skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, can you still get the bad checksum file contents with zfs? Eg if it's a big database with its own checksums you might want to run a db level recovery on it.
This is interesting, surprisingly blunt, and quite on point about the current malaise, but . . . I think this is the perspective of someone that was happily drinking the kool aid for longer than they should have been.

For example, my impression was that had Android assimilated into the wider Google they would have failed. The wider Google views the fact Android isn't Chrome OS as a strategic failure, but the truth is wider Google doesn't understand how to work with other companies. The Android unit did have certain ludicrous habits (I recall huge laundry bins in the reception of their building at one point) but the reason for this was they understood what was at stake. (People forget just how much needed to be done between Android 1.6 and 4.1 to stop the iPhone completely running away with it, although that effort has now been effectively squandered). There have been other units that also fail to assimilate and then just peter out, but Google under Mr Pichai never learns from acquired companies, it just imposes their way on to them. If you came from the Chrome side of the fence you wouldn't notice this because it was your way being imposed elsewhere.

Mr Pichai has always had a singular vision, to be CEO of Google, and then stay there. What to do with that never seemed to cross his mind.
Bluetooth has "just worked" for me for nearly four years using KDE Plasma on Ubuntu and then openSUSE Tumbleweed.
In consulting we don't have the privilege to use fossilised technologies, unless the customer asks for them.
Is Google the new Microsoft?
Yup, sounds like a classic company that became manager'd to death. Explains silly features or changes we see all the time. Move on, Google's dead.
He was. OpenAI board as of last Thursday was Altman, Sutskever, Brockman, D'Angelo, Macaulay, Toner.
I'm not really in that scene, but I know for a fact trackers are going well in their niche. One that I know of is OpenMpt (I'm not good enough to use it properly so I can't speak to how good it is), but there are more.

In general, teenage engineering devices look fantastic and are really capable in the right hands, but they look deceptively simple while they are in fact really complex to make good music with. I know of a few people who burnt $1k on an OP-1 because they thought they could make music easily with it.
hi Ken. I don't think I mentioned you in the Enterprise article!
and then there were deep concerns about the stability of same, so vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled = 0 was left in-place

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/068913e4ba3dd9...
That happened to me too, I was able to secure our organization's name that way. There was someone squatting on it, and it could have caused potential problems if they started uploading code. From what I recall about the process, it was pretty straightforward - I sent an email and just a few minutes later, I had the username linked to me.
I don't think you're a cold-hearted extractivist. That's what I meant when I said I thought you were a nice person (though I totally failed to come up with a turn of phrase to match yours!).

The thing is I am utterly depressed by the way that "climate change" has caused an entire generation to think that conservation is about managing atmospheric chemistry and planetary climate. Conservation is about preventing habitat loss and extinction. Human well-being does not trump avoidance of habitat loss in all cases by any means. And so, I criticized your post for (somewhat analogously to climate change) suggesting an utterly spurious reason for extinction avoidance when no-one should need any reason.

But the generation of people who care about climate change (not you, I'm just ranting) by and large don't know the difference between a eucalyptus/pine monoculture that results from one of their afforestation schemes and a natural forest habitat. Climate change avoidance may well be an important thread of conservation, but the fact that we have lost the simple rallying call of "Save the rainforests" threatens to be a tragedy, and if it turns out so, I will partially blame the last 20 years of climate change discourse.
I feel modern "open source" is kind of a parody of the original intentions and it completely misses the forest for the trees.

Wikipedia says the goals of the GPL are "the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software."

It's a pyrrhic victory in today's world where the building blocks are open source, but the full stack is not, and the software is running on corporate servers where users have no control over it.

Companies have simply commoditized and devalued the software and started hoarding the far more valuable user data instead.
My experience trying to write human-sounding articles using Claude AI
Say Goodbye to Those Side-Effects Readouts in Drug Commercials
On my book that is relatively the same, as each of them comes with some learning cost, and related ramp on efforts, only to be dropped a couple of years later, without any respect for the developers, see .NET Native and C++/CX deprecation as one example.
> If they went through due process, notified their employees and investors, and put out a statement of why they're firing the CEO

Did you read the bylaws? They have no responsibility to do any of that.
It's not even that, windows forces you to use Defender. It's always on, and you can only disable it temporarily. Even when it's disabled, the process still seems to be active and consuming resources.

It's Norton all over again, except now the malware is an integral part of the operating system and it's harder to remove than any real virus.
I guess it was the Alphabet saga? It's all like this. I have decided that if given the chance, I'd never work in companies with more than 1,000 persons.
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Here's an example of a nasty data corruption bug in ZFS from not that long ago: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/7401

Corresponding HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797644
> Ads showing traffic jams could actually help promote large cars.

This is high on the list of BS claims I have seen. If it were true, why wouldn't car companies use it to sell cars?
> You get 90 links of 'Microsoft experts' that ask you to run "sfc /scannow" or "chdsk".

adding the word "reddit" to the search usually improves the results significantly
Just in time for Advent of Code.
My experience is similar; I have my personal email, which has been in use since the early 00s, in almost plain text (@ replaced with <at>) on the about page of a fairly popular site which gets several million visits a month. I only get 5-10 spam messages/day, most of which are filtered without issue. I do get a decent amount of email, but not true 'spam'. It's mostly just crap I've signed up for over the years and can't be bothered to get rid of.

I honestly get more at my work email, which has never been posted anywhere... I wonder if spammers have started to assume the easy to get email addresses are suspicious or not valuable for various reasons.
Not localStorage.
It is weird to focus on storage, considering the cache for the HTML/CSS/JS generating the warnings likely takes up much more storage space than the cookies themselves.
The submitted link is missing the query params (or HN stripped them) that lead directly to the post:

https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1
Do you remember before Bill Gates got into disease prevention he thought that “charity work” could be done by giving away free Microsoft products? I don’t know who sat him down and explained to him how full of shit he was but they deserve a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

Just because someone says they agree with a mission doesn’t mean they have their heads screwed on straight. And my thesis is that the more power they have in the real world the worse the outcomes - because powerful people become progressively immune to feedback. This has been working swimmingly for me for decades, I don’t need humility in a new situation.
Sure. Also the massive Experian leak. But new sources lower the bar for getting the data.

Separately, I think the general public now has really high "cyber incident fatigue". It happens so often that nobody cares anymore.
I guess echo location can be a entirely different game once you put it through Ai, making sensorics one field to be disrupted. No more two value coding for dumb sensor bricks.
So just hackers then?
You forget people who are convinced that they are wealthy, and then are convinced that they have humanity's best interest in part.

This describes many who fell for crypto Ponzi schemes. Who were convinced that buying into the Ponzi scheme made them rich, and the world a better place.
Some of our infra at FastComments handles the SSL termination itself, it's really nice owning that in the app layer and removing another component. Yes, we use LetsEncrypt. Those are Java vertx apps. Good thing I didn't move them to rust I guess? But this seems like too weird of an issue to be true.
Actually the board may not have acted in most professional way but in due process they kind of proved Sam Altman is unfireable for sure, even if they didn't intend to.

They did notify everyone. They did it after firing which is within their rights. They may also choose to stay silent if there is legitimate reason for it such as making the reasons known may harm the organization even more. This is speculation obviously.

In any case they didn't omit doing anything they need to and they didn't exercise a power they didn't have. The end result is that the board they choose will be impotent at the moment, for sure.
Tacky to sling accusations without evidence or examples.
I mean, I was rocking a 1920x1200 CRT for my Win2k/Win98SE dual boot system that I had until WinXP64. They were plenty capable of efficiently using the screen real estate.
Intent Signals
Isn’t China essentially capitalist now? The main difference in my mind is authoritarianism vs liberalism.
Flutter is a leading framework? Maybe in some niche. It's not even in the top 10 for me.
I thought:

A APC isn't a tank, it's an APC.

If it's got say an autocannon, and/or ATGM it would be called an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV)

Both those and tanks would all be considered Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV).
Furry infosec is like a nation state level adversary. US cyber command should have an all fur division.
Difficult to extract any useful info from this post without specifying what or where your spam filter is. Does it run locally? On your own mail server? An ISP's default spam filter? Gmail? CPanel? Have you tweaked any settings?
"Flutter is amazingly successful. It's already the leading mobile app development framework" ???
With the twist that we cannot know what they are or directly control them being the important bit.

A bunch of conditional statements are fine so long as they can be reasonably analyzed. It's the point where you stop being able to analyze them that you have a risk you didn't before.
I rebelled. On the console I set the display property of the #glass-container element to "none", hiding the popover window:

document.querySelector("#glass-container").style.display = "none";

Then since scrolling was disabled, I just used the window.scroll() function to scroll down and see the small parts of the article that I wasn't able to read before the popup appeared.

This works because Tumblr doesn't actually remove the parts of the article it doesn't want you to see from the HTML output, so it's still perfectly viewable if you can get past the popup. This is not generally the case though, for example most news sites actually remove the text you're not supposed to see if you don't log in.

If I could figure out how to re-enable scrolling, I'd have a recipe for a pretty delicious Greasemonkey script.

Dear tumblr -- Sincerely fuck off with this bullshit, thanks.
Fun fact, Ruby as a single-threaded language is probably the only way how most people experience it, but...

Ruby has a rich cooperative multitasking called Fibers that hopefully is getting more exposure, in amongst a bevy of competing implementations and other also-ran concurrency primitives (besides the usual contenders like Threads, Process fork, foreman that just runs several processes alongside one another...)

https://github.com/ruby/debug/issues/486#issuecomment-157531...

If you want to use debugging and multi-threaded or multi-fiber Ruby at once, you can! You just have to get a bit creative. I always refer back to this thread on the Ruby `debug` gem (though the advice applies to any other REPL you can use) about applying a Mutex. You can use the built-in Fiber.blocking to prevent other fibers from running at the same time as yours, or you can use a Mutex to just ensure that you don't hit the debugger multiple times in the same process IO that would mean you've got multiple REPLs all grappling for the StdIO at once (but that other fibers can proceed, in case you were trying to debug something - you know - actually concurrent - and you really don't want for the world to stop and wait on your debugger!)

For a long time Ruby dev who almost never did concurrency unless it was facilitated by the OS, or before being exposed to it directly in other languages like Go, the Ruby "super power" remains intact, it's just a bit more mysterious with the concurrency stuff added. Ruby has amazing diversity in its concurrency tools, which is a nice way of saying "the language authors decided not to pick a king concurrent runtime/winning gem whilst all of the competing implementations were all a bit nascent and un-fully-formed!"

I like the bruno/fiber-scheduler but it looks like it is not the winner. It should be easy to switch to another fibers implementation, I think async is the crown champion now, but I still haven't been motivated to switch - the fiber-scheduler that is named fiber-scheduler has been good enough for me, despite shortcomings!
I haven't read enough into the story to make up an opinion. However, purely based on what you're saying, that's completely normal abuser behaviour. You wouldn't be denying the inheritance to enrich yourself, but rather to prevent someone from becoming economically empowered and reducing your power over them. It's a very common tactic.
A laptop can do a great many things. That doesn’t mean it’s the best form factor for doing it.

Music making devices are very much about the ergonomics of devices and the reduction of friction in workflow. This is also significantly more portable than a laptop, with much lower latency than you would likely get.

When people compare devices, they should really consider not looking at just paper /capabilities and what it means to a user.
If you want to be on the cutting edge (eg. HEDT, ECC, 14th gen/Zen 4 CPUs, etc.) then there aren't many integrators that will be able to bundle all the newest tech. If you're looking to maximize the performance-per-dollar and efficency for your usecase, self-built is really the only option.

If you still insist on paying next-gen prices for last-gen hardware, Lenovo and Dell have you covered:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-s...

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/scc/sr/workstations/precisio...
There is no comparison to himself in the previous comment. Also, did you measure their IQ to put them on such a pedestal? There are lots of examples for people being great in their niche they invested thousands of hours in, while being total failures in other areas. You could see that with Mr. Sutskever over the weekend. He must be excellent in ML as he dedicated his life to researching this field of knowledge, but he lacks practice in critical thinking in management contexts.
Another article that highlights Vic Gundotra’s arrival and rise at Google as the beginning of their decline.
Typical drug commercial: "Don't use this drug if you are allergic to this drug"

That is a warning for which I would like a more useful explanation.
That's not the point. Whether or not it was in the bylaws, this would have been the sensible thing to do.
>Google has a system in place to gate that file with an ad view

This may be their intention, but, no, they don't gate files with ad views. They allow you to start downlaoding the ad and the file at the same time. I am not circumventing a "system to gate files with ad views" because that is not the system that they have.
We're held like phosphorus
ChatGPT's advice perceived as better than that of professional advice columnists
Even as a gamer, I prefer to use cheap monitors, wasted too much money on expensive ones in my younger days only to see them break after a few years then the money is gone. I can afford better, I'm just cheap. I imagine I will start using a better monitor in coming years and if I see issues, I'll definitely honestly report them and discuss them. Another thing to think about, more pixels means more electricity used to keep them lit and more electricity to shove images around on the screen for the GPU, higher electricity bill, more carbon in the atmosphere.

I wonder how many HiDPI users also complain about global warming in other forums.
Not even if they pay well enough that you can quit and still afford having a family in only 5 years, instead of 20?
> Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack of interest in maintaining the cultural norms of early Google.

That's an interesting observation considering Sundar is where he is because of early-Google cultural norms.
These are technicalities IMO. There is nothing else to EA than the current institutions, people and praxis. If they become unfashionable or dishonored their moment will pass.

It’s not some special new kind of cause, it’s just charity with an almost intolerably smug self-image.
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Poll: Do You Pirate Media?
Non-sequitor.

If you look back the at the original post I say "Hard drive" not the "localStorage object".

And they are indeed stored are your system and not the servers.

https://allaboutcookies.org/what-is-a-cookie-file#:~:text=In....
I’m not sure how the point stands. The iPhone was introduced during that tenure, then the App Store, then Jobs decided Google was also headed toward their own full mobile ecosystem, and released Schmidt. None of that was a conflict of interest at the beginning. Jobs initially didn’t even think Apple would have an app store.

Talking about conflicts of interest in the attention economy is like talking about conflicts of interest in the money economy. If the introduction of the concept doesn’t clarify anything functionally then it’s a giveaway that you’re broadening the discussion to avoid losing the point.

You forgot to do Oracle and Tesla.
Larry Summers is the scary pick here. His views on banking deregulation led to the GFC, and he's had several controversies over racist and sexist positions. Plus he's an old pal of Epstein and made several trips to his island.
Policy on this seems to have shifted in the last 1-2 years.

I’ve asked personally in the last 12 months for a couple situations and been declined by GitHub Support.

Looking quickly on Reddit mine isn’t an unusual experience.

It was good while it lasted!
Are you close enough to do grocery delivery for them?

Maybe do a 'basic' Walmart stock-up delivery?

Or anonymously send a gift card to their favorite restaurant?
Isn't that just Defcon now?
Yep. I quit after a year in 2015 because it already felt like that.
There were comments the other day along the lines of "I wouldn't be surprised if someone came by Ilya's desk while he was deep in research and said 'sign this' and he just signed it and gave it back to them without even looking and didn't realize."

People will contort themselves into pretzels to invent rationalizations.
> he is laying a good foundation (from what I have heard/read about his development process)

Could you please share some blog or resource to read a bit about his dev process myself? That stuff usually interests me, to improve my own process.
Love it! I wanted to say thank you for this.
I believe they meant to use the tildes to indicate a strikethrough text format, as with markdown. The "cul", I would guess is an unfinished "cultists", even though you'd typically strikethrough a completed word. When trying to indicate a "change of mind" it would be better to use a dash: "Better at retaining cul- uh, employees."
Yeah, there are thousands of hospitals across the US and they don't run 24/7 shifts just to treat the flu or sprained ankles. Disabling events happen a lot.

(A seriously underrated statistic IMO is how many women leave the workforce due to pregnancy-related disability. I know quite a few who haven't returned to full-time work for years after giving birth because they're still dealing with cardiovascular and/or neurological issues. If you aren't privy to their medical history it would be very easy to assume that they just decided to be stay-at-home mums.)
Google in 2015 had probably 30,000 employees, maybe more. And it was still completely open internally and had a real community feel to it.

One time, I was stuck in Montreal for 7 days for personal reasons (a vacation plan that exploded). I walked into the Google office there, made some friends, worked on a random project they were doing and ended up collaborating on an OKR a year later. It is entirely possible to keep this kind of culture going for much longer than people think.

Conversely, I've worked at companies with 500 employees that were the blandest kind of "enterprise business company firm" you can imagine. :)
Seems like Google is being managed by consuming lots of managerial literature.

Also, coming from Flutter camp, blog is barely readable on mobile without zooming.
I think GP used "windows" in lowercase to refer to all windowing operating systems, not just the MS one?
I reported maybe the first instance of that (#15275), and lost my home pool (but was able to get my files back). It was not a good weekend.
“The hacktivist group SiegedSec conducted a high profile attack on NATO last month, leaking internal documents as a retaliation against those countries for their attacks on human rights. The group commonly attacks government and affiliated organizations for political reasons, like targeting state governments for passing anti-trans legislation earlier this year.”

Having a tough time hating them.
Ran is not only highly regarded in Kurosawa's output, it regularly pops up on lists of greatest films of all time.

When people speak of Kurosawa's weaker films, they generally mean Dodeskaden and Scandal, and then perhaps lesser-known efforts like The Quiet Duel and Derzu Uzala.
> I think it was a real mistake to create OpenAI as a public charity and I would be hesitant to step into that mess.

I think it could have worked either as a non-profit or as a for-profit. It's this weird jackass hybrid thing that's produced most of the conflict, or so it seems to me. Neither fish nor fowl, as the saying goes.
Autopilot = radar cruise and lane keep?
Well, NATO conditions on paper are what kicked in post 9/11 for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most NATO countries risked their troops because the US was attacked, even though their own military installations/deployments were never attacked.
CEOs are professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft, they use their communications to achieve an end, expressing their inner selves is not the point. You might know a great kind person who is a car salesman, when they are at work a good one comes off as genuine and friendly, the things they're saying include many truths, but their words and actions are primarily designed to sell cars. Assume this is true of any professional communicator when they're communicating.
Given the news today, apparently so.
Yes, large corps have weaponized open source.
Without reading your link yet, I don't understand why is it difficult to understand when I say all my devices on all the Dell (and Alienware), HP and Lenovo PC's I've bought the past two decades just work on Linux.