skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will probably give bcachefs on one of my machines.

I started using btrfs back when it was way less stable, but that instability was more than offset by the other features.

The last time I lost a btrfs filesystem was four years ago when it was less stable, but it did not matter because it only amounted to about an hour of logs lost, and I reconstructed it in minutes. So btrfs is a must on any embedded devices. It frees me to use cheaper media, because I can have two copies of all data and metadata, and compression, and fine grained external snapshots.

Zfs is great for making big complex arrays and if you plan out how your are storing your data ahead of time. But it has a steeper learning curve and is more seperate from the underlying OS.

Btrfs fills this perfect niche for me of being a drop in replacement for ext4, and being really flexible and offering some of the nicer features of zfs. (differential snapshots, checksumming, compression)

So I'm excited to try bachefs as an alternative to btrfs.
I’ve been doing this for 8 years and I have the unfortunate pattern of quitting my job after a year or two because it goes to hell.

One job had us logging our time in two different places- we needed to log exactly what we were working on and for how long. For example, I would have to keep track of and report that I spent “1.5 hours on ticket 72926” or “2 hours on code review”. I left for a higher-paying job.

One job was a startup that was recently bought out, and the new ownership was tightening the belt. The culture/environment got worse and worse and I started getting pain in my mouse hand/wrist by mid afternoon. I was moved to a project working with tech I wasn’t very familiar with (management knew this) and hit with a PIP so I dragged the PIP out knowing the last guy on a PIP was on it for 6 months before he was canned. I quit on month 6, and that was right before Covid hit so I had a little sabbatical for a few months. Ended up getting a higher-paying job.

When I was at Allstate I worked with an actual sociopath who made everyone’s lives more difficult. He did that thing sociopaths do where they sabotage others and I was effectively demoted to some bullshit grunt work. He was eventually fired when management figured out he wasn’t qualified to be a software engineer. Anyway I left for a higher-paying job.

I love writing code, but loathe everything else. Especially the people. I’m all for being a team player, but that phrase doesn’t mean the same thing to everybody, and managers seem to think it means “do whatever I say”.
Depends on who you mean. If you need a specialist it can really pay.

If you mean McKinsey group I’d say this. In Scientology there is a deliberate policy of putting very young people in certain high status roles such as “Ethics Officer” to break down typical social patterns and particularly force the application of rigid rules that more experienced people, particular embedded in the social milieu of the organization, might bend. By dropping young random into critical spots, McKinsey can overcome the resistance to change many organizations might have for better and for worse.
I'm sure they sell your usage data even if you pay to opt out of ads as well so it isn't like you've even completely escaped by paying to start with.
I hope it keeps hitting them.
hi prakis, thanks! really needed!
They already do.

Government has found it easier to go where the people are than to try to lead the people to water they won’t drink.
I've certainly been moving back towards lighter beers... those IPAs are too strong. You think 5% to 6% isn't a big deal cause it seems so small, but it's a 20% increase in alcohol content. 5% - 7% is a 40% increase! If you're drinking pints, it's like adding half a shot to every beer you drink. It adds up quick.
This idea is taken from the Esolangs wiki - https://esolangs.org/wiki/English
In previous strikes, writers have taken on other gigs to make ends meet.

It is a historically tight labor market. I wonder if studios are worried about that.

This whole thing could just make Lyft and DoorDash in LA slightly cheaper rather than seriously hurt (already underpaid, if the guild is to be believed) writers.
Looks like a cool project, but it would be great if you could add a license to the project since under US copyright lack of a license implies all rights are reserved and not open source. If you don't know much about software licenses https://choosealicense.com/ is a helpful site.
Oh, so it wasn't just me. Good to know.
I thought Atmos is an n-channel audio encoding thing bundled with an ideal room setup.

Head tracking is interesting. I hadn't heard of it, at least as an Atmos thing.

But it doesn't seem to have anything to do the source media encoding. Head tracking seems like it would work with a mono source.
San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company says it's ceasing operations
The core problem here is that the people who matter don't want it (rural areas) and the people that want it (urban areas) don't matter (politically).

"How do we supply fibre to this population" is basically a solved problem minus the details of the population...
There are a lot of theories out there but very few real life examples.

If I tell facts about myself to 10 people, I am sure everyone draw their own lessons based on how they perceive the world. AND there is nothing wrong with that!

People creating self help content think they are creating a rule book for everyone to follow. But I know for a fact based on my experiences that there is no such thing. These articles would sound much better if they phrase it like - I had X problem, I did Y to resolve them, and since then Z is my core belief in life. That I can respect even though I may not agree.
This is why its a good idea to tell new hires to not be shy about asking "Why?". They haven't had enough time to become numb to the idiosyncrasies of the organization. At some point, you start to live with all those little problems, forget they are actual problems, and you just live with them until someone asks "Why?" and you respond "yeah, why DO we do that?"
Only until such point as they can make more money selling than they'd lose from the subset of people no longer using them.
Is Sapporo a bad company?
As I said, there won't be a Tier-1 ORM in Go. Ent or Gorm are tier-2 at best. They can get the job done, but it ain't pretty.

Any advantages of Go (and there are many) are outweighed by the fact that you have to write and read 2x more code to be equally productive as Rails or Django.
>rather than make unrelated, restrictive business deals!

I thought you wanted to put aside the superficial sports-team rivalries?

No casual consumer cares about the deals, they care about the games. If this makes better games, cool. If not, not cool. We'll see how history goes this time around.
FIOS is only available in limited areas of 9 states. It's not exactly widely available and should not be used as evidence to the contrary of this. If we're using anecdotal evidence, the only Internet I have available to me at my summer home is $110/month 25/2 DSL, without TV.

That said, you are spot on, because we are no longer tied into long contracts you can absolutely swap in and out. The problem is that they carry primarily self-created content which, IMO, is far less attractive than what the main networks were able to push out previously which further degrades the usefulness of the a la carte model.
Sometime in the 90s, probably, an unflattering portrait of the late Brendan Behan was unveiled in Dublin and was soon christened The unbearable likeness of Behan.
Are you sure?

> Since 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings alone have donated more than $2.6 million to state politicians and political parties, according to data maintained by OpenSecrets, a campaign finance watchdog. The companies have spent another $114 million to try to influence state ballot measures to legalize sports betting.

> Industry lobbyists, for example, dazzled lawmakers with projections about the billions of dollars that states could expect to collect in taxes from sports betting — projections that, at least so far, have often turned out to be wildly inflated, according to a Times analysis of state tax data.

> “It is time for your state to add iGaming,” Jason Robins, the chief executive of DraftKings, told lawmakers at a recent conference that his company sponsored. “Not in the future, but now.”

> “We needed a national strategy,” Mr. Kudon said in an interview, recalling his thought process at the time. “We need to go out there and pass 10, 15 bills and get ahead of this.”

> Mr. Kudon and his clients assembled an all-star team of lawyers and former government officials, including Martha Coakley, who had been the attorney general of Massachusetts.

> By the end of 2017, 19 states had passed bills legalizing fantasy sports. Almost all were written with help from Mr. Kudon’s team.

> Comments from the justices — including Chief Justice John G. Roberts, who in private practice had represented the American Gaming Association — suggested they were likely to overturn the federal ban.

And before you move the goal-posts, I'll note that this is just part of what is openly available. We recently found out about Clarence Thomas illegally accepting gifts from wealthy individuals. To assume that these lawsuits win or lose in a purely ethical, academic way without outside influence seems contrary to the evidence.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/business/sports-betting-l...
If only! Ads are sprawling and encroaching on ever more territory, getting ever more aggressive and unbearable.
As with all things: if you ignore all the downsides, yes, the upsides look good.
I can second that. I was an pretty good programmer as a kid. I'd go home and write whatever I could imagine on the old 286 box my parents had. I spent time in "gifted" programs at school, etc.

However, I hated math. HATED it. Did so poorly in it through high school I ended up in college in basic algebra. It wasn't until college I found out I loved math and it was only because I got lucky and had a string of amazing professors.

I suspect this is true for other subjects as well. I also hated exercise until I discovered what I liked doing. PE teachers ruined it for me. Runs were terrible because there was no cadence. Push ups were terrible because no one checked form. The entire exercise of pre-college education is a box checking effort to get you ready for the factory. Perhaps we simply need to stop having the unmotivated teach the motivated. This goes true for research professors forced to teach as well.
> My favorite part about Mastodon is the general lack of self-promotion. Twitter/Instagram...

It turns out very bad takes, self-promotion, fake guruism and rage baiting mostly exist on social media because of the algorithms
YouTube has pretty decent transcriptions with timestamps, especially for channels that bother implementing actual subtitles. They're hidden by default and not searchable on every platform, but they're excellent for skipping to the important parts.

Independent websites need to get working on something similar. Whisper is pretty good but extremely CPU intensive, but there are lower cost implementations with acceptable transcriptions out there.

I usually watch the introduction and then skip to the 66% mark, those seem to be the places the actual interesting information is stored on YouTube and its competitors.
Our Mastodon instance had a poll about what to do. I don't see this as a huge deal.

Those of use old enough remember the drama when AOL users were set free on the internet, with email and web access...
I don't think you're aware of this but the individual you're responding to has a vendetta against Nix. Watch and you'll see shallow dismissals of Nix on every thread here by them. From what I can tell, they tried it once, got frustrated which hurt their ego a bit so they take it out on every post here.

Either way I like your comment and will refer to it for my evangelizing.
> … but in most cases they’re not going to look that hard.

Depends on the meaning of “they”.
You are so invested in the cultural wars, you didn't even stop to think about I asked and you rushed to find a rationalization to explain the current situation.

Some more questions for you to ponder:

- why hasn't the right wing got out of Twitter when it was dominated by the left?

- why was Mastodon popular for the woke leftist crowd since, I don't know, 2020?

- Jordan Peterson is still complaining about YouTube censoring/blocking/demonetizing his videos. Why doesn't he make his own Peertube?
It's fairly rational when you think about it. If you act irrational, it's harder for the leaders of other countries to predict your responses to their actions. You may, for example, respond disproportionately to a perceived attack. This possibility engenders caution and hesitancy in foreign leaders.
That's because I made it up. But basically all social media and media that is gossipy as content.
"worth" is relative. Reality is nothing is worth anything; you eat what you kill.
I had to move Apollo off my home page because I kept tapping and getting annoyed. It surprised me how often I tried to tap there even after moving it.
Usually the way public announcements work is that you write one post and some intermediate service posts it everywhere for you. It’s not that crazy to add a new service, and this is probably in response to Twitter getting rate limited.
I will miss that Xmas ale that comes in a magnum. Great to bring to a holiday party.
I'm a little surprised Anchor didn't do better. I personally got worn out by all the craziness and experimentation in the craft brewing scene. Really unique IPAs or sour beers were fun for a while, but after a while, I realized I just wanted something reasonably good and predictably normal, i.e. a Normal Good Beer. It seemed like Anchor was delivering on this, but maybe there were enough other options that they just didn't distinguish themselves well enough. Too bad, considering they're a local beer with a lot of history and had a successful unionization effort.
Memory is meant to be reused, "64 bit counter will be enough for everybody" is not how systems programming works.
Could meta inject ads into the fediverse?

That would surely get them banned in a lot more instances, but I guess it would technically be possible for them to make 1 in 10 of your posts an ad.
Right. But take, for example, Warner Bros. Discovery.

$40 billion in revenue yearly, $50+ billion in debt needing servicing, annual gross profit $13 billion, Market cap $32 billion. They aren't exactly the world's healthiest company.

What's the plan? "World-class" Cost-cutting and price hikes, everywhere. Even if it's multiple 95%-finished movies (Scoob! Holiday Haunt, Batgirl), send them to the shredder for the tax write-off if their success is uncertain. Taking risks or releasing anything that possibly won't be a hit, is not affordable at the moment.

What about Disney? Disney+ is losing $4 billion every year, and now has a lawsuit ongoing about whether the projections of profitability were ever reasonable. And it has also become apparent to investors that the content deluge and the expectations it set has caused massive damage to Marvel, as well as Pixar's Box Office profits. Pixar's Elemental, for example, just had the second-worst box office opening after the original Toy Story... except that Toy Story opened with 28 years less inflation, and on a Wednesday. The good news for Disney is that Elemental has had quite a recovery, even if it almost certainly won't break-even.

Now you've got this quibble with the Writer's Guild; at the same time that making new content to prop up streaming numbers has never been under more scrutiny, and the pocketbook has not been such a concern in years. You can afford to take a break - heck, you might have even been considering taking a break anyway; and by taking a break you can theoretically win a better deal with the Writers to save even more money in the future.
I have alerted people to add one. Thanks for pointing it out!
I believe fossilize snapshots the entire pipeline configurations. It can then replay that and generate final hardware-specific binaries, not just SPIR-V, for the cache completely ahead of time.

That's much better because it doesn't matter what hardware the first person used, the data can be used everywhere.
Yuengling is not considered craft beer by a lot of people because it’s made mainly from adjuncts, in their case corn. It’s only recent that the Brewer’s Association changed the definition to include them, but most people in the industry disagree with it. Yuengling is just a cheaply made lager that’s really no better than Budweiser.

But, that term doesn’t have an official definition so they still can claim the title.
> That said, I am ok with SOME advertisements to keep the web running.

Personally, I have no problem with ad-funded stuff. The problem that I have is with the spying that comes along with online ads. I can see no way that could ever be acceptable.
I have a few Beaglebone Blacks kicking around the house and they're great. I've always felt the Beagle boards were superior to Raspberry Pis, and that the RPi mostly succeeded because of better marketing and outreach efforts.

It's nice to see the project still chugging along
What do you guys think of the approach? Is there a market for this with all the other players (Notion, Obsidian, LogSeq, Roam, Tana)?

It seems like, as a fully bootstrapped team, they focus completely on individuals (daily notes, WhatsApp integration, features for personal use) whereas many other companies that are VC-backed tend to focus on B2B and teams.
What does it matter whether it's nukes or firebombs that leveled Tokyo and Dresden? It's terrible that a couple hundred thousand people died in the bombs, but frankly, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the 85 MILLION people that died in WWII, and less terrible than the other couple of million that would have died in a conventional invasion.

I always find it interesting how willing everyone is to judge the US for dropping the bombs, and how willing everyone was to completely forget the ~ 30M people japan murdered during their colonial expansion.
Caching, mostly. My desktop has two HDDs and one NVMe. The NVMe isn't nearly that fast -- it's a 970 Evo which tops out at 1.6 GB/s -- but it's still much faster than the HDDs.

When I write data to the setup, bcachefs and ZFS had very different behaviour.

ZFS:

- Writes to the HDDs first.

- Blocks further writes until the first ones are on disk, unless I use sync=disabled. (Which I do; it's safe for my use-case.)

- Is in any case limited by how much can be buffered in RAM.

- Doesn't write to the SSD (which is configured as cache) unless it first reads data into RAM and then that data gets dropped from the in-core ARC.

BcacheFS:

- Writes to the SSD first.

- Writes to the HDDs at its leisure.

- Can be told the NVMe is more reliable than the HDDs.

- Can be configured to leave data uncompressed on the SSD (because even LZ4 is a notable drain at 1.6 GB/s), but use zstd for the HDDs (because it's async so why not, and decompressing zstd at 300 MB/s is no issue).

- Uses LRU instead of ARC, so if your working set is larger than your cache ZFS will have much better behaviour... once it's warmed up.

The bug I hit is apparently fixed now, so I'm likely to switch back to bcachefs more or less ASAP. My working set is not in fact smaller than my SSD... but I'll just get a second SSD, I think.
The initial population is "the US", not "the world".

yeah a warning about 'universal jump engine' would be good.
Timeline vs thread tree.

I strongly prefer the latter.

How about you?
human knowledge
Well, you can argue about that detail all you want but the situation still shows you that sports players are important national figures that relate to politics, social issues, and global events. They don’t live in a vacuum where we only talk X’s and O’s because they are real human beings.
Having read the book, the description DoreenMichelle responded with seems fine to me; humans have described many animal behaviors through a sexist lens, namely downplaying the role of females in evolution (did you know that female songbirds birds don't sing? Oops, turns out that's wrong- too many scientists just hadn't bothered to push against their assumptions. Also, ducks have notably fascinating genitals, as do hyenas, and mole females have extra testosterone so they can tunnel so much and amass piles of spit-paralyzed worms as baby food) to fit Victorian-era mores (it seems Darwin left out some observations about female animals due to social pressure). I keep questioning and unlearning many things I thought I knew, and it's quite a trip.
Of course, this is a double-edged sword. Enemies may be more cautious, but so too may allies. Alliance credibility is awfully weak when the sanity of your leader is in question.
I think it’s because some people wants to impose their values on others, especially if it gives them an advantage in society. Moral values are fluid and can be manipulated, facts are not. Religion used to shroud values into fictions and present them as the truth. But, because science are demystifying most of them, leaving only the moral parts, people are starting to see that moral values are relatives, not absolutes, and it involves only oneself. So now, they want to dress science as one of the other religions, something that is wrong.
That kind of drama is not new for Mastodon at all. They've had it with Gab and other places before, people will probably fall on the same lines as before.
If they got the same games, sure. Activision doesn't publish for Switch that much, but most major studios will at least consider a Switch port.
I switched to LanguageTool after Grammarly decided to block people who paid for a subscription from using their tool just because they were located in Russia ;)
I second the other sibling comment that recommends IRC, Matrix, XMPP. Discord is a walled garden and many people who want to avoid walled gardens are never going to sign up on Discord. But something based on open protocol like the sibling recommendation is more likely to see more users.
I would be surprised to see typical HNer sitting at $750k TC.
Which is why I said 90% probably don't even count.
Yes, I think most people who are paying any attention to either inflation rates or the economy know that an inflation rate of 2% does not imply deflation.

And there is no finish line, this is an infinite game, not a finite one.

Lastly, wages are also up over the last three years (that’s a huge driver of inflation!). Obviouslyy not evenly distributed, but I don’t think you can make the case that real wages are sharply decreasing (especially once you remove the weird outlier spike that 2020 gave us): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
LATAM is a total headscratcher for me.

Much of the region is socialist. Much of the region is deeply corrupt. Citizens protest endlessly against their governments for said corruption. Citizens think the solution to their problems is more government control over their economies...by the same corrupt government that they're protesting.

I think the real problem is that people in the region deeply think that their own well being is somebody else's problem to solve. Taking control over your own life is anathema.
> Speaking in prosecutor-terms, these guys more than have the means and opportunity, they need only the motive and the case is a slam dunk. The lines they walk are quite fine.

What case are you talking about specifically? You're implying there's been a crime, can you expand on this?
The HTTP/1-liness of HTTP/2
Maybe we 'll have it with CBDCs which, among others, won't be able to demonetize you for arbitrary reasons
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 – not 13.7 – billion years
What's interesting is that Threads and Day After had such impact (I saw The Day After as an 80s kid) but the things that affect me more are: forest fires hundreds of miles away, global epidemics, and water security. How banal.
Terrible metric, it can be both a great movie and so terribly in the box office, especially a Disney money that’ll be able to stream shortly for basically free.