skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First:

> zfs is block based, not extent based, whereas all other modern filesystems have been extent based for years: the reason they did this is that extents plus snapshots are really hard.

then:

>Snapshots: In progress. bcachefs's snapshot implementation is going to be significantly more capable than any competing implementations. When it's done, ...

Multiple ZFS challengers can get easily to the point where they have 80-90% of the cool features that ZFS has. Then everything slows down to crawl because getting the same performance and reliability + features is super hard. When you leave the essential but hard features 'for later' they are harder to add later without big rewrite (or losing performance).

Ticking all the boxes with good performance becomes exponentially harder as number of features grow. There comes time to order things: sacrifice performance in this to attain this.
I just paid $5 for Start10. No more default Win10 Start menu, ever. Best $5 I ever spent. There are free options too, like Classic Shell.
I disagree. WAF is very transparently named
And people still say dolphins are the second most intelligent species on Earth.
In general, a startup is a business that doesn't yet have a stable customer base or business model. What you're describing is a "tech startup", and the modifier often gets dropped in the tech press, for obvious reasons. The investment press also drops the modifier, because few other startups are interesting to them.
Wow that's a bad example. Any decent query engine (which I'm assuming Postgres has) would reuse common subexpressions.
My 2 cents:

1/ On your side, you need to make sure you know what you want (at the very least the big picture)with a rough idea on priorities and communicate it to your contractors well. Reserve some time for questions on their side and be generally open. In return, listen to their technical feedback and take it on account when weighting on decisions. After all, you hired them because they have some level of technical expertise that you don't have.

2/ On their side, your contractors must be comfortable with showing their progress on a regular basis. This is tremendously important so you can see how things are moving, catch problems before they arise and overall steer the whole ship if need be. It is also really important that they are able to explain what they are doing and why do they do it in this order as after all they are working for you.

Finding this balance will essentially make sure the contractors have what they need to fill your expectations while making sure on your side you actually have what you are paying for.
FinDevOps and Serverless: Unlocking the Promise of the Cloud
AWS has all sort of “soft limits” that you can email support about and they will increase it within 30 minutes. Out of the three major cloud providers, GCP is the worse when it comes to customer service and understanding the needs of an enterprise.

Amazon will gladly let you spend all of the money you want to spend.

In your specific case, not being able to view but a maximum
amount on the website is normal that’s what the CLI/APIs are for.
An app in the iOS store which generates $0.20 per day on average. That's the best;) All other income is active.
I hate to say it, but Africa was better off under European colonial rule.

Yes, there were obscene atrocities. But atrocities seem to have been committed by every group of humans at some point in time.

Instead, the colonialists would take the natural and mineral wealth, and invest part of it back in the country. They would build infrastructure, provide jobs and basic services.

Even today, countries which were more heavily colonised have better outcomes.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w18162.pdf

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/co...

Now, many Africans are ruled by their own corrupt tribal Warlords, where the entirety of the wealth is stashed offshore, and there is no infrastructure and no jobs. Whatever mineral and natural wealth there is is being rapidly diluted by unsustainable population growth rates.

At the very least, the Europeans could have carefully and slowly cultivated a local elite to take over the countries, instead of rapidly bailing out.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3679706.stm
The worst part about being non-technical is that you can't really tell who is good and who isn't.

I'd recommend getting a technical founder on board, at a very generous share. The product will also need to be pivoted and iterated on a lot. With a freelancer, they might disappear with a halfway done job.
Piecing together my polyamorous orientation and getting over my poor self-esteem when it comes to romantic or sexual relationships. The journey from being confused, lonely and depressed to understanding that there actually are people that could be interested in me and desire similar things from a relationship.
Wow, that escalated rapidly at the end. :S
In my experience, the expensive freelancers can be even worse than the cheap ones. They often take a well padded amount so they could outsource it to someone cheap.
Looks great! Do you know why the other two have failed? I was initially wondering whether it makes sense to bundle legacy and teletext all together into one "big" proposal, but then I realized that there is a very high amount of overlap...
> alternative therapies have a price tag of up to $300k/yr

So prices should all float to the maximum of the most inferior product, so that consumers do not have a choice?

How would you like that if it happened in your favorite consumer category?

That's like saying computer memory should never get cheaper (there is alternative memory priced at much higher rates!), or that electric vehicles should always be priced at the cost of the initial entrants, despite economies of scale
The Kubernetes Conundrum
Sleeping gas?
If you sign a code of ethics swearing you won't cheat and you do anyway, that's unethical. Even without an actual signature, the social contract is implicit. The fact that the university exploits athletes and postdocs is unrelated. You can break out the "I did what I had to do to survive" argument but then you're just conceding the point that you abandoned ethics out of necessity or simple mercenary desire for a better position.

I don't think it's a huge deal and wouldn't personally let it negatively affect a hiring decision provided you made the right noises about how it was dumb in retrospect and you were young, etc, but your comment here is pretty much the opposite of that. Who could possibly employ someone with your attitude? Even a gas station wouldn't want to hire a cashier who steals money from the register when they can get away with it just because the petroleum industry is destroying the environment, or whatever.
Self-discipline. It's awfully hard to stay focused when there's no one to yell at you and the clients are very happy with your progress.
Salary from the employment contract.
> “He was directed to some online reading about avoiding road rage, and he found a simple solution: Leave earlier." ... "That’s how you handle anger. You avoid the triggers. You know your terrain.

This seems like a misconception people have about road rage rather than good advice. My frustration comes from the sheer insanity that is out there and the low bar that either society or government has set for us as to what counts as competent driving. For example, other drivers often place me in dangerous situations outside of my control by failing to signal, driving too slowly, driving to quickly, failing to yield right-of-way, etc.

Now, I’m not particularly rage-y. I just cuss to myself and get away from the problem as soon as I can. So maybe the advice isn’t meant for me, but “leave earlier” just seems unempathetic and trite. No matter how much earlier I leave, it’s not going to make the guy In front of me trying to merge into 70 mph traffic at 20 mph go any faster.
So, 11 atoms thick layer of platinum is major cost consideration? No, just bad journalism.
HAMMER2/DragonFly is already looking great with cow/snaphots, compression, live dedup etc and one of its design goals is to work great on low memory systems. Once it is feature complete with clustering support it'll be a great choice to have.

Although looks like it'll be DragonFly only.
Yep. We're basically reaching "peak hyperbole" in the English language. All these actors vying for our attention are resorting to more and more extreme wording to get our attention. Soon, there won't be new words to use that are more extreme!

I guess they could say "YOU WILL DIE if you don't read this article" but we already had that with "copy/paste this message or you will be visited by a demon" stuff on AOL decades ago...
Unfortunately, I see these abominations more often on the road in the Netherlands. Unfathomable... Such a blight on our otherwise reasonable, albeit overcrowded, highways. Tax them off the road as fast as possible, I'd say.
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Can I ask how you bring in site visitors? For such a niche site, I imagine you didn't do any advertising-- or did you do some based on search keywords on Google?

I have a lot of ideas for small interesting websites like this, but I've no clue how to popularize them at all. Maybe a Show HN or something, but that seems like a short burst if the site is more of a novelty.
Great read.

It's interesting that he starts out by arguing that he's engaging with popular culture through television and he is not an elitist, but then ends the piece disengaged from the internet and arguing for the intellectual elites as cultural gatekeepers, and against the internet as it bypasses that process.
Most cars are stolen by non pro car thieves. They're stolen based on opportunity and whether or not its in an area where under 25s might need transpo. They're going to steal the easiest thing, because they're often just looking for transpo.

We lived on a street frequented by under 25s at night and used clubs on our cars. They were never stolen, but the neighbors who had easier to steal vehicles such as Dodge Caravan were taken quite often.

You're not going to stop a pro.
Authoring a book is very passive income.

Passive income is defined as high upfront work and very low maintenance work. Other than possible marketing tasks the author's job is done once the book is published and collects money on every sale.
I created two udemy courses a few years ago. Been generating money ever since.

https://image.ibb.co/b75uVL/B77-D6-BA2-7-EBB-4645-8946-C5-C8...
Why, let the US sink itself in inequality if that's what university people want. So much for the liberal arts major navigating society, the dream is gone, the song is over.
It's my impression (though I don't have a survey from the burlar's guild to back it up) that criminals very rarely pick locks, or even know how to do so. Instead, they're likely to bypass the lock (e.g. slim jim a car door) or attack it destructively (hacksaw, hammer, bolt cutters, etc...).
Nevada Museum of Art to launch $1.5M space balloon
Comment Boxes. Friend or Enemy? A Vimscript Solution
Kent's a really capable and experienced guy, he has a design in mind and I have every confidence he'll get snapshots working and fast.

But even if that's not true, bcachefs still has an excellent feature set already with great performance, especially in long-tail latency.
It's not 1 per person. Many people and families have several devices, and I think you'd be surprised at just how many people do have an iPhone.
I'm curious what the questions on the survey were qualifying for "road rage", but I'm guessing it covers more situations than the incidents you mentioned and highlight more self-induced issues than the kind you mentioned. Probably a different meaning of the word
And if you invest your passive income?..
A Bronze Age game called 58 holes was found chiseled into stone in Azerbaijan
Fair enough. Unless you're talking about lags for automated trading systems/ algos where even that single "I really can't measure this" sec difference counts.
4k displays are cheap now, at least flat 60Hz ones.

On Windows 10, most of the apps I use scale just fine. Hi-dpi displays became common in laptops several years ago already, e.g. for 13" FullHD you do need scaling. By now, the majority of Windows software was updated accordingly.
I don't know if MPlayer can already take arbitrary fonts into account for playing movies back in the terminal, but it's open source, so it probably could be expanded in that way:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/screen.html
The best example I’ve heard is that a friend of a friend made the CatFacts app. It automatically texts you (or someone else) cat trivia and he claims to get $8k/month from it. Sounds like a very high ROI on the up front and recurring labor investment, and I think that’s the point of this thread.

Sure, appreciating assets are the best passive income, but the income is a function of how much money you already had / how shrewdly you picked the asset / how much research you put into it (back to work). I think the underlying ideal here is “passive income through talent, wit, or execution” - passive income that you’re earning based on your skills and ideas (or ridiculous dumb luck) not your existing money.
It's also surprisingly incorrect about C++ given that he goes on to say "A programming language should not be that huge. Not at all. It’s just that it should have a decent standard library filled with all the goodies so people wouldn't have to reinvent them."

The 1338 pages of the C++11 standard is more than 2/3rds about the standard library. Only around the first 400 are about the core language.
And maybe you shouldn't lead with a generalization. Not all of them were scams.
FYI, you’ve got encoding problems. When I was told about the “Aland Islands” (no accent on the A, but I’ll forgive that as a content error rather than an encoding error), the Wikipedia excerpt spoke of “The Ã…land Islands” while the actual Wikipedia article had “The Åland Islands”.
This looks awesome and obvious in hindsight, but as patio11 would say, you need to charge more. Especially on the higher end, let people that want to pay more, pay more.
No, I'm merely saying you are uninformed and ignorant. That's all.

If you aren't an expert don't bother postulating. We aren't here to do the research for you.

Is Brendan Eich a scammer? Nope.
What’s up with this drug now?

Sounds like it’s patents and IP protection should be up.

I’d imagine you could get a single dose manufactured 1 off for $100k by a lab.
Daddy’s trust fund
SIM Card Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor
As far as I know, the top spec Type R DC5 Integra was a K20 (same as the EP3 Civic Type R) which is 8400. The older DC2 Integra Type R was 8700rpm. I forget the engine.
How long did you work on it before it started making any money?
Man, I really hate this kind of low-effort comment. Comments like it seem to be popping up everywhere around the web, and I think it’s a symptom of Reddit’s one-liner snarky monoculture infecting everything else.

To address your point:

- News sites are not a monolithic entity. The writer may not want sharing buttons, the publisher does want them, and the writer decided that getting their message heard was worth the trade off.

- The idea that only those outside or independent of a system are allowed to comment on it leads to lots of terrible scenarios in which the only people allowed to have opinions are the independently wealthy.

- Every single criticism of an idea doesn’t need to be backed up by extremist behavior. Criticizing the meat-production industry shouldn’t require one to become a hippie vegan living in the wilderness.
> the write anywhere layout used by NetApp all those years ago

I've never heard of "write anywhere" before but it sounds interesting. What is/was this?

> ... incorporating a flash translation layer (FTL) is interesting, but ... what are you going to connect it to? NAND flash controllers ... already incorporate a FTL. ... Raw NAND flash controllers are increasingly rare on modern microcontrollers.

My read of the FTL bit is that of hopeful optimization that supports the ideal-case - say, the filesystem equivalent of all the revving-up everyone is doing to support RISC-V. It's clearly leaning pretty heavily on the bit about existing precedent. My practical hope is that the code stays in good, well-tended condition up to the point it can be usefully taken advantage of - and that someone notices it to good effect sooner rather than later.
>>Authoring a book is very passive income.

Authoring a book, sure. But the parent poster implied that he/she continuously writes these stories, i.e. many of them, hence why they said it is "hard on the imagination".
Derived the Riemann Tensor[0] on a whiteboard being a tutor.
Obviously I wasn't the first person to 'solve' it, but being relatively unprepared in class I was shocked and very proud about my personal achievement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_curvature_tensor
True matter.

But is the fact already available and the trend is ... ok or not ok. If they gas a few people and is that ok?

Is it ok to kick you out from the whole train system ... or should this be done via a legal system and you ... Really what fact you need ...
This is true. We used to call 80s Toyota truck keys the "any key" because any Toyota truck key will unlock and start almost any other Toyota truck from the same era.
Dont know if this is the hardest, but it is one of the most impactful. During the 2010 recession I had a client that had about 700K in receivables past due and we were doing about 120K/month in additional work. I started reading their 10Q and 10K and decided that they were at risk for bankruptcy as their cash position was not great.

I told my sales guy that we had to collect our money somehow. He was like they are a big public company, there is no way they will go bankrupt. I insisted.

I told him we needed to start working their procurement and AP hard. We bought gifts, took them out to golf, bars, lunch, dinner, and told a ton of sob stories about how we needed the money. We managed to get our AR down to about 120K which we decided was acceptable losses.

They went into bankruptcy and I was contacted by a receivables purchase company who offered to buy our 120K for 40K, so I sold them immediately.

Many of the small companies that we worked with there went out of business as none of us could take such a huge receivables loss.

To this day I try to get my finance team to send gifts to the AP team of our clients.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/jmc.pdf The Roots of Lisp by Paul Graham.
The hardest thing I’ve ever solved is finding 30 years of motivation. I co-founded a family business, or it co-founded me, because I was only 14. From inception to exit, it was an interesting intellectual and emotional challenge to keep 50-100 people motivated at any one time, including me. Coding was fun but talking to an angry customer was less so. Eventually, survival instincts kicked in and taught me that creativity and learning was the solution. Everything happened for a reason, and that reason was usually hidden under multiple layers—for staff, customers, or me. I found I became motivated by avoiding reaction, and instead seeing that there was already a motivation behind every interaction, like boredom, anger, and ambivalence. Understanding these individual motivations provided clarity as to what needed to change to maximize team motivation. This made hard problems palatable (and motivating) for an old-school techie, like me.
A really good reason to use encryption at the filesystem level is that you can use stream ciphers instead of block ciphers (because you have a place to store nonces). The current disk encryption is based on XTS, which has a section in wikipedia on it's weaknesses [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory#XTS
Sorry to be so late, I love rich GUIs and clickable elements :)
Your gripe seems to be with the Gaussian distribution. When you see shitty driving, what you are looking at is average driving. You also don't look at your own driving from the outside. I'd probably find just as many reprehensible things about your driving as you do of others simply because, statistically, you are an average driver.
Depends on what level, you can probably find the more creatively independent on here, and even judge work sample through the comments. Email is in my profile if you're interested.
Opinions are good, bad and ugly. Sometimes all at once.

Thanks for letting us know one nerd's take on openzfs.

The only thing standing in zfs way (to 1st tier Linux support) is a company springing up and heading the charge. 75 percent sure this will happen eventually with ZoL at some point in a decade's time.

However, another point of measure is money. Synology is huge and seems to think btrfs is good enough for business. They compete with ixsystems directly. We could go all day and into 2020 with points and counter points. The licensing issue is weak but will eventually be moot with enough money and time behind the right project. I'm not in any position to judge that last point for sure just offering my IT pro/business take on it.

To be fair bsd-ish-ness has a role to play on the backend and is bullet proof and battle tested for the right mission. But the same can be said for Linux too. The last point I'll make is that today, I can run the Linux kernel from my msft windows 10 machine natively. No one here would have saw that in 2000. Does bsd, zfs have a similar anecdotal Hero Epic like this; where the enemy capitulated so thoroughly?
I was always hoping for more adoption of NILFS [0] - a log structured FS with continuous snapshots. In theory it should never lose data and that's a reasoning behind it not having fsck. I've seen a blog post that was debating this choice and presenting a few situations when fsck would be necessary, but I can't find it.

It would be great for /home for many normal users - they could always go back. That could also be a problem when one wants to make sure that a sensitive file is really removed. It could be also used at least for some kind of archive. Possibly also for development.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS
Google is definitely not free. Users pay with their data and their eyeballs. Framing this as “free” is cynical at best.
Real estate. The downstairs apartment gets me a cool $1700 a month for almost no work.

If you're going to buy a first house, it's worth it to go for a multifamily; up to four units you can still get in under FHA, you just have to live in one for a couple of years.
Yes, this is the truth, thank you for saying it! I do feel phyiscal pain when having to edit something without my favorite editor =)
I have three sources of decent (return on effort put in) passive income this year.

- Membership fees and sponsored posts on https://thefootytipster.com (I maintain the WP site, but no real ongoing work) (roughly £300 per month)

- Advertising on my tech blog https://tosbourn.com (roughly £30 per month)

- Advertising on https://howoldistheinter.net (roughly £15 per month) - zero effort put into this once made and one redesign

I'm hoping to grow https://cbdscores.com over the next few months and add it to the list.
> Also dedup tables aren't encrypted in this setup.

This sounds like low-hanging fruit for a security researcher to try their hand at: comprehend the dedupe table format, and see what you can derive from it (basically the real-world version of https://xkcd.com/704/).
Correct, there was no advertising. At first, It was not even plan to make money from this site. It was to learn few new things.

In first year, I maybe leaved link on one or two subreddits, with not too many subscribers. I had little bit of traffic from reddit.

I had this url also in signature in 2 discussion boards, but boards were in Croatian language. So only little bit of traffic from there.

Then after some time I got better Google ranking. (there was no too much similiar sites there, so it was easy to get better ranking).

Once someone on 4chan or similair chan site posted link.

Basically, it has grown without marketing/advertising. But still, it is small site.