skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you see is those few that actually make it through, what you don't see are the numerous voices that never manage to break trough the noise because they are actively being suppressed.

Take for example the case of Facebook censoring posts with the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc aka "Napalm Girl".

Facebook used to censor those with the excuse of "depiction of child nudity", nobody knows how many Facebook posts were deleted over this, as it only came to light after the editor of the largest Norwegian newspaper did use his access and position at the newspaper to draw attention to the issue [0].

It's easy to hand-wave something like that away as "moderation error", but it's really not. American social media companies also censored and deleted photos depicting US torture in Iraqi prisons, like Abu Ghraib. The reasoning? It's apparently "terrorist propaganda/extremist content" [1].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031

[1] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th...

I really recommend tracking down the actual documentary, even to this 20+ years web user that whole thing was like a punch to the guts, quite a warning call about the state of the web and the kind of influence and power that particularly social media companies are wielding these day.
Use /proc/meminfo. What could a caching service possibly care about the bit of memory that is reserved for system use? It's not getting its hands on those pages under any circumstances.

There is no interface for that information because at the level of abstraction at which userspace applications operate, that information has no meaning.
Microsoft should add support for x84 Mac apps on Windows now when Apple is rolling out arm based devices.
Mind if I reach out to you via your contact info? I can get this into the Internet Archive.
This is also true but again not remotely “news”. But it is asserted that a genuine master is in fact superior and has mastered ‘something’. This is a person that has experienced the same precise pattern of development that all go through and has had to deal with the delusions of the ego (the thing that is mastered). So the issue remains authenticity. (Various schools are just different coherent symbolic systems built on top of a shared human experience.)

My favorite story of a student meeting his master is the fabled encounter between Shams of Tabriz and the man who became known as Rumi. It seems genuine spiritual “birds of a feather” recognize one another and also recognize the “Fowler’s trap”. Both Shams and Rumi have [extensively discussed] this matter, and give it huge import.
There are many potential issues with this paper, starting with the fact that it redefines "narcissism" to suit its purposes... Nonetheless, this sentence in the abstract[a] really struck a chord with me:

> Our results illustrate that the self‐enhancement motive is powerful and deeply ingrained so that it can hijack methods intended to transcend the ego and, instead, adopt them to its own service.

[a] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2721
I've used calico to set up a flat IPv6 cluster without overlays. It was pretty pleasant.

https://github.com/arianvp/packet-ipv6-kubernetes
My personal preference is to write a blog (on blogger) and link to it from a tweet.
You might want to give https://www.wired.com/2016/08/jeep-hackers-return-high-speed... a read.
Real identity of scandalous VCBrags Twitter is revealed
Kubernetes "builds upon" Google's "experience," but it isn't what Google runs and doesn't totally reflect what Google actually does:

https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1253968037579030532

https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1254273432847446016

If you happen to have the problems Kubernetes solves, it's great. But even Google doesn't have exactly those problems.

(And there is a huge difference between setting up Kubernetes and hosting Kubernetes. If you know how to sit in a chair, you can be in a plane's pilot seat just fine, but piloting is an entirely different skill.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chi-by-eye
The Rescue Mission to Save Civilization from the Big Melt (2019)
Wallet Simulator
Instead of grepping /sys/devices/system/memory/, you can use lsmem(1) from util-linux.
Nice!! is this open source
People don't know or underestimate how much Unix has taken over. From cellphones to super computers. From consumer devices to industrial control. Unix servers made and continue to run the internet, aka everything.
He addresses that pretty directly in his post, unless i’m misunderstanding you somehow?
> I'm glad I'm not the only one. I hold my breath walking past Lush shops

I routinely get sore eyes when I visit my sister-in-law, who loves scented candles. It's that or her cats, although I've never noticed a reaction to animals elsewhere.
No direct experience with union mounts (I'm on Mac) but it sounds like those would do the trick.
Cryptography 1, time well spent. ~3000 reviews at 4.8 stars

https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto
Data Quality at Airbnb. Part 1 – Rebuilding at Scale
There’s a lot of comments here about what’s happening to America.

I think the most important thing to keep in mind is that we’ve always been fighting to preserve our rights under the constitution. Freedom and democracy doesn’t just come for free.

Take another period in US history... at a time of another pandemic, the Spanish flu, and a World war.

The 1918 Sedition Act [1] made illegal the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States.

The effects of this law were so successful, that at a time when a pandemic killed 20 million Americans, the newspapers never wrote about the flu. In fact this is why that virus was named the Spanish flu, since during the war Spain was neutral and allowed its press to freely report on it. Not because the virus came from Spain.

History of course repeats itself. But the real lesson for us is that we need to always be vigilant. And it’s not a time to despair that things are at their worst, or can’t get better, or everything is downhill.

Instead look at how far we’ve come. Look at what we’ve overcome in history.

We just need to keep moving the ball forward.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918
From the article, I think this is the important distinction with spirituality versus your other examples:

“And because spiritual matters are generally ‘elusive to external objective standards,’ that makes them a ‘suitable domain for illusory beliefs about one’s superiority.’”

In bodybuilding or science, there are objective standards that you can be measured against. In spirituality, it’s oftentimes too easy to claim superiority without any method of objective measurement. I think that’s what makes it so appealing to some people.
Sidenote: I was in a band in High School that uploaded all its music to MySpace in 2006, and our only backups were a few CDs we had made; so when MySpace lost all that [0], it was my first, most painful lesson about backing up important things multiple times.

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/myspace-lost-m...
That’s fair, but if we assume hardware stalls for say 1,000 years you get a different ROI from computer investments. 6 hours on a 30 million dollar supercomputer that lasts for 20 years is ~1,000$ worth of it’s lifespan + electricity costs etc.

Over time you can expect various people to have made such investments and historic examples would still be valuable on “modern” hardware.
How to Address the Problem in a Pitch Deck
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Would you use this for compiling database queries on the fly? I worked on a query engine once, written in Scala and Java, where we’d generate Java from a query and then compile and load the bytecode into a single flat function. I wonder how that would compare with your solution. I suppose it could even be called quite nicely from Java. This thing was working on memory mapped data after all (using sun.misc.Unsafe). The idea was to avoid the indirection caused by lambdas for the separate query operations.
HN has shadowbanned me for being an “inherent flame war” — no matter how politely I state my opinions or how well cited they are.

This is definitely what the community here wants.
Sorting is fundamental. Quicksort is not. It’s a single algorithm out of many.

Quick, without looking it up, in 45 minutes, write an implementation of CC-Radix, cache-conscience radix sort. It is a sort, it deals with performance, therefore it’s fundamental, right? After all, in my last Google and Facebook interviews, the questions were all about performance.

While we’re talking about performance, let’s talk about cache. It’s a fundamental part of computing after all. I tell you that you can pick any architecture you like, except one that is four way set-associative. What percentage of candidates can answer that? 50? 25? What percentage who did not go to certain schools can answer that? Of those who could answer it, how many saw this issue ever come up?

I love hardware, but these days most things are out of my control. Either I’m running on my Mac or on some VM instance I didn’t spin up.

Our field is VAST. It is a natural tendency to be biased towards what you know. Many things can be argued to be fundamental, even writing AND, OR, NOR, and NOT gates from NAND. That’s about as fundamental as it gets. It provides zero insight into the candidate for most groups.
Groups are still in progress. Those were the best part.
It appears to be a version of bitcask written in Go by the author of Twtxt. There seem to be several other versions of bitcask, including one written in Erlang (the original?), one in OCaml, one written in Rust, and maybe others that don't show up on the first page of a quick search.
> QBasic was so much fun. Also because pre Internet time, the included help for each command was so good.

QBasic wasn't pre-Internet (I had access to the internet before it was released.)

QBasic was pre-web, by three years, though.
I dual majored in Computer Science and Politics. While I didn’t expect my politics degree to be particularly useful in a programming/engineering career, I’m finding that after rising in seniority the “liberal” skills that I learned (writing, argumentation, analysis of relationships, etc...) are increasing in their usefulness whereas the importance of my technical skills has remained flat.
> You have to work less today for the same things then in the 70s.

Well except for housing, medical costs, and college. So all the important things.
Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse dies
bash also has a noclobber option, IIRC. It is to prevent overwriting existing files with the > redirection operator.

Google:

bash set noclobber option

and

bash set command

and see

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-B...
I would argue that XML is a non-turing complete declarative programming language.
TikTok seems like content moderation time bomb in general, and it makes me wonder if they’re struggling to attract brands when they can’t ensure their ads won’t end up appearing after a heroin production video that’s already racked up a half million views.
Thanks, I giggled. When conspiracy theorists aren’t horrifying for the potential impact on lives of their victims, they are immensely entertaining.

I bet most of the views on flat earther’s videos are just people looking for non artificial comedy.
The model put forth in TFA seems to address this in that pods (or “sub clusters” can run for weeks at a time without communication with the toplevel cluster. It’s pretty hand-wavy and probably can’t solve for all possible outage scenarios, but it seems like it would help dramatically.
You seem to be hanging on to the "pledge of alliance" discussion with the other guy which wisely decided to cut their losses and stop responding :) You do realise you're talking to somebody else now, right?

Somebody which merely limited themselves to discussing patriotism, which doesn't require pledges. In fact I disagree with such behavior, especially when kids are required to recite them. Such things are typically encountered in undemocratic countries and they are a form of manipulation and control.

Patriotism neither requires such things, nor does it mean that those who recite such pledges are patriotic. As I've mentioned before, patriotism for me indicates positive feelings towards one's country.
Hey, I'm An, the creator of SpaceHey!
Thank you!!
Yes, I looked at a ton of old screenshots, wikipedia sites and archive.org pages! That's how I designed most of it!
I'm currently looking into all of the legal stuff which comes with music sharing, but a dedicated music feature is definitely planned! The iTunes API is just a temporary thing to fill it with some content!
Isn't the point that Tesla cars aren't easy to break into, you have to buy a ECU and use bluetooth, and it was fixed, whereas most cars are subject to a simple radio signal jam and replay, and are never fixed.

Wonder why it only applies to a Model X though
It’s been tried. It’s how we got “new math“
Also available as a pdf here:

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Facebook Is Dead (It Just Doesn’t Know It Yet)
I was permanently shadowbanned on HN for showing a video where a BLM founder described how they were a Marxist organization.

There’s plenty of petty censorship by minor thugs with limited power.
I had recently lost some important data back then so luckily I was already backing up data by then! Though now I have kind of the opposite problem, I have too much data and it's difficult to navigate through it all :)
One potential gotcha in your model is egress costs. For the big three, it's anywhere from $0.03/GB to $0.10/GB. The million dollar question suggested by your model is how do you you store and backup your persistent state in a manner which is not just conceptually robust but cost optimal?
Actually they made it for the developers that buy Apple hardware to develop for GNU/Linux, which are now unhappy that Apple only focus on the developers that actually target their eco-system.

The GNU/Linux developers unwilling to support GNU/Linux hardware vendors are the ones to blame.
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The predict button doesn't work with the default values.
Thank you for helping me test it!! :D
K8s forced industry to have a consistent open cluster API that will drive innovation and competition.

We can have multiple implementations of the same API, but what I am seeing currently from the "commercial" vendors is the base K8s with UI changes. I hope we will have multiple implementations of the spec. The specs also have to evolve with time.

Last decade, systemd had its fair share of criticism. But it provided a consistent API to run "Compute Units" locally. K8s can benefit from the same principles to manage "Compute Pods" across the cluster. The concepts of promise theory [1] provide interesting control loop co-ordination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory
NARUTO is back!!!

Gotta bring back the chibi art styles
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Running, Caffeine
But Linux doesn't have the concept of a "subsystem", that's pretty much a Windows NT exclusive (inherited from its core predecessor OS/2). User mode like WINE is the correct approach on Linux.

It's pretty wild that Microsoft actually managed to reactivate the subsystem concept for (first generation) WSL after it had been dormant as an 1:1 boundary for so many iterations of Windows and even wilder how quickly (and elegantly) they switched to a completely different abstraction for WSL2. This switch was mostly motivated by cross-environment filesystem performance afaik, so it might be perfectly reasonable to take the other approach (an actual NT level subsystem) for the android use case: the guest apps won't do much file I/O outside of the subsystem's dedicated playground because of how Android is discouraging free-form filesystem use.
Lines of Code Turned into a $36B Empire
First get a Google Takeout of everything as a backup.

You can transfer your email to a standard Gmail account via imap (I used to use maildirsync but https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ seems like it may work).

For Drive, just share all your documents with your new standard Gmail account.
Leaf is a compact hatchback, whereas Model X is an SUV. A better comparison would be Leaf and Model S, a sedan, which is rated at 241Wh/mi (and can reach this in actual use[0].)

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/bfhd9z/20000_m...
I think you're halfway there. The problem is not the feed view—that's a matter the client can handle. The problem is the feed itself. It's the wrong data structure.

I wrote about this approx 2 years ago: https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/02/15/what-happened-in-jan...

Around the time that the phrase "social media" started getting bandied about, the Internet went from topic-focused indexing to person-focused indexing. Makes sense, because topic indexing mirrors the real world. Anywhere you're physically present can be considered a small topic-indexed island. When you're at the grocery store or the post office, the collection of people in that space is an (ephemeral) aggregation over a topic/interest. So is a house party.

When you're at a house party, there is no person-based index that anyone who's there can consult to cross reference the other house parties that the host or another guest has been to. (And there's certainly no index that people who are not even at the party can consult.) At best, you're limited to a view that consists of the house parties where you've seen that person in the past or heard that they attended.

Like I said, topic-based rather than person-focused indexing is the way the Internet used to work. The only aggregation of all my posts across all mailing lists is the one in my mail client, on my machine. It's one not available to the general public. This is a good thing, because person-based indexes are an invasion privacy. We'll probably eventually find proof one day that they cause cancer (of the conversation).

I think people building out services are stuck in a metaphorical rut that retards their vison. As projects crop up to try to address the "surveillance" and "tracking" that the media reports Facebook is doing, these would-be pioneers keep reaching for the same wrong data structure that ultimately sabotages the intent. This happens because they look at their forebears that they're trying to displace, but Facebook, Twitter, etc. have poisoned the well of thought, so people end up recreating alternatives built on the same flaws. I look at this and see it in the same way that I see people who have only started programming in the GitHub era—and a bunch of people who predate it but have had their vision clouded by what they've been keeping in their immediate environment most recently. They cannot conceive of a way to host code repositories or any development model that doesn't work the way GitHub does. (Which happens to record activity in the same type of data structure—although it does so in a way that it's presented to anyone who asks for it, with even fewer privacy controls than Facebook or Twitter.)
I love that you wrote this. I wrote a very similar whitepaper about meta-evolution (evolving methods to propose better mutations) a few months ago: https://lemiant.github.io/PhilosophyCircle/papers/evolution_...
> The major obvious technical issue is simply running out of space, and how you deal with that informs many other aspects of such a system.

The same problem exist with any other kind of undo option. For example, your text editor's undo option might run out of memory. Yet, we have undo in text editors.

> But you don't directly make calls to the filesystem; deletions or updates are always issued by a process acting on your behalf.

Yes, so ideally, any system command (such as "mv") should write a small journal to some undo system, saying what actions are necessary to undo the command. When those actions are logically grouped, then the undo system's journal should reflect that.

Of course, it would be even better if the filesystem just worked with nestable transactions, like a database.
Aren't there always a certain number of people who die from suicide?

The real news here may be that Japan's done such a great job of reducing its Covid fatalities, that they've successfully lowered that number below whatever that ongoing baseline number of suicides has always been.
This is the complete book?
Not sure what's the point of attacking self-esteem as a general concept. Perhaps there's some valid criticism of policies aimed at boosting it.

But the article is trying to convince us we shouldn't want to feel good about ourselves because a random study here and there didn't show a desirable correlation.

If a study shows happiness doesn't make you rich should you stop being happy?

It's a story of how most psychological research struggles with major epistemological issues.
> And I was too tired to do promoting stuff. It’s real. the tired feeling is real.

You’ve created immense value. Now, publicly document all of your creations. Imagine an auditorium full of people focused on your every word as you talk about how to get the value out of your assets. How to market them. How to monetize them. Put this on a blog and show it off.
And the wallpaper ..actual wallpaper that we prolly all remember from childhood. >_<
As long as they didn't cheat or steal to get there, why does it matter? I'm fairly sure wealthy people don't have tons of cash on hand, most of money is in the companies they built or invested in.

According to this article [0] Jeff Bezos net worth is $188.7 billion. His shares of Amazon represent $172.8 billion. While unlikely, if Amazon stock plummeted he would have "only" $15.9 billion. While still a lot on its own, the vast majority of his money is not even usable (immediately).

[0] https://marketrealist.com/p/how-many-shares-of-amazon-does-j...
WSL2 is a VM. If you want excellent Windows compat, run Windows in a VM. If you merely need application not using very Windows specific feature, or if you need game compat, run something like Wine. Is there a need for yet another reimplementation of (necessarily a subset of) Windows API? Doubtful.
"Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

- Fight Club
This was my first thought too.