skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started playing around with s3blkdevd. S3-compatible storage at backblaze B2 is $0.005/GB-month and I'll see if I can manage a vdev made out of a huge nbd disk. Topical to the article, backblaze has piles of RAID6 and appears to be happy with it.

Another thought has been to find a ZFS-friend in another part of the world and exchange snapshots. Inline encryption makes that a little more viable now.

Right now I'm sending incremental snapshots to AWS Glacier and have another local box mirroring the data (mostly to fully verify the snapshots before sending them to Glacier).
What do Staff engineers do?
I don't really know the precise details, but I'm pretty sure their pay model changed after the backlash(and being sued) to the tip-stealing.

Still, I wouldn't choose DoorDash unless it was the only option in my area. When I was driving for GrubHub I met a lot of other delivery drivers and everyone considered DoorDash to be the the worst in terms of treatment of drivers. In other words, bad support and tip stealing. We referred to it as "DoorTrash" or "PoorDash" for that reason. Postmates has pretty much nonexistent driver support but at least they didn't steal tips and it was pretty difficult to get fired from it randomly.
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That’s interesting, because causality requires time for the entropy engine to move our reality forward.

It’s not clear to me whether mathematical axioms would be outside of entropy driven time, or if the mere presence of operators in sequence requires entropy change to transmit the information and move the calculation forward.
DoorDash Takes Off in Trading Debut, Surging 78% to $182 a Share – TheStreet
Nerdle Cam 4K- Starship SN8 Live At SpaceX Boca Chica Launch Facility [currently live, but earliest attempt not expected for 90 mins at time of posting this]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M
NPM-Ruin-Dev
give it time .... all dealerships as we know them will be dead in a few years.
> we'll start to see things get standardized enough that the wizardry required to keep it running will become a more commodity skill set

I am so ready for this!

Constant scale-up/scale-down and dynamic load is what I jump at K8s for personally. Totally see the use-case for what you're talking about.

All-in-all I love K8s and containers, use them myself, and have been really happy with the results. It's just when I've worked with it professionally I don't find my colleagues typically have the skillset (not the fault of the tech).
I worry you're right, and while I think it's bad for what it signals about business model viability, I'm not sure it's bad for how I use GitLab.

Do the couple dozen devs at my company really need an internally-hosted version, or should we just pay for the cloud offering and supply our own runners? Seems easy to frame as a wash.
One could conceivably make a binary format based on Messagepack or Flatbuffers for vector data, which would be much more efficient and eliminate rounding problems of converting between floats and decimal numbers in text representations.
How to prevent my own visits to appear on the dashboard?
Most of the media isn't located in Silicon Valley

It is techs responsibility to moderate the forums they operate
You can add a pillow to look at an angle instead of straight up.
Forensic Identification of Single Dyed Hair Strand Now Possible
Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta
And the Texas case is very sound. It gets directly into specific cases and doesn't go down any of the silly Q/Conspiracy routes. Viva does a great analysis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-tb11okydc
Historically, Silicon Valley was created from government contracts and subsidies, then the VCs joined the party.

It's a chicken-egg problem, and Europe has no chicken nor eggs at the moment. But lots of grain and hay.
Pretty sure I’ve seen this in the Guardian too, months ago.
I have no idea what goes on in Greece or what incentive people would have to do that. But excess death numbers are higher than COVID deaths everywhere, so the numbers aren't likely that far off.

Also my fiancee, an ER doctor, assures me that this isn't the case in the US.
AGPL doesn't allow you to say "I want AWS to pay me if they use my software". As long as AWS abides the rules of the AGPL they can use your software as much as they like and create offerings based on it.
Then this elevates to international and there are nations that just wouldn’t do that.
one more article about death of something.

if you want people read your article, just yell that something they love is dead. works every time.
The governor of Missouri was indicted in that same time frame, and the governor of Alabama convicted.
See also the human-readable 2D barcode concept [1].

[1] https://mitxela.com/projects/hr_code
> "if your company makes >X revenue a year, give us some of it."

That would just be a proprietary license with source availability. It would also dry up any community contributions since contributors are generally not going to help a for-profit project without themselves getting paid.
IMHO we are in a phase of enthusiasm, but we can already anticipate the peak and the trough of disillusionment will come.

In 10 years, the pendulum will ice swung a bit back and forth and we‘ll know better what works well. I bet it’s some form of lambda architecture.

Let me say that I am not pro or against docker per se. I just happen to have started my career with a strong team pre-docker and a lot of the docker-enthusiasm isn’t all that much addressing what was lacking in the operations space pre-docker.
When I take my dog on walks she likes to roll in foul smelling stuff. I think it's poo, but I'm not sure. The resulting smell on her fur is very distinct (bad, but not really a poop smell). The other day she saw (smelled?) a grease/oil stain on the sidewalk and immediately plopped down and started rolling in it.
The release notes: https://github.com/vinissimus/next-translate/releases/tag/1....
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Lets not forget that some of the core tech that sits at the heart of semiconductor manufacturing (asml) is already European. It will be daunting, but something just might come out of it.
I'm curious about this too; I'd love some counter-examples and that was a big reason for me taking the rather arrogant stance of claiming "cloud killed open core." I selfishly wanted to rile up smart folks who could prove me wrong.
> It's better to fail at doing something aggressive than to fail to innovate.

I don't think that's a particularly useful way to divide up failures. I think it's better to fail in a way that doesn't kill people than a way that does. Whether you kill people by being too conservative or too aggressive with your design is pretty irrelevant compared to that.
This is why he sold all his properties. He undoubtedly has good tax attorneys and is doing everything required to be a nonresident. I wouldn't be that surprised if he decided to just never set foot in California again.
Can someone else's nose unlock your phone?
Exactly. It's been awhile since I've bought cars, but I bought my last few cars through Carmax for this reason. The prices were not the lowest, but were reasonable. The process was about as simple as it could be though.

Contrast this with my first car buying experience where the 'finance guy' told me to 'get the fuck out of his office' when I explained him how he was manipulating the loan date payment, and price to charge me more. The deal still got done, but it was with the sales guy running between me and the finance guy basically relaying me saying no.
"Prosecutors declined to pursue many of the cases because they concluded the protesters were exercising their basic civil rights."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/protests-lawsuits-arre...

'Ten days after leaving the White House with President Trump and walking with him across a park that had been forcibly cleared of protesters, the nation's most senior military officer is calling that excursion "a mistake."'

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...

Despite the fact that the GOP will stand behind the president no matter what he does (even attempting a coup it seems), there is a younger generation (even within the GOP) who is a bit more grounded (e.g. Jeff Flake), and in ten years Mitch McConnell will be nothing more than a footnote in history.

If the courts keep throwing out Rudy's embarassingly-constructed cases, that fellow you're referring to is gone in a month, which is a pretty big difference from a puppet regime in the former Soviet Bloc.

Our country has been through a lot, but she has some life in her yet. Bear in mind that the younger generations have a very different political ideology than that of their parents. We are currently witnessing the death-throes of the political dominance of my parent's generation. They will slowly fade away and be replaced with a more forward-thinking and fresh approach to the same tired old problems. Glass half-full.
They had some big outages over the last year. I’m therefore still skeptical to bet on them from a “backend” operations reliability standpoint also. To be fair I’m not sure they are doing worse than AWS though when looking into details. I’m thinking recent AWS Kinesis us-east issue - move fast and break things? Maybe uptime is more important than a gazillion new “feature” services. I also prefer good terraform provider stewardship over any “fancy” new cloudformation CDK or “beautiful” GUI actually. It’s complicated.
Are US tax agencies that easily fooled? From what I know in Europe, you generally have to pay tax in the place where you reside more than 50% of the year (additional taxes may apply for secondary residences, but that's very regional). It's fairly common for a tax agency of one country to demand proof that you actually moved and physically reside in another country so that they don't double-tax you, so you better have documented the travels between both countries and kept as many receipts as possible.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_decision_diagram :

In his video lecture Fun With Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs),[8] Donald Knuth calls BDDs "one of the only really fundamental data structures that came out in the last twenty-five years" and mentions that Bryant's 1986 paper was for some time one of the most-cited papers in computer science.
Secret Santsa on the Blockchain
China is weak in semiconductor industry and they simply do not have the capability to overcome the obstacle in 5 to 10 years or maybe never. Let me give two examples of obstacle. US has monopoly in the software tools that engineer use to design IC. Japan has the chemical that semiconductor fab foundry need to make IC. US now has slapped sanction on China's top fab foundry SMIC with intention to kill China's semiconductor industry. China's semiconductor companies's stocks are dropping stone while Taiwan semiconductor companies's stock are rising like crazy so a lot people are pessimistic about semiconductor companies in China. Semiconductor is a very expensive game to play. China has big domestic market but it is not large enough to sustain a semiconductor business. This is very different from other industries.
Probably only one of the few tricks we know of. These companies running unscalable models by burning VC money like it's firewood have to somehow smooth the numbers.
An 8 minute mile is definitely not fairly pedestrian. Someone who is out of shape and trying to lose weight is probably going to be doing 13-18 minute miles typically.
(free) International forum on Digital and Democracy (Dec 10th-11th) [pdf]
Europe's done big multinational technical-political things many times to varying levels of success. Don't forget Gaileo, Arianespace, Airbus's parent EADS, the ESA, etc. They tend to not be super capital efficient, but the sheer amount of wealth and resources tend to make things that are priorities not completely fail.

> P.S: a lot of the young in Europe are learning english because they want to get the f--- out the EU as soon as they can. I'm european and I'm raising my kid in a british college since years for that very reason.

What factors make you want to get out? As an American who's spent a lot of time in both the US and Continental Europe (and elsewhere) I don't see any terrific suck.
Containers aside, I've long considered RHEL the go-to for production servers with a commercial budget. Partly because they've always had one of the best assemblies of kernel people and other heavy-hitters, and are just generally credible for production.

With CentOS (before this latest news) possibly making a lot of sense for when you don't have the budget for RHEL, or don't yet have it, like for startups. Which then gives an easier upgrade path to nobody-ever-got-fired-for-buying-IBM/RHEL.

I don't have as much confidence in Ubuntu, and the last few months of monitoring security update regressions hasn't reinforced confidence. And the Grub problem this year, which could've bricked some remote devices for me, and where some other distros seemed more earnest and upfront about the problem. I've also grown skeptical of Snap (especially on workstations and servers, though I haven't yet ruled it out for appliances, as an easier path than Yocto).

For personal systems, I've been using Debian Stable for about 20 years (which I initially moved to because the APT network package management experience was vastly better than scouring various RPM sites or building from source, and later decided I also like the principles). And recent Ubuntu experience is making Debian compare favorably for some kinds of production use, though I'm aware of some of the substantial weaknesses of that.

Of course, then there's containers, which sometimes encourages a stripped-down distro within the container, and different requirements for what's hosting or orchestrating those.
Good point. That said, the more distance from hard science you have, the likelier this is to go wrong.

If you're dealing with psychology, economics or such experimental observations can have the exact same problem. They're true in this case, at this level of abstraction or otherwise "not really wrong but not — but not as useful or as powerful as some other framing".

Framing is the key point here. What's in model or not. What questions are your trying to answer. etc. The harder the science, the less flexibility scientists have in framing.
Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345428

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25357885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25354811 (a bit)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25360217 (a bit)
China had an emperor surrounded by an impenetrable bureacracy of "elites".

Then they had a communist revolution, overthrew the government, executed all the elites.

Now they have a chairman, surrounded by an impenetrable bureacracy of "elites".
Why Sizing Is Hard
Physicists solve 150-year-old mystery of equation governing sandcastle physics
Ask HN: How can I create an animated model of code?
A lot of the diagrams we used to draw in person, can't be easily drawn anymore. Its really hard to convey the mental model of the code and bring everyone on the same page. Slides are the starting option, but creating animations taking a lot of time and aren't necessarily good either.

An example would be to show the working of a retry mechanism in distributed system. An animated diagram showing the client server relationship, then packet loss happens, client disconnects and reattempts with another server.

Has anyone found a way to do this quickly and easily?
There's no RHEL8 equivalent of Scientific Linux.
Yes, perhaps also Texas regulations prohibiting marijuana, assisted suicide, proper sex education in public schools, no liquor permits for public traded companies, restrictions on mail in voting, etc.
It is Google's responsibility

They provided the forum, they need to moderate it
Reinfection rates are 0.01% per a recent study out of Qatar. So even if we all "get" the infection after being vaccinated, our own immune response should prevent reinfection for at least 6 months in 99.9% of cases.
I expect them to be a solid step up in sound quality.

I don't understand why people would expect otherwise given the advancements with Airpods Pro and Homepod. Apple has a clear R&D advantage over competitors, and I think it's going to be that much better in a larger format without the space constraints of the Airpods Pro.
China CCP is a snake. Get in bed with them and they will bite you one day. It is just their nature. Apple will learn one day.
Google employs 115000 people, are you sure they are all 100x rockstars?

Anyways, if the management was forced to use Google Cloud's UI, I'm sure it would look and feel completely different.

As it is, they're making a product they don't really have a personal stake in.
I haven't seen that all over the news myself.

The 54B seems to be a projection from May?

I saw stuff like https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-29/californ... and https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler... which seems like there will be a surplus this year but people aren't sure they're out of the woods just yet, which seems reasonable.
A company that would allow that in the first place should not be trusted later on, claiming they "fixed it". It's such a clear violation of ethics and morals. I don't get how a corporation can literally steal money from it's employees, say it's "sorry" and it "fixed the problem" and get off freely.
I did the same thing as you. I've had to sit through an RMA period on replacing a drive in a home RAID5 and just never wanted anything like that again; every replacement of a disk in a mirrored vdev would feel the same. Data is backed up but it's a headache to have data unavailable.
> Eat less" is the correct advice for weight less just like "don't drink" is for alcoholics and "don't think of him" is for someone going through a breakup. It's just basically useless advice totally lacking empathy. People are different. They have different bodies, different psychological dispositions, different experiences, etc.

None of what you described changes the example solutions you gave. An alcoholic does need to not drink to improve their health, just like to lose weight you do need to eat fewer calories. The way to solve a problem is to find the solution, and empathy doesn't cure being overweight or addiction. Only when you know the solution can you work backwards to find the steps to get you there from where you are today
It is already usable. Nobody would claim that a Linux distro isn't open just because it doesn't have a built-in push API. You can build one on top for other apps to use, and you can do the same on Android. This is notably different from iOS.
ST does 22nm FD-SOI at globalfoundries , not their own fab.
YouTube staff is a gang of bullies, and they are pushing our country toward civil war.

“The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the First one doesn’t work out.”

- Dave Chappelle
It sounds like what this initiative is doing is Europe trying to create a Silicon Valley (probably far from the first time), not sustain it indefinitely. They have to learn to crawl before they run. So the focus on origins is valid.
I think these should be kept in some form for the simple reason of history. Videos of the behavior of past presidents (e.g "Mission Accomplished") is a powerful reminder.

I would like to think youtube could serve as that public digital archive of the past, to do some slight good alongside their mission of profit. The power of being able to find video proof of past behavior in a moment is an essential tool to our collective discussion process.
Yes, this is true. Google corporate culture is one of the big reasons I work here. There are few places that take Open Source as seriously as Google does.
Love it! It's great to see initial skepticism from YC about how this wasn't working. I feel like you see IPO write-ups like these and it's always implied that everyone around them always knew they were going to make it.

That said, I searched the entire article for the words "luck" and "lucky" and see none. No doubt the pandemic and WFH life helped them, and that's something even YC couldn't have predicted.
Have you seen the Robinhood interface, it's gamified to the extreme, and you expect 20 year olds to be mature enough to resist temptation?
Reminds me of JezzBall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall
tumbleweed does or rather, tumbleweed does not have point releases. in my eyes tumbleweed is way better for cloud, IoT and desktops, as soon as you use transactional-update

P.S. I'm fallen in love with it.
There will always be people who hate companies that disrupt an entire industry. Robinhood has made stock investing accessible to everyone.

I have sympathy for the man who killed himself, (and perhaps there should be some warnings in the app?) but if you get into a car crash would you blame the car manufacturer?
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Maybe. Unions can become corrupt or politically influenced too. In fact, organized labor is one of the main money makers for organized crime. I'm not saying all unions are bad, just that some can be. Just as any power structure like governments or company management can be too.

I wonder if the major unions have banned together to get that bill introduced and voted on? It could be possible that they wouldn't support legislation like that because more legislative protections can make the union seem less useful.

If the unions don't have incentive to push the bill and more workers are covered by unions and don't see the benefit of the bill because they are already protected, then could that delay or even prevent the passage of those protections? It may end up as a long term fix that leaves non-uninonized groups and groups that seem unlikely to organize, like IT. Of course with widespread existing adoption, a counter point could be less opposition to it.
Hah, yes.

I'd write an article about VR, entitled: "Death of monitors."
We have plenty of data. There were several rounds of trials for each vaccine involving tens of thousands of people over many months. What extra special data are you holding out for that the scientists and various national regulating agencies don't require?
nanos in particular runs unmodified linux _binaries_ and produces bootable virtual machines
Google X: The Moonshot Factory
It's an important theoretical result, but the optimized library almost everyone uses (libdivsufsort) is based on an O(n log n) time algorithm; I haven't seen any competitive implementations of the linear-time algorithms.
She is not some random person to me. She is someone I have granted (through my government) a position of power and trust, which exposes her to certain risks which I want to protect her from, because being scared for one's life is not a quality that I want in people adjudicating legal disputes and criminal sentences.
JetBrains releases Space publicly [video]
Hey unixhero. If you have the time and interest, I'd love to have a call or video chat with your about your experience in this market [ arash at zood d0t xyz ].
I feel there's a few cases cited here to make a case that an entired business model is dying, but it doesn't look to me that this is an overall trend. You can't extrapolate from "5 projects didn't fare well with this, so it's not working".

But there's more. I followed the MongoDB case a bit and it's not exactly how many make it sound like. MongoDB was doing fine as a company. It wasn't like they were unable to pay their programmers because AWS offered a hosted MongoDB.

In the months before that controversial license change they got plenty of funding from investors.

It looked all more like investors created expectations of future revenue and they became cold feet if they could meet those expectations.

It remains to be seen how this will work out in the long run. I'd personally consider everything that depends on MongoDB to be toxic. With that license it won't be shiped in standard linux distros, other projects are less likely to build on it.