skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NixOS separates packages. If the package foo contains a file /usr/bin/foo, NixOS installs it in /nix/store/67c25d7ad7b2b64c67c25d7ad7b2b64c-foo/usr/bin/foo. In order to make this separation work, Nix must sometimes rewrite binaries so that all references in the binary to /usr/bin/foo becomes references to /nix/store/67c25d7ad7b2b64c67c25d7ad7b2b64c-foo/usr/bin/foo.

The advantage of this approach is that it gives more control to the distro maintainers and the admins of the computer, taking that control away from the "upstream" maintainers of the software being packaged. For example the software being packaged cannot just call the library bar because bar is not at /usr/lib/bar.so like it is in most Linux distros -- it is at /nix/store/17813e8b97b84e0317813e8b97b84e03-bar/usr/lib/bar.so, but of course the software does not know that unless the person creating the Nix package (the packager) arranges for the software to know it (again sometimes by doing a search-and-replace on binaries).

If the upstream maintainer of foo thinks foo should link to version 6 of library bar, but you think it should link to version 5, NixOS makes it easier for you to arrange for foo to link to version 5 than most distros do (even if version 6 of bar is needed by other packages you have installed which you need to use at the same times as your using foo).

Note that if this separation of packages imposed by NixOS has any beneficial security properties, it is merely security through obscurity because there is nothing preventing a binary from covertly searching through the directory listing of /nix/store/ for the name of the library it wants to call. Nevertheless it turns out the be useful to seize some control away from upstream in this way even if technically upstream could seize the control back if it were willing to complicate the software to do so.

People, including the creator of Nix and NixOS (Dolstra), will tell you that NixOS's main advantage is "declarativeness" (which in the past Dolstra called "purity") or the fact that the compilation / building process is deterministic. I believe both positions (NixOS's advantage is declarativeness and the advantage is deterministic builds) are wrong. Specifically, I believe that although deterministic builds are useful, the separation of packages I described is much more useful to most users and prospective users of NixOS.

Another way to summarize it is that NixOS package maintainers routinely modify the software they are packaging to use less "ambient authority".
> Currently the IPU6 integrated in the following CPU models works if the sensor + glue hw/sw is also supported

I know I'm a little out of the loop, but why on Earth is the camera integrated to the CPU!?
You can make an OpenAI compatible local server using LMStudio[1] and load any model you want. It'd have to be on another host though, the s3 has some inference capabilities with addons afair, but nowhere enough grunt to run locally at any usable token/s

[1] https://lmstudio.ai/
I believe the fact that WP Engine relies on WordPress’ servers to run their platform suggests that this is more than just an open-source issue. If the problem were solely related to the source code, WP Engine’s access to WordPress servers wouldn’t be so critical. Although I’m not very familiar with WordPress, it appears their service is highly dependent on WordPress maintaining its servers, which makes the expectation for some kind of financial support seem reasonable.
Weird Nonfiction
> or you can hire a lawyer and pay $50-100K minimum before the trial even starts

What are those lawyers doing that’s worth so much, and that one cannot do themselves if they have time and mental capacity for it?

I don’t know about courts (though I managed my way through a simple divorce case without any need for a lawyer), but e.g. immigration attorneys are typically drastically overpriced for the services they provide - and I’ve dealt with six immigration events (two people, two countries, four events obtaining new residencies and two renewals, all six sharing a lot but being different situations under different clauses - lottery, income, marriage, family reunion) without any significant issues. Contrary to every single lawyer it wasn’t some rocket science - just stuff to learn, forms to fill and protocols to follow. And this makes me wonder if legal is actually as inaccessible and as risky to a layman as lawyers picture it…
I think we should consider companies that create or own their own hardware, the ability to generate cheap electricity and the ability of neural networks to continuously learn.

I still "feel the AGI". I think Ben Goertzel'a recent talk on ML Street Talk was quite grounded / too much hype clouds judgement.

In all honesty, once the hype dies down, even if AGI/ASI is a thing - we're still going to be heads down back to work as usual so why not enjoy the ride?

Covid was a great eye-opener, we dream big but in reality people jump over each other for... toilet paper... gotta love that Gaussian curve of IQ right?
MMOs are people being together, alone

Social media is people being alone, together
What does that have to do with this tweet?
Bill Hicks did a sketch on aliens versus hillbillies, "Bringing a Gun
to a UFO Fight", but it wasn't as funny as this Witkowski guy.
One idea that crossed my mind is that Automattic found a security issue and now they can "force" WPEngine to come up with a mechanism for managing plugins on their own. Then when all this hits the courts they point go "See, they could setup their own infrastructure in less than 30 days. They just choose to use ours to save money.". Or if WPEngine fails to do so, they lose credibility as a Wordpress hosting provider.

Not sure, I'm not a lawyer.
80% of the times I’m experiencing choppy audio on my iPhone 15 Pro Max (18.1b) on Voice Mode (Standard and Advanced). My internet connection is FTTH and WiFi 7 state of the art router.

I wonder if this is because bugs or the crazy load livekit may be going through given the popularity in ChatGPT voice modes right now.
There are still plenty in Massachusetts. Maybe there's some regulation in CA that makes them financially unattractive.
Verificationism[1] is a failed epistemology because it breaks under the Münchhausen trilemma. It's pseudo-scientific like astrology, four humors, and palm reading. Use better epistemologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verificationism
Abstract says PCANS suppresses pathological manifestations and offers protection for at least 4 hours.. I'd like to read the full paper. Anyone?
Can I ask how “top 10” is defined? Is it the most common, or perhaps the most destructive to the individual?
I've been in big tech and out of touch with the real world for a while, and I started a project only a couple of weeks ago to get a feel for what the cool kids are doing in web dev in 2024. So I can't claim any deep authority or experience with a lot of different approaches. But I picked Clerk because it was in a tutorial, and so far so good. It couldn't have been much easier, and the free tier seems more than generous enough to get through the prototype stage.

My main concern is that I don't want to weld too much of my design to any one service provider, so I've got to be careful about taking too much advantage of their feature set and API so that it won't be a pain if they go away or it becomes necessary to migrate to something else.
Definitely not as polished, but I make silly visual things from time to time and recently published my favorite ones here: https://kaeruct.github.io/gallery/
So, internal disinfectant. Who'd have thought.
For DRM free games you can just run the executable directly without steam even being open. Maybe we should prosecute the publishers who don't check the box that allows that?
Hmm? You think it's impossible for someone to go through 10-20 years worth of crypto patents, only to find that one of them contains the exact system architecture that was released as Bitcoin? I guess it's too much work for lazy boys like you :)
> then human invention will give way

What? Would you mind explaining this?
I guess they could. Is that a worse outcome than the on net additional expense of dealing with patent litigation?
One way to protect yourself from bitcoin mining is to not give a WASM program both an access to get incoming data and send data both into a 3rd party server. Another possibility is to threshold computation power on the WASM interpreter so that there's a limit of opcodes processed.
Likely because some core components of health care cannot be comoditised via technology, there's still vast human involvement from diagnosis to surgery, all the way to social support of the aged. Everything is getting stretched at the edges by aging populations in most of the developed world meaning medical and technological advances don't even touch the sides.

I'm in the UK (NHS), I don't see a bright future for systems like the NHS or mostly private systems like the US. There's an extreme core cost which "systems" cannot make disappear.
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
I wonder if bringing in NATO forces to Ukraine, not to fight at the front, but to free up reserves, training/supply/other non-combat units to serve on the front lines would work as the first step. It wouldn't bring NATO forces to direct contact with Russians, but help Ukraine squeeze out the last troops for the battlefield.

Putin would of course cry wolf with his nuclear weapons, but the provocation would still be so limited that it would be hard to justify such a major move.
Maybe "Automattic announces responsible disclosure of safety issue in WP-Engine-plugin" or something like that? It's pretty clear that they are doing it maliciously but I don't think it should be put in the title as if it's a confirmed fact.

I would have liked to make it "WP-Engine-developed plugin" or something like that because it's not specifically a WP Engine plugin, but the title length limit is 80 chars, right?
Sabre or Sable?
Since I got my Gen 7 X1 Yoga I was following the IPU6 driver development pretty closely - how we moved from multiple patches, to DKMS, and now to "it just works". So many of us (and probably countless users in the future) owe so much to the work done by Hans de Goede. Kudos! Intel, on the other hand, could have done a much better job it seems.
Q* turned out to be GPT-o1, which was objectively overhyped.
Personally, I think it's fair to say all Millennium Prize problems are underrated because 99.9% of humans alive have no idea what that is.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to launch a new crew capsule on Monday
You would expect healthcare cost to scale pretty linearly with population size, I think? Number of doctors, hospitals, drug prescriptions etc. are entirely population-driven.

Medications also don't cost more or less based on population size. Although in a single-player market monopoly, I suspect a larger country should have greater cost negotiation power, so this should actually benefit a larger country like the U.S.

A greater factor than population size may be demographics. Countries with older and less healthy citizens would have a larger cost burden.

A poorly designed government structure could also disadvantage a large country like the U.S. This has been observed in the U.K., where successive Conservative governments have centralized the healthcare system over the last two decades, reducing efficiency and increasing cost. Not sure about Switzerland, which is also a federation of states (cantons).
I’m not sure how you would limit the incoming interference to a single bit, unless you’re very good at beam forming antennas.
The video linked in the article looks so quaint, but it was only 70 years ago!

The ladies putting in the components work pretty fast, about 5s per component for smaller ones, so about 720 cph. Top speed pick and place robots can now do 200k cph (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-and-place_machine) so ~300 or so faster. This increase pales considerably to any other aspect of such a process, eg cost of a transistor.
Well, better start making some more YouTube videos then.
My embedded portfolio for the last two years:

Battery Management Systems: Turn on and off 324 single cells in a 200 kWh array, measure their voltages and temperatures and ensure they're cells are not engaged above threshold temperatures (asymmetric for charging and discharging), or below threshold voltages.

Electric Vehicle Chargers: Communicate with car, communicate with charge point operator.

LoRa transceivers: Configure transceiver, send and receive encrypted messages over LoRa.

It was all Rust, and all very interesting.

But as other commenters have pointed out, there is a pay loft compared to other industries.
I was recently made aware of this:

> The 13th Amendment made chattel slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional, yet it included an insidious exception: “Except as a punishment for a crime.” This simple exception means instead of eliminating slavery, the 13th Amendment, ironically, extended it into perpetuity.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=slavery+u...
I don't think the plan that software is not neutral is any more supportive than it is good or bad. If anything, neutrality seems extremely unlikely because if you were to total all of the impacts, it seems exceedingly unlikely that they would perfectly sum up to zero.

That said, you are right in that these judgments certainly depends on your mental model of the world. Ex. Are blogs and websites good or bad. A proponent of radical back to the trees movement would probably disagree. I tend to think logs are a good thing for the world
This is super cool, but a note that on Safari, it's a bit broken during the follow the path stage.
This makes little sense. Commenting on a proposed rule and filing a lawsuit are two entirely different tasks and two entirely different processes. That people were able to submit more comments and do so in an easier manner says nothing about broader "legal risk" to corporations.

And as you can see, the authors are co-founders of some related startup and this article is nothing more than a weak pitch.
Boring SSH Tunnel Manager
Amazon Cognito. If I ever scale past a handful of users and it starts costing money I'll revisit but for a side project? Auth is the least interesting part and I just want it to work securely with no fuss.
It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives
The study referenced in the article is "Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions" [1][2].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07942-8

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722602
For admin panels, I use SSH port forwarding, as no additional configuration is needed for that. For users, I use email invite codes that contain the hash of the server’s public key and are pasted into a stand-alone client. That way, I don't need to maintain TLS certificates.
Good AI researchers and research teams are.

The whole LLM era was started with the 2017 "Attention is all you need" paper by Google Brain/Research and nobody has done anything same magnitude since.

Noam Shazeer was one of the authors.
What’s interesting in that statement is that modern llms are largely built off… reinforcement learning from low paid humans.
only if you tell the truth
My understanding is that it's not the camera that's integrated, but the ISP - image signal processor.
In the US, my "back of the napkin" estimate tends to be 8-15 years, if it passes trials.
What’s your home server specs? I might want to host something like that too but I think I’d need to upgrade.
Are you sure this is the best regex for validation?

There is this regex: https://emailregex.com/

Seeing the amount of code let's me think of left-pad. Minimal code that should just be part of your own project instead of using a third party dependency.

Also obligatory: don't validate emails, just send the user an email and make them confirm by clicking a link in the mail.
I make it a point not to have public user accounts for my stuff because it's such a liability.

For admin, I use HTTP basic auth like the boomer I strive to be.
Leading-zero-means-octal-number is one of the things which got fixed in Tcl 9.0, see https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.0.html#tclchanges - the subsection headed "Numbers".
If there is no unpredictable ASLR then in this case it is as if the surgeon knows exactly where to probe to make you smell strawberries.
> Got any references?

This is a good question, and I worry you won't get a response. Here is a pattern I've observed very frequently in the LLM space, with much more frequency than random chance would suggest:

Bob: "Oh, of course it didn't work for you, you just need to use an ANA (amazing new acronym) model"
Alice: "Oh, that's great, where can I see how ANA works? How do I use it?"
** Bob has left the chat **
There’s a lot of anti-capitalist brainwashing these days that exists to make you just feel guilty about the social/environmental effects of everything that isn’t free.

Being relatively far-left, much of the tech industry is indoctrinated into it.

It seems to them like a not-unintelligent, non-controversial, or even obvious viewpoint because they’ve been swimming in that water their whole lives. It’s a first principle to them and they don’t even know it.
hey, this is cool. i had no idea sandisk was making mp3 players these days. thanks!
Oh, I didn't get that it's supposed to always be listening. Maybe I'm not the target audience but I wouldn't want that anyways. If that's important, that might be a good reason. I think this needs to change in the future though if AI agents are supposed to become popular, I can't imagine buying separate hardware every time. Either the integration in the OS needs to become better or Google/Apple will monopolize the market and be the only options.
This has been out for quite a while, there's even a YouTube video from 2015 showing how to make it using a microwave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7dYcJaCOMU
This is like stating, "What are software engineers doing that's worth so much? There's plenty of free code courses online."

It reminds me of the old story of the plumber being called to a house that's leaking water out of a pipe, and the plumber looks around, finds one valve and gives it a half turn, and then writes a bill for 100$. The home owner is outraged he is charging so much for just a couple of minutes, and the plumber responds, "You aren't paying me to turn a valve, you are paying me to know which valve to turn."

Sure you could learn the law and represent yourself, but you can't expect results to be as good as anyone who practices law might do. It's a knowledge field, and experience matters.
The researchers had a politically balanced group evaluate the quality of news sources, but also isolated the evaluations of Republican-leaning subjects:

> Critically, this unbiased measure produces similar results to those described above using professional fact-checker ratings: when using the ratings of a politically balanced group of laypeople, the average quality of domains shared by people who used Trump hashtags was 2.17 s.d. lower than people who used Biden hashtags (t-test, t(8,943) = 1.0 × 102, P < 0.0001; Fig. 1b). Even when creating a purposefully right-biased quality measure by only using the trustworthiness ratings of Republican laypeople, we still find a qualitatively similar pattern: the average quality of domains shared by people who used Trump hashtags was 1.29 s.d. lower than people who used Biden hashtags (t(8,943) = 61.1, P < 0.0001; Extended Data Fig. 1). To further contextualize the magnitude of this difference, we discretize our politically balanced layperson quality ratings to classify each of the 60 rated domains as low versus high quality (Extended Data Fig. 2), and find that the median Trump hashtag poster shared four times more links to low-quality websites compared with the median Biden hashtag poster.

> Our findings are not unique to the use of Biden versus Trump hashtags to classify users’ political orientation: we find high correlations between sharing lower-quality news sources and conservative ideology as estimated on the basis of the Twitter accounts the users follow39 or the news sites that the users share12,40 (expert ratings, 0.73 < r < 0.88 depending on partisanship/ideology measure, P < 0.001 for all; politically balanced layperson ratings, 0.73 < r < 0.82 depending on partisanship/ideology measure, P < 0.001 for all; see the Methods for methodological details).
> Torvalds, as it turns out, was right: it was primarily the tools, ecosystems, integrations, and frameworks that would define the near future, not the design of the languages themselves.

JavaScript, as a case in point. It's a terrible language.
> sending in piles of applications and waiting to hear back. Applying to lots of jobs online like everyone else turns the process into a lazy, passive, and ultimately frustrating exercise.

This isn't what I do. I've said as much. And I don't advocate that people do this. I completely agree that candidates shouldn't vomit out low effort applications.

So, again, why are you in this thread? You are replying to me but not what I'm saying.

> Who do you think will find a job first? The person who concentrates on identifying possible employers, cultivating contacts and referrals, and getting their CV in front of the hiring manager?

I've literally done this. It gets me nowhere. I get ghosted. At best, I get interviews where they clearly have no intention to seriously consider me as a candidate.

> Or the person scrolling through LinkedIn, waiting, then angrily posting their "I got ghosted" story?

Your advice is lame and this is a caricature. I agree that people shouldn't do this. Maybe you see that I'm on this forum here on this thread doing this and you think this is LinkedIn? Do you think this is LinkedIn?

Your advice is literally just, don't use your resume as a forum to vent. Like, wow, genius dude, did you figure that out yourself bud? Good job!

> None of us can control what employers post, or how they screen, interview, and maintain their job postings, or whether they reply or ghost candidates.

This is the apathy I refer to. Companies can be considerate of their public image and respond to that.

The culture around hiring is a thing that candidates participate in and do affect. I think you would even agree with this when you talk about a "race to the bottom". If applicants submit AI slop or spam companies then companies don't feel like their time is valued and might not reciprocate. Not only do both parties have the power to affect the culture by how they conduct themselves, they have a responsibility to.

My entire point, from the beginning, is that companies don't value my time regardless of how much time or effort I put in. The advice you give about trying to establish relationships or just not submit AI slop in applications is not helpful, in general, because companies, in general, do not value the effort I put in to an application; they are, in general, indiscriminate.

If you've had different experiences, I'm happy for you. But if your goal is just to disagree on this basic fact or insist that nothing can be done about it then this isn't for you and you have nothing of value to add to it.

A website like this at the very least can help identify what companies do value their candidate's more than others and act responsibly. So that people like me don't overgeneralize their negative experiences with one company to all the others.

And yeah I'd expect that could affect the public image of companies with anti-social behavior. Like every few months when there's another thread and someone posts about how the hiring process at Canonical is absurd for asking them 30 questions about your time in high school, that generally isn't a good look.
If I run a service that hosts VS Code in the cloud, should I have to pay Microsoft for my users to be able to access the extension marketplace or receive updates?
Proposed New OpenPGP Cipher Block Modes Could Cause an Interoperability Disaster