skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's where I've settled at; Any web services for which I used Java, Python before is now written in Go. The productivity(Easy to write/read) & Cost(Concurrency saves $ at scale) improvements makes it hard to not use Go here.

Then what about those sweet web frameworks for Java and Python? Go makes it easy to write web services without relying on 3rd party frameworks but it does involve a learning curve which is not steep, There are some great examples[1] and thanks to readability one can learn what's happening even if they're just starting with Go(From other languages).

That said, I haven't had good experience with Go on low-memory environments even at 1GB, Perhaps it requires more thorough optimization in the code reg memory usage(which defeats the aforementioned productivity) and naturally a non-GC systems language like Rust might be better suited here.

Then I recently started experimenting with Go-WASM and found that the initialization less-intuitive(requires runtime wrapper), Compiled size is humongous and Go's concurrency prowess unavailable[2]. Another area where Rust seems to be a better fit but hoping that Go becomes better here, I don't want to use 4-5 different programming languages to build a single web application.

[1] https://github.com/fragmenta

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30356020#30357078
From Jeff Bonwick, ZFS Developer:

Although we'd all like Moore's Law to continue forever, quantum mechanics imposes some
fundamental limits on the computation rate and information capacity of any physical device. In
particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most
10^51 operations per second on at most 1031 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical
limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would
contain 2^128 blocks = 2^137 bytes = 2140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits
would be (2^140 bits) / (10^31 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.
That's a lot of gear.
To operate at the 10^31 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of
pure energy. By E=mc^2, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x10^28 J. The mass of the oceans is
about 1.4x10^21 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree
Celcius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of
vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about
2.4x10^6 J/kg * 1.4x10^21 kg = 3.4x1^027 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would,
literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans.
This context would certainly be great in the article, but I still feel it’s newsworthy. Assuming the article is correct, he’s the youngest player ever to beat Magnus since he became World Champion in 2013 - that alone is worth noticing.

He’s also the 6th youngest chess grandmaster ever, so it’s not like he’s a nobody, he’s a legit prodigy. Plus India has traditionally not been a strong chess nation (per capita), but has been up and coming recently, so that adds to the appeal of the story.
The problem of hierarchical file systems and data location is a really old problem that has had many implementations (I even tried building one many years ago).

Somewhat related:

Tagsistant
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14537650

TMSU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11660492

BeOS File System
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468920

TagSpaces
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12679597

git-annex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29942796

Names should mean what, not where
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/506378.506399

Unfortunaly it's not easy to get a real solution, and many people don't think that there is a problem at all (based on some comments in this thread).

Now adays I use git-annex, though it does have it's perks it seems a step in the right direction.
More people need to be doing things like this.
Walmart isn't a word, it's a name, so Walmart is Walmart in any language. I get what you're saying though.

It's always fun finding out indigenous words created to describe new things. For example, the Fijian (vosa vakaviti) word for internet is mona livaliva. Mona means brain and livaliva is electricity, so the Fijian word for internet means "electric brain".
People were extremely skeptical of Pat on HN not long ago. Glad to see some positive comments.
I dunno, seems full p2p is going to compete with federation. The former has more technical problems to solve but avoids provider lock-in.
Where do you see that Cardboard handles only QWERTY?
Thank you for the reply. It would be certainly be a useful feature.
Definitely. Off the top of my head: Abdusattorov, Sarin, Firouzja, Keymer, Niemann, Yoo as well as Praggnanandhaa could all take down Magnus in a given blitz game, and have been strong enough to do so for several years. Rapid is definitely a tougher proposition, but most of them could steal the occasional round from Magnus there, too.

To be clear, Magnus is still one of the strongest, if not the strongest, players in the world at speed chess, but there's much more variability per game than in classical and at a given format (eg online 3+0, with premoves) probably he's edged out by any number of players.
"Nobody expected at the time we'd be blasting high-power omnidirectional signals everywhere at 4 GHz - outside a few specialized uses, it's a terrible band..."

As I've point out in my post, why on earth wasn't all this sorted out before 5G was allocated the frequencies.

It seems to me that the the powers behind mobile services have railroaded themselves into these frequencies and that the FCC etc. haven't had the gumption to sort it out beforehand.
Not sure why this is downvoted. This is news because he is the youngest player to beat magnus since he became world champ, and it was an excellent game to boot.
Just woke up to the news, we've got an engineer in Kyiv.

He wants to get out but, at this stage, no one even knows which borders are open.
They set fire to a pile of tinder surrounded by a rather large ring consisting of a few large branches and logs. Then during descent, not only has the fire visibly burned out on its own, but there was barely any material there to begin with. Then in the extinguishing shot, the fire is all of a sudden raging again, but with a bunch of new wood that wasn't in the original fire. Then at the end everything is completely burned and charred (but still strongly smoldering), exactly as it would look if the fire had burned itself out within its natural boundary -- not actually impeded or stopped in some way.

Being able to autonomously send a drone to a specific location is not new. Using a sensor on a drone to detect a certain thing and perform an action is not new. So the only innovation in regard to "containing wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition" that actually matters is how to handle the fire, and they didn't address that part of it at all.

Everything about this video reeks of cheap tricks from a children's magic kit, and the whole thing feels like another dime-a-dozen startup scam looking for a quick buyout before anyone realizes they've been duped.
People can pay the content creators through Patron or other platforms without having Google watching and tracking every online action. Google is pushing tag manager and other options because of ad revenue. Killing ads at every possible opportunity is a noble act and moral responsibility of every tech sophisticated user.
worked pretty well for the US though
The pessimism here is ridiculous. I thought the demonstration video was pretty cool, seems like the didgets concept is more sophisticated than meets the eye. Open your mind a little, people.
>as anyone who passed a K12 government/civics class in the US can tell you

That's unnecessary, but probably you need to retake such class.

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, if anything, established new criteria intended to further protect the rights given by the 1st Ammendment; among those the so called malice standard that I referenced in my earlier comment.
Meanwhile, if the video is of consensual sex, the main problem is really that society looks down on people having sex. If it had all the reputational impact of a cooking video, she’d be less likely to care (though she certainly can care about anything she wants).
What are some modern, minimal websites for inspiration?
What are some of the best, modern websites with few lines of css (ie, minimal css markup that still looks pretty)?
It seems like multimillion $ companies everywhere can simultaneously declare widely that mobile is their future, point to stats like 75%+ usage of their services is through the app interface, and then basically their entire dev/maintenance crew is one person stretched across multiple projects already.
The janitors are paid for by the rent.

The "efficiency" here is that the university gets paid for an asset that it didn't pay for.
Yes, but you were talking about difficulty, not popularity. Those are not even remotely the same things. Just because something is not popular does not automatically make it difficult.
I’ll go out of my way and assume you don’t mean to be prejudiced or derogatory.

In return, I ask that you understand that your phrasing is prejudiced and derogatory.
It’s sad but my father always told me that the good times we’ve had are unprecedented and they can end faster than we think.

I never believed him growing up, institutions and America seemed infallible. It’s sad to say but I think with global warming, covid, and the general decline of American soft power we’ll see more and more global turmoil

My heart goes out to Ukraine and its people
I await the Russian trolls to tell us that this is all Western propaganda.
Without an account you lose the ability to support many useful features that YouTube offers. In my ideal FLOSS YouTube client I would prefer if it could at least support the main features of the proprietary client.
It's similar to all news media where alternative news stories are prepared beforehand and are kept hidden until one of them gets published as soon as possible when events unravel.
Chess24 is the chess platform hosting the tournament. The sentence should read something like "When asked on Chess24 (the platform) how he would celebrate..."
I'm going to qualify this by saying this is specifically in my professional patch.

The wind fields around fires are not unpredictable. Landscape scale fires are driven by regional scale winds. Yes, there are some semi-complex interactions between terrain, atmospheric conditions, etc, but these are able to be modelled quickly and effectively. Stating that the winds are unpredictable is actually dangerous.

What is not unusual to see is that front line firefighters will be reporting a wind travelling in toward the front of the fire, and that this completely contradicts what predictive fire behaviour reports suggest. What they are seeing is that the fire is creating a convective updraft which necessitates an indraft that is probably contrary to regional wind direction. The fire will still, largely speaking, progress in the direction that the regional winds push it.

Perhaps your statement could have been improved by suggesting that the wind indraft near a landscape scale fire is both happening at a high speed, but also can have significant eddies induced by the fire, landscape, and vegetation. This would make it very difficult for a drone to remain stable and on course, let along drop ordinance with any accuracy.

There is a further issue of landscape scale. It is completely ridiculous to place these things all over the landscape. They would be much better as a deployable capability when there is a fire going so that new ignitions can be addressed. That said, most places with large bushfires have helicopters deployed with a much higher capacity for extinguishment than the retardant balls.

I find myself asking, as someone who loves new tech developments, "is this just new tech with glossy marketing for the sake of new tech?"
As an Indian, I couldn't agree more.
First off, this is clearly just a promotion for "Didgets"... which seems like a cool idea, but the problem is the article presents a solution by framing normal-computer-user file organization as a problem to be solved (it really isn't). OP does this instead of identifying an actual use case. OP - you are losing people this way. Normal users do not have "200 million records" they are trying to search for by file type or name. Get a better pitch than this for whatever you trying to solve.

> If you have ever forgotten where you stored a file in a file system
Nope, never happened to me.

> File systems let you store any file in any folder, regardless of whether the folder path is appropriate for the file
YES, exactly, that is a feature, not a problem. If it is not appropriate for the file, you only have yourself to blame for putting it there in the first place.

> Even if you remember some parts of the file name
> searching by file extension may or may not turn up the file you were looking for
Who searches for file by name? Names mean nothing. You find the file by navigating down the relevant hierarchy based on what you are looking for.
By file type, are you kidding me?

A hierarchical file system is ideal as the basis of file organization. Tags and search can be added on top of that (and admittedly have room for improvement) if you really struggle to handle organizing your files by yourself (or some unstated use case the OP has in mind).

I'm struggling to figure out how the OP operates... at some level they seem like a computer illiterate person who saves everything to the desktop then struggles to find stuff. But, I'm sure that is not actually the case... so do they just fail at making an attempt to organize? I'd be interested to better understand what type of files they have so many of that they have to resort to constantly searching by file name or type and need a faster way to do that.
Gas makes up 10 percent of energy usage. More of a concern for heating and industries requiring it. But they can start investing in retrofitting and other sources now.
> utterly convincing but totally useless content.

Whether it’s convincing depends on your background. Those in society who can distinguish reality from fiction will still be rewarded, for obvious reasons. So that’s a difference from our current world in degree, not in kind.
The narrative is already pivoting to "NATO made them do this".
In the comments here, people named dozens of similar systems. I am sure that in the previous discussions (that must have prompted that frustrated post) the same happened. Author must have read them.. and then went to write:

"I have invented an entirely new way to store and manage all kinds of data"

There are no references to other systems, no comparisons. Did he just ignore all the previous work? Having "digets vs X" table and a section why this time it would work will do a great thing to this projects' credibility.
I'm always excited to see and learn about new and different concepts, but I struggle with two main points:

1. It is not the implementation of a thing that I worry about, but rather how it will be misused.

We have a generally good understanding of how end users misuse the current file system hierarchy. Before adopting, or even advocating for, any alternative it would due a huge benefit to sit down and consider the ways in which such a system would be mishandled, abused, and used maliciously by end-users or bad actors.

2. Do the gains outweigh the growing pains?

In the event that the potential gains of change seem particularly appealing - and the concerns of point 1 have already been thought out and addressed - are the gains of that change significant enough to follow through on actually doing it? There are many cases where something has been vaguely improved on in some way or another across many industries, but it is a rare thing that the improvements of those changes have justified the time and investment by the participants of that industry as a whole.

So: if the primary gain of Digits is to make searching faster, does that gain of search speed outweigh the task of changing a very fundamental aspect of how computers operate today?

My personal opinion is "No, but..."

There is always room for improvement. I think that if such a system finds more ways to entice people to adopt it, to find more depth and measurable, tangible benefits of adopting it, it will have a much stronger case to make. Speed is great, but we need more than that.

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From my perspective, I have very little issue finding files I need. I take pretty good care in keeping my files/folders well organized. I find it relaxing to organize things in a logical way. I even like organizing file structures at work, and for people in my personal life. I see this as a "non-problem" - it's a thing I actively take satisfaction from fixing.

In the event the author of the post reads this, I give you this challenge: Give me a better alternative. Give me a system that can reach the same sort of satisfaction that I get from highly organized file system layouts. Justify why I should no longer need to do that. I'm not opposed to change entirely, I just don't see a very clear gain from it, in it's current form.
How do you cope with the feeling that you're missing out on future prestige?
hey, love what you're building. Incidentally I've considered building in this same space. In spite of the crowded nature of it, I believe there is still room for new variations and evolutions of "how it's done". Kudos on getting this far.

Curious how you've thought of positioning yourself -- what's a typical team look like that should pick your tool? How long have you been building this? How do you convince teams to pick you over say Linear (one of the new darlings)?

It would be great to hear some of the backstory!
High altitude, long endurance drones with long range IR sensors to detect flames. Use solar panels and high power density batteries and it could fly around for months. BAE has a HALE UAV that can run for a whole year at high altitudes (PHASA-35). Use a wide angle IR camera for course detection and a zoom camera for identification. Images and location telemeters down to forest ranger base stations. It wouldn't be cheap but at least officials could react appropriately before the fire gets out of control. You could still have these small water drones to keep fires in check before real firefighters can manage it on the ground. You could even cheap out a little on the year long flight UAVs and just run them continuously during the dry season.
RedPanda raises $50M Series B for Faster Streaming
I just woke up to this news and I'm wondering if it's possible for Apple and Google to brick all Russian phones? This would probably be more effective on their population at large than any form of sanctions.
Right, it’s the denazification of a country with the Jewish president.

Fuck Russia :(
Butter shape is not interesting or important.

Butter quality is important. Typically poor quality of American butter is important. To some of us. Quite a few, it seems.

You are not obliged to read about butter quality if you find it uninteresting. That same applies to many topics.
I'd love to talk with you about your experience, I work at genrad.io and my email is amir at that domain.
Yep, Apple's power is controlling their whole stack. I won't be surprised at all if the main draw for their XR headset is specialised integrations with Logic, Final Cut, or even their Office suite with new ways to interact with the interface in an AR environment and not just a 2d window projected into a 360° view (although that has its usefulness too). Apple tends to target creatives and prosumers in media production so I'm sure they have some special software in the works to complement their hardware.
I've worked at tech companies that despise helping the US military. Please understand that the world is complex and although all superpowers have done terrible things, helping the US is the only way our children will live in a peaceful world. This isn't about democrats or republicans, the future of humanity will be decided in the next decade.
Major US media (and not just the ones usually perceived as hostile the current President’s party), has been openly mocking Administration descriptions, and scare-quoting “invasion” in headlines about the administration response as recently as today.

Now, if you want to say actively undermining the effort at deterrence is pushing for war, sure, they were pushing for war, but...
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I didn’t follow this civil war for 7 years for someone to tell me I’m not entitled to an opinion on who is the real aggressor here.
I would say that the legal system is open to revokable consent, it just does not currently have the capability of having that record

Similar to how the legal system recognizes that verbal business contracts are valid (a form of consent), it just does not have a way of proving them essentially rendering them invalid.
I personally found this is really interesting, hope it can becomes smaller and lightweight soon.
Oh, right, it's much easier to change how millions of people use it.

My point was that you need to work on acceptable use policies: gifs and such are usually ok in those #watercooler channels, but nobody should be required to participate in them. At the very least, you can mute them.

I participate in a bunch of Slack channels where people are considerate, and introducing more friction in the tool to stop people from being inconsiderate is not the solution.

OTOH, more considerate approach also leads to (useless) channel propagation, but that's also down to how somebody decides to use it.

I still remember a time where people could and did have multiple parallel thoughtful discussions in unthreaded top-level messages in the channel (IRC): it wasn't that hard at all.
They can take it or they can leave it, because they must adapt or die.
Different company, both are in the Linux kernel development space.
How many machines can Kaspersky brick? I don’t think you want to start this.
It's well known that Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet. I follow multiple youtubers that randomly see 10x their usual traffic on a video that happens to be about India in some way.
That's been the narrative since the beginning, except for the big long stretch of Putin’s recent speech where he blamed the problem on the USSR, and Lenin and Stalin specifically, for existence of Ukraine as a modern polity occupying land that, in Putin’s view, is rightfully Russian.
The propaganda is a rescue operation not no invasion at all: I've already seen "Russian operation to protect people from Kiev regime" headline on an Indian news site.
If you disable the account all access too it will be cut immediately and whatever there was on that wall will be out of sight.
I have an employee who has 4 kids and a sick wife. We already pay him a good US-level salary, but I'd be happy to pay a few extra tens of thousands to help them immigrate.

I don't even know where to start. Can they get across a border? Can they board a plane? How do I help?

I'm terrified and sad for everyone there.
C++ is a multi paradigm language, it is not “object oriented” necessarily.

also, there is nothing wrong with C++. it’s C with additional language constructs and the STL. use as much or as little as you want of it.

also, there is no such thing as leaking a pointer. you can leak a piece of memory.

at the end of the day you need to understand operating systems and how memory management, CPUs and instruction sets work and lots of other low level stuff to build software using C or C++. Rust might temprarily help with some challenges or shield off certain otherwise advanced challenges but in the end there is no way around learning how the machine you write software for works. if you don’t want to deal with that, go build websites.
Use it to spam content against the terms of use. Perhaps not immoral and very illegal, copyright protected things can perhaps be enough to trigger the Facebook ban hammer.
A prodigious kid beating the World number one would be news everywhere