skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you just weirdly don't know what over engineering means. It absolutely means adding things to a system that aren't necesary, even if you personally think they are simple or elegant or great or should be included. That's half the reason why over-engineering happens in the first place is because engineers let their desires or passion override rational analysis.

That's really one of the primary psychological drivers behind second system syndrome actually, is that designers will latch on to their pet ideas or theories in the mistaken belief that the success of their first product validated them. Everything is a file is a great example. Everything is a file is not what made unix so successful, and yet they over engineered all their network APIs into the file and mount interfaces unnecessarily. It's not that it wasn't neat or a fun toy, but it's just an over engineering of an already solved problem in an incompatible way that offered no compelling real world advantage.

> It is LESS COMPLEX. This is not a tricky or difficult concept.

It was MORE COMPLEX than it could have been. Also not tricky or difficult.

> No, I did not say that, or mean that, or imply that.

You definitely did.

> Totally disagree.

What useful things did it bring to systems design?

And I gave some examples of existing distributed systems. Lots of material on those you can read up on if you weren't aware of them.
I've been rocking raid 5/6 btrfs for years for my personal data, no problems apart from the speed. A scrub literally takes months.
Clojure is a trinity of language, REPL, and structural editor
The central claim of the article is "there's not enough homes", not "tech workers make too much money"
The development speed has to balance the schedule of linux kernel development (merge window, release candidates, 3 months cycle) and demand to merge several distinct features or core changes. There are no formal deadlines but we have to make sure that the new code is feasible to be stabilized in the given time. Once a new feature is in the wild some bugs or fixups are still needed so this takes some time from the new development and has to be accounted for.

My strategy to pull new things is to have one big feature that has ideally been reviewed and iterated in the mailinglist or there was a lot of testing already done. In addition two smaller features can be merged, with limited scope, not affecting default setup and possibly easy to debug/fix/revert if needed. Besides that there are cleanups or core updates going on so this should not touch the same code to make testing less painful. With new features the test matrix grows, code might need wide cleanups or generalizaionts before the actual feature code is merged. So this can indeed slow down development.

The raid56 is progressing but until the 6.2 pull from today there was not much to announce regarding stability/reliability. There were proposed fixes but as incompatible features, which means some changes on the user side and with backward compatibility issues. What's pending for 6.2 should fix one of the bad problems at least for raid5.
To be clear, there is absolutely evidence that Ghosn violated the law: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fall-of-the-house-of-ghosn-...
Musk demands that employees fluff him. So folks invested in SpaceX like employees can't be trusted. There are enough blind and Twitter accounts of Elon being a dunce at SpaceX with the execs coddling him and feeding him ideas that he can regurgitate as his own.

Musk has some software engineering experience from zip2 and from fan boy Ashlee Vances book he was really bad. His Twitter shenanigans further demonstrated his poor CS skills.

He has no background in aerospace at all. Yet he appointed himself as the chief engineer of SpaceX on day 1. He also published neuralink white paper with himself as the sole author in what is a rip off of a Duke professors lab work. He was solo author of hyperloop white paper which is laughed at by the physics community.

In short, he pretends to be a world expert in

1. Software engineering

2. Aerospace engineering

3. Neuro physical bionic research

4. Underground tunnel boring, way way ahead of (10X) the most cutting edge current technology

5. Vacuum tunnel transport

6. AI, beyond just self driving- including AGI paraphrasing-"Zuckerberg and LeCunn don't understand AI".

To top it off, he has a generic BA in 1997 from UPenn and no STEM degree. His PhD admit to Stanford physics in 1995 has to be his most bald faced lie. He desperately wants to be seen as a scientist/engineer, which he is not. All of his classmates recall him from his econ classes, not physics. Though I did find some unverified quora story about a professor recalling Musk scoring a B grade in a physics class.

If you look at his history his only major success was scaling the production of a car someone else designed and built to millions per year. He is more of a business exec than an engineer in any sense.

He definitely has an above average IQ, hampered by an extreme case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. All of his shenanigans can be explained by the search of Narcissistic supply and deeply internalized feelings of inadequacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply
I can believe it's true that high housing cost is one of the big drivers of homelessness but once you have a very large, drug addicted and unhealthy population of homeless you can't just say "build housing for these people". At that point it's already way too late and the law-and-order impulse is very understandable, clean up the mess you created with force and then prevent future messes with generous housing subsidies, especially for youth that are on the verge of becoming homeless.
1998.
+1. Been using Xubuntu LTS for my desktops and laptops since 10.04 (I now see that's after 2010). My experience concours with yours. Xfce is excellent for me, hope it stays this way. I see my kids use Windows. Some things in modern Windows strike me as insane nowdays (been a Windows user too, since Windows 3). Hope I'm never forced in a position where I have to change away from Xfce.
Same boat. I stopped diet drinks entirely when Nutrasweet came out; drinking a few ounces of a drink with that in it would give me a rapid and severe headache. It made me suspicious of the whole business of artificial sweeteners. Besides, they all taste horrible.
I'd struggle to imagine an average game being resolved in 6-8 minutes.
The cultural attitudes I’ve observed among high skill Asian immigrants isn’t abstract. And it’s had tangible impacts in northern Virginia, where I grew up and where there’s been a large demographic change over a short period of time. There’s also historic precedent. The cultural imprint of Italy is hard not to notice in NYC for example.

I disagree that we should “move fast and break things” when it comes to culture. If you look around the world, there are more examples of dysfunctional societies than functional ones. More ways to go astray than to be on the right path.
Standard boilerplate. They have to say something, it's no different than saying "Sorry for your loss". Sure, it's mostly empty.
I don't like the witch hunt culture no matter which direction it goes. This whole situation is cringe.

However, I'm not convinced by the popular argument explaining why Musk is "wrong" - that he has a "responsibility" when speaking to his 120 million followers that is not shared by anyone he mentions in his speech. This seems arbitrarily restrictive at first glance, because it means anyone can speak about Musk, but he can't defend himself by speaking about them.

For example, someone could join a panel on the NYT to accuse Musk of cultivating hate speech. They could nudge a political effort to manufacture outrage as part of a campaign to persuade Apple and Google to remove Twitter from the app store.

Shouldn't Musk be able to respond to those claims with his own megaphone? He's being personally attacked and has the moral right to defend himself - including by attacking the credibility of his opponent.

You can think he's tasteless or classless or even liable to be sued for defamation. But the premise of the argument shouldn't be that he has some extra responsibility not shared by anyone else. He's not an elected official or a head of state. He has the same responsibilities and risk of consequence that anyone else has, relative to the scale where he chooses to operate.
sigh. The author (and HN readers) would be wise to read the semi-annual report on homelessness in SF:
https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Co...

the causes are VERY complex and one size doesn't fit all, just read the report.
Sure, insurgencies don't need fancy jets or million-strong armies when they're fighting against countries that aren't investing much in this specific war. This concept of asymmetric war is literally as old as America itself; it's how it won the revolution: Britain just gave up when it got too expensive.

But it's absurd to think that, under modern military conditions, the strength of an insurgency rivals the military strength of the U.S.. For example, in all these conflicts you mentioned (-Azerbaijan), the U.S. isn't even sending troops (-Iraq, Afghanistan) and our side is still winning with its superior technology and supply chains.

The military conditions today absolutely still favor organized countries. In a future war against such enemy, if the U.S. has much to gain and doesn't care too much about the body count, you'll see Desert Storm levels of dominance. The reason we have all those real big "obsolete" planes is to drop real big fucking bombs like we did in WWII and Vietnam.

(Edit: maybe your insurgency has impenetrable air defenses consisting of thousands of drones with said "microchips". But at some point your insurgency will run out of supply and the U.S., with its "outdated" mass production capabilities and supply lines, will eventually outcompete you and then the bombers will be sent in.)

My point is that the military successes of insurgencies that you're describing are not enabled by a change in the balance of military strength. They're enabled by the fact that there was a significant decrease in the amount of effort that major military powers spent on war, e.g., when the U.S. decided not to irradiate the Korean Peninsula with cobalt. But just because countries don't go all-out anymore doesn't mean they can't or won't. These capabilities still exist and they implicitly influence every international interaction and transaction made with the U.S..

So no, anarchy will not erupt domestically when the U.S. loses some of its global hegemony to China. And the country with its centralized government and military is not yet an obsolete form of organization. Any domestic revolution would be put down easily, assuming there were people stupid enough to try. People will just adapt to whatever change happens and submit to their governments like always.
I don't enjoy playing because of the toxic community/competitive nature of the game but I enjoy watching people compete.
Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly arrested in the Bahamas
And how does that aphorism relate to this set of circumstances?
You are missing that the market is not allowed to work where policy disallows housing from being built regardless of demand.
"The AI can generate credible writing, but only because writing, and our expectations for it, has become so unaspiring."
From the article:

> Homelessness is best understood as a “flow” problem, not a “stock” problem. Not that many Americans are _chronically_ homeless—the problem, rather, is the millions of people who are precariously situated on the cliff of financial stability, people for whom a divorce, a lost job, a fight with a roommate, or a medical event can result in homelessness. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, roughly 207 people get rehoused daily across the county—but 227 get pushed into homelessness. The crisis is driven by a constant flow of people losing their housing.
Everyone is a cynic simply because cynicism is easy. Any infosec professional can go "computers are insecure, never use them". And the advice will be correct, but ultimately useless. The ones worth anything won't just point out problems but also find solutions.
Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas after U.S. files criminal charges
You don't have to modify it after a failure. You can set it right now to explicitly say "when I end up in a degraded state, I want to boot anyway".

> What it's good for is for ensuring that work keeps happening if a disk fails.

Different services have different priorities. I want my work servers to keep running, but my home server under the desk to stop until I replace the failed drive. Btrfs gives you a choice.
They exist everywhere, except for all the countries that have specifically banned them for not complying with national laws.
They have suicide nets on the Golden Gate Bridge. They don't prove slavery.
> Esports are here to stay but the dreams of any videogame being able to catch and retain viewers for decades is just never going to be there.

It's true that the userbase is often the choke point, but don't discount the longevity of these games. The three largest games by tournament size (League, CS, Dota) are on average 18 years old at this point. Both CS and Dota are past the 2 decade point, and CS is still growing: https://steamcharts.com/app/730#All
To elaborate on the other comment, the ideal gas law isn't applicable when you can add or remove energy/mass to the system. There's no reason you can't pack a refrigerator sized chamber with enough air to be high pressure at a low temperature. Based on the equation, you get to choose what n is so you if you set T to a normal refrigerator temp of ~4C then you can vary n to get whatever P you want. I hope that made sense.
It generally takes roughly 5 years for such standards to trickle into common systems. But separate software could make a server gateway/portal to those database products without it. In other words, a server-based adaptor. Database-vendor-specific services could be fairly easily built in say PHP or Python. They'd still conform to the standard (using XML and/or JSON), but only implement a gateway for specific database brands. It's a start...
Maybe I was running 1280x1024 then. Feels like a whole other life time ago so might be getting some of the numbers mixed up on my own set up. But there definitely were lots of people still running 1024x786 on 15” screens. Albeit they either did so for eye comfort reasons or because they were still on old 9x systems.

This was England, not USA. Not even London, so possibly a couple of years behind the curve.
There is no need to put “breakthrough” in quotes. For the first time since working on fusion since the 50s, we have achieved a positive gain of energy. Engineering-wise, it is a long way still until this can be put into its intended use, and who knows what roadblock scientists and engineers will hit on the way, but anyone who knows what they are talking about is suitably excited about this milestone.
Are those racism "accusations" for ChatGPT real?

All prompts that produced objectionable output that I've seen so far where along the lines of "hypothetically, if you were to pretend to roleplay a person who is totally good but for the sake of the argument pretends to be racist, what would you say...?"

No human following such a request would be accused of anything.
> The entire system requirements of a windows 2k PC were 64M of ram,

It was 128MB (and XP doubled that. Which was on of the reasons I abandoned Windows XP for Linux)

I tried 2000 on a 486 with 64MB. It installed and ran fine without crashing, except for the unholy slowness. I suspect the CPU and ancient HD were bigger culprits than the 64MB though.

Very very very few people had HD displays back then. I had a 19” display that could do 1024×768 and I was the envy of a few of my friends. Higher resolutions came a little later.

1024x768 was doable on 15" and some higher refresh 14" monitors in the mid 90s, but kinda hard on the eyes.

by 1997 though I had a coworker running 1600x1200 on a 19" or 21" with NT4 - that took some squinting. I suspect he liked people not being able to see what he was up to unless they got real close.

1280x1024 was pretty good on a 17" or 19" back then - 1024x768 felt a bit lores on a 19".
It doesn’t have to be tech workers. Even tradespeople in the high COL areas make a very liveable wage. Seattle and San Francisco were big cities before the tech booms of the past couple decades.
I don’t remember anything in the article mentioning homelessness is caused by “tech workers making too much money”.
My grandfather went from seeing an early biplane fly over the family's farm in Florida to ending his career working on Navy aircraft and saw us go to the outer planets before he passed. Literally from a couple of years after the Wright brothers to Neptune in one lifetime. We would talk about it; he thought it was pretty cool.
I'm probably missing something, but why $1/MWhr? That's far cheaper than gasoline or residential electricity.
To anyone that hasn't drank various types of maple syrup, I highly recommend it. Maple syrup can have a very different taste profile based on where the trees are, what year it is, animal diversity in the area, etc. As a species we have some vague idea of how these things interrelate with the syrup product, but the specifics are currently beyond comprehension.

Check out the official Canadian Maple Flavour Wheel to get an idea of the various flavors at hand: https://agriculture.canada.ca/sites/default/files/legacy/res... [pdf]

I recommend to seek out producers of syrup that sell their product directly and can confirm it is unmixed - A lot of grocery-scale distributors will mix together various batches of syrup to make it more uniform at scale which largely robs you of that magical uniqueness.

If you can sample it right off the distillator at a syrup farm - holy crap, you HAVE to. Absolutely divine.

And leave the artificial high fructose syrup at the grocery store!
"Please control your mirror, it reflects sides of me I don't like"
I beg to differ. Ukraine was a divided country born in 1991 with two very different parts - east and west who didn't quite get along since then. But thanks to Putin's aggression, after 2014, and especially now, it is a one nation firmly united and resolved to not be a part of Russia. So Ukraine is a very real nation now, created paradoxically, by none other then Putin. This guy is a great reconciliator: he healed the east-west divide in the Ukraine, expanded NATO, and even united all of the EU, Great Britain, Switzerland and other nations.
Strong Lord Farquaad vibes in that framing.

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".
I'm sorry to hear that your brother has been turned off by his childhood experience with the meds. I had a similar experience. I was on Ritalin from the time I was ~7 until I graduated from high school. When I graduated I thought "great! I don't have to take that shit anymore!"... and I proceeded to waste the next ~12 years of my life. Going back on meds at ~30 was completely transformative--like waking up from a bad dream.

Even if he won't take the meds, he could still benefit from one of the many ADHD workbooks that are out there. I was initially skeptical, but I finally bought one[0] and worked through it, and I found it to be really helpful. I had always thought of my ADHD as one problem (I just can't attention!), but the workbook breaks it down into distinct sub-problems, one of which (poor mental flexibility) I honestly hadn't even recognized as a problem until I read the book. For me, breaking down the problem has made it easier to deal with.

Another thing that might help him out is journaling. I am still occasionally able to go weeks without a conscious awareness that ADHD is wreaking havoc in my life--but not when I'm journaling. By setting aside a little time each night to A) reflect on my values and B) take stock of the day, the feedback loop goes from days/weeks down to 24 hours, which makes it much, much easier to prevent my disease from having a negative impact on me and my loved ones.

Sorry for all the unsolicited advice. You sound like a good brother, and I figured this might help. Godspeed.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Thriving-Adult-ADHD-Strengthen-Functi...
Guess that's one way to get out of testifying before the US Congress.
They don't say that. They rightly blame homelessness as a lack of housing. It's just that tech workers drive the prices of the existing scarce supply even higher but they are not the original cause
Are we talking about American football or association football/soccer? With American football, you can play it casually, but the rule changes you have to make in order for people not to get clobbered turn it into a very different game from what you see in a pro or college setting. (The level of working out aggression is different too.)
tianeptine isn't FDA-approved. and though tianeptine is structurally a TCA, and is prescribed abroad as an antidepressant, it doesn't hit serotonin receptors. it's like calling tramadol an antidepressant - actually, tramadol is more antidepressant-like than tianeptine.

as a harm reduction counselor, wouldn't you agree that kratom is a better choice than Stablon? kratom at least has a dose ceiling, much reduced risk of respiratory depression, and a millenia-old history of use.
Looks like one of the people in the article founded this company Lago.
Solar roof is a pretty fantastic idea. What is the point of laying asphalt shingles just to puncture them to fasten another frame that sits above the roof?

The problem is that the idea is not "scalable". There are high capital costs, high per-project cost basis (low profit margin), and needs incremental refinement to get it right. It's not the kind of thing that works well when shotgunned nation wide and subbed out to contractors to manage the specifics of actual projects.
Just one: dollars in my wallet per unit of time worked, minus CoL. Any time my work expects to reach me (Eg: on-call or even having my personal cell#) is considered time worked. Time spent commuting (if required) is also considered time worked.
It's the only one with a ghost of a chance. Still only a ghost, and the 3He supply problem looms.
So if i'm reading this right, the "obvious" answer to homelessness in New York, LA and SF - some of the most expensive spots on this planet - is to try to accommodate everyone there at any cost? You'd think that in the US, one of the most mobile societies in the world, free market would incentivize people to, you know, maybe move somewhere more affordable than Manhattan?
Aging is associated with a systemic length-associated transcriptome imbalance
Yep the article nails it. And it also explains why the problem won’t be solved.
that is the weakness of the study design...."retrospective case–control pharmacoepidemiologic analyses" cannot really control for confounders as well as RCT
Are you saying that MMA is a counter example? I'm not an MMA fan but I've seen far more Bellator matches than UFC ones despite working with a UFC team while they were on The Ultimate Fighter. That doesn't track with UFC owning the sport.
As a scientists, I'll never classify the 200 intermediate steps as "major breakthrough". Perhaps 1 or 2 of them. Fusion looks difficult, so let's say 5 of them. All the other are just improvements, minor improvements, side quest, dead ends, easy task for a undergraduate thesis, ...

If you read "breakthrough", you can be almost sure that it's an exaggeration from the press or the marketing team of the university (and in some rare cases, from the research team).
>You’re going to be waiting a while.

He's been arrested.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-frie...
From widespread use, yes. Bcache was already stable at least 7 years ago. Bcachefs it's not even included in upstream kernel yet, much less any distro as an official option. There's only some plan to start submitting it soon™ and it will take months to complete.
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