skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have an ansible playbook that runs "apt-get install docker" you'll get a different version over time, even with no changes to your playbook.

With nix, every package version change, every single diff, is a git commit which you can roll back and track a breakage to.

If you want, you can run your own apt repos, pin all your apt package versions, etc and make ubuntu a little more reproducible, but it's hard to do it. The system fights against you.

yaml also sucks, and nix is a better language.

Use whatever you want.
Thanks you very much! I'm proud of the silly animations too, that was fun to learn
I'm always happy to discuss sound cards with mixers, though! As a supporter of the Bloop Museum[1], I think that the "What might have been" if we had dedicated hardware for playing dozens or hundreds of sound files at a time is an interesting question. There's a lot of experimentation in the audio space that has kind of died out, because audio is so cheap - While over in in graphics, we're still seeing interesting advancements and dead ends.

[1] https://oldbytes.space/@bloopmuseum
Santa didn't always wear red.
I’ll play devil’s advocate.

Following Ben’s videos and building the 8-bit CPU is the first thing that ever helped me “get” electronics and circuitry.

Honestly, way more than half of the fun has been in finding the design flaws and designing fixes for them as well as improving and expanding the design itself.

I have learned so much by going down rabbit holes. The original clock design assumes a make-before-break switch but the one shipped with the kit is the opposite, and this can put one of the flip flops into an invalid state. I switched to CMOS chips and learned why you shouldn’t drive loads like LEDs directly from digital outputs, and dove into the easiest way to power 8 LEDs off 8 IC outs without a mess of transistors. I followed another person’s expansion to a full 8-bit instruction register and a more featureful ALU (with my own changes of course). I worked to minimize power consumption. I’ve learned how to use an oscilloscope. I’ve improved upon nearly every module, and built and rebuilt them all a handful of times.

None of this has any real benefit for the CPU. It will never run anything more than toy programs. But that wasn’t ever the point.

All the flaws in the original design have been perfect as launching points for learning more and more.
But every time, it doesn't have to happen yet. And when you're talking about the potential deaths of millions, or billions, why be the one who spawns the seed of destruction in their own home country? Why not give human brotherhood a chance? People have, and do, hold back. You notice the times they don't, and the few who don't -- you forget the many, many more who do refrain from doing what's wrong.

"We have to nuke the Russians, if we don't do it first, they will"

"We have to clone humans, if we don't do it, someone else will"

"We have to annex Antarctica, if we don't do it, someone else will"
It is a different argument, but they do not contradict one another and they(edit) does single out Anduril in the original post:

> It has nothing to do with Anduril's business (which is a separate discussion) and everything to do with insulting a community they're dependent on.

so it seems like it was always somewhat specific to Anduril and the claimed behavior of Anduril. Though I do not know what the insult that Anduril committed against the community.
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Email: divyaankt21 [at] gmail [dot] com

Hi, I'm Divyaank! I am looking for Backend Engineering, Data Engineering and Distributed Systems positions. I am proficient in Java, Python, Kubernetes, SQL, bash and have dabbled with Scala, C/C++, Go, JavaScript, Spin/Promela. I am affiliated with the File systems and Storage Lab (FSL) (https://www.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/). I am presently working on implementing Containerization support (using Kubernetes and Kata Containers) for Swarm Verification (https://spinroot.com/swarm/) used by Metis (https://github.com/sbu-fsl/Metis). Previously, I used Metis to discover kernel hang bugs in the Journaled File System and submitted patches to the Linux kernel to fix these bugs[https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8c7b1d37-758a-46b2-b8aa-afd3331..., https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/7/5/899]. Additionally, I have also volunteered as an Artifact Evaluator at ASPLOS '25 and FAST '25 conferences.
Wording in the final post [1] fwiw:

...the Steering Committee is banning Anduril from recruiting on Discourse. We will leave this specific thread up and locked (to record this decision), but the moderation team has been instructed to remove future Anduril job posts on Discourse.

[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/anduril-industries-electromagn...
You don't understand why someone who uses Firefox specifically because of its stance on privacy would be upset that the ToS are being updated to be "basically [the] same language as Chrome's"? Chrome, as in Google, the biggest name in tracking and ad-tech?

I haven't used Chrome since whenever they started logging you into the browser when you logged into GMail, and I'm sure most complaints about negative changes in Firefox come from long-standing Firefox users.
With the rhoteric China makes of invasion, those rockets didn't seem to deter them.
I've had to dig internet archive to see original post [0], but I don't see anything particular inflammatory there? Pretty standard job description, and being in the "Jobs" section is right on-topic.

The only potentially objectable part is this one:

> Yes, Anduril is an American defense technology company. We build weapons systems for the United States and its allies.

but I feel it's a useful good warning, given that a lot of people don't want to work on weapons, and it does not go overboard by saying it's the best or anything like this.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250403111805/https://discourse...
To oversimplify and only pick one aspect:

If you have this ansible:

- package:
state: present
name:
- foo
- bar
- baz

and remove baz from the list, baz will still be installed. If you have this NixOS config:

packages = with pkgs; [
foo
bar
baz
]

and remove baz, you will no longer have baz installed[0]. Or put differently, ansible is never comprehensive, nix is[1]. Of course, ansible is a lot easier IMHO so choose your tradeoffs.

[0] I mean, insofar as packages are ever "installed" in nix. But for our purposes using that word is fine.

[1] Generally. Like, nothing prevents you from creating a python virtualenv or dropping config files around or coloring outside the lines in other ways, but using the system in the straightforward idiomatic way does leave you with everything encoded in a single config.
> With all due respect, Anduril already knows how the NixOS forum feels about them. The purpose of this listing is to insult and inflame the community. In politics we call this bear-baiting.

Is there a history posted somewhere of Anduril's history with Nix? I feel like there is context I'm missing

edit: https://save-nix-together.org/ & https://lwn.net/Articles/970824/.
DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling
> Oh boy, this absolutely does not work for chess at high levels.

Magnus himself said this. If he were to cheat, he'd only get 1-2 moves per game, and sometimes not even the moves explicitly, but merely the notion that "there is a very good / critical move in this position". That would be statistically impossible to accurately detect.
Alternatively, the purpose was probably just to find some good candidates? I mean the first few replies had several interested people before the mods shut it down.

No doubt certain vocal community members feel very strongly about Anduril. But I’m not sure it’s an actual majority.
Have you seen the x-cmd package? It's nuts

https://x-cmd.com

It's legitimately impressive, the person/people behind this wrote some pretty interesting code, I've learned some things about Bash reading through parts of the code. But it's crazy at the same time.
>still those new players cannot recruit a broader base of folks.

to be fair this comment from the thread after the author clarified that non-citizens can apply sums the situation up:

"Would you be willing to assist the United States in an invasion/annexation of Greenland? As a Danish citizen, I think it would be slightly counterproductive to work for a company that may potentially invade me in the coming future."

I would actually sleep better if the PR damage is big enough so that the recruitment base shrinks until the risk of invading a free and democratic ally is off the table
NixOS is infrastructure-as-code, for real this time.

(The downside is that now you have to write code.)
That's the point the parent made. Elections are suitable for political officers.

Once you start electing other jobs, like judges or plumbers, then you get whoever you elected, rather than necessarily a person able to do the job.

In other words, getting elected is a specific skill set. Doing the job is a different skill set. In most fields those skill sets do not overlap.

Even in govt the overlap is marginal. Which is why some elected officials are pretty useless at actually "governing".

To my American friends all I can say is "you voted for this".
TDD Guided by Zombies (2016)
"compulsory donations". I did not expect to ever meet someone using this non-ironically, but you seem serious...
I'm not going to discuss whether or not to use an LLM, I just want to thank you for opennutrition because it's very useful for checking the nutritional values of each food, especially for diabetics.
> Freedom of speech necessarily implies that a group of people might team up and loudly announce that the people they don't agree with are incorrect and immoral and should be ignored or even ostracized. That's the price of freedom of speech, and it's a fair price.

Sure, agreed. But groups and institutions taking even a dime of tax money should not get to place a thumb on the scales of those arguments. US universities, in particular, chose a side and then silenced all opposing viewpoints.

It was inevitable that the silenced would eventually mobilise, and they did. And now the group has to abandon their arguments about allowing "punching up" and instead pontificate on "free speech".

Myself (and many others) argued over the last decade and more that the pendulum always swings back, so lets be a little less extreme in the left/right argument. I, on this site, got labeled a non-thinking right-winger apologist for pointing out that the mainstream views on transgender for minors does not match the views that the powers-that-be were pushing.

You can't push for normalising the silencing of views for well over a decade without you yourself eventually falling victim to the same normalisation.
Original post as follows (edit: I have no affiliation with this company, I am just reposting what they wrote):

Anduril Industries is hiring NixOS engineers to work on electromagnetic warfare products. This is a unique opportunity to use Nix at a large scale in an embedded setting. Anduril has adopted Nix at large and we use IOG’s generously maintained Haskell.nix project to build all of our Haskell code and ship it to thousands of customer assets across the globe. If you have Nix/NixOS/Nixpkgs experience and are interested in any of:

Embedded Linux
Cross compilation
Haskell
Radio systems
Enterprise CI/CD
FPGAs
please do drop me a line at travis@anduril.com, as well as submitting your application to our online portal here: Job Application for Embedded NixOS Engineer, EW at Anduril Industries . To tackle a few common questions:

Yes, Anduril is an American defense technology company. We build weapons systems for the United States and its allies.
This is an on-site role at Anduril headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. Our team is building software for hardware products, so physical presence in our RF lab is often required throughout the course of software development and testing. Remote work would only be considered for candidates with something extraordinary to offer to our team.
I’d be happy to answer any other questions in the thread below.
It's not that simple. How are you passing argv to the bash script? What about how `subprocess.run` changes the error output to include Python exception spam? Plus, in most editors, you lose all the bash syntax highlighting in the bash program chunk. I haven't seen a lot of hybrid programs like this work well.
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> With nix, every package version change, every single diff, is a git commit which you can roll back and track a breakage to.

I think this is only true if you use flakes or jump through some hoops? Otherwise you of course can roll back to a previous generation, but not a previous commit.
>If anyone has the nerve to actually develop and deploy artificial wombs, it is China. And the resulting kids will be simply pushed onto young people to raise - an authoritarian country won't have to ask anyone.

We will have to take that info as it comes. I was working off the info we have today. Their birth rate (as well as the birth rate of most of the world) is horrendous. This was a problem they should have started tackling 20-30 years ago.
The prompt didn't exactly describe Indiana Jones though. It left a lot of freedom for the model to make the "archeologist" e.g. female, Asian, put them in a different time period, have them wear a different kind of hat etc.

It didn't though, it just spat out what is basically a 1:1 copy of some Indiana Jones promo shoot. No where did the prompt ask for it to look like Harrison Ford.
It's not so much the mission, as it is Anduril, and despite the fallability of taking an early survey of comments, I'd wager a good set are communicating something similar.
Can I ask what school? I have kids that will be ready to start college in a few years and I’m always on the looking for places like what you’re describing
This kind of government-encouraged or mandated joint venture is barely different from what China does. To be quite honest, for stuff like silicon manufacturing, it's probably a good idea.
So you have to work your way up from the bottom? Surely there’s a mathematical impossibility to get to the presidency here unless you’re making astronomical progress year over year?
Thanks, that part makes sense.
How is iPhone headings towards a similar fate?
Not to mention the article is a bit disgenuous because they only focus on inference on the consumer side (thus also helping to drive up demand for training?)

Author is prof at EPFL

I find his other article on generative bio LLMs more interesting

https://substack.com/home/post/p-159626430

>Remarkably, Evo 2 wasn’t even trained on human variant data - only on the standard human reference genome. Yet it can still infer which mutations are harmful in humans, because it seems to have learned the evolutionary constraints on genomic sequences.
You and I remember pre-AI famous works. "Hey, I'm pretty sure Odysseus took a long time to get home". Somebody goes and prints 50 different AI-generated versions of the _Odyssey_, how are future generations supposed to know which is real and which is fake?
I read it as, even if "corporate contributions power a huge chunk of the free software ecosystem" there is no obligation to compensate(~special treatment) them for this act.
Difficult to summarize, but the short answer is: immutability, reproducibility, and reversibility (i.e. you can revert/de-revert almost any change instantly).

It's on another level, as compared to Ubuntu, but it's also much more intrinsically demanding.

And lately it has unfortunately become a culture war battleground.
Am on Arch and I use them with unattended boot(TPM) and they work flawlessly.
The idea being that you wield so much more power than your enemies, and have so much knowledge of their movements, that they are not an actual threat to you, and their knowledge of this prevents them from actually committing violence? And that force can be used to stop them from committing violence before they actually get the chance to hurt you?

I'm not trying to pull a gotcha, I'm legitimately curious to see if that is an inaccurate framing.

edit: my comment no longer makes sense after the parent comment was edited, the original talked about how after being on both sides, they've seen how tech can be an effective deterrent
New modular API
Highly performant
Scroll-linked animations
Draggables
↔ Responsive
Additive animations
WAAPI support

And so much more!
I saw this put really, really well not too long ago:

> A lot of us got the message earlier in life that we had to wait for other's permission or encouragement to do things, when in fact, all you need is the ability to understand the situation and deal with the consequences
While I don’t disagree that Microsoft isn’t necessarily the most innovative, Apple is absolutely the most successful example of “first mover advantage” not actually being an advantage, and second movers can often be the actual winners. Literally every product they have launched in the last few decades has had the category already defined, they just came in with so much more polish and elegance (and sharp marketing) that they just repeatedly obliterate and take over the category as if they invented it.

I’ll never forget when they dedicated a minute or two in a keynote a few years ago to how they improved the volume indicator visual overlay in iOS to be less obtrusive like they talked to god himself to figure this out, when Android had that style for years…it was brilliant marketing.

I say all of this as a die hard Apple guy.
Show HN: ChaosEncrypt: An Experimental Chaotic Cipher (Research Project)
Hi HN,
This is a purely experimental cryptographic research project.

CHAOSENCRYPT explores prime-based chaotic keystream generation, semantic structure leakage, dynamic HMAC seeding, and emergent entropy phenomena (like Chaotic Structural Echo, CSE).

It's not a production-ready cipher, and it's definitely not recommended for real-world security.

I’m posting here to invite feedback, criticism, and discussion. I'm especially interested in cryptanalysis, chaos theory intersections, and semantic structure studies. Feel free to tear it apart — I’d love to improve through feedback!
WSL2 is pretty nice as is powershell. Also I haven't done windows development in years but I miss windbg - still don't have anything like it on linux. Also you probably use vscode and people like typescript. playwright and omniparse are pretty useful as well.

And unlike with a lot of companies, they often continue to invest and move their acquisitions forward, such as github.

Microsoft 2025 isn't the same bastard from 1992.
I am not trying to derail. I am just pointing out the fact that you have no convincing evidence to claim what you are stating.

To me it reads as, "MKULTRA had elements that were universally recognized as being ethically unsound, so we can't talk about it in a neutral light at all".

I think this is a terrible dichomatic way of thinking that supplants neutral interpretation.

Furthermore, I think an appeal to the reputation of the source of information equates to an ad hominem attack and presents no substantive argument against said information.
No, I hate PA cause it didn't work properly to the end. (Pipewire was better day 1 than PA ever was.) I just think that "you absolutely need PA to have multiple apps playing sound" was always nonsense, and the same sort of nonsense that was used to push systemd.
The AUR is just a repository of PKGBUILDs. You don't need to trust a stranger to use PKGBUILD.
Look at all the braindead moves this administration has already done and we aren't even 6 months in. Maybe they actually believe his stupid robot can actually solve their problems. All we can do is sit back and see what happens.
Dupe (621 points, 14 hours ago, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570533
Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted
Risk reward ratio is pretty good though. Insurance is just gambling for unlucky people.
I'm not seeing a convincing argument from you other than "Once I bought a book that was public domain"
Thanks. I wish I could correct it but it won't let me.
I know, this is a modern re-incarnation of Amiga saga.
Humans have shown time and time again that they are able to self-organize globally.

Nuclear deterrence -- human cloning -- bioweapon proliferation -- Antarctic neutrality -- the list goes on.

> How successful do you think that political organization is going to be in slowing China's progress?

I wish people would stop with this tired war-mongering. China was not the one who opened up this can of worms. China has never been the one pushing the edge of capabilities. Before Sam Altman decided to give ChatGPT to the world, they were actively cracking down on software companies (in favor of hardware & "concrete" production).

We, the US, are the ones who chose to do this. We started the race. We put the world, all of humanity, on this path.

> Do you honestly think that would make a lick of difference?

I don't know, it depends. Perhaps we're lucky and the timelines are slow enough that 20-30% of the population loses their jobs before things become unrecoverable. Tech companies used to warn people not to wear their badges in public in San Francisco -- and that was what, 2020? Would you really want to work at "Human Replacer, Inc." when that means walking out and about among a population who you know hates you, viscerally? Or if we make it to 2028 in the same condition. The Bonus Army was bad enough -- how confident are you that the government would stand their ground, keep letting these labs advance capabilities, when their electoral necks were on the line?

This defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The people have the power to make things happen, and rhetoric like this is the most powerful thing holding them back.
> That's completely different than working on an assembly line.

Manufacturing isn't defined by the assembly line, of course. Good data is hard to find, so take from it what you will, but the internet loosely suggests that only around 30% of manufacturing jobs are on the assembly line or adjacent to an assembly line. Anecdotal observation aligns with that, so I expect it is in the right ballpark.

> I don't think I've ever heard it

It is not so much the hot topic it once was, but when manufacturing was really in its decline you would frequently see in the news interviews with former manufacturing labour expressing such things as they lamented no longer being able to work in the industry.

It may not be sipping margaritas on the beach enjoyment, but on the spectrum it is unsurprising that many find it to be more enjoyable than other types of jobs. For as bad as you can imagine the assembly line to be, there is undoubtedly someone doing a job that is far worse.

> That's an ignorant, condescending description of assembly line work.

If these kinds of feelings are flooding your head, you have not considered the statement logically. That is not in good faith. Rationally, where do you find error in the statement?

> American companies can't find enough people with those skills as it is; there is no need for more of those jobs.

There is definitely an information problem. Manufacturing by and large happens in small town/rural areas (70% of it, according to the BLS), while people by and large live in large urban areas. The urban dwellers exclaim "Where are the jobs???" and the rural dwellers exclaim "Where are the workers???" It is a fascinating disconnect – something we see outside of manufacturing too.

You are right that this isn't apt to fix that problem. However, it is important to remember that the people calling for this aren't running complex mathematical models to ensure that moving manufacturing to the USA will be better for the world or whatever you think should be driving. They are simply in the mindset of: "I think I want to work in manufacturing. Give me that!" It is not a solution with well-considered grounding. It is an attempt to appease emotions.