skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The equivalent scenario to recovering from a bulk erasure of all Azure RM resources is this

It just occurred to me how much easier it is to wipe everything in the cloud age than the on-prem age. Doing all the things you said for on-prem takes some serious effort. Some, like factory resets, may be impossible without individual physical access. You would probably be discovered and stopped before you can inflict much damage. In the cloud age however, it takes orders of magnitude less time and effort to inflict the same damage.

It is kinda like how much easier it is to steal data now. Before the digital age, stealing as much data as Equifax hack would have required moving truckloads of paper without being discovered. It was simply impossible to pull it off in reality. In the digital age, however, we have accepted massive data leaks as not only possible, but unavoidable.
I'm always curious about claims that HN is degenerating. Where are those dissenting opinions of which you speak?

I took a look, and didn't find any. I did see several early comments by your account, including its very first one, that were downvoted. Which comments were downvoted vs. not seemed consistent with what would get downvoted today, though today they'd probably get downvoted more—probably because there are many more readers who can downvote things.
Way Cooler Postmortem
> Obviously you don’t include hotels because those were never intended as housing in the traditional sense.

Low-end residential hotels (i.e., the ones not catering primarily to extended white-collar business travel) are, in major function, very hard to distinguish from traditional housing. And what stops any other hotel (particularly higher-end residential / extended-stay hotels) from selling into that market is the expectation that doing so (even with units that are otherwise vacant) would sacrifice the opportunity for more rent from richer people, so it very much is a continuous market.
The problem is that nobody is interested in doing that and that's why we are in this situation in the first place. If Oracle wanted to integrate ZFS into Linux they would just relicense it.
On a similar note, I've often wondered what Commodore's OS would have turned into. Not out of some misplaced nostalgia, just curiousity about the Could Have Been.

My guess is that by now in 2020, it would have at some point had an OSX moment where Commodore would have had to chuck it out, since both Apple and Microsoft have effectively done exactly that since then. Still, I'd love to peek into Amiga OS 9 descended from continual usage.
cars are stolen much less frequently than bikes. if your car does get stolen, you're pretty likely to get it back, although you may have to pay for some repairs. if your bike gets stolen, you'll probably never see it again.
> Basic financial planning would indicate that owning a money losing asset (i.e. car) is not a good idea.

Only if you have an alternate way to get to work like good public transportation. Otherwise buying a depreciating asset like a car is the only way to survive in many places. It's like paying rent. Perhaps not ideal, but it is a practical reality for many.
Work on These (Other) Things
I’m a gal, but exactly. I really wanted to support a company at the time who was supporting the community (they were a freenode sponsor), but I just hated dealing with the stress and potential that my domains could just disappear over night.
ZFS threatens the power of Linux and therefore Linus’ job. That’s the long and short of it. Mac and Windows have been able to maintain stable interfaces for binary kernel drivers for 20 years.
> British imperialists long knew that the best way to divide and conquer was by creating “countries” riven with tribal differences.

But I was told that that is our strength.
How many milligrams of NMN do you take each day?
40 years isn’t bad for a small software shop. I hope Mr. Thompson is satisfied with how things turned out.

Anyone here use the software?
Personally I have been moved to only use a desktop computer with Linux on it and switched to a Go Flip 3 dumb phone. It's helped my sanity quite a bit. I'm convinced tech peaked in 90s and the desktop dream was the best one.
that's way less fun
I've used them a ton when downtown (and even in North Shore).

Shame there's nowhere close enough of bike paths for stuff like this. Really disappointing.

Plus council took their licence away and gave to local company. That's like a pure corruption, nepotism or protectionism.

The amount of smear articles on NZHerald about Lime was disgusting too. It's either an by delusionally old farts or again - corruption.
I do wonder why more work hasn't been done in this area—especially on the run time side.

I actually think a big part of it is something like a fixed perspective on what the process of computer programming has to be like that comes from an era before it was possible to do such a thing well.

One of the skills a programmer always implicitly learns is to imagine the data their code is operating on—and only to occasionally peek into it with e.g. printlns and debuggers. There's something about the seeming necessity of that that keeps people away from tackling the problem directly. It may be a fish not being able to see the water kinda thing. (At least that's my read on it :)
We only gave our kids cell phones when they were old enough to be out without parents (so they could call home if needed.)

I wouldn't like not being able to do that.
What a bunch of crock! It seems like it’d always remain too much to ask for Mark to understand things and look at the big picture for the good of everyone. IMO, this post yet again makes a good case for breaking up the company.

Most of this post is about how Facebook is looking for new ways to make money, and just a few sentences about large problems like diseases or poverty.

He carelessly uses words like “private” and “decentralized” in dishonest senses to mean that:

a) Facebook (the company) will provide you these solutions and misname them as private and decentralized

b) Facebook (the company) will still run on ads and profiling users.

Augmented and virtual reality — yet another way for Facebook to surveil people.

Asking for regulations as if he wants it. What he has wanted from the time Facebook has come under scrutiny by lawmakers is regulatory capture...getting laws passed in a way that prevents competitors from even trying, while Facebook can continue to claim that it’s doing its best with “independent” boards and committees and escape penalties and punishments.

Anyone wanting something better for the future can only hope that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg get out of running Facebook the company in any manner by 2030, if we go by wishlists by decades.
If you squint at it, there's also a Python implementation here: https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/blob/master/tests/bao.py. But it's far too slow to use it for anything besides testing.
The queue is a single contention point which will have a considerable overhead unless the work takes a long time to execute (ie, enqueue is infrequent).

This kind of approach is usually not what you want: either you want to spawn threads as new work arrives (when each work unit is independent of each other), or you want to have a static number of threads each doing some predefined work (ideally one per core).

Scheduling pieces of work like this is going to be terrible for cache locality and will probably result in a number of threads waiting for each other and result in underutilization of the available cores.
> I'm asking why you would choose to own a car if there was an alternate world where all the other cars in the city were available to use on demand.

there are a lot of reasons, but here are the two big ones. unlike any rental car I've seen at an avis lot, my car is actually fun to drive. you'll never see a car with a manual transmission for rent in america, unless you go on turo. second, I take much better care of my car than most people. after seeing how people treat vehicles they actually own, I don't want to rent a vehicle that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned and inspected after the previous driver.
I used this in 1991 as an EE undergrad. I initially used it on my 8086, 4.77 MHz XT. It took several minutes to simulate a simple common emitter amp. I don’t remember if I had an 8087 FPU.

I then bought a 486DX, 50 MHz and the same simulation was finished before the mouse button lifted.

Fun times. Microcap was really cool at the time as it was the only GUI based SPICE, and the student version was under $50.

Nowadays I use LTSpice specifically since LT makes good switching regulators, and only develops those models for LTSpice. Otherwise I use Microwave Office.

MC still looks much more polished than LTSpice, at least the GUI. Schematic entry in LTSpice is still abysmal.
oh cool, now I'm a liar too.

> I call such comments linkless martyrs

You take pride in coining cute little phrases like that?

> If so, you can easily prove it with links that show how you were posting like this "for years without issue before you came along".

I really have no interest in playing your games at this point. I explained myself, you dismissed everything I said and seem to have zero interest in an honest conversation. Instead you'd rather pick a line and jerk yourself off about what a way with words you have.

> "wage slavery not being much better" is an empty cliché

Still haven't explained how that isn't unsubstantive flamebait. Smug jerk.
Or just stop using Facebook and its products.
Note that a "round" in BLAKE/2/3 is equivalent to a "double-round" in ChaCha.
You're confusing living wills in general with a DNR order. Every sane adult should have a living will which clearly lays out what they want in case they can't communicate it at the time. A living will need not include a DNR order: in fact you can request the opposite.
strictly speaking, displacement is a vector quantity, as opposed to distance, which is scalar. if you drive a mile from your house then turn around and go straight back, you've traveled a distance of two miles but your displacement is zero.
> MTA should never have killed Exit Strategy

I haven't heard this before. I presumed the author simply stopped updating the app. Can you elaborate?
HTTPS: //www.pillsdrive.com/keto-trim-800-diet-pills/
Keto Trim 800 Diet Pills:- Tony Little knows what it's like to suffer from chronic back pain. Doctors are usually very careful indeed about what they prescribe to obese people, but they are under increasing pressure because people are either unwilling or not prepared to make the personal commitment that long-term weight loss requires. Sometimes by having a limited creativity as well as imagination, you can easily turn the most extremely unlikely foods into a healthier meal choice, even pizza! An extreme diet that slows down your metabolism also makes it hard for you to exercise -you'll do better eating healthy and exercising regularly, so that your metabolism speeds up and you burn calories faster.

https://www.pillsdrive.com/keto-trim-800-diet-pills/
What do you mean by "reactionary" here?
.NET suffered from the fact that you couldn't move easily between versions. This changed with .NET Core, where you can target (and install multiple versions of) different instances of the runtime/SDK.

That, combined with the ability to target .netstandard and a much more clear line of sight for what is compatiable with those standards, have made this, to me, a non issue.

It was historically though, very hard to deal with for large apps.
Seems like a great way for this app to access your calendar data ;)
> Advertising as we know it is well and truly dead, and I don't think Facebook or Zuckerberg are the right entities to push for change in this field. They've already demonstrated their bad faith and maliciousness.

How is advertising as we know it is well and truly dead? Online, it has been different from the time cookies, especially third party cookies, were added on sites. I agree it has become far worse with tracking and reporting devices people carry around all day, and with Facebook ruthlessly and unethically monetizing it and harming people (and countries).
Feliz Ano Novo 2020
Awesome until you look around and notice you’ve fallen into a pit of despair (tech debt) and have no ecosystem to leverage your way out of it or people you can hire that want anything to do with it :)

There needs to be concerns beyond pure speed and package size to dictate tools. Sometimes real world practical constraints must be considered
"Goals for ruining everything some more next year"
ELIF5 explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/e6czsd/e...
> For me, the worst flaw of Chromebooks is the keyboard and the lack of proper Control, Super and Meta keys.

How so? They have a normal-enough ctrl and alt, and Chrome OS lets you remap the "search" key to control (<3).
SBA (https://www.sba.gov/) has a lot of resources. Also SCORE (https://www.score.org/) has retired volunteers that can mentor.
Because there is no division whatsoever between the policies that those groups may apply.

* Should a lot be used to build a park or a parking lot? The park is advantageous to the school next door, so it is a civic issue. The parking lot is advantageous to the businesses nearby, so it is a business issue.

* Arterial infrastructure as purely business? Utter nonsense. Placing a highway means that all houses within a block are now significantly noisier, a civic issue. It decreases walkability, as there is now one direction that cannot be walked, unless you take a mile-long detour.

* Residential zoning a purely civic issue? Nonsense. How would you ensure that people are close enough to reach a grocery store? How could you have mixed-used development, where the ground floor are shops and the higher floors are residential?

The only way this idea makes sense is if a city has already decided to separate out business and civic areas, which requires a significant investment into car-only infrastructure.
I've been using Zim [1] as a knowledge database for around 2 years. I don't like depending on online solutions which may suddenly disappear.

Together with some plugins for managing tasks, git and some script for synchronizing repositories, it has been working great.

There are some limitations on this approach (ie, two persons editing the same page concurrently is a no-no), but for my use-case it works perfectly.

I find it much more intuitive than org-mode, and the fact that it auto-generates a "global" task list based on items spread across the whole notebook makes it much easier to prioritize things.

[1] https://zim-wiki.org/
I like the idea of adding an exclamation or some other mark to the individual parameters in the method declaration since a method might mutate some but not all parameters.
I usually see the Turing Test as a thought experiment for showing the irrelevance of qualia for AI, among other philosophical objections (e.g. Chinese Room).
Yeah...I use FreeBSD for file servers because I don't have to even pay attention this constant ZFSonLinux drama. I treat them like almost like appliances. Linux servers are more than happy to use them on the back-end.
No really, I'm curious. What does a tool like this offer over curl?
I wish more people would do it (though I’ve been advocating for this for a long time). The network effects are still strong, and people are loathe to try another platform that may not serve the same needs.

I keep trying to push people away from WhatsApp (somewhat easily, I should say) because there are many alternatives. Instagram is tougher. The newer federated alternatives like Pixelfed aren’t there on features, and they don’t even have a mobile app yet! Facebook groups is another thing that doesn’t have a good enough replacement.

In certain cases Facebook remains the best option to reach people. I’m not talking about personal messages or interactions, but about things of value to larger communities focused on social good.
Agree I use org-mode to capture notes/TODOs.

For Links/Bookmarks I use Google bookmarks - https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
which surprisingly has not been killed and looks like might be left alone by Google.
Other bookmarking services delicious.com & posterous etc all died in due time.

By using browser extensions and a 3rd party Mobile App. I am able sync/store all the links. Though I would love to be able to sync bookmarks to my org-mode notes. Looking at org-capture now to see if that could possibly work (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-protocol-capture-html)

Chrome Extension - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amlegate.g...

Firefox extension -
https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/fess-google-book...

Android App for Google Bookmarks (3rd Party)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amlegate.g...
But not the 13” models.
Juan from the Blanco Lirio channel just consolidated the rumors that two (2) Tor (Gen 1) (NATO: SA-15 “Gauntlet”) short-range missiles were probably fired from a battery near the takeoff path based on NATO forces’ SIGINT identifying a lock-on from fire-control radar onto the aircraft and radar tracks of the missiles. It’s interesting how Western sources could identify such signals either from space or hundreds of miles to the south from the Caspian. I guess there is also a possibility of visual/IR sensors seeing the exhaust plume of the solid rocket motor moving quickly at a distance.
Wow, that's just absurd. Never heard that one before.
Does this mean there's a whole lot of cheap scooters being sold somewhere? Any idea where?
Australia's Annual climate statement 2019
Yeah, someone knew something. But also, maybe a lesson for all of us is to keep company messaging to company stuff and leave out the jokes.
This want a case of "purposely hinder", but rather the zfs nodule broke because of some kernel changes. The kernel is careful to never break userspace and never break its own merged modules. But if you're a third-party module then you're on your own. The kernel developers can't be responsible for maintaining compatibility with your stuff.
Nice work automating this process! I had a similar idea but music licensing is tough so I never thought it could survive in an app store without getting sued into oblivion.

Maybe if it only read the user's own library of songs?

Are you thinking of turning this into an app? I'm curious if you're planning to make this a business or if it's just for fun.

I want to make my fun webapp SuperAnimo[1] into a business, but so far I haven't found product-market fit.

[1] https://www.superanimo.com
My employer straight up banned the use of VirtualBox entirely _just in case_. They'd rather pay for VMWare Fusion licenses than deal with any potential crap from Oracle.
You'd have to try really hard to get injured by this. Blades are covered and stop when it tips over or get's lifted up.

So unless you are a deaf gecko pet, I don't see much of a problem... But it's an American forum and this is not a legal advice.
You’re saying people don’t want to work on vanilla JavaScript? Really?
That’s a weird definition of a slave and free will. By this definition none of us have free will since most things we do are driven by some motivation. I want to eat and make rent, so I work for the money to do so. Now I’m a slave?
The Most Terrifying Video Game (Life Is Strange 2)
It makes sense to establish your own manufacturing capacity for critical infrastructure (pharma production) in order to have the necessary control, while also suing for antitrust actions (and, if feasible, using extracted penalties to bootstrap the state’s initiative).
Off topic sorry but why bother with the cookie agreement on the overlay footer like this? You are not giving users the ability to opt out so this just annoys people without making the website GDPR compliant.
It's also the default file system of millions of Synology NASes running in consumer hands (although Synology shimmed on their own RAID5/6 support)
How does this compare to modern circuit simulators?

https://www.tinkercad.com/ (Web)

http://www.virtualbreadboard.com/ (Windows)
If that's what you take away from Jonathan Blow then you need to detach from your emotions a bit. He annoys me with how much his condescending attitude towards web development (because I'm a web developer) - but he justifies his positions and is open to argument about it. His talks (like that one linked above) are really inspirational, and he's released two highly successful product: two more than the majority of people you'll ever meet.

He's passionate and smart and interesting - and writing him off like that, I think, is not justified.
Honestly just use ZFS. We've wasted enough effort over obscure licensing minutia.
> you pretty much just have Windows, Linux and maybe FreeBSD/OpenBSD [...]

That sounds just as good? Compared to quad-booting Win98/Win2000/BeOS5/Slackware, today you could quad-boot Win10/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Ubuntu. Actually, depending on what you count as different systems and what exact hardware you have, you could have 2 laptops sitting on your desk: a pinebook running your choice of netbsd, openbsd, freebsd, or some linux (https://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=107), and an x86 laptop multibooting Windows 10, Android, Ubuntu GNU/Linux, Alpine Busybox/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Redox (https://www.redox-os.org/screens/). That's 2 processor families in 2 machines running what I would count as 4 and 8 operating systems each.

I think we're doing fine.
>The roots of Brooks’s anger are surely complex, yet clues are scattered throughout his interviews. “I always felt it was my job to amuse those around me,” Brooks once said. “Don’t ask why.” You don’t need to be a Freudian to see how such a burden could stir up intense resentment, even rage, at an audience.

Several comedians I've come across seem to share this attribute. Robin Williams and Jonathan Waters immediately come to mind. To a lesser extent Martin Short. They seem almost desperate to get a laugh. It can become overbearing to those watching.

>Politically, Brooks was a liberal—or so people assumed after Blazing Saddles.

Ooof...some of the liberals you see these days (I consider myself liberal) would be outraged at "Blazing Saddles". I re-watched it recently and wasn't sure if the film would survive today.
That just doesn’t work. If a local leather tannery is polluting my water supply, I can’t make my water clean by avoiding leather goods.
Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage
> Alternatively stop exporting jobs and outsourcing joining a race to the bottom.

Isn't that's just one half of the problem. Isn't the importing of labor the other half of the problem.

We've exported jobs and imported labor. That's a double whammy for workers and can't help but put downward pressure on wages. But it's great for the wealthy elites. Exploit cheap labor overseas and cheapen labor at home.
GDPR and CCPA are law.

People regularly complain about the GDPR here (US sites comply by region blocking GDPR covered users).
As a technical person, you have actual work to do, and you have to keep your skills current, and then you have to go to all the meetings and provide info for the non-techs.

They on the other hand, have all their time to think and scheme on how to sell themselves and get ahead. They even have time create meetings and ask for reports.

If you are a technical person you need to be will to spend as much time as they do, and forget about your technical work. You is ok if that is what you want. Otherwise you will be in the short end of the stick.
> if I were to install it permanently on any machine to tinker with, it would almost certainly be a Pi

The pi is such a great device for this. If I were working on any niche operating system (or building one from scratch), I'd target qemu first, and the pi second. It may not be the nicest hardware out there, but it is a single platform that loads of people have, that allows trivial disk swapping (upside of no onboard flash -> everything on swappable SD card), and is dirt cheap.
I did exactly that in the period when we were waiting for the MAX to be grounded. I saw that Southwest owned MAX’s so I cancelled the ticket and rebooked on an airline that didn’t.