skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, imagine an evil SSD which had a 1% chance of rolling a sector back to a previous version, a 1% chance of saying a write failed when it didn't, a 1% chance of writing data to the wrong sector number, a 1% chance of flipping some bits in the written data, and a 1% chance of disconnecting and reconnecting a few seconds later.

There are stories from the ZFS folks of dealing with these issues and things ran just fine.

While not directly involved with ZFS development (IIRC), Bryan Cantrill was very 'ZFS-adjacent' since he used Solaris-based systems for a lot of his career, and he has several rants about firmware that you can find online.

A video that went viral many years ago, with Cantrill and Brendan Gregg, is "Shouting in the Datacenter":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPozJFC8g0 (making of)
there's a difference. unminified refers to a program doing that, using single letter function names and such, but the underlying logic is unchanged. code golf is different from that because the human can make changes to the underlying logic if it saves some lines of code, so long as the output is the same.

more advanced minifiers do that as well, but the point remains, as a historical artifact because until we have AGI, there's still a difference between if a person did it vs a human
I actually often add GPT4 responses into a markdown page and build a whole library of “how to do x”
It is definitely PaLM 2:

Versions
Resource ID Release date Release stage Description
text-bison@001 2023-05-10 Public Preview Quality improvements and restage -001 as the first stable base model release

https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google...
And yet, even with QUIC and a brand new Google phone on a Google wifi network and a Google Fi cell connection, I still can't walk away from my house and have a video call migrate from wifi to 5G without the audio glitching and dropping frames.

All the mobility benefits of QUIC mean nothing when the rest of the software stack isn't designed to let it work.
Google colab notebook with the steps up to 3d rendering: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1sV0m1AyIPSsClDgB8ZZ...

(from the penultimate paragraph)
I just don't get why people in php use lazy comparison when you know that "0e4"=="0e5" in php.

and yes, Laravel use lazy comparison (hundreds of times). And yes at least three bugs where caused by this use.

see: https://github.com/laravel/ideas/issues/698 for why I'm a bit grumpy with php ecosystem
not mine but wikipedia definition. you can fight with the wikipedia guys about yours. good luck with it.
I wish we could start over and redesign everything from Ethernet up to TLS with the lessons we now understand. So many layers could be merged, security could be so much easier, IP addressing hassles could be unnecessary.

But all the stuff that seems obvious now couldn't have been learned without
the decades of kind of terrible hackery that is OSI and the associated awful stuff like DNS.

I'm not sure what the moral of that story is or how anything could have been done any better. Maybe the software APIs could have been less coupled to the actual protocol, they could have designed things so app code had to be agnostic to the number of bits in an IP address, etc.
How should we treat people who have chosen to post their political opinions on the Internet, when we strongly disagree with them?

Isn't responding or critiquing the ideas in a podcast, Reddit thread or a tweet exactly how a) the Internet, b) free speech, and c) liberal civil society are supposed to work?
No, they don't make an A4-sized e-reader, they just falsely claim to (as does Fujitsu with apparently the same display). Per their specs, the 13.3 inch screen is 202mm×270mm.
Woah thanks for sharing! it works although the total silence is a little unnerving
Performance and security may be my primary reasons for using an ad-blocker, but I must also admit that I would not remove the blocker even if those issues were addressed. On the rare occasion that I have used a computer without an ad blocker, I have found that advertising is so intrusive that I would rather not use the web.
A lot of opportunists in Brazil want the Internet to be a place for against-the-law speechs. It is not censorship if a court rules a social media company to delete pages/messages/whatever that violates any law.

Telegram and Google, as companies, published misinformation. They did not publish their opinions or provide alternatives. They misrepresented the current law project.

You are free to publish your opinion on a movie, your code, your own selfie. You are not free to publish bullying content, fake content, or anything that harms others.
Thank you for putting this out there. I do a thursday zoom "TED talk" on the topic of mental health, and when I read an article like this it makes me feel like I missed someone. My biggest goal is to give people tools so they do not get to the point where everything seems so dark that escape is the only option.
#1 tool is gratitude-and then action to show it.
I recall the original Command & Conquer and dialling my friends phone number to play 1v1 multiplayer.
I think the generalization is more minute than that. Take mathematics for example, we can write that down and so we have. A lot of people “hate” math because they understand math as the shuffling of symbols. They hear “math” and think “arithmetic”. Math appears a lot like some puzzle-game because when they read textbooks they see these symbols being shuffled around which produce exact answers, like 4.8473. But mathematics is about expressing ideas which can produce answers for specific problems, not specific answers in general.

It’s the allegory of the cave all over again, mathematics has become a shadow of itself in many people’s minds. Instead of a tool in which to express ideas, it just became stuffy definitions and arcane symbols which produce hard yes/no answers. Why? Because when those ideas are expressed by writing down the mathematics in textbooks, they are expressed in arcane symbols and stuffy definitions which have exercises that have hard yes/no answers.
These “as a super important hiring manager” brags are quite boring to read
Totally agree but the tech industry is extremely capital and relationship-oriented so I don't see a way out of that. I just wish this fact would be better advertised so that people wouldn't waste their lives in this industry.
I have basically the opposite problem. I've been looking for a filesystem that maximizes performance (and minimizes actual disk writes) at the cost of reliability. As long as it loses all my data less than once a week, I can live with it.
BleepingComputer article might have been better to share but I can't edit my submission:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-greatness...
> The whole internet is bloated with ads right now

Internet? I think you mean everything. The whole everything is bloated with ads right now. Look around you, I bet you can see at least a dozen brand names without even leaving your chair.

People who work in marketing and ads should quit their jobs if they care at all about society, but of course they don't or they wouldn't be in marketing and advertising. Alternatively, we should just stop putting up with their bullshit because they have a long history of abusing every inch they are given.
Openly making statements is different than subversive methods of manipulation. Telegram wasn't lying either, it's just an opinion
awestroke asked for evidence, but your long comment provided none
I'm especially angry about the insinuation that the problem is false research not from pure research institutions. As if there isn't a huge pressure of publishing as much as possible especially at these institutions. It's the places where researchers under pressure can hide behind these stupid assumptions that will be the actual problem, not a few randos undertaking the work of publishing without a .edu email.
Better: a wireless printer that doesn't complain that you're out of cyan.
Yes, but... today, if you don't need more than carry-on luggage and are ok with not getting anything to eat during the flight, you are able to afford flying, let's say, from Munich to Barcelona for a weekend, which you maybe wouldn't have been able to do when "paying more for a more appealing default option". Of course it's debatable if encouraging such flights is good for the environment, but purely from the perspective of having more travel options, I would say it's a win...
You say it’s more complicated than PG’d claim, but your “just a tool” narrative is a classic oversimplification of technology’s relationship with man.

A tool is an extension of man, and it is not additive as you suggest, even for “talented writers”. A tool interacts with man’s mind and body, and society’s fabric, “adjusting the sense ratios” of man, to use McLuhan’s phrase.

“Just a tool” is lazy thinking that is most effectively used to stifle debate about technology. This has happened with the typewriter, the gun, the computer. For a more sophisticated engagement with technology, see Neil Postman, Ivan Illic, Marshall McLuhan, even Frank Herbert.
I once worked in an old building in London where the fire escape was partly constructed of wood, and also had the lightning conductor attached to it rather than the building itself. It would probably have done pretty well on the "fire", but not so well on the "escape"!
Will Ms. Jankowicz be liable for defaming the people she called "Russian influenced trolls" and so on?
Almost every PHP site also uses JavaScript so I'd say not
I've never seen a YouTube original I liked. It's all garbage.
> Productivity (of something...) is ostensibly the intent of a capitalist venture, but the owner and ultimately prioritize anything they prefer. This is a problem for any hope of rational practice.

While that is true, the whole argument against metrics as goals is that they decrease productivity, which goes against a common interest of both capitalist and communist societies.

Productivity as a goal simply makes sense in the real world, regardless of whether there's an owner who is chasing profit, or a worker collective who has to meet their planned quota for the planned economy. The state of facts is such that binding metrics to rewards is harmful to their overall reliability, regardless of which economic system it's happening in.
Exactly this.

The only point i would add is the long ads that require an action to skip (30+ minutes).

More recently I have also been getting clear scams as ads and no amount of reporting can get rid of them.

These are the reasons I spent the time blocking the ads on all devices. Maybe Google should fix their ads to make them less awful instead of starting the death of Youtube.
You see no problem in companies letting people use their platform indiscriminately to coordinate school shootings, riots and extremist groups?

> Protests shouldn't be "prevented".

Are nazi rallies or KKK gatherings categorized as "protests"? The people you mention, a minority, spent 3 months rallied across the country asking for military intervention, the opposition to be arrested or killed with nothing more than hopes and dreams because their candidate lost.

> camera footage showing Lula's people assisting the vandals

I'll bite. Where is the source?
If so, then what would really be revolutionary would be adding touchscreen to Macs.
>IPv6 is waiting on stubborn cloud networks and CDNs. Most of the edge now has it.

Depends on the ISP. E.g. a lot of Verizon/Frontier FiOS residential customers don't have IPv6. Google statistics say USA is ~47% IPv6. Frontier FiOS is less % than that.

Example recent thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/frontierfios/comments/v9azjj/june_2...

Google's statistics: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
It might! I don't know what's in Apple's closed source blob that implements the "am I being stalked" behavior and what parameters actually trigger it. Maybe you need to rotate between 60 tags, or 600.
This whole time I thought my value was in the service and expertise I offer. Little did I know it was really my physical proximity to people I don’t even regularly interact with.
RS?

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/
Non-paywalled (Different/AFP) source:

https://www.macaubusiness.com/brazil-court-makes-telegram-sc...
I am amused when people think conservatism is about keeping the status quo.

That would mean if they suddenly came into power in SF they would fight to keep the doom loop stabilized.
Socrates (for it is he who was opposed to writing) did not appreciate how the act of writing exercises our abilities of both memory and reasoning, at least as much as speaking and certainly more than listening. Someone who has written extensively on a topic is almost certainly well-versed in it, and more so than when they began (even crackpots are generally masters of their own flawed theories.)
i agree with a lot of that. i run a Pleroma server (less overhead than Masto), i think the winning combination will be the group that comes up with a universal baseline for online behavior. the intellectually dishonest purveyors of hate speech have been making a lot of inroads in the fediverse and in part (imo) due to the fact that we don't have a good way to trust other admin's decisions to block/ban servers and users and relay those quickly.

Dorsey isn't really "actively" in any of this process or direction beyond the initial setup of things at Blue Sky btw. Jay is doing a great job and a lot of the "protocol" hubbub is actually some unfortunate (in this scenario) nomenclature and less actual new protocols.

i'm for whatever thing(s) allow for a healthier online experience for folks and whatever keeps _us_ from being the product.
Here's my estimate:

https://lifearchitect.ai/bard#dataset
Because it's probably what fucked her up. These cults are immensely damaging to people under the best of circumstances.
You can get a business account with Mouser/Digikey and then they just become another distributor. Your login gets discounted pricing (it's not much though) which is good for quick prototypes, and you can sometimes get an account manager to negotiate and troubleshoot directly.

I'm not sure how you qualify but you get to the point where you just RFQ to an email address and don't use the webpage. You don't need to be a $million+ purchasing outfit. They'll also schedule orders etc. at least I've seen Mouser do it.

Mouser is quite good on automated notifications - most importantly if anything in your order has changed (99% of the time it's a delivery date). Most of the other distributors do manual back orders in excel.

But their website is filled with annoying quirks. Here's such a basic use case:
1. Bring up a list of items from a search, say 100nF 0402 caps.
2. Sort by price low -> high (you'll see the icon, click that it'll work)
3. Now type in a quantity of say 100000 and find the best price on this part... yes the icon disappears when you fill in the quantity input field.

Download the CSV doesn't give price breaks.

Amusingly I just went to the digikey website which implements this functionality and.... something is broken. Can't even apply a quantity to a search. Also getting some strange loading page with a countdown clock... anti bot?
You know, if someone would constantly burst into rooms shouting at the top of their lungs for you to give them money, we'd beat them with a wrench. Yet this same behavior is not only tolerated and excused, but encouraged, when done in the name of business profits.

And we wonder why society is so fucked up.
I know you are joking but I don't get the longevity of this joke. I've been running Debian with XFCE for more than 12 years, on PCs custom-built and branded, and on laptops both of enterprise quality and retail junk. Heck, our entire B2B commerce business runs the same setup, with far fewer (read: zero) issues compared to when we were using Windows 98, 98SE, XP SP3, 7, Vista, and 10, at which point we declined Microsoft's telemetry and ads and forced OneDrive shenanigans and promptly switched everyone to Debian+XFCE.

99.9% of the time, modern Linux works out of the box everytime.

So I'd say it's on par with Windows versions, except I practically never need to download install drivers, or to face ads.

Maybe I'm on a different planet on which the year of the Linux desktop has arrived for longer than a decade.
QUIC is not without defects, I'm with you there, but almost almost any "web-scale" company dealing with a lot of cellular connections would disagree with your statement. Uber, Verizon, Cloudflare, Meta, Fastly, among others, some of which have reported very significant latency reductions.
Here is the complete bill, it's last version.

https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra...

But probably, a new version will be approved, that hasn't been released officially. You can check it's status here: https://www.camara.leg.br/propostas-legislativas/2256735
Sounds like a 'cheap' way of asking to whole workfoce for voluntary redudancy to me.
Cue MongoDB memes
Actually, I think we knew ye quite well and rejected ye out of whole cloth.

Second Life has been around for 20 years and is niche. DisneyQuest closed and that was Disney. Google Daydream was a nightmare. Etc.

There is no use case for a metaverse and connecting disparate ones across different vendors won't happen because each vendor is disincentivized to have competitors interchange players or data with its space.
It also acts as a great self-selector to filter out users who pay allegiance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blueliteblock...

Example: https://i.imgur.com/vgzTo5P.png
(i'd add that as someone who's made most of my living developing integration software - i'm hoping once things are cemented a bit that there's a non-ridiculous path to having a 2-way relay for sites that want it)
From day 1 the intention of pakistan was to form a true ideologically religious state based on islam.

Iran and others are muslim countries no doubt but they aren't melding national interests with islam at any significant degree.

Sure, 'no true scotsman' and your point of enforcement. I stand by my point.
> He didn't say parts of it, he said much of their military.

He was clearly talking about there overall armed forces, but you seemingly want to interpret his words in a very narrow view.

> You've mentioned 35.5k-43.5k KIA losses for Russia up to March this year. Are you suggesting that these numbers comprise the complete ground forces?

35.4k-43.5k KIA is like ~130k-~160k casualties, thats a huge lose, for any army.

But no, my assessment of the state of the Russian ground forces is more based around their use of equipment and their equipment losses.

The losses are staggering you should see them for yourself.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

> I thought that was a loaded question you weren't expecting answers for. Is there anything in T62 that make it, in your opinion, unworthy on the battlefield? It's another piece of useful artillery equipment after all.

But it's not being used as artillery its being used as tank. Indirect fire its not a bad idea but as a tank its going to melt in the face of anything at or never then a T64.

> If the things you say are true and they no longer produce it, why not using the existing stockpile that had been taking space and maintenance effort at past peace time?

Well for one its crew is different to anything the Russian forces use now because it doesn't have a auto loader, its a cannon is too weak to really take on anything newer then it.

> Is that the only model of tanks they've been using since, well, the time you claim their ground forces were completely destroyed?

No but T55's have been spotted getting moved around so theres hope yet.
Be careful with these. My friend had to see a specialist after extended use of mynoise because it made his tinnitus much worse to the extent that it was almost intolerable.
Not being able to offer Bard in their national language seems less of a conspiracy theory. I think most EU countries would be offended.
My beef with Youtube is that it keeps showing me the same suggestions over and over. I do use an ad blocker, originally installed for security reasons.

I have found a lot of good content on YT, but lately, the suggestions are just terrible and the "hunt" is taking longer and getting frustrating - sort of like Netflix, which I cancelled. I'm guessing they keep suggesting videos that make the most money for Google, even if I don't want to watch it. If the content suggestions on YT were better, I might consider subscribing to it, but with the way it is now, ads will definitely push me to leave.
Yeah - so much of writer's block is looking at an empty page/screen. It's very often easier to fix something bad than to write something good.
As an educator, I wholeheartedly agree with the author's points. The act of writing our thoughts allows us to make connections between concepts in our mind that we wouldn't otherwise make, often reorganizing and assimilating existing concepts in the process. Similarly, rewriting written notes (e.g., from a class) is an incredibly effective study technique.

Writing blogs, detailed emails, and articles also provides these same benefits. If we rely on others or AI to write them, we lose this learning benefit.
The $250B government tax revenue will reimburse them if it fits under the definition of reparations?
The thing is, it does seem like it's gotten any better in therms of resolution over the past couple of years
Since Windows XP was introduced we keep hearing about valid reasons to exodus into Linux, yet, 2% and counting.

Yes, there is ChromeOS and Android, which have won their space, exactly because their use of the Linux kernel is an implementation detail, not what the general public cares about.
The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”
Not directly related, but a singer from a death metal band I was playing in has once had an idea: a death metal drum machine.

In essence, it would be a box with a crank that would produce a blast beat whose tempo would be proportional to the speed of cranking. Something like a blast beat music box.
It's not identifying if you already knew they went from city A to city B.

Yes, you might know which specific person took that journey, but you have prior knowledge.
I used to play in bands and go to a lot of concerts without earplugs (mistakes of youth). I’ve had tinnitus for almost 20 years, and I am so used to it now that it’s a non issue. That said, it drove me crazy in the beginning.
Things only change one death at a time. Once the progressive boomers who have all the power are gone, a new strategy can be tried.
This reminded me of a recent post of mine:

Control is an illusion.

But that also means that illusions can be used to gain at least some (sense of] control. See that mismatched bracket? I did that, despite the Universe screaming with a thousand voices that I shouldn't.

This text was written by a humane life form. #NoAI