skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s “Stupid thing”.

And then there’s murdering your ex, hiding her body over two days, lying to your children that she’d left for russia and they’d been abandoned, and only revealing the location of the body so you could plea down to second degree murder (a good 18 months later mind, we’re not talking quick change of heart).

Oh and then filing a civil suit against pretty much the entire legal system, including the trial judges and your attorney.

And when sued for damage by your children’s grandmother (on their behalf) assert that you killed your ex to protect your kids (which you had basically never been there for, which was the entire reason your wife left you).

I’m not saying redemption is not possible, but I’d think some reflection and atonement would be the baseline, and I’m not aware of Hans Reiser having done any such work.
This is going to speed up the export decline from China to US.

In 2023, among key trading partners, exports to the U.S. led the decline, down 13% from the previous year.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade/China-s-annual-exports...
I don't think Reiser's name had anything to do with the removal. If I recall the situation was more or less as follows:

Reiserfs3 was out there, and while it had plenty fans (good performance and efficient disk usage), it had a fair amount of corruption issues. Reiserfs4 was about to come out. Reiser insisted that Reiserfs3 was done and an obsolete relic, and reiserfs4 was the new hot thing.

Reiser ran a consulting company of some kind. IMO this may have put a bit of a damper on contributions.

He also had a contentious personality, with quite a lot of people disliking him, and him having trouble convincing people to merge reiserfs4.

Right about that time the whole murder mess happened. So reiserfs3 was apparently abandoned, reiserfs4 was uncertain if it was going to get merged. Namesys, Reiser's company of course fell apart and the existing employees had to find something else to do.

So that was probably about the worst timing possible. Reiserfs4 didn't get merged, Reiser was dealing with the trial/prison, and other filesystems started showing up as well.
Hmmm. On the face of it, this looks nice, and seems like a decent starting point, but a couple concerns come to mind.

First, reading the history indicates that the page as it stands it new and the work of a single individual. That's not necessarily bad, but it does mean that you have to interpret this assuming it could be too narrow or limited to the qualifications of that single author. Surely time will correct this, but any advice need to be seen through that lens.

Second, my brief look didn't see version differences discussed. For example, PostgreSQL had historically had issues with large connection counts (and still does). But the degree had changed over time as work had been done (and continues to be done) to make this problem less a problem. One size fits all advice simply doesn't give you what you might need for your version. The talk page rightfully calls this out
> I have seen groups put huge amounts of work into a "fix" for a system when they are only really guessing at what the problem is.

This is sadly far more the rule than the exception. So many times I've heard "we think the problem is [wild-ass guess] and so we're going to do [lengthy re-write] to fix it." And when I say "hey uh maybe we could do [simple test] to prove whether [wild-ass guess] is actually happening?" it's "oh no we can't waste time we have to start the rewrite" or even just "huh, yeah I guess we could test it that way, anyway... we start the rewrite tomorrow".

Edit: one specific case I remember talking to a mechanical engineer about how a particular mass-spring system would react to a momentary impulse and he said "well there's no way to know what'll happen so let's just try it." Thinking back I can rationalise this answer as "we don't fully understand the dynamics of the piece of third-party equipment generating the impulse so let's just use this as a starting point" but at the time it made me so mad. Like, if only there were a discipline entirely dedicated to using mathematical modeling techniques to predict the behaviour of physical systems in order to back-calculate the necessary physical parameters to achieve a given behaviour.
Safety often comes via overwhelming redundancy and back up protections. The human should do X, but if they don't do X, another system will do Y to save the plane, and if that system fails, then another system will do Z...

Single points of failure should be avoided. Like in driving, things should work out if driver A or driver B does the right thing, or if the road is designed right, or if pedestrians are following reasonable rules, you just try to make all those things true, so if any of them are not, it isn't a disaster.
Right, but you didn't simply say it; you said it emotively and with implications about good faith from the other side. It's your call, I'm not the boss of you, but I think you two are probably wasting your time at this point. 7 days! That's a very old thread.
I consider it a Bayesian approach to understanding potential internal drivers. Someone who is not cold and calculating likely has less capacity to completely present the appearance of redemption whereas someone who is calculating has that capacity.

So, someone who is demonstrated to be calculating has higher odds of faking a behavior if it is beneficial to them (e.g. leaving prison).

It's for him to know, but I don't think it's ridiculous for me to question.
Designing for fusion is valid, but RISC-V has a lot of cases that boil down to "use a 12-byte fused instruction where other architectures do it in 4 bytes".

L1i matters, people!
Quite often they know the law they're passing isn't constitutional but it's good campaign optics so they do it anyway. When it is overturned by the courts, voters generally get angry with the court for overturning the law rather than with their congress critter for passing it.
Why was (8chan founder) Fredrick Brennan corresponding with Hans Reiser? Anyone have the background for that?
Yeah but most software bugs aren’t life or death
> bedside cordless phone

1998 called, they want their phone back.

In seriousness though, you could have used black electrical tape and saved yourself the nauseating smell of nail polish.
They're not getting rid of the program.

It's just being replaced by another program, but for some reason they are not transferring the points. Very dumb and easily fixable.
His sentence, according to above, is 15 years to life, so his sentence could end up being a life sentence.
It'll make sense in some places where it's harder to build/deploy a 40kW traditional turbine. They're not easy to move and are relatively close to the ground so they are viable in fewer places than kite systems because winds aloft are much higher than those near the ground. You can also use this temporarily in areas where you have periodic power requirements and poor access to the wider electric grid. Think about deploying a lot of these in areas right after hurricanes or other disasters.
Have to agree. I miss my 90s internet.
LLVM's handling of libc is roughly "assume libc always exists and is linked as machine code". This is deeply unhelpful when that is not true, such as when you're implementing libc. -ffreestanding and -fno-builtins (might be spelled differently) should kill the pattern match into memcpy/memset logic, if it doesn't we have another bug.

I don't trust the clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-pointer-whatever strategy. There's too many ways for that to go wrong. Code needs to be correct/safe by default and opt into optimisations to have a chance of working, otherwise it is really easy to fail to check that flag.

There are a few fairly simple C compilers out there. LCC, the one that derives from the obfuscated project, one in gnu mes associated with guix. There's a grammar from the compcert people.

I haven't convinced myself writing a working C compiler is a weekend project but it's surely less than a year, seriously considering it on paranoia grounds. Idea being use it as a reference - when I suspect clang to be breaking things, run against the dumb one that doesn't really do optimisations as a comparison.
Have you been in a professional environment?
Operating the kite isnt easy on its own. A lot of complexity involved in this. I am intrigued as someone who kites and develops clean energy. I have a tough time seeing how this is a set and forget situation. Maybes it the first step in a direction with something better down the road!
sentenced 15 years to life
> If the market can do anything then it that has to be optimizing productivity.

Except if margins from the company's commercial real estate holdings are higher than the gains of remote productivity.
Human teachers aren't omniscient, but often have absolute authority over their pupils. This flaw isn't unique to AI.
No, the big anxiety in China is that the manufacturing is disappearing, especially to developed world like Europe and US. With real estate and consumer spending - the 2 of 3 economic engines - in the dumps, China has switched focus back to manufacturing - the other engine. However...

China's annual exports drop for first time in seven years.

Among key trading partners, exports to the U.S. led the decline, down 13% from the previous year. Demand from the European Union and Southeast Asian countries also shrank.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade/China-s-annual-exports...
I think it was Jamie Zawinski who said the reason he left Netscape was that it went from being full of people that wanted to build a great company to being full of people who wanted to work at a great company. The later culture won.
Yes, definitely! I have been self-hosting everything for years now, and I'm very happy. Even a three-machine bare-metal cluster has impressive computing power and is difficult to grow out of. I can't envision growing out of a five-machine cluster.

I found higher-level solutions (like AWS) to be slow, complicated and expensive, and I really can't see any reasons to use them.
One sided clawback of deferred compensation? I certainly hope someone sues them.
Thanks for the rundown. What's the basis of the perceived annoyance though? What was the district court supposed to do differently?
Isn't that a restating of Metcalfe's law?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

[EDIT: I have misunderstood Metcalfe's Law for over 20 years, assuming that "connections" meant edges in the following quote. Metcalfe intended to mean that the value of the network grows as the square of the number of nodes because "connections" here aren't edges, they're fully reachable pairs of nodes. Thanks, again, HN, for helping me through that]

> The financial value or influence of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).

Generally speaking, "the value of a graph is proportional to the square of the number of edges"

rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally_linear_graph
I feel like second sentence you quoted clarified that? "same problem" in this context means, "there is excess and unused capacity in the Vec." Your description is more precise, and at that level of precision, sure, they are not the "same problem." But yet, they share the same characteristic that is easy to forget: a `Vec` might have unused capacity leading to higher memory usage than you might expect otherwise if you aren't accounting for that unused capacity.

My phrasing is a reflection of what I think is a more universal lesson to draw from the blog, and one that is not provoked merely by how `collect()` works, but rather, the nature of growth amortization itself.

> This behavior is more surprising than the double-when-full strategy

I agree.

I updated my comment to use "similar" instead of "same."
Nah mate, you pulled that one out of nowhere. It's pretty widely understood our mental health issues are due to lonliness and social isolation and social media (fake virtual socialising) mate.
You can read 10 books during that time. It's not like you need to sit there, do nothing and intensively hate your life 2 * 15 minutes a day.
Cool.

Just as some feedback I did the demo with the "VW Beetle" topic and one of the test cases was:

> Question: How did the introduction of the Volkswagen Golf impact the production and sales of the Beetle?

> Expected: The introduction of the Volkswagen Golf, a front-wheel drive hatchback, marked a shift in consumer preference towards more modern car designs. The Golf eventually became Volkswagen's most successful model since the Beetle, leading to a decline in Beetle production and sales. Beetle production continued in smaller numbers at other German factories until it shifted to Brazil and Mexico, where low operating costs were more important.

> GPT Response: The introduction of the Volkswagen Golf impacted the production and sales of the Beetle by gradually decreasing demand for the Beetle and shifting focus towards the Golf.

It seems that the GPT responses matches the expected but it was graded as incorrect. But it seems to me the GPT answer is correct.

In fact a couple of the other answers are marked incorrectly:

> Question: What was the Volkswagen Beetle's engine layout?
> Expected Answer: Rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout
> GPT Response: The Volkswagen Beetle had a rear-engine layout.

was marked as incorrect.
There are a number of MDMs out there that will report patch level of mobile devices. If I was buying an MDM for an enterprise, I wouldn't buy one that lacked this. Ensuring devices are up to date is a pretty critical part of a good security posture.
I will always remember the Slashdot comment that said that removing the passenger seat of your car so you could sleep in your car was a reasonable thing to do, and everyone saying it was suspicious was a hater. (Bro. A car floor isn’t even flat.)

I think it was my first experience with absolute egregious fanboism.
That's true.

I had a Samsung Android phone many years ago (in the early days), and the spamware scared me off, possibly for life.
https://archive.ph/pZIks
Perhaps they can individually con themselves into power, but this is the largest issue I see with a grand conspiracy as they would have to essentially con the surrounding con artists into continuing the conspiracy, and those con artists would have to con any future con artists into continuing the con as they are voted out of office, resign, or die while holding office. It seems implausible that such a con would be started, continue until now, and continue in the future as more and more of the original con artists are no longer involved to keep the con going.
We place responsibility with the humans that employ the generators. And we've always needed curators. If we see a section of the web drowning in nonsense that just means that that part will become irrelevant. If Google or Facebook can't find a way to curate, they will be forgotten and only revered by some people as the good old times.

We can deplore it, but must not delude ourselves into thinking that the old web didn't have a nonsense problem. You had sites that would go unlinked because the creators were crazy. At first the thing that curbed influx of nonsense somewhat is barriers to entry such as cost and technical competence. Then the curation was reputation based with Google's pagerank as an example.

Now we will find new ways. And it hurts. It hurts like spam hurts email.
‘Smarter’ or just ‘different’…?
The point of the article?

Most likely to attract advertising dollars and pad the income of the guardian with interesting information
Yea I don’t get why so many people ignore this: the layoffs were to send a message to labor in conjunction with the Fed. Stop wanting more more and stop moving jobs. We need to get inflation under control and return the worker class to their jobs.

It’s an intense reevaluation of the American dream by the last class that was experiencing it
I'm gonna Craigslist all your stuff! https://xkcd.com/1150/
Because not being able to freely communicate with the larger society is part of the punishment? I dunno, always seemed like an obvious thing.
It might. But the key actor here is the person who used an LLM to paraphrase another article. The fact that Google indexed it is hardly even relevant. The claim that Google is "boosting" it is meaningless.
The semantics are kind of besides the point, I think. This allocation reuse behavior was meant as an optimization, but the real-world programs this is meant to be "optimizing" run significantly slower in beta than they did in stable. So there is a bug here no matter how you look at it.
Good take!

What the comments also show is that people willingly bring themselves in a situation of 3h of commute and then complain. That's not something you'd ever widely see in Europe imho. 3h is insane. I have < 20 minutes and love the reading time, as I travel by public transport. If I'd have a farther commute I would just move. Baffles me that someone would accept this. Maybe your public transport/zoning is fucked up, not your remote/not remote thing?
This is so true and one of the reasons why (shameless plug coming in) I made our project management tool Goleko.com able to self-host without any connection to our main servers.
The person is not asking you to accept or comply with their beliefs.

Take their comment as wishing the best for the person.
Having experience with donation only stuff, I can tell you something with the straightest face: Almost nobody who uses a service, even if they use it a lot, actually goes on to donate.

It's a real hockey stick graph where 90% of your donations come from 5% of users.

Trust me, everyone says they prefer paying/donating over ads, but when you look at the numbers, just about everyone prefers no compensation (and no ads) and chooses that if given the option.
From Syntax to Semantics
What sentence of 3 years are you talking about? The judge offered (and prosecutors agreed to) a plea guilty of second-degree murder (down from the first degree murder he was convicted of) if he revealed the location of the body and gave closure to her Nina’s children and family.

He got 15 to life, the maximum for second-degree murder, and his first request for parole was rejected so he’s doing at least 20 for now.
The most regulated areas are the ones that have the worst prices for consumers and least competition.

Think banks, insurance, pharmaceuticals, law etc.
It seems to me, that the Starlink 10GBit connection is almost designed for someone to put a server farm aboard a ship that only sails in international waters.

Re: Escaping Capitalism

I've encountered the communal experience which feels magical, like "everything is made out of love." Here's the thing about that. Scale matters. Alignment of incentives matter. The communal experience is going to start breaking down at around 450 members or so.

The old Inca empire was an example of a large scale political organization which apparently worked. However, it also seems likely this also involved the killing of those who didn't cooperate.

Perhaps superintelligent AI will enable an alternative to Capitalism, as envisioned in Ian M. Bank's Culture books?
It's a bit more complicated than that I think.

In some cases, some companies rent an office for 2-3+ years. So let's say, they renewed from 2020-2023.

They were "forced" at first (to do WFH) and money got literally "burned", because the offices were empty, but insurances and all that had to be paid.

Now they had a chance at using more alternative approaches (rent spaces, or smaller offices), yet they want many to come back. There was almost never a saving, because contracts were still running (for many companies, I believe).
I use syncthing to share it, it is part of a folder structure I install using Stow.
Wait, the paid tier of a service that has a free tier almost never means they're stopping data collection at the free tier of users. This article seems to confuse that with switch to a different service provider that is paid only.

It then goes into self-hosted, but wait why don't you just pay someone to self-host for you?

Bad article.
Here's someone making the exact opposite recommendation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38835731
After a bit of searching, apparently there is www.find.coop. I see most of the communities are in New York City. I'm sure they will welcome you in, just be sure to bring some money.
There isn't even a fine here. The post office is owned by the government, and practically insolvent as it is. The claims against Fujitsu are theoretical and might already be too old.
I do have to say, I have seen some really trash patents approved that were only submitted because the company in question had a patent bounty system. I have a colleague who has racked up about 50 so far and none of them have been used in a product.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20782/boeings-been-gra...

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> ending another human's life leaves any possibility of redemption for a person

You realize the volunteer soldiers that enter a battle to kill other humans also fall under this scope? Yet in many countries we celebrate their return and service, despite what they may have done.

I agree these are not quite the same thing, in how a deed is carried out, but the end result is in fact the same.
You don’t think the input costs have something to do with the price of an S Class?

Pricing is due to both supply and demand - there can’t be a sustainable supply of a expensive-to-make cars at loss-making prices
I agree. There's this weird contradiction in tech circles to hand-wave away legitimate concerns about scale (e.g., ubiquitous surveillance is just a policeman at scale), while simultaneously putting a lot of emphasis and value on whether a system is scalable.

The more complicated reality is that things qualitatively change at scale. We need to have honest sober discussions about the trade-offs and unknowns involved, instead of just YOLOing blindly into moving fast and breaking things.
And we all knew this from the day one, it’s just middle management feeling the need to have someone around to breathe around their shoulders and boss them around, and the C-level pushed by the commercial landlords because it’s all about their benefit.
This reminds me very much of an excerpt from a Michael Lewis book. A complex topic boiled down into simple analogies accessible for laypersons and personalized with character details: a childhood of odd obsessions, hints of precociousness, a good but not superstar academic career, brushing up against the more famous. And like Lewis (I enjoy his writing), breathless, and, if you actually know the subject, so simplified and over dramatic to be misleading. Not even wrong. I’m sure the book from which this is excerpted is full of fun stories and quirky characters. In the case of the “27-year old”, she’s interested in puzzles and language at a young age, which turns into studying cryptography. To the muggles, this all probably seems eccentric and obsessive, but to the average HN reader, not particularly strange. Similarly, describing her activities as “one of the strangest, most hyperactive Bitcoin users in the world” is dramatic, but undercut by “In all, Meiklejohn carried out 344 cryptocurrency transactions over the course of a few weeks.” Not criticizing Meiklejohn, whose work is clever and interesting, or the author, who is writing to his audience, but I think I will pass on the book.
It did sound something that could be applied to much more than the niche of OS design. The focus is to make the connections between things composable, rather than adding a lot of subsystems. Think UNIX or Lego bricks.

Thanks for those links, I did not know Metcalfe's law, but it expresses a similar concept in a much more succinct way.