skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that it isn't a fantastic design—I believe as much as the next person that UFS2 is basically best-in-class as a "traditional" dumb filesystem, and that soft updates is fundamentally a Right Approach. I wouldn't have mentioned it if I didn't!

But it's hard not to see that it's darn near barren ground for further work in filesystem design. And it's easy to see why if you scan the first paper—just look at the dependency flowcharts! Fundamentally the design is ... hard for mere mortals to work on. It's practically a miracle that it even happened once; nobody is keen on starting any new implementations.

I choose to fault filesystem implementers for not being (more) superhuman for this failing, obviously.
ITT: A lot of temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
> implied objection

It is a cut-copy-paste definition of a rarely used word.
Buffett has worked the media/pr angles magically. He interviews just frequently enough. He has his homespun wisdom persona. His letters to shareholders are marketing gold.

His followers show up to the annual meeting like a pack of cult members.

None of this is to say he's a bad guy, he seems like a good guy. But he's a marketing genius too. No vitriol spewing required.
btw Hanuman Langurs are holy in Hinduism and I heard they have a special status in some places in India.
This applies to everyone, even citizens and residents.
Sentences often require both jail/prison time AND paying restitution. The legitimate funds could indeed go towards restitution.

That does not validate slavery.
can't do the time don't do the crime my dude
German economy is famous for being based on small and mid-sized companies (which are often the best in the world at the ultra-specialized thing that they do). My post was on impossiblity of high job satisfaction levels in big organizations, I don't think it's as bad for the mid-sized and small shops.
Funny enough you have Brex as a client!
If you're primarily chasing sensitivity, one can generally be much more sensitive with a non-platinum thermistor. They're less stable but exhibit a much greater change in resistance with temperature.

A good voltage reference (or current source) is important, but even more important is building up a reliable bridge topology.
like apple?
The slaves freed through the civil war committed no crime. They were taken or born slaves.

Criminals have shown their behavior to be counter productive to the laws of our society.
It's often not really a choice (i.e. work or received additional punishment) and sometimes not paid either. [1]

[1]: 2:01 ~ 2:30 https://youtu.be/AjqaNQ018zU?t=121
Right it worked well because it was done at a conference on big data, so everyone in the audience was primed. But finding targeted audiences is a good way to shortcut the context.

Also important is knowing if your tool is early or late in the innovation cycle. If you're early on, then the biggest part of your job is convincing people they have a problem they need solving in the first place (arguably blockchain is in this phase right now, where a lot of what those companies have to do is convince people they are solving a real problem). If you're later on, like Cloud Spanner, people already know they have a problem and will be excited about a solution.
In some cases I encode the enum in the field name like `isThisOrElseThat BOOL` if you have clear opposites it often doesn't make sense to do so, but if it's non clear opposite either A or B choices or nullable and NULL isn't equal to false it can be helpful.

It also is annoying to use.

So if the DB supports a reasonable overhead enumeration that's a good choice, too (but that's not always the case, e.g. sqlite).
> If it doesn't work out, you can likely find a job elsewhere with ease.

If that's true then I could just skip the Amazon pain and go straight to the "job elsewhere".
Slavery is legal as a punishment in the home of the free.
And YET people who profit from that have huge opinions on China and Xinjiang. Both is bad. And both needs same treatment.

And we will see again how I get downvoted, because it DOES NOT get the same treatment here.
"nickel and dime-ed" is the expression but of course it undersells things by several orders of magnitude.
With most unions, pay is a function of seniority only.

I think most of these tech-unions are ideologically motivated and have no interest in actually improving working conditions.
I certainly wouldn't want every checkbox like that, but at least it might be the start of a rebellion against the idea that interfaces should be as "flat" as possible with no real indication or feedback as to which controls are interactive. Even the "add comment" button on HN barely looks clickable, and certainly not something that will publish this comment somewhere that makes it readable by 1000s...
But is it right?

It might be perceived as right and acceptable to some folks because of their definition of morality and behavior, and it might be a common enough understanding of those morals in 2022. It’s PC. However, its not a good precedent for a company to tolerate because moral attitudes change.

If a bunch of hyper fundamentalist evangelical Christian SpaceX employees wrote a letter saying that their CEOs behavior and values did not line up with their Christian values and behavior expectations, and for the company’s success, the leadership needed to condemn publicly the CEO’s actions? Would that be ok? What if they started actively proselytizing their morality to the other employees? Attempting to stir up dissent to the point where it was detrimental to company productivity?

This latest type of activism is PC, so that is the only reason its even discussed. Other activism like the above example is perhaps not as PC and most folks would not even care…or would be on the other side of the issue.
Thanks for sharing, this seems ideal for my use case (building the same source on multiple targets).
Starcraft did it better, everything responds 'instantly' or very quickly and persist clicking is rewarded with fun animations and pop culture voice lines. Hearthstone could take all your inputs first and queue up animations second.
I share exactly your sentiment. The snappy on/off is what makes the checkbox satisfying for me. The "ding" whenever you check an item off the list in Wunderlist comes to mind.
of course it does. The prison companies would charge more if they didn't have the prison labor.
Looking down the list of a lot of the news sources they cover, I don't see much coverage of mainstream US press - or mainstream world press for that matter. and I do see a massive number of sites I don't recognize the name of. Quite strange.

Catholic News Agency somehow isn't tagged "right", ditto for "The Catholic Telegraph"
We bundle DLLs in our wheels in such a way that it "just works" for the user but it kind of feels like a hack. First a main DLL library is built completely separately from the wheel. Then a binary wheel is built where the .pyd file basically just directly calls functions from the main DLL. The main DLL is then just manually included in the wheel during the build step. Any dependent DLLs can also be just manually included inside the wheel as well.
People often think that controlling for the percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs that are women, which would reduce the gender pay gap one calculates, is not reasonable, because perhaps "Women are much less likely to be Fortune 500 CEOs" is an actual part of the gender pay gap. You are suggesting controlling for the percentage of slaves that are women. It seems like we ought to control for both slave status and Fortune 500 CEO status or for neither.
> and why must a normal person give a damn about the misfortunes of junkies and alcoholics?

I give a damn about living in a society suffering from a surfeit of junkies and alcoholics. That affects me.
Now we just need general purpose software engineering certifications with teeth so we can move away from this leetcode death spiral in interviewing, and mature as an industry
Just do something similar to folding coin, which is used for things like protein folding. Perhaps an Internet archive coin that can be earned by hoarding backups of the archive on hard drives.
They've optimized for cabin volume and all their claims are weirdly crafted to take advantage of that design choice.

For passengers who expect a flight with 4 first class-type seats, their competition isn't a minivan with wings like the beechcraft bonanza, it's a learjet with half the seats removed.
Let me guess, middle class upbringing with little to no contact with the living conditions of the poors?
I always laugh out loud when people say that.

Does Boeing and Lockheed Martin not have “actual engineers” and “actual factories”? Of course they do. Probably had more and better for most of SpaceX’s life.

They just can’t utilise what w have, because they have no vision beyond “cost-plus contracts”. That’s on management. That’s why Elon literally caused SpaceX and all/most their successes.
Worth mentioning: you don't own the coin unless you store the private key yourself.
Sure, those factors come into play and are dominant. It seems to me that one can’t assume there would have been more starvation had GMOs not been invented. And the factors you mentioned haven’t yet had an effect in India and Africa. The population of there has greatly increased alongside the rise of GMO. I’m not saying GMOs are the cause of sad increase but I am suggesting that the population in India and Africa might have been lower today without GMOs without being the result of starvation.
OK, but what is total loss in amount of TAX dollars for keeping inmates in prisons?
Yes, of course some turnover is necessary. You do sometimes have to get rid of the deadwood. But deciding that everyone is going to be treated as deadwood sooner or later (and apparently more likely sooner than later) as a matter of policy seems ill-advised to me.
Net income is all the money left after all the expenses are paid. Stock buybacks have no impact on net income (they are part of the cash flow statement, not the income statement).
Excluding all the things you said to get to the metric you like means Amazon can function without executives, software developers (no stock grant expenses), warehouses (no buildings and utilities expenses).... Which is plainly not true.
In principle, for the vast majority of even violent offenders, a rehabilitation facility (including mental Healthcare and job education) would probably be the most humane idea we've come up with (ignoring the risk of this becoming a USSR-style re-education camp).

Would this work for someone like Stalin? No, I don't think so, so I don't agree entirely with GP.
or acetic ;)
Then whatever Twitter is/was does not align with "regular ole free speech", based on the people they've banned from their public square (and yes, public squares can be on private property).
And if nobody else wanted to work for Musk, he would have no company. There is no SpaceX without labor. It exists and has succeeded because of the hard work of ordinary people, not because of Musk.

If SpaceX weren't there, they'd be working for someone else or themselves - he needs them more than they need him.
I would say using null as 3rd state is only ok iff it's part of the domain logic and the 3rd state is literally no choice was made, i.e. nothing, i.e. null.
Being banned from twitter is just a consequence of free speech then. Twitter is not public space.
> How does society recoup losses from crime?

Profiteering does not equal Societal benefit.

Investing in turning these people into autonomous law abiding members of society would be much more beneficial than profits in the prison industry.
They're doing something that's a red flag IMHO by talking about a fuel cell version. If you've got a great idea - and 80 precent less fuel consumption should qualify - then bring it to market. Every additional "revolutionary" concept you add increases the risk of a new product never materializing. Next up, an all new material and manufacturing process... 3D printed crypto nanotube/metal composite!
Most semiconductor equipment manufactoring companies don't really compete with anyone. This includes ASML, Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLAC. They might overlap a bit but their main business are usually monopolies due to how advance and specific the technology is. You aren't going to find many companies wanting to join in because they are just going to be WAY far behind the leaders and in this field only the best get their equipment bought because of how expensive mistakes can be.
How do you service a panel, or whatever quantization, near the center?
If license plates were harvested for free, there would be fewer jobs making license plates. Ceteris paribus, the reasoning that we shouldn't use the free license plates because they're reducing the number of jobs making them doesn't make sense.

This is independent of your separate objections that prisoners should not be taken advantage of.
None of those companies are syndicates, i.e. none of them are owned by the retailers they represent. They're trying to just be middlemen. That won't work.
Did any of you even read the statement from the company's COO?
It's insane that we allow this modern day slavery to continue.
As a user of this app and long-time admirer of the developer behind it (co-creator of the fantastic Paper drawing app for iPad), maybe it would help the conversation if I illustrate my daily encounter with this UI.

I’ve been trying to limit the days on which I eat unhealthy foods to Fridays and Saturdays (yay, it’s Friday!). I’m good at sticking to plans like that without help from an app, but when I gave “Habits” a quick spin, I admired its mission to provide a playful, game-like alternative in the sea of habit tracking apps.

Once a day (except Fri & Sat) it sends me a notification. Tapping it launches the app straight to that “checkbox”.
While the description in the post may make it seem like this is too long of an interaction, I promise you that it really isn’t, and that the haptics and animation are indeed a satisfying experience. So satisfying in fact that I stuck with the app even though I’m certain I’d follow through on my challenge without it.

(That certainty, btw, comes from how I personally have set up habits like this for over a decade, with help from a mental trick somewhat adjacent to a mind palace/loci[1] to track and reward follow-through. I bring this up because I have often thought that it might be possible to bring the power of these rewarding mental models to a broader audience via an app. And to some extent that’s what Habit accomplishes via its unique approach. The haptics and emotional resonance of the “checkbox” are a little Pavlovian mental & sensory reward for completing one’s goal. And they lead the user to a playful/gamified representation of their progress through their habit, in the form of a small, abstract 3D scene that gradually builds as you continue sticking to your goal. If I’m in a rush, I ignore that scene. But I always enjoy tapping the notification and checking off the day’s accomplishment.)

As a designer, I could maybe quibble over details of the interaction or visual style (which is customizable btw via a season of themes — another unique component) but as a a user I’m simply excited to have this app as part of my routine, thankful that someone is daring a different approach to app design, and curious to see if there will be more apps that might introduce a wider audience to the mental hacks I’ve found useful for a long time.

If you’ve read this far, I’d encourage you to check out some of the other posts on Andy.works, incl. a great retrospective on Paper’s creation[2], as well as background on the developer’s philosophy behind the “Not Boring” suite of apps[3]. Lastly, here’s the App Store link if you want to give the interaction a try (I promise I have no affiliation): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-boring-habits/id1593891243

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
[2] https://www.andy.works/words/paper-at-10
[3] https://www.andy.works/words/here-we-go
I'm comfortable writing prose in monospaced fonts, but I tend to switch out for reading and revising. In Emacs, I just hit variable-pitch-mode.
Hey Swyx!
So many.

- Serverless Framework. Write 5 lines of YAML and have an API endpoint that scales to infinity and back to zero. Still blows my mind. (I am biased though)

- Fullstory/real user monitoring/session replay tools. Such a clear way to see what someone was doing when they ran into a bug.

- Github Copilot. Still amazes me!
Yeah but there's nothing satisfying about watching a video when the satisfaction is supposed to come from the actual interaction.
I assume though it is only available in a mobile app. Would be good if there was a website you could easily create interactive simulations from apps (e.g. it would somehow replicate what the app showed and what sounds it made in response to mouse interactions on a web page - seems technically feasible with some sort of smart recording facility).
If this uses a third-party company whose business model is stalking everyone for targeted ads then it's absolutely spying.
See also "Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U
I actually appreciate your reply being relatively measured. You're right in that my post would be more accurate if I said "what I said above is neither partisan nor conspiratorial", because later on I do take a very partisan stance.

I also didn't mention things like McCarthyism because:

A) I'm not very familiar with it.

B) From what little I've heard, McCarthyism seems to me like an failure in that it didn't go far enough where it should and went too far where it shouldn't.

C) I don't see it as relevant to today's culture war, which is a consequence of the left having successfully gained cultural ascendancy and become an incredible threat to our country.

Edit 2: I remembered faintly reading about McCarthyism once, and it turns out I'm right: I read chapter six of "Debunking Zinn", titled, "Writing the Red Menace out of history." To quote from the chapter:

"Senator Joesph McCarthy -- always an easy mark for the left -- is presented as representative of all anti-Communists. But it's a fact that Soviet expansion was enabled by Americans' lack of due diligence when it came to weeding out Communist spies."

And, to McCarthy's inffectiveness, the book says:

"Christopher Anddrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, among other anti-communists, claim that 'McCarthy ultimately did more for the Soviet cause than any agent of influence the KBG ever had'."

And later: "[McCarthy] was also not careful in making his charges, and he became more reckless as his drinking, some say, got worse."

Edit: "Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds" makes brief mention to this 1954 book defending Joe McCarthy: https://www.amazon.com/McCarthy-His-Enemies-William-Buckley/.... I have not read it, but if I were to learn more about McCarthyism I would probably personally start there.

From one book review:

"However, what I love most about this book is the authors challenge the reader to do his or her own thinking about communism in the 50's and what needed to be done during that time. They ask questions and then provide hypothetical answers which returns over and over again the same verdict. That rooting out communism and subversives in government was an extremely tough job, and it required a tough man to do the job, and he would have to play "hardball" to get the facts. To make the job even more difficult is that McCarthy was up against powerful establishments in all aspects of society."
It would seem that some lawyers agree with that poster: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/17/23172915/elon-musk-spacex...
I think cryptominers are fingerprinters are scripts. Scripts are not cookies.
Wasting years of your life locked up is already disincentive enough. Exploitive forced/hard/hazardous labor isn’t necessary.

Same with being unable to afford common necessities, or being raped in prison.

These just make the experience for prisoners inhumane and miserable.
I saw that in another thread here on the frontpage Amazon were running out of people to hire. Maybe this is the solution.
As food for thought:

1. Are you sure your vision of prison’s role is universal or even prevailing?

2. Even if so, who’s responsible for quantifying the debt?

3. Who determines the means by which the debt is paid?

4. Who benefits most directly by the payment?

5. What systems are in place to prevent corruption by the agents identified in 2-4?

The debate is a live one because the current answers to those questions aren’t very convincing to people who worry about exploitation.
[I work at Plaid] Not to get into too much of this, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued guidance that banks are still required to comply with the consumer protection measures provided by Reg E (and thus cannot fully disclaim liability) even when a fraudulent transfer is the result of password sharing. More info at https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/compliance-resour...

Though this is still obviously not a replacement for open banking and would I still love open banking laws in the US (and hopefully better implemented / constructed than the open banking laws in Europe!)
Jetliners have an industry average 51mpg per passenger. Private learjets pull, at capacity, 28mpg per passenger. I’ll let you decide which one of these flies around more often at lower percentages of capacity.
If the prisons use the revenues for the prison and not for profit, then I don't really see a problem with it. The working and living conditions should be addressed too, but those are a wider spread issue.

And a reminder for everyone that 2-10% of the incarcerated are wrongly convicted. This is where we should be starting in my opinion.
Don't editorialize the title. Use the comments to make your point. Submit using the original title is the rule to avoid people creating flamebait etcetera: “Otherwise please use the original title, unless [the original title] is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Steve Klabnik comparing Rust to the Sawstop safe table saw.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514114
The tile animation on your website is also really well done!
What are some practical applications for a SAT solver?
I do not at all understand the reason for your response. Do you really think that I was saying that doing something for free is always a form of slavery? I think it’s obvious the meaning and intent of what I wrote and only a disingenuous interpretation could have led you to respond as you did.
https://www.thrillist.com/gear/products-made-by-prisoners-cl...

I also remember a documentary when TWA ( way back ) used prisoners for call centers.
How many of those 400k are solely in for possession? i.e no priors, no anything, just possession
Not really, it's more likely to be stored at low temperature to avoid embrittlement. Liquid Hydrogen has an energy density of approximately 120 MJ/kg, almost three times more than diesel or gasoline. Even with the cryogenic storage and reheating equipment it has comparable power to weight ignoring electrical motor efficiency advantages. Comparable flight hours do take up 2-3x more volume than diesel (including pumps and fuel cells), but at larger sizes (e.g. 737 and larger) most commercial flight distances are limited by weight rather than volume.

A lot of things come down to scale. Small drones can run reasonable distances on LiPo, which scales very badly to larger vehicles.
I found a tweet from Oliver Morton from yesterday that covers this. At least according to him Musk wasn't always this way.

https://twitter.com/Eaterofsun/status/1537427167038013440