skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some things we can measure objectively, and civilizations are rated on a scale.

No, they aren't.

But even if they were, the best objective measure might be: given the choice of living within either of two different civilizations, which would people prefer? And from that standpoint, the New World was actually more advanced than Europe:

> I asked seven anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians if they would rather have been a typical Indian or a typical European in 1491. None was delighted by the question, because it required judging the past by the standards of today—a fallacy disparaged as “presentism” by social scientists. But every one chose to be an Indian. Some early colonists gave the same answer. Horrifying the leaders of Jamestown and Plymouth, scores of English ran off to live with the Indians.

Also:

> Back home in the Americas, Indian agriculture long sustained some of the world’s largest cities. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán dazzled Hernán Cortés in 1519; it was bigger than Paris, Europe’s greatest metropolis. The Spaniards gawped like hayseeds at the wide streets, ornately carved buildings, and markets bright with goods from hundreds of miles away. They had never before seen a city with botanical gardens, for the excellent reason that none existed in Europe. The same novelty attended the force of a thousand men that kept the crowded streets immaculate. (Streets that weren’t ankle-deep in sewage! The conquistadors had never heard of such a thing.)

> Spaniards, who seldom if ever bathed, were amazed by the Aztec desire for personal cleanliness.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...
It’s 2100 and everyone is wondering how people could be so short sighted and think it’s ok to polute and destroy...
Oldschool planar graphics and why they were a good idea
This article is terrible. You can’t make a case by putting a bunch of unsupported assertions into section-heading fonts and then just filling in paragraphs.

This reads like a desperate business person wrote it, who wishes that one full-stack set of drives made sense and coexisted in a single person to make that labor cheaper and more commidity, despite the reality that it’s simply not true.

The person who spent the time to master web service frameworks, query languages and product engineering necessarily did not also master professional level knowledge of deep learning or MCMC sampling or natural language processing.

The two types of people need to coexist and work symbiotically, but it’s just asinine wishful thinking to pretend like they are the same person, let alone to write a baseless essay full of assertions that if they aren’t the same person it somehow results in first principles economic inefficiency.
This really isn't news, folks. It happens every week. I was just grumpy this morning.
Clearly you don't understand the rationales here.

They employee 100s of people because during budget allocation they often get a lot of money to spend in a short period of time. Multi year projects are hard to keep people interested in.

The reason for multiple vendors is because if you have just one they screw you. You actually need the internal competition.

And most of the complexity in tech stacks is actually coming as a result of the move to agile. You don't have a large upfront requirements gathering and architecture process across all of the teams anymore. Instead each team is given just enough for that sprint, told to design it yourself and then people are surprised when there is 20 different implementation styles.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Pearls
i have one. It works about a 1/4 as well as a gas one.

Using a rake takes me 2 days to rake my yard. (about 16 hours)

An electric blower, 1.5 days (roughly 10-12 hours)

A gas blower takes me about 4 hours.

I have 2 medical conditions going on right now and can't pay someone $200 every single time i need my yard picked up. I spend enough in medical bills right now.
It fills my heart with nostalgia when I remember how decades ago experts said "It's dangerous to open .exes someone sent you by mail. Images and data files are fine, they don't run and can't infect your computer".

Simpler times indeed.
Not sure why you're downvoted. The iPod Touch is a great solution and I've bought one before. I don't love the Apple (walled garden) ecosystem though, which is another reason I'm excited about the Librem 5.
Last time I did business with someone who told me to fax them something, I asked them what millennium they thought it was. They promptly suggested an alternative. We did it that way.

Just because they prefer fax doesn't (usually) mean that it's the only way it can work. It doesn't mean you have to do it their preferred way.
As noted in the writeup, the FaunaDB transaction model uses a unique query expression language. Geode applies a more familiar begin + <operations> + commit / abort approach.

Geode skews towards eventual consistency when connecting geographically dispersed clusters. This means you still get super fast local transactions with batched updates to remote sites.
I love this new dev friendly Microsoft.

Makes me more enticed to switch everyday.
We have to raise a lot money to get a lot of compute, so we've created the best structure possible that will allow us to do so while maintaining maximal adherence to our mission. And if we actually succeed in building the safe AGI, we will generate far more value than any existing company, which will make the 100x cap very relevant.
It only leads to personal gain if there really was malfeasance though; making things up won’t get you a penny. Given that, it does seem like you’re defending Tesla, or at least playing fast and loose.
There are a couple of comments on the theme that this is taking a non-profit into a for-profit company, and that that is a bad thing.

I'd like to offer up an alternate opinion: non-profits operating models are generally ineffective compared to for-profit operating models.

There are many examples.

* Bill Gates is easy; make squillions being a merciless capitalist, then turn that into a very productive program of disease elimination and apparently energy security nowadays.

* Open source is another good one in my opinion - even when they literally give the software away, many of the projects leading their fields (eg, Google Chrome, Android, PostgreSQL, Linux Kernel) draw heavily on sponsorship by for-profit companies using them for furthering their profits - even if the steering committee is nominally non-profit.

* I have examples outside software, but they are all a bit complicated to type up. Things like China's rise.

It isn't that there isn't a place for researchers who are personally motivated to do things, there is a just a high correlation between something making a profit and it getting done to a high standard.
Though anti-Semitism is definitely either a contributing or complicating factor, it's human nature to blame lenders for the failures of creditors.
I can think of a few. For instance, the internet is not available to a lot of people. For those people, the alternative to faxing is snail mail. Also, not everyone has an internet-connected device that also has a camera. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true.

Also, even when you have both an internet connection and a camera, there remain numerous possible reasons why you may not want to use the internet to send certain things.

I'm certainly not saying that everyone should start faxing, but I totally understand why there may be a substantial minority for whom it makes sense at least from time to time.
I encourage you to see them all in the neutral sense. I intentionally included examples where exploitation can have a positive effect (ASPCA, if you love puppies), no effect (picking up the fiver the person has already lost), negligible or temporarily negligible effect (forest) or arguable effect (Amazon) on the victim. These things are usually not primarily about the victim and how awesome it will be to screw them over. (Except maybe the hacking examples where they might find it fun or funny.) But the neutral use of the word exploit is the one that will come closest to the business analysis being done by Amazon or any other big company. They don't set out to screw people. But they will exploit people, as a resource, to the degree that they're available at a good price.

Anyway I was only here to point out that exploitation doesn't always involve force, not really to argue whether Amazon workers are better off. Couldn't really weigh in on that without surveying them. And I'd need to have a list of criteria in mind, which may or may not match the people's own criteria. (Or I'd have to use their own criteria, which would mean asking more questions and lengthening the interview a bit.)

Off the cuff though I'd say whoever calls a suicide line or 911 because of work issues is probably not overall better off because of that job. (Add the appropriate disclaimers to the effect that those people are presumably a very small minority, and probably have non-work-related issues in addition to or instead of work-related ones.) Also they're not as well off as someone else who got hired at the hypothetical "other employer" with the warehouse in walking distance from their house who pays twice the rate and has showers, free employee caviar etc. (Edit: or just being allowed to take a simple bathroom break with dignity!)

Then there's also the notion (and this is where it gets really hand-wavy) that being a conduit for that money, from your employer's customers to your landlord, isn't exactly the height of joy and fulfillment, as most of us know. Though it does define some basic level of competency in a capitalist economy and being well off or at least better off as you say, than you would with a worse job or no job.
This is a noble intent, but it presumes that the perception and cognition of the individual remains unchanged by the circumstances in life. Capital is only a form of power, which is known to corrupt.
Questions about parallel reconstruction and warrants.

Questions about how much responsibility platform providers bear for the content they facilitate and who gets to call themselves a platform provider.

Questions about provenance and chain of custody of digital evidence and question about the admissibility of digital evidence when investigators make major forensic mistakes.

Questions about unequal ability to call experts and prosecutorial tricks to suppress evidence and disadvantage the defense.

Questions about jurisdiction overlap, competition between agencies and localities as they relate to political pressure in high profile investigations.

There are so many interesting and highly relevant questions brought up by this case and this article pretty much ignores them.
bcachefs is profiling itself to finally up the Linux file system game. It doesn't look like it will be upstreamed this year, but it appears to be usable and it's being done by someone who really seems to understand file systems and knows of the trade-offs different FS have made and how they played out.
Why? That seems like re-inventing the wheel. What makes your deployment process so much different than average that you can’t just write a check to heroku/aws and call it good? What value exists in inventing yet another bespoke deployment system?
congrats Nginx team! i've gotten lots of value out of your product
I came here to say something similar but with my added first hand experience of working for a government contractor at Kennedy Space Center.

Almost all of the real engineering done by "NASA" at KSC is done by government contractors. The actual NASA employee pool had a higher than usual proportion of lazy and incompetent members because it's virtually impossible to terminate a federal government employee. The rest were hard core bureaucrats who spent most of their time jockeying for bigger offices, more responsibility, etc.
Seems to be too early for an April fool's joke :(
I hear you. What I meant is that Columbus had enough pieces of a puzzle to make that journey there and back possible. Based on earlier journeys of Portuguese sailors, on reading different accounts both contemporary and historical.

And that after his discovery this circular route became the only way to America and back used by other sailors. This is more of an achievement then placing flag on some piece of land.
Simple scenario: you need to transmit multiple legible pages of black and white text, in that case a fax machine is far superior to anything you can do with a phone camera.
ZFS snapshots work well enough for that.

The Sun Storage Appliance used ZFS snapshots for updates, and it worked quite well.
Thanks for this clarification!
With everything that is going on with open source licensing this certainly can create a bit of worry down the line.

Interesting to also see what aws is doing in response to some of the more complicated licensing agreements and specifically elastic search:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-...

The challenge for nginx was they raised VC capital so they were in a forcing function. Either grow revenue or get acquired. Could have remained an independent oss product for ever but alas no more.
> Today compatibility with set-top boxes is much more of a consideration than it used to be.

My experience with the anime and tokusatsu fansubbing community is the opposite. There's a lot of "you must use mpv or CCCP", and a ton of disdain for people who watch on something other than a PC.

A small handful of groups will provide alternate "toaster-friendly" downloads for people on set-top boxes. For example, for ongoing TV shows, the main release will be a 720p or 810p softsubbed MKV with Hi10P video, and the "toaster-friendly" release will be a 480p hardsubbed MP4 with 8-bit video. This is mostly in the tokusatsu scene, though; for set-top boxes, the anime community mostly relies on dedicated encoding groups like DeadFish who provide "toaster-friendly" versions of other groups' releases because most groups won't even consider releasing something that's set-top-box-friendly. Also, there is an assumption that if you don't want to watch on a PC, then you don't mind SD video.

For fansubs that use Blu-ray-sourced video, there are no "toaster-friendly" options. You can basically expect groups to do a 720p Hi10P release alongside a 1080p release which is either Hi10P or HEVC, both of which are softsubs-only and in MKV containers. The audio is often, but not always, FLAC.

For those unfamiliar with how subtitles work, softsubs are incompatible with pretty much every set-top box. And there are some groups that will use intricate typesetting that can bring even decent PCs to their knees. For example, Commie is notorious for releasing an episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventures with typesetting so over the top that it crashed most people's computers (I've never seen the episode myself, but I understand it involved hundreds of lines of text all continuously zooming in and out).

But even the anime/toku community doesn't use AV1, and HEVC is only for 1080p releases sourced from Blu-ray video (and to reiterate, a lot of groups will still use Hi10P even for 1080p).
VW has a massive battery order spread between Samsung, LG and CATL, but yeah, I agree Tesla will have a solid lead on battery production for a while.

I wonder if Tesla/Panasonic will at some point start selling mass produced batteries to the traditional car manufacturers. Once EVs become mainstream, consumers will start expecting choice.
How much of them sending takedown notices was a desperate posturing of "omg please please please please don't use our code!!!"

I can't possibly see how they would possibly have any case.
In a sense keybase is one of the most important projects built right now (that I can think of).

It covers aspects (think pareto principle) of email, linkedin, slack, github, dropbox, whatsapp, online banking and probably more core use cases that I don’t have on top of my mind.

That is now, today. With a decent user experience that keeps getting better (see recent improvements @ user profiles).

=> all of that end-to-end encrypted and delivered in a way that it is accessible and usable and fun with a long-tail of users in mind.

[I have no idea what an equivalent would be right now, not even as combination of multiple separate projects. Think about that.]
Hey friend.

No need for the SWIM. It gives you no plausible legal deniability.

That's all I have to say. Glad you managed to perceive your problem (and therefore fix it). I too have found psychedelics helped me address issues in my life that I wasn't even aware of.

edit:

>Swim realizes now that no one ever "is" something, they just "are being (something) right now". and if you gain that notion, you realize that everything in yourself that you want to change can be changed with hard work and enough time.

I had that exact same realization on shrooms. What a succinct and beautiful way to put it.
I admire the attempt to create a sustainable project that's primarily about creating a positive impact!

For those (including myself) who wonder whether a 100x cap will really change an organization from being profit-driven to being positive-impact-driven:

How could we improve on this?

One idea is to not allow investors on the board. Investors are profit-driven. If they're on the board, you'll likely get pressure to do things that optimize for profit rather than for positive impact.

Another idea is to make monetary compensation based on some measure of positive impact. That's one explicit way to optimize for positive impact rather than money.
"Why vertical farming wont save the world" - Nuff said!

https://youtu.be/ISAKc9gpGjw
What you describe is accurate for ZFS, but not for btrfs. Shrinking a btrfs filesystem with the resize command only makes sense if you are going to follow up by shrinking the partition or other underlying logical block device (eg lvm). btrfs does not have ZFS's concept of a device pool from which multiple filesystems can be allocated.
I'd like to submit the possibility that in a lot of cases dopamine is doing its exact job (which seems to be ranking your brain's predictions and facilitating learning of patterns) -- if you are correctly able to predict with high confidence the outcome of whatever you are wanting to do, then you'll end up not wanting to do it anymore (because you'd learn nothing from it -- and because the pleasure from imagining doing it is just as real). The solution is to attempt harder stuff, things that you can't right now predict, where outcomes are still uncertain, things that might bring you suffering and not just pleasure.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do. I'm saying that it isn't as important to humanity.

It's like the pitch Steve Jobs gave to John Scully: “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

There was nothing wrong with selling Pepsi. Scully could have become very, very wealthy that way. He could have mentored younger executives, he could have done a lot of good with his life. But five hundred years from now, beating Coke wasn't going to leave much of a legacy.

And that's the point. Maybe the brightest really are going into high frequency trading. Maybe they're creating a lot of shareholder wealth there. That's all great. But to be considered "the greatest" it isn't enough to be really smart, or even to work on really hard problems. You have to work on really hard, important problems. IMO.
Tips on how to deploy deep neural networks for controlling stock levels
This isn't the type of stuff Grammarly helped me with. Passive voice misuse is still extremely difficult for me to catch. Even after learning about it multiple times.
Interesting move. Big IP is a hell of a product on it's own. Curious to see how they add nginx to their product line and what this means for open source usage.
Retrospective: Lessons from Microsoft's Clippy Virtual Assistant
I was just making an observation about the -chan variants.

I didn't mean to make the assertion that 2channel = 2chan.
Even true allegations can take years to come to fruition in a whistleblower payout, assuming there is still a solvent company around to pay fines by that point.
We have very different use cases.

I'm coming at from a single person trying to record screencast videos in a controlled environment.
Wearing pants are overrated in general and a waste of time as well, but I'd be in trouble for forgetting them when going into the office as well.

One day we may need to call a meeting that no one thinks is worth their attention. There's plenty of hoops that one must work through in one's day to day that we just have to put up if we want to keep the business moving.
Oh, interesting. So 30 min or so before, 1-3 mg would be effective, but with a lower dose I should try 3-4 hours before bed or so?

Thanks! I'll try that and see what happens.
Nginx is an incredible product. I've used it at nearly every company I've been at and on multiple occasions its entirely saved us both via its capabilities and its accessible, robust documentation that we had to read at 2 AM while fire fighting. Congrats to the team on a hard fought journey.
No, we don't think you should write Yet Another E-Book. :(
I am hearing that startups are moving out of SF because it is too expensive.

Can anybody explain the strategy here? I realise that funding is mostly centralised in SF, but this still feels weird to me.
Seems like you could fax an encrypted payload and just use the fax protocol for data transmission.
I find it unfortunate that people who are trying to take care of their property with the limited time, money, and possibly mobility issues (i have medical issues where 16 hours raking my yard being dropped to 4 b/c of a gas blower makes a lot of difference) are being treated as evil incarnate.

Talking to environmentalists who have no appreciation for nuance, is like being gay and talking to a evangelical thinking I'm destined for hell.

I have an electric lawn mower. I drive a hybrid. I recycle.

Environmentalism isn't a pissing match, nor is it a purity test.

This culture of sneering down on people is why so many working class people become contrary at environmentalism.

It's self-righteous, snobbery and elitism as it's finest
Would you say eBPF is better than DTrace now?
This is sad. I taught myself this when I was 18... over 20 years ago. Someone dropped a router in front of me and told me to get a T1 line up and running.
I think that was exactly the story behind Room 641a, wasn't it?

(And it was illegal, although now, in the USA, I don't think it would be anymore.) Largely depends on what TLA you are, and whether or which secret court you derive your authority from / are required to report to for renewal of your secret warrant.

Of course the GP was about doctors in Germany, and this 641a business was about an NSA facility operated on an AT&T switching office in San Francisco, USA (so this does not also preclude that.)

I think based on what I know about Germany and privacy laws, the court would use a favorable liberal interpretation of "phone line" to mean, say, any connection that begins and ends with a phone line, and terminates with a dial-tone. I don't know much about German courts though, so take that only for what it's worth.