skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking from a dialectic perspective, the higher in the social hierarchy you are, the more freedom you have in some of your decisions and less in others. Decisions like where to live, what to wear, who to befriend etc., become more free and at the same time less yours. Taking it to the extreme, is a leader of an authoritarian state free to stop oppressing their people and install democracy? Is a leader of a democratic state free to start oppressing their people and install authoritarianism?

Perhaps the grand theorem of freedom would state that freedom in the Universe is constant.
It wasn't a complete failure, more the opposite, a great success. Until Microsoft moved their HQ to Munich and some old conservatives started complaining about some miniscule problems. Of course, there were issues, every software has issues. And Bavaria's IT is very problematic in general, having many issues overall. But those were all solvable, at a cheaper price than the rollback to Windows had cost at the end.

And fun fact: now 4 Years later, after the reigning political party has changed, they are switching back to Open Source and probably Linux.
Why improve when you can start over? Modern tools for pub sub and websockets are so much better. We don’t need to use XML any more. (For the love of god please let XML die.) The old code and implementations are more of a liability than an asset, especially if you want to take out major functionality. Unless interop with AOL instant messenger’s install base is a key feature or something. (Don’t know if AIM uses XMPP but the timing is about right and representative of what you’d get.)
Not any more ridiculous than believing Pfizer produced them.
Did it fail? https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i... (2020)
SharePlay powers new ways to stay connected and share experiences in FaceTime
As it happens, grammatically Chinese is much closer to English that Japanese, they're both SVO languages so basic sentences can be translated word by word. Today I eat apples = 今天 我 吃 苹果.

Japanese is SOV and has a topic/subject distinction foreign to English. 今日 りんご を 食べる = Today apples (object marker) eat, the subject is implicit.
I would add, why do certain particles decay into other particles? For example, the tau particle contains nothing else, as far as we can tell, yet it decays into certain other particles (and not the same ones every time).

More generally, the standard model records a lot of particles and things that happen, but not why those instead of others. I suspect there's a simple model underneath, but I have no idea what it is.
>The main issue with OpenZFS performance is its write speed.

>While OpenZFS has excellent read caching via ARC and L2ARC, it doesn't enable NVMe write caching nor does it allow for automatic tiered storage pools (which can have NVMe paired with HDDs.)

Huh? What are you talking about? ZFS has had a write cache from day 1: ZIL. ZFS Intent Log, with SLOG which is a dedicated device. Back in the day we'd use RAM based devices, now you can use optane (or any other fast device of your choosing including just a regular old SSD).

https://openzfs.org/w/images/c/c8/10-ZIL_performance.pdf

https://www.servethehome.com/exploring-best-zfs-zil-slog-ssd...
In the brain’s cerebellum, a new target for suppressing hunger
>Top forgeries are so similar that it often takes a team of experts independently examining a piece until the fake is detected.

And even if it might be difficult to tell apart, it isn't literally the same thing.

>Are you seriously trying to claim that the reason the original Mona Lisa has value (vis-a-vis a high quality forgery) is because of the minute tangible composition of the paint?

I'm not sure how you concluded that is what I said. I never made any statement as to why it is valued the way that it is.
> A person living alone in the world can be free, but two cannot.

This seems to say that the opposite of freedom is impact. That is, freedom is lost when one person impacts another. I feel restraint is a more effective antonym.
Don, I don't know anything about you that I haven't seen on Wikipedia, but you're evidently extraordinarily intelligent, erudite, and experienced, and bring a phenomenal amount of knowledge to conversation.

I'm in general skeptical of inquiries into people's personal methods, but in your case I just have to ask: do you use some kind of system for keeping your quotes, excerpts, and data to hand for these kinds of threads?
FYI, $200 is the current bid on that nft and isn't accepted by the seller for obvious reasons. BoredApeYachtClub nfts have a floor price of 52.42 ETH on opensea so the 66 ETH price tag the seller has on it is likely more in ballpark. 52 ETH is about $217k.
To be fair, you're probably downlplaying it. How much enterprise software runs on Linux? Probably not a lot. LibreOffice is nice, but it can't compete with MS office. let alone Exchange, outlook...
> The way to make a business model is to associate copyright ownership with the NFT ownership and then assert those rights by filing DMCA takedowns (and/or lawsuits) everyday to anyone who displays the "art" without paying for the privilege and using the NFT owners original work as the source file.

The issue is you need the legal process to tie ownership of the NFT to ownership/transferrable license/whatever of the work. And once you're setting up that legal process, what then do you need the NFT for?
Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time
There's an XKCD for everything :-) https://xkcd.com/505/
How Exxon Duped New York Times' “The Daily”
Intent matters. It's not like the secret Bay Area college elite cabal all sat down one day and one of their secret meetings and decided to write

if streamer.is_black() or streamer.is_woman():
streamer.suspend()

into the algorithm. That's an irrational belief. But because of our racist past, present, and future, when mysterious ML models come into play, it's entirely possible for that to happen, and frequently. But unless you believe the above code exists somewhere and was written by a human, it's a bit much to call that a conspiracy. Which is probably why it's written in quotes.

Thus, the problem to raise isn't that parties with no recourse might be silenced. That's absolutely an issue, but clearly the mere argument hasn't gotten YouTube to sufficiently change their ways. That's because that conspiracy doesn't exist. The argument to make is that it degrades YouTube's content as a whole. There are a number of other Internet video hosting platforms, most recently TikTok, and it behooves YouTube to spend more time adjusting their algorithms simply because content creators are going to create a little something with the hope to go viral, then get their content taken down, and then move to another platform, rather than say anything about it to more than a couple of real life friends. TikTok's ascendancy (and Vine before it) proves that YouTube's dominance is not assured. The right winds of change could result in YouTube to be displaced, and YouTube's "algorithm" being incorrect too frequently with takedowns is sure to play a role.
I usually blog about engineering topics on my personal blog, and at some point last year, I wrote a review of which posts seem to work better than others. Here is what I found in my specific case: https://jmmv.dev/2020/11/successful-articles.html
It might be as high as 1 in 3 adults. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/depression-rates-tripled-wh...
If you progress your career then you'll have more involvement and will be able to have more impact when you eventually move to a company where the product really interests you.
Infrastructures
The thing with decentralised cryptocurrency is it's money on the internet independent of government control. It's not going to disappear any more than photos on the internet or videos on the internet. Maybe you don't like videos or crypto currencies and and avoid or try to ban them but it only takes two people who do like them two exchange data over the internet for the things to continue.

Maybe Bitcoin will go a bit like XML and become dated and replaced by a better format but something like blockchain based currency will go on.
If you thought you weren't allowed to talk about this, you were not alone.

Here's a quote from the latest market outlook published by JP Morgan Asset Management strategist Michael Cembelast, which came out 3 days ago [1]

Until this year, I had never run into a topic that I couldn’t write about. Anything affecting markets, economics or growth was fair game, and a lot of controversial topics show up in the Eye on the Market archives since its launch in 2003. But now I have run into such a thing, and I still don’t think I can write about it. Origin stories have always been contentious, whether they’re related to religion, mythology or viruses.

[1] https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/institutional...
I think the bigger point is that when computers were first introduced, there was a lot of similar pushback to what we see today. The answer is that they don't _directly_ solve a pressing problem, but are a canvas for others to come and use as a new paradigm to solve problems using its technology. Blockchain by itself is a canvas, and anyone can come and create applications on top of it that could solve real problems. Computers and the web are similar in this regard.
This quote is [chefs kiss]:

> Here's a metaphor. Blockchains today are like… XML in the early 2000s. A long-burning overcomplicated trash fire that a bunch of large, cash-rich, unscrupulous, consultant-filled mega-organizations foisted on us for years and years, that we all now pretend we weren’t dumb enough to fall for. Remember SOAP? Remember when we tried to make HTML4 into XHTML? Ew, no.

To answer your question, here are some suggestions for what might be the JSON of blockchain:

* Git - Cryptographic hashing, Merkle trees, and distributed architecture (pre-GitHub) to record a history of events.

* Databases (SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL) - Have been running the entire fincancial system for several decades.

* Credit cards - ubiquitous electronica payments "Credit card was the most used payment method in the United States in 2020, with 38 percent of point of sale payments being made by credit card." - statista.com

* Apple/Samsung/Google Pay & friends.
I built a shitty prototype of something similar in 2005 or 2006 for a grad school assignment. I was already seeing problems with facebook: I had my high school friends, undergrad friends, grad school friends, trivia buddies. I actually had two accounts for awhile because you couldn't switch schools yet, but it was a pain to manage.

Facebook was a lot more of a public messaging platform in the early days instead of a sharing/blogging/publishing platform. I don't even know if you could use it that way any more, but group chat has pretty much filled that need. I use hangouts (chat? gmail chat? i don't know what it's called any more) or line/wechat more than any social network these days and have different chats set up for different groups of people.

I think G+ was trying to solve the right problem, but the proliferation of different niche types of networks has solved it in a better way (follow me on Twitter for shit takes, FB for racist news articles, IG for photos, group chat for planning, etc).
This comic has aged incredibly well.

It was published in 2010.

Especially given https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29264770
What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood
Not a great solution, but you could create the links github style, then write a remark/rehype plugin that transforms them to Docusaurus style at build time. I would probably just live with it though.
I don't see regulation mentioned. The claims are that:

1. Far-right news sources are disproportionately popular on Facebook, and

2. Facebook has tried to disguise this fact.

Besides, the people I most often see calling for censorship of Facebook are doing so because they claim it is biased against right-wing viewpoints. The fact that popular news sources on Facebook skew right and that Facebook treats the far right with kid gloves are evidence against regulation.
I'm a forum veteran, spent years on the staff of a popular gaming forum, and these days it's hosted on my personal server as a nod to history, though there's little activity. And I agree with this, each forum was a society in itself with regulars who would know each other very well, and other recognizable people.

A lot of that is, I think, due to the visual layout of forums. There's a thread layout that UBB used, and later phpBB and vBulletin shipped with similar layouts, where each post has a poster info box on the left side, prominently displaying the username and some other info about the poster (join date, title). Avatars would also soon appear there. The poster infobox, along with signatures, made it visually easy to recognize the different people and subconsciously learn them. Compare to something like HN or classic Reddit, where the username is in a small font above the post text, and in HN's case in a less prominent color.

I accept that most forums have died and they're now a niche platform, but I still don't think anything replaces them well. The other platforms are all very different. (Micro)blogs are built around one person's content. Platforms like Reddit are built for discussion, but in a way that encourages fast discussion and fairly brief posts, it's not for conversations lasting days or weeks. Discord is great for real-time interaction but exchanges are even shorter, step away for an hour and the conversation has moved on completely on an active server. Discord is pretty much like IRC with formatted text and channel groups.

Forums combine community-building aspects with a format that is well suited to long, detailed posts and conversations that develop over weeks. At the same time an active forum with decent moderation is also suitable for high traffic and rapid conversations, not quite Discord pace but rapid.
The craziest thing about it to me is just how _absolutely hideous_ most of the profitable NFT art is. The BAYC apes are just some of the ugliest designs I've ever seen. Remarkably ugly stuff.
> It is also the opinion of the Alpine license review community that the OpenSSL 1.x license was already compatible with both GPLv2 and GPLv3 due to the system library exception: it is generally not possible to install an Alpine system without having an OpenSSL implementation, so it clearly qualifies as a system library.

The text of the system library exception in GPLv2:

> However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.

Emphasis on unless that component itself accompanies the executable. There's a long history of discussions of this clause, and many of them make the point that this exception is designed to allow FOSS projects to distribute software for proprietary OSes (e.g. link to proprietary Windows or UNIX libraries), but not for the OS distributors themselves to be able to distribute FOSS code alongside their proprietary OS.

(Note that the GPLv3 broadened this exception, and no longer limits it on the basis of "unless that component itself accompanies the executable". So it's entirely possible that OpenSSL could be considered a system library for the purposes of GPLv3, while not being considered a system library for the purposes of GPLv2.)
They just use it as negotiation tactic with regards to MS. Last time Munich attempted this with LiMuX, even Bill Gates flew in to personally give them a discount.
Saving the Germans from genocide and exploitation by the Jews is exactly the justification Hitler used
> As Rust is designed for sensitive applications where reliability is important such as embedded or blockchain-like projects, it can raise concerns.

This is why I get very concerned with Rust projects using tons and tons of external crates. Especially cryptocurrency projects using Rust.

These sort of techniques can be used to compromise lots of them at once which in the very worst case can lead to loss of funds and is irreversible.

Unfortunately we will see the same issues found in NPM be found in crates.io with cargo.

Oh dear.
Take the best offer from the least demanding company.

Use 1-2 years there to upskill in area you care about. Effectively work minimum needed to get a good review from them. Then apply again to area you want to work in, with new salary as your standard.

Will take patience and perseverance.
Isn't it technically against the terms of service to have multiple accounts?

In which case, sure it might work for now, but at any point Google can decide to just lock you out of all of them.
I personally spent 10 years working for banks, which I’m sure few of us are passionate about, but I did grow to appreciate things like the scale, the business criticality, and the opportunity to engineer properly in that environment.

Sure, working for a Crypto exchange might be more fun and look cooler, but if they have 10 customers and you are constantly under pressure to hack stuff into production for an egomaniac CEO, it is not a great environment to grow and work in.

So personally I wouldn’t be so quick to write off the boring or unsexy opportunities. Especially early in your career when you need to learn how to do things properly.
Sure, "clean" as in doesn't do toilet/gross-out/sex humour, but a lot of his observational bits are "have you ever noticed how women are different from men in this way?"-type comparisons.

I can see how someone might find that kind of material sexist, especially if they've only encountered a few episodes where it seems like he's basically saying women are worse than men.

Personally, I don't have a problem with it because over lots and lots of episodes, whether he's punching down at men or women balances out. I'm not sure if the writers made a conscious choice to make it that way after maybe some initial criticism as I never followed the show when it was on air originally.
> I think what we've lost on the modern Internet from forums is a stable-ish social order.

This can't be overemphasized enough. Outside the internet, people simply do not have equal ability to garner attention. This is due to a variety of reasons, depending on context. In a room full of people, for example, you have to read the room and demonstrate a certain level of social awareness if you want to be heard.

The same is not true for most social media platforms. Instead, people are given equal opportunity to incite discussion -- and the most inflammatory material typically rises to the top. This is not a stable social order: It's an attention-deficit-seeking social order.

Forums like HN account for this, by placing higher value on longer posts, written with the intent to be a positive contribution to the community. (I suspect, but am not sure, that the length of the post is part of the algorithm here.)

On old-school forums, people valued the identities they created, and worked to protect the reputations of those identities, even if they were anonymous. Strangely, even though people often use their real name in contemporary social media, they often don't attempt to protect their reputations, when engaging online. That is a mystery to me.
As italian I can't agree more
Paxos made simple is a human-friendly condensed recap of the original Paxos paper which came with a 20-page TLA+ spec.

As one can imagine, shrinking something down and making it easy is a lossy process. The text of the ‘recap’ paper can be ambiguous.

Calling this out as a ‘bug’ seems like sensationalism.
Isn't that what ZIL(Intent Log)/SLOG is for? I have a huge ZFS server (> 1 PB usable ZFS storage) that runs with 768 GiB of memory and 480 GB of Intel Optane as SLOG. All our writes are sync by virtue of using NFS from our compute cluster. I'm sure we see better write speeds, and not wait on spinning disks for write IOs.
Lattice will go big on the LUT when their advant platform comes online
Your comment was super helpful. I just tried upgrading to 2.0.0-beta.9. The menu now looks great on mobile. The upgrade is causing some other issues, will fix those and deploy the docs. Thanks!
ZLOG/ZIL devices journal writes; they have always been in zfs. SSD/NVMe with power loss protection are recommended. Yes, it requires dedicated devices, but so does L2ARC.
It used to be called boycotting but it, as a thought-stopping cliche, couldn't be assigned to only one party and wouldn't be as catchy so they had to make one up. Same with "political correctness" or "sjw". In the US if you said the wrong things, historically, that weren't politically correct, you'd be ostracized or if you were of the wrong class, race or religion, the social warriors at the time would want justice and seek to persecute you as you upset the order of what they saw as just. This has been going on all throughout history but if you assign them, these actions that you don't like and of a group you don't like, a new name and equate it with a certain political group, you can more effectively distinguish and dehumanize the other group as an out-group.

Personally, Horseshoe Theory makes sense. The extremes of both, as Snowden was implying with China and the US, are more like each other than not. Should any get their way and you're in the out-group, you're on a scale of fucked. Even the "peaceful" religions or ideologies are guilty of persecuting those in the outgroup in sometimes very heinous ways. Incidentally, it's strange, but not surprising, that he didn't mention Russia, his own host, where censorship is even worse than the US.
> A person living alone in the world can be free, but two cannot. Either they have the freedom to curtail the other's freedom, or they do not.

I mean, even a person living alone in the world would lack the "freedom to curtail another's freedom" in that sense. Furthermore, he would still be bound to the laws of physics, for example, and would never achieve your definition of freedom. I think the freedom the author is discussing is something deeper than "capability to do x", more like the specific liberty of being heterogenous to the culture you live in (hence his lionizing of tolerance).

I think you're absolutely right that there is a scarcity of this freedom that is precipitated by a scarcity of resources, as in your example. I think history has proven that it's not a zero-sum game, however, and that certain cultures have managed to produce a higher degree of this "freedom" than others. A culture that values and protects open scientific inquiry, for example, would perhaps discover advancements that reduced the aforementioned scarcity of resources which should have the effect of increasing the freedom that was previously diminished.

Perhaps why freedom should not be regarded as a goal is because, as you have pointed out, it cannot be absolutely attained, neither by an individual or much less a plurality of them. To instead orient a culture in the direction of increased freedom seems more achievable and fruitful.
Hah, good one, I just commented in a thread about Forth and still had that acronym on the brain, but you are totally right, that's a perfect example.
Anyone know of a good hosted documentation that allows you to password protect the docs for a startup? (We don’t want public documentation and want to control access per user)
URLs can also exist forever. The real point is that they are digital assets that don't exist on the blockchain itself.