skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for me there are two kinds of pain in software troubleshooting:

1) I Don't Know The State: there's some weird little bit of state hanging around somewhere I don't know about that's messing with my end result. Once I learn about this state, correcting it is trivial.

I hate this kind of problem solving, it's not mentally stimulating, I don't learn a lot, looking up answers online is often not helpful. And when I fix it, I don't gain a lot beyond just the problem not happening anymore. (examples: secret config file i didn't know about, an application edited its own config, file permissions were wrong, symlink was wrong, cache is invalid, etc.)

2) I Don't Understand The Concept: the idea of what something is supposed to do or why hasn't clicked for me yet. Getting to that state will take some time as I wrap my head around it. Once I do, I have that knowledge forever and can build on it to understand even more concepts.

I _love_ this kind of problem solving. It's mentally stimulating, it builds on itself, increases mastery, problems are easily found / troubleshot online because people are dealing with similar issues and not their own machine's personal state.

NixOS has been almost entirely the second kind of problem solving for me. The first two weeks were basically a full time job of fussing with my config but once I got it, I got it forever. Writing my first derivation was confusing, but now it's easy and it'll always be easy.

I think this is why Nix has been able to "get away with" having the abysmal, fragmented documentation that it has for so long - it's so good at being a near-stateless, all-encompassing declarative configuration that even outdated blog posts, random people's personal configs on github, even the nixpkgs source code can be helpful enough to solve your problem (and that's often all you have to go on!!!)
> You have companies doing evil shit and the sentiment is basically if it's not illegal, then it's fine.

Stands to reason, assuming a democratic nation. The law is to the will of the people so when something is deemed not fine, they do make it illegal. There will always be outliers who hold different views, but when randomly meeting other people the chances are you will most likely meet those who fit within the majority.
It's not just by region, but at the city level too. There are often significant differences between salaries in capital cities vs others, as one would expect.

The cost of living is different, larger companies in major population centers have more capital, etc.
I usually agree with EFF, but this clearly crosses a limit of promoting and glorifying violence. In this case the user is clearly in violation platform TOS.
What if you have perfect information and conclude that your chance of being in a terrible accident, requiring tens of millions of dollars of medical care and property repair, is 1% for every billion miles of driving, and you’re the unlucky person who happened to be behind the wheel. Will you have enough money in your piggy bank to cover it?

Maybe you could argue you shouldn’t have to cover medical expenses if we had a single payer system—the money to mitigate medical risk from driving still has to come from somewhere.

Maybe you could argue that damage to property should come from those property owners’ insurance.

What if you don’t get into a terrible accident, you just get into a boring accident where you total your car and don’t hurt anyone. You know the odds of this are low, chances are it won’t happen in your life, but it will probably happen to someone you know. What if it happens to you, when you’re very young and have a new car? You haven’t had a chance to put away any money in your piggy bank yet. You need to replace your car now. How does a piggy bank help you?
I'd like to see a version of this in PPP for that reason. Or adjusted by median rents.
>the right to choose who you associate with

how can the customer have a right to choose when there is only one option due to [de-facto] monopoly? Or say there are only 2 options and each has deplatformed the customer/user. How the right to choose would work for that customer/user?

Monopoly's right to choose their customers destroys the last remnants of the customers' right to choose (which gets already severly damaged when the monopoly forms).
Or even better, before the code review. If your engineers commit substandard code that was generated by an AI, they’re not doing their job. It’s ok to miss some things, but "breaking the codebase" should absolutely not happen.
Every week since she was about six months old, I've taken my daughter with me to get groceries. She's absolutely fascinated by the grocery store: the rolling cart, the colors and textures of produce ("ta-to!"), the other shoppers, the illustrations on packaging ("bear!"). I hand her items and give her their names. She shakes them, rotates them, repeats their names back to me.

But every time we go, I see at least one child my daughter's age or younger staring mindlessly at a phone or tablet, oblivious to their environment and the parent pushing their cart. It just seems sad.
I also consider myself extremely lucky in that regard.

> the key seems to be getting out of the corporate world, away from companies with a singular focus on profit-making and competition

In my experience there are still healthy corporations out there. The signals I now look for are: profitable, privately held, not pursuing IPOs or buyers, grow headcount slowly (if at all), have never needed layoffs, promote engineers into positions of authority, and have high average employee tenure.

It's refreshing to work in an organization where people feel secure enough to make long-term investments in infrastructure, people, and projects that may not pay dividends for many years. (And to be the beneficiary of decades of prior long-term investments.)
Throw the following at your LLM's passive income calculation:

- income: tech sector salary median

- spending: median spending + 25%

- passive income target: median net income

Now add some indie project income as a topping.

If you're not very close to passive income after ten years, you're doing it wrong. If you're not financially responsible for lots of people, that is.
Concrete is rampant in developing nations as it's cheap, scalable, and hardy.
It is only cheap because of purchasing power parity, labor costs, resource parity. (For example, construction workers in IN are part of the servant class, and essentially are not paid. they live in the construction sites before it's completed/move on to the next.)

In the west.....a concrete/rebar home would cost more per sq foot than a modern hardwood/brick luxury home, because a contractor would have to do some pretty insane procurement, and work...a lot.

Plastics/Vinys/Composites used in the west satisfy 2 of those 3 qualities listed earlier, anyway You could even call them hardy as compared to old thatched roofs, sod walls etc.

Now.....let's be realistic.
70 MPH firestorms are historically devastating. Your concrete home in this scenario is destroyed and no longer structurally sound due to the heat stress, exploded water pipes, carcinogens. Everything is fuel when the heat/wind is that high. And if it isn't fuel, it's getting beat up by it.

I have problems with the way this fire waas handled (IE, not maintaining a properly paid wildland force or AIR corps of said force), but I really can't see mass concretization as away out.
Simply put: anyone building in LA right now is on some good drugs.
The one that won their case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
Possibly related, talked to an LLM about the whole "who actually does nested transactions" thing and commented about it above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42702610
Your answer explains why the US is creating a failed society. It either implodes or needs to control other countries to maintain its profit and consumption levels.
Actor systems can handle unpredictable errors and if you watch a recent talk by Douglas Crockford about actors/Misty there are Erlang-like "let it crash" examples.
I find that incompatibilities are less of an issue with Safari than FF simply because Safari actually gets tested. Too many people with iPhones to ignore it, at least in US.
Of course, it depends on your situation, but even taking that into account the gap is usually still quite massive
So a server that's dedicated to well-supported(by nixos) services running NixOS is awesome. it's easy to upgrade every 6 months and generally very painless. Everything else is a PITA though. Of course if you use an LTS like Debian Stable or Ubuntu, you only have to upgrade every 5-ish years, so unless you always need the latest and greatest release of something, it maybe isn't worth the hassle.

Trying to hack on other people's junk with NixOS is just asking for pain. Just use Ubuntu LTS like everyone else. That's generally easy and painless.
Mr. President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!
You misunderstood me. I am grateful they are sharing the source code for review. My problem is with the wording. Open source means something different by definition. If they leave this project in the dust and someone else continues to maintain it, because he depends on it, this would be illegal and they could sue if they want years later. With open source this can not happen to you. It is a huge difference.
> When the First Amendment was written, the idea of Visa was impossible.

[Citation Needed].

Straight up, a singular company having control over something was well established at the time of the First Amendment.

1. "Monopoly" is a greek word which was used to describe a company that had a monopoly in Greece. This long pre-dates the first amendment.

2. Kings routinely gave out exclusivity of a product to a company, this is the whole backstory on the Tea Act [1].

3. Being denied access to something isn't a new concept. They could've written the first 10 amendments to address private citizens and choose not to. It's not like private citizens didn't try to surpress speech.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act
I use Hugo for my own site, now, but it's not a WordPress replacement for a lot of use cases. A single techie's personal blog? Sure. A small company that has five or six people who have to post to a website? No. An organization that wants to integrate a sales cart and such, without a full-time developer? Absolutely no.

Until last September I used to encourage non-tech folks to just use WordPress.com and pay for the hosting. It was pricier than DIY solutions, but also I was happy to suggest it to help put $$$ in Automattic's pockets for WordPress development. I'm sad I can't recommend it in good faith anymore.
Why would they require these hours? In the U.S. I think they would need to pay time and a half for anything north of 40-hours. Seems like it would be cheaper to hire more workers and not force the overtime. Then they might be able to increase the salary some. Everyone wins except the people who are willing to sacrifice the time for time and a half pay.
> A lot of cyclists feel safer on the sidewalk because cars do not respect cyclists. It unfortunately does make it more dangerous for pedestrians.

It's like the food chain, except cyclists don't seem to respect either pedestrians or motorists.
it's first step. you gotta do something to bootstrap, solve chicken-egg problem. From what I can see around me, the "made in america" is a no joke branding. a lot of pppl going tobuyjust because of that. and may even consider it as social status and their policial support.
Agreed. The guy had a lot of choices; he could have used a silhouette behind prison bars, or a stylized monopoly-man, or even peasants with pitchforks. But a shooting target is waaay too close to an explicit call for murder.
Good for them. So what? Those aspects of the Dutch, even if granted, don't prove or disprove anything about the Sikhs. This conversation isn't trying to claim that religion is good and is the only way to be good. Saying that nice is overrated doesn't really even intersect with the assertion that the Sikhs are very nice. It's not like nice is bad, and my use of the word nice was just a catch-all for a whole bag of virtues, not some narrow definition that means they smile while still abusing peoiple or something. In a follow-up comment I also said "integrity". Is integrity overrated?

What did you think you were proving or disproving? And why did you feel the need to in the first place in response to something so benign? What about the original assertion is so threatening?
It was absolutely a strawman for two reasons a) because I never said the digital credentials became property of the recycler, or was legal. You insinuated I did. That's moreover irrelevant because e-waste is often shipped outside of the US or EU, leaves their jurisdiction, ends up in LDCs, and goes through multiple intermediaries ( think like the Toyota "ISIS truck" case).

The other part of the strawman is b) nobody said anything about a "proposal for a business practice", you invented that, honestly no idea why. It's the opposite of what I meant: that individuals at any point in that chain could do questionable stuff.

We can conjecture all we want about the legal basis of accessing digital media that has been donated and shipped abroad to be recycled/landfilled, esp. in an untraceable way to countries without much rule of law; there are tons of reasons why this is unlikely to see the inside of a courtroom in a hurry.
In what way does the existence of these cards incite violence? A would-be malicious actor previously would not have been able to plan targets if not for this card set? It's not like this person is a public figure calling for the heads of these CEOs.
The discourse, has been taken over by hype - I'll give you that. I'm in the space [1] and I'll try my best to answer.

Building on your definition, I'd say an agent is is a collection of LLM calls with structured outputs.

You can give an LLM some context and ask "what's the next step?". And agent does that recursively, with some exit condition.

Those structured outputs inform the control flow of the agent, so much so that at the end of the execution, you can argue that the agent has "written its own control flow".

The structured outputs may produce:
- Function calls, and their inputs (tool calling)
- Some reasoning text (for the context)
- An exit condition evaluation (done=true)

Hope that helps!

[1] https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable
Both pre-tax and take-home are lower in europe. Difference is lower than it looks at first sight. But it's still there.

Eastern europe is doing pretty good though. Salaries are very close to western part, but cost of living is waaaay lower.
made in america is also a federally defined standard that these chips categorically fail to meet. assembled in the united states is more appropriate, and even then if you didnt hire americans to do it, what was the point?

this is starting to feel like the best of intentions that has spiraled into a political theatricality where close-enough will be good-enough.

given the current state of declining US college enrollment, the affordability crisis of college, the growing wage gap, the failure of the minimum wage to keep up with the cost of living, and the failure to reform predatory US student lending practices I do not see how the US will in the next 25 years ever manage to curate the type of braintrust for which it was once renowned across the globe.
Does anyone know the general path to get involved in this? Perhaps its romantic, but this seems important, it seems hard, and it seems like something I can be proud of working on (as opposed to maximizing ad clicks). I'm just a SWE w/ a Comp sci degree, so what's the entry-point here?
Maybe ESG Is Illegal Now
This is what our DM does. It works really well for NPCs and saves him a shit ton of time and effort.
Not just long hours right? Speaking to Taiwanese friends involved in semiconductor work (not TSMC employees though) it's the shift work that's really hard to manage in the US.
But then I would also argue that work restrictions are illegal as well.

Why would we want to restrict any high-skilled already wanted candidates from any country in the world? Why we forbid them working and paying taxes here? Bums on the streets don't pay taxes (for many reasons), but we give them permission to work. While we at the same time forbid foreign highly paid professionals to pay taxes here?
> If a trans colleague identifies a way that you disagree with, does this give you free pass to misgender them and deny their identity?

Yes, of course. If you believe that false claims of an opposite-sex identity constitute a harmful lie, why should you be compelled to endorse it?
Been to a shooting range lately? Extremely common.
https://archive.ph/I7L0X
I'm sure it's a problem for some. But at my company we've been using open/libreoffice for about 20 years and I can count on one hand the times it has actually been a problem.

And all our customers often send us MS Office documents. They never use the fancy features.
I can’t relate to that. When I see a banner ad I find it obtrusive whether it’s from Bank of America or my favorite HAM radio company. If I’m in the market for a product I value hearing the testimonials of people in my life rather than an advertisement.
Pronouns are not a big part of any cis person’s identity because everything matches their identity. Trans people need to affirm their gender against what nature and society afforded them since they were born. It’s inconsiderate to ignore that.
in what sense could you _possibly_ argue this

from both legal and realpolitik lenses the Taiwan issue is fully legitimate. your country has done far worse to Cuba for far less. Even setting aside the historical context and the Chinese civil war, what is illegitimate about not wanting an antagonistic and belligerent foreign power installing weapons in an island mere miles off the mainland coast?
Out of curiosity, what's bad about Safari's PWA support? I use it for a bunch of things from Plex to my NAS, and never ran into any issues. In fact, it works better than Windows, in that Safari will open external links in PWAs in my default browser (on Windows, if you use Edge for PWAs, it will insist on opening itself for external links as well).
They can’t predict the future, they can’t predict exactly when you’ll get in an accident.

Perfect information means they know your risk level to the best possible accuracy, which would really only apply to populations.

Perfect information means they insure 1000 people and predict they’ll have one bad accident per year. After ten years they covered for ten accidents. All ten could have occurred in the first year and they would still be correct.
I was taught that you want, usually, more threads per block than each SM can execute, because SMs context switch between threads (fancy hardware multi threading!) on memory read stalls to achieve super high throughput.

There are, ofc, other concerns like register pressure that could affect the calculus, but if an SM is waiting on a memory read to proceed and doesn’t have any other threads available to run, you’re probably leaving perf on the table (iirc).
A classic essay on the subject:

https://norvig.com/21-days.html

Good luck.
Actually, only today I noticed that Cursor's Agent Composer now can properly respond to linting errors.

In my typescript codebase case, it solves a lot of problems, it probably helps that I use tRPC type rather aggressively (i.e. using UUID types, separate dates and datetimes etc).

A few weeks ago it wasn't working nearly as well in my experience.
> Fascinating. I'm sure you're not lying and that this is true from your perspective.

I guess the difference is that I actually hang out with left-wing people and have been doing so for decades, whereas you base your opinions on rage bait news and internet interactions? You may think Trump voters are well-informed and you may think the moon is made of cheese. In both cases there are mountains of evidence to the contrary. I don't know what being wrong has to do with tolerance.
That seems more realistic, maybe a little on the low side but it definitely varies by industry (e.g. game developers get paid way less).
Gene Therapy Halts Vision Loss from Retinitis Pigmentosa
Quite literally the Rockefeller/Buffett/Gates playbook.
"Competition is a sin!"
California has the worst taxation scheme in the US, living and working there is not the way to get ahead financially in America anymore
DJI Flip official: the unique bicycle spoke folding drone starts at $439
Maybe it's not, for you. But I don't think the audio quality of Google/Nest speakers is generally as good as for Sonos.
I'd note this doesn't meet the legal limit of promoting violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action

(This strict standard saved Trump on Jan 6, incidentally.)
EDA software?
The problem is that many governments are starting use social media as official platforms.

Want to know of road closures? Better check the relevant DoTs Twitter pages.
Yeah Matthias is fun to watch because he does a lot of hack stuff with plywood that works better than you'd expect. He does a lot of stuff with a lot of confidence, a lot of it dangerous. He's a smart guy for sure, so for what the setups are, the data is interesting. However, the problem is that people extrapolate beyond the setup. It's rare that the way he does something is a _good_ way to do something. He doesn't demonstrate himself to be an expert in much beyond software and hacking stuff together with wood, and I don't think he claims much beyond that.
I didn't have any trouble limiting zfs_arc_max to 3GB on one system where I felt that it was important. I ran it that way for a fair number of years and it always stayed close to that bound (if it was ever exceeded, it wasn't by a noteworthy amount at any time when I was looking).

At the time, I had it this way because I had fear of OOM events causing [at least] unexpected weirdness.

A few months ago I discovered weird issues with a fairly big, persistent L2ARC being ignored at boot due to insufficient ARC. So I stopped arbitrarily limiting zfs_arc_max and just let it do its default self-managed thing.

So far, no issues. For me. With my workload.

Are you having issues with this, or is it a theoretical problem?
There indeed has been research on reversible adiabatic logic in superconducting electronics. But superconducting electronics has a whole host of issues of its own, such as low density and a requirement for ultra-low temperatures.

When I was at Sandia we also had a project exploring ballistic reversible computation (as opposed to adiabatic) in superconducting electronics. We got as far as confirming to our satisfaction that it is possible, but this line of work is a lot farther from major commercial applications than the adiabatic CMOS work.
They are referring to 1984 where any hints on your existence got erased from public knowledge. And I think that there are a few cases where that happened in real life as well, IIRC under Stalin.
Stealing is raking billions every year as well, yet I wouldn't call it productive.
These are not fake. "On paper potentially qualified" has meant nothing for a long time. And if truly acceptable candidates do show up, that scuttles the immigration application. The ads are written so that etc, but they still correspond to an actual job that is actually, actively hiring and actually, actively paying.

You do learn to recognize them, and then you only need apply if you carefully meet all the requirements because THESE job postings WERE carefully written. But they are real by definition: there is a job and it is carefully spec-ed, as opposed to the rest of the garbage. And much effort went into the process, as opposed to the rest of the garbage. And someone was writing on HN recently about their immigration process being scuttled by this.
A hit-list of specific individuals seems like it falls under that category, doubly so when it's clearly intended to be a "continuation" of the UHC CEO assassination.