct, and the other users is assuming he hasn't used his money to help upcoming artists (which is also irrelevant) while also unilaterally deciding that David Gilmour can't speak about anything without immediately ponying up with receipts because he has too much money.

Call me crazy, but I'm for free speech without attaching a requirement that when you hit a certain monetary goal that your speech is no longer valid (even hypocritical) if you don't immediately and publicly give x% of your money to be counted as 'acceptable speech'.

The fact this has to be said for something as uncontroversial as 'the music industry eats its own, and has gotten worse in recent years' is wildly preposterous.
Somewhere an LLM is being trained and consuming this thread. Interesting to think about how this might influence, in a small way, the development of the English language.
You were most probably still at grunt-like level by the time you left, this is a very recent article co-written by Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt: America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future [1]

You must of have also missed the tens of billions of dollars (and more) that the people in DC are now more than happy to throw at the US IT industry, all in the name of national security. And you think they’re going to kill one of their golden geese for competition-related reasons? That’s just delusional.

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-america-read...
An OSI license with the Commons Clause merely prohibits for-profit use, which is a reasonable restriction in very many cases.

It's clearly more than just "source available", yet it's still being stuffed into the same bucket, because the freedom to repackage and resell under a different name is withdrawn.
Pyrolysis technology for plastic waste recycling: a review
In what ways does Elixir feel "hacky"? I get that it can be inconsistent at times but the whole language is really a Lisp-2 in disguise.
In the air traffic example it's required so everyone on the radio can understand everything going on around them.
That…has nothing to do with my question. It was a procedural and legal question, not an abstract moral one.
Cannot speak for all Thinkpads, in my case it was the Thinkpad P16s Gen 2 AMD (rolls right off the tongue). It was pretty painless to get everything set up for me.
I feel like every performance chart should have a tag that says "Bigger is better" or "Smaller is better" Makes it a lot easier to scan the charts.
>When the SOFR rate is <1% like during COVID, it's a pretty good deal.

It is very common to make loans based on using stocks, etc. as collateral. But that isn't what people claim happens with the "buy, borrow, die" loophole. The claim is that these loans have incredibly low interest rates (much lower somehow than the IRS Applicable Federal Rate) and the interest is only payable upon death - which might be decades away. That is how the borrower can supposedly avoid capital gains taxes.

Maybe there are rich lenders who don't understand the time value of money, but doing a quick search, I have not found one stat on how many lifetime loans like this are actually being done.
He asked _can_ not _should_: what is the legal mechanism for doing so? Personally I don't doubt there is one but I don't think you know it off the top of your head, so I don't see it as fair to disparage OP for not knowing either.
An n-ball Between n-balls
The AEM Manifesto
I've been meaning to learn Go for a while. This looks like a nice project to go through and pick up a few techniques.
I think more people grasp functional programming all the time, or at least the most salient detail: referential transparency. It’s easy to show the benefits in the small, without getting heavy on academics: pure functions are easier to test, understand, and change with confidence. All three of these reinforce each other, but they’re each independently beneficial as well.

There are tons of benefits to get from learning this lesson in a more intentional way—I know that I changed my entire outlook on programming after some time working in Clojure!—but I’ve seen other devs take the same lessons in multi-paradigm contexts as well.
Yeah, NixOS is admittedly kind of game changing. It's pretty hard to go back once you've gotten used to it.
The 6.10 kernel that comes with Fedora 40 (months after its release) proved so buggy on one of my computers that I assumed the hardware was faulty (the same kernel was stable on my other computer) so the computer gathered dust for 4 months till I saw a comment here about how the issue affects certain hardware models, but not others. (The hardware is stable under version 6.11.)

Aside from time-wasters like that though, I agree: I prefer Linux over Mac -- but Mac is more secure.
Maybe not a useful statistic, but it's definitely 100% not harmless in the correct dosage. It has been successfully used for both murder and suicide. Being water-soluble, just soak tobacco leaves in water and you'll eventually be able to extract a useful amount.

I smoked for >20 years, quit for 10, then started again when dealing with grief after my partner passed away, and smoked for another 10. I get it, literally: high-blood pressure, etc. Although, when quitting, it was always the tar that really drove me crazy.

Another thing I've realized, is that smoking is a double-whammy vector towards heart disease: smoking promotes heart disease directly, but smoking also promotes gum disease, and gum disease promotes heart disease.
Outreach programs typically don't influence the hiring decision. But they influence the stream of people that will try to get an internship at your company.

For instance, if you're a Stanford grad and keep strong ties with the alma mater, teachers there may say a word about you to their promising students, and you'll end up with more people from Stanford than from e.g. Yale. A DEI program could look to fix that by advertising your company to other venues.

> expanding that candidate stream has a very real cost for the business

I don't dispute that, but we've moved from "it would lead to worse hires" to "it would cost money to the company". If the company is willing to put $0 into the issue, business as usual is the only viable solution.
>> Google subsidizes them with money from ads.

if this is true, it's very temporary and very fickle. It is well known that Google rewards (1) big, new initiatives over maintaining long-running projects, and (2) things that power the cash machine over anything else.

Neither of these are good for the OSS ecosystem.
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There's been a lot of reporting on Harris having a much closer and positive relationship with Silicon Valley than Biden, pretty much from the point where Biden withdrawing became a possiblity. Here's an example, but you could find plenty more:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-vice-president-harris-vi...

It makes some sense. Biden was an ancient guy from the east cost, for whom the basis of wealth was manufacturing things and technology was confusing. Harris on the other hand built a political career in San Francisco during Silicon Valley's ascendancy. She would naturally view that industry in a more positive light, and would have had a lot of contacts with and backing from that set during her early career.
> I couldn't get the clerk at the store to understand what was wrong.

Not surprising. Tons of Americans are borderline illiterate. It's one of many things that makes it annoying to live here, especially as the amount of communication done in text increases with more advents in technology.

I recall reading somewhere that the standard reading level for the states is about sixth grade, and if anything that comes across to me as slightly generous. Honestly this is one of my few hopes with the proliferation of LLM: that it will make reading communications from other workers less utterly painful.
Birth of the Bazel
Boring technology just works. That's why it is boring and not appealing to younger developers.

https://boringtechnology.club/
That seems less bad in the sense it would affect fewer people, but the ones it did affect would likely be much more strongly affected. For instance, I could imagine someone with an old daemon that had a too-level loop like:

while True:
try:
serve()
except:
log(‘oops’)

so that it was more or less bulletproof. This might be a highly unpleasant change for those people who counted on it running 24/7 and never dying.

In other words, the current behavior is a minor hassle for many people. That change would be a major hassle for a few.

I’d be all for a deprecation warning on bare excepts. That might nudge a lot of people to fix their code without actively breaking anything.
You have shitton of custom soft there
Open-source just means you can see the source, as opposed to closed-source, which means you can't see the the source.

The visibility of the source has no bearing if the source can be used, modified, distributed, or if the application is gratuitous or not.
I'm curious what are some prototypical use cases for you to embed an ssh sever into an application?
Is Rust still that hard to grok even after a year to you? This is by no means meant to be disrespectful but I'm itching to start learning Rust but having only worked in Python/C#/Go I'm getting cold feet just looking at a Rust codebase

Disclaimer: I'm usually very good at hitting the ground running, but I am just as much bad at "keeping the pace", i.e. diving deep into stuff
I'm interested in his holiday celebrating Elon's social network, but I don't think it's that niche.
Just do it once a year, you'll be immortal.
We (almost) invariably tax money when it changes hands. Like if you own something and then I own it, there's a tax. If I give something of value to someone else, the government takes a cut.

There's a ton of nuance there, sometimes intended to avoid certain negative consequences that feel like double taxation or that provide peverse incentives. But that's the general premise.

If you pay taxes on your income and then use it to buy something from me, I have to pay taxes on it too. That's my income now.

If my father paid taxes on something he earned that's his tax bill. When I get it, I have to pay too. That's my income now.

This is very clear and consistent. Outside of all the people with an interest in pretending otherwise.

Also worth noting that there's no state interest whatsoever in preserving generational wealth. Just none. The fact that kids have to earn their own money instead of a family coasting for generations is a good thing for the most part.

There are some plausible arguments for preserving continuity in certain cases, like community based family owned businesses, farms, that kind of thing. But everybody already agrees with that which is why those kinds of things have been generally exempt from estate taxes for generations. The people telling you otherwise are trying to trick you into caring about their agenda, which is how to not pay taxes on their substantial wealth.
You seem to be seeking to avoid working very much overall rather than avoiding the 9 to 5, which is a very different question. You are looking more at things like FIRE, except you don't want to do the intense burst of productivity route either.

To do that, you need some combo of a skill that pays extremely well for little work and a certain financial frugality. I have found plenty, but they are mostly:

1. Rules arbitrage, so I am exploiting someone's rules in a way they would not appreciate.

2. They do not scale. I don't make substantial income from them.
I live in an area with 3D on Google Maps, and I ONLY get it on… Firefox!

Same for Lisbon. I switched from Chrome to Firefox and bahm! 3D was available!
I wouldn't call these holidays, these are just once-a-year chores (apart from celebrate X).
Your brain changes based on what you did two weeks ago
You’re right that Congress has the ability to pass new directives that could stop a private strike.

My original comment was assuming that Congress in its current state would be unable to pass such legislation.
I don’t think that is the case. Surface roughness and directional changes are big losses. For example a single valve on a high pressure line can have a bigger pressure drop than 2 bars. So 160 km of a pipeline will drop a lot more.