skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(3 days later): Necroing with a link to this serendipitous related submission about building a NAS for professional video editing from 40 TB of SSDs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32235158

Yea, on second thought, long term screen recording like this would be a terrible waste of silicon. At 150 MB/s, 46 days of nonstop recording would exhaust the entire 600 TBW of a 1 TB consumer SSD. And for fun: a high-end 500 GB SSD writing at 3500 MB/s could burn its 300 TBW in a single day, not counting the EoL slowdown.

Curiously, RAID 0 hard disks are perfect for such workloads, yet the blogger has still chosen to use consumer grade SSDs.
You very clearly don't understand. I said they aren't completely trustworthy and I never implied they are.
grep respects LC_CTYPE, so it has to handle text encoding (or rely on something else that does, like libc or iconv).

However, by the same token, we might as well count any assembly in the kernel that gets executed due to some syscall from grep.
I think he means default mandatory file system. You can reformat it if you want.
Way more effective to let them figure it out slowly with the time they need after the gentle boundary /standard is set.
Just a point of fact, security and privacy are not the same thing.
Came here to say this. I don't use heavy desktop environments personally (some machines of mine run dwm or even), but I set up a machine for my daughter recently and did so with MATE. It's a pretty good desktop setup out of the box. Boring and mostly gets out of the way. She's mostly using chromium.
Read the information in the link about how DirectX became the de-facto standard (sections 2 and 3).
this is cool. might keep an eye on it.
Yes. I have access to Comcast cable, but I happily pay >2x for much slower local-ISP microwave service.

AT&T terminates fiber 1/10 mi from my house, built out under the $0.5B federal broadband subsidy many years back. But FCC did not require them to light it, so AT&T never bothered.

Who is worse, Comcast or AT&T? Each is worse than the other.
ah.. Does WireGuard app have a widget or shortcut support?
I'm only talking about THIRD-PARTY cookies. First-party cookies are here to stay — that's absolutely unquestionable. But third-party cookies have very limited useful use cases. I can't really remember anything except comment widgets like Disqus.

> it's not that simple to keep their usefulness while addressing their abuse

It very much is. First-party cookies are mostly used for good, and third-party cookies are mostly used for evil.
Formation of Timesharing Companies in 60s/70s (2009) [pdf]
ESG always seemed like a sham to me. One of those things that emerges when we've reached a point where there's more people than work to do. So new things like ESG gets invented, lol

I get the principal behind it but its clearly just been gamed at the best and used as a weapon at worst.
Considering that all uses of GA are illegal under GDPR except for a handful of specific derogations that do not constitute its main usages, an apt comparison would be heroin, which is illegal, except in a very few regulated cases.
IMO that's nitpicking. Of course filesystems like ext4 work with pretty much any block device. If the standard requires only exFAT support, devices like cameras aren't gonna support anything else.
What phoning home can't you disable in about:config?
I write that off as the "magnetic aura" affect. When so many apps/pages are written the ones that have the closest UX to the UX the user already has are the ones that are going to be successful.

You can deviate only slightly from the existing 'critical mass' or risk not getting adpoted.
> without being sure they can handle the comittment then not being willing to stick with it.

that bar is so high, I applaud anyone who can even comprehend it.
PE and SWE are't even remotely close in the pecking order at Meta. Also, the interview loops were slightly different for PE based on whether the candidate came from a SWE background or a systems background.

I'm a former Meta PE who reinterviewed internally as a SWE and then left because I was told that I'd have to move countries to finalize the conversion (because my location was a non-SWE site).
Without cookies - and knowing that HTTP is a stateless protocol - how do you suggest we implement a solution that allows me to connect on my bank to view my account balance and make a wire transfer from the comfort of my home ?
The universal speed limit applies to the 1st derivative of position, and we have nerve endings that can "feel" the second derivative, which seems to be a pretty important one!
Won't somebody please think of the billionaires!
That's pretty much as fast as it can possibly go, yes. That's why I would try thunderbolt instead. It's faster.
I switched back to the website from the app, because although it's a bit clunkier, for whatever reason they push far less random suggested stuff on you there.
I went through almost the same story.

At some point I was disappointed by KRunner of KDE 4 disappearing with my partially written formulas, then found Qalculate.

Then I saw someone at work using i3, and I was amazed and hooked.
I changed some keybindings to be more familiar (like alt+f4 close and alt+f2 run).
But recently I have been having some dual monitor troubles with it. Maybe I'll try Trinity for a few weeks. And maybe some tiling WM other than i3.
Was Miguel involved in GNOME at the time? I thought he was off making Mono then?
You literally don't know that though. All signs point to them not doing that, because allowing abortions is actually popular. The only people telling you that Republicans will do that are Democrats. Also, even if they take a majority, they won't have a veto-proof majority, so there is no reason to go nuclear in the Senate when Biden is going to veto everything they do.
I hate to break it to you, but Google also has that data, because that's the way client-server architectures work.

I really find it hard believe that

SELECT country, COUNT(*) FROM search_log GROUP BY country

is an invasion of privacy, or that somehow getting a commission off of the data you're already providing to a third party, is somehow making a user more of a product, than they already are.
Reddit has the same problem. Nobody actually applies "upvote what adds to the conversation."
Does 3rd party cookies include 1st party cookies that were created by a server that CNAMEs to a 3rd party service?
The CNIL's page says that standard contracts do not offer adequate protections and as such are insufficient.
New, 3rd party in American politics
the feeling that I’ve done nothing to apologize
for [...] It’s wrong to tell lies designed to
manipulate people.

Who on earth is suggesting that is a good idea?
> or be an enticing M&A partner

This is probably out of the cards for a generation. (At least in the U.S. and EU.) What Facebook fights with, they'll have to build on their own, a handicap not shared by their peers.
We haven't had the same government for the last 20 years, and furthermore, we've had corruption and economic problems for far longer than the past two decades (where, in fact, we experienced a limited recovery).
Genetic modification delivered via mRNA? There are some biohackers that do that sort of stuff, so it would imply at least some feasibility
Finally. As a "starving software developer", I can't really afford to travel the world. Luckily we live in an age where something like Google Maps is possible. I've traveled everywhere I want to go from my desk chair.

Looking at Google Maps in India right now, I'm seeing a lot of blank/black views, and navigation along streets seems broken. So maybe they had to implement custom logic for this, and it isn't fully baked.
Constantly checking in and reporting the issue sometimes irritates companies enough to fix it. Every week ask if they have the update done yet
Thought experiments!

Cancer is cured but 99% of its death toll is replaced by wholly random spontaneous human combustion. Is that better?

What if it wasn't purely random but instead the chance of your spontaneous combustion slightly depended on if your socks are worn? Is that better?

I posit both suck.
IIUC incognito's not effective at evading fingerprinting. It's really only good for preventing auto-complete accidents when e.g. you're giving a group presentation.
You mention Khan Academy in your post and was going to suggest that - on similar threads that seemed like a highly “rated” recommendation. It’s less of a defined web course/series but seems pretty good for picking and choosing different topics to get into, there’s a lot of coherence with everything IMO.
Maybe udemy could be good if you like web courses with linearity - not sure what they have for the math you’re looking to do but at least try to get courses when they’re on sale.
Good luck
You have confused transport encryption with storage encryption

Google and Nest use transport encryption to ensure only the device and google can see the data, but once it stored google can see everything

Zero knowledge data Encryption would require that ONLY the owner of the device has access to the data, not google

and example of this is say BitWarden Password Manager, even though the data is stored on BitWarden Servers, No one at bitwarden as access to any users password vault, The user holds the key, and only the user can view the passwords.
Securing core resources has been a long standing national security concern for countries. Also, there’s a good chunk of populist isolationist sentiment in the zeitgeist.

Senators aren’t unbiased. They’re biased towards what their voters want. If they step out of line, they’ll likely get crushed.

I don’t think money in politics is very explanatory. It seems a basic understanding of the 3 branches and the interplay between the states and federal government explains a lot.
right!?

TikTok could be a spyware (lol) that requires your SSN and people would STILL download it and defend it just because it brings them mindless 10 second videos. I remember reading 1984 as a kid and thought it was so far fetched, that nobody would willingly let society get to that point... but it just only made more sense as I got older... people really just don't care...
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/978/
Ah, so Slack is transitioning from a freemium model to a ransomware model. Nice.
Another common basic test for at-least windows clients that you should also add to the beginning is when you run a ping test and has the reply of your own host IP.
I don’t know how many times I’ve had systems admins or engineers come to me saying there’s a network is but there NIC port is misconfigured. This usually happens due to two NICs being configured or they something else tuned incorrectly with vlan tagging at the nic under properties or the vswitch is incorrectly configured.
He specifically mentioned the Chinese government; therefore, his comment was specifically not racist. The Chinese government is not a race. It's just a bad government. All races have them at times.
Everyday life may be a stretch, however some higher-end quadrotors are able to navigate safely in complex indoor environments by generating trajectories that minimize the snap, the second derivative of acceleration.
Off topic: Now that Facebook is Meta, the FAANG acronym can now be MANGA.
Sorry if this is a bit negative but from a cursory look I wouldn't use this.

An efficient Bloom Filter should only allocate on heap exactly once: when allocating the initial bitmap. This implementation seems to be not very efficient as it allocates even during a simple query.

The usage of `static` variables makes the BloomFilter code unnecessarily dangerous to use when multiple threads are used even if every thread just wants to allocate and use totally separate bloom filters. Actually it could even cause issues with two bloom filters created after each other since even `Initialize` just returns a pointer to a single static `BloomFilter` :o I can't come up with a reason why you'd consider making anything in there `static`.

There is also strange code like this loop https://github.com/hashlookup/fleur/blob/4ee2644a850381d928a... that jumped into my eye.

Oh and btw I believe bloom_path can cause memory safety issues because it is not terminated with a null after strncopy.

I would additionally suggest to use some code formatting tool as it's a bit all over the place. But the variable/function names mix various styles as well.
Those dog teams they use in the Iditarod Race seem to be able to cover distances that would do man or horse proud. I don't know how dogs would do pulling a sled in a more temperate climate (assuming efficient, wheeled sleds) as their inability to sweat might drastically reduce their output. Years ago I saw a man using dogs to pull a sled at about 6500-ft of elevation in the summer in Southern California (near Big Bear). I suspect it was only for short trips, perhaps just a quirky hobby.

EDIT: Oops! Should have read farther in the comments. FartyMcFarter already mentioned Huskies just a couple of comments down.
I think another part of it is actually related to how you retain people, the more people you have the more they want to feel they can advance which is made easier by giving more and more people chances to build teams and from there to expand it to ever more specific niches
Would it make sense to have such an expensive backup system for an event that happens once every few years and is fixed in a day?
Former Republicans and Democrats to form new third U.S. political party
I am a website owner. It costs me a whopping 45€/month to run. I'm paying that from my own money and I plan to keep it that way forever. Not everything that could possibly be used to earn money should be used to earn money. I enjoy respecting my users.
Does ethanol, wood and other non fossil carbon sources get a pass?
NASA’s LRO Finds Lunar Pits Harbor Comfortable Temperatures
We must be thinking of different things because imo carbon taxes are the most direct way to internalize the externality. Crude oil, coal, and natural gas now cost more, proportional to their GHG potential, and the free market figures out how to minimize the cost.

It gets tricky when importing finished goods and with non-fuel sources of GHG, but it's way less complicated and more effective than any of the other proposals.
Not quite, but there is a setting called "Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar". When set to "address bar", typing anything in that giant search textbox on the new tab page automatically switches focus to the address bar (which uses the default search engine you've configured), so you can just do Ctrl+T and type.
You are already donating via federal subsidies. They absolutely do not need your money.
TikTok is the most used app. It has more users than Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram. It doesn't have as many users as the sum of the user totals of the three big Meta apps, but WhatsApp users aren't really monetizable, and there is a lot of overlap between FB users and Insta users now.
I see a video, I think "ugh, a fucking video."

Articles are so much better at giving information, it's crazy to me that people bother with video.
> I've had people tell me it's just a church. Course they've never visited.

It's kind of the opposite. Every city of significant size in France (and more widely, in Europe) has a cathedral, and many of them are comparable to Notre Dame.
Based on you blog the city you moved to is Pine Bluff in AK with a population just short of 50k. Have you tried showing up at public hearing and gathering some support from the public?
It's well known that not everyone does best with text. It's why most college lectures have a text/notes, a lecture, and a discussion component. Some value the interactivity of the discussion, some the audio of the lecture, and others the text itself. For the longest time the internet mostly gave value to people who preferred to interact in text. Now the internet is wide open to give value to people who prefer interacting in discussion, video, audio, and more.
Probably. Thankfully RFC9210[0] now makes the musl implementation clearly in violation of spec, so their reasoning for just truncating replies is no longer relevant.

0: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9210
Cookies are actually incredibly valuable as a place to store web auth tokens where JavaScript cannot get access to your valuable user information.

No matter what happens, if I store my JWT in a no JavaScript cookie, it's safe. Nowhere else on the web is safe in that way.

I also feel like it's a mistake too Tell people to use fingerprinting instead of cookies, when users actually have control of cookies, it's almost always better for them If we use them instead of fingerprinting.
> You honestly think tens of millions in lobbying efforts cause a tens of billions return on investment? Why is it so insanely cheap?

This is exactly how lobbying works, and it's depressing how insanely cheap our countries are being sold for.

- https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/06/144737864/forg...

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/05/14/how...

For example, if a corporation doesn't like that the IRS is scrutinizing them they can just lobby congress to gut the IRS.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-to...

Think you can have an effect by contacting your elected officials? Public preference has almost no impact on what legislation gets passed. Not to mention all the gerrymandering...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Google don't know how those users interact with firefox search settings though, and without that they don't know how much it is worth to pay for being the default search.

Also, since they are funded by ads it means that they can't make ad blocking as a default feature, since then those users wouldn't be worth anything to sell. Whether you like it or not Firefox isn't free from any of this control.
Sounds like some industries would have a good reason to get particular cases deleted from Wikipedia and others written up and put in.
Worked for a datacenter once where the Checkpoint Firewall security expert had blocked outbound TCP port 53 from a major customer because "DNS will just use UDP port 53 instead and it's more secure with TCP blocked".

The customer complained that outbound email wasn't being reliably being delivered to domains that had long MX lists - eg. Yahoo, Google etc. Their sendmail queues were long and unwieldy. Didn't take me long to see that the MX list was too big to fit in a 512-byte UDP response packet and was being truncated.

Took a while to convince the stubborn security engineer that this was the problem and get him to unblock TCP Port 53 - after which, mail started flowing smoothly.
In Japan many people use flimsy locks on bikes. It is not to deter a determined thief, but to mitigate the possibility of an opportunistic "borrowing".
>I understand the nature of gang tags but I also understand that gang tags are the minority of graffiti art

Because in some rail yard somewhere lurks some really decked out train cars, you want to prevent a neighborhood plagued with gang violence from protecting their community?
Yeah, my bet is that the rarity of writes (some metadata in the video project files) will give these drives plenty of longevity.

For a use case like database transactions, log storage and frequent data dumps, the game changes quite a bit. I would definitely shy away from the QVO drives for that use case.

I've had these drives in service for about 8 months in my regular NAS, before transferring them to this new build, and they are all checking out okay still.

But this is also why I'm doing the striped mirror plus a hot spare. The only real challenge would be if the drives have a firmware issue, and they all die at the same moment after like 4 years due to a bug (like how HN's servers died...).
I feel like GNOME and KDE may have very different stories money-wise; as all the commercial "we'll sell you a support contract" players in the Linux space these days — meaning, in the last 20 years — ship GNOME-based distros.
You can have a really really good experience with how using JavaScript, but it does have very genuine uses.

The vast majority of the web really honestly doesn't need it though, like this website.
so .. if there was no money why were KDE folk acting like Mozilla ppl? :o

I mean when Plasma came around it was so full of bugs, the useless activity thing, etc, and bug repors were just ignored (or all the response was get HEAD and reproduce on it otherwise no one cares.)
Had a quick check of each q2 report, no figures in 2016

2017 20,658 43% yoy

2018 30,275 47%

2019 39,651 31%

2020 52,534 32%

2021 63,404 21%
Businesses literally don't have phone numbers that can text or email addresses, but do have WhatsApp. If there was no WhatsApp, the main form of text communication that they use would be gone.
Might as well read "Google delays making less money". Not surprising at all.
Letters to the Judge from Voyager Digital Customers
> ... be it corporations, governments, or individuals.

The emphasis on only one/some of these is a matter of country culture. Some countries have more reasons to distrust corporations far more than the government, some distrust the government and idolize corporations and individuals, and others have had bad experiences with all three.
> a linear list of apps, which of course doesn't scale well - but it's also not how GNOME did it.

Oh, sure! You're right on this one. I read the apps/places... and my brain only saw the windows start submenus. Yes GNOME was much tidier.

> hacks like Start8 exist and sell enough copies to be profitable indicates that quite a lot of users do prefer it to the newer arrangements.

People preferring something they are already used to says more about how hard it is to change habits than about how good an option is.
TSMC straight out competed the 1st movers in the chip space. They’re not dominant because American companies moved their own factories to Taiwan. It was homegrown and they really nailed it.
Human attention generally isn't zero sum like that, so I've always been puzzled by this perceived "war" against text on the internet. People who previously didn't want to interact in text probably only used the internet sparingly or only used the internet for certain tasks. I've always been great at interacting with texts but had a strict rule not to try to learn mechanical skills on the internet and checkout picture books from the library, or better yet ask an experienced friend/professional. Now I can pop up Youtube and find out how an electrician changes outlets in a home. I now strictly do more things on the internet.
Why should someone have to look at a username, bio, or life outside of HN to evaluate an HN comment's quality?

It was low effort and clearly not in keeping with HN guidelines on what makes a good comment. Even if his comment is correct it is not at all a productive contribution, when an extra 10 seconds to type "I cofounded Gnome, I would know" would fix that. He doesn't need to prove a negative to add to the conversation.

And would he really know the true reasons here? It doesn't look like he was at RedHat, was he actually involved in Gnome 3 development to know the motivations? Again, instead of a 3 word comment it would take literally seconds to have started a much better discussion. Instead this thread is filled with responses derived from the comment's poor quality rather than the actual merit that Miguel's viewpoint would have.

It would have contributed more to the discussion to say nothing than to post 3 words than derail things in this way.
In the end MS did not sue anyone... but it got what it wanted: total chaos in the Linux desktop world.

True. But it wasn’t their accomplishment. Nobody dragged these DEs into an endless war against their own users and developers. DEs were just frontend frameworks of the day.

Those skilled enough to apt-get install <lighter-de-or-wm-of-choice>, tick few checkboxes and fill menus with commands - were constantly perplexed by all the drama.
KDE was a big monorepo but SVN allowed partial checkouts.
I was in this boat. I used to call it "a Unix laptop that could run Photoshop." Also it didn't crash when I closed the lid.