skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rebase is a very basic and common command available in a tool you use every day.

That says a lot about you, not the people you are interviewing. Not everyone uses or trusts rebase workflows. I think --first-parent is a far better "basic and common command argument" and better makes use of the power of git's DAG. I have it in some of my default gitconfig files. Can you tell me without looking it up what is --first-parent and when and how you would use it? Some of the teams I've been on could. Others are happy with their (in my considered opinion, hideous) rebase or squash workflows. It's an aesthetic choice as much as a "right" choice to know one workflow over the others. [0] We all have our own workflows and most of us can learn new ones when we join a new team.

[0] Barring of course that rebase/squash hides merge conflict resolutions under the rug and trying to reverse engineer mistakes in them is a nightmare, and there's a deep dark rabbit hole from there into darker nightmares like rerere caches. I'm happy to claim that learning DAG traversal tools is not just aesthetically better but objectively safer, especially with junior developers around, but you don't have to take my word for it so let's call it just an "aesthetic choice" to stay on good terms.
Yep - Complete rewrite from jquery and electron…
Doesn't the fact that the founder managed to raise so much money and create a company that was once worth $22 billion suggest that in certain aspects, of being a businessman, he was quite good?
> My response was basically: We need a longer retention plan if we're going to call ourselves "backup." The point of "backup" is to restore in cases like this, where someone (or something) accidentally deleted files.

I'm using local backup software and it's pretty clear to me that versioned and trashed files still occupies space until I delete them permanently. If you provide 1TB of storage space, make it clear that the trash and versioning occupies some of that space instead of a random retention period. Ditto if it's unlimited and priced by usage.
> The Bitcoin network might actually reduce spam by diverting zombie farms to
generating bitcoins instead.

It's fun to see that the “Bitcoin will fix everything” genre started with Satoshi himself!
Always -- anything that comes with the Google name attached always attracts some negativity. There's plenty of valid criticism, most of which we hope to address in the coming weeks and months =).
I once visited a wolf rescue where a wolf pup was being raised in a pen with two Great Pyrenees puppies (to socialize it with them). The biggest behavioral difference I noticed between the two was that while the wolf was willing to be (and perhaps even enjoyed being) pet and handled, it absolutely did not care that we were in the pen. It wandered off after a few moments checking out the new visitors, whereas the puppies (being puppies) wouldn't leave us alone.
No enforcement, no consequences, so nobody is going to change.
If you want to not be moving SATA cables, or worse, swapping NVME drives, you're still having to modify the boot loader, which is probably what OP worries about. I've had a bad time trying to dual boot due too boot loaders not working the way the manual says they should.
because apparently somehow ChatGPT magically knows what you're trying to extract.

Oh it doesn't? odd that.

ChatGPT cannot make judgement calls like what you're trying to imply it can.

ChatGPT can do some really cool things, but it's not magic.
I Ripped My Open Source Product Apart for a Complete Rebuild
https://www.browserless.io/blog/2024/02/21/rebuilding-browserless/

In the spirit of open source, I want to share the process as well as the product. Here's the story of our full rewrite for v2 of Browserless, down to building our own custom libraries and routing.
> Object Lock serves as a digital vault, making data immutable for a specified period. It creates a virtual air gap...

"Virtual" and "air gap" is quite frankly an oxymoron. The two concepts are just at odds with one another. This article gives me misgivings about Backblaze as well.
This is a badly written Backblaze advertisement. It’s full of incorrect information about the competitors — Dropbox and OneDrive do keep old versions of files, for at least 30 days (Google probably does too, but I couldn’t find a number.)
> The Bitcoin network might actually reduce spam by diverting zombie farms to
generating bitcoins instead.

Indeed zombie farms had been diverted to generating coins, but in some sense it achieved the opposite of the former objective.
My city has something similar based on fixmystreet, which is not focused on discussion but more on reporting: https://www.zueriwieneu.ch/reports

I love that my city responds so quick to any issues reported. Usually you get a reply the next day, and minor things are usually resolved within the week. One time a guy even facetimed me to figure out the exact spot where some metal was sticking out of the ground near a playground, which I had reported.
Was this a layup for the classic Dropbox comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
To extend this further, most of my math notes in college were done with a wacom tablet and a note app, xournal. this worked better for me than an ipad because I was able to keep my eyes up, my small laptop screen right below the whiteboard in the front. I was able to handwrite, but also adjust scale to make tiny annotations or large diagrams. I could also use built-in tools to quickly make perfect straight lines for graphs, change the background to lined, graph, blank, or a pdf, insert images, etc.

Then I was able to export notes as pdfs for classmates, retaining the speed of handwriting for non-text notes but also having the digital usefulness and never forgetting a notebook.
What's interesting is that APS's Windows-only software, Powerchute Serial Shutdown, is actually Java-based, accessed through the browser, and trivially de-compilable and readable.
Certainly feels like a very late-stage-capitalism characteristic.
Unrelated, but thanks for your book. The illustrations are lovely and carefully crafted; I’d wondered how you made them.
I think the point is that the different planned stopping rules of each researcher--their subjective thoughts--should not affect what we consider the objective or mathematical significance of their otherwise-identical process and results. (Not unless humans have psychic powers.)

It's illogical to deride one of those two result-sets as telling us less about the objective universe just because the researcher had a different private intent (e.g. "p-hacking") for stopping at n=100.

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> According to old-fashioned statistical procedure [...] It’s quite possible that the first experiment will be “statistically significant,” the second not. [...]

> But the likelihood of a given state of Nature producing the data we have seen, has nothing to do with the researcher’s private intentions. So whatever our hypotheses about Nature, the likelihood ratio is the same, and the evidential impact is the same, and the posterior belief should be the same, between the two experiments. At least one of the two Old Style methods must discard relevant information—or simply do the wrong calculation—for the two methods to arrive at different answers.
> just didn’t sell enough to justify the model itself

Bla bla they sold more of the minis than any model of Android phone. They're just asses.
Much worse than that. I wanted to get some free shipping supplies from FedEx, so I had to sign up for a shipping account. Account could not be created due to password issues on the website, forgot how I got around it but maybe had to use the mobile app which used a different flow.

After getting the account, immediately I get shipping bills for international shipping in the thousands of dollars, both sender and recipient have nothing to do with me. Credit card on file was auto-charged. Removed credit card, started getting thick FedEx bills in physical mail.

It turns out FedEx allows billing to be charged to any account as long as you have their nine-digit account number, so of course scammers do this all the time just generating random numbers. FedEx didn't give a shit, denied my reporting of fraud, allowed more scam shipping even after I reported. Finally I had to initiate chargeback via the credit card issuer and only then did they close the account. But I still get marketing emails that I can no longer turn off. Absolutely not a company anyone should use.
In my experience, all modern operating systems and widely-used databases handle power interruption well. I can't recall an time where a filesystem or database was corrupted by power loss in decades. Adding a monitoring/shutdown system for basic UPSes is not worth the risk/hassle. I'd just monitor the power directly and let the system fall over when the UPS runs out of battery.
Well its a little misleading considering they also have Windows Backup which is actually a proper device backup service.
The Market Is Like a Large Movie Theater with a Small Door
Great points, and I'd like to call out one section in particular:

> What is good code?

Missed one that really needs to be articulated: Correctness.

Poor correctness is one of the most harmful and widespread problems in software today.

Even one of the most wealthy and best-paying companies cannot manage to deliver an acceptable level of correctness for some of the most widely-deployed Internet-facing software: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chrome

And that company is arguably better at software engineering than the majority of companies.

The takehome isn't "even Google makes software littered with critical defects, so I guess that excuses everyone else, lol". But rather, that most of our engineering field hasn't been held responsible for correctness, and now we routinely knowingly deliver engineering work that we assume has critical defects. And we show no remorse: even when some software is routinely shipping multiple security vulnerability patches per week, we keep doing the same shoddy engineering, sustaining the gushing pipeline of vulnerabilities needing patching.
I don't know what's their deal with glyphosate but I'm pretty confident that avg Redditor never held a can of WD in their life.
I added your code to the D test suite. It passes on all supported platforms, including Windows and OSX. I am at a loss why it isn't working for you.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16238
You can use git DAG traversal tools like --first-parent to handle the noise in a busy code base without rebasing.
This stuff drives me mental, but the article ends up not being quite the black pill it could be. Nice to see students fighting back at the grassroots, the University (hopefully) acting, and people feeling enpowered to do something under the law.

We have to keep pushing for this stuff to become less and less normalised, and also for penalties to become more and more serious. When that happens, people will continue to feel more enpowered to fight this stuff. We should also make sure laws are clear that people have the right to "vandalise" such devices. In my opinion taking a bat to one of these things should at least be defensible in court.
Not sure how the car touching Heyer is relevant. If the guy hit something else which then hit Heyer, his actions caused her death the same as if he had hit her himself.

Even if its something like, causing me to jump out of the way and hurt myself in the attempt, you bet your ass you can be held liable.
Same here, I actually started to buy some at $30 for the heck of it, but the process to buy then was so involved that I gave up and wanted to get back to it later, and never did.
Maybe we can have AI talk to AI and we're behind the scenes. AIs give us summary as talks happen and ask us which direction we want it to go. Kind of like we use lawyers - they talk to other lawyers.
Why would that matter in this case? Apple has a 12 month warranty on this and most of their other hardware. Also, I expect most people shelling out $3500 for a headset are going to get AppleCare+ which also covers accidental damage.
Nations are bad at it, but they are still the most capable platforms for addressing this racial bias.

It’s the right tree to be barking under.

If we lived in an ideal world the national AIs would become personal AI agents in a decade or two, but that is clearly not our world.
Well programming IS difficult. And a senior developer knows it. It’s easy enough to master C++ in a year, but ten years are not enough. So zen. What I mean is if you know your language enough, you will sometime realize you never know everything.
> And going further, it would also be nice to normalize "dating around" where a candidate and firms could learn a bit about each other while if it's not a fit, the candidate can continue where they are.

Job fairs, mate. That's the idea. Chat to a manager and an HR person, learn about the org, and maybe slip them a resume. 5 min of face time with a candidate or an org can be enough to tell you what you need to know.

Though heavily centralized around schools, there are definitely non-school related ones out there, too.
Space: 1999! I had forgotten about that.

I just ordered the box set of the predecessor, UFO [1]. Loved it as a child; I'm curious to see how it held up.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)
Massive transaction fees, slow transactions.
Some stuff is cached locally other stuff might only be kept on the cloud. You can specify whether certain files or directories are cached locally or not iirc.
We Landed the Wikipedia on the Moon Last Night
Last night on the Intuitive Machines moon landing we successfully delivered the English Wikipedia and much more to the Moon, etched into metal discs, where it will remain for up to 5 billion years. This is our third attempt and it finally worked - more than a decade of hard work by thousands of people has finally worked. More details also at www.archmission.org (no tardigrades on board in case you were wondering). Massive amount of content now safely preserved in Earth's first offsite backup.
All the criticisms of Bitcoin scalability.
Some of the right of ways in England have existed and been in continuous use since long before recorded history. A better question is what authority does anyone have to close them?
Bonus points are given when they handle truncating your password differently in the initial validation vs authentication and it fails silently!
Slightly off topic, but related: I'm always interested in the different approach to public "right of ways" in the US (and Canada) versus the UK. Given that the concept of public right of way was well established in the UK before the colonial period, why didn't the colonies recognize rights of way based on well-established use? Based on my limited knowledge of the US and Canada, I'm not aware of any State or Province that recognizes the right of the public to cross private land on established paths/trails in the way that is recognized in the UK.
One of the best TV themes ever. Had an Airfix Eagle that had pride of place on my childhood shelves.
I suspect you are trying to be technically correct.

The usage of the term "zero-sum" has a wider meaning in usage. It is commonly applied to games where there is one winner - because simplistically one person wins and everyone else loses. Games are often ranking systems and who gains and who loses is more obvious than many other situations in the wider world.

> Also, reputation is not just a peking order

I think it is pretty clear we know that. It is almost the point of the article!

You are trying to nitpick against everyone's nebulous non-academic usage of words. Yeah, it is hard to understand what people really mean, but HN is one of the few places where it seems the norm is to try to.

> wealth

You have chosen a nebulous word and then straw-manned it. Wealth is adjacent to this argument - most of the points about reputation could be equally argued about wealth.

Mostly when talking capitalism it is better to use the word "money" because that can be ranked (comparison between disimilar things is almost money's core feature).

If a significant part of wealth depends on reputation, and if reputation is strongly ranked then wealth has a top limit. Yeah, apples and oranges, but the concept of wealth being larger or smaller contains its own self-paradox.
Has "global Britain" even been attempted?

Brexit (whatever one's opinion on it) is a radical decision. The only way it might work out is by being radical. Liz Truss made big tactical mistakes but might have been on the right track strategically. Perhaps some like Dom Cummings might have been the man for the job, too.

Instead, we got insipid people who tried to keep things as much aligned with the EU as possible. Except that being neither in the EU nor anything really that's the sure way to fail.

The choice is either be radical or somehow effectively rejoin at least the EEA, bearing in mind that betting big may mean winning or losing big...

The country is therefore still at the crossroad having wasted a whole decade.
This is pretty funny to me. The forum users immediately point out problems that have in retrospect have kept Bitcoin from becoming mainstream, and which always struck me as notable flaws of the design.

But what's interesting is that Satoshi doesn't seem to understand what the problem is. For example, he invokes the "long tail theory" without having any specific probability distribution to work with. And he essentially states there will be a specialist financial sector required to handle the payment transactions:

> At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the
network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to
specialists with server farms of specialized hardware.

but doesn't seem to appreciate the extent to which this re-centralizes the network. So it kind of starts off like a peer to peer network, but according to Satoshi even in the early days, the premise that Bitcoins have any value is based in the fact that the peer to peer network converges to a more traditional centralized network.
Reddit gives Google access to content for training AI models
Link to article on the landing: https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/third-times-a-cha...
I lazily read the title as Sir Walter Raleigh and went in assuming this was about how he introduced tobacco to England and was then put to death:

https://www.biography.com/history-culture/walter-raleigh
iCould is for syncing, not backup. Handy when you have multiple devices, but you should invest in a 3-2-1 solution. (which can be done easily by buying an external drive, and some space on another cloud provider). For better retention, get some software that can do snapshots.
Has anyone run a stylometric comparison of Satoshi's papers to Hal Finney's?
I'm not convinced that all of these annoyances are intentional. For example, one post [1] says that it's not clear where to go at the end of a bike path. This could be resolved with a sign that might cost $500 (complete guess) to install, and there are no complex constraints in the way of installing a sign. Another post [2] highlights discontinuities on the edge of two municipal jurisdictions. Again, a reasonable fix here does not require impeding car traffic or making any huge redesigns that require a civil engineer.

It's not possible for the committee that's in charge of planning an entire city to be intimately familiar with the nuances of the way every intersection works for every driver, walker, and biker that pass through them every day. The people who pass through these intersections every day, though, will understand the design oversights and deteriorations. Some proposed fixes will be feasible, others might not. I think my major goal with a site like this is to get the public involved and talking among themselves.

Perhaps it's too idealistic, but I see the process of building a city to be almost entirely distinct from delivering a software product. Every resident owns their city, and though there is a group of people that are paid to maintain it, it's every resident's right and responsibility to make the city work for them.

[1]: https://littlefixes.xyz/city/boston/fix/5
[2]: https://littlefixes.xyz/city/palo-alto/fix/2
> I’d previously tried a prosumer-grade CyberPower UPS (CP1500PFCLCD) on some other less critical equipment. When its battery failed after two years, it cut power to the load. When the charger failed a few years later, it cut power to the load. It died completely in about six years.

I've never (n=4) had a stock CyberPower UPS battery last me 2 years. 3rd party replacement batteries have all lasted significantly longer than what shipped in the box.
That’s a valid point, but I wouldn’t call it a hazard since not much information is available (as your second question implies). It’s similar to seeing someone with a luxury car on the road, except that one is physically accessible and the other is not.
> For a very long time neither did backblaze.

Unless you live in a Backblaze data center, using Backblaze has always implied that your data is stored in at least two separate locations.
"It's technically possible to destroy this stuff"

...that doesn't mean it's relevant to how people are exposed to them, that it is economically feasible or practical to do the destruction, etc.

It does nothing to address exposure from things like cookie wrappers, french fry bags, disposable food trays, bottled water (ironically, which some people have to drink because their water is contaminated with PFAS.)

The whole point behind fighting against disposable plastics, for example, is that despite it being possible to recycle it, almost none of it is.

"It has a half-life of up to decades but that's better than mercury and arsenic"

Whataboutism? And PFAS have nothing to do with mercury and arsenic?
Meh. You can always ignore them. I bought like 3 "classic" razors until I got one I really liked. Didn't even look online, grabbed whatever (few) options that i found in physical stores.

It's good enough, end of story.
how many leftist activist groups have you seen?
Ah, thanks for clarifying! It's a good flag, though I wouldn't classify it as a snide comment personally. I'd be interested in hearing what you find snide or offensive about it -- do you think we shouldn't be trying to bring the whole community along for evals/safety/etc, regardless of open/closed?
2tb for $120 a year for the rest of your life. You might as well be paying the mob.
You sure can! NeuroEngine[1] hosts some nice free demos of what are basically the state of the art in unfiltered models, and if you need API access, OpenRouter[2] has dozens of unfiltered models to choose from.

[1] https://www.neuroengine.ai/

[2] https://openrouter.ai/
What is it about DEI that causes you to be obsessed about it? From my perspective DEI is mostly about not glossing over the negative aspects of the history of race relations. It's not something I'm particularly invested in emotionally speaking. I'm guessing the term means something different to you than to me that causes you to be obsessed about it.

There is always a danger of getting into a needless back and forth with such a question so I promise not to respond. Just want to know your concerns on the topic.
> can get a judgment, but good luck getting them to pay out on it

Honestly, finding a sheriff to enforce a judgement against FedEx property sounds like the fun part.
If you got a judgment, you would get a prompt response.

Problem you'd probably have is getting the judgment, if they show up at the hearing. Their clickwrap agreements are one barrier. Also, you have no relationship with them -- you weren't the customer (and if you were see point 1).

Would be interesting to see what type of claim would work. Maybe conversion (ie theft) if they delivered it to the wrong address. But if they just hold it at the depot, I don't know what claim you could make. Would probably have to take it up with the seller.
LoL. I never thought someone would pay to create and show an ad acknowledging that almost no one in the corporate world has a clue about any of it! If you remember the name of the company that paid for that ad, please share it!