skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First question: Quotas have been supported on Linux for a very long time. All major (and native) file systems support them.

Secondly: disk usage accounting for metadata as well as regular file data may or may not be tricky. ZFS always tells you how much data+metadata is used by a file, helped by metadata itself being dynamically allocated on ZFS like everything else is. File systems like ext4 that have fixed metadata locations on disk don't report back metadata allocation with the file; it wouldn't really be useful to see this information since removing the file doesn't free any metadata in the ext4 case.
I always think this way, but once I make a commitment, now I basically have a deadline, which for me, causes the procrastination impulse to kick in, and it takes effort to fight it.

I think that telling someone I'm going to do something makes me want to do it a little bit less because now I'm doing it for them, not for myself.
WeWork's Neumann voted to oust himself as CEO after failed IPO: sources
Er, TWh isn't a measure of power. It's a measure of energy. Presumably that 120,000 TWh is consumption per year?

Then we get

120000 TWH/year * (1 / 24 / 365) hours/year ~= 13.7 TW

So you would need 13700 reactors, not 14 million.

Edit: maybe you were just off by a factor of 1000 in your calculation?
Thank you! it's all built using Elixir on the backend and React on the frontend. In fact all the apps on the site are built using that same stack.

I'm actually planning to merge them all into one platform soon. Hadn't thought of integrating with others but good idea!
That sounds like a very non-nuanced view. I can understand the idea behind why a particular culture might view Trump as straightforward and Obama as inscrutable, but it's a bit insulting to suggest that's the only thing that group values, and won't look deeper into what that person actually does, and what the results are of those actions, and whether those results are good or bad.
I'm not sure that follows. Higher CPU usage isn't undesirable because it slows things down (although it may), it prevents battery powered devices working efficiently. Plucking a figure from the air, if QUIC knocks 10% off the battery life of mobiles, that's a hard sell.
No. What it's saying is that data based decisions are not always right and may in fact often be more wrong than an emotional decision.

The argument can be found in much greater detail in the book "Wrong" by David Freedman:

https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-cons...

and is explored from a slightly different angle in this essay by Scott Alexander:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...

Here's a brief summary of the book.

The world is full of people, presented to us by the media as experts, who constantly make predictions. These predictions are not sometimes wrong, but it turns out are mostly/almost always wrong. Some data is provided to back this up.

These people usually share the same characteristics. They are wrong because they radically over-estimate their understanding of complex systems, and apply simple models as a consequence. Sometimes it may be impossible to construct a model sophisticated enough to do what they're trying to do, but this doesn't stop them. Sometimes the media garbles or exaggerates what's being predicted, or doesn't communicate uncertainty. And then when their predictions turn out to be wrong, they are isolated from any kind of accountability or reality check.

Freedman focuses quite a bit on 'experts' in health, dieting etc (e.g. does red wine cause cancer or not?) but examines other areas too, and arguably they're more important. For instance economists are always wrong unless they're predicting a continuation of the current trend line, which is pretty useless, but no economist is ever fired because their predictions turned out badly. And he argues that one reason there's no accountability is that many people refuse to downgrade their belief in these experts, even when presented with repeated evidence of their wrong beliefs.

The second link, the Alexander essay, explores why people may often be right to make an apparently emotion-driven decision. His argument boils down to evaluating arguments being really hard, and it being easy to be convinced by arguments that are wrong, and the world being full of wrong arguments that would have radically devastating outcomes on your life if you really took them seriously and tried to live by their conclusions, so it's often smarter to just ignore (apparently) rational arguments and reject anything that sounds "weird".
Forbes is less magazine (though it's still published) and more media publisher these days. They've done a pretty good job of positioning themselves amongst the younger crowd, especially those more interested in business.
"The source-language representation of most of the code involved is identical in all environments."

Sometime between 1978 and about 1997, people figured out how to tie C code strictly to a single architecture. About '97, I sat next to some people doing a big C and I think X11 system on HP-UX. By 2000, they were trying to port it to something else, Sun Solaris, probably. They couldn't do it. They never got this system to run on something other than HP-UX.

The arc of portability is long, but bends toward "not" I think. It's basically unheard of for people to write about the portability of anything these days, C, C++, whatever. There's Windows, and there's Linux, both 64-bit, little-endian, with a stack that grows down from high addresses, and a heap that grows up. Both have the same sort of ideas about system calls, as near as I can tell. Portability is dead.
> who do deserve to be there. ..... but also worked to expose some rampant sexual misconduct in venture capital in spite of the risks

I am not seeing how that is even relevant to getting on this list and that in no way means I think the list isn't fluff.

The list claims to do the following:

'annual list chronicling the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada'
It's trolling. Trolls want shock, and will resort to anything for it, even if illegal.

But let's leave that aside. Do you consider gratuitous insults, slurs, doctored images and defamation aimed at a single individual, a protected right? If a troll did that in person, he would likely be dealt with legally, that's why they do it in numbers and behind a virtual gate. The idea of impunity brings the worst of them.
The number of mirrors isn't the problem. No matter how many pieces you slice it into, you have to achieve that quantity of surface area somehow.
Well, it sounds like a lot of defaults would have to have been changed to insecure settings for Chrome to have the permissions, so... you're right and Apple agrees. I mean if `/` is writable by your login user, then something has gone terribly wrong in your process somewhere.
I expect the opposite. China may have to subsidize postage on its end in order to keep some kinds of Chinese exports competitive.
I took that interview, and got the job, emigrated to the US from the UK and stayed for 4.5 years. I had total belief Firebase was the future and I wanted to be part of it. The challenge was mentally stimulating, harder than most academic planning problems. It was really hard to exploit the structure.
I spent the full 9 hours on it after restarting my efforts at the 5 hour mark. 9 hours of sustained effort. Its not the kind of effort I would blow on most interviews, but totally worth it for that opportunity. And indeed, joining Firebase changed my life fundamentally. In retrospect.... it was such a great move, time spent exceedingly well :)

Edit: I wonder how much was luck. I definitely aimed for Firebase. I used it once after seeing on HN and fell in love with it immediately. It felt like the future, so it wasn't dumb luck, but then, it worked out so very well, I wonder if I saw a similar opportunity I would be able to leap at it again. Would it work out again? I guess time will tell.
My country was also, for many centuries (and before climate change), prone to droughts, flooding, and famine. It's not that its climate became better, it's that during the centuries we deviated entire rivers, built ten metres-high embankments around them, built dams and irrigation canals. We drained marshy areas to fight malaria and to allow for new cultivations, and we cultivate industrially, with machines and fertilizers. We also keep maps of the hydro-geological risk to either prevent people from settling in risky areas or to manage the risk of existing settlements. (We also have a problem with rare but catastrophic earthquakes, that are especially hard on towns and villages that are almost a thousand years old. We try to reinforce existing buildings and build quake-resistant ones when an earthquake happens.)

One of the problems I see with the current worldview is that many of these interventions are now so far away in time, and ongoing monitoring is so specialized, that most people simply forgot that they exist and ensure our current prosperity. But in fact we're simply profiting from the lessons of centuries of disasters and of careful engineering.
I'm sorry you see it that way. Its a solution that works. He asked for help and I offered a solution. Why is it off topic? (genuinely curious)
>Then, a corollary: personhood is a silly meme and doesn't really matter.

The Supreme Court beat you to it and extended personhood to corporations. No one ever accused a corporation of being conscious.
The idea that there was a uniform neolithic culture is... well... sailing against established knowledge. I'd really like to see a citation or two.

Especially since Neolithic civilization spans ~6K years, and appears at very different times in different regions, with cultural artifacts appearing in different order.

As for "good and evil", evidence so far says it probably started with Zoroastrianism, which is really at the tail end of the neolithic. Your Quora user either has access to not commonly available research or is misremembering.
Think it through; there is a constant stream of vacationers, all booked in advance. How long do you continue to operate while not taking new bookings? You're losing money every day and you literally cannot fly planes around without cash.

Also, the UK handles bankruptcy very differently than does the US. You can't just continue to operate for months/years. This is why they paid into the fund which was created to insure against this exact issue for decades.
Certain gifted programs, eg JHU's CTY would administer it slightly later.
I think you're right, but taking this approach leads to some strange conclusions.

For example, that there is no way for you to know that everyone you have ever known is conscious.
For personal projects Objective C (Java for Android). I like them more. For commercial projects, I guess, Swift/Kotlin is the way to go, as it's new hotness.
I agree with all the things you say about trying to get more freedom on mobile platforms, but let's not be disingenuous. Allowing more freedom on app stores absolutely increases viruses and malware that can get onto phones. If we aren't honest about that then we won't be out brainstorming methods of avoiding that kind of cesspool.
It might expand the available land for agricultural use, but that land is not going to be in the same spots as our agriculture is now. What do you think China will do when agriculture becomes harder in China, but there is all this Russian wilderness that used to be frozen and is becoming fertile? Or the US with Canada? Where do you think hundreds of millions of Africans will go when equatorial regions become uninhabitabe without AC?
I've thought about starting a financial planning charity to help middle class and up people get out of debt (low hanging fruit), but I think I'm more likely to try to become a fireman or something else physical. I just feel so much more satisfied by doing a bunch of physical work or charitable work than technical work, so once I don't need income, I'll switch it up.
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The AppStore experience is miserable. It sucks the life out of you as an independent developer when they reject your app for vague reasons and you know the turn around to get your app reviewed again is going to be another 1-3 days. The quality control is highly variant, sometimes my application goes through intense scrutiny, sometimes it gets rejected purely for user error on their reviewing end and other times it gets accepted without a peep. When they do have complaints and reject your app, you can submit comments or an appeal but they are never responded to or acknowledged. The whole process doesn't make me excited to create another app. I've made two different apps, avaialable on both platforms and the Google Play experience is way overall way easier to deal with, probably because there's less human review & scrutiny involved.
Outside of the stores you are relying on search engines. Now tell me how SEO is not "an aggressive race to the bottom, where gaming the store ranking is priority one".
> You need to highlight the backing by the rest of the scientific community ...

Would you be satisfied by 76 Nobel Laureates?

http://www.mainaudeclaration.org/

> As of 1 February 2016, 76 Nobel Laureates have expressed their support of the Mainau Declaration 2015.
Let’s just not go outside. The horror. The horror.
I made a similar decision to the GP -- it is not just that the octopus is intelligent (pigs are smart too, but I'm less perturbed by eating them). The octopus is such a vastly different creature to most/all other animals that we eat. To me, it feels more like eating a totally alien lifeform, which (subjectively, to me) is a greater pity than just eating something that is smart, but is pretty similar to all other animals (e.g. fish or mammals)
Surely even the below average business owners will know at least a week in advance that they're going bankrupt?
Nothing in my Linux system. Are you asking with something specific in mind?
Generally I really like the port list of Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_num...
Yeah, I think it's definitely something that will vary by personality. I'm somewhat of a people pleaser so the external motivation works well for me.
Adding to that I noted that you do have links to the actual articles which is good but they aren't displayed as intuitively as they could be.

I think the next phase of your ux should be an actual carbon copy of the article that I can read inside the app with the audio playing features at the bottom in an overlay. One needs to go back and forth between a web browser and your app, and it takes longer to listen than it does to read, most people will want to save time and read when they are in a position to do so. (I'm sure this is already on your docket)

one feature you might consider that would help the transition between reading and listening is to have your vertical scroll bar coincide with your track time at the bottom, so as they scroll down the article their place in the audio track moves down as well. You could even have a text cursor that appears between the actual words on the screen so they can see where their place is.

I've constructed an elaborate diagram that illustrates this

http://imgur.com/gallery/ZBMYPXe
My favorite quote from Archer:

Noah: "Do you even know what an idiom is?"
Archer: "colloquial metaphor"

The phrase “colloquial metaphor” itself feels idiomatic from a context you’ve never considered, but appears to be obviously correct.
From: https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2019

> annual list chronicling the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada

Implied of course that the list is arbitrary but even more ironic given it's limited to a number that makes a good headline that is counter arbitrary (if there is such a think..)
I've seen a lot of companies that, like firebase, try to assess if a candidate "is excited about our company" early in the process.

It always seems weird to me. I barely know you- why would I be excited? Ask me at the end of the onsite after I've talked to a number of people across a variety of roles, seen your office, heard about the work, explored the culture, etc etc.

During the initial screen, I really only know about your business, which is not the biggest factor for me.
"We only use cookies that are necessary for the website functionality. They do not contain any personal data. You can find out more in our privacy policy." - box on pageload with no option except "Got It"

Not a great first impression...

Correct me of I'm wrong, but you only need that box if you share cookie data with third parties, set third party cookies, or use cookies for non-primary business purposes (e.g. not just a session token for logged-in page authentication). So seeing any sort of a box like that indicates that you're going doing something nefarious and against the key differentiator of your product (privacy).

Also, the fact that there's no option to decline is a big giant red flag.
> 6. Almost all liars start with self-deception. They often don't know they're lying.

I disagree. Lying implies intent to deceive. Saying something that is false does not make it a "lie" unless the person who said it knew it in advance that it is false and presents it as true, or in other words, as per "The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language": "A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood."

Or https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lie:

> to say or write something that is not true in order to deceive someone

And so forth.

A false statement is not a lie.
>The same census also reports that about 74.1% of residents were of Chinese descent, 13.4% of Malay descent, 9.2% of Indian descent, and 3.3% of other (including Eurasian) descent

That's extremely different than the US.
I think you'd be surprised how many hunters appreciate the beauty and fragility of nature to a much higher degree than the average person. Who else sits in the woods for hours and hours and studies the patterns of animals and weather? There are some dumbasses who just like shooting guns, but a lot of hunters are also conservationists.
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Eat vegan and ignore the haters.
You have as much rights over 'your' public info as everyone else. You can't dictate to others what to do with it without violating their rights. Therefore, people should learn to think before they act instead of complaining when their acts become public and try to take it down. Edward Snowden has a nice personal bit on this in his new book.
Two days later their CEO had near doubled that to £3.1bn.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/25/thomas-cook...
In your argument, the sum of all wealth for the lower class is what's being optimized for here, which you claim is a good thing. We can prevent the most money loss by restricting movement of capital. I happen to disagree with this but's let's table that and look at an analogy.

Say you take that argument and apply it to education. Poor people are generally less educated. Does that mean we should optimize limited budgeting resources to only teach to the average denominator to maximize total knowledge among lower classes (increasing value among many, just as we did with your previous argument)? This means the needs of many outweigh the ability of a few to move up.

I don't think it makes sense to hold back a few ambitious people for the good of everyone, when those few are not adversely responsible for other people's losses.
I get that (and updated my post to qualify with "Orthodox"); that's not really the point. I of course am aware of many people who joke they're "the worst Jew ever" and such like that, because they identify with the group, but don't practice any of the religious aspects.

But that's not really the point. There exist people who do strictly follow the religious aspects, and that's what I'm confused about.
Ask HN: Biographies/Book recommendations that a startup founder can relate to?
I have come to appreciate biographies of successful people in their endeavors.

Had highly enjoyed Nike founder story: Shoe Dog. The personal touch with which Phil Knight wrote the story, has left a deep impression about him and the story.

Also read Bad Blood, which was pretty interesting.

Any recommendations for biographies/stories that a startup founder can relate to.

Thanks
More fuel for the "immutable install paths" cause :)
You're banking on unlikely materials engineering breakthroughs to get solar and wind energy density to be 1000 times more than what it is today.

Not 2x improvement, not 10x, not 100x. 1000x improvement before renewables are as efficient as natural gas. Good luck.
Pure unbridled intellectual masturbation.
FAST will surely be better than Arecibo, absent some kind of terrible technical glitch. The point was more that, post-Arecibo (and again we're talking the 1970's here) there has been no rush to build more Arecibo-style dishes, because the perceived scientific benefit is low.
Amazon Won’t Stop Until Alexa’s Always with You
It's surprisingly easy too, only 2-3 weeks behind the wheel to get your CDL. I highly recommend the hazmat endorsement (if you can pass the background check) to get the salary bump that goes along with hauling those loads.
> there's no way for the average use to actually have control over his or her device

I feel like comments like this always assume that it's a given that the average user having full control over their devices is a goal that the majority of people agree with and are interested in pursuing.

Unless it can be demonstrated that the lack of control over their smartphones is seriously, tangibly affecting their lives in ways that aren't just ideological, the public at large (and lawmakers by extension) are going to keep right on not really giving a shit if they have Linux-like package management or not.
This is very odd. I’ve always found interactions with the Apple App Store review people to be very smooth and they always tell me exactly what they’re looking for while reviewing my app. If they can’t find it, i get back to them and they finish their review in under an hour. I get the feeling someone isn’t telling the whole story here.
Show HN: iPhone app to record video with both cameras
A lot of times we actually have authors narrating their own content. We've created a platform where any writer can come and request his articles to be turned into audio. This can then be added as an embedded player at the top of their posts (https://www.listle.io/writers). These articles get sent to our narrators who record them. They're then forwarded to the authors as a code snippet which they copy / paste on their stories.
I don't think that would be a good test, either. All that would prove is that there exists a storage device, and a method by which to read it. It doesn't imply that the recording device is conscious.
Write your core app in cross-platform C++, decoupling the UI (maybe using MVP or similar approaches), then switch to another platform.
I really feel for those who fall victim of this huge companies that under various disguises trying to get full control of people's lives and business.
I am lucky that so far I have managed to avoid all this walled garden madness. All of my products so far are either desktop based or browser based and servers are hosted on my own/rented hardware, no cloudy stuff. Other than paying for security certificates every now and then I have no interaction with the "authorities of the Internet"

Frankly I do not understand why do people submit to this kind of stewardship
It's a testament to how crappy my code is, but I find myself having to give it type hints too often, and it'll give up on spitting out warnings if the file gets too large. There's a perverse thought. I can bypass warnings-as-errors by making my code bad enough ;)
But that’s completely different than the question of what the App Store accomplishes. Apple didn’t need or develop an App Store to distribute their own apps, but third party ones.
I guess Dropbox violates user’s privacy in a multi-threaded fashion. ;-)