skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here I am having just had FTTH installed, but capped to a mere 160 Mbps. The main problem I am having is not the router (which handles such a "slow" speed fine) but the wiring throughout the house. It's all copper ethernet and because of the lengths and the fact that the runs must go parallel to some mains electricity cables, it tops out at 100 Mbps. I hope the poster has already put fibre around his house.
London was pretty terrible for my wife & I when we vacationed in 2015. In addition to what you experienced their english & communication skills were pretty bad.

We tried uber a few times then just said the black cabs were worth the extra. None of the cabs needed GPS and always knew where we needed to go and told us about areas.

I know, kinda touristy and not needed for people living their day to day, but after uber they made the rest of our trip better (is this a black cab ad?)
That may or may not be a problem. For instance a career manager may be better suited to make strategical decisions than practitioners.

I don't necessarily have a problem with a non-technical leadership or with non-technical people cooperating with the development team (the latter is often essential for the team to work on meaningful tasks). What I have a problem with is scrum masters, project managers and their like entering an operating theater to distribute candies and pizza, to ask people questions about an unassigned Jira card stuck in the "To Do" swimlane, and generally treat professionals with 10-20 years of experience as if they were a bunch of partially-socialized four-year-old children.
Venezuela: Battles rage between police and gangs in Caracas
Oh, yeah, this is what I was thinking of. The comma is the same side of aber as in English.
It's very hard to justify touching Oracle technology when they are so keen on suing their own customers.
Drew DeVault – f*** Google, f*** Apple, f*** Epic Games, f*** Fortnite
“The poster” (hey!) has put fiber around their house :)

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-08-09-fiber-link-ho...

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-05-16-home-network-...
Well, hate to tell you but you'll be limited 10Gb/s with these Intel cards because they require FEC.
Going back alone earns no money. Not sure how the exact math checks out, but drivers don't seem to think it's a good deal.
Not many of us buy disks at enough scale in order to see patterns emerge from their failures.

I personally have like maybe 5 disks, two I purchased and three scavenged from systems they outlived. Not really gonna learn which ones are good and bad with that kind of sample am I?
I’ve gone the other way, I have one extremely good beer (usually a 10% or more Russian Imperial Stout) instead of 6 bottles of ipa..

Seems to work for me ;)

(If anyone else likes a good RIS try Lemke’s one if you’re in Berlin)
Then perhaps Graal should forked and managed by a foundation? I'm serious. The tech is pretty cool indeed, and it's open source.
Thanks Chris! Really appreciate the kind words! :)
Your uncle was special, even for the 1980's. While many people did take the time to learn how to use those more complex interfaces, many people avoided computers altogether. Contrast that to today. People are expected to use various forms of computers, even if there is no compelling reason to do so.

The thing that I find bothersome is the expectation of simplified interfaces and feature sets outside of professional domains. It is an approach that works well if the software does exactly what you want of it, yet fails miserably the moment a user's expectations deviates from the developer's expectations. There is little room for creative thought or problem solving since the software tries to do everything for the user rather than providing a set of tools to them.
Relations don’t provide sum types in a first-class way.

If you want a list of employees each of which have different roles, and depending on the role you have different fields guaranteed to be available (not null), this is not possible to express directly in SQL.

You can express this with sum types in ML, Haskell or Rust.

In SQL you would have to split it out into separate relations, like:

create table employee(id it)

And then employee_boss, employee_dev, employee_sales which each have different sets of non-null fields.

You can express a foreign key constraint that these tables must link to an employee, but not the other way around. You can’t guarantee in the limited type system of SQL that every employee row has a corresponding employee_X table, and exactly one, not more.

This is trivial in languages with sum types but not in SQL. In this sense they are strictly more powerful.

Various triggers can be added to try to enforce this constraint, but that’s a runtime check: better languages tell you when you type check the code.
Down under, really?
Also relevant [edit:2015] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298572334_School_wi...

Bunz's conclusion:
"The difference between empowering the user and manipulating her or him is
minimal, but decisive: it makes a difference whether the interface is empowering you, or patronizing you while hiding it in bright, friendly colours and
the technique of infantilization. In a conversation about this contemporary problem of interface designs, Robert Ochshorn (2014) pointed out that
there is, indeed, a fine line between ‘designing to empower a skilled user’
and ‘designing to prevent a user from feeling stupid’. This means that the
difference between the interface assuming you are intelligent and teaching
you to outgrow it, and patronizing the user by eliminating the possibility
of making mistakes while effectively controlling her or him, is difficult to
spot. Following Wendy Chun, who addresses the new media of today as
a habit, one can say that habits ‘are both inflexible and creative’ (Chun
10.1057/9781137437204 - Postdigital Aesthetics, Edited by David M. Berry and Michael Dieter200 Infantilization in Digital Environments
forthcoming 2015; Chun 2015, this volume), while Tiziana Terranova (2004,
83) has pointed out that online spaces cannot be conceived as ‘purely functional’. As I have pointed out elsewhere (Bunz 2014, 50), this is a tendency
we find often when looking at the being of technology: technology is haunted
by an ambivalence – in this case, its potential to manipulate and its potential
to empower people.
Despite infantilization looking friendly and innocent, it might follow
other interests, and, at a time in which computers are becoming ubiquitous, we need to be aware of this. Soon, infantilization might leave our
screens to be found on the things around us – Google has recently launched
a car with a smiling face. Being addressed as a child is ambivalent, and this
ambivalence is typical of our time: technology companies want people to
feel comfortable and play with their technology. At the same time, people
also need to take technology into their own hands, as learning how to use it
not only empowers them, but also shapes what technology becomes: school
will never end."

[Edit: Seems obvious companies try their best to make products that get people consuming more instead of producing more. Removing complexity from digital interfaces is a recurrent theme.]

About TFA, I believe everything has its place - open source shouldn't try to "win" and just do its thing. At the same time megacorporations devote greater and greater resources to bigger projects like the linux kernel.

This is not an indictement though... software is getting more complex and i.e. it's unthinkable now for anything but a very large company to make their own browser.

I don't know where we go from here.
Raid 5 gives up one hard drives worth of space and can survive the loss of one drive. You can go with raid 6, which will tolerate two drives dying, but it comes at the cost of giving up two drives worth of space.
Leon Theremin Advertises the First Production Run of His Electronic Instrument
You mean 10 Gbit/s per link? Even on the 25 Gbit/s card?

Where can I read more about FEC (forward error correction?) and how that affects link speeds?
What is the practical consumer (or even SME) use of a 10 or 25G connection?

As a consumer I’d definitely get it for the fun of it, but what is the point in reality?

We’ve just launched an ISP a couple of weeks ago here in Europe. Peak bandwidth use is about 3mbps per customer, and customers will download the same amount of data regardless of their plan.

I acknowledge this could be lack of imagination on my part, but the progression of bandwidth availability seems to be wildly outstripping demand (at least when it comes to fibre deployments).

Perhaps someone living in SF with a 25G connection can disabuse me of this notion.
Firefox doesn't block analytics by default. To test:

1. Open devtools networking

2. Visit any site with analytics

3. See requests to https://www.google-analytics.com/j/collect?... (for GA), https://plausible.io/api/event (for Plausible) etc

EDIT: expanded this into a post https://jefftk.com/p/firefox-does-not-block-analytics-by-def...
Quest for “green” cement draws big name investors to $300B industry
Sounds good, but that will only make him 2 million.
Thank you very much for the explanation. I didn’t know about this. Super exciting.

For others who might be interested I found this video showing the behaviour: https://youtu.be/hOLbyAzLmbQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27790723
Show HN: My plan to revolutionize the way we post and promote jobs
Also, the user can use his freedom to build and do whatever wished for. This tone of you shouldn't do this because some COTS is available sounds very commercially driven. People have the power to create another Google, we are not powerless.
hopefully it lasts longer than those "green" starbucks straws. I can't even take 3 sips before it starts to degrade.
The machine's clearly massive overkill for routing. Another commenter points out it typically runs around 50w - and the OP says they're also using it as a server in this thread.
Firefox doesn't block analytics in its default configuration; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27792881 above
One thing I've run into when building my own 10gbps router that I didn't see mentioned - you probably need to disable power saving / frequency scaling. The handling of packets is done in software, so when you start a download and the flood of initial data comes in at 10gbps, your CPU will still be running at 600 MHz and unable to keep up. It ramps up within 5-50 milliseconds depending on CPU, but for a TCP download the sender will have already interpreted the dropped packets as congestion and reduced their upload rate.

You can monitor this with ethtool stats to see how many packets the NIC dropped due to host buffers being full.
What creeps me out even more is the ads and "automatic bing searches" that are cropping up in the Windows start menu and weather (location) tracker with ads in the taskbar. All this enabled by default after a Windows update and active while the user is not explicitly browsing something on the Internet. What metrics Microsoft is collecting?
You know what might be a great add-on?

A tool to crawl all of the links within a website and submit each one of them to Wayback...
Green Ramp Disaster
He claims one of his goals is to be power efficient

“The PC consumes about 48W of power when idle (only management …”

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3

“ How much electricity does an American home use? In 2019, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,649 kilowatthours (kWh), an average of about 877 kWh per month”
My only rub with that is - shouldn't the router be only a router from a security perspective? Definitely combining servers for home use does make sense though.
Epic Wins Appeal to Continue Antitrust Case Against Apple in Australia
I even remember many refusing to use Google analytics for privacy reasons for a few years until everyone got lazy I guess
> What is the practical consumer (or even SME) use of a 10 or 25G connection?

Remote file storage, leasing servers for things like icecream, or basic HPC, self-hosting for a small business, even a small DC can run off it.
A blunt pencil is better than sharp memory.
In none of my tests did I need to change power saving settings. My iperf3 transfers stayed at 10 Gbps throughout.
i assume this type of endeavour would require some kind of permit and in turn a degree of engineering approval

that said, i stopped watching collin's videos a long time ago because of an apparent (however edited) blatant disregard for basic safety principles
> Smokers on average are addicted and would need to smoke some time during the school day and during their time at home.

My wife when she was smoking would go all day without smoking only to smoke at home. Also one of my school grade friends was a smoker at 13 or so, and he only smoked at home.

Also vape’s have a smell, it’s just not as pungent.

What you’re really saying is you can’t watch your kid 24/7, you don’t trust them, didn’t teach them why smoking is bad and now you want everybody else to suffer.
Check out umbraco, c# cms. Battle tested for ages, also has a hosted option
Fast modeling of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas (2020)
Europe bends over backwards for the legacy companies, like the big automakers.
Back during the dot-com era we lost a production array to the infamous "DeathStar" drives.

The system reported a failure, so we scheduled the drive to be replaced and brought up the hot spare and started the parity resync process. A little while later there was another drive failure and we told the data center folks to tell the tech to hurry up. While the tech was headed to our cage, there was a third drive failure and the array was toast. We were able to restore from backup, but the data was a day old.

Lessons were: Mix drives from different production batches (we couldn't mix manufacturers because of the leasing contract). Have a backup that you can restore from. Parity resync operations while the array is in use will put more stress on the drives than production use alone will, and will kill any (remaining) weak drives.
ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems
Also, in his “final” videos he never wears a helmet on his motorized bikes or carts - but he does wear a helmet in behind the scenes footage, which says the helmet is omitted for image reasons.

On the flip side, I don’t think he’s all that completely cautious either. For example during testing in the absurd salad knife belt video (which features a whirling belt of knives) from one shot to another a very large bandage appears on his arm (and is never acknowledged) which suggests to me that that thing was exactly as dangerous as it looked.
What’s a sticky licence?
A man stabbed a Hong Kong police officer. Now people are calling him a hero
Said primates have a dopamine down if they realize their life has no meaning, so the AI must provide them some meaning (illusion) so that they get back to the desired dopamine levels

EDIT: for example by pretending they are just crappy machines and they need a human to be really good at doing things

EDIT2: oh too much snow, I can't drive, please human help me out!
I agree, I should have clarified that I was talking about multiplayer games, particularly the competitive ones. In single player, the only experience you can spoil is your own, so whatever people enjoy is fine to do.
As a Swede I understand Danish better than Elfdalic. Elfdalic sounds closer to Icelandic and Faroese. Elfdalic also has other characters in their alfabet.

I guess that has to do with that Elfdalic has been somewhat frozen in time, they speak closer to what we spoke in the region during the early middle ages.

It is true that how languages sound does not equate to closeness of relationship, Swedish and Norwegian are much closer in sound than Swedish and Danish, but Swedish and Danish both belong to the family of East Nordic languages and Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese to West Nordic.

Here is Tennysons poem Ring out Wild Bells in

Elfdalic
https://youtu.be/-3Q9kLgsHIs

Swedish
https://youtu.be/TID9osnlsiY

I'm not a linguist so I don't have the expertise to say if Elfdalic should be classified as a separate language or not, scientifically it may very well be a dialect, but if some one spoke to me like in the video I wouldn't recognize it as Swedish or any of the common dialects Swedish.
Ideally yes. But with the resources needed for 25 Gbps, not using one machine for multiple purposes seems wasteful. The server only stores publically available data, though, so not a big deal from a security perspective.
Yeah, I’m fairly certain I’d get called out on this if I tried this as a random yahoo in Idaho, let alone a famous YouTuber in the UK.
Assuming the soil type and waterlevels are sustainable, the carbon capture would be proportional to the land level increase over the bedrock plus farm runoff. I would outright discard the latter as its more of environmental hazard than a benefit, but it is also bound by the upper limit of particulate matter the rivers can sustainably move even if we discard all the other problems.
Its a coarse model to be sure, but there is no problem at all to measure this effect for the only large scale carbon capture currently in use. Landfills (10% carbon) can be visibly seen growing in height year, and do so despite the same kind of runoff as farms. It seems highly unlikely that farms can reach zero carbon emissions while powered by coal and oil, but the carbon captured in the ground should be measurable, or I suspect its largely a pleasant sounding lie.

The problem with simply weighing it isn't the cost, ore processing facilities already do this at scale. The problem is the cost of fertilizers and that you need heat it up to turn it into mostly coal first, or the methane generated by large scale decomposition after dumping it in a pile somewhere will be far worse than the carbon captured. Heating and transportation could be solved by nuclear and electric vehicles respectively, but its still a rather bad idea. Not to say that biological carbon capture cannot work, there are good ways to do so.
>"I'm always amazed by people who don't bat an eye on the perspective of having a home server, sucking up electricity 24/7"

Some people simply run business from home and it is legitimate business expense. For example in Toronto server consuming 200 Watt 24x7 comes to about $20/month. Not much to dwell about if you are making money as a business.
required viewing: https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...

(circa 2013)
The problem with taxis has nothing to do with their prices. Look through this thread at various folks mentioning problems with the old systems and see how often price is among them. I’ll happily pay more, and various studies in the past have shown that ridesharing services charge much less than they could (in the name of growth and stamping out competition powered by venture money).

How many Uber/Lyft drivers were taxi drivers before you think? I’d say not a hugely large percentage. In other words, the “exploited” here are also apparently compelled to flock to such a job in previously untold numbers. This in turn drives down prices, and the reverse trend since the pandemic is the reason they’re back on the rise. The convenience provided here is not just for riders but for drivers.

All this to say your perspective reeks of political oversimplification that forces you to ignore various factors at play, many of them good, to churn out rhetoric. This ironically prevents seeing actual solutions to the problem you claim to care about.
So you’re incrementing a timestamp, but the code doesn’t change and it’s super important you change the timestamp and this is a reproducible build?

A reproducible build means anybody on any machine can build the same thing someone else has on theirs. That’s it.
Australia Covid: Police say Portman and Baron Cohen did not break lockdown rules
Australian police have said that actors Natalie Portman and Sacha Baron Cohen did not breach lockdown rules, after photos emerged of them taking a boat ride on Sydney harbour.

New South Wales Police had earlier told the BBC that they were conducting inquiries after members of the public had raised concerns.

Police now say no further action will be taken against the two.

It comes as harsher Covid restrictions were announced for Sydney on Friday.

"Officers attached to Northern Beaches Police Area Command received information about a group on a boat on Monday 5 July 2021, potentially breaching Public Health Orders (PHOs)," NSW police said in a statement.

"Police have reviewed the information and confirm the activity, and the number of people in the group, complied with the PHOs in force at that time. There will be no further police action taken."

According to Sydney's stay-at-home order, people should only leave their homes for essential reasons.

Australia's largest city has been in lockdown since 26 June to combat a 400-case outbreak of the Delta variant.

But the case rate has continued to climb, officials say, partly because of people breaking the rules.

Paparazzi shots published by The Daily Mail showed Baron Cohen, Portman and her husband, choreographer Benjamin Millepied, on a boat ride on Sydney Harbour.

Celebrity rush exposes Australian 'double standard'
How Delta burst Australia's Covid bubble
Before Friday, people were allowed to gather outside in groups of 10 but only for "essential" exercise.

Portman and Millepied have been in Sydney since January for filming commitments. Baron Cohen and his Australian wife Isla Fisher also entered the country last year.

Since March 2020, Australia has shut its borders to almost all foreigners in a controversial policy that has also prevented citizens and family members from entering the country.

However, it has granted entry permits to thousands - including dozens of celebrities, sports players, and business people. Those exemptions have sparked public outrage.
Add HDDs and 10 GBit/s hardware and you surely reach 60 watts or more idling.
Many home labs also don't use the newest hardware but old server hardware (add 10 - 40 watt idle).

A NUC or other Laptop hardware on the other hand would be OK to run.
Maybe SSD raids are (financially) feasible for everyday files in the near future.

You are lucky to pay only $0.10.
Here (Germany) I pay 0.30 Euro per kW/h.
About $0.36 dollars.

I turned off my home NAS a few months back and partially switched to VPS services (also because of the better connection).
Anything else is one wolf deciding to eat two lambs. Also, if you enslave almost half the population you definitely don't have a democracy anymore -- unless your slaves are allowed and able to vote and participate in public discourse like anyone else, which likely would not quite be slavery anymore.
Having close to 4 out of 5 visitors to an engineering blog running an ad blocker seems about right to me.
Internally:

Every once in a while, I move VM images between machines. Even at 1Gbps, it's a drag to sit there and watch them transfer. Not really a big deal, but it'd be nice to see them move faster.

Externally:

I back up my Google Drive periodically. 500GB takes a while to transfer.