skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: “Reiser3 pioneered journal metadata only”, a metadata-only approach to journaling actually was not uncommon (although for Linux, journaling at all for a time was not available).

This first journalled Unix file system in AIX in the early 90s was metadata only, and faster fsck made it an appealing feature copied by all other commercial Unixes by the late 90s. In the latter 90s, DigitalUnix was the first Unix vendor to provide journaling data, not just metadata. Even SGI’s XFS which had a number of cool and unique features around extent structures optimized for serving video stream large file did not have journaled data.

Most people in Unix then (and now) are unaware of “uncool” operating systems like OS/400 (now iSeries) which arguably delivered on that dream of a melding RAM, ROM, disk, cache. It wasn’t POSIX/Unix/hacker-friendly/cheap but it was and I think still is a billion dollar minicomputer business for IBM. I believe they called it “Single-Level Store Architecture”.

Wikipedia for this for the interested (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i ): “Instead of operating on memory addresses, TIMI instructions operate on objects. All data in IBM i, such as data files, source code, programs and regions of allocated memory, are encapsulated inside objects managed by the operating system (c.f. the "Everything is a file" model in Unix). …The object model hides whether data is stored in primary, or secondary storage. Instead, the operating system automatically handles the process of retrieving and then storing the changes to permanent storage.”

I believe lisp machines back in the day had something grossly similar.

The difficulty (impossibility?) of implementing this sort of file system in the confines of POSIX (with extensions even?) is probably why this never happened in Unix.

As Reiner’s 2023 letter we are discussing notes, this required new information/hints flowing up and down the layers of the stack. It’d require implementing a new userspace+kernel paradigm of application development alongside the current one.

Accomplishing that sort of transformation in an ecosystem takes a very unique blend of skills and knowledge, and it’s additionally not clear how much economic benefit accrues to anyone for making this shift which is an inhibitor to realization, in Unix, of “the dream”.

But it was done outside of Unix and it quietly is running Fortune 100 workloads today … although many of them are implementing the “strangler pattern” to get those workloads moved to more conventional “modern” systems.
> The most incredible and unusual thing that struck me about Google's early culture was the tendency to value employees above all else.

One big reason that this changed: The hiring bar dropped dramatically over time. Early Google engineers were almost all technical superstars who had a real passion for the details of computing technology. Maintaining this standard is really hard, especially when you’re trying to grow fast.

Over time, the bar gradually slipped until it was essentially “got good grades at a brand name school, and did well-enough (but not necessarily exceptional) on a slate of algorithm questions”. Some of this way a top-down decision (especially from 2020 on), but most of it seemed to be bottom-up: It’s just really hard to look at someone who seems smart, nice, and got the “right answer” (maybe slowly, or with some hints), and then write feedback that says “they’re not good enough”.

The problem with hiring “replacement-level players” is in the name. If you have cultivated a team of superstars, it’s worth going to exceptional lengths to retain and motivate them. It’s harder to justify those lengths when the median beneficiary is a replacement-level player, even if you still have a core of superstars mixed in.

My takeaway: If you want to maintain an environment like Ben described, you need to be absolutely ruthless about maintaining a high hiring bar. You need to be ruthless about choosing who to promote into leadership positions as well, but that would be a separate post.

All that said, I personally know several people that I’d consider superstars who were laid off in this round. In every case, they were long-time engineers in senior roles who had been outmaneuvered by more politically-oriented players. Very frustrating to see, but honestly most of them will be better off somewhere else.
Music streaming sector: EU must ensure just pay for artists and fair algorithms
Heh, that's not the point. I was asking if they changed their attitude towards LGPL use or not.
Thanks. I looked at it briefly, but the project doesn't seem to be headed in a good direction.

The main interface (Xenadmin) now has an EOL notice as their README: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin

The other alternative now seems to be a paid solution:

https://vates.tech/blog/introducing-vates-virtualization-man...

That doesn't seem like a good match for my needs. :(
This is exactly the problem with Rationalists.

*Everybody* understands that when the founder of a Thing does something as daffy as Having Themselves Mummified in Victorian England the rest of their thinking is automatically suspect.

It's the kind of informal heuristic which is almost never wrong. We should not ignore it.
I’ve noticed developers have a pretty low bar for being a “psychopath” I’ve found psychopaths to mostly be people that see programmers as disposable. This is pretty much true, hence the psychopaths everywhere.
Interest-Specific Search Engines
Said framework has religious like defenders whose only motivation is "it's easier/cheaper for me and the user be damned" though.
I met Dave a few times in the 90s, first when he was visiting Peter Kirstein at UCL. I'd taken network time as simple to get right until that evening chatting with him in the pub. Fascinating discussion of what can go wrong - and a lot of patience with a young networking researcher who didn't know what he was talking about. I've had a high respect for the attention to detail he embedded in NTP ever since. RIP.
It would be great if you could tell us the name of the colocation provider. I would really like to explore it.
> that office politics are 10x more important than merit in big companies.

's/big //'
Building a USB SNES Controller
>Well, the top 100 is the literal lowest common denominator.

It's also the widest and more representative index of the tastes of each era/generation.

That's despite whether there are "true Scotsman/real music lover" listening to 15th century lute music or modern free jazz albums (or the "really good obscure EDM few listen to"). Of course there are those too. That's beside the point.

>It's music for people who don't like music, who make up the majority of the population. It's expected that it's shit.

And yet it was excellent in the past, like the 60s and 70s, and far more complex lyrically and musicallly (outliers aside).
IMO Google DeepMind is like this today, for better and worse.
the top 100 is more varied today than it was at any point in history.
I'm a bit confused. 20GB? Not TB?
AlphaCodium: open-source, SOTA code gen, 1/10,000x LLM calls vs AlphaCode
> Maps from 2005 was a very sleek product, but at the time there were no competitors on the web

Mapquest would beg to differ. To me, the interface was the killer feature for Maps. The data and trip planning functionality existed already on the web (as my print outs of driving routes in the late 90s can attest to). But being able to just scroll around a new city was amazing. Every other site required clicking through every North or West button with a round trip to the server.

It wasn’t until later that the satellite data and street view data became the next killer feature.
> sure the new server is faster than the old one, but you know what's even faster? Dividing the existing workload between both of them.

How do you factor reliability into your analysis? I mean, the reason companies ditch their 3yo server is that their service life is nearing it's end, and odds are they will fail in the upcoming year or so.

Meanwhile, increased compute capacity means companies can use a single brand new server to replace multiple old ones, not to mention cheaper operational costs.
Looks like Wikipedia actually has the full list.

DoubleClick and Waze are two other big ones that I remember seeming important at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Contagious and incurable?
> For now, here’s the direction I think I’m going: Use Chrome for Google stuff: Maps, Calendar, Docs, Translate. Safari and Firefox for non-Google stuff; they ain’t perfect but I think they’re better aligned with my interests.

This is my approach. I used to really like google products. Not I keep chrome to run the google products I haven’t gotten rid of yet.
It's just amazing. I used to work at UCL and you can casually find yourself walking past Bentham.

It took me years to understand how weird that was and how massive his mental footprint is today.

I'm considering starting a public campaign to have him properly cremated and the ashes scattered at sea. Maybe that'll sort everybody out. Magical thinking but so is having yourself mummified as a gag.
Confounders ruled out?
LOL, this is not even wrong.

https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/

Compare to the musical and tonal variety of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_sin...

Also: https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/science-music-idU...
You don't emulate linux, you emulate a rv32ima system that happens to boot a linux firmware.
This was all in a virtualised setup on my local workstation (Ryzen 5950X, 64GB ECC, local mirrored NVMe SSDs).

I've not seen flaky comms between virtual interfaces on this setup before, but you never know. ;)
What a wonderful article.

I've lived in single family homes and apartments in USA, Switzerland and Spain. I never understood why the apartment buildings in the USA felt so different, and now it makes sense. Even in my 15 story apartment in Zurich, there was a single stair. It made the apartment layouts much better, made it easier to make apartments with a lot more light, and many of the things this article talks about.

Now I live in Spain in a building from the 1960s. A 4 story apartment building, retrofitted in the 1980s with a tiny elevator. It's a really efficient design, though my wife and I have discussed that from an accessibility standpoint, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Now I understand the constraints of apartment designers in the USA a bit better!
No. I said I didn't. I said I believed there was more to it.

Others have actually elaborated on the likely mechanism. But sure, mocking people is a kind of post I guess.
I think I had two sentences in my mind.
It seems not to be entirely obvious to the students in my classroom. Today second day of the semester, job one is to explain that they need to have a notebook. They need to write in the notebook. And they need to do the homework in the notebook. They seem not to know that, many of them.
Features are not product design.
>And if you must, cut deep and cut only once. Trickling out monthly layoffs is far more demoralizing and instills a culture of fear and uncertainty.

It's a huge red flag. Layoffs typically lead to more people leaving the company after the fact because of the instability. I was one of the "last man standing," after a company did this over a period of a few quarters and I ended up leaving shortly after. They no longer had anyone to maintain their software. Oops.

They taught this in business school back in the 1990s. I don't know why a company the caliber of Google wouldn't understand this. It could be the execs think that Google is such a stellar place to work that none of the remaining people would dare leave. It could be the execs are so self concerned, they don't care about anything other than their bonuses and just make sure to get cuts in before each quarter ends to pad their bonus. It could be business schools just don't teach this anymore.
I think I suddenly understand those "fake email job" memes.
If you missed some of the less obvious ones or are just interested in helping with the restoration, the National Trust is always looking for new members.
If you want search engines (or other automatic systems) to grok your metadata then you have to be organised. And it is easy to validate (or not), both the HTML and the metadata.
> Beautiful visualization of data

The "Repetition of Popular Music, by Year" graph doesn't work for me. First it's empty, When I scroll past the graph and back, it seems to show data sometimes, but only when it's not in the viewport. As soon as I scroll it into view, it undraws the data and is blank again. I don't even have any blockers installed on this browser.

Beautiful for me = less shitty JavaScript that prevents me from seeing the graphs.
Oof that's true I forgot about MapQuest.
Looked again and I absolutely misread it, I somehow completely missed the "things where I am in a reasonable position to evaluate" part. Sorry about that!
It’s good enough for me to use it by default. It probably location dependent?
Ooooor, repeating what he experienced, leaving it to you to fit that into your worldview.

Which apparently involves building elaborate persecution fantasies. I get it, there's a whole political party that has turned to that strategy.
This was the seed that destroyed the American city. Roads were humongous 100 years before car was invented. It was fine, a buffer for the smoke and filth of the industrial city, but still multipurpose, accessible. Once cars started driving on these huge expanses, it turned every city street in a highway; dangerous, polluted, noisy, pushing out other uses, ...
Your definition of EDM does not match mine. Who are those modern equivalent of Fatboy Slim or Chemical Brothers that have 7 songs in the top 10? Or do you mean more like Aphex Twin?

If by EDM you mean music produced on a computer, that's even less of a genre than rock is.
Engineers would win many more arguments if that was their full-time job. Who has the energy after completing a blitz to solve a highly technical problem by deadline to debate a PM who has spent months cooking up a product story?
I now live in a 4 story building in Spain and I too miss having BBQs.
Most comments here seem to be convinced that this is because these companies don't want to put in the engineering hours to build and support an app on a niche platform.

Is it possible that this is actually a coordinated message to Apple that these large media companies are done paying the 30% Apple tax? Especially if this thing has a fully-featured, desktop-like web browser. The blocking of the existing iPad apps tells me it's the later.
well, Xbox updates for example don't work automatically anymore. In fact they've disabled most things that would have encouraged a user to leave their Xbox in 'fast boot' mode, instead switching it to fully shutdown.
Would this not amount to being happy about all cost reductions at the expense of a customer? Say I get less laundry detergent for the same price, should I be happy for the opportunity to wash my clothes less often to not pay more money to the manufacturer, as it is a lower hanging fruit?

To MSFT there is no lower hanging fruit to more revenue than reducing what they give a customer while charging the same amount of money, so no I'm not particularly impressed that MSFT is stiffing their customers. I'm also not impressed that MSFT manages to do that while also getting cheers because they figured out the right words to say to get people on their side. To me, that is deeply unethical behaviour.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

And it's not a criminal charge, the penalty is paying 3000 Euro and the costs of the lawsuit.
The original deepfakes were all porn. Current cutting edge image gen is all porn.
A selection from the lyrics to "Calm Down" by Rema, popular right now:

No tell me no, no, no, no, woah, woah, woah, woah

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Baby, come gimme your lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah

You got me like, "woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah"

Shawty come gimme your lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-woah-woah-woah-woah-woah, mhmm
I'm a 38yo male and was (in my high school at least) some math prodigy. But hormones got in the way, I wasn't a great student at university and decided to study economics. I have a pretty good job at a well-known software company but it still itches to do something with my talent. My dream right now is to become a Math professor. I'm really considering starting a Math degree at my local university and see where it takes me. If I'm just mediocre or even bad, or don't enjoy it, I'll stop pursuing it, but if I'm great than I really hope to get a kick out of it and just keep going.

I've kept my Math skills a bit up to date, so I won't have to overcome a 20 year pause. I've got some cash to keep me going for a couple of years, but would need a plan to generate money in meanwhile, that's what's holding me back somewhat at the moment.
Second that. OpenBSD is a good choice as well. No reason at all to burden GNU/Linux with all that legacy stuff.
> I dont think you will be really motivated to go to work if all you had was one room to sit and close the doors to not see anyone

You're describing an office like it's solitary confinement. I'm describing somewhere where you have the option to choose silence and solitude, not the obligation.

> and sometimes its a good and safe environment to discuss things

And the rest of the time? A free-for-all for managers trying to build their own fiefdom-- sorry, "team."

> If I had to sit in an empty room to work and then it wouldn't be any different than working from home.

Which is precisely why so many people are resisting the RTO mandates. Not only do they have a pointless commute after working for years remotely [1], but the office they're coming back to is not even an empty room, it's an open-plan office with all of the downsides I described in OP.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/remote-wo...
Why do we have to change our language (and behaviour) for the edge cases?

Is a grandparent who raises their grandchildren offended by the word parent? I doubt it.

What’s the point?
Thank you! The CPU document should cover everything about the ISA itself. There are 8 addressing modes, which are covered in pages 19 and 20. MOV is the only instruction that explicitely uses them. Other instructions, at most, can only choose to either use registers or an immediate value.

There are no capabilities like DMA, so memory-memory operations are not really possible with the only exception of instruction MOVS which acts as a supposed MOV [DR], [SR].
So from my experience most of the people using it won't think there was a "good capitalism time". I think the prevalence of that term is used to evoke the idea that continuing for too much longer on the current path is impossible without something major breaking. The ecology of the planet is slowly going to shit, basic necessities like housing and medical care keep getting more expensive, and pay for most people in real terms has been stagnant (even with huge productivity gains).

In contrast to that corporate profits are off the charts but there's the sense that they are getting that by squeezing everything else too much and eventually something is going to give and it's just a race between whether what breaks is the planet, the labor force, or the broader structure of society.

Take this all with a bit of a grain of salt though as this is just why it's caught on in the particular circles I run in.
> With Safari, and Safari’s ability to run sites like apps (assuming this will make it to VisionOS), I don’t see this as that big of an issue. Not like it was for Windows phone.

That’s exactly what Windows Phone strategy was. And web browsers still can’t run websites like apps no matter what the PWA advocates say.
Programming languages are not commissioned and designed by mega conglomerates for maximum likeability and to sell conference tickets, tshirts and merchandise.

At least not yet.
> Why does it require a WebView, btw?

So you can't read your mail from a platform that doesn't have a web browser installed...

Edit: to be more clear: so you can't read your mail from a platform that can't run or embed a modern web browser. For example... a command line only system without a GUI.
Yes, I’m pretty sure the OP understands that is what is being claimed, but where else was it?
Why the U.S. trails China in phone manufacturing (2022)
I don’t want the car to randomly slam the brakes on for me
PostgreSQL Is Now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
You seem to confuse graphic design and product design.

Product design is what something does, how it is structured and how it behaves to user interaction, _and_ how it appears, not just one of them. GMail was almost to email what the iPhone was to smartphones.
Heh. I saw “loader” and was expecting a reimplementation of the Ocean Loader:

https://youtu.be/njTxV8blffc?si=HxTbACcLCZYDmvig
If they are, messsage in a bottle should compensate for it. I hate that song, it's so repetitive.
Perhaps it can be used to avoid the outrageous 30% app store fees.
>I have a different theory about the cause of the decline.

What decline are you talking about? They have hundreds of billions revenue and climbing.
I really want to make the switch from Google maps to OSM but i always find that I also want to look up some data about the destination, usually the opening hours. Sometimes the reviews. OSM just doesn't have enough coverage for the place where I live. I wished there was some project that automatically looked up businesses in Google maps and copied their details to OSM but most likely that would violate some t&c or something like that.
I didn't see the animation and was just as confused. I finally shook it off, but it made me more skeptical for the whole article, because I couldn't align with judgment of the author.

Only now seeing your comment, I realised that there was an animation and now things make sense yes.

I think I had scroll at the image + the paragraph below and once I read the paragraph I decided to scroll quite quickly and either to completely new page or I was already focused on the table, because that did seem interesting information.

Thinking back now, it's weird how this one thing made me view the whole thing more skeptically, only to realise it was a miscommunication in a way.
Weird, I've never seen a self checkout in the UK that doesn't provide the option to select no bag or key in 0 bags.
Problem seems that you cannot set app passwords yourself and they seem laughably insecure.

16 lowercase letters (in groups of 4 separated by space), no numbers, no special characters.

Keepass evaluates this as a weak password with 65 bits of entropy (if spaces are removed)

How is this an improvement?
> With Safari, and Safari’s ability to run sites like apps (assuming this will make it to VisionOS), I don’t see this as that big of an issue.

I do see a big issue: not having the ability to use Netflix' and YouTube's (app only) download feature, to allow you to watch videos offline (on a plane for instance).
Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa
I use FreeBSD as my mainsystem for Labtop, Workstation, RPi and Server's. And for Laptop's 15 years is the perfect age for FreeBSD ;)

But if you really want Linux:

https://www.adelielinux.org/download/