skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t avoid the Rocky Mountains because they reinforce my friend’s beliefs about God

I do avoid them (figuratively, not literally) because I value my critical thinking.

What I observe in meditators is a gradual loss of trust in logic, reason and science, even in those with decades of education. They fall for silly quackeries and psychic beliefs or that the meditation teacher mystically can know things and have insight beyond even experts.

If they produced some new knowledge through that, I would be all for it. But no, it just is a collapse of common sense.
This is why someone who has a large stage should do it, like a journalist or a performer or a politician. They can't come after them without Streisand effecting it.
Agreed. It was a large time investment that happened to pay off. If I ever have to do it again I'll be much faster. I hope that with wider ZFS adoption some of the routine tasks will be automated better in the future. I see no reason why in a couple years this couldn't be a mature fire and forget user experience.
Should be renamed to 2022-2023 season. For me as an active member of a team I was thinking(when I read the title) that someone is just speculating on the current season theme as it has not been released yet. All we know is that it is called Centerstage and somehow it is related to arts.
"On the one hand, I do agree that..
But on the other hand, I've come to realize that..."
Strangely, listed in the official email they sent to me, but not on their official policy page, is this exception as well:

A Google Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments

I should dial up One support to ask if this is really an exception or a hallucination.

EDIT: it appears that the support tech was able to validate the email I received and also deny that the above exemption applies. So, the email is a lie; possibly deleted from the policy very quickly after sending the email, or mistakenly included in it, or perhaps not-so-mistakenly. It appears that there are no exemptions for YouTube users.

It took the One support tech so, so, so many words to answer a "yes/no" question, though. Wow, 19 minutes on the chat.
Near Collisions happen all the time
https://archive.is/VPEAP
I remember watching an interview with a monster truck engineer and he said it was challenging suspension design because it was the only motor sport where the unsprung weight was greater than the suspended weight. It’s a while different approach.
Yeah, this is where it gets real. VC funding and unbounded potential operational costs. Ouch.
“click fraud”? That is very very far fetched. I’m just following links your website serves me. If you don’t like it you don’t have to serve your ads to me.
I honestly can’t imagine the value of a user-editable data mart. Maybe you can educate me?
So gmail was making money off of personal emails as recently 2017. Why trust them? There is no good reason they shouldn’t e2ee that data.
Structurizr looks popular but I don't love needing to learn yet another DSL. Does there exist a way to describe things in an existing language with a library?

To use the example on their website, I would like something like this in JS:

let { Component, Container, Diagram, Person } = import 'c4'

let user = new Person('User')
let system = new Container('Software System')
let webapp = new Component('Web Application')
let database = new Component('Web Application')

system.contains(webapp)
system.contains(database)

user.uses(webapp).via('Uses')
webapp.uses(database).via('Reads from and writes to')

export new Digram()
.title('Software System')
.theme('default')
.shows([user, system])
.type('container')

Edit: As it turns out, there are a couple libraries like this:

- Python: https://github.com/nielsvanspauwen/pystructurizr

- C#: https://github.com/8T4/c4sharp

Don't see one for JS though. Smells like an opportunity for someone.
How does it work with youtube?
Does it block but fakes that you have watched the ads?
"Every car with pump in the tank has filter located in the tank in front of that pump"

In cars that use the older convention, this second "fuel filter" (always in the tank) is technically called a "strainer". My experience is the downstream fuel filter which in older cars is outside the tank needs to be replaced much more often than the strainer which is typically replaced as one unit with the fuel pump. I assume this is because the strainer does less rigorous filtering than the downstream filter which historically has been much easier and cheaper to replace.
> ZFS looks so cool! Unfortunately when I eventually get a NAS I doubt I'll want to pay for anything that can run it, so I suspect I'll just be doing RAID and ext4.

FreeBSD won't break your wallet.
90% of the reviews I see online are sponsored, fake, and dishonest. The other 10% are not found by Googling. They're buried deep in Amazon customer reviews of similar products or somewhere on Reddit. I never trusted Wirecutter because their reviews were always in stark contrast to the reviews I'd read on Amazon (by actual people who used the product), so I'm not surprised if Wirecutter is also bought by companies. What better way to promote your product on a website that's supposedly honest because it's NYT after all...
> Skiff has raised over $14M in VC funds, so as a privacy-focused product...

They seemed to have pivoted from web3? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29797691
I mean, you can literally sue anyone for any reason. There is no agreement you can sign that could possibly stop you.
> I mean, on one hand, the Metal/Vulkan/OpenGL situation is unfortunate and I don't understand Apple's motivation there.

OpenGL is a dead end - while vendors (including Apple) still support their respective GL stacks, there is not really active investment anymore either in those stacks or in the standards.

Metal came out years before Vulkan, and Apple has tight integration between the graphics API and their underlying first-party graphics hardware designs. If Apple did have first party support for Vulkan, it would basically be MoltenVK anyway. Apple tends to push anything which isn't a first party framework to be third-party sourced and bundled as much as they can. They likely think MoltenVK as a third party library is the best scenario for Vulkan support.
Nothing to do with calibration. You physically deform or break the mechanical structure of the OIS or AF systems.
Marketing departments don't care. Attribution is already a joke, click fraud is the cost of doing business.

Folks think most marketing departments are these sophisticated analytics driven masterminds, when it's really number go up == throw more money at it.
I have to question how "surprising" the significance of hardware configuration is. The characteristics of CPU and mobo (and the RAM sticks themselves) will affect all aspects of how the computer behaves and handles. How is it surprising that one who enjoys the activity would be deeply invested in the very silicon on which everything happens?

Replacements in italics mine to demonstrate that we aren't that different from the wine and dirt lovers.
You know how you pay for cable, and Hulu, and Netflix, and still have to sit through ads? It would be like that. If I'm going to have to watch ads anyway, I'll decline paying for the service, thanks. And go on blocking the ads.
I like this reasoning. Either we voluntarily stop behaving in a way that advertisers don’t like or we will be forced to stop behaving in ways that advertisers don’t like. The only likely or rational future is that we all stop acting in ways advertisers don’t like, one way or another.

We may be best served by proactively rethinking all of our computing habits to make sure they more closely align with AdSense’s goals for uh… our benefit.
I like the eyes emoji for "seen it" or "looking into it" and the thumbs up for agreement
A quick search shows that vibration dampening phone mounts are a thing. Does that not avoid this problem?
Image constructed using quantum entanglement of photons
> Firefox' font rendering in that screenshot looks like native Windows font rendering to me.

How?!

This is how example.com renders: https://i.imgur.com/MFo7ACg.png

Pay attention to how the word "illustrative" renders: https://i.imgur.com/lFJIEZG.png

See e.g. the boldness on e.g. the first "l"? Firefox's clearly has two very dark vertical strokes in adjacent pixels -- one black, one dark blue right next to it. Its rendering is substantially bolder than Windows's. I can understand if you personally prefer that, but how can you claim they look the same?!
> If you read all the files on both sides, every time and don't have more ram than disk, it's going to be a lot of work. If you're just looking at directory entries most of the time, there's a good chance that's all cached and it's no disk load, other than smthe dmall changes.

Yeah that's a good point. I know that rsync is _quite_ clever, but at least any incantations I've ever done it still hits the drives a good amount. I'd ballpark guess a couple of orders of magnitude better than just "cp -r" or something, but still a couple of orders of magnitude worse than zfs snapshots.

Yeah you're 100% right it'll depend on bunch of variables though.

> Sanoid/syncoid is pretty decent for less effor snapshotting and syncing snapshots; but I haven't done anything with encrypted datasets.

I'm not sure I'd recommend it, but I use both directly on encrypted datasets. I have tested recovery a couple times and it works fine, but I've read some cautionary tales too. I _think_ they're all old issues?
> Journal articles are often opaque to people who aren't already in the field

To be fair, manuals are often pretty opaque without the requisite background knowledge.
Does it matter? The best stuff on the web isn’t ad supported anyway. I’d take losing a little good stuff to make it easier to find the rest of it.
Nobody is trying to ban short form video content. Y'all need to get better at your talking points.
here's the dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218243
I use it a lot for personal coding projects, grammar correction/sentence rewording, and translation (it works better than google translate for longer text). I explicitly call out personal stuff since my job provides an in-house front end that uses the GPT API (I'm actually not sure which version it is, but guessing from the response quality, its probably GPT-4). My work one has made me noticeably more productive. It helps me with a lot of the "boring" work that I procrastinate a lot on. It starts my momentum and allows me focus a lot on the "complex stuff". I'm not sure how much money I use since there is no limit at work but if I had to guess, its probably north of $100 a month on credit.
The only filesystem I've ever completely lost to corruption was btrfs, and that was about a year ago. btrfs-restore completely failed, so if I really needed that data I guess I'd have to do some manual surgery. I got to the point in the documentation where the only recourse was "idk go ask someone on IRC".

Of course if you have good backups, you can use whatever and not really worry too much about it.
man people really post about this browser addon ad nauseam
Well the Linux side has plenty of good alternatives and has had them for years, but good luck with MacOS or Windows users. Many of them just can't be bothered to understand how these technologies work.

They just want an easy installer that lets them "run docker containers" and they don't want to even think about a Linux VM. Even many developers can't be bothered to deal with this stuff and just want some easy abstraction. This is where Docker Desktop has value and why some people will continue paying for it.
Ear protection is certainly warranted, but how many kids wear their air pods at max volume? It's only 105db or so, but still right in there.
FIRST is a really amazing experience.

I just want to point out for those who don't do FTC how good they were. Here is a link to a summary of all their matches: https://ftcscout.org/teams/8405. Their top OPR (offensive power rating - a.k.a how many points they contributed per match) of 112 is really good. That puts them at 20th among teams who started this year out of nearly 1900 teams. (Although technically the team is older but it sounds like it had all new members.)

Here you can see all their events and how they ranked among all teams: https://ftcscout.org/records/2022/teams?filter=%7B%22all%22%...
Excellent point. I think something like "Doing diaphragmatic breathing for 5 minutes a day where you try to focus your mind on your breath will give you certain benefits" is a lot more useful than nebulous claims about "meditation" that end up getting spun up with people's ideas about spirituality and enlightenment.

Further, there's a tendency for some people to get ecstatic about something they do - be it meditation, lifting, yoga, keto, psychedelics, etc. - and act as if everyone should be binging on it in order to live a good life. That sort of closed mindedness makes one question just how beneficial these things actually are.
There is. I just posted a screenshot and explained it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37231149
Another factor to weigh in my case is this laptop probably spends at least 50% of its life suspended. The overhead should be measured in MB per hour of uptime.
Does anyone know how zrepl compares to sanoid/syncoid other than that zrepl is written in Go and sanoid/syncoid are Perl scripts?
Of course it contributed. But it probably wasn’t the main reason or a significant contributor.
Try https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776480
I've read that because Parkinson's is caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in the brain, the same process could be affecting dopaminergic cells in the eye, which do exist. This might be what they're seeing. Thoughts?
This is the best summary as to what's going on.
I think one should be careful using the term "click fraud" in this context. Someone who installs this extension doesn't in my mind qualify to be defrauding anyone. There is no contract in place, it isn't against the law to express interest in a product, and there's no technical controls being breached illegally as the browser is just sending a request to a server.
Thank you for the recommendations! I've been looking at my next retreat and this is the second time Spirit Rock has come up. The goenka retreat was very harsh, very insightful, but ultimately lacking in teacher quality. From what I could gather the teachers available to me had only ever meditated in the vipassana style and were not particularly helpful.
The algorithm is tuned for maximal engagement. It doesn't care if it's good or bad. It cares that you feed it all of your data and all of your friends and family's data. Yum yum.
tldr: my drive died, and I had a backup.

zfs seems incidental to me. I could have a 10 minute cron job rsyncing changes from ext4 and been just as well off.
The data is still located in the US so honestly for email I would not see the benefit since so much of it will pass through unencrypted on a cloud provider (AWS?).

I personally use mailfence with IMAP on Thunderbird (so its not full E2E encryption despite the marketing) but I much prefer the Belgian privacy law.

Though the mobile/destop apps looks very nice and overall kudos for what seems like a coherent ecosystem (something I miss from my patching of sync.com and mailfence). Also concerned by VC money in that space, hopefully you are profitable. Nobody wants to have to move their life (calendar, drive, emails) because they trusted a startup that ran out of money...
The brand of truth, the paper of record. Not one that would market that brand.

Surely inapplicable to its editorial-like headline and subject choices on the front page.
Nope. As others have mentioned, ZFS is CoW. Snapshots are "free" in that they (basically) point to a transaction group in the filesystem. They record a small amount of metadata to disk on each snapshot - on the order of a few MB. This is much much lower than an rclone/sync style backup.
Wirecutter used to be good, but then it got bought by NYT. I'm surprised at how difficult it is to find legit reviewers in general. I don't trust these larger companies to give us non-biased reviews.
A fungeoid is a typically multi-dimensional language similar to Befunge
> I never trusted Wirecutter because their reviews were always in stark contrast to the reviews I'd read on Amazon (by actual people who used the product),

To be fair, I've known multiple people (when my peer group hadn't yet established their veblen side hustles) who got paid to write Amazon reviews for products they had never used.
Correlation != causation. It's something we can figure out from calculations.

The reason it was a crisis was because of overcrowded hospitals. Even with the lockdowns, we had critically ill people being treated on the floor. There's death counts and there were people who would have just died if they weren't put to sleep.

The places that spent the least were likely the areas that didn't have old people or had a good density of health services to people.

I'm surprised this isn't just a straightforward analogy; I thought everyone lost plenty of friends and family to COVID. Statista puts the death toll at 6.8 million even with the measures we had in place.
And if you send a message that's only +<emoji>, slack will use it as a reaction on the immediately preceding message
Or their concern and that of an engineer don't completely agree, or the reasons they want concerns addressed are different. Both happens a lot.
That looks like a watered down overly cleaned up sanitized asphalt city version of the tamer sections of the Black Diamond Kalgoorlie Desert Race (or Finke Desert Race).

https://youtu.be/V5R7Tfa4Vyo?t=339
I have a currently broken installation of Asahi Linux on an M1 iMac. I am motivated to fix that and update!

I don’t know what is going to happen in the future, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Asahi Linux becomes widely used. From my experience of turning a 7 year old MacBook and an 8year old MacBook Air into great Ubuntu Linux boxes, I think that old Apple hardware will be a common host to Linux. It feels great to get use out of old hardware.
Obviously the answer is to deliver user value.... But at the same time, better performance is valuable to a user. So if this new, whatever it is I don't even know, will perform better at an atleast noticable metric, then it does deliver value to the user.
If all it does is make MY life easier, then it's basically worthless to me IMO.
Unfortunately it just leads to more ads. 20 years ago we had way fewer ads on typical sites, today you can hardly find the text in between the ads on your average news site.
Look into the Windows Copy Shadow Service.

Unfortunately, I haven't had luck with Open Source backup software that uses it (the shadow copy snapshot would fail, the error code would be no help, and finding no resources, I gave up), but commercial software I've used was great. When I was at a big corp, the commercial backup software whose name escapes me at the moment would litterally wait for files to be saved, then do an incremental backup.

As of now, I'm using Veeam on my personal machines, and it runs an incremental backup nightly and saves to an smb share.
GPT-4 is significantly more expensive so I can definitely see you spending that amount. For really complex stuff, I switch over the GPT-4 and it will cost me almost $3 a "question" (as in going from the beginning to solving it). Honestly worth it since it solves my problem but it adds up quick so I try to stick with 3.5 when I can.
4yo hikes 15-20kms? man, sources please.
Convolution?
was it completely off or was it merely in sleep mode?
I had multiple pi systems “bricked” after a power outage. Presumably it was file system corruption? I never looked into the issues further. I just wiped the drives and reinstalled. These were vanilla raspbian installs at the time. It happened a few times when I was first trying out my pi. These were a mix of me cutting the power and actual power outages.

I only ever had these issues with SD cards. I quickly switched to running my pi off a USB external SSD, and haven’t had any problems since then. Now when the power goes out, it boots back up properly and all my services start. All of this on ext3 I think?

Planning to redo things for ZFS at some point, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
No need to use Anaconda or any general purpose venv solution. Microsoft screwed this up.
It is also somewhat ironic that the editorialized title has an off-by-one bug in it: It has been 26 years since 1997.
> It will probably still be nerfed like the low end iPad that has USB C. But still transfers at USB 2 speeds

Other than one exception, the A-series SoCs have not shipped with USB 3.x or USB4 support. The 10th gen iPad uses an A-series chip, so it is pretty close to being a "lightning to USB dongle" inside the case.

So it isn't a software or manufacturing nerf - the part does not support USB 3.
How to browse the web on a Macintosh SE, AirPrint to an ImageWriter II
This post took a while to write, and has been continuously updated since early this month. It covers connecting a Macintosh SE from 1987 to the Internet, printing from a modern iPhone to a dot matrix printer from 1985, how to set up AppleShare from a Linux computer, and some networking history.
I like libreoffice for what it has represented since the days of StarOffice. BUT...

A couple of months ago my dad and I had to edit a large-ish book of 250+ pages (recipes) with a Table of contents and whatnot.

We ended up using Google docs because LO TOC and headers sync and editing Functionality was lacking.

I remember in MS Office 2000 there was a view showing only headers and easily allowing you to correct levels and indentations, as well as moving full sections.

Also we needed to automate a bit some image formatting and G docs scripting was just more straightforward.

And finally, the seamless online collaboration made it a no brainer, instead of document sharing and changes tracking.

It's a shame LO has achieved a lot and is amazing we can have such functionality for free. The team has done an amazing. I was just bummed something like GDocs seemed more complete for my book use case (particularly bc editing a 250+pages book in the browser is PAINFUL)
Discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37198603
> No, "off" in this case merely implies different from what you're used to.

Kind of enough, but...

> This is aesthetic preference, there's no such thing as "correct".

"Correct" for the purposes of this discussion could be the normal OS rendering, and deviation from that is what would be "off"-ness.
Yes, some Amazon reviews are even written by ChatGPT. But my point is that there are far better reviews on Amazon than these "review" websites.
Why is that Yin Yang symbol appears?
Sidenote: one of the reasons his podcasts feel so long is that he is spending a significant part of it making sure to NOT make bold unsubstantiated claims.
that would be a different set of people though. Some people are fine with cloud everything some of the rest of us aren't and like to work local. Especially for something as basic as a spreadsheet or word doc.
> That's not end-to-end encryption. What do I have wrong here?

Apparently, email may not their main e2ee usecase. The CEO at Skiff wrote this on PrivacyGuides forums:

Our solution for external sharing was not intended for email. It is much more powerful to share E2EE real-time collaborative docs/files with subpages, embedded E2EE files, and so much more.

Curiously, in the same thread, there's is a mention of Trail of Bits auditing their codebase twice.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/skiff-mail-email-provide...
Ok, and when google starts deploying Gmail to old t440s running fedora I'll tell them the reliability "just as good as debian".
> As long as it has DP alt-mode for HDMI, I'm happy.

That would be interesting, but like you alluded to it would likely require out-of-SoC tech for the existing A-series chips.
It's too bad the sirens don't allow an ascending of frequency to mean "go to higher ground" and descending to mean "go to lower ground"
Did you sleep?