skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, people toss the word fraud around, and lawyers love to use it to scare the shit out of the opposition, but it's a very high bar to meet legally. An automated tool that clicked randomly on web page elements for no financial gain to the user or supplier of said tool would in no way reach the threshold of fraud.

Obligatory IANAL.
Good luck working on it!

Global preference for open source aside, whichever license you pick, I'd recommend visiting https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/solution/joinup-... for example, a great tool to find the appropriate license for your software.

https://reuse.software/tutorial/ is a great read and a wonderful initiative to help with licensing and compliance.

P.S: CC is not made for software.
Hmm, wouldn’t things have ended up the same inconsistent state if you had it all built as a single service in the first place? E.g. you still can miss a failure condition on the insurance side and end up with a committed transaction? Why was the failure missed in your opinion? Was it because of the opaqueness of the services?

If you go monolith, you’ll of course have the advantage of having one place that orchestrates everything, the place where you start the transaction and follow up with credit card / insurance / email.

But if you are forced to deal with micro services you can roll a poor man’s transaction in the form of a state machine for the whole process backed in the db. Ui proxy receives click, credit card service authorizes money, insurance generates, credit card service settles transaction, email is sent.

The good thing about this whole affair is that you can very clearly see where something fails and why, because failure is not a special case, but part of the normal operation of the service. Also gets you the whole split up into micro services thing where different teams can handle different services. Bad thing of course is its massively more complex, so most probably is not justified.

Transactions are great, but when they rollback, they rollback everything. Now if you want to actually understand and track what went wrong, you need to log stuff somewhere else, which in itself can also fail.
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People re-inventing SQL reminds me of the same people that keep trying to re-write standard Staff Music Notation.

Yeah, it's not perfect, but the suggested replacements are marginal gains, if anything.

In order to replace SQL, you probably need something like a 10x improvement, so it sells like hotcakes. Nothing about those examples screams that sort of improvement.

I mean, cool they put some stuff on the left instead of the right. And I guess the select clause is in a little better order now. Yay.
That's good to know. I like Inkscape but its page handling still needs a bit more work.
> cost of writing after a snapshot is the same as before the snapshot

I didn't understand this, could you please clarify?

If there was no snapshot, there would be only one write operation, the actual write. However, with snapshot in place, in addition to actual write, there is a copy operation which copies the original data and writes to snapshot location. So, there should be two write operations (actual + copy).
There are some products like that, but the purpose of many of these review articles is to tell you things you can't see for yourself unless you have a bunch of lab equipment and lots of time.

Or in the case of Consumer Reports reliability ratings, a bunch of people you can survey.
If I know I only have N good years left, I can spend all my money instead of dying with it unspent.
Sometimes it makes more sense for me to think that I'm not a rational being, I'm an animal with a rational brain glued on top.

If you do a "5 Whys" type thing, there isn't really a reason to live. It's just an instinct. So I can say, I'm a hedonist, I live because life pays off eventually. No big deal.

I don't think rationality is opposed to anything like love or sentiment. I just like feeling good. Rationality is a tool I can use to feel more good, if I want.
This was 100% my experience. The assistant teachers had no experience with anything beyond goenka vipassana courses. Was not helpful when I was encountering partial dissolution of the Self and high bliss states.
That's really insightful. I definitely do this! Even when I correctly anticipate their point it's not a good conversational approach - and when I get it wrong, it's a major miscommunication. I think for me it happens when I prioritize information over people. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to extrapolate that point across the HN demographic.
That's why I only used Wirecutter as a reference. Part of that was also they had different priorities than me. But it was still helpful to find what I wanted. But now their site is rarely updated.
Memory Order in C++ (2022)
In this use case using maps doesn't solve any problem, requires at least one allocation, and requires hashing each key. This is not even an interesting discussion.
Libre/free software is commonly defined by the FSF[1]. Open source is commonly defined by the OSI[2].

[1] https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/index.en.html

[2] https://opensource.org
There are a few books which admirably explain the assumptions etc.

- A Programmers Introduction to Mathematics (amazing for building intuition, explaining how to read mathematics papers, understanding beauty of proofs etc.)

- Elements of Mathematics for Economics and Finance (a quick jog through typical the high school and college math a non-mathematician would study)

- Papula's Mathematik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler (rigorous (for practitioners) and comprehensive. Starts from nothing, with sets, then teaches you fractions, then quadratic equations until you're doing vector analysis and Laplace transformations)

- Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics by Howard Eves (wide overview of the man developments in mathematics, up to its publication)
I wonder if that's the only thing that gets damaged. How do biological things fare on long durations of vibration?
I disagree. This is a hard problem that take time to solve. I hope the world do not stop SQL.
TrueNAS' general requirements are 8GB, and they spell out when you want more. Most of the situations you'd want more you'd also want more on RAID. https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/gettingstarted/corehardwar...
A lot of the reasons for decline cited in the article feel fluffy. "The best washer/dryer depends on who you are"? The Wirecutter always gave alternatives and "upgrade picks". "People prefer influencers"? Are there washer/dryer and toaster influencers now?

What killed the Wirecutter for me was the standing desk referral code scandal, full stop. Their whole thing was "one stop for the best thing", and if there's any hint of bias there, it kills that. I believe that was after the NYT acquisition--I think it's very fair to lay the blame at their feet.
I am En/US but on MacOS.
I think you’re beginning to grasp the power relationship now
Big fan of my new solar powered G Shock. Auto syncs time via radio signal and supposedly a 10-15 yr battery life
> if everyone is blasting ads to users, the effectiveness of each ad goes down, and thus an advertiser need to blast even more ads.

Things have really gone full circle now. If I visit a site (happens rarely) that has a clean design and puts all the ads into a plain column down one side of the page, I'm pretty sure I'm more likely to look at those ads than I am on the typical crappy site where I need to swat away ads like blowflies off a horse turd just to begin to see the underlying content.
While I don't recommend blindly buying the top recommendation, I still find Wirecutter reviews useful. Sometimes I ultimately choose a cheaper option they rejected outright or something I can get used. I also consult friends more than I used to. But even in those cases, the article typically doesn't feel like a waste of time.

I do think Wirecutter articles no longer go the extra mile quite like they used to or involve as many out-of-the-box ideas for testing. But I think they remain thorough enough to be useful.
More people should do this! One time I advised people to out themselves in interviews--there are literal empirical reasons to do this--and I cannot describe how chewed out I got. Normalize neurodivergence!
> "backups on device aren't a backup"

That wasn't part of the article. It was a single drive failure, so RAID would have done fine.
> Environment variables too. Kill them all with fire.

I feel this way about host file entries.

It is shocking how common they remain, and not just in QA/Dev.
This would likely just create a massive backlash. When you look at most of any survey on things like privacy [1] and other topics, people are not apathetic in the least. Most people know their data is being harvested, misused, and exploited. But because this all happens pretty much invisibly, people feel powerless. Trying to create very visible and ham-fisted laws forcing people to engage in behavior that most all of us are opposed to, beyond any typical partisanship, would be amazing in the unified backlash it would create.

I also don't even really think this would fly in DC. Advertisers are certainly indulged because they provide an endless mountain of surveillance information to spook organizations, and can also be used to try to influence elections. But most politicians are people too, and with acts like this you'd be passing laws to piss on yourself, your family, and your friends as much as the rest of society.... for the sake of advertisers. I think that would face substantial opposition from DC itself, let alone the small but growing chunk of libertarian or social minded politicians. This isn't like the MPAA or whatever, where your average politicians might think you're talking about rafting if you speak about torrenting.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-an...
I agree with what you say.

On the other hand, it shows how when something gets popular enough it gets stuck in place, unable to progress slowly towards better, because we keep calling it good enough and all marginal improvements that accumulate to something significant over time are rejected.

And this friction can be a significant problem, because it can cause systems to die overtime by being suddenly replaced, disrupted, from below by something that is a major improvement but completely incompatible with the status quo. Think of it as having a devastating earthquake after a long period of complete calm.

This is not good for anyone, we will be much better served by small gradual improvements to existing systems. This is how we came to be ourselves through evolution.
The best teachings on meditation are found in the Pali texts, imo. They purport to be a reasonable recording of the Buddha's teachings. In this text, one of the repeated internal exercises is "subduing greed & distress" while practicing meditation.

“Mindfulness of in-&-out breathing, when developed & pursued, is of great fruit, of great benefit. Mindfulness of in-&-out breathing, when developed & pursued, brings the four establishings of mindfulness to their culmination. The four establishings of mindfulness, when developed & pursued, bring the seven factors for awakening to their culmination. The seven factors for awakening, when developed & pursued, bring clear knowing & release to their culmination." -Ānāpānasati Sutta [0]

[0] https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN118.html
Who's "we".

Most developed countries (and many less developed countries) have some government coverage for cancer or dementia.

In New Zealand we can also pay for premium private insurance - although I don't think that helps much for chronic conditions.

Dementia will often still drain your bank account in New Zealand because the government here will take all your equity to pay for nursing home fees. But you do get looked after a bit when you have nothing, so there is that. You can avoid having all your equity taken but it does take some planning, some costs and some effort (e.g. give equity to children more than 7 years before you lose your marbles, e.g. use a family trust, e.g. if married it is very important to ensure your will limits equity damage to one if the other falls ill).
That’s true but for a lot of these products, they were negative ones like “broke after a few uses.”

Super sus when Wirecutter is promoting something as a top pick.

But it also makes sense. A review site like Wirecutter is using the product like one time — they have no idea if it’s going to last.
What's the point of using ext4 on a NAS, and not XFS?
> It has increased poverty

Talk is cheap. Show me the maths.
You can not be denied health insurance or charged more because of pre-existing conditions under the affordable care act.

Other things such as life insurance is a very different story.
Yes, although Wirecutter is frequently one of the inputs into my buying decision, I find the one-size-fits-all approach annoying at times--this is the best power strip, because we believe everyone needs at least eight outlets, and twelve is better, but more than twelve is too many. Well maybe I think anything with more than six outlets is too big, or maybe a right-angle plug is my most important criterion.

I can sometimes pick through "The competition" and find something that is slightly less awesome or slightly pricier, but that section reads like you'd be dumb to buy this model instead of our top pick, which also comes in purple.
I stopped trusting wire cutter because of their air filter reviews.

They reviewed Molekule air filters as if they were traditional hepa air filters. They didn’t test their ability to remove VOC. They didn’t have the ability to to test that and they didn’t even try to.

I’d be thrilled if they did because no one has tested that outside of labs paid for by Molekule, but writing Molekule tech off as bad for not performing like a traditional hepa filter… when they don’t try to compete in that space…is only really helpful to themselves (engagement) and the traditional air filter industry. When the incentive is to move Amazon affiliate products, it’s not aligned with the average person.
In short, backups aren't actually taken until they have been verifiably restored.
It's used like that on Facebook a lot. You're welcome to your opinion on correct use and interpretation of emojis, but that doesn't stop others from using them the way they feel is appropriate.
Minimum write size of a modern Flash chip can be ~100MB(!) according to a comment found in a random orange website[1]. So 5MB write every 10 minutes can be 600MB/hr, which is 4.8TB/8-hr-day, which is 24TB/40-hour-week, which is 3.43 DWPD real time for a 1TB drive, and 2500 TBW in 2 years real time[2].

Official quoted specification for SN850 is 600 TBW of write endurance, likely after derating for obvious warranty implications. Incidentally, 2500TB is also a typical endurance figure for many SSDs in this market. Overall, to me, sounds not entirely impossible.

I kind of wonder what's the controller says in SMART data, if still alive. On Linux the command is `apt install smartmontools; smartctl -s on /dev/sda; smartctl -A /dev/sda`, and it shall print out a table[4]. On Windows, just install CrystalDiskInfo[3].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165202

2: DWPD: drive writes per day, TBW: Total Bytes Written - in terabytes

3: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

4: Note that "Pre-fail" means the value is supposed to change when about to fail and "Old_age" means the value is supposed to indicate age, NOT "this is bad and about to fail" and "this drive is old". It always says all Pre-fail and Old_age. Someone should have changed it to "somewhat_boolean" and "life_remain" long time ago in my opinion.
Amazon in particular has RSUs 80% vesting only in the 3rd and 4th years resulting in these spectacular TCs.
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What does taking back the power look like?
There’s no such qualifier for any heath insurance you get after 2010.

No denying you or charging you more because of a pre-existing condition.
Does anybody know if this would affect bicycles as well?

I have a phone mount on my roadbike handlecars - one of the Quadlock ones - does anybody know if the road vibrations from cycling can cause as much damage as the motorbike?

If anything...I would have thought a fairly stiff road bike would have more vibrations than a motorbike?
> It means that in very high dimensions (think of a 100-dimensional sphere)

Sure, no problem, author.
I only read Wirecutter when Ars Technica would host their occasional article, and came to the same conclusion as you. Any time they covered something that I had experience with, it was painfully obvious that they had barely used the damn thing. If you were in to their house style, they picked things that fit in that sense, but a solid meh for the review side of things.
They didn’t say that it was easier, but that it was easier than changing everything to run from electricity, which is true.
Than both? Tiered storage. Than btrfs? Hopefully parity RAID, and performance. Than ZFS? Being GPL compliant, so viable for being in-tree in the Kernel.

(list most likely incomplete)
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>And OpenAI continues to ship.

This.

Google (specifically their CEO) was saying since at least 2016 that "Google is an AI first company". (Whatever the hell that means). But they had no product to show for and they are on the verge of being the next IBM.
You don't actually have to assume anything. You could ask instead, or read some background.
Good luck though, you're going up against giants (as much as this article portrays SQL as outdated, anyone who tries to go against it is very much the underdog). It's hard to get people to buy in on a custom database stack that is made by only a single company. And the fact that this article reads like a one sided praise for Fauna doesn't inspire confidence either, I want to read some real negatives from people who have used the thing.
> You appear to be asserting that humans can tell if a loop will end, when that loop is defined so that if it does it doesn't and if it doesn't it does

We can determine by looking at certain problems (The Halting Problem is one such example) what the outcome will be without actually having to execute that code. The Halting Problem is one of the simpler problems that cannot be solved by computational means, which includes all artificial computational system.

You ask [How so?] to my comment about my goat. I would suggest that to understand this you need to go and observe what happens in the environment with such beasts, whether it be a cow in a local paddock or a pet dog or cat. Take time to observe the interactions that occur and think about how little [training] is involved here.

Watch children around you, take some serious time and observe them in their interactions and I think that when you think about how we program our various artificial stupidity systems that we are still at the caveman stage in our computational systems. We have barely discovered fire so to speak.

As for [GPT-3 is about as complex as the brain of a rodent], I don't think GPT-3 has even reached a single bacterium cell state of intelligence.

I would like you to try the following: Using your index finger on your left hand, touch the tip of your nose.

Now think about this:
How did you do that very simple task?
When did you learn and how did you learn to do that simple task?

If you think about it carefully, the task that I describes is incredibly complex.

Now what would be required to get an artificial stupidity system (AS) to do the same task?
What programming do we need to do to achieve this task?
What programming was done to you to achieve that same task?

When you start asking questions like this, it becomes very clear that all of our computational systems (including all of the AS systems) are incredibly simple and not at all comparable to what we find within ourselves.

We can build very useful tools that we can use to good purpose. But no tool is ever more than a tool for us.

I suppose what concerns me about our current state of affairs is that we are far too impressed by our caveman antics. There is not a single industrial system built by mankind that comes close to the integrated control and manufacturing systems found in a single living cell. None of our communication systems come close to what is found in the various control/communication systems found in even the simplest of chordate organisms.

It was very obvious, 40 odd years ago during my engineering undergraduate days, just how fragile much of our technological base was then. It is far more fragile today and yet we appear to be enamored by our [current technological prowess] which is actually far more fragile than it was 40 years ago.
How are you harmed by being sent HTTP GET requests
Yes! It was free for a long time with CompuServe, and since the transition to AOL, it's remained free.
Maxwell's Diode.
Apparently not being enforced because I can fly without ID. Until it is enforced, there is no harm so it can't be challenged. A friend flies with no ID and a court ankle bracelet.
I wish other YouTubers would take note of the information density that Project Farm packs in to his videos. It's really something else.
There's no copy operation, the previous data isn't overwritten and the new data is written to a new block. It's "copy-on-write."
Transaction usually refers to the atomic but of what needs to be done which is certainly not guaranteed to be a business vertical.

You should never have a microservice that doesn't own something unique and the best ones are interesting enough to have a proper owner.
For what tasks do you consider 70B beyond GPT-3.5 performance? There are some I’m aware of, but they are very much the exception and not the rule, even with the best 70B fine-tunes currently available.
That's also the least interesting part of comparing a ZFS backup to rsync/rclone: The rsync way is to crawl the entire tree being backed up to diff over the network then copy the differences. Because of snapshots, ZFS already knows all the changes that occurred between snapshot A and snapshot B, and (provided state up to A has already been backed up) can update the backup by pushing all changes between A and B as one big binary blob without having to scan or diff anything.
I appreciate the typo, although Asimov's title would be I, True Bogan.

As for myself, sure, save for small details such as having all my teeth, a degree or three, a few million SLOC of geophysics code, and back end credits for a few S&P modules and other odds and sods about the web.
My question was more rhetorical and for _synchronicity's_ sake than anything; I wanted to see what sort of replies would pop out.

As a recreational student, I've already committed to this text, difficulty be damned. I am no stranger to intellectual masochism. Nor do I care one iota for an "academic career," only for an understanding of results that were taken for granted in my prior CS mathematics undergraduate education at UWaterloo, which involved a few years of formal proof.

Would that I could have finished said undergraduate program, but tuition is expensive, and being rendered homeless partway through a CS program certainly complicates the financing, especially absent the monetary privileges afforded to one of a more affluent upbringing.

I appreciate the elitist and somewhat exclusionary language, though, despite admitted lack of knowledge regarding my situation.
It's not you, it's google. Seriously.
i've used Ditto for years. love it!
x86 / IBM PC is probably more open than M1/2 even back in 90s
>Violating copyright doesn't actively harm the copyright holder.

Of course it does. It violates their rights.

> This is basically stochastic terrorisim on a small scale.

"Stochastic terrorism" is a nonsense concept anyway.
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