skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you describe happened after the trial. The offer of 3 years happened before the trial:

>An Alameda County Superior Court judge confirmed today Hans Reiser was presented a deal last year in which the convicted murderer would have only served three years in prison. During what was supposed to have been Reiser’s sentencing hearing – which has been delayed due to this week’s events – Judge Larry Goodman, in an effort to clear up what he called inaccuracies in the media, said that Reiser was given the opportunity last September to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter. While voluntary manslaughter can carry different prison terms, Goodman said he agreed to give Reiser three years – the lowest possible term – to spare Nina Reiser’s family the turmoil of going through a trial and having the couple’s oldest son testify. Goodman pointed out in court if Reiser had accepted the deal, he would have been released in May 2008. However, Goodman said Reiser chose to “roll the dice,” and a jury convicted Reiser April 28 of first-degree murder in the killing of his wife.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/07/09/reiser-rejected-volun...
> After the tether reaches its maximum length, the ground station winches the kite back in. Though the Hawk must expend energy for reel-in, it only expends a fraction of the energy, resulting in a net energy gain that varies by wind speed. An entire cycle takes about 100 seconds: 80 for reel-out and 20 for reel-in.

This is an interesting approach. Also, the kite is doing eights all the time. Although I suspect that is only while reeling out.
I wonder what if people start to send 10x garbage data.
uBlock Origin did it for me: https://ublockorigin.com/
Drunk driving is worse than stupid. It's up there with shooting a gun into someone's house.
A few things that stuck out to me.

SuSE supposedly failed. I don't know who told him that. He might have expected it to be a RedHat or Ubuntu by now, which it isn't. But failed is very black and white. I would argue, if they still exist as they do now, they are quite successful.

He talks about Reiser V4. I think there is a Reiser V5 now? Or am I wrong? I cannot find that on Wikipedia. Anyway, the chances of it ending up in the Linux kernel seem close to zero.

He sounds very humble. Also he talks about being more social and having got education and therapy in prison. Still it reads as if they are all working together in prison, in certain ways. The world out there might be more complex. I don't know if he is being naive in this regard.
> because he's not like the rest of us

I don't think we can know this, and there's no point speculating. I would say that the letter doesn't read as someone who's imperfectly simulating regret.
I use it as a git repo and share it with an encrypted USB drive that I use for backups.
I was commenting in the context of this comment thread, where the person I was replying to referred to “shouting fire” as a clear example of the distinction “between stating opinion and being an action.”

1st Amendment jurisprudence is pretty clear that shouting is speech/expression, and is subject to the finite and well defined set of exceptions to 1st amendment protection.
Also, just a random thing that I thought of playing around with it is a few days ago a guy posted about an AI quiz generator for education.

If you ever need to pivot, it seems like this would do reasonably well in the education space also.
When I was at IBM, the whole patent/publication process was intensely gamed. Most employees in my division weren't particularly interested but made efforts to patent/publish because it was part of moving up salary bands.

A few true sociopaths went totally scorched earth with it - digging up years-old reports generated by other teams, getting them published after minimal "updates", and claiming lots of bonus dollars along the way.

It was a very weird experience working at IBM for me . . .
“Rehabilitation” means that a person is suffering from some condition, and they are not personally at fault for their crimes. While there is some partial truth in this point of view, taking it at 100% face value is unfair, to say the least. People can be actually guilty of something.
Avoiding Locks on the Event Loop and Worker Pool
> This is a change of degree, thats all.

Just like between a fork and a nuke, not sure it's a very solid argument
I worked with Hans Reiser in the late 90s. He was a contractor with the company that I was working for, and he was doing that (working on logic synthesis for FPGAs) by day and trying to start his company at night. He was very passionate about his technical ideas, though in those days he had difficulty explaining them, so I went back and forth about whether he was a genius or a crank (I decided that he was some combination of the two). I have a music CD somewhere around that he gave me, new age-y music his mother composed (not sure whether I still have it or not). I didn't want to believe that he was a murderer, but it soon became clear that he was lying.
The first image on a Mac was in colour?
For a Spark shop Delta is the default choice. If you deploy to AWS then Glue encourages you to go with Iceberg. What makes people use Hudi?
Two big things in React from the projects I’ve worked on:

1. Horrible project structure because it’s so unopinionated. Angular has its problems but it’s so much easier to navigate around (one of the reasons I like NestJS is it uses a similar structure). I once worked on a React project where every component was a folder with an index.tsx file in it and default export so tracing issues was hell since the folder name was the best clue you had but people renamed components on import. Not soley a React issue, but made worse by its lack of opinions.
2. State management in React becomes a nightmare for:
a: keeping server and client state in sync, thunk/the other one
b: everyone eventually puts it all in a global store so you’ve got the faff of dispatching, reducing, whatevering each and every update, adding a single toggle can involve updating half a dozen files.

On the performance side I have a table in my htmx app showing a few thousand bits of data. In React this would need to be paginated, with HTMX I just send the fully hydrated table to the browser and it loads it in a fraction of a second. Then when it updates I just rerun the SQL query, rerender the table on the server, send it back to the browser and HTMX swaps it in.

For me SPA + API always felt like building an application twice. With htmx I build it once.

Hope that helps.
That's the same approach that gets you from 2 to 1 clobbered registers for stores, no? i.e. usually possible, but needs compiler participation; if assuming the compiler will optimize load register usage properly, it shouldn't have any problem reducing the store clobbers from 2 to 1 either, which I understood as the difficult part. (or course 1 clobber is still worse than 0, but at least it means no 2 writes/fused instr, at least here)
Lineage Explorer for open source models – Hugging Face Space
Sure. I think side loading is the best options or allowing another way to pay where apple takes a lower cut makes sense. I'd argue that credit card companies are doing a lot less than a marketplace? But again... How do you come up with a number that really makes sense? Apple is just going to charge whatever they can until they are told they have to change.
The original site (as with sourceforge) was based on "Trove", which I can barely find mention of these days: https://tuxedo.org/esr/trove/ the post talking about how it was updated for python 1.5 should be taken as an indication that a new start might be needed!
3. The people who say they have a problem actually had a problem, but they a minority and got unlucky, and then extrapolated their experience to everyone else

The article actually ends with "shoppers are likely to find themselves disappointed and frustrated most of the time." - and that is clearly false for me and everyone I know. "rarely" or "occassionaly"? maybe. But not "most of the time".
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The aesthetic changes are mostly just theming, really. For a long time they even kept shipping a 2.4X-style theme IIRC— It looked old enough to prevent my old high school teacher from getting scared, in maybe the late 2.6X days. Looks like there's still a default "XSI" theme that gets pretty close to that. And up until pretty late you could still make the properties panel horizontal instead of vertical with a RMB menu option (which I can't seem to find in the latest versions), though the layout didn't really work too well in that mode.
Query input validation is nearly a solved problem. If you don't I would argue this is an incident if in this case 500's are returned.
I mean appeal to authority in particular is a fallacy in structured, formal debate, where your argument is supposed to stand on its own because all that's being evaluated is the participants' ability to reason and skill in rhetoric. It doesn't apply nearly as well to standard discussion.

Unless it's narrower than I think of it. If "Appeal to authority" is supposed to only refer to authorities that aren't subject matter experts, and "appeal to expertise" wouldn't fall under the fallacy then I suppose it's a reasonable shorthand for "Oprah doesn't actually have much more credibility on Mad Cow Disease than, say, I do"
Does it matter? If the company wants you in the office just don't work there, the people who want to work in the office can work at those companies and the people who want remote can work remote companies. Then we're all happy.

Only causes issues when remote people demand to be able to do it at companies that value in person working. Studies are irrelevant because at the end of the day you'll never change peoples minds.
>I think the atomic bomb is more credible as a seed of human destruction.

Nuclear weapons absolutely are an existential risk.

>By the way does anyone know anything about any launch codes?

I don't have any top secret knowledge about current systems but have read about historical command and control systems and it's a terrifying slice of history. Now there is starting to be talk about integrating AI into those systems, which I find horrifying.
> all it takes is just uploading (SFTP) a single .html file onto a web server

Yes, it's unfortunate that new developers don't know the basics. However, that's not an option for a multi-page site with complex user interactions.

There's no point in complaining about new tools being created which serve a need. If it makes someone's job easier when they're creating complex web apps, it's a good thing.
He does mention Reiser5 in his letter:

> I don’t know what is in Reiser 5—I haven’t been told, and I cannot go on the Internet. Edward Shishkin is a very bright man though, and one of my regrets is that I didn’t spend more time with him, I am confident he has done some thing nice in Reiser 5.
Not yet. We have been busy with other stuff, also the willow spec has been a bit of a moving target until now.

We would like to take our rust willow impl and separate it a bit more from our code base, so that iroh documents are just users of the willow crate.
I really thought this article was going to offer a solution, not just enumerate the problems. I'm already all too familiar with the problems.

I like what Umbrel[0] is doing. They're essentially expecting that just like computing was able to move from centralized mainframes to homes, servers are poised to make the same migration.

I think they really need to solve redundancy, though. If I'm to self-host anything important on a home server, I need to know I'll have some way to use it even if my home server fails, especially if I'm not at home when it happens.

I'd love to see some kind of system where I could partner up with other Umbrel users for backups/the ability to restore connectivity. If I knew that in an emergency, I could call my friend in town or my brother out of state and there was some procedure that would allow me to connect to an encrypted backup of what I'm needing, I would feel a lot better about taking responsibility for my own system.

[0] https://umbrel.com
What kind of F250 gets 30 mpg? Not seeing any over 20.

Did you mean the Maverick?
Use multiple kites in a staggered pattern so one of them is always generating near peak power. That complexity of course offsets all of the gains, but that's fine because it illustrates why this is an idea that just won't fly.
Say what?

https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/

"Use the same live streaming technology and global infrastructure that powers Twitch."

Did IVS grow out of Twitch? Sure. That core is now a piece of AWS infra though, even though the team was initially built at Twitch.

(Obviously these things are weird to talk about in a vacuum, because all the pieces are 100% owned by the same parent. The splits we see can be changed with the wave of a CFOs pen, usually when they want to change how we view some overarching piece of the business.)
The problem with China is that they got old and demographically smaller, and decided to pick a fight alongside Russia against Europe and US, before they got rich or at least above poverty level.

China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty

In his article for the business outlet Yicai, Li cited data from a 2021 research paper by the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, which placed the number of people living on less than 2,000 yuan ($300) a month at 964 million, or nearly 70 percent of the population.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-...

China's population drops for second year, with record low birth rate

The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 2.08 million, or 0.15%, to 1.409 billion in 2023. New births fell 5.7% to 9.02 million and the birth rate was a record low 6.39 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 6.77 births in 2022.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-population-drops-...
Saying “you should do this because John Carmack did it” would absolutely be an appeal to authority. The fact that sometimes you really should do that thing doesn’t somehow negate the fact that the rhetorical strategy being used is ~”you should do this because an authority on the matter did it”.

The rhetorical strategy “appeal to authority” doesn’t have the conditions you’re implying about the proposed hypothesis being weak, or about the authority being illegitimate.
Googling for a bit it seems like it depends on the state [1] and not the federal level. But, email can be sent or received using CORRLINKS but you have to pay a fee for sending and receiving. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_prisons

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Fund_Limited_Inmate_Comp...
The fact that Google funds a project isn't evidence that it is viable either.
No, the tamagotchi creatures hatch from an egg. This is a cat, completely different.
The internet stuff doesn’t work anymore on those afaik. It’s based on 3G cellular which doesn’t exist anymore.
Post-scarcity can't really happen on a very finite planet with a huge and growing population.

Even if we had fully-automated systems providing plentify food and water, we'd need some ssytem, likely capitalism, to distribute still-scarce luxuries (e.g. beachfront property)

And if we had total post-scarcity (effectively infinite energy and Star Trek style energy-to-matter replicators), we'd just be fighting over scarce land as everyone fills up all the space with replicated junk.
I found this to be a great story about mismanagement. It appears Hans made a multitude of small mistakes that ended up crippling his filesystem project. It's extremely interesting to see such a thorough reflection on all the things that went wrong.
... after waiting in line for 20+ minutes

I remember the time before self-scan machines, and the lines were not shorter. Even "10 items or less" registers had huge lines.
Some people do want to reduce the laws on the books. That's very difficult to do, especially as more laws are passed every year.

Most people are indifferent because the laws don't affect them. Why should they care when they can benefit from selective enforcement? Everyone speeds and then only a couple people get upset that they got a ticket because they're the only ones caught.
Because Soviet Union was developing nuclear bombs (and stealing the technology, too) immediately in pace with the US program. If the US program was to stop, the Soviet one wouldn’t stop.
I disagree, but this is personal philosophy I do not feel comfortable going too deep with on an Internet forum.

From my point of view, people that are born with evil streak are vanishingly rare, as much as being born with two heads. What happens later is simply a product of nurture, upbringing, context, and chemical imbalances. Pure black and pure white do not exist in nature.
One particular thing that I keep seeing come up: it would be highly advantageous for the ISA to declare "after a jump, certain registers are clobbered". This should certainly include flags (at least, the arithmetic kind - clearly, things like DF/IF/TF are fundamentally a different kind of state even if the (rare!) explicit get-flags and set-flags instructions include both), but there's a decent argument that a couple accumulator-like registers should also be clobbered (but not if used for the RETURN value).

Resumable instructions are clearly also a big deal.
Wild that you try to include one of the most capitalist countries on earth, second in the number of billionaires only behind the USA, on the back of the fact that they have one-party rule with the word communist slapped onto it. The general (and often wilful) ignorance around the topic is astounding.
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Is Umbrel just actually usable Urbit? [0]

[0] https://urbit.org/
An addendum: not sure if you were speaking figuratively, but an inner voice constantly preoccupied with potential catastrophe (even at a small scale, like minor social embarrassment) is a pretty strong indicator of an anxiety problem, which is eminently treatable. Even for people that chafe at the prospect of medication and traditional talk therapy, CBT specialists can help you implement some practical mental tools in only a few visits without protracted emotional history explorations or anything resembling them. The technique has proven to get quick, meaningful results for everything from combat PTSD to ADHD to depression and beyond, and can be a fast path to achieving good mental hygiene. Anyone reading this who’s curious about their own anxiety level should find an online questionnaire by a reputable, specialized mental health organization (i.e. not buzzfeed, et al, a pharmaceutical company, or someone trying to sell you therapy) and be honest in your answers. You shouldn’t need to create a login or divulge any identifying information.
This re-use trick seems clever, but definitely needed more consideration before merging IMO. Re-use where we can determine the size & alignment are a perfect match ought to be a win, but the other cases seem very situational. And The8472's attitude here seems unlikely to lead to a better Rust.
The problem is here because companies saying "we now support remote workers" changed their mind and threw remote workers away
Maybe "What is to be done" by VI Lenin would be a good place to start. Though of course there are many such guides that don't always agree.
If input validation is not present in your framework of choice then the framework clearly has problems.

If you do not validate your inputs properly I am not sure what you are doing when you have a user facing applications of this size. Validating inputs is the lowest hanging fruit for preventing hacking threats.
I don't believe he did. He's just angling for his next parole date as he got denied this year.
See the entry on job posts in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
What an incredibly wasteful world we live in. A 16g ram core i7 laptop from 2017 is considered vintage? When it comes to cars, vintage is like a century ago.

How has software qualitatively improved since 2017? Even since 2010? We are still slinging the same sht around together with an ever increasing amount of 'node modules' on our disks.

The cause of climate change is not the use of fossil fuel, but the extreme extraction and processing of raw material for releasing the next new thing that will increase quarterly revenue targets leaving in its wake extreme waste that no one knows what to do with except force third world countries absorb it.
Riemann Sphere
At Notion Labs Inc, a patent is worth one Cuisinart® Precision Master 5.5 Quart Stand Mixer. I got a patent and the stand mixer to show for it.
I agree with the general thrust of this, but it's worth noting that the author does _slightly_ better than is typical for LLM-based analyses: they released the dataset of book-labeled posts. You can at least estimate the false-positive rate from that, by sampling the results. (You can't estimate false-negative rate, though.)

Ideally authors attempt to do some sort of validation of the results at the LLM-labeling step and present that, but that rarely happens with these sorts of posts. I think that's pretty telling.
Instead, people integrated the interesting ideas of reiserfs into ext2, and made ext3. This is also a perfectly fine way to handle disagreement.

Also, people quit him way before that thing. He mostly supported the filesystem alone.
There should never be a 'net' input. Only one pilot can fly a plane at a time. This is fundamental training for pilots, they would have learned this in the very first few moments they sat behind the controls.
Usually my employers haven’t let me buy as much equity as I’ve wanted to, they severely constrain the employee equity pool allocation and dole it out as occasional rewards and reserve most for non-worker investors and owners or executive roles.

For how it could work you can look at worker-owned cooperative structures, sociocracy, etc
https://arstechnica.com/features/2024/01/how-a-27-year-old-b...
> a server farm aboard a ship that only sails in international waters.

How would this help? If the server software is actually trustworthy and the connection to it is e2ee then it really doesn't matter where it runs. And if it isn't, this kind of setup protects whoever owns it more than whoever rents space on it.
That's not a good list because 3-8 are highly dependent on capitalism for their economies to function. They might have various levels of state control, but they are very much capitalism. Cuba and North Korea are much purer examples, though they relay on foreign production to some limited extent.
I'm impressed by how much money the industry is moving by this so called "AI" movement and literally having zero concrete improvement on one's every day life

One small thing: Amazon.com appears to be using an LLM to provide a summary of all of a product's reviews. But aside from that, I haven't seen anything useful out of "AI" yet.
Snapdragon X elite is faster than MacBook Air M2
Thats my experience with them and qradar. Its literally littered with bugs and instead of fixing them they just made a new version with literally 0 things shared with the old one, naming it qradar+ (nice naming btw, next time it call it qradar 2)
There's a difference between rehabilitation and giving people access to the internet when serving a sentence for killing your wife and tormenting her family for like, 2 years because you hid the body even though everyone knew you killed her. Also, why shouldn't it be a little bit of both?
I mean, it is IBM. From my experience working there you either have really young people that are just at the beginning of their careers or lifers who know and exploit the system inside out