skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point I'm making is that neither Bazel nor Nix do that. However, sandboxing is still relevant, because if you still have impurities leaking from outside the closure of the build, you have bigger fish to fry than non-deterministic builds.

That all said, in practice, many of the cases where Nixpkgs builds are not deterministic are actually fairly trivial. Despite not being a specific goal necessarily, compilers are more deterministic than not, and in practice the sources of non-determinism are fewer than you'd think. Case in point, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Nixpkgs packages that are bit-for-bit reproducible just kind of are by accident, because nothing in the build is actually non-deterministic. Many of the cases of non-deterministic builds are fairly trivial, such as things just linking in different orders depending on scheduling.

Running everything under a deterministic VM would probably be too slow and/or cumbersome, so I think Nix is the best it's going to get.
Even when I do that on HN, it’s usually unappreciated. I doubt that anyone would risk their job in that cool “what I really mean” society you built there.
OK Chrome shall be gone/uninstalled/not-used from all my computers and shall recommend it be removed from all my friends computers with the explanation of their behavior and loss of trust and respect for us users!
The cover-up of grooming gangs is a national scandal and the government finally announced an inquiry into the matter after he did that. So that created pressure on the government for the better.
Saving up all the changes for when they finally drop Manifest V2.
At what point does someone step in to stop Trump from dismantling the US government completely? Or is it already too late?
Lurk, be an observer, figure out the unwritten rules and power hierarchy, who's in and who's out, don't commit yourself to any cause or person or stance, don't accidentally get sucked into other people's conflicts.
AutoplayerStopper [1] is still available if you set the policy to enable manifest V2 extensions [2] which should still work for a few more months.

[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoplaystopper/ejd...

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...
They have a district brand identity of it doesn't look like shit and they have physical controls for their console.

They are popular and reliable in the US.
Europe cannot rely on US protection, Pentagon chief tells NATO allies
And now we in the military must sit here and wait for our Stalin-like purge following any collision of lawfulness and the leader’s desires.
Only if there are repercussions to ignoring the constitution. There are plenty of illegal initiatives currently happening with no one really physically stopping them from happening.
Why the hate? This is good. And very funny too.

It's not just professionalism. It's the challenge of removing irritation from one's communications because that generally doesn't get the best cooperation.
Lots of problems can be nicely parallelized, but the cost of doing so usually isn't worth it, simply because the entity writing the software isn't the entity running it, so the software vendor can just say "get a better PC, I don't care". There was a period when having high requirements was a badge of honor for video games. When a company needs to pay for the computational power, suddenly all the code becomes multithreaded.
When pgAssistant sends the prompt to the LLM, it provides the DDL of the tables involved in the query (using pg_dump), the result of the ANALYZE query, and of course, the query itself.

Believe me, LLMs understand the schema very well, and in the vast majority of cases, they suggest relevant indexes and/or query rewrites.

That being said, they are still LLMs and inherently non-deterministic.

But the goal of pgAssistant is not to fight against databases experts : it was build to help developpers before asking help to a DBA.
Parents driving kids to school and hobbies seem to be an almost uniquely American obsession. I live in an affluent not-USA country and my kids go to school and hobbies by walking/bike/bus. If I had to chauffeur them around all the time my quality of life would go way down.
That's a relief. I hope big ticket tickets have to go through an RFP/RFQ competitive bidding process. Furthermore, I would also hope that realistic projected fleet TCO based on data from other owners is one of the big factors in the decision-making process when it comes time to choose a vendor and negotiate pricing.
> The reason is that humans are much better at comparing lengths than they are at comparing angles.

Maybe the subdivisions with exact numbers also play a significant role in the effectiveness of the bar chart in the article. It lets you compare against a clear reference, so you're often comparing to the scale itself rather than directly between bars.
10 years or so ago I shocked coworkers with using U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE mid in filenames on windows. So funnypicturegnp.exe became funnypictureexe.png
Combined with a custom icon for the program that mimics a picture preview it was pretty convincing.
You might like this puzzle.

https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/21

It really makes you think about this; interaction between levels in a simulation.
Ha! None of those things are true, but it is funny. I am just a homeowner, and I do plenty of small softwood projects. I use purpose-built tools, though, ones that will last.
The alternative is definitely satire.
Not for that particular neutrino, it's gone. But yes, my home (and yours) is being heated by neutrino power as we speak. It's not a significant enough amount of energy to make a dent in the utility bill however.
This is a hidden gem: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/LICENSE
Not always one for pithy remarks, but the quote from George Orwell seems prescient here: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

I'm not American, but FTA it sounds like having a politically biased NARA director could have some interesting consequences for the formal parts of all y'all future electoral matters.
Submit an extra piece of evidence that's just a 500MB .txt file filled with "I AM GUILTY"
Because states have their own armies - the National Guard - it can be only done by military, not police, or even FBI/SWAT/whatever. That is, real military with tanks and fighter jets. A civil war.

I seriously doubt military loyalty to Trump can be THAT high.
It's a little naive to think this is just Trump doing it, the people around him are all on board with what's going on, they're not "just doing their jobs".
The only time I’ve ever heard of it was as an option for people who wanted to keep all the shares and avoid the sell to cover.
How would you find good lawyers that have experience dealing with this stuff?

I had to sign stuff like this and the lawyers I was sent to seemed they didn't really have much relevant experience and I'm deeply uncomfortable with their assessments given how confused they looked.
WASM just moves vulnerabilities to the wrapping code. If you use FS, then you still have to prevent the wrapper from stealing your /etc/passwd, so container it is
It's too late for anyone but congressional Republicans to step up and impeach him and remove him from office.

I wouldn't hold my breath. Buckle up.
Just add a post-process step that sets the output artifacts' timestamps (including its content)?

Wouldn't that work?
> I bet that lawyer will tell you (if this is in California) that you just need to send a letter saying “cool guys, send the shares, I’ll worry about the taxes. I don’t consent to forfeiture.”

Not sure about this. A random thing[0] I found says:

"RSUs are considered supplemental income, and as such, the income you receive from them is subject to withholding taxes. The IRS requires a federal withholding rate of 22% for supplemental income up to $1 million, and 37% for income exceeding that amount."

(It also links to the relevant IRS publication, but I am not interested in poring over it right now.)

So I believe the employer is required to do that withholding.

It does seem pretty sketchy that current employees have access to a sell-to-cover option, but former employees do not. This feels like the company trying to screw over former employees, since they don't care if a former employee gets mad at them. Over the years I've heard of quite a few companies (and founders) who have this bizarre, messed-up belief that employees who leave the company pre-IPO shouldn't be entitled even to their vested equity.

I glanced through an old RSU plan doc from a former employer, and it does talk about withholding, including a sell-to-cover option, but the wording sounds (to me, anyway; IANAL) like they aren't required to offer that option, only that they may do so. Obviously I have no idea what OP's legal docs say (or if I'm even interpreting this doc I do have correctly); a lawyer would need to go over them.

[0] https://www.harnesswealth.com/articles/what-you-need-to-know...
This is the correct answer.

However the attempts are token and they know it too. Just an attempt to appear to be doing something for the naive information consumers, aka useful idiots.
Doesn’t YouTube technically autoplay? You click a link, change page and url and a video starts playing
It’s in the post :)

> In practice, many teams will use a pull request-based workflow because the tests could be too complicated to run locally or need to facilitate code reviews. For trunk-based development to fulfill its promise, it’s imperative that pull requests are kept small and that the team is committed to reviewing them quickly.
Are you not alarmed by the startling discoveries made by the hard-at-work researchers where LLMs lie (when explicitly told to) and copy their source files (when explicitly told to)?
Everything that guy does is far worse than it might seem; wonder why no-one seems to care/do something as it's clear (and always was BECAUSE HE SAID SO before and during the elections) that normal procedures are not going to work. You would think if this was reversed, the right would be 'slightly more vocal' (and not only vocal). Or maybe it's just 'coloured' news (I am not in the US), but these things are happening and people are still thinking it's a good thing 'nice and forceful' or whatnot.

Anyway, scary when seen from across the pond, but I really don't know what's real and what's not. In my defence; I have US friends who tell me it's every bit as real and scary as the news tells it. They are, of course, not trump voters nor extremist left/right.
> It's not solving the underlying problem: that build systems are often impure and sometimes nondeterministic

It's not Nix's job, imo. Those compilers should be fixed.

And all the other "features" come for free from Nix's fundamental abstractions, I don't feel it would overstep its boundaries anywhere.
Those threads don't necessarily exist for performance reasons - there can be many reasons one starts a thread from processing UI events, to IO completion etc. I very much doubt Firefox has an easy time saturating your CPU with work outside of benchmarks.
The question is are they doing this because they want to or because they have to "or else".
> seems like the nature of the world is eat or be eaten

Surely this applies to how individuals consider states, too. States generally wield violence, especially in the context of "national security", to preserve the security of the state, not its own people. I trust my own state (the usa) to wield the weapons it funds and purchases and manufactures about as much as I trust a baby with knives taped to its hands. I can't think of anything on earth that puts me in as much danger as the pentagon does. Nukes might protect the existence of the federal government but they put me in danger. Our response to 9/11 just created more people that hate my guts and want to kill me (and who can blame them?). No, I have no desire to live in a death cult anymore, nor do I trust the people who gravitate towards the use of militaries to not act in the most collectively suicidal way imaginable at the first opportunity.
That’s literally the same underlying lesson just stated differently.
Is the steep climb in 2021 due to Apple Silicon entering the scene? Or maybe not, servers seem to follow the same pattern. It’s a remarkable increase in performance on a short time.
wut? You go to a YouTube video url to watch the video.
At what point? During the election.
This article mentions the marshmallow experiment.

I am confused do people actually like eating marshmallows, if so why?

It always seems to be taken as read that they’re irresistible. Why on Earth
It might improve the quality of neutrino astronomy to have the world's solar panels also be neutrino detectors.
When the rationale for cutting spending is that the debt is out of hand and that our deficits are unsustainable (read many HN comments over the last few weeks), it sort of flies in the face of all reason to turn around and increase the deficit by $2.5T in year 0.

In fact, I would go so far to say all the talk was an outright liar liar bold faced lie of epic proportions.

It’s like catching the guy from an AA meeting at the bar an hour later with a bottle of Jack and him saying he’s only drinking it to keep it out of the hands of children.

Either we need to get deficit spending under control, or we don’t. There is no middle ground.

These guys have always been hypocrites. Scream bloody murder when out of power, spend like drunken sailors while in power. Never fails. 30+ years, always the same.
Using this since I can remember. But noticed another issue and still searching how to disable the video cache at all until I start to play the video and to limit it to 2-5 seconds (or 1 MB) during playing, though no chance so far.
Sample size cannot compensate for sampling bias.
I saw these and I and most others are not desperate to buy month or less. Chrome fully deserves to be uninstalled it is enemy-ware!
Agreed! It’s apparently a divisive topic.
"overheated" seems to be doing a lot of work here. It's extremely easy to heat a teflon coated pan to the point where it becomes harmful. Teflon flu isn't good for humans and is absolutely fatal to birds. Non-stick cookware releases toxic gases at typical cooking temperatures. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28913736/
Yes but look at the chart in the article. Both multi-threaded and single-threaded performance is getting slower on laptops. With desktops, multi-threaded is getting slower and single-threaded is staying the same.
Does it matter whether it is a common class of bugs or a not so common one? The point is, this is a class of bugs you do not have when picking a different language.

C++ claimed for decades to be about eliminating a class of resource management bugs you can have in C code, that was its biggest selling point. So why is eliminating another class of bugs a nice to have now?

C++ is loosing projects to memory safe languages for decades now, just think of all the business software in Java, scientific SW in python, ... . The industry is moving towards memory safe software for decades now. Rust is just the newest option -- and a very compelling one as it has no runtime environment or garbage collector, just like C++.
Too late. There will be devastation in ways we haven't imagined.

In the delusion of GDP and wealth, Americans have completely forgotten their own capacity of destruction. This is the same country that used humans as legal property, went through many booms/busts, caused people and businesses to fail, destroyed wild ecosystems, destroyed industrial production, destroyed housing

and lastly, were completely ok with electing a convicted despicable human as their president.

America is 100% self deserving of an implosion. And Trump + spineless Congress + Republican supreme Court is enough to cause significant damage. It is too late.
Get a lawyer. Get an accountant. Ensure they have experience in the relevant jurisdictions (yours, and your former company’s). Realize there is a risk to be borne here, by someone, and you should expect to either bear it, or pay someone else to.
Blue states should start putting tariffs on red states, threatening to annex them, steal their resources and disenfranchise their voters.
I don't think it's cynical at all. Unfortunately I can't provide concrete examples, but I recall many instances over the past 15 years or so reading stuff here on HN where founders/companies expressed a belief that they should be able to claw back even vested equity from employees who have left the company pre-IPO.

It's super super gross, but it's unfortunately a thing. Hopefully that's not what's going on here with OP, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is. If the company is offering a sell-to-cover option to existing employees, they are certainly capable of doing so for former employees as well.
I can't try it at the moment, but I'm not sure the page is actually reloaded. I suspect YouTube is an SPA and, when you click, the url change event is captured by a router and the content of the page is merely replaced.
Oh, my hands are sweating just reading that. I think I’d rather land a 737 than take a dremel near that much Italian carbon.
Video autoplay is usually allowed on a whitelist of URLs determined by the browser vendor, if I recall correctly.

YouTube is always on those whitelists.
This is the will of the electorate. Even many of the people here on HN (probably more thoughtful than a typical cross section of the population) believe the administration is on the right track.

The best time to stop this was back in November.
This will be soon [Flagged][Dead] because reasons.
So true. I remember the first time I got access to 5G was on a short visit to Dubai. I got a sim card with ~20GB of traffic and was super excited to try speedtest. My brother told me not to do that because 5G is so fast that if speedtest doesn't limit the traffic size for the test it will consume all of it within 30 seconds the test runs. Guess what? I didn't run the test because I didn't want to pay another $50 for the data package.
If I have 1Gbit connection even with 100G. What's the point? I'm still kind of on 4G if I want 100G to last me a month...
Unsurprising shall be mass-uninstall ;-) Fully deserved!
Looks like the beginning of the downfall of America.
When something like this comes up I remember CGP Grey's video "Rules for Rulers".
'mold' not 'mould'
I would politely suggest that history is absolutely filled with examples of others taking action outside of government in situations like this to prevent a descent into authoritarianism and that people might want to learn from them rather than relying on magical thinking.
Ok, but when I read that article on TheRegister, it also linked to this not-totally-unrelated story below [0]. And I guess whenever the Crowdstrike/Microsoft/Delta Airlines litigation gets resolved we'll get a better idea who is/isn't actually considered to be liable for bugs in cybersecurity. (And there was no (publicly-disclosed) liability lawsuit for Salt Typhoon that I'm aware of, even though that breach is far more damaging.)

[0]:
"Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant'" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/abandoned_aws_s3/
Didn't protect against the Patriot/Freedom Acts, The CLOUD Act. Didn't protect against presidents actually ruling by decree. Didn't keep the US from illegally invading and occupying other countries, or put an end to its colonies and colonial practices.
What did Washington do in Little Rock when Arkansas tried to defy integration laws?
I'm extremely sympathetic to the objectives of DOGE, and still find this all to be some of the most unsettling behavior I've ever seen. I was somewhat relieved to hear Musk and Trump say yesterday that they intended to comply with judges' orders, but I don't know. I'm not a lawyer, and can't speak to the legality of any of this, but this isn't worth throwing away the rule of law over.

I just hope that if they leave anything in their wake, it's a system of transparency and neutrality, but firing an archivist doesn't sound like the place to start. We unfortunately have a window into Musk's commitment to neutrality and transparency from his own running of X, and while it may be better than it was before on those fronts, he has demonstrated time and again that he's not particularly strong on either.
I assume GP is talking about getting paystubs from a former employer, not from a current one. I've never had any trouble getting paystubs from my current employer; they were always available through the HR website portal (ADP, Workday, etc.).
Searchlight Cyber Acquires Assetnote to Enhance Continuous Threat Exposure Mgmt
I’ve always wondered why the embeds don’t do this asynchronously themselves, either as a default or with a flag. The amount of resources these embeds automatically consume is egregious. It seems so odd to tell the world to apply a fix for a platform you own.
So we should be using other browsers (Brave, LibreWolf, Vivaldi, Firefox, even Opera might be better overall)
The only problem is that it puts the most important information last and the least important first (going by "what do I most likely need to see and cannot infer from context", ie I likely already know the year and possibly the month).
> this was such a dealbreaker that it caused the developer to literally switch stacks to get back the same feature.

Client side includes would have solved a small part of the pain points that were listed in the article.

This is a developer who explicitly didn't want to add javascript. Compromising a design goal, especially for a hobby project, to only partially solve your pain points, doesn't seem like a good trade off.

> Once again, I am going to point out that plain HTML+CSS+JS is conformant to the relevant specifications; when a user wants to to, for whatever reason, deviate from the specification

Disabling javacript is not a deviation from any specification.

> But you responses throughout this thread is working on the assumption that megabytes of JS is required if you want client-side includes, and you coupled that with an implication that only incompetent developers would go that route.

I never said either of those those things. I said "lazy" and I never implied anything about the size of javascript required for client side includes.

I never used "SPA" in my response to you I used it in response to this:

>> Personally I think it's better to distribute the workload across clients. We'll probably see purely client driven UI's dominate the future.

This is not advocating for thin client side include. This is arguing for a world where everything is an SPA.

> If you think that the only options are a) Doing a full SPA with megabytes of JS, or b) No Javascript whatsoever, then I think that you're in no position to be calling other developers incompetent or lazy.

Not only did I never say such a thing, but it is pretty darn clear that I don't hold such a view since you quoted me in your comment as advocating for progressive enhancement, which generally isn't a SPA but uses some javascript.

You should take a breath and try reading things more than once. You've repeatedly put words in my mouth and done so with some oddly aggressive language
How exactly is it satirical? That particular example is actually a pretty normal way to express to a manager that their current load is relatively high but if there was a way to re-prioritize certain tasks then they could possibly get it done.

Satire is generally incisive in some way and uses constructs like exaggeration, irony, etc. in a humorous take.

Here's a few more:

Original: Stop calling me before my workday even starts

Alternative: If you need to contact me, please note that my working hours being at 8 am and 6 pm. Communications received prior to this won’t be seen.

Original: How much does this role pay?

Alternative: Can you share what the overall compensation looks like for this role?

Sorry but if this is satire then it's the dry-wit equivalent of the cinnamon challenge.
I mean, it's asking kids if they want a ball of sugar - that does feel like a pretty sure thing.
https://archive.ph/pc1Yv