skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exciting!

I've played around with it a few times, since it's been easily available in NixOS for a while. Didn't run into any issues with a few disks and a few hundred GB of data.

Some very interesting properties, including (actually efficient) snapshots, spreading data over multiple disks, using a fast SSD as a cache layer for HDDs, built-in encryption (not audited yet though!), automatic deduplication, compression, ...

A lot of that is already available through other file systems (btfs, zfs) and/or by layering different solutions (LVM, dm-crypt, ...) , but getting all of it out of the box with a single FS that's in the mainline kernel is quite appealing.
This is such a terrible way to segment the line.
Need can only be assessed relative to one's goals. Many business models depend on tracking, so if your goal is to run such a business, then it's needed.
> One artist even found that her private medical records containing photos of her facial condition were in LAION, a foundational dataset for many GenAI products.

From the article I'm extremely skeptical people have actually identified anything, since LAION does not store content. LAION is a list of links to content hosted by others, publicly.
What else would you expect? Both issues are about power, and I say that in the most matter-of-fact and non-judgemental fashion I can. The US government will effectively defend the privacy of American people as long as it poses a vulneravility, and that is one facet of AI safety. But a "right to privacy" as a domestic matter is different beast and there's clear malalignment.
It might be an example of that, but the reason so many dismiss the lab leak hypothesis in favour of wet markets is that the markets were already expected to be the breeding ground for "the next pandemic" well before Covid actually happened. Wet markets were also associated with the outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu, SARS, and monkey pox.
Bibi tried to be friends with Putin and avoided sending weapons to Ukraine, while Russian PMCs Wagner and Redut trained Hamas. Hopefully Israel will be rethinking both the relationship with Russia and the relationship with Bibi.
After reading "The Mom Test" I took a step back and tried to first figure out if the thing I was building was really needed. Now I don't start off immediately writing code for an idea (which I have a bunch) and instead try to focus more on researching if the problem is a real one in the first place. Turns out some of mine are not.

Another reason is my next solo adventure would be bootstrapped. So some types of SaaS are out of the picture.
Hi HN, I'm one of the authors of Ohm. Happy to answer any questions you have.

We've been on here a few times before:

• Ohm – A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603393 (March 2021)

• Ohm - Parsing Made Easy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15491336 (Oct 2017)

You might also want to check out WebAssembly from the Ground Up, an online book we're writing that uses Ohm to teach you WebAssembly: https://wasmgroundup.com
> The biggest factor I've found in overengineering is the lack of a long term roadmap.

Can subscribe to this, 16 years career.
Even a horizon of 3 months seems unattainable.

I call it a "management problem", but maybe that's because I'm not in management..
Political choices are handled by politicians. It might be nice if saying "Science" were the equivalent of "Open Sesame" but it is not.
The whole idea of unalienable rights (which in ECHR includes privacy) is that you can't "alienate" them by signing them away in a contract.

It's just like any contractual clause that would sell yourself in indentured slavery or oblige you to make sexual favors is automatically void, since consent to these things is not something you can sell, you can change your mind about these things at any time no matter what contracts you've signed, because they can't be binding for that.
Ah, I see. I think this corresponds to the price drop, right? You can now get a 14" M3 MacBook Pro without a 'Pro' chip, whereas previously that price point was occupied by the 13" model. So essentially, for a given price point, your external display options have not changed much.
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Bystander effect is thought to arise due to a fear of standing out. Alcohol inhibits that fear, which is why it's a social drug.

It's like a study concluding that depression doesn't exist by studying a bunch of people who are medicated for depression.
I was hoping—if not expecting—to see a refresh of the 27” iMac; I was ready to buy one! It disappointed me they simply upgraded the current 24”.

The new 24” are lovely, but I will miss the real estate (still using a "Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015” one).
What is the big issue? Is the data not anonymized?
I'm not sure that I follow. Whats wrong with insurance companies factoring in DNA markers to put people at risk of cancer or heart attack in a higher risk pool?

That's not a custom risk factor at the individual level. Its just using data they believe indicates risk to decide what larger pool the person gets put into.
Having just heard of bcachefs when reading this article, I tried to understand what makes it better than other existing FS but couldn't quite find a clear answer. It feels like it's feature set is equivalent to ZFS.

Do you guys know why someone should get excited by bcachefs?
> “…when there’s enough friction in 2 mating fasteners of similar material…and the mating threads weld together.”

I’m not in industry, but i wrench my motorcycle. I’m learning so much here.

I’m usually worried about “galvanic corrosion” when aluminum and stainless steel corrode and making removing the steel screws all but impossible.
Now imagine a future where not only we are screening job applicants based on their genes, that police targets a specific genetic profile, but we also mark people with the "bad" genes so that anyone can recognize them. Some sort of color coding, like white for good, black for bad...

Yeah... see where I am going...

Gene-based discrimination is not new, in fact, it used to be the norm. Now, it is called racism, and we are actually in a much better situation than we once were. Not perfect of course, but we have laws in place to limit such abuse.

If discrimination based on "non color-coding" genes is not already illegal in first world countries, I suspect the existing laws will soon be updated to reflect that once it starts being practical.
And I think it will be more readily enforced than for traditional racism. Racism is a natural, quasi-instinctive bias that you actually have to fight against, because there is no way you can ignore the skin tone of the person in front of you, but you can simply not use a genetic sequencing test. Plus it sounds like eugenics, something that became kind of unpopular since the 1940s.
I think you are the one missing the point: it's not that this post has a conservative bias (every text necessarily has these kinds of bias, and that's fine). The problem with this post is that it is only here as an argument against liberal ideas that he doesn't like, and as such it's entirely driven by bad faith.

Then sure there may be some elements of truth sprinkled every now and then, but every piece of propaganda always lies on some truth to be convincing, that doesn't make it legit.
> The second generation AI would happen as soon as some subset of the AI travels too far for real time communication at the speed of light.

Not necessarily. It's very easy to add error correction codes to make a computer not change if you really don't want it to even in the presence of radiation-induced bit-flips.

(There's also the possibility of an ASI finding a solution to the alignment problem before making agents of its own; I would leave that to SciFi myself, just as I would proofs or disproofs of the Collatz conjecture).

Also: what does "real time" even mean in the context of a transistor-based mind? Transistors outpace biological synapses by the same ratio that wolves outpace continental drift, and the moon is 1.3 light-seconds from the Earth.
This is nothing new for Google, they already do this.
On a phone there is no box at all. It's two options to select. The opt-in is highlighted, but there is no "next" button -- you have to select an option.
Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent in Haskell
> Private jets, yachts, personal cooks and butlers are truer symbols of the upper class.

Those are all signs of wealth; most classy people would actively avoid them, even if they're wealthy.

I'm from the UK; I suspect that in the USA, it's easier to raise your social class by simply spending money. Here, social class by default is inherited. It's reinforced by where you went to school. Most people of high social class are slightly embarrassed about it; showing it off is seen as tacky.
>Kim Peak wasn't even autistic.

That is a weird thing to say. He was misdiagnosed. He has FG syndrome.
Yet another dude who’s dressing up the idea that the working classes are “noble savages” in a lot of fancy words.
I would never try to run a business that depends on tracking (I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror) but if I did I would respond to this by putting up a notice like this:

"Our business depends on tracking. That's how we make our money. We cannot provide this service for free to someone who has activated do-not-track. We do offer a paid version of the service at $X per month. If you want to subscribe, click here. Otherwise, if you want to continue to use our service for free, you will have to disable DNT."
Why 15 months?
A wife can find out a husband is trying to cheat on them for example.
That's part of the question isn't it? 1.5C isn't the problem - it's 1.5 over 10 years. If it is (or if we make it) 1.5C over 100 years then the problem is easier to deal with. If it's over 200 years then the problem is much easier to deal with.
David Byrne’s Stop Making Sense. You?
> It's Russia, Iran, China and friends against all democracies.

I love this kind of rhetoric, it implies we in the west are the democratic ones and dehumanizes the "enemy". The same wording has also been used to condone carpet bombing civilians the last weeks. "It's up to the democratic world".

I don't think we are that much better, our leaders are just better at hiding their bullshit. But people willingly fall for the myth that we are somehow the "good guys".

The way you put it's X, Y, Z and friends against us is also interesting. Have you considered it might be the other way around? Hasn't basically every president waited for a reason to fight the last boss in the middle east? We're very hungry for war in the west, don't fool yourself we're any better than the rest.

We're not content with what we have, we will keep destabilizing the world until we own it all. The day every so-called leader answers to the US that's when we have world peace.
You should run for congress... wait, no borders means no countries so no congress. Just a bunch of really powerful people making rules over fiefdoms...
I disagree that it’s common practice or standard. The W3C never even standardized it, mainly because of low adoption: https://github.com/w3c/dnt/commit/5d85d6c3d116b5eb29fddc6935...
Nothing to add, except for a sincere appreciation for how you eloquently and impartially summed up the divide.
The Executive Order on AI, with notes on computing budget
I think this is inevitable too, but... maybe politically incorrectly... maybe we should acknowledge it and roll with it, and help people with worse genes however we can, but encourage genetic modification for future generations?

I don't think this idea of "gene blindness" can really work, long term. We're lying ourselves when we say all people are created equal. They very much are not. That's the whole point of genetics.

But we can still say "but they still deserve respect, compassion, and equal treatment." That applies whether theu are disadvantaged due to race (itself genetic, though more plainly obvious), hormonal (sex and some birth defects), upbringing, culture, whatever.

I'm totally for opening up the genome for cross-examination and all the hard social questions that will necessarily come wit it, rather than avoiding the topic and pretending like it's not a thing.

Social norms will just change over time. Better understanding and usage of our genes can actually advance the species (and hopefully societies with it).
I was hoping for more specifics.

Our definitions of normie are probably different, because there is definitely university work that requires performance that “normal” (majority) of people will never need.
ZFS will never be integrated into the Linux kernel due to it's licence.
btrfs is complicated to use and has many pitfalls that can lead to it eating your data.
Line manager here.

When I find someone very talented, I go out of my way to promote them because good engineers who want to stick around and not jump when the times are good is hard.

The sad reality is that I’m limited to how much I can bump their pay, give them time
off, etc.
On the other hand, peasants in Russia believe in big government and there's no luxury there for them
So time travel deletes free will from the universe rather than just providing better information to the oracle?

Does a family member knowing you well deprive you of freedom of choice?
If your business model depends on tracking, you should go out of business.
The chinese have official response:
https://m.163.com/news/article/IICVKOU50001899O.html?spss=ad...
Exactly. If they were for example using genetic testing to set your insurance rates or something like this, that's dystopian. Doing medical research that leads to successful treatments for deadly diseases is hardly the sinister plot people seem to be implying it is.
Never our decision you mean ;) Funnily enough, the nonprofit space can be even tricker to dissuade from tracking. ROI in nonprofits can be really ephemeral if the the aim is "raising awareness" whereas if you're selling something, there's a clear bottom line. In those circumstances if you want figures to present to the board in terms of ROI, something that requires tracking like "return visits" is a hard number. Nonprofits also have to make the best use of minimal funding, so efficient use of resources on publicity is absolutely key. The only site we've built that doesn't have opt-in tracking is one for a domestic violence prevention service which didn't want any tracking to reduce the traces in visitors' browsers.
>Lambda did not gain fast market traction is because...

I'll extend this to all three cloud services, and dispute the assertion. Developers are smart and figured out that these serverless platforms are great for APIs even if the initial tutorials didn't present that scenario. Also, the platforms just got better at this over time while those early tutorials were somewhat cast in stone. I've not looked lately, but I would hope that they now have tutorials that show monolith scenarios.

>Lambda monolith are super cheap for B2B SaaS startups

Again, I'll extend this to Azure Functions and Cloud Run. Truly an amazing place we now sit. My first public facing API required me to build a physical machine and place it in a colo facility in town. Now I just run a command-line or check in my code and my API is live.
Apple M3 Pro Chip Has 25% Less Memory Bandwidth Than M1/M2 Pro
Interesting how they render the date, there will be players in the UK who will see that and think they can use their controllers until the 11th of December. I don't know why they didn't just use "12th of November, 2023"
Forced mass exodus. Why does this sound familiar?
When you're near a border you typically don't want to get your car ride routed over 2 border crossings just because it's the shortest path. Skipping the borders is definitely not a "better off" situation.
Ireland is a common law country, and coincidentally the European headquarters of many internet giants
Every time DNT comes up, advertisers are like "but, but, 15 years or so ago, Microsoft enabled it by default for a few months! Hence we can't honor it! Booyah!"
Yeah, but it's the strongest form of that argument I'm aware of.
Advertising does not require tracking. In fact in the history of advertising tracking represents a jot in time.
How do you even know the race of the people who wrote the article or the code, and why would you deny them the right to represent themselves, or anyone else they want to? And yes, you're racist, and we know you are because you already told us so with your own words. Yeah, that's fucked up, but that was your lifestyle choice to believe that kind of stuff, and to so proudly interrupt the conversation we were having about automating dead code cleanup to tell everyone about your racism.

You're only digging yourself deeper the way you're trying to deny it, showing again how furious a harmless picture of a black man and a white man working together makes you feel. If you didn't want people to know how you really felt, and what really gets your goat, even more than racism itself, you shouldn't have told everyone, then tried to do a 180! Just don't say anything like that in the first place, and grind your angry gears about how oppressed you are by inclusivity quietly to yourself. We don't care, and it's totally off-topic.
No, they were compassionate for the victims of jewish criminals. Ex hyp., they did not feel any fear towards jewish people.

When you have compassion for victims, that makes you intolerant of their attackers. And if you imagine victimhood, then the anger and intolerance is just the same.

Compassion is an incredibly dangerous emotion for this reason; and is at the heart of a great amount of war and conflict. If people were afraid of an enemy, the won't attack them. But if they have compassion for their (possibly imagined) victims, then my god: they'll punish them to the ends of the earth.

Emotions are not moral things. Actions are. Any given emotion leads to both moral and immoral outcomes: anger is moral when it enables self-defence; fear is moral when it enables protection; compassion is moral when it enables protection to the needly.

But as with all the others, compassion becomes a profoundly immoral force when it motivates a desire to protect non-victims from their non-attackers. This "protection" is a form of self-righteous oppression -- and vastly more common than sociopaths pulling strings.

It is trivial to form a mob to lynch whomever you like if they feel it would protect some innocent -- it is compassion which drives the excess of all mobs
Other than the fact that I can’t upgrade the OS and increasingly vendors only support M-series chips there is nothing wrong with my Intel MacBook Pro.
There's some indescribable and pleasurable sensation in the back of my head when I delete code.

It's like I'm FEELING the space being freed.
> Whats wrong with them?

I do not thing there is something wrong. That is why I asked because this 'colonial' narrative seems often too vague. It is often just 'the west'.
> Replacing fossil fuels with anything will take time. That doesn't mean we shouldn't start doing it.

Of course we should do it as quickly as possible. But look at the number: most likely we won't replace. We will just compensate for some of the loss.

> we can use electricity to make liquid fuels from the CO2 and water vapor in the air, by reversing the chemical reactions that take place when the fuels are burned.

Because we can does not mean at all that it scales. That's my whole point. Did you ever stop to check how many nuclear plants we would need to replace all fossil fuels? And I mean considering all the very energy-expensive ideas you're considering like "reversing the chemical reactions that take place when the fuels are burned".

You're basically saying that we will replace fossil fuels by producing more energy that will allow us to synthesize fossil fuel-like alternatives. That's a lot of energy, you can't just ignore it.

> You simply refuse to consider the possbility of gradually shifting energy usage in order to not have to "degrow"

And you apparently refuse to consider that maybe fossil fuels are so "great" (in terms of energy) that we don't have a viable alternative. Again: we need to build nuclear plants to compensate for the loss of fossil fuels, but that won't completely replace it.

> lower people's standard of living

That's just about the narrative. If your view of "a good life" is no biodiversity, but a new phone every year and flying every weekend to a different city to listen to the same music in a similar night club", then yes, it will lower your standard of living. But maybe it just means that we need a lot less TikTok-like technology and go back to more essential ideas (like enjoying nature and slow travel to closer places).

Also, from my point of view, anyway we will degrow. It will be forced by the reduction in availability of fossil fuels. It's just that if we don't control it (by organizing society around degrowth), it will be worse.

There is this great French person who says that uncontrolled sobriety is poverty. And I agree with that: I don't want poverty, but I have to face the fact that I will need sobriety.
It is (soon) officially in kernel, as opposed to zfs.

It has a more limited feature set and said to have simpler codebase than zfs/btrfs. It has a single outstanding non-stable feature.

It seems to be in active development, while btrfs seems to have become stagnant/abandonware before it was finished/stabilised completely. I have read several horror stories about data loss, so I have avoided it so far.

On the other hand it is not widely deployed yet, there is less accumulated knowledge than in case of zfs.

I'm looking forward to trying it in my NAS when buying new disks next year. The COW snapshots would fit my needs (automatic daily snapshots, weekly backups).

(Now using LUKS+LVM+ext4, this would give a better, more integrated, deduplicated solution, I have lots of duplicated data right now)
Why should Israel respond as if this is less serious than China does when Taiwan is listed on a map?

China is extremely offended when that happens — and should be held to the same standard, regarding others.
When we're borderless, there's no border for your car to cross.
What's the... I guess, non-alternative explanation?
Big pharma does not run insurance