skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have it, but people aren't willing to use it. Using a real libre system will always be a little harder than using a nice and polished billionaire funded walled garden. For obvious reasons. People just aren't willing to sacrifice even a little bit of comfort for the freedom, so products like Librem or PinePhone get mostly just complaints, comparison with Apple, and current users are ridiculed as nerds or weirdos. We will never have freedom as long as this is the prevailing culture. It's up to us, the customers, the commenters.
I use swupdate myself with buildroot.

https://sbabic.github.io/swupdate/swupdate.html
I'm convinced that most of the problems inherent in patents can be resolved by replacing the monopoly they grant with compulsory licensing. It's important for patent holders to get paid of course, but the monopoly aspect stifles the very innovation that patents are supposed to protect. The monopoly is also bad for consumers because competition will be scarce, disincentivizing reasonable pricing.
If they let me insure my stuff for 100x of what it's worth, I lose all the incentive to prevent damage.

Even in the legit cases the insurance companies have to account for the "don't worry, it's insured" mindset. Keeping the ceiling on the insurance value is intended to leave at least some of the incentive to prevent the damage with the owner.

The insurance companies cannot rely solely on the "don't be careless" contract clause.
Where I grew up, problem thieves would just go missing, to be found years later dead at the bottom of a mine shaft.
Android was fortunate to recruit Matias Duarte with experience from Danger Sidekick and Palm WebOS.
P.S. I understand you have no particular reason to believe me, and if I were in your shoes I wouldn't, either.

If there is any takeaway here, it would be that historical accounts are always suspect. History is written by the victors, as they say.
For sure. Tooling on top of the core model functionality will absolutely increase the utility of the existing prompt-based workflows, too, but my gut says the diminishing returns on model training is going to keep the "good enough" goalposts much much further into the future with video than with text and still images.
>they tried to test Staff-level skills within technical interviews by expecting folks to call out the interviewers on the vague requirements and push for clarity. Needless to say, I lack the guts to successfully do that.

I think LC style questions which are frustrating during an interview process are best addressed by explaining to the interviewer why you think it's not applicable to you providing value were you to take the role and then proceeding to solve it as best you can calmly. Shows both willingness to participate in the process and staff-level critical thinking skills.
Clothes at Uniqlo, the cotton shirts and hoodies are superb

Also the second-hand clothing stores are just incredible to peruse
I was just refuting the “only Chinese phones have alt stores” factoid.
Side note have a read about his unfortunate life history events.
That is a generation gap as well, it appears younger folks don't read, everything must be video now.
> All the killer apps are already released for those platforms, trying something new won't give the essentials to communicate with others and participate in society as of today.

I don't know about that. What's left are the things the existing platforms won't give you.

Example: uBlock, but for apps. Runs the app in a container and blocks network requests to tracking servers, or otherwise modifies the app to remove misfeatures. Think: Game Genie for social media apps.

The problem is you don't just need the killer app, you also need all of the existing apps, and hardware to run it on. So the real problem is you need your new system to be able to do that, but simultaneously be able to run common Android apps on common Android hardware.
JFC

His last two paragraphs are so egregious I segfaulted when reading them.

Did he really quote Rodney King on why we cant all get along as a response to layoffs that he survived, and then tells everyone that his group is hiring?

Fuck this guy. I don't care if it hurts my career. I wouldn't work with someone who is this big an asshole cause I wouldn't trust them to not throw me under the bus the second its expedient for them.
The incentive would be for you to have a "happy pillow accident" in which you get $1M. Of course, you might think that's good for you but the rules have to apply for everybody, by definition.
Personally I believe it is interesting since it shows the current state of the art for the 3 LLMs.

I was surprised that Claude was able to identify the language and explain the code.

But, please feel free to downvote my comments. I guess the aggregate in the end will demonstrate whether it was a useful comment or spam + bullshit GPT slop.
https://archive.ph/XXjyK
I see. so there are _two_ replies necessary here.

first, to your question above, repeated here. indeed meta "guesses" your age, gender identity, sexual orientation, political party affiliation, stance on various political issues, and many other traits, consumer profile and all. and meta guesses this from your interaction with your feed, from what you like or dislike and what you share and don't share, and where you comment in or don't. and it's accurate enough for your their purpose, placing content you'll positively react to, positive solely in the sense of those buying the content placement. that's the meta ad business. have profiles that are good enough to allow content targeting.

is it scientific, fully spot on, diagnostically sound? hell no. is it good enough to overturn Britain (brexit...) or get trump im office? you bet.

that's the first question, and the one you ask here and above.

the second is what I'm talking about in my nit. it's about assumed and hypothesized nuances of gayness, and the language to express those nuances. and what I'm saying is that the concepts of "only gay feelings, attractions" vs "living by it" are a moral concepts. in other words, the language, the words in the questions you've posted imply, carry, a good and evil dichotomy. and I point that out and reject it.

you are not less gay if you are closeted and suppress that trait. "oh I don't _do_ gay things, I 'only' am attracted to men, but I wouldn't allow myself to actually fall in love" is being gay, period. closeted. self-suppressing. but: gay.

claiming you were only gay when you kissed may be an environmental necessity (oppressive states or affiliations) I give you that.

but being gay is about attraction. fun fact: social sciences measure it by measuring arousal. if gay content turns you on, you're gay, scientifically speaking.

simples.
Rather than using a custom update script something like swupdate is probably a better option which is well supported in buildroot and can do A/B dual-copy in addition to other layouts.

https://sbabic.github.io/swupdate/scenarios.html
I grew up in this town, and even had to navigate this Magic Roundabout on my driving test. It's not so bad once you understand how it operates, but you have to pay attention.
Yes but what does initialized mean? Is that like an early bootup thing?
Yes, when an invasive species spreads from where it was first introduced, it remains an invasive species.
> If they let me insure my stuff for 100x of what it's worth, I lose all the incentive to prevent damage.

So what, though? Can't they just adjust the premium to account for that? It's not like they can't do their own modeling of what the item is likely worth -- if they see it's 1% of what you stated, then they can just as well cite you a ridiculous premium so that you wouldn't feel it's worth it. What's wrong with that?
I am ok with the canvas types underneath the artworks in a gallery being more or less the same but hey, go wild if it blows back your hair.
Make them play sounds of approaching footsteps and gunfire.
If thieves had emptied my storage unit before I married my wife and she made the decision for me, they would have been doing me a favour.

I don’t think any advanced security storage solution is likely to get many clients since they usually choose based on pricing.
I don’t think any gas engine built in the last twenty to thirty years has problems with 10% ethanol.
But possibly not its maintainability.
> What do you think about black box/IoT/whatever hosts on your LAN pinging external hosts with unknown payloads while you're not using them?

I think that 1. they can connect out via TCP or UDP much more easily than ICMP, 2. that blanket blocking outbound connections is a short path to madness, 3. if you don't trust a device on your LAN you should unplug it or isolate it, both of which are more effective and less disruptive, and 4. depriving yourself of the most fundamental network diagnostic tool in the name of security is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Also, use two routers in serial. One is provided by my isp, the other is my own. The chances of both getting compromised at the same time are lower.
After a second look I realize I got carried away and my earlier claim about the Ukraine war being harder on civilians in one year than the Vietnam war in a decade was not fair to the Vietnamese.

My point about the other conflict is just that russia fought them after WW2. Sorry if this was unclear.
I think it’s forking Wordpress to get rid of the madman who is bdfl while not being actually being benevolent. Who is he going to target next, development agencies?
Interesting way for a venture studio to support a founder.
Other electronic devices (laptops, tablets, etc) are far less likely to contain anything like this, because Apple, Huawei, Dell etc manage their supply chains and don't just let anyone make products carrying their brand.

There are so many manufacturers of walkie-talkies and pagers, it's essentially a wild west. No one knows how many PETN-laced pagers were manufactured. The ones that exploded were the ones that happened to have certain phone numbers and were in range at the time.

It's unclear how many of those might have PETN, which is essentially undetectable. It doesn't give off any vapors, so sniffer dogs cannot detect it. 6 grams of it can blow the fuselage of the plane. It doesn't show up on X-Rays.
I enjoy LC problem solving (but puzzles like Advent Of Code even more). However, I dislike the interviews that use these types of artificial problems, where the interviewer then only cares about an optimal solution no matter how ugly you wrote it. Once even had an interviewer tell me to “stop focusing on writing it nicely” because I wrote some type aliases (in Go). On the plus side, these interviews can also show you which companies you would not want to work for, as in the example I just gave :)
So it was not justice - just predatory capitalism finding out that there is always a bigger fish. Cloudflare wasn’t doing that from goodness of their heart, they were protecting their own profits.
Egoless Engineering
I’m not saying I condone it…

…but I understand.
> I'm not convinced voter fraud is such a "distraction" or insignificant because 1) there is a ton of concern about this with multiple court cases etc.

I'm not in the US, I don't care for US politics, however ..

Wasn't it the case that one side (Trump's Republicans) bought more than a hundred voter fraud allegations before the courts?

Wasn't it the case that not a single one of these cases found in favour of the plaintiffs? That many, if not most, were rejected for lack of any evidence of any real substance?

Was it not the case that a number of high profile not-Trump Repuublicans were on record stating this was large a giant waste of time and total BS?

Is there any actual solid evidence of actual significant voter fraud that actually took place (aside from a handful of Republicans making single additinal votes in names of their relatives to "prove" it possible) that was accepted by a Court? (ie. none of that 2000 Mules batshit conspiracy fiction)
Don’t sleep on any of the boxes in the business model canvas!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Model_Canvas

The most important thing I think that activity teaches you is that business is a huge multidimensional space, and you can always find a quiet region within which there’s probably some profitable point. So much startup advice is basically how to structure a walk through this space.
Let me know when Moldbug has a cookbook: https://archive.org/details/marinetti-la-cucina-futurista-19...

Come to think of it, Marinetti may not have reached the heights himself, but we should give him credit for the assist[0]: not only Mayakovsky, but also Gibson[1,2].

For that matter, does Marinetti's habit of prefixing with aero- and claiming everything goes better with aluminium presage recent years' habit of suffixing with -coin and claiming everything goes better with AI?

Mozzies bite, which regular flies don't. But was the blue tail fly another example of "let's you and him fight"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCMCKhMsSjo

[0] funny that games like LoL give explicit credit for the assist but the popular view of mathematics ignores that factor? the link of a node, in graphspeak?

[1] even echoing down to Shnur & Glukoza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuHbs3306RI&t=121s (russians love their chemistry references? is the city in the later flashback supposed to be marina bay Singapore?)

[2] and while Gibson concerns himself with "high tech low life" (a cyberpunk chengyu?), he explicitly leaves a place in his world which is the equivalent of Huxley's BNW islands; the rich kids are up in the orbital colonies: https://nss.org/wp-content/uploads/Bernal_Interior_AC76-0628...

EDIT: or a kid's book: https://www.amazon.com/Dubbie-Double-Headed-Eagle-Eduard-Hab...

(and there's kind of a horseshoe thing going on: the few high tend to be foxes, because keeping the many middle lions in check can't be done by force, but the even more numerous low have their own trickster gods [El-ahrairah, wily Odysseus, etc.] because the low of course never have force, but might've been naturally endowed with guile — the signifying monkey, lion, and elephant are simpler, with 3 actors, than the 4 actors of slave, master, blue tail fly, and horse)
Delaying normalization is much more likely to work well when you use big numbers, e.g. 64-bit or bigger integers.

With 32-bit integers, overflows caused by omitting the normalization step may be so frequent as to remove any advantage from delaying the normalization.

It is probably best to have a fixed-point operation library that implements both options for normalization, so you may test an application with both delayed and immediate normalization, and choose which is better.
Awesome 0.1 release. Brisa simplifies the SSR complexity with a focus on Web Components. Defines server and client data flows using the power of signals. With minimal overhead and a straightforward structure. Brisa has a short learning curve, high efficiency, and a clear approach to data management.
> what would be the benefit of running such closed apps in unmodified Linux VMs?

That you wouldn't need the official attested VM anymore.

> why would open-source Linux VMs trust closed apps with binary blobs?

The point is that with an open-source Linux VM, the user could decide what to trust instead of some megacorp deciding for everyone.

> vast corpus of mature open-source software applications

The problem is that there's a lot of proprietary apps that are both (1) necessary for a lot of real-world things, e.g., the SeatGeek app for tickets to shows, and (2) not replaceable with FOSS because the company will ban you if you connect to their API with a third-party client.
Why would the government ever force carriers to accept uncertified devices? So they can emit interference on cellular frequency bands? So they can violate SAR limits and burn people?
Hey, I'm looking at mirror. :D

> Between LFS and Stage 1 and 2 Gentoo installs back in the early 2000s

> I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers

LFS and Gentoo is what made me understand Linux system.
> The incentive would be for you to have a "happy pillow accident" in which you get $1M. Of course, you might think that's good for you but the rules have to apply for everybody, by definition.

This doesn't pass the smell test, though. The premium would take care of that. You've told them you have a pillow, and that you want it insured for $1M. They could easily look at it and go "hm, this is worth $10", and give you a absurd premium of $999,900 in exchange for your absurd valuation. So happy accidents won't be worth it anymore. What's wrong with just letting the premium take care of it?
I agree. Someone writing type aliases to make the code safer and easier to reason about would be a big green flag for me. It also helps me see how you’re modelling the solution.

In day to day work this is much better aligned with the skills I care about.

I’m currently pretty exhausted by this stuff. I need a job but some days I get interviews I almost want to turn down because I discover I’m going to get grilled with leetcode problems. I’m so tired of it.
Purity Is Great for Collaboration
Please, and I say this for (almost) all of us, grow up.
I don't buy it. This "only what's in the legal" is so silly, and ppl who keep writing it are self-identifying as not understanding whole branches and histories of community- and culture-building
Seems like a dumb idea for Broadcom; they’re going to keep loosing customers to proxmox and others. Why such a hike?
i dont think you're wrong btw. Just was curious if there were specific pockets within EMEA that are better or worse
I could not read the whole piece, I cried. this all is too human for humans who forgot to be.
Whisky.
Japanese cameras from the 1960s.
Matt Mullenweg now receives Blind signup emails
Yes. A maximal value of k can be calculated as (largest weight in the graph) times (number of nodes in the graph). At that point you can do binary search to find the smallest k for which a solution exists.

Under the assumption that the <= question can be answered in polynomial time, this entire algorithm will also complete in polynomial time.
I really wasn’t focusing on the USA and its red-tape zoning and refurb laws. For example in the EU, lots of cities have 1-3 city halls at this point. The older ones are often repurposed into government offices or museums.

But what if they disappeared entirely and we built something new in its place? What if the entire block was completely transformed at some point?
Ask HN: Is Free Will an Illusion?
Given deterministic causality, where every event has a prior cause, it would appear that free will is an illusion.

While it may seem like we’re choosing our actions, determinism implies that this is an illusion: if all our actions are determinable from prior causes, then we are just complex machines. There’s no space for free will.

But from another point of view, this claim seems absurd. Even if the logic makes sense, the conclusion suggests a mistake. We seem to make all kinds of decisions all the time, and embracing the belief that free will is an illusion would require many social concepts and contracts to be rewritten.

This tension can be represented by a spectrum of beliefs:

1. Cynics believe free will is a harmful illusion. Because free will is an illusion, we only fool ourselves by embracing it.

2. Illusionists believe free will is a useful illusion. Even if it is an illusion, it’s a dangerous one to dispense with. If people didn’t believe they were responsible for their actions, they’d be less likely to behave ethically.

3. Compatibilists believe in a limited form of free will. Besides free will, physical causality holds. They believe we have limited control over our decisions, which have limited influence over our lives.

4. Idealists believe our will is more than free: it's connected to supernatural forces (e.g. God). They believe we have more control over our decisions and our lives than physical causality can explain.

Which do you most identify with?

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If you replace the word "software" with the word "Fentanyl" in your sentence, do you still like it?

The sentence is still true regardless of whatever noun you put in it. If the noun itself changes your mind then you should either clarify or reconsider your position
> One is that many Staff-level roles just don’t require upkeep of the same technical skills that seniors need

Im sorry, what? I just cant stand proliferation of this meme and ideas usually associated with it (“you don't need CS knowledge”, avoid writing code at all cost, “everyone has not idea what they’re doing”, etc)
:-) I was expecting the counter to be degrees and to change the inclination. It didn't. The disappointment.
I'm sorry but if you're calling RL "ANA (amazing new acronym)" you're out of your depth on this one.
>it doesn't do rootless windows (Android apps are rendered into a single window that contains an entire Android UI)

If you launch individual Android programs via `waydroid app intent ...`, they render as separate windows in the parent compositor. The single window for the entire Android UI is what you get if you run `waydroid show-full-ui`.
People might have more than one reason that they are at a company. Many people have a job because they do indeed want and need money, but they have their particular job because they like the work there more than the work at other jobs they may have taken.

If it was just about the money they would have probably left. They are well known enough to almost certainly be able to quickly get another job making at least as much money. Add in the 6 months severance they would have gotten and leave is the money maximizing option.
> why should it matter what others are willing to pay for it?

Because the actual value of the item determines your incentive to commit fraud.

If you insure a $10 pillow for $10, when you damage your pillow, you personally will definitely be out $10's value in goods in the hope you'll recover that $10 later. Since your only outcome is mildly negative, you don't have any incentive to file a false claim.

If you insure your $10 pillow for $1 million, as soon as the insurance is in hand, will have a strong incentive to destroy the pillow and try to collect a million dollars, since $1 million - $10 = $999,990.

This incentive exists regardless of what premium you had paid for the insurance (since it was a prior cost), and can't really be perfectly mitigated. Yes, you can criminalize fraud, ask for evidence, etc. but courts aren't perfect and it's always possible to be clever and fool people.

Also, some people are honest, and others are dishonest. An insurance company can't perfectly tell ahead of time who is who. Let's say I quote you $500k premium to insure your pillow for $1mm. A fraudster will see this as an opportunity to profit by $500k - $10. An honest person would see this as a terrible deal. Therefore only fraudsters would take this deal. If you continue to work backwards, as an insurance company you know there's no premium that you could quote that would end up in honest people taking this deal—there's no stable equilibrium where the premium charged ends up outweighing the (potentially fraudulent) claims.

Btw, this situation is famously described in George Akerlof's paper The Market for Lemons (he called it "market collapse"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons#Conditio...

Another way to see this: rationally as an insurance company, if you ask me for a policy for $1mm on a pillow, due to the risk of fraud I will likely be quoting you close to $1mm as the premium. You (as an honest person) rationally would never take this policy. Therefore, I shouldn't even bother offering it, to save everyone involved time and energy.
A company I work with is dumping VMware as fast as they can. Direct orders from the c-suite after Broadcom raised the prices by 300%.
It wasn't able to explain the code, it was wrong.