skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd argue (being from there, and going back nearly every year) it's far safer on average than anywhere I've lived in LA / the US

Israel is much safer overall than the US.

Neither Israel nor its American proxies and supportive lobbying groups particularly are big on highlighting that fact, since the misperception is politically useful.
what about your neighbours?
The bit that everyone likes to leave out about the 3 months at 40C retention standard is that it applies to drives at end of life, with all their rates write endurance used up. Drives that are not so worn-out have much longer retention—and a drive used only for cold storage of infrequent backups would hardly use any of its write endurance.

The recommendation to have the drive be powered up for two weeks after taking it out of cold storage is only so that the drive can do it's low-priority background checks of data integrity. If you do a full scrub of your data from the host system, you don't need to worry about that, because you'll be giving the drive all the same opportunities to discover bitrot.

None of the above changes the fact that SSDs are still quite expensive for cold storage purposes.
In the long term, they will lose out. It's like Tinder vs your local dating pool. Why limit your options to a very small subset of people, when better options are just a tap away (ssh tunnel away)?
> That's generally boorish

True. But trying to persuade me of their position without being willing to address my counterarguments is also somewhat boorish. (Though I suppose the HN guidelines would encourage me to not reciprocate in kind...)

> and can make for short uninformative conversations.

If they won't even address my arguments, that's already an uninformative conversation. I wouldn't have a problem with it being a short one, too.

> If someone evades your argument multiple times, like it or not that's an answer.

Yes, it is. And quickly ending the conversation after they have ignored two or three chances seems, to me at least, like a good way to avoid wasting my time. Politely ending it would be probably a good thing, but I often fall short of that.
Most office workers really aren't supervised unless you count a manager glancing across the open-plan office to see how many butts are in seats.
Doesn't really track. Stellarators can operate above the Greenwald density limit. They just have shorter confinement times for a given field strength and major radius.

http://fusionwiki.ciemat.es/wiki/Greenwald_limit
Interesting. While 80% said they would approach it differently, 66% felt they would have improved layout and space on-site and 52% would have improved amenities. That tells a different story.
> Even giving it authority as a speller is suspect, since as an American, I can say with confidence that Oxford doesn’t know how to spell.

I had to give a chuckle at that, but seriously, the way in which words are spelt (ahem) in the OED is genuinely interesting! They use both -ize and -ise, for instance, choosing one or the other based on each individual word's etymology.
I'm going one-up you in craziness, and suggest Chelsea Troy's idea[1] that you don't bother commenting - after checking out the PR locally you just make the changes and then update the PR.

Sure, there's still discussion when needed, but otherwise take it as a collaborative effort where you're asynchronously pair-programming.

[1] https://chelseatroy.com/2019/12/18/reviewing-pull-requests/
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>Perhaps they meant prison. This jail time is just in-lieu of bail until the actual trial.

SBF is going to prison.

What does he have left to exchange? He has no friends but his parents (who will most likely end up indicted as well from the looks of it).

The feds will hang him up high as an example of doing something, while Goldman and BofA get rich on the exact same market.
The CLA was put in place in December of 2018 [1]. Presumably contributions made before that were under inbound=outbound terms [2], meaning the contributing author licensed their exclusive rights under MPL 2.0, which is a file-based copyleft license. (see the chart at [3]).

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-a-cla

[2] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility#Compatib...
I suspect it comes down to the word "intent" in part a.

It seems a bit weird to require intent but also claim incompetence as not a defense.

> Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.
In what ways does Mozilla try not to upset Google?

They do implement ad blocking/anti fingerprinting. Mozilla obviously has to continue setting Google as the default search engine.
It's a small point, but we bounce ideas around just fine on my fully remote workplace.
The scalability characteristics for HNSW haven’t been properly benchmarked yet. If it’s anything like ivfflat then it should be reasonably predictable based on memory size: https://supabase.com/blog/pgvector-performance

I think 100TB is getting more into “sharded postgres” territory
Hmmmm, I really don't think this is true all (or even most of) the time. It probably depends on the task at hand, but if leading small teams of all kinds has taught me anything, it's that I'd prefer a tiny team (or even one person) who is at least above average competence, and is reflective of the work they are doing, than several people of average or below-average competence.

It's eye opening how many people are outright lazy with thought, don't care about the joy of doing something well (apart from whatever extrinsic rewards are attached to the work). Many team members can actually produce negative value.

It seems that people who are really capable of (or care about) conscientious, original thought in problem solving and driving projects forward are few. Count yourself lucky if you get to manage one of these people, they can produce incredible value when well directed.
I think you're getting the idea -- both your points kinda highlight that this is something that companies want, but are not really getting.

As for the market, various sources have the "enterprise software market", whatever that means, at somewhere around $100 billion to $300 billion. We also see companies trying over and over to do this kind of thing. The demand is clearly there.

Certainly the mandate "help run the business" is a wide concern, and that's an OK working definition of "enterprise", and what most existing solutions are trying to do. There are hundreds of interconnected concerns, lots of things to coordinate, etc.

There are other wide concerns, though. Almost anything in engineering and science. Take, for example, the question "how can we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions?" which a lot of companies are asking (or being forced to ask). If you wanted to build a SAAS product for helping companies reduce their GHG, you've got a wide problem, because there are a thousand activities that can emit GHG, and any given company is going to be doing dozens of them at once. But each company is different. Each state and country thinks of things differently. You might not even have the same calculations state-to-state.

Hard problems in science and engineering are just naturally cross-disciplinary, meaning your system has to know a lot of things about a lot of subjects. There are just thousands of little complicating differences and factors. If you're trying to solve a problem like this, absolutely do not de-normalize your database.
Thanks for sharing the introduction, I find this topic really interesting & previously had the thought that I would love to just download it to my brain. (Unfortunately I couldn't find any sites or open directories with the correct .zip file)

So, in case it's helpful to anybody else, I asked ChatGPT to help me explore a bit of graph theory based on my experience with mind mapping:

> I am used to making mind maps. What are some concepts related to mind maps that might help me expand into graph theory? What about the fact that there's always this central node? Is there counter-theory? Is there a name for this type of graph, and are there associated weaknesses and strengths?

This turned into a really fascinating discussion of sorts, based on quickly identifying and remedying some early gaps in what I know about graph theory. It was a lot of fun.
Yeah, something like that.

If Google adds WEI to chromium, will wpt.fyi flag it as broken?
If I hit it big, I'll make an apartment with an attached datacenter and a quarter rack available for colo per unit
I bought the house for that little box!
As I've written below[1], I agree consent is not an immutable fact of nature, but a human construct with arbitrary boundaries. Most of your questions are answered already by the legal system which defines the concept though. In order to consent (say to sign a contract) you have to be of the age of majority and not ruled legally incompetent by a court of law. So basically yes, an age thing, and the "who" that decides is a court of law.

All I'm suggesting is that this liberal imposition - that relationships between adults (as above caveated) must be symmetrically consensual - should take precedence over how good, right, just, harmonious, or fair said relationships are perceived to be. If we think we can make something more fair but less consensual, we should not.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081906
Funny I said the same thing and it didn't go over so well. Phrasing, I suppose.
I am trying to use tailscale for personal project as mesh overlay network, but it is annoying. When you create images in packer, you need to remove state, otherwise nodes would fight over the same IP when created from the same snapshot. AuthKey expiration for infra is 90 making this another secret that you need to manually rotate. When running "tailscale up" with --ssh it hangs ssh connection making Ansible scripts brittle. For non-tech use, the android app is pretty useless. Taildrop is weird, I would like to have NFS over tailnet that you can easily share with others.
It seems that everyone wants to build VPN solution to sell to enterprises. There is probably more profit than building opensource mesh overlay :(

Given all that, I think that narrowlink architecture is flawed and worse than tailscale. Narrowlink gateway is both single point of failure and performance bottleneck (looks a bit like Cisco AnyConnect). Wireguard is very nice and modern protocol, narrowlink would need to implement own custom alternative over https. It would be interesting to see how both perform in very large topologies.
there's no kill like overkill! i thought this was going to be pretty meh, but indeed it was amazing. my favorite:

> Raspberry Pi 3B+ NTP server with GPS/PPS time source

Just one though? I have a triple LeoNTP device. Terminated my own cables to outdoor GPS antennae. Been working on designing my own but it's slow going.

I also have UPS power routed elsewhere in the house. But just to 1 room, where I had a powered ISDN phone. I couldn't find an ISDN phone I liked that took power from the line, if that's even a thing. I don't remember as that's ancient history now and I don't use the remote 240v power at all, just PoE everywhere.

The one thing missing is EPO (Emergency Power Off). I built my data closet into the garage, stealing part of a garage bay. It is the size of a smaller sauna room. I have an EPO on the outside, wired to the UPS.

I added card access to the data closet last year, because I also added it to the outside entries of the house, and I had one controller port left over.

I don't have nearly as much switching, and no fiber. But many servers. I would buy an 0xide rack if they weren't $500k.
Comcast is available, but it follows the same path as AT&T under the trees, so I figured that makes no sense

Also, the less money I give to Comcast the better.
The simplest and probably the most accessible color picker is this:

<input type=color>

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
I don't either but certainly it's a big part of it since I rarely have seen a US household without some sort of cooling and of course heating. Add to that we have larger houses than Europe, like larger.

A part time job of mine is helping a buddy's solar company and right now I'm working on a project, for an older couple who are building a 4200sqft house with 4 mini-splits, 2 electric boilers that switch to gas when it's cold, 3 refrigerators, 2 deep freezes and a potential future electric vehicle. There's a pool too but that changes the dynamics of the system greatly but I don't design and quote that unless they really want to spend $$$.

I'm glad they're deciding to go solar but I see this so often it hurts. An older couple without kids in a giant house in the desert that requires immense heating and cooling wants some solar to help offset their gross over consumption. Rather than scale down to a, still large, 2000sqft high efficiency house they go with cheap construction so they have more than enough space for the one time a year all the family shows up. Oh yah then they fill it with crap that's rarely if ever used.

There's no judgement thrown to the customer as this is the reality of the world we live in, but I see this as seriously problematic. Especially going forward as these older individuals die. Can a family of 4 or 6 afford that place? Do they even want a place so large which requires such an inordinate amount of maintenance? Three 1400sqft high efficiency homes could be built on approximately that same space bringing down the price of the home, reducing maintenance and providing more than one couple space to live.

Sorry, that was more of a rant than anything. Europe is not the promised land but the US really has some screwy priorities when it comes to housing.
The opinion that I believe s most close to the truth re: favors for donations, is that politicians value constancy and dependability more than short term cash injections. One needs to be playing the game for decades before you can start earning 'get out of jail' type favors.
I remember reading how some scientist or inventor had alloyed iron/steel with various other metals and found a lot of samples rusted, but one with chromium was very shiny and didn't rust.

Also the original "point contact transistor" was pretty crude and impractical.
Because a lot of people in SV agree with him. There’s a huge dark side to Silicon Valley.
Closing down an icon: will Arecibo Observatory ever do science again?
It's the wireless band
Making something should be illegal easier and more reliable isn't much of an improvement.
No, but there should have been one when Microsoft infiltrated the standards committee and forced the Open XML (OOXML) "standard":

https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-29194320070828

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-standard/micros...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2548569/ecma-approves-...
Huh? Both have command line interfaces.
Virtual reality headsets are vulnerable to hackers
Squeeze what you've got, as hard as you can, then realize after squeezing for a while that if you squeezed here, here, and also... here, by changing how you think about a problem, suddenly you've got a lot left to get.

I spent two or so months optimizing the crap out of a majestic monolith and went from under 2K RPS when the PM thought, and the team repeatedly reported, that everything had been squeezed as much as it could, then changing the hardware, which got us to less than 3200 RPS, then to 4K RPS after just a few days of tinkering, to 10K RPS with a bit more effort, to 40K RPS a week or so later. "Oh that's, enough, we don't need to go further." I then changed "quite a bit of stuff" which then jumped us to 2M+ RPS, and then a month later, a consistent 40M+ RPS with low latency on a single box and there is still some juice left in the box should we want to go a little harder.

Right now we're not even touching 5% of the capacity of what we can pull from, it was that much of a change, simply by changing how we think about the problems. Moving from the old server to the new server let us jump from around 1800 RPS to a hair over 3000 RPS. Adding more hardware didn't fix our underlying problems. Adding more complexity was just punting the problem down the road. But changing how to think about the problem? _That_ changed the problem. And changed our answer to the problem.
That's what I was wondering: if heat -> steam -> turbine is close enough to the theoretical upper limit and you get diminishing returns by other means.

Still, it seems very indirect. Like generating solar power by using a parabolic mirror to heat water instead of photovoltaic panels... but of course I just found an example of doing that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_trough
> I find it funny that when people were required to be home, employers talked about what great productivity they were getting with people at home. Then when it isn't required anymore, they want everyone back in the office for...productivity.

The decades of evidence that open office plans are utter shit for productivity already proved that the emperor wears no clothes and they have no idea what makes for better productivity.
Lol, I hear you on that. I’m fortunate to not have Comcast as my second option.
I get where you're coming from but we might also be like ants walking over an iPhone, wondering where the vibration is coming from. They might eventually figure it out, but if so it will be after an extremely long time, and they probably should better focus on other things at this very moment if they seek enlightenment.
It won't hurt but I don't think most places will care for it that much either. I work in gov space and we maintain some RH presence so a RHCE is regarded as nice to have but it won't have much weight after initial resume screening.
I think all the record-setting high capacity drives have moved over to EDSFF E1.L "Ruler" form factor, though I'd also expect 64+TB drives to be offered in EDSFF E3 sizes that are the more direct successors to U.2/U.3 2.5" form factors.
It's also naive to assume that optimizing for productivity is some goal we should work toward when zero reward structures are in place for it. The thing to optimize for is just enough productivity.
>Why limit your options to a very small subset of people, when better options are just a tap away (ssh tunnel away)?

Employers like control. Relationships (your example) are pretty similar actually.

Why would someone settle for a partner below their standards? Simple, they enjoy having control in the relationship. Why would an employer settle for a sub-optimal employee? Dependability and reliance.
He attended MIT.
Back in 2014 I met with Tim Berners-Lee himself, and his SoLiD team, and proposed to join forces. Here is the pic: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Rp4Su5Z2h28vCASKfrbhYKrULG...

His team lead (Dmitry Zagidulin) liked what we were doing a lot. But ultimately Tim chose to go in a different direction, spun off "Inrupt" and left MIT. We continued building our open source platform to try to realize the vision he keeps writing about: https://theconversation.com/tim-berners-lees-plan-to-save-th...

I was writing very similar things, but of course I didn't invent the Web: https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-a-web-that-lost-its-way-c...

Ultimately, my point is that we tried our best. I even hired Dmitry when he left Tim's project for a while, but very quickly Dmitry got demotivated to work with us because we were putting out working code for customers, instead of conforming to standards. Back then I argued to him that we don't have a ton of funding and executions matters more, after which the winners can help spearhead the standards. After all, Twitter pioneered oAuth, and Meebo+Google pioneered xAuth (if anyone remembers that). Dmitri and I did.

So we went our separate ways, and I realized that standards are an expensive detour that can work if you have extra funds to hire people. We plan to support Matrix, Mastodon and other interoperability. But for the time being, our platform is "just" free and open source.

Whether it's the UBI "movement", or the decentralized web, or other initiatives, everyone seems to go their separate way and it fizzles out (e.g. https://decentralizedweb.net and https://indieweb.org/). I wish people were willing to join forces on projects more, and get each other funded. That's how we can build real open source alternatives to the corporate internet we are all forced to depend on.
Murder is a crime as decided by humans. There are circumstances where killing another person is not a crime, because we have agreed it is not a crime. A doctor turning off life support can be fully legal even though it results in the destruction of a human life. There is no ultimate principle at work. The law is a set of rules that we have (implicitly) agreed to.

Likewise, we as a society could decide that a person has all of their rights transferred to their replica as soon as they walked into a transporter.
1) In the specific instance I hit when I wrote that comment I wanted a variant of `**/*(.Om)`, which gives me files sorted by mtime. I think I'd probably have ended up with a `find ... | xargs stat -c '%Y-%n' | sort -n | sed "s,^[0-9]\+-,,"` construct if I'd kept at it, but I'm sure there are some more reasonable ways I'm struggling to think of right now with my extended glob blinkers on.

2)

Yeah, I'd go the fish route if I had to do the work too ;) It is a huge step up from bash-completion, whilst still being easy to understand.

zsh's completion is unbelievably powerful, but also exceedingly complex once you move beyond basic file completion. Anything beyond even the most basic example tends to be littered with other zsh-isms too(said with the love of someone who submits such monstrosities to projects on a semi-regular basis).

[Edit: I just spotted a patch I submitted to bash-completion almost twenty years ago², I've been chasing this "perfect tooling" tail for a long time.]

3)

zsh allows fully customisable interactions by defining custom widgets within ZLE¹. Like many things with zsh they're super powerful once you work your way through the learning curve.

I have added a few `$if oil` blocks to my ~/.inputrc to workaround a few of the edit sequences I like to have available, but beyond the built-in readline functions and basic mappings readline feels quite limited to someone accustomed to zle. I'd just have to get used to some of the other functionality needing to be external tooling, and extracting things out of the shell would probably make a lot of sense anyway.

--

Also -- if you made it this far -- let me reiterate how much I appreciate the work you're doing. I've learnt heaps reading through both your posts in the blog and your comments here!

¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html#...

² https://github.com/oilshell/bash-completion/commit/24ab16438...
I would argue that this is actually closer to an open source version of asking an older sibling for help. Or maybe, depending on how you view it, like tricking your younger sibling into doing the boring part for you.
The Symbolics Lisp Machine S-Geometry 3D modeler from the mid 1980's was based on the winged-edge structure. It was the best polygonal modeler of its time, and the package lives on in philosophy as the Wings3D open source modeler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNXEemZ_Ysk
lol go figure