skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd love a consumer (price) level NAS where the OS can be ripped out and replaced with some vanilla OS/kernel.

You can get a truenas but its a little under powered for what it is especially if you want to use it not as a nas. This is the tradeoff for buying a turnkey product in a niche market.

That being said you can just build your own nas. There are nas boards with multiple sata already built in for you as well as cases designed for these sorts of boards and multiple hdds. jonesbo cases are popular for this. at a certain point though it stops making sense to build one of these and starts making sense to rack mount your storage array, of which the options are far more numerous.
Then you’re not getting any extra protection from a NAT.
You're the only one here with a green name.
For the redundancy at this scale, perhaps tape storage is interesting. Though the prices for high density tape seem to not be low enough to be public, and IBM scam their customers by advertising storage capacity before compression.
> Yep, virus scanners are almost completely useless. They can only detect known viruses, and only if those viruses are not changed.

The trick is not to detect if it's a virus, but to block virus and also some inocent programs. So you they can avoid the halting problem. The price is that you get false positives.
As I understand it, they're pretty good about taking your site out if you ask them to. That's not quite the letter of the law on copyright, and potentially leaves them open to lawsuits, but few web site publishers are really going to pursue them once they've taken the material down.

If they'd applied that same level to the books, they might have avoided this mess.
AI can’t write its own prompts. 10k people using the same prompt who actually need 5000 different things.

No improvements to AI will let it read vague speakers’ minds. No improvement to AI will let it get answers it needs if people don’t know how to answer the necessary questions.

Information has to come from somewhere to differentiate 1 prompt into 5000 different responses. If it’s not coming from the people using the AI, where else can it possibly come from?

If people using the tool don’t know how to be specific enough to get what they want, the tool won’t replace people.

s/the tool/spreadsheets

s/the tool/databases

s/the tool/React

s/the tool/low code

s/the tool/LLMs
Content ID exists because YouTube got sued
I wasn't suffering under that misunderstanding. I was just saying what my personal preference is for managing such a setup.
TheInsider is a very anti-russian website.
Hhhhuh. Thanks a lot for this info, this isn't anywhere near as bad as all the commentary around the lawsuit I've seen lead me to believe. I'm now confused by the apocalyptic tone of the article, I read it as being an existential threat to the IA ("last-ditch effort to save itself," "things aren't looking good for the Internet's archivist," "A extremely noble, and valuable, endeavor. Which makes the likelihood of this legal defeat all the more unfortunate."). I still don't think Hachette has much to gain here, but you're absolutely right that I was way off the mark.
Weirdly, they seemed to understand that he wouldn't talk about politics out of self-preservation:

> When questioned about stories that seemed to allude to Stalinist conformism and paranoia, Lem said the same thing that Liu says about geopolitical interpretations of his trilogy—that he was not writing a veiled assessment of the present but merely making up stories.
That's not my primary criticism. I literally prefaced my primary criticism with "But most of all".

It's an "abhorrent error" because the themes of the books were deeply tied to the Chinese heritage and culture of the author and his characters.
the point is they fine spammers supposedly and nothing changes; i wasn't clear.
If this makes the IA website go down, we are going to lose so much important internet history. For example, Garry’s Mod recently had almost all of its Nintendo addons taken down, and they were republished on the IA. So if we lose the IA, we might honestly lose quite a lot of preserved media, between games, videos, audio, and everything else.
If they could, they would!
Yeah we don't want those things here. If anything I want a lot more public sector for things like public transport, energy etc.

And more regulation because companies will shaft us as much as they can.
Reminder: the fsf’s mission is important and they rely heavily on donations to do their work!

https://www.fsf.org/donate/
To be fair, (to be faaaaiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrr) that's besides the point, and every successful capitalist nation routinely contradicts free-market principles anyway.
>Take the age of the universe, multiple by the rate of expansion to get the total size of the universe, then multiple by the average density of galaxies in the observable universe

My understanding is that, at the largest scales, clusters of galaxies are organized along a series of gravitationally bound filaments, sometimes called the cosmic web.

So they aren't distributed like random noise, but more like a web. I have no reason to think this changes anything about calculating average densities, but it is notable that there's the general density but probably a significantly different density within that structure.
I don't want my granddaughters never learning the meaning of "figuratively" because it's fallen out of use, having been replaced by "literally".
> If you use the standard bitmap icon formats, you’ll probably store them in their own files, separate from the files that use them. In order to display each file in a folder, the operating system will need to read the metadata for the file (including its name and file type) and then read the icon file for that file type. If the icon file were so small that you could store it in the same place as the file metadata, then you could save a read from the hard drive – you could get the metadata and the icon all in one read.

> ... it could be a significant performance gain to halve the number of disk reads even if rendering a vector image takes longer than rendering a bitmap.

Surely another option would be to cache all the filetype icons in memory and thereby only read them once? You could still use this cool vector format and get the best of both worlds, so each icon would be small and would be read only once, and you wouldn't have duplicate icon data all over the disk. And then if you wanted to change the icon associated with a particular filetype, you wouldn't need to update every single inode for files of that type.
Yeah it's pretty easy. I just went to a list of movies from 2001 by box office, number 100 was actually a cult classic now so skip that and I see the Tailor of Panama which is a less popular movie, steaming on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Tailor-Panama-Pierce-Brosnan/dp/B000X... and i can get a copy on DVD with interlibrary loan. The Shogun miniseries from the 1980s has some renewed interest since the new version and it's not streaming, but you can purchase a DVD on a bunch of places and once again, I can get it through my library.
Can China's Loongson Catch Western Designs? Probably Not
I'm not sure how much hiring they did during the pandemic but cirac 2019 they had under 60k non-TVCs.
That's effectively just per-note pitch bend -- which is great to have, but it's still kind of problematic to only have 128 unique notes you can individually toggle on and off or otherwise control on keyboards that have more than 128 keys.

It's possible to work around the 7 bit limit, but it's awkward.
Yes. If there is something you think you might personally want in the future and you can download it today you probably should. But it’s probably not terabytes.
Yes. Crazy. False positive missile alerts are kind of upsetting to people
One year with the Ergodox EZ
This is so completely not true -- but if you're on the right side of ordinary, you do have the privilege of believing it.
However, such logs can be enabled using AWS CloudTrail or S3 Server Access Logging. After enabling CloudTrail logs--

Aaaah! CloudTrail data events are priced in such a way that each S3 request gets logged--at a cost of 20x that of the S3 request itself. I really hope OP got THAT part of the bill waived as well.
Well, it's not quite that simple given my LAN's topology -- but you're right that it isn't incredibly complicated. I just prefer to manage it a different way. The end result is the same, so I'm not sure what the issue is here.
Devin didn't solve my computer vision project [video]
The NSA could be self-funding if they simply charged people for the restoration of backups they made of everyones' drives.
Headlines in newspapers used to be compressed in this manner, where they would omit words (especially "the"), so it didn't phase me, but interesting to think how this could be confusing, especially to those who didn't grow up reading physical newspapers, but even for those who are just used to the less constrained headlines in today's media.
Shield Advanced claims cost protection, although as always, the devil is in the details... - https://aws.amazon.com/shield/features/

"AWS Shield Advanced comes with DDoS cost protection to safeguard against scaling charges resulting from DDoS-related usage spikes on protected EC2, ELB, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, and Route 53 resources. If any of these protected resources scale up in response to a DDoS attack, you can request Shield Advanced service credits through your regular AWS Support channel."
> In its own day, the Arc crossed only one international border, between Sweden-Norway and the Russian Empire.

Looking at the map, it's not really clear why they decided to veer west to Swedish(-Norwegian) side of border instead of sticking closer to the Tartu meridian and staying within Russian(-Finnish) borders, terminating somewhere near current-day Utsjoki. Does anyone know the rationale for the route?
This is missing the point in the same way that anti-capitalists sometimes get told to just not use money. Or critics of colonialism to just live somewhere else. There are things too essential to boycott - whether we personally like them or their history. It's also a lazy retort that doesn't quite interact with the substance of the critique.
> If these people were happy to be L5 for the rest of their life and not want a promotion, companies would be happy to employ them at that and have them lead Software projects.

I'm not sure if that's true; many companies have explicit "up or out" policies, and some don't codify it that way, but don't particularly want their employees to find their happy place and stay there.
The widespread perception that there's no room for dialogue with Russia would be one of the downsides that you have asked about. If you decide to openly endorse its foreign policy, don't complain that you get treated accordingly, as well.
It clearly is an issue with the device font size, the text is barely visible at the bottom of the message. Or one can press the 3dots and report from there, this post is trash.
...which is not the color they are on 4chan.

Do you want to respond to my original comment now, or are you just going to spend your time trolling and proving how non-serious you are?
That's how we learn 95% of words' meanings: by osmosis from hearing them used by others whom we presume know their proper meanings. I doubt you've done 100,000 dictionary look-ups, or any number remotely in the ballpark of the number of English words you know.
But they could issue a mea culpa, and move on. Admit defeat, pay a token fine or settlement, and keep their donations to preserve the rest of their archive. Why don't they cut out the rot, to preserve the rest of the archives. I know they had a mission, or some goal, or whatever, but it failed - it failed a long time ago.

It can be right or wrong, i don't know. I want organizations to fight the battles that gain us new rights and freedoms. I know that they have a lot to lose here though, and they shouldn't risk it.

Concretely, I was a big individual donor to the IA until this lawsuit. I support their mission, I love their work, I help (technically and financially) other organizations like local museums and non-profits handle their archival work. This is something important to me, and I really want their archives to persist.

I stopped donating to the IA - and won't resume - until this lawsuit is resolved. I don't want to donate to the book publishers, and it looks that's going to be the outcome of their entire funds.
The core issue isn’t transparency. It’s surveillance and powerlessness
$200M is chump change. These carriers have been doing this for a long time.

Nothing will change. At most, a footnote in the privacy policy will be added.
i'm fascinated by this because a lot of my involvement in open source is a pretty direct reaction against state actors like NSA who undermine my privacy. and if i wanted to i could point out that the military took other things away from our field too, like Alan Turing. but ultimately, i think the argument is just that any institution which dumps a lot of money into a space deserves loyalty for that alone, but where's the substance in that? i mean sure, "don't bite the hand that feeds you", but also if you're grown and aren't so desperate for food anymore, then it's completely reasonable, arguably expected, for you to act on principles higher than money.
The “I’m a network administrator? How does this affect me?” section seems to be designed to provoke lots of wasted repeat effort. The Google Chrome developers who caused this problem and who created this web site ought to be keeping a list of bug reports and fixes on their web page.
Oh for sure. I don't think of my digital hoarding as anything I'd endeavor to share publicly. I didn't mean to phrase my question in the sense of so I could share what I hoard with others. It was sort of two separate thoughts that yeah, came out sounding like they were attached together.
Verizon’s fine totals approximately 0.2% of their profits in 2022.
I've heard "handegg" before but a football is not shaped like an egg, it's vaguely egg-like but the teardrop shape of an egg is distinctly not what a football looks like.
Show HN: Interactive 3D model skinner for the legacy PC game Tribes 2
This is a fun project I just recently published the source code for.

Tribes 2 is a "FPSZ" game from 2001 that a handful of die-hards still play every day. It's from the era of PC games that were extremely customizable and moddable, one huge facet of that being player-made custom skins.

I found making these to be too challenging for your average player, mostly due to lack of a live preview and a primitive pre-PBR method of encoding metallic/roughness data into the texture (using the alpha channel such that most skins just appear transparent in a normal image editor).

I managed to combine the <model-viewer> component developed by Google with a custom canvas editor built upon fabric.js. PNGs are parsed and generated in the browser to convert between Tribes 2's expected skin format, multiple canvas elements (for color and metallic data), and the modern PBR texture encoding expected by <model-viewer>.

Simply drag and drop images onto the canvas (or use the + button) to build a skin. You can see some skins I created this way by selecting "darrellw" or "HeXy" (light male), or "McDonalds" (light, medium, heavy male).

Last time I saw Tribes mentioned on HN, people remembered it fondly. I assure you, we're still playing! :)
The people behind the bill have said over and over again that their aim is to ban TikTok. This is an example of Gallagher, who introduced the latest bill, saying just that: [0].

They've written the latest bill in a way that they think will allow them to avoid First Amendment objections, but it's functionally equivalent to a ban.

0. https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipar...
Beautiful.
Can you share the parts and wiring?
It’s a valid question. Trusting your business resources to a tool is not a decision you make lightly.
I could, but I'm not going to post anything publicly.
I found a repo of the Haiku icons in various formats: https://github.com/darealshinji/haiku-icons

Typically how they look is up to the designer, they can decide how many small details they want to put in to make the icon look better at a larger scale. Haiku seems to have gone with a kind 3d clipart style that isn't highly detailed.
MinSH: Near-linear time global string alignment in a few lines of Python
> "Nonplussed" is like "disgruntled"; you can't be plussed, and you can't be gruntled.

And this is we end up with words like 'combobulate'.
That's very interesting, I've always found QFN to be annoying to work with
They also used to participate in illegal wage suppressing secret anti-poaching agreements, so this doesn’t seem so far out of line.
> A poor home life in any sense of the term should not matter unless it means the parents are outright abusive

I disagree. Stress from a dysfunctional family or timing demands from being required to act as a caretaker, among other things, will decrease the time and energy required to pursue physical activity.

And physical fitness, high enough to stimulate the indicators they measured, involves more than just causally playing outside - though my interpretation of that sets quite a low bar for the physical exertion involved.
When people talk about using these cards with the minipc how do they imagine setting these up? shuck the minipc out of its original case and zip tie it (no clue if its standard mobo probably not) to some case that can hold these drives and a psu? hack a hole out of the minipc and run the cabling to some cage of drives, powered by a separate psu?
For this to exist and me shunting JavaScript around from place to place.. whats the point?
Also it came out at a time where the focus for 3D games was still pretty much realistic graphics and competitive gameplay. Especially the graphics thing to me kinda seems to have stagnated since the days of Far Cry, Crysis etc.

Mainstream games, even MMPORGS which focused less on graphics tech, still had to participate in the conventions and expectations of single-player and/or competitive games.

That makes 2nd life relate to my perspective, which at the time (early 2000s) already had shifted to that of a non-gamer, despite heavily playing video games as a child.

Maybe Second Life was not only an interesting continuation of Chat rooms, but also a precursor to the revival of casual and socially oriented games.

The nice continuation of the "game with no goals" was probably Minecraft.

The not-so-nice version is mobile and easy pay-to-win games which try to rent-seek on real or simulated social interactions (Farmville was an early version of this I guess).

I remember how awesome The Incredible Machine in "Free mode" was (one of my favorite games as a child), but still never picked up gaming again.

A good and modern version of second life might appeal to me though. I always followed the articles about this at the time, without any interest in playing, but fascinated by the content.

Since I skipped Minecraft and could imagine some kind of VR version of Reddit with shared screens etc, I don't think that Zucks Metaverse vision is completely of the track.

I know a person with a quest Headset who enjoys watching football matches with strangers from English (voice chat and shared immersive screen, avatars are not important as of now I guess)
Second chances are yet another of the many, many privileges afforded exclusively to the rich in our society. For the rest of us, one mistake can literally be terminal.

Mistakes cost time and money, neither of which the majority of people have in abundance, and one mistake can set you on a path that is impossible to deviate from.

Choose the wrong career, chose the wrong spouse, have a couple of kids, and suddenly you find yourself stuck in a job, a relationship and a home you literally cannot afford to escape from. 50%+ OF ALL PEOPLE IN THE WESTERN WORLD are one paycheck away from financial insolvency and living on the streets. They literally cannot afford to quit their job to "Retrain" for a new career, as that training costs real money most folks don't have, and unless you're in a special / protected group no one is giving you a dime to pay for school let alone cover your food / housing / medical bills while you "Retrain" for a "Better future." It's a nice pipe dream / political talking-point to say truckers can all become coders, but when those truckers have mortgage payments, groceries, medical bills, kid's clothes / school fees, etc., to pay for, and when there's not even a dime of assistance money available to them, and they have nothing in the way of savings, how the hell are they supposed to be able to afford live for months or years at a time while they learn to code?

Folks can't even leave relationships these day, as moving also COSTS MONEY and the majority of people can't afford to pay for movers, put up first and last months rent, etc., making moving to a new home or a new city, too expensive a proposition to be realistic for the vast majority of low to mid income earners. The real kicker though is in basically any city in the US or Canada, if you're moving out of a rental home, the next place you live will be 50%-100% more expensive! Rents have gone up so fast in so many places that a great many people can literally never leave the place they are living as the market has gone up so fast around them they literally cannot afford to move.

It's all well and good to say people should just move for better opportunities, or just "Retrain" for a new career, but when the cost involved in either of those actions means unless they immediately pay off the person in question would find themselves destitute and homeless after bearing the involved expenses, it just goes to show how callous, self-serving and entitled our societies attitudes towards the poor and less fortunate have become.
As long as they don't succumb to the pressure to make it Posix compatible by throwing away capabilities, you're right.
Look expensive? It means not eating
§ 108 doesn't apply here, in either direction. See footnote 6 of the lower court decision, where the court notes that the Internet Archive doesn't rely on § 108, but instead on § 107 covering fair use, and also notes that § 108 doesn't restrict fair use by libraries: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.53...

The reason IA doesn't rely on § 108 is "When a user requests a copy
of an entire work or a substantial part thereof, the library or archives must first make a reasonable effort to determine whether a copy can be obtained at a fair price. If it can, then no copy is allowed to be made." https://www.copyright.gov/policy/section108/discussion-docum...

What you're describing, "public libraries are permitted to make one digital copy and distribute it (lend it) once at a time on separate occasions," is what controlled digital lending refers to, and it would be cool if it was overtly authorized by statute, but it isn't -- the original CDL whitepaper ( https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/ ) relied on fair use instead. The trial court found that it fails that test, so unless IA wins on appeal, it doesn't exist.
To fuel your cosmic horror: Some of the dots may even be galaxy clusters
If the fine was more than the income in the past, that still doesn’t matter because of the income from future sales will still make this behaviour worthwhile
They are currently allowed to do so, and this attrition has happened without a proliferation of LLMs.

This feels like an oranges-apples kinda argument. The thing that's destroying journalism is the current framework for monetizing and how utterly inadequate it is - that, and the lack of a robust middle class; the primary consumer of news.

It's easy to point at tech and say that it's what changed so it's the problem - but just like dirt roads were better for horses, sometimes it's the existing structures that need to change. Our ownership model is lost in the modern era and badly needs revisiting.