skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the author of rclone I thought I'd have a quick look through the docs to see what this is about.

From reading the docs, it looks very similar to `rclone mount` with `--vfs-cache-mode off` (the default). The limitations are almost identical.

* Metadata: Cloud Storage FUSE does not transfer object metadata when uploading files to Cloud Storage, with the exception of mtime and symlink targets. This means that you cannot set object metadata when you upload files using Cloud Storage FUSE. If you need to preserve object metadata, consider uploading files using gsutil, the JSON API, or the Google Cloud console.

* Concurrency: Cloud Storage FUSE does not provide concurrency control for multiple writes to the same file. When multiple writes try to replace a file, the last write wins and all previous writes are lost. There is no merging, version control, or user notification of the subsequent overwrite.

* Linking: Cloud Storage FUSE does not support hard links.

* File locking and file patching: Cloud Storage FUSE does not support file locking or file patching. As such, you should not store version control system repositories in Cloud Storage FUSE mount points, as version control systems rely on file locking and patching. Additionally, you should not use Cloud Storage FUSE as a filer replacement.

* Semantics: Semantics in Cloud Storage FUSE are different from semantics in a traditional file system. For example, metadata like last access time are not supported, and some metadata operations like directory renaming are not atomic. For a list of differences between Cloud Storage FUSE semantics and traditional file system semantics, see Semantics in the Cloud Storage FUSE GitHub documentation.

* Overwriting in the middle of a file: Cloud Storage FUSE does not support overwriting in the middle of a file. Only sequential writes are supported.
Access: Authorization for files is governed by Cloud Storage permissions. POSIX-style access control does not work.

However rclone has `--vfs-cache-mode writes` which caches file writes to disk first to allow overwriting in the middle of a file and `--vfs-cache-mode full` to cache all objects on a LRU basis. They both make the file system a whole lot more POSIX compatible and most applications will run using `--vfs-cache-mode writes` unlike `--vfs-cache-mode off`.

And of course rclone supports s3/azureblob/b2/r2/sftp/webdav/etc/etc also...

I don't think it is possible to adapt something with cloud storage semantics to a file system without caching to disk, unless you are willing to leave behind the 1:1 mapping of files seen in the mount to object in the cloud storage.
Yes, Europe is well-known for its intense organized crime.

I doubt cannabis legalization would have much impact on this - the big organized crime control things like the cocaine & opioid trade.

Looking up the assassination you mentioned, it looks like it was perpetuated by cocaine-dealing organized crime.

Also, what is XTC?
Hire security consultant.

Make some bare minimum changes due to budget constraints.

Get hacked again.

Make a statement.

Hire security consultant.

....
Some 2kW power supplies come with weird cables to handle 110V. Slightly annoying for a 230V domestic setup but 3kW from a single socket is fine in Europe. Not totally encouraged of course.
not new at all
> it justifies restricting speech for everyone

I don't believe everyone considers pornography to be speech, let alone practices it as speech.
Many militaries, including the US, use rectangular tents. Yurts are round. The entire point is the shape difference potentially being better for wind.
This is why chatgpt is going to take over..
We only have the worker protections we have because at some point people chose to take a stand rather than just change jobs because it was easier.
I don‘t think sentience is related to intelligence at all. A giant lookup table can be intelligent and ChatGPT can be intelligent, both without being sentient. The former for sure not being sentient.

On the other hand, sentience just means having an experience of observing the world, it doesn‘t even need to include a concept of self. Presumably at least all mammals have this, for sure a dog has this. ChatGPT - probably not.
If the creator delivers value to viewers - they will find a way to pay for it. If it is just a time filler to push down audience throat using recommendation algorithms - world will be a better place without it.
That’s how the headline spins it but reading the article suggests the opposite: this is Google trying to avoid using the standard browser choice interface put into place in response to those legal requirements, which is rather less sympathetic.
I did land my first software gig from a reddit post back like 10 years ago.
Station: The everything app. A single place for all of your web applications
GP was asking precisely because it is not common sense.
The model the Netherlands use is a bad choice. They didn't legalize but decriminalized use.
Or maybe it's time to do away with SSN as a form of authentication. If there is a single person in the US that hasn't had theirs be stolen by now, I'd be shocked.

I can revoke a cert that has been compromised. I don't understand why we don't have a similar procedure set up for my PII.
Australia recently took a massive step backwards in this field, passing laws to allow courts to compel platforms to identify users who made allegedly defamatory posts. This was done under the dubious auspices of "preventing cyber bullying".

Australian defamation law is already extremely plaintiff friendly and has a significant chilling effect on free speech here, especially as against the rich and powerful who can afford to threaten lawsuits against anybody who wrongs them
>> you can mostly assume that the paper is valid

you should check this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging or P-hacking

and many more...
Eh, you don't have to smoke cannabis (although even that is much healthier than tobacco) - you can vape it, or eat it.

Vaping is especially good, since it's so efficient - a typical smoker will use between 2-4x less flower when vaping! So it's healthier, and much cheaper!
It more or less is? It's extremely inexpensive.
I'm tempted to say that, at large, every program is already a de facto toy language. Worse, they are often toy taxonomies. Nowadays, they are often toy algebras.

Which is a disservice to all of them. They aren't toys. They are models. You can either do the model at the level of the language, or at the level of the constructs the language gives you. Starting users off with fewer constructs helps them stay free of the distractions that come with them.
I use zoho with a custom domain, it's pretty good.
PornHub refused to take down child porn and rape videos (not actors, actual assaults) on their platform for years. They only took them down when the victims in the videos took them to court and the NYT published an exposé. They're in the middle of being sued right now, and the evidence that's coming to light in that case is pretty damning.

Given how poorly they've behaved so far, I don't agree that they're incentivized to play nice.
Finding out what you don't know to start learning is also a part of learning, and it is a bit difficult to trust LLMs like ChatGPT when it had a tendency to spout correct sounding answers that are incorrect, inaccurate etc.

Search engines are much better
On uncovering guides on that, specially from experts and verified sources. It's a bit of work to verify that, but then it is part of learning itself, not sure trying to punt on that to fast track your learning your whatever is going to make a meaningful difference in terms of time
Effort also follows a bell curve. You can have an incompetent and lazy doctor at the same time.
The word chat isn't skeuomorphic just because we as developers have our own jargon for interacting with computers. It's not ornamental, it helps non-technical users understand what to do with the system. Is naming the calculator app "Calculator" a skeuomorphism?

They tried completion mode, and it's there with text-davinci-003 in the OpenAI Playground *. Give it a shot. It's the same grade of model as powers ChatGPT, but it's pretty hard to get the same sort of mileage out of it.

Well, maybe you can, but I couldn't. That suggests to me, well for me at least, that the chat interface isn't ornamental and is fundamental for users getting use out of an LLM. I'm not ruling out future improvements to the technology leading to a different interface, but for now, the chat interface to a GPT model seems as fundamental and necessary as folders are on computers.

* https://platform.openai.com/playground?mode=complete
On Windows, it is normal for applications to set themselves as the default for whatever files they open. The honest ones ask for user consent first. The dishonest ones just hijack file types.

I don't see anything anti-competitive about Windows coming with a Microsoft browser or Microsoft setting it as the default as long as we're able to download other browsers and go to the system settings to change the default. Pretty much the first thing everybody does after installing Windows is use Edge to install Chrome although that's probably not necessary these days since Edge is just a Chrome reskin that is integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem instead of the Google ecosystem.
What is the scope of Cannabis related costs (such as gov covered rehab, disability from those that did dangerous stuff on drugs, O.D.'s or took something contaminated, non employment from those that cannot hold a job, what amount of social cannabis is a gateway to heavier stuff, etc.)

I know that there are many factors here - legal vs illegal (where any tax is better than no tax) clean vs dirty (where I presume the higher the legality the more likely it is safe), the social advantages and alternatives (where people who have an active social life are more productive), etc.
An experience report "On teaching how to design programs" from Norman Ramsey.

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/htdp.pdf

I am quoting section 4.1.

For over ﬁfteen years I have taught programming languages using little languages (Kamin 1990; Ramsey 2016). With this experience as background, I cannot praise the Racket teaching languages highly enough. The language design is lapidary. I was especially impressed that functions in Beginning Student Language may not have local variables. At ﬁrst I thought this restriction was crazy, but after observing students at work, I see that not only is the language simpliﬁed, 7 but without local variables, students are nudged to create helper functions—a notorious point of difﬁculty for beginning students
Overriding project.el project root in Emacs 29
They already do sacrifice convenience for profit.
Not everything is a webserver. There's a lot of software out there that wouldn't expect files to exist anywhere else besides on disk, and it's not worth fetching them all from cloud storage before you begin working on the data. It's easier just to GCSFuse a bucket to a VM and let the user do what they will. Works great for ad-hoc analysis of poorly or unstructured data.
Yeah, GPT-4 is so, so much better at not doing the things you're describing there.

ChatGPT is also much better for Python and JavaScript than Rust and Elixir, presumably because it's seen an order of magnitude more example code for those languages.
That's fine, if Edge has to do the same.
I have never seen someone burn more goodwill than this. Funny part is he would not necessarily have to even change his political views, just act like a grown man.

It’s perhaps a cautionary tale about addiction and having one’s mind warped by social media. I really think he got his brain sucked out by Twitter.
To oversimplify, epsilon is “the smallest number that still makes a difference in the given context”.
As stupid as the law is, have you actually heard about a single case this was done? I mean 10% of the population here consumes it regularly, any park, concert, heck even bigger street will have typical smell more often than not. It was legal here 2 decades ago for brief period of time.

Thats to say - police are generally fine with it. At least in big cities, expect some some random redneck chest thumping far out in the woods/alps.

And if you cause problems, expect no end of stuff cops can pull out on ya, just like anywhere else.
>Marijuana doesn't cause physical withdrawals,

This isn’t true. It was a lie peddled by pro legalization groups. Some physical symptoms include cold sweats and diarrhea but there are plenty of others and the psychological symptoms are worse (terrible nightmares and anxiety.)

https://www.healthline.com/health/marijuana-withdrawal#sympt...
> Where Haskell is worse:

> Infix operators are bad. Custom infix operators are worse.

Disagree, as a regular user of `shouldBe` and other HSpec expectations, as well as DSL libraries that rhyme like English. And even when they don't rhyme, they provide flow for defining your complex types that would be tiresome to define with verbose prefixes (Servant).

> Haskell is very indentation-sensitive, more so than Python. Slight, harmless-looking cosmetic changes can break the parser.

That's not true, Python is more sensitive to indentations.

> Lazy evaluation is bad.

> Lazy data structures are bad.

> Is purity worth it? Not really.

These are just lazy crowd-opinions.

> Every file starts with declaring thirty language extensions.

This has never been true, all extensions can be declared default global to a compilation group (library/executable/project) and never mentioned in .hs files. When you see extensions being specified in every file of online tutorials, you know it's being done so for 1) didactic purposes 2) self-contained units for copy-pasting into your editor.

All in all, the author isn't very well versed in Haskell, as it becomes clear with the provided examples of Ord instances for newtype IntAsc declarations. A seasoned Haskell programmer would almost certainly write it with `deriving via`, especially in a situation where they want to demonstrate how easy it is to get around the limitation of a single typeclass instance per type.
> How are you hiding the fact

> I resigned totally from using phone as phone itself, I have no physical number, or sim card, and I can only communicate securely using various channels like apps or emails.

Honestly, sometimes you should read the article.
Bluesky's User Safety Situation
They should've gone with Core Tall, Core Grande, and Core Centoventotto.
Yeah I normally run red lights. I’m trying to fight the system. It definitely wasn’t because I was taking the GRE the following monday and I wanted to scope the place out. I like the stress of my parents getting a ticket in my life.

Also a couple months after, then Culver City stopped the red light traffic camera program
> So.. what, you have to enter a license number or a picture of a license to let people into a porn website? How does that prove anything other than someone has access to a license number/picture?

It's still a barrier to entry and will stop some kids. Sure, kids can still get fake IDs or use their parents so this wont stop everyone but no law ever will stop everyone.

> First... how?

Don't know. Let's let the people who have the most interest here figure out a workable way around this.

> Second.. I sure as shit don't want that. Most people don't want that. Mostly religious nutjobs do, and politicians pretend like they care just to keep on good terms with religious nuts.

You may not. But I'm not a religious nut job, in fact I'm a frequent user of online porn and have for almost 20 years now. That said, I think I'm mature enough now to recognize how fucked up a lot of stuff online is. And now that I have kids, I can see that the status quo is probably not where we want to be on this issue. Not necessarily for my kids (I can put strong content filtering on my networks), but for other people who aren't nearly as tech savvy.

> I'm not advocating for social media here- but no one being objective about the subject would ever speak that way. You obviously have a "PROTECT THE CHILDREN!" mentality and want to legislate everything with no respect to anything else. At least just be straight forward instead of trying to make silly arguments.

Looks pretty compelling to me: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919760
Who is virtue signaling? The article or the flagged comment above?
Maybe not new, but not very common in the US. And further confusing given that MDMA & XTC are synonyms then.
Some people upload their entire private lives, personal and family photos to iCloud. Several celebrities were target of iCloud leaks and their nudes ended up into 'the fappening'.

Microsoft so far hasn't been hacked.
My goodness! We mustn't make it hard for corporations to use the software! And if criminals will get guns one way or another, we might as well hand them out like candy, right?

The purpose of an ethical source license is not to be a fool-proof fix for all unethical behavior. The purpose is to send a message that human rights violations are not okay, and to make it harder for unethical corporations/users to defend their actions.

If the reason someone doesn't want to use ethical software is "someone might find my actions unethical", either they're morons or they're unethical. Ethics aren't t-shirt slogans. Human rights don't constantly change with the wind. Either you are abusing people or you aren't. If you are abusing people, then you can, you know, stop doing that. Or go find different software.

Finally, licenses are contracts which are legally enforceable. If someone breaks the license, that carries the force of law. You can absolutely stop someone from using the software if they break its terms, even internationally.
Pretty much this. I cant seem to find it now but I read a study late last year that data breaches/hacks have almost no impact to the share price, no impact on customer base and consequently no impact to the leadership of a company. Thus, leadership is less likely to invest in security and privacy of their users.
When the masses are watching, there is no action that does not offend some one of them. Miscommunication is in fact still at the bottom of most conflicts
If you don't want your API to be used don't expose it to the world.

We've seen so many "If you don't want your art to train AI don't post it on the web", I think it's faire
Scott should indeed rewrite that article one day (HN: shanselman ... do you read ;)). You are right with this statement. These are two different things which often correlate but not necessarily.
nfs.

nfs as originally designed could not fail. so what happens when something that can not fail has a failure? that's right it hangs.

On the one hand this was kind of fun, network problems, the application hangs waiting on nfs, two days later you get everything sorted out and the application comes back never knew there was a problem.

On the other hand, this is the most infuriating behavior possible, everything you touch on the system starts freezing up. and you wish it would just fail so you could fix the infernal thing.

Later the "soft" option was added so that nfs could actually fail.
I think it's good, but I really wish the solution was, "We need parents to take a more active role in their children's lives and supervise their internet usage" and not, "Lockdown and de-anonymize the web."
In retrospect, after understanding more about tech history, I suspect the leadership of Steve Ballmer during the vital period in the late 2000s and Bill Gates' spending less time on Microsoft probably had something to do with this as well.

According to reported stories, Bill used to be really good at understanding how to squeeze the last drop of performance from slow hardware, a vital skill to have in the 1980s, yet subsequently became less important when desktops became fast enough. If they had Bill Gates leading the technical direction of the mobile OSes, the extra focus on speed optimization might have been what would have allowed Microsoft to do better during the smartphone wars.

All speculation though.
You're making false equations

GP: is X actually harmful?

You: a specific subset of X is, as well as entirely unrelated topic Y, don't you think? Clearly this should be prohibited
Real-time CDC-based lambda functions in Dozer
There aren't really any mainstream DRM systems that use a general computing platform TPM, precisely because they have a terrible track record of being breached.
| "A website is not a magazine, though it might have magazine-like articles. A website is not an application, although you might use it to purchase products or interact with other people. A website is not a database, although it might be driven by one."

This feels overwrought. A website is a collection of documents (webpages). That's it. A document is just a vehicle to store and/or transmit information. They can be made to be pretty and engaging to make that information easier to consume.
Earlier you were concerned about the possible risk of addiction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35788237

Are cars or guns regulated because of addiction? No. So GP compared porn to sugar, which is considered addictive and has probably more concrete evidence of self-harm than porn. I think the comparison is apt? Certainly fairer than comparing porn to driving a car or gun possession, which is sort of absurd.
Just in case your request for a non-plastic bag was a real one, you can buy large strong paper bags for yard waste at home improvement stores.

I live rurally in the us, and don’t use trash bags at all. Our trash trucks pick up the bin and dump it into the truck rather than unloading in manually. I have noticed more roadside trash on trash days, because of unbagged trash.
I suspect the effects are mental/emotional and a research team may not be conducting statistical research like group A/group B types of studies but there could be value in research on current 18-25 year olds, their social/mental/emotional well being and gathering info on how early they may have consumed it, frequency, along with rates of clinical disorders. Surveys or research on college campuses would probably be the easiest method of gathering data for that age group.
I think there is such a strong reason to be concerned about what the cannabis industry might be headed towards.

THC is potentiated by other cannabinoids (meaning that pure THC has a much weaker effect than THC blended with the other chemicals that typically occur in the cannabis plant). Now, in the US, we're seeing a new paradigm in the cannabis extracts space. Companies are breeding cannabis for extremely high THC content, extracting the THC, and then mixing it with cannabinoids from other sources. My concern here is that, now that the production process is totally decoupled from the challenges of selective breeding, there will be a huge potential for companies to push the potency further and further. You might see new chemicals developed to potentiate cannabis - the tobacco industry did exactly this for THC.

I think a lot of people agree that cannabis offers a very favorable ratio of drawbacks and benefits compared to other drugs, including alcohol. Will this still be the case as new formulations are developed?
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