skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everything is a service, you have no actual control. You may feel you do, but you only have control within the services' matrices of operation. If you have no control, you're not free. You may feel the freest you've ever felt, but you're a slave.

So long as we still have the right to own a patch of this earth, not an apartment or a timeshare or etc. etc., but a lot of land, we will be able to talk about some kind of actual freedom. Because land doesn't depend on anyone or anything except the earth's outer mantle, and so whatever you put on your plot you control, including your person, and so you are free.
There has definitely been extensive anti nuclear campaigning.

Wind and solar are great but they’re not dependable.
Accidental drive pulls happen -- think JBODs and RAID. Ideally, if an operator pulls the wrong drive, and then shoves it back in in a short amount of time, you want to be able to recover from that without a full RAID rebuild. You can't do that correctly if the RAID's bookkeeping structures (e.g. write-intent bitmap) are not consistent with the rest of the data on the drive. (To be fair, in practice, an error arising in this case would likely be caught by RAID parity.)

Not saying UPS-based integrity solutions don't make sense, you are right it's a tradeoff. The issue to me is more device vendors misstating their devices' capabilities.
What do you mean, "I stop caring for people who do something like this?" Like literally you don't care that he died because someone on Twitter accused him of something gross? Or you don't care about his contributions to free software that improve the lives of millions of people? I'm not trying to challenge or straw-man you, I really want to understand what you mean.

I have no idea if he is guilty or not, but even still I think humans are much, much more complicated than that. If all of us are summed up and judged as "worth caring about" based on the worst things we've done (assuming he is guilty of the twitter accusation, which I have no reason to doubt but also don't accept purely on faith), I think most (all?) people will be judged worthless. I'm not trying to make the "but Hitler built the Autobahn" argument, I guess I'm more trying to understand why "hate the sin but love the sinner" has gone so out of fashion.
It seems unreasonable to me that there is unknown proprietary software running on my storage devices to begin with. This leads to insanity such as failure to report read errors or falsely reporting unwritten data as committed. This should be part of the operating system, not some obscure firmware hidden away in some chip.
At the time, there was a widespread fear, even among (as someone else mentioned) liberal icon FDR, that there was a significant security risk associated with Japanese-descended Americans. Even so, SCOTUS should have (ideally) said there was no legal case for interning them or (less ideally but better) simply declined to hear the case. It sounds very similar if the legal justification in equally weak. It's not the job of SCOTUS to make up legal reasoning for whatever the other branches of government want to do even if you (or the majority) agree with them.
You can see live streams from the cities... They have a lot of fireworks going on right now.
peacekeepers? troops!
Why, given that the food industry is very competitive and low margin ?
Are you arguing that sociopaths and psychopaths are less conscious than other humans?
Grew up poor, doing well financially now.

It’s true that poverty is self fulfilling but economic success isn’t everything either.

You can be poor and happy (and good).

You can be wealthy and miserable (and immoral).

I’m not saying stress is good or that people should have to struggle, but you make it sound as if misery is a foregone conclusion for those raised in lower socio-economic conditions.
I think this is the first completed project I've ever seen in zig. Pretty cool.
Why should something like this never happen again? War is war. Japan in current day is an ally, so let's discuss the CCP.

Couldn't you say compared to the current modern day Communist Party of China and being as of today 21 Confusion institutes currently located in the United States? Do you think the current Communist Party of China does not have spies and people designed to infiltrate the United States government and the current Republic in various levels? Haven't they even been stealing secrets and intellectual property from governments?

Also, alerts last month from British Intelligence (MI5) regarding infiltration in their parliament?

And lastly, the CIA finally started a division to investigate China as of late last year.

So if you ask me, if there was a large security threat in the United States or Canada for example or any allied nation regarding spies from lets say the CCP, I believe they should absolutely be investigated and potentially put into secure camps regarding national security of a country.

It's not pretty(war isn't pretty), but how else would a military secure foreign threats in their country?

Sources:
https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/how_many_confucius_institu...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/13/chinese-spy-infiltr...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/china-is-stealing-our...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/cia-china-m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5K_resolution

4k is 4096 x 2160, 5k is 5120 x 2880

There's also a really helpful diagram on that page
Klaus Schwab would make an excellent Bond villain if he were a fictional character. Unfortunately he is not.
They are also way less reliable which is a huge disadvantage from the point of view of the state. And we're still far from having good energy storage (that is cheap, clean, efficient).
Nope, the problem here is that it violates a very basic ordering guarantee that all kinds of applications build on top of. Consider all of the cases of these hybrid drives or just multiple hard drives where you fsync on one to journal that you do something on the other (e.g. steam storing actual games on another drive).

This behavior will cause all kinds of weird data inconsistencies in super subtle ways.
The idea of an EU defense treaty is also redundant after NATO.
You keep saying "political tool", "geopolitical tool", but the articles you link to don't really support your own point:

> Naftogaz admitted it used some gas intended for other European countries for domestic needs

Translation: Ukraine was stealing gas that was transported to Europe, and they admitted it. Is that "political"? or just plain theft maybe?

Second article:
> There is no consensus amongst analysts on who bore the most responsibility for the crisis

On top of that, the gas pipeline worked without fail for all this time, even through the peak of the conflict in 2014-2015. Why hasn't been this powerful geopolitical weapon invoked then?
That would be an economic disaster and hurt living standards in the EU enormously.

As one example, Germany imports 1/3 of its oil from Russia and 1/3 of its natural gas.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-dependen....

Cutting that supply off would cripple their economy, send prices soaring on everything, drive up the price of oil in the global market as Germany + other EU nations tried to purchase elsewhere which would hurt many poorer nations etc.

Not saying it shouldn't be done, but lets not understate the impacts this would have and how incredibly destabilising a price rise of that magnitude on top of the Covid problems could be to the EU as a whole.
I would absolutely love to have access to "dumb" flash from my application logic. I've got append only systems where I could be writing to disk many times faster if the controller weren't trying to be clever in anticipation of block updates.
I would much sooner label 'the march of dimes' a charity and a PSA than marketing, but each to their own. Also: note that exactly those things are trotted out by the marketing people to prove that "hey, marketing isn't all evil" when actually they have to reach back decades into history for an example that people will recognize and that has nothing to do with selling un-necessary stuff, which is the thing they are as a rule heavily engaged in.
Sanctions obviously isn’t a viable deterrent against Russia, so sanctions at this point is just giving the optics of action.

The underlying problem is no doubt the dependency on Russia for energy. Europe will have to fix this problem as soon as possible.
Please don't post flamewar tropes to HN. They just lead to repetitive flamewars, which have nothing to do with what this site is supposed to be for. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In my experience people with a lot of material worth tend to be the least generous. Of course there are exceptions on both sides.
Nothing says that you can't both offload everything to hardware, and have the application level configure it. Just need to expose the API for things like FLUSH behavior and such...
>Modern SSDs, and especially NVMe drives, have extensive logic for reordering both reads and writes, which is part of why they perform best at high queue depths. So it's not just possible but expected that the drive will be reordering the queue.

If we're already in speculation territory, I'll further speculate that it's not hard to have some sort of WAL mechanism to ensure the writes appear in order. That way you can lie to the software that the writes made it to persistent memory, but still have consistent ordering when there's a crash.

>Also, as batteries age, it becomes quite common to lose power without warning while on a battery.

That's... totally consistent with my comment? If you're going for hours without saving and only saving when the OS tells you there's only 3% battery left, then you're already playing fast and loose with your data. Like you said yourself, it's common for old laptops to lose power without warning, so waiting until there's a warning to save is just asking for trouble. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Of course, it doesn't excuse their behavior, but I'm just pointing out to the typical consumer, the actual impact isn't bad as people think.
I would say Kazakhstan next, but China is heavily entrenched there so dunno about it.
Because of the recent badness that has happened around people dying(identity theft, etc), the SSA and everyone else gets notified when deaths happen, and lock & flag accounts, etc.

Using a deceased person's password, even with this supposed "authorization" is a terrible idea.

There are laws and rules and standards of practice for dealing with this stuff and they should be followed. This lawyer is at best, giving bad advice and at worst, encouraging breaking rules and regulations.

What we all should do is build in plans for our deaths around the time we hit 18, and make sure our heir(s) know what's up. i.e. I have these insurance policies, these bank and credit and investment accounts, etc.

One solution, Fidelity has a free service available for people to help with this: https://www.fidsafe.com/

A piece of paper of course works just as well, assuming your heir(s) know where in the world these papers are.
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Definitely, the problem is: What does Russia provide for China?

For energy, China is also all in on renewables. See this chart for what they are committed to building.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/average-annua...

What is the status of Russian exports outside of energy?
"Ye olde communal waffle maker, delivered by robot yet still dropped kick on the way. Don't forget to rinse it before you return it!"
Please do not use HN for ideological or nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: looks like we've unfortunately had to ask you this kind of thing many times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042093 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881003 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582160 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22724414 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13670034 (Feb 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395373 (March 2016)
I had a TPM that did the opposite of all of these... It was a complete shit-show. Then an even worse thing happened, they turned into an SDM.
> Henry Kissinger

Holy shit, that fucker is still alive!
Consumer SSDs don't have much room to offer a different abstraction from emulating the semantics of hard drives and older technology. But in the enterprise SSD space, there's a lot of experimentation with exactly this kind of thing. One of the most popular right now is zoned namespaces, which separates write and erase operations but otherwise still abstracts away most of the esoteric details that will vary between products and chip generations. That makes it a usable model for both flash and SMR hard drives. It doesn't completely preclude dishonest caching, but removes some of the incentive for it.
I don't know about optimal, but I've been a Swift developer since day 1 and yet never heard anyone I know complain about Swift being to Apple centric. It's typically armchair philosophers online that have purity concerns, not practical developers.
I think it also helps that modern hardware is a lot less diverse. Most of the tools only run on systems that are little endian, where NULL is zero, chars are 8 bits, ints are two’s complement and silently wrap around, floats are 32 bits IEEE 754, etc, so code that erroneously assumes those to be true in theory isn’t portable, but in practice is.

And newer C standards code may even unbreak such code. Ints already are two’s complement in the latest version of C++ and will be in the next version of C, for example.
there already is one

but Putin would probably be pretty safe to assume that the germans wouldn't risk a war for a small part of Estonia/Lithuania (and then another small part, and so-on)

(and that's why no-one outside of france and germany wants the EU army to replace NATO)
Are you sure? Someone German would have to do the cheap labor in that case.
In the specific case of Russia, and other examples in the last several decades, there have been specific attempts to direct most of the pain at the rich and powerful classes in the target countries. You could argue (somewhat cynically but perhaps correctly) that these represent the only demographic capable of pushing change.
Good social science possible, but is difficult and (sometimes) expensive. If you can get the same personal outcome by doing something cheap and easy instead, of course that's what most people are going to do. Fixing that seems to be the Big Problem for most of science, for at least the last few decades (though, yes, particularly social science).

> People wonder why so many government programs fail

This, though, I'm not so sure about. Do government programs fail at a rate greater than those undertaken by other large organizations, like corporations or non-profits?
It's a great book. Short and to-the-point. Highly recommended.
I was not even considering the issue of bad actors. Simply that longitudinal, multi-variate studies of sufficient scale are essentially impossible to conduct.

Even though nutrition is one of the very oldest, and perhaps the very oldest, fields of human study, it still remains in the “butterfly collecting” phase of development as a science. It’s very very hard. I’m glad some people try.
These are the standard tests in most of biology at this time. Not underused at all. Very powerful and lovely to not have to assume normality.
> SCOTUS is a legal institution that interprets laws given the facts and case in front of them.

>that people who want the US Supreme Court to ratify "sensible" mandates and orders coming out of the Executive Branch even if they're legally sketchy should perhaps be careful what they wish for.

Yes...based on facts and laws...what are the facts and the laws in each case. Start with the facts, they are pretty simple.
Yep. Same happened with the Radeongate of the 2011 MBP 15''.
I was also very annoyed by that and supporting legacy servers with letsencrypt, and then I found acme.sh script to replace certbot:
https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh

Simple and light without big dependencies as running in bash! I would recommend it a thousand times!
I think the 'golden goose award' page from 2015 (linked in the article) gives a better overview of the original research than the article:
https://www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/marshmallowtest

A small quote:
"But this is not a story of fate – of children’s long-term success being determined by their self-control as four-year-olds. It is a story about how children can change: those who are “low delayers” can in fact learn to be “high delayers,” and gain the life benefits that self-control imparts."

So this is more olds than news, but perhaps it is good to be reminded that we all have room to grow (or shrink) from who we were at age 4.
I personally would bet high-delayers can also learn to become low-delayers, and I also would bet there are times in life when you would be better off eating the marshmallow now instead of investing it for another 30 years at 5% because the man in the suit told you to.
This time even China isn't on Russia's side, though: https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-chinas-warning-against-a...
5:4 is only one dimension, but 5k screens have greater resolution in both dimensions. I make it roughly 66% more area:

(5120 × 2880) / (4096 × 2160) = 1.6666
> What does that have to do with Trump's new social media thing using the more dictatorial names for countries?

It's not this. It's that the names are ironic: - GDR: German Democratic Republic (ie East Germany). Totalitarian state.

- PRC: People's Republic of China. Also autocratic.

- DPRK: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ie North Korea). This one is a two-fer and definitely a brutal dictatorship.

- Truth Social

And so the above poster's point was that this is also ironic:

- CNN, "The Most Trusted Name In News."
.........tf are you even talking about dude? I've never seen this posted here before but I really like the writing and the ideas presented. This could be the plot to a Philip K. Dick novel.
Part of why rent is high is because property is so high, plus you're taking on risk in the case of a correction. (not sure there will be one but it's possible)
As a systems engineer, I think we should be careful throwing words around like “should”. Maybe the data integrity isn’t something that’s guaranteed by a single piece of hardware but instead a cluster or a larger eventually consistent system?

There will always be trade-offs to any implementation. If you’re just using your M2 SSD to store games downloaded off Steam I doubt it really matters how well they flush data. However if your financial startup is using then without an understanding of the risks and how to mitigate them, then you may have a bad time.
It seems odd that you use the term "short termism" in connection with a remark about the anti-nuclear movement, one of the major concerns of which has been the the multi-thousand year half life of fission waste.
The US relies heavily on Russian oil [1]. Why the sole focus on European imports from Russia?

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-is-the-u-s-still-i...
In reality, there is no such thing as "consensus" in any expert field, not even in maths or physics, not even when it comes to fundamental theorums, let alone in leading edge or new fields of study. So, if someone claims there is "consensus" among "9 out of 10" or "97%" or similar, it's a tell that there is something else in play.
I don't believe the silo-ing of teams is a problem in itself. If teams are not silo-ed in a company of 150k employees, things will grind to a halt quickly.
> But any ordering should not be observable unless you have a power outage.

But what if the front does fall off?
A little bit of context of Putin's rule:

1999 - Chechen war started.

2008 - Abkhazia and Ossetia in Georgia.

2014 - Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

2022 - Eastern Ukraine finalization.

Also add supporting corrupt and destructive politicians in US and EU.

Also add murders of his opponents around the world.

And I'm not even talking about the destruction of civilized human laws and relationships in his home country.
Important context at the end of the article:

"Author's note: Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece."

Apparently it's a speculative fiction. Reads like an Onion article with a very trigger happy hook, which is why I guess a lot of people like to pass it as NWO propaganda.
Whataboutism is not pointing out flaws in a proposal, no. But I guess the word is so overly used these days that the definition becomes blurry.
They do if you don't use F_FULLSYNC, even apple acknowledges it (quote apple man pages):

> Specifically, if the drive loses power or the OS crashes, the application may find that only some or none of their data was written.

It's also worse then just write losses:

> The disk drive may also re-order the data so that later writes may be present, while earlier writes are not.
1:1 it fundamentally can’t if it ties markets to local production in much (most?) of the world, it’s everything else I’d be concerned about scaling!
I like your trick of subtracting the prior node size if it's too small, it gets a number of offsets into the lower bucket to save some bits.

I took this technique and made a few changes.

Firstly, I effectively did variable length integer encoding in chunks of 3, this mildly outperformed your hand crafted prefixes.

self.breaksv = [2**3, 2**6, 2**9, 2**12, 2**15, 2**18, 2**21]
self.prefixesv = [
['0'],
['1', '0'],
['1', '1', '0'],
['1', '1', '1', '0'],
['1', '1', '1', '1', '0'],
['1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '0'],
['1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '0']]

Secondly, I made my offsets relative to the overall solution space of 26*5, ordering the words sorting from their ends, and with a little bit of twiddling the order of the alphabet to put common letters near the start:

alpha1 = "aeioustrbcdfghjklmnpqvwxyz"
alpha2 = "aeioustrbcdfghjklmnpqvwxyz"
alpha3 = "aeioustrbcdfghjklmnpqvwxyz"
alpha4 = "aeioustrbcdfghjklmnpqvwxyz"
alpha5 = "aeioustrybcdfghjklmnpqvwxz"

bitmap = []
for ia, a in enumerate(alpha1):
for ib, b in enumerate(alpha2):
for ic, c in enumerate(alpha3):
for id, d in enumerate(alpha4):
for ie, e in enumerate(alpha5):
bitmap.append(e+d+c+b+a in words)

Doing this, and then doing the variable length encoding I got the file down to 13,181 bytes (it was 13,180 bytes, but I needed to add a 7 bit termination string so that you can properly decode the file after you write it to disk, otherwise when the file rounds to the nearest byte you have random 0s that get decoded).

I'm sure with some twiddling of the alphabets some more you could save a few more bytes, but this does better than both Brotli on a ASCII trie and the Huffman Trie by almost 1KB (https://github.com/adamcw/wordle-trie-packing#all-words), so I'm very happy.
Is the only relief available monetary? Can the government not get an injunction?

Otherwise, if I were EvilCorp Inc, then I would just keep doing my thing and paying the Dutch government their "tax".