skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree with this, except to add that it seems, in theory, in the case of a 100% tag-based file-system, there would never (*very rarely) be a flat list where you have to scroll through millions of files. The UX of a single flat list with millions of files named DCIMxxxx.jpg is a limitation of the current format and doesn't make sense when so much information can be generated about our files upon creation.

In this hypothetical FS, all files would have dynamically generated tags for created date/time, modified date/time, access date/time, originating application, given filename, owner, group, permissions, format, geo-data if available, originating hostname, EXIF data should all be first-class tags as prominent as the others, and so on. I visualize it to work, by design, something like how google photos UX works, grouping everything by EXIF data automatically before you ever start organizing things on your own.

Just as well, with any files created manually, in the application "tagging" should be just as prominent a function as "naming" is right now.
> Fun fact: you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. It just won't let you.

This was fixed months ago (and was a technical problem that affected anyone blocked by many thousands of people, not just him). It wasn't intended.
They stand as the arbiter of who will gain money and who will lose. There basically is a series of cases 'erroring parties vs Goldman' and 'erroring Goldman vs other parties' and whether Goldman will lose money is decided by an Exchange (hint: they rule in Goldman favor every time, making an analogy with forced arbitration even more proper)
Most users can only set it as restrictive as "friends of friends", but if you have 10k+ followers or are verified then you can restrict it further.
Loeve is terrific. The stuff there hasn't changed or been much improved on. Some people regard Loeve's book as French that sounds like English or English written as French. But Loeve students Neveu and Breiman are easier starts.

Basically we're talking graduate probability based heavily on measure theory and some on functional analysis.

Last I heard of Neveu he was back in France and at least in part working on probability for stock markets.

There are other more recent authors. It seems that a big fraction of the best researchers sometimes take out a year and write yet another book comparable with Neveu. Personally, I did enough with Loeve, Neveu, Breiman, and Chung and for more attention to such material want to use that background to move on. For now, I'm concentrating on my startup; it's based one some applied math I derived, but I've done that and programmed it. Tonight I got four hard disks installed in my first server. Three of them are partitioned and formatted, and as I type this the fourth is being partitioned and formatted.
Awesome, the worlds biggest honeypot? There is literally a finite amount of bandwidth in the existance, let Cloudflare have as much cruft as it wants.
These prices seem mostly targeted employers who offer tuition reimbursement.
Apparently Sandberg went on a press tour giving five or so interviews, apologising according to script in each one.

But apparently she veered a bit off script in one of them, on the Today show.

She said "our service depends on your data."

Apparently she said something like "If they want to opt out of sharing all their data, they will have to pay for it."

Source:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheryl-sandberg-sticks-to-scrip...
Zones are great and they are often the right solution. There are limits. If you have the choice of putting 100 zones on one 4 socket system or 25 zones on each of four 1 socket systems, I'd probably recommend going with the four systems. Hot locks and inefficient algorithms happen.

For instance, the directory name lookup cache can greatly impact the performance of file operations. This is what makes it so that when you open /a/b/c/d/e/blah, the OS has a good chance of knowing how to open "blah" directly without first searching /a, /a/b, /a/b/c, /a/b/c/d, and /a/b/c/d/e. I don't have performance numbers handy (left at $job - 1 and $job - 2), but the default size is not great for a system that handles hundreds of thousands of files. If that sounds like a lot of files, count how many files are read as part of a reasonably large build. Then imagine there are dozens of them running concurrently. Or imagine that you are hosting git repos or a bunch of static web content.

The obvious answer is to just increase the size of the DNLC. The problem is that there are other parts of the system that behave poorly with a large DNLC. For instance, whenever anyone tries to unmount a file system, dnlc_purge_vfsp() is called. This walks the cache, looking for entries that are associated with the file system. Who cares, right? We hardly ever unmount file systems. Well, if you use the automounter (by default Solaris uses it for at least /home/*), every few minutes it is trying to unmount all of the automounted file systems. The purge happens before EBUSY can be detected so hot cached entries may be purged while adding contention on dnlc-related locks. What's worse, the automounter doesn't reset its inactivity timer when it hits EBUSY, causing more frequent attempts to unmount than you would otherwise expect. There are other DNLC bottlenecks on a Solaris NFS server when a client removes a file.

And then as you get to larger systems with more NUMA effects, these type of operations become even more expensive.

Operating systems are hard. Making them scale to an infinite number of processes and processors is impossible. At a certain point, it becomes beneficial to use smaller hardware and/or add VMs into the mix.
OSX has Spotlight. It searches pretty much all the same stuff Google Desktop is listed as searching. If you want something open source instead then check out Quicksilver [https://qsapp.com].

Dunno about Windows or Your Favorite Unix. alternativeto.net may be of help: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-desktop/
I live in Baltimore, they just pile on some asphalt and call it a day. We are left with these massive bumps in the road. I'll take anarchy road over Baltimore City's work any day.
In most cases, the antidote to dangerous speech is more speech.

But history shows that when fascists have free speech, they use that freedom to take away the right to free speech and free assembly from their opponents.

And it gets much, much worse after that.

Fascism is so dangerous that it cannot be allowed a foothold. That's why Antifa shut down fascist speech.

Being gay, black or Jewish has nothing to do with it.
It literally bought me a boat this week.

I picked up some at the money May calls Monday. I sold them today, and (mostly coincidentally) bought a sailboat. The options, after taxes, covered the boat and this year's moorage.

Could've gone the other way of course, but after the beating they'd taken? Surely they'd do something to correct between Monday and earnings.

They said, I might amend your statement to be emotional volatility is your friend. I mostly got lucky on the response to Tesla coming closer to meeting their production goals (entirely independently of the underlying financials). It elicited a predictable emotional response.
Sure, if it doesn't end up being confiscated.
Moving target, sure, but Tesla has been making statements claiming using AP is safer than not since AP's inception. You can't have it both ways. Even Tesla couldn't be certain whether certain changes lowered the accident rate or raised it. We should look at total accidents, not miles driven since the latest version.

Perhaps the best comparison is right within Tesla's data. Compare miles driven in the same model with AP activated and with it turned off on the same roads.

> In my view, the ultimate goal should be to ensure that Autopilot is used in the way I described, and is disabled for drivers who are unable to use it that way

Actually there has been some work in determining when drivers are distracted [1]. This seems to be what you suggest, something that can be used to disable AP under certain conditions. Would you support Tesla installing such a system?

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/c/state-farm-distracted-driver-detect...
Hardly, if we cannot retract our messages from Facebook, neither should they!
We just made the source code public: https://github.com/bijection/sistine

We're planning on adding more instructions to the GitHub repo over the coming week, to make it easier for people to replicate our hardware setup. Among other things, Kevin's developed a slightly easier-to-manufacture version that doesn't require a door hinge.
Perl was specifically written as a rebellion against the Unix Way: unifying all those little tools into one giant language.
There's no such thing as a "tech" company in the first place. Technology is intangible knowledge, techniques, strategies, and information. Every single company on the planet uses technology as a means to an end, that end describes the actual type of business.
It's public now: https://github.com/bijection/sistine

It's currently lacking detailed instructions and stuff, but you can expect to see more in the coming week.
The penthouse, yes. But not the shares of your offshore shell corporation owning the property, which can easily be transferred through a simple share purchase agreement..
You were arguing before that reliability is a premium feature while the table shows that XEP-0313 is available for free edition, and that's what holds your messages while you are away.

As for the configuration yes, it would be nice if it came pre-configured with modern suite, but it doesn't. It still can be configured and as far as I can see from the tester the effort is not that high.
Just a brief note of support here. It's really moving to see the younger generation taking this on. Great work, and keep on fighting the good fight.
Back when I started using social media, the founder of the site wanted to be everyone’s friend.
The problem with any regulation curtailing Facebook is it's practically guaranteed to hurt Internet freedoms. A lot.
The Gizmodo article by George Dvorsky (https://gizmodo.com/why-neanderthals-had-faces-that-were-so-...) goes into more detail.
I had this happen to me last year and was never able to get it resolved. Like some in the article, the deletion of my account was incomplete- my wishlist were still there, I could place orders from an Android device where I was still signed in on the app, and to this day I have a dash button that will order from my supposedly deleted account.
Because the problem isn’t that there is one bug in a specific implementation, it’s that the whole model is fundamentally prone to this type of problem.

cgroups, Jails, and Zones all suffer from having to cover an immense surface area. Contrast with VMs, which only require managing a few, significantly simpler interfaces. There are definitely differences in quality, but they all use a similar approach.
Exactly. You don't just do code reviews and run tests to catch bugs. You also do code reviews and run tests so that, when something does slip through, it's no one person's fault.
Could you elaborate? Or if not, I'm extremely curious why you seem to be dodging a question like this...

EDIT: maybe it's 'just picking a fight' for the sake of it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16430826
Mike Myers (Dr Evil) thinks Zuckerberg is more hated than Donald Trump.

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/mike-myers...
Hello everyone, thank you for all the comments. Seeing this on the HN front page caught me by surprise. In the past year I shared this article publicly (Reddit) and privately (with tech-savvy acquaintances) for comment, and the general sentiment I received was that these ideas were not ready to be read by a mass audience. The article is way too long and pulls in many disparate ideas; it explains both why traditional features are problematic and how new features would work better. In the end, it is unclear what a real implementation would look like, and what concrete benefits and annoyances would come out of real-world usage. I was hoping to build an ugly prototype before asking for feedback.

Regarding the comments on this HN thread, it seems the general discussion is around tagging. This is indeed the title of the article and the main idea that motivated my exploration, but I believe the other ideas are just as important. I explored notions like no-filenames, strong preference for hash addressing and references, location independence, immutability, backups and deduplication, preference for external (non-embedded) file metadata, first-class media libraries, and more.

I think the debate about tagging is quite adequate, and would be happy to hear comments about the other features/non-features, and whether all the ideas fit or don't fit cohesively as a system.
The weather at Stanford is much nicer. You will make many valuable contacts with Silicon Valley actors and future tech star students at Stanford.

You can get a reasonably well rounded education while in an engineering track at Stanford. I don't know about MIT. That is not its reputation, though.
Houston has run a study on the traffic being directed towards 1/8 before.

http://www.potaroo.net/studies/1slash8/1slash8.html
> "They 'trust me.' Dumb fucks."
> I wonder, is reproducibility necessary? Is it even possible when things get really complex? Isn't consensus enough?

If my results are not reproductible, then I'm basically asking for your trust.
So now, instead of actually doing the experiment, there's an incentive for me to forge my results,
And they don't have to match reality anymore, by the way.

Gotta go ; back to working on my paper about psychic powers.
Languages come and go, up until WWI, French was the global language. Only 50 years ago, knowing Russian was a massive asset and the language reached a lot of countries. Now English is the undisputed main one but there's indeed no guarantee it will stay that way, who knows what the future will be made of.
I've found it's a common recruiter tactic to try and wring some sort of concession for you based on your address. In just tell them no. They aren't competing with the gas station down the street from my house they are competing with the Twitter office down the street from theirs.

It's possible my career has taken a hit due to being remote for the last few years but I get paid around $400k and I live in a nice little COL place.

It's remotely possible I could rate 2x that if I was in the valley, but it's by no means guaranteed. I could also make the same or less.
I think he means "towing the (establishment/party) line", not "complying with regulations".
Hi,

Can you share some details on when Stripe will be available for Israeli start-ups? There's quite a big ecosystem here dying to use Stripe but we just can't.
you mean like Autopilot https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/apples-steve-wozniak-doesnt-...

"Man you have got to be ready — it makes mistakes, it loses track of the lane lines. You have to be on your toes all the time," says Wozniak.
I thought the acronym ended with an "I", TIMTOWTDI, "there is more than one way to do it".

But I don't know if this is totally anti-unix; there's something more subtle, unix systems try to have a "proper layering" of tools, starting with high-level stuff like compilers and languages, sitting atop utility programs and shell, which ultimately sit on an OS kernel that offers its own similar layering of complexity, with simple and clean primitives at the very bottom (files, sockets, etc).

Working within this ecosystem of OS/libs/tools, you can compose any particular solution in a wide variety of ways, there's usually more than one "right way" to solve a problem. But the pieces you build your solution upon are generally more and more specialized/single-purpose as you move down the stack.
Same here. I also drink on week-ends but forgot once to bring coffee to the office for for days and did not care.
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This is another example of Facebook valuing its own privacy, while at the same time continuing to disregard the privacy needs for its users. I always gave them the benefit of the doubt, but it's getting ridiculous.
aflfast is mentioned in my second link and was the most used fuzzing implementation to find bugs in coreutils.

We've had a quick look at using oss-fuzz, which will need a bit of work since it's more suited to libraries rather than standalone utils.
Just install ublock origin and activate all social filters.
Have you deleted your Facebook account?
Chris Paine AI movie premiering tonight
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My first remote job happened because I hung out in an IRC channel for a technology I was interested in. Technically I was marketing myself or at least networking but it didn't feel that way.

It was just a normal w-2 fte role so there was no concern about being on a contract.
>> It wasn't intended.

We have been hearing the "it's a bug" a lot lately from Facebook.
High volatility makes it a day trader's dream stock. It most closely approximates one of the older dot.com stocks.
The WAL frames are by definition the result of the executed transactions so replicating the frames is a pretty smart way of ensuring you correctly distribute the results.

You're correct: only the master accepts writes. During a failover clients can get an error and are expected to retry against the new master.
Costlier versions of the Roadster, Model S, and Model X were available before the base versions were. If Tesla had done the opposite with the Model 3, that would have been the exception.
I, too, wish for a better quality of collective decision-making on the part of humanity, but this seems to be how "we" do these things. "What, me worry?" is probably the central recurring theme of history, if you're inclined to look at things a certain way.
SpaceX can't replace NASA but it can replace ULA :-)
Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
Funny you mention that! My first programming language was TI-BASIC, on an old TI-83 Plus. That language is wonderfully simple, slow enough to watch the execution happen almost in realtime, and tolerant enough that for the longest time, I didn't know what the "End" token did, and my programs would crash after a while, infinitely recursing into If blocks because I simply didn't know any better. Good times!

After a while, I figured out that all the best games were written in this mystical "Assembly" stuff, which ran a lot faster and could, with some wizardry, do greyscale! I taught myself z80 programming without ever stopping to think that it might be difficult. Later, I realized this is a Junior level college course in a great many degree programs. Who knew? For me, it was just another step on the path to making games instead of doing my math homework.
My very knowledgeable statistics professor (my professor beats your doctor) told me that extraordinary claims ("fire" content from grilling causing cancer) require extraordinary evidence (say, some science behind)
Isn't this exactly how it goes though? e.g. "They're selling books, Bob. Books. Not widgets. We're fine, Bob".
The author of this article wrote a very interesting book about the connection between language and empire, "Empires of the Word".

https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Word-Language-History-World/d...

It is really interesting to read about how languages outlast their cultures. Latin comes to mind of course, but as the book discusses this was also the case with Sumerian and others.
I hope this will matter less (if it even matters now) once automatic translation of web pages gets good enough and those google auto translate earbuds actually start to work
We can use strong end-to-end encryption to evade snooping middlemen. Beyond that, we hold service providers accountable by not using their services if they are not willing or able to provide the security and privacy we require.

If you want an authority to hold them accountable, you are just shifting your trust from one entity you have little/no control over, to another entity that you have little/no control over.

Look around, not up. An authority will not solve this. We must solve it, together.
What I love about this scene is the proper portrayal of relative velocities in orbit.

You see a slow-moving ship. You then watch a slowly-drifting screw. Then, at the moment they're shown together, you realize their relative velocity is like that of a bullet.

(Also, I love the anime. It tries to handle space with as much scientific realism as possible. Also, even though it frequently shows the worst aspects of humanity, it also shows the best, and overall is pretty hopeful about space.)
This article offers no arguments other than "global languages never lasted forever before".

I really doubt that English will be supplanted by Chinese, Chinese is way too hard to learn and they have an irrational fondness of their horrible writing system. The best the Chinese can probably hope for is the emergence of some kind of Pidgin that is easier to pronounce for them and contains more Chinese loanwords. The world will never learn their characters.
The difference is the deposits Tesla accepted for the Model 3. Likely many deposits were placed based on the frequently-cited $35k price.

I do not think deposits were taken for the models you mentioned.
The way I always heard it put (by thoughtful libertarians anyway) was that ubi reduces the need for welfare, not that it requires the abolition of it. Agree with what you say otherwise, but I think actually the issue is that radical / neoliberal conservatives are trying to rebrand as the more palatable 'libertarian'.

There will always be a need for welfare, ubi changes poverty from a supply side issue to a demand side issue.
I am going to ask a question around this decision, which is based on some research we are doing with our own web app currently.

I know that Highrise was essentially a 'bootstrapped' company, in that you had to grow organically based on actual revenue and profit you made from the system.

My question is: Do you think this same decision would have been made if Highrise had received some sort of lump sum angel or venture funding? i.e. if you had the ability to make drastic expansion or ramp up resources using funding - could you have gotten the company to a level where it could start experiencing growth and revenue enough to sustain itself as much as Basecamp (the app) currently does?
What are the browser requirements? I got error - cant load webgl2.
im not sure how you and every single other person who responded to my comment came to think that this was about saving resources. the only reason i dont want to use water is because water is a terrible way of taking care of waste on a mobile platform. water is super heavy and you have to use a lot of it each time you flush. and on top of that, the result is a toilet that slowly gets super dirty. plastic is better because you could store hundreds of "flushes" in a small box that doesnt weigh anything and because the toilet is totally and completely clean after every flush assuming all the waste stays inside the bowl and doesnt splatter up and out all over the place (which is a pretty good assumption). and lastly the waste can be stored with almost the minimum possible weight overhead and doesnt make its storage tank dirty or smelly. overall you have a lightweight, highly clean and maintenance free system.

in the end, water and plastic are largely the same thing. oxygen, hydrogen and carbon are all you need to make either. recycling plastic will, in the future, be trivial. same with water and all other substances.