skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically BTRFS's RAID5/RAID6 implementation is unstable and susceptible to data loss. Facebook doesn't use those RAID levels in production.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-Wa...

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas#Parity_RAID
The war in Europe was won with Soviet blood. The failure of the Germans to take Moscow in 1941 effectively ended any chance of a German victory. While the U.S. made major financial and material contributions it's clear the Soviets were going to win the war before the Americans entered it.
Who do you think invented the Internet?
It’s going to get ugly when everyone starts coming east again.
Is that sort of like how the normal process for vaccine approval is the _definition_ of "safe", and yet government officials and media keep insisting that vaccines approved on an emergency use basis are "safe"?

The scientific method is a process. Evidence is just one part of the bigger picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#Significance_of_Len...

"Nikita Khrushchev, ... addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs:

I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war."
are they? It seems like russia and china are far less militarily destructive as an ally than anyone else, and much more stable. this might sound like a propaganda talking point, but it's true!

sure, russia annex part of ukraine a few years ago. but it hasn't attempted to crush and destroy nearly every country in north africa and the middle east
Now autarky is cool again?
Sucks to be emerging market countries right now, when the developed countries start building moats.
Dexamethasone is an approved drug recommended by the FDA for treatment of Covid and it didn’t stop the vaccine EUA. The vaccines are 95-100% effective in trials, no other drug comes close.
There's plenty of rain-safe farmland available in the Northeast. A good amount has reverted to forest because the terrain is easier farther out west, but the rains are failing there. We'll see it reactivated.
The price for the water is also several orders of magnitude different. Farms pay 100-1000x less. It's not drinkable so some difference is expected, but this is too much.

Raising their price would ultimately increase food prices across the country - but that's the reality. Right now CA urban water users subsidize food prices across the nation.
If we're going to continue with the legal fiction that corporation's are 'people' and have the same rights as 'people' then they should also have the same responsibilities and we should tax them the same
Them:

> very little

You:

> major

But you're arguing... against them? Right?
> For everyday tasks both at home and at work, we have long had a choice: pull out a heavy brick with a noisy fan, a pixelated display, a few hours of battery life and a tenuous connection to the internet; or reach for that instant-on, always-connected, app-stuffed supercomputer in our pockets.

What? My XPS 13 is not heavy or noisy, certainly doesn't have a pixelated display and my wifi is the same (excellent) whether I'm using my phone or my laptop.
Going down that road you have the EU, to a certain extent. It's a spectrum, don't go to granular but neither go too large, you still want to be able to handle things. E.g. a lot of education issues in Germany come, IMHO, from the fact education is done on the state level and not the federal one. And why stoping at nation level? Culture and history.
> that demonstrates that with the right environment, even the most intelligent can be taught to use their skills in an utilitarian and amoral way - the book ends with Ender becoming the worst mass murderer in the history of the human race, despite representing the moral middle ground between his monstrous brother and his saintly sister.

Uh, I remember it as Ender having been tricked into it. He thought he was still doing simulations to prove his tactical ability, with how the scenarios kept getting more difficult, and did things he never would have done if he knew it was real.
Because maybe they’re just looking for the right environment, and maybe you’re it. Hiring is like dating, after all. This reads instead like an egregious case of the fundamental attribution error, and one that’d I’d view as quite the blunder by my management team, since the real consequence is limiting our access to the talent pool.

Even aside from the FAE, this kind of attitude also systematically reinforces structural discrimination within an industry, since candidates from unusual or unprivileged backgrounds are less likely to have been offered major career opportunities, or been obliged to juggle many life priorities along the way, and thereby more likely to have taken whatever they could get, or could realistically manage. Yet these can be some of the most interesting hires, thanks to their diverse/alternative perspectives, and may also be top-tier outliers when it comes to resilience, self-management, and self-directed learning.

It’s also a failure of values since there’s an underlying assumption that people are interchangeable widgets, which is both false and dehumanising.

For my own account, I hopped a lot in my early career before finding places where I felt I could belong and stay for years, and this pattern has repeated. So you’d likely have taken a pass on me whilst I went on to become senior this and principal that elsewhere, en route to starting my own firm. Go figure.
Okay great!
The default speed limit throughout all of Manhattan is 25 mph.
I think the kids are mostly alright. It's the world that changed
Have you taken the citizenship test? I am an immigrant and my dad had to take it. I was a bit under age requirement but did look over it. One example it doesn't even ask for the 3 branches of government, just name a single one. A lot of the questions are nice like that and will let you give a partial answer. You can see questions here,

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions...

The test is longer than many classroom tests but also only needs a 60% to pass. The topics covered are already ones that US government classes cover so new requirements won't help here. You could add a state standardized test for this although still doubtful it would be remembered even a year or two later. I'd also guess it's a toss up on whether current government classes are easier/harder than that.
Good ol' Uncle Slayton.
> Soviet rocket designs remain pretty much unsurpassed to this day

Well except for SpaceX’s reusable rockets which are the future.

Im sure there will be some use for current Soviet rockets in the future but unless they come out with something to compete with Elon’s they are going to be left behind.
If you had to be choose to be arrested in Russia, or the US, right now, what would you choose?

...

I thought so.
OP is correct. double your salary at your job, but have to take verbal abuse and berated from your 'boss' and see how that paycheck affects your life
I understood that more as the poster thinking that the millenial generation is the first one fully situated in the post American hegemony world.
No need to take offense when Millennials control such a small share of wealth and political power, though I can't decide if that makes it better, or worse.

I can't figure out how to deep link my Data Cube, but you can see from the Office of Personnel Management that the Federal workforce is old: https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/

Screenshot for those who don't want to wrangle the Data Cube UI: https://i.imgur.com/0XQ1LEj.png
"but why it would work for covid doesn't make sense"

This is the way many treatments work. For example, hydroxychloroquine was a treatment for malaria, but doctors found that some patients with autoimmune disease had their symptoms lessened or eliminated as they were treated for malaria.

So, it has become a milder treatment for autoimmune disease in some cases. The scientific community doesn't 100% understand why it's effective for autoimmune disease, but there you go. It seems to work in many cases.

I say this not as an expert, but as someone who has taken it and it has worked for me. I don't care that the mechanism is unexplained.
> If you’re referring to WWII, the US had very little role in ending the war in Europe.

While today we understate the role of the Soviet Union - who suffered the highest casualties by far - in winning WWII, Britain and the Soviet Union probably wouldn't have survived without American Lend-Lease aid. While the famous quote attributed to Stalin - "the British gave time, the Americans gave money, and the Russians gave blood" - may be apocryphal, Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs:

"I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
Some additional background on the reciprocal rights they enjoy with St. Andrews in Scotland:

https://www.espn.com.au/golf/story/_/id/13173734/st-andrews-...
Although an insanely complex topic, this basically sums up my views (spouse is a 6-8 teacher). Teachers have no autonomy to teach (which discipline is apart of).
ok boomer. i’ve been on interview panels at several companies due to hopping. someone on the panel will mention it, someone else who wants to hire them will say it’s not a big deal and go from there.
If only 5% of CA water is urban use, then surely the subsidy is minimal.

Also - driving the Central Valley I see no end of “Congress stole our water” signs, so clearly some change is happening. Why can’t agriculture in more rain prone areas compete?
I love how they do everything in the open. The things they're struggling with, you can see they post about their thinking and plans in the open. It's not a secret policy document NOFORN, it's not confidential think tank recommendations. They keep the world in the loop about where they're up to, if only the world will observe. It's one of the consequences of the party bureaucracy system i think. They need to communicate, and it's too large to pass everything through secret channels from executive to departmental branches, out of the eyes of the people they pretend to represent, like happens elsewhere. In many ways it's a much more transparent, open and involved with the people system than typically implemented democratic bureaucracy with its media driven game cycle of scandal, response, close ranks and hide. ;p ;) xx
> Perhaps most transformative, laptops will eventually get direct connections to cellular networks, including 5G.

"The better to surveil you with, my dear," replied the wolf.
My manager readme (thanks to Oren!) explains some granular stuff about my thoughts even more: https://managerreadme.com/readme/mojobojo

As someone who has struggled with little information about what it even means to be a proper EM in our industry it bugs me to be stereotyped so hard. Yeah, there are absolutely terrible managers and they deserve to be called out, but some of us really try to put effort in and create genuinely valuable relationships in both directions.
>That is a great good, and it’s falling apart

American hegemony drastically reduces the power of local warlords, the sovereignty argument is exactly that. That's also how you have the peace.

The problem is, you don't have a say on it. This will upset the people who disagree with the American way of doing things and everything will crumble when US falters.

Not having a say on it, also makes you susceptible to internal US politics. You can find yourself in a war or under an ambargo due to the election campaign of an US president. Iran, for example, had their deal for normalisation of the relationship however they become a part if the internal US politics and election campaign(Trump v.s. Obama) and everything changed for 83 million people of that country.

There’s also the risk of a corrupt US president actually trading with the aspiring local warlords, enabling them for personal gains. in that case you are both out of peace and control over your fate.
I can’t answer why other people might do this, but I wrote this code so I can at least give my rationale for it. In short: it leans into C idioms to convey intent. “--len” in a loop condition is a way to say “do this len times”. “*dst++ = *src++” is quite literally the reference strcpy implementation. Taken together, it clearly and quite concisely represents the main operation of this function: do a strcpy, but only up to len characters. There is some extra bookkeeping that needs to be done for errors and null-termination, and that’s delineated from the core part of the code. In all, I read the function as “bail out early if there is nothing to do, otherwise do the copy operation and then fix up the result”.

Now, of course you might say that my code is prone to off-by-one errors and the like. And it totally is! This is C and you are going to get string handling wrong, guaranteed. When I was writing this I personally ran it through the typical edge cases and it caught an instance where I (IIRC) was writing an extra NUL when I had exactly filled the buffer previously. These things happen and you need to verify the code yourself to fix it beforehand. But, back to the point, I don’t trust your code any more than I would mine. I mean, you’re also breaking out of a loop on an additional condition and reusing the index variable for later logic. That’s basically a big red flag for “there might be bugs here”. There’s really no way to avoid it. I would argue that the most complex part of this code is actually verifying that the transition between the loop and the error handling that happens afterwards is correct, not the copying bit. Adding a few extra variables splits up the logic a bit but it also gives you more loop invariants to keep track of. Anyways, that’s my 2¢.
You can just say you don't know.
Thanks for this link, WSJ is always paywalled.
Just how much lend-lease contributed for the Sovjet war effort is still debated. I wouldn't go with memoirs, but numbers. And in 1941, the USSR received very little from the US. Later on, sure. Especially aviation fuel and trucks.

That's why I said, US money and gear, Soviet blood and British stubbornness.

Edit: My personal opinion is, that lend-lease ended the war early. Germany was outproduced by the British and the Soviets alone, they also had the raw material advantage. And the man power. It would have taken a lot longer, with a the dire consequences. In 1945/46 so, the Soviets would have taken Berlin, one way or the other, D-Day or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udeSVyx6_9A
The long-awaited sequel to 2007's unforgettable "why phones are turning into miniature PCs"
If your evidence were instead your own comment, I would whole heartedly agree.
I'm arguing against your assertion that the belief that America had little to do with the victory in Europe is bonkers level delusional. We did supply the Soviets with food and trucks but Soviet industrial output was greater than Germany's and when the Germans didn't take Moscow the chance of victory was zero. American aid didn't arrive to the Soviet Union soon enough to change anything. It just helped end the war sooner.
My neighbor growing up had a 300 acre vegetable farm. Now defunct as the family couldn’t compete with subsidized Western and Canadian agriculture.
I would say not prepping enough for technical interviews. I did a lot of prep (hundreds of hours) but it wasn’t enough. I needed more because I was always being compared to senior engineers with 10+ years of XP who had been through the gauntlet a lot. Very few companies were ever explicating hiring for a junior or “mid” level role when I was looking. (Less than 3 years xp)

In the end, I realized I need to be doing interview prep pretty much all the time. Maybe give it up just before you start the next job and while you’re ramping up but it should just be routine once you hit 6 months or a year. There’s no reason to not do it because in all likelihood, you’ll be switching jobs.

I’m going into my sixth job in about 8 years now. I shouldn’t expect to stay at my next place longer than 2 years and thus should be prepping well before my planned time of exit.
This is the best feature Facebook has ever released.
Ask HN: Secure. US-Based, Laptop Hosting Provider Recommendations?
Does anyone have recommendations for a hosting provider who will host a specific, physically-delivered laptop in a secure, access-controlled and entry-audited (each entry linked back to a specific ticketing request) cage, making the laptop accessible via a KVM-over-IP connection over VPN, with 24x7x365 hands-on-keyboard access when needed (mostly for power cycling)? I can supply the KVM if the provider doesn't normally provide it.

I'm outside the US, and have some sensitive-industry clients who are inquiring for future plans about ensuring that the laptops they send me for consulting engagements physically stay on US soil. They don't mind that I connect to the laptop remotely (I do that now over their web conferencing system of choice while I'm outside the US, which involves rousting one of their employees to connect me and start the screen share). The recent publicized hacks have accelerated their cybersecurity hardening plans.

I can establish a firewall and KVM rule that only allows connecting from a specific static IP address, pay for an Elastic IP, and spin-up/spin-down an EC2 off of an AMI I built for each time I want to connect, then put it all behind an MFA'd AWS console. I'm lacking a US hosting provider that serves laptops in the above-described manner, though I'm reaching out to my home-base city's providers to see about custom quotes.
That’s bs!

Let me have the choice to enable it.

Make it a one time exercise. Add some screens to enable it. Try to scare the shit out of me when I’m enabling it while giving me option to stop and let it remain disabled on every screen.

Regularly give me notifications about side loaded (which is just installation) apps and remind me what they’ve been doing.

Above all give me options to provide fake/mock permission/data to apps without them having any way to figure it out. But the problem here is apps like Facebook and Truecaller will find a way or just declare it’s mock data and will lock you out and Apple can’t do anything about it.

As of now Whatsapp and Truecaller are useless on Android without all the sneaky permissions. But on iOS you can use them just fine with ZERO permissions. If they didn’t function without permissions they don’t need to function, Apple wouldn’t have allowed them in. So it really isn’t that simple.
That’s wild to hear, I’d be interested in numbers and/or how they managed to pull that off, what are some resources I can dig into?
You might want to check the bio of Antonio García Martí­nez, who has a physics background, and subsequently worked in both finance and adtech.
I know this all too well. I should've known the day I walked into that interview at Target corp when they said, "we're trying to go from java 8 to 11, but it's been rocky..."
The ocean also evaporates into clouds doesn't it?

But we could certainly improve efficiency by recycling urban water. A lot of people jump to desalination but recycling is like desalination just with fewer solutes, so more efficient.
This is already an option on a large number of business laptops.
honestly ridiculous that cellular modems weren't already ubiquitous on laptops ten years ago
In other states or internationally. If someone loses their competitive advantage, there is usually someone else there to pick up the slack.
The miracle of the desert is truly a miracle. Sunny warm California is a farmers dream, except for the lack of water.
Nothing is being built from this. It is testimony on the quality of something else. People other than engineers get to have opinions on the validity of something. It is up to the opposition to discredit him.

He has not practiced engineering in any way whatsoever.
That's terrible. What is anyone gaining from all that interview prep?
California's drought isn't caused by climate change, it's caused by industrial scale exports of highly water intensive crops. Photosynthesis effectively locks water into plants that then get transported across the globe, de facto exporting water from California (remember photosynthesis consumes water + CO2 to produce sugar and oxygen). Add on plants like almonds that inherently store moisture inside themselves and you have even greater water exports.
As long as money is power I think we would have to rely on those with the money wanting to give up some of the power. Of course, there are other forms of power the penniless can and have resorted to in the past.

I have read that in the past paying taxes was a sort of pride, a kind of score-keeping among the rich. Just recently I saw an anime (JoJo's) where the influential senator was trying to reassure himself how powerful and successful he was and one of the lines was something like "I pay more taxes than anyone!". I don't know if this was meant to be a reflection of modern Japanese culture (it was set in 1989) but it felt archaic.
The rain prone areas are too cold for much of the year.
My dad has a similar story about being stationed at Moffett in the late 70s and turning down the chance to buy property in Mountain View because he was a bit short on cash at the time.
Eventually? I have had Thinkpads with build-in cellular modem since at least 2004. (And I have used them under Linux. Fun memories of wvdial back in the days.) I have not had 5G in a laptop yet, but direct internet access over a cellular network, without wifi is REALLY not new in laptops.
The difference is that the price of developing cheats goes up when you need to defeat these measures, and when that happens it means fewer players in the 'cheat for sale' market. There will still be cheaters but much less doing it just for competitive play online. At that point the developer can just learn your business and go after you legally, like Activision has been doing for the past 10 or so years[0,1].

0: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-30-prominent-chea...

1: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160705/09363534897/check...
My experience with apple has not been smooth at all, it has been one of deprecating without concern for compatibility.
I would say it’s the opposite. Vacation time has more incremental value the longer it goes on. Even a 2 week vacation I’d have trouble fully unwinding from. An entire summer, you can truly have some quality time to yourself to recharge, focus on a hobby, travel a lot, etc. I would say those summers off are easily worth $100k.
Sounds like a real estate investment opportunity.