skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The default Fuchsia filesystem, called minfs, was also built from scratch. The device manager creates a root filesystem in-memory, providing a virtual filesystem (VFS) layer that other filesystems are mounted under. However, since the filesystems run as user-space servers, accessing them is done via a protocol to those servers. Every instance of a mounted filesystem has a server running behind the scenes, taking care of all data access to it. The user-space C libraries make the protocol transparent to user programs, which will just make calls to open, close, read, and write files.

Plan 9 is not dead, it ideas live on in other projects.
Ask HN: Why certain companies are ending working from home?
A lot of companies in the Bay Area are still trying to end one of the most critical benefits for employees - working from home.

Usually these are big companies like yahoo, apple, IBM, etc. Why executives still don't understand that the average commute time in the Bay Area is the worse in the country? From 1 to 1.5 hours a day. Are they using the fact that a lot of people are still sending them Resume every year?
+1

This is a feature (kernel update) that is used by everyone, including newbs. They don't have to understand anything to enjoy the update, and they shouldn't have to understand anything to avoid the space filling issue.

Lots of ways to fix it, I don't claim to know which is best:

* Always leave N% /boot available, and delete or move old kernels to satisfy that.

* Move old kernels to /old_kernels, outside of /boot. Driven either by satisfying N% space, or no more than K number of kernels kept in /boot.

* Opt in, opt out, ask this on installation and for non-server installs, default to "never have to think about this again."

* Easily configurable in the "whatever that box was called when I last used Ubuntu years ago" box.
Thanks for writing this up, and I look forward to more!

My first company did hardware, and it was kind of an awful experience, and I swore to never do another hardware company. I got burned out from sourcing things, dealing with revisions, and working with manufacturers through the language barrier. But, things look so much nicer ~12 years later, and there are several products I wish existed that I think would have a solid niche market. But, it's still pretty intimidating.

Also, I love the connector. The case is a bit weird, though, with seemingly exposed battery? But, I'm not the target market, anyway (I have an Android device).
I believe that the ability to filter out low quality is a symptom of the declining role that libraries play in our educational system. I was privileged enough to go to schools that had libraries and trained librarians attached. Part of our curriculum included a library class in which the librarians taught us to investigate the credibility of a piece by actually reading the sources cited.

Modern resources such as Wikipedia are a treasure, but are only valuable if examined with a critical eye.

Support your local libraries, especially their outreach programs.
There's a long tradition there, wasn't BO2K non-ironically marketed as a system admin tool?
You don't seem to understand what I am saying. You are making the argument that you either have an excellent life or make 20k more. I am saying that you can find both.
I meant to be blunt, not rude.

Congratulations, you managed to do both. Add in "condescending" for the trifecta!
-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

-HEADLINE: Default ZFS from the installer

-DESCRIPTION: There is way too much work now to get Ubuntu Desktop up and running on ZFS. I think everyone would love for you to make Ubuntu install on ZFS by default from the gui installer. ZFS is the one and only reason why I currently use FreeBSD. If Ubuntu would install on ZFS without me having to spend so muvh time on hackery it I would run back to Ubuntu in a heart beat.

-ROLE: CEO, Software Developer
Compare WebAssembly and JavaScript client side performance
This is one reason phone companies are regulated; are they allowed to make such inferences? Are they allowed to do anything with such inferences?
That interview was the final straw in causing my total loss of respect for Wikileaks. Trying to profit politically off the death of an innocent man is vile. Forcing his parents and family to endure the weight of the conspiracy community in an attempt to attack your political opponents is an awful thing to do.
I would assume they are announcing their launch in multiple places (forums, subreddit, Facebook, Instagram, etc), not just Hacker News. A decent amount of VCs check this site so it's not terrible to be here. Also, they are apart of YC which typically shares all launches on Hacker News.
How Stories Search Makes Snapchat a Real-Time YouTube
Since Clojure is advertised a lot whenever there's a Common Lisp story, let me do the reverse: give Common Lisp a look.

It's a member of the Lisp family that:

- has a lot of high quality, implementations on a lot of different platforms be they native or hosted,

- is multi-paradigm so it doesn't lock you into just functional programming, or just object-oriented, etc.,

- can go from high-level code to fast compiled code (coming close to C++ speeds, like twice as slow.. not many high-level languages manage this),

- has been an ANSI standard for a long time and because of that:

- is a stable language: code from decades ago can be run without much (or no) porting. A while ago code from the early 1970's (or was it the 1960's) was made to run relatively easily, although I cannot find the link,

- is still a joy to program in, it brings together features that have been popping up in other languages but only in CL they feel so seamless,

- has a really nice development environment in Emacs + Slime (if you can stomach Emacs),

- has IMHO a nice and helpful community,

- has a great history, you'll come across almost any aspect of software & computer history when diving into CL.

The CL community has always been hotly debated and is usually negatively depicted on HN. I've never found it to be too bad, although it has attracted it fair share of trolls in the past.
Ask HN: How do large SV companies handle the potential risk of the Intel ME
As the Intel Management Engine has the potential to actually compromise any given system, how do large SV companies handle the risk? I think Google and co. wouldn't want to be backdoored by Intel.
Cool!

Sounds like you have many interesting problems, on top of the usual fun challenges of running a social network+cross platform app. Computer vision, recommenders for hairstyles, products, stylists, and probably many more. Then you have usage information about all of those you could use in a bunch of ways.

And you can monetise with simple, relevant, products ads, or get a commission off booking a stylist, or collaborate with a booking platform like TresseNoire (although that's NYC only for now I guess). So that's a lot more options than many YC backed startups.

A few questions. Feel free to ignore them if there are too many.

It says you're hiring engineers and designers on your website. Care to go to into more specifics about what kind of positions you're hiring for?

Semi-OT in the "only care about users" YC world, but just curious, what's your stack?

It says on your website that you're based in Ghana. Do you plan on going back there after YC, or staying in SV to make it easier to find tech workers+VC money, or have a foot in both places?
Number 2 always stuck out to me on rental listings... Why would I want to live somewhere where I couldn't use a vital function of a home/shelter?
No, it was ironically marketed as a system administration tool, for exactly the subtextual reason as this story suggests one might.
Simple metrics get us to local maxima, but it's unlikely they can get us out of them.

This is why privacy matters -- deep consumer data leads to 'binge products'. This is the business netflix is in. It's possible to create cocaine using this model but it isn't a great way to make something awesome and new. 'What's new' will always come from the fringes.
There are 6.5 billion people who can tell the truth on the other side as well. It's not productive to attack the one group doing something, when everyone else is doing nothing.
> The truth isn't responsible for serving anyone's interests...

I think it's interesting you respond this way. Because I thought it was pretty public knowledge that Wikileaks does not release all the information they get. And they especially don't release the information at the very same moment they get it.

You'd think if your quote was aligned with their values, that such wouldn't be the case.
I find the idea of power limits to be fascinating. As computing becomes more distributed, more detached, more mobile, then power, not computation, will be the boundary.

It's not just the cpu... it's the screen, and the antenna. A screen needs to produce a certain number of lumens of light to be readable. That provides a theoretical limit. An antenna needs to transmit clean signal over a certain range. That takes power, too. And the size of the device limits the size of the battery. How many joules of energy can we store in that physical space?

We may be coming up on limits for mobile devices much harder and faster than we think. Of course, IoT devices can be better off by not supporting a screen, but communication is still a problem.
-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

-HEADLINE: Better Support for XPS Series Adapters

-DESCRIPTION: I want my Dell DA200 to work as expected.

-ROLE: Developer
Therefore, kudos to Atlantic for publishing the article, despite being immersed in that same Prisoner's Dilemma, or more specifically, Nash Equilibrium/first mover's dilemma.
One value I'd like to see enforced is better separation of employees' work and private life. Examples would include:

Not having to support politics I disagree with during or outside of work hours.

Not having my photo and about me on the company webpage. No one wants to know the truth that my hobbies are not rock climbing and playing the guitar.

Not being forced to go to conferences, hackathons, and other company sponsored events.

It would be nice if these values included lobbying for tech workers to not be exempt from overtime pay and reforms of the h1b visa program.
-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
-HEADLINE: Better Support for XPS Series Adapters
-DESCRIPTION: I want my Dell DA200 to work as expected.
-ROLE: Developer
Ubuntu Mate, mate. ;)
People show off apps and ideas here all the time.
Wikileaks creates misleading summaries and narratives of the documents they release and then uses various techniques to encourage the media to follow that narrative. For example, they dump an unreadably large cache at the same time as a sexed-up summary and then tell news orgs that if they cover the story quickly and favorably, they'll be rewarded with early access to future leaks.

The "CIA uses your smart TV to spy on you" story is more myth than reality and it was completely created by Wikileaks. (When your threat model is "CIA agents enter your home to plant bugs" then getting rid of your Smart TV isn't much protection.)
Thank you for your contribution to the conversation. I'm sure you'll find that this was covered in the second half of the sentence you quoted.
If someone sends real leaks to Wikileaks and they don't publish, then the leakers can use alternative channels to distribute the leaks (for example, sending directly to journalists), and then accuse Wikileaks of not publishing. Has anyone already accused Wikileaks of not publishing real leaks?
A couple of hours here < a couple of hours working with influencers on social media.
Couldn't someone just do a hashtag search on Instagram?

Why not just go big and do a social network for hairstyling in general?

I think the social commerce angle could be great for revenue, esp now Instagram are starting to launch it.
Wednesday, August 7th, 1996. A day that will live in infamy.

Well, kinda. It was the first really big Internet meltdown that I recall.

That was the day that AOL had a 19-hour network downtime. It's been surprisingly hard to find news articles from the time that talk about it, but the key mistake that was made was AOL decided to update the software on their Cisco routers at the same time that the same was done on our upstream feed (ANS). In hindsight, I think the cascade failure was obvious, as was the fact that ANS was our Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) to access the outside world.

But there's another part to this picture that you don't see in the stories on C|Net, CBS News, etc.... That was the impact made on e-mail services around the world.

At the time, I was the Senior Internet Mail Administrator for AOL, and a few months before I had figured out how to cram about 40-50 MX records into a 512-byte UDP DNS packet. Your servers would query for the MXes for aol.com, and you'd get back a list for a.mx.aol.com, b.mx.aol.com, etc.... That would be a total of six or seven hosts, and each of those hosts would have six or seven IP addresses listed for them.

Under normal circumstances, this would mostly be okay. You'd query for the MXes, you'd get back the list, you'd try to make your connection on port 25, and after a couple of tries the odds were that you'd get through.

However, the TCP network standards required that you spend two minutes trying to connect to the first IP address, before you can proceed to the second. And in a pathological case, if all forty-five or so IP addresses timeout, then you've just spent about ninety minutes trying to send a single e-mail message to AOL.

If you have a queue retry period of sixty minutes, then when you still have another thirty minutes to go on that second message, you'll fire off another queue runner, and it will probably also get stuck sending a message to AOL.

Rinse and repeat enough times, and you fill up your RAM, your virtual memory, your swap space, and everything else you've got, all with queue runners that are stuck trying to get messages to AOL. Then your kernel panics, your system reboots, and you start the cycle all over again.

This happened across the entire Internet.

While the network layer itself finally came back up after about nineteen hours of downtime, it took about a week for the Internet e-mail backlogs around the world to finally recover.

Sanford Wallace was put out enough that he publicly claimed that I was trying to put him out of business, and then published the phone numbers for my desk and my home, and suggested that angry people call me up and tell me what they think of me.

I have been told that this event is the primary reason why qmail and postfix were created.
Assange had an AMA on reddit, and he said they received Trump intel pre election and judged it was not worthy of releasing compared to the Clinton data dump.
> If your perspective is that more secrets are being kept by more egregious actors than the US, the truth welcomes your contribution...

If your perspective is that the US is truly the most secretive and "egregious" actor on the modern stage, then you are shockingly naive. Or, more likely, misled by the skewed "truth" you are reading.
Racket is not a common lisp flavor.
I dont think there are, but who can say.

But you realize the US isn't the only one hacking systems, right?
Why shouldn't they be told?
I get that you're feeling stereotyped as an MBA, but you're doing the same. I happen to have been a co-founder and early employee several times, and the issues you cite are anything but the dog whistle you imagine them to be.

For instance, saying "VC $ is never worth it" is a far more dogmatic position than what most startup people I know believe: namely that it's a major decision with serious pros and cons that can make a huge difference in your potential benefit and control of your business.

WRT to Tim Ferriss, it's even more bizarre to imagine that there is some kind of startup party line in support of his methodology. The guy is a self-help guru with a cool brand. Far be it from me to proclaim what he should or should not do, and I think most startup people would agree that the main relevance he has to startup life is brand-building.

Lean Startup is the only one where I think you are on the mark, but even there, most of that stuff is just common sense table stakes that you pick up a few months into your first startup. If you want to make an argument against it, it's not like I couldn't be swayed in a variety of specific circumstances.
Even the SYN flood could be used for testing DDoS against an internal server for benchmarks. There have been more capable technologies which seem to be absolutely on the end user for malicious intent.

The reference to blaming a gun manufacturer for a crime is spot on. Especially when the people abusing it are pirating the software, you can't even look to the author as their arms dealer, they stole the product and are using it with malicious intent.
Just to be that guy: Racktet is a Lisp (well: Scheme) flavor but not a Common Lisp flavor. (Common Lisp is also a Lisp flavor like Racket.)
This is so cool. Also what convinced you to go Android-first? Any discoveries that were especially surprising there?
Yeah, but you don't have to go there. That's the point.

Trolls aren't winning the Internet, for the most part they're loitering in those corners of the web you'd expect to find them.
No story about chess engines is complete without a mention of 1k Chess for the Sinclair ZX81:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/

How big is it? 672 bytes.

How much memory did that ZX81 have after the OS had claimed its share? 672 bytes.
Everything wrong with the first three minutes of Thimbleweed Park
I see the claim that "no one at Wikileaks performs any kind of attacks" said quite often, but it seems to go against the account of Assange made by his ghostwriter, Andrew O'Hagan, who claims that much of what Assange does or did was hacking and then rejecting credit[0]. It's often lead me to the belief that Wikileaks was formed as a way for him to launder the goods of his infiltrations.

Take that along with Assange's history of arrest in the 90's[1], I find it hard to take at face value that he just stopped hacking systems.

The relevant section of the essay:

> One of the things Julian found it hardest to admit to was the amount of hacking he did himself. He had worked out that being an ‘editor’ was somehow a necessary front for much that he did. He objected to the idea that WikiLeaks ‘stole’ secrets: according to him they simply understood, at a deeply sophisticated level, how the flow of information in society could be altered.

[0] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Hacking
My mistake, I shouldn't have used the word "functionality" so I concede. And yes, I meant sets of assembly instructions, thanks for the correction.

But this is the basic idea I was trying to convey: that you lose "expressiveness" as you get higher and higher in levels of abstraction.
There is simply no evidence of that.
Again with this. Why would they kill him without completing the job of making it look like a robbery gone wrong?
Linux, meet DisplayPort
The only actionable complaint in your whole rant is that it is a resource hog. For reference on my system all the processes with "unity" in the name take about 210 of RAM (with a dozen windows open), a negligible amount for a modern computer or phone even.

It took me about 3 seconds to figure out click the menu button and type what I want. That really is the largest user facing feature, and its a common one with other main menu based OS UIs.

For the people I have put in front of it (about 5), all but one (my technophobic grandmother and never understood any UI, still has a time with the very concept of files and folders) figured it out quickly and rarely ask me questions. The most common questions is how to install some windows program.

You lack of concrete examples and its conflict with my experience leads me to believe you are exaggerating.
How many antitrust cases there are pointed at Google in EU alone? It's a one thing to work for open-source projects, another is to orchestrate the entire charrade that's about to be unleashed onto the users.

Everything at Google, from it's original product (search engine) to embedded devices, medical research, entire Alphabet portfolio is aimed at total dominance of every area in people's lifes. It's an evil company in my eyes, it's been a long time since I retained at least some trust in this company and it's vision.
> How are these point systems made?

I'm currently in the process of building my own chess AI (in python), and I'm using as a score a weighted combination of the material and of the number of squares controlled by each side. I am planing to experiment with weighting more the squares that are closed to the opponent's king, and possibly to improve the evaluation function using reinforcement learning.

That said, my program is currently pretty weak, first I have to optimize its calculation speed to it can calculate deeper.
I had to take down the website for my business and can only accept brick & mortar transactions because of trolls... but sure I guess you can win at your commenting game by claiming everything is shit.

I've been running a business with multiple locations for 10 years and I've never had a problem more serious than trolls on the internet doxxing me.
Lisp (what is a Common Lisp "flavor"? Racket is Scheme) has answers to all... Of course the benefit of Clojure baking those things in is you can rely on them in other people's programs, but still idiomatic Lisp seems to do an ok job managing state, especially compared to other languages. Plus its other features that Clojure lacks might make the tradeoff worth it.

Parallel programming: https://lparallel.org/overview/
Functional collections: https://github.com/slburson/fset
STM: https://common-lisp.net/project/cl-stm/doc/index.html
Interesting.

> Russians returned to typewriters for all their top secret stuff

That's what they're telling people, I wonder how much truth there is to it. At the very least it provides a plausible cover story for when people ask why there aren't big leaks.
Pet Adoption, Howard Stern, 300 Cats
"2. If the Freedom Caucus is really committed to reducing the powers (and spending) of government they should be fervently resisting budget plans to expand the armed forces and pull us back from pointless non-productive conflict in the Middle East."

Unfortunately, there's the slight matter of the Carter Doctrine, the idea that the US has a vital interest in the continued uninterrupted flow of oil from the Persian Gulf.

The US can't just withdraw from the Middle East until Middle America withdraws.

There's a large portion of our population that has arranged their lives in such a way that they literally cannot leave their homes and return with a jug of milk, without getting in their cars and driving a long drive.

And so if the flow of oil from the Gulf is interrupted, the ramifications stateside would have them screaming bloody murder.

Ironically, these people are unable to see that it's their choices that lead to this: you choose where you live, you choose where you work, and you choose how you get there.

And until there's a sober discussion of the problem, there will be a US presence in the Middle East.
Of course the government should do something about it. But I'd bet most people would agree that killing or stealing are immoral, even in the absence of laws against it. In fact, every one here has, on innumerable occasions, not stolen something even though they could have been sure they wouldn't be caught.

Your game theory applies to people as well: if you find a wallet on the street, it doesn't make sense to give it back to the owner.

And yet, you'll find many people who do give it back. That's because we have evolved emotions such as altruism, or empathy. Those are still useful, even when most of morality has been formalised into criminal law, because societies tend to work better (and are more fun) if you can trust people, at least for the small stuff.

There's no reason we shouldn't expect corporations to follow a similar path,
"Meaningful research" is incredibly subjective.