skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a hard time believing it'd be worth the risk

Well, isn't that nice, we get to do a Gedankeexperiment.

You get choose between the two following scenarios:

- bringing a shotgun onboard, using it to defend your life by at least inflicting pain to the attacking beast and trying to chase them away. Oh, and yeah, maybe paying a 300 euro fine for trying to make sure you come back home alive.

- not bringing a shotgun aboard, getting pummeled, sunk and either eaten or drowned. But sure, you'll not be fined 300 euros.

I know what I'd do.

Oh, and

> where is a yacht owner in the Mediterranean going to get a shotgun

LOL.

Any large coastal city suburb in either Spain, France or Italy ?
I know Oberon only by name, I've used (and honestly not loved it at all) some Pascal dialect back at high school, but back then was not real programming and was an introductory very bad organized course so it's hard to tell, I've encountered probably Oberon for a river navigation applications around 10 years ago but I wasn't really involved so I can't say much, I essentially do not know anything but the name, if you have some interesting links to share I'll skim them with pleasure.

In more broad terms I do not put much attention in a specific programming language even if clearly an OS-single-application is tied to a specif programming language, in the sense that there are many, and they are many factions loving one and hating others, the point is offering something usable at user level, like "just type a sexp and execute it" also from an email, because integration means also an immense small diversity and heavy dialogues so innovation. With such model we can keep our supremacy and more important we can't lose it because essentially anything float in a common see.

The main issue to reach such goal I think it's general cultural of the masses, today most peoples, many programmers included, do think that IT means computers, like saying that astronomy is the science of telescopes. Of course computers are like pen and paper, an essential tool, but they are a tool, the purpose of IT is information and that's not a specific technical task but a broad aspects involving essentially all disciplines. Until this is clear for anyone there is little hope people understand the need, power and issues of IT, they'll keep looking at the finger pointing the Moon instead of at the Moon.

The rest came after, even the most basic computer skills came after because to learn we need to be motivated, learning "just because you have to" as a social rule is not productive.
Do you happen to have a link on that, I'm genuinely curious?
And it can be a little hard to go back and learn the things you miss.

Personally, I wish I had learned more of the greek alphabet in school. When I look at papers today I often get stuck on the symbols and my reading turns into "Where squiggly line is..."
The Case for Guided Instruction [pdf]
https://archive.is/ka3nH
WinFS was never designed as a replacement as it rode on top of NTFS. It was a fancy SQL Server database that exposed files as .NET Objects for API interaction.

Sans the API piece, think of it like storing blobs in SQL Server, just like SharePoint does.

I was lucky enough to play around with beta 1. Not much you could do with it, though.
Your landing page is full of lies like fake customers, this screams amateurism
The Capability-Tractability Tradeoff (2023)
> You'll struggle to find people who are against the Digital Markets Act for this reason. It literally only targets the potential monopolists.

You're commenting on an article doing exactly that. So that was not much of a struggle.
third parties being able to take down your kernel is an implication in incompetence.

if you leave your door unlocked, it is not your fault you got robbed, but you probably should have locked the door for security.

this is microsoft’s critical security flaw and needs to be addressed head on. it’s a backdoor for them that they wanted and got locked open according to them via antitrust.

the solution is to close the backdoor, but they won’t because all the windows business is in the back room deals.

did we as a hacker news collective just forget who the first tech company in the PRISM leaks was?

same kernel vulnerability, different day.
“Good” in this context didn’t mean “this is a good situation”, but rather “if you’re using ruby, it would be very bad if you didn’t write tests”, and “bad if you don’t” can be roughly reworded as “good if you do”, at least if we’re presupposing that you have to be writing Ruby.
When something built on top of the filesystem is "faster" than the filesystem, it just means "when you use the filesystem in a less-than-optimal manner, it will be slower than an app that uses it in a sophisticated manner." An interesting point, but perhaps obvious...
You can get benches from the horses mouth.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/

But the primary improvement comes from async A/V, not the file system.

ReFS offers other improvements such as CoW and instant file initialization which can benefit developers. From this standpoint, it is the correct choice over NTFS.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/dev-...
I started learning Obj-C and AppKit in the mid 2000s. During that process I had a moment of zen when I realized that everything I had learned and done with C++ and COM in the late 90s was completely wrong.
I would guess the number one source of PUFA in the USA is soybean oil. How does an industrial waste product become so ingrained in our supply that it's hard to buy most foods without it? I thought free market provided more choice?
Technology trees are definitely a thing. The answer to "Could the Romans have invented an arbitrary fairly modern thing?" is almost always no because they would also have needed a bunch of other resources and inventions that didn't exist yet (and which they might have had little interest in pursuing given that they had plenty of cheap labor, etc.)
Yeah I think that’s a good idea as a few people have thought the same thing. Thanks for the feedback!
Autonomy at Comma.ai
Those who spend their time flying through imaginary worlds do well to "remember where the off switch is" to quote Ian Banks' "Excession". It's also helpful to characterize a person not just by their character, tenacity or energy, or age, but also a number between 0 and 1 that indicates how much of their time they've spent in the real world, vs in their happy fun space. Call it the "imagination factor". A bright, capable mind of 40 with an imagination factor of .75 may only have the cumulative real-world experience of a 10-year-old.
I believe it's for probing and testing.

They're using it to a. See what exactly are red flags to us such that we notice them as non-human, b. Testing to see when they successfully slip past us.

These are the obvious ones; I suspect there are many that we are now not noticing.

We're providing free data to them whenever we do or do not flag the comments, unfortunately.
im counting everything. If the question is "what do we get for 4.5 trillion in taxes, and 6 trillion is spending", the answer is largely "welfare programs".
excited to try this out! am definitely in your target market
If you’re willing to jailbreak why not just get an Android tablet?

Because jailbreaking basically unlocks access to some pretty shitty hacky apps in an overall pretty shitty and unstable experience.

Like, it’s cool, and I support
the idea, but as a daily driver why not buy the OS that gives you more freedom in the first place?
I think it is knowable, to some degree, in retrospect. The day before the first iPhone was released was its price unknowable?
Turns out various Bond villains were right all along.
Do you remember which file system you used on Linux?
Expert Committee approves endotoxin testing using non-animal derived reagents
https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/safety-firs...
Working from home can also eliminate office jobs, but Google (amongst many others) are pushing back on that.

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/googles-threat-to-punish-empl...
Only if you ignore the tax code. US example for single people:

SNAP for a single person is $291/month - total income * 0.3 so they get nothing at 11,640 per year of annual income and 291$/month at 0$ annual income.

2024 income brackets for single people are: 10% $0 to $11,600, 12% $11,600 to $47,150, 22% $47,151 to $100,525, ... Maximum tax bracket is 37%.

Hand everyone 260$ per month, but change things so the highest tax bracket 37% applies $0 to $11,600 and everyone making 12,000+$/ year sees zero change in their take home pay. And people making 0$/year get 260$/month.

Those numbers aren’t quite identical, but it’s surprising how close it ends up. At 30%, $0 to $11,640 it’s off by less than 1$/year.
The same is true for YouTube creators. A small number make big bucks. A few make supplemental income. Everyone else makes squat.

Media in particular seems highly vulnerable to this effect. Power law distributions are everywhere but the distribution is tight in media.

The thing I find most depressing is that the top creators on all these platforms are all trash. I know pop is usually considered trash by “heads” in most areas but the top stuff on YT, podcasts, etc. truly is trash.
io_uring/IOCP won't change how long it takes to access a file.
The only tweak I would make is to disregard financial assets as assets in this context. Holding money isn't really that different than holding IOUs for a share of stock that you'll never actually own.

If a person is really does view money as smoke and mirrors, and is concerned that it can be printed whenever it's needed, tangible assets like land or tools at least useful if you no longer see value on money.

That said, I'm not advocating for that view necessarily and very much agree with your take here. People do seem to be losing faith in money, at least a bit, and that can be very dangerous if the faith continues to erode.
My cheap Behringer NU1000DSP that I use as a subwoofer amp can do that to some extent with its dynamic EQ, and you can set it up via USB with a PC app which is a huge step up from some crummy little LCD and buttons.
I wish it hadn’t been. It’s been considerably more slow and buggy ever since the merge. Pre-merge I loved using it, but post-merge I avoid it in favor of code, except for Mac projects which is where it’s least buggy.
Nah, they just threw bodies at the problem - shifts be damned. In the US people were working most if not all days of the week. We’re lucky we got where we are now with a 5 day work week brought about by union pressure.
SF does have somewhat lower car ownership than the average American city. I know a couple in SF who don't own one. Though I'd observe that, in addition to muni and some cycling, they lean heavily on Uber, Zipcar, and conventional rentals so they're carless mostly in the sense that they don't own one and have to park it but they certainly use and drive cars in some form on an ongoing basis.
NTFS can be especially awful if you're used to Linux behaviour, port code over to Windows and expect the same performance.

Here's a talk on porting rustup to Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8

To begin with, it takes rustup 3m30s to install on Windows. After rejigging the code again and again away from its naive implementation which works fine on Linux, to perform sympathetically towards NTFS, it takes the same rustup 14s to install. That's quite a performance gain! But it needed a lot of changes to rustup, and to Windows itself.
> That is not ARP problem. Its called broadcast storm and its problem of stupid people and/or bad equipment. You can bring any network down with incompetence.

It's a footgun. All footguns have ways to not trigger them, but saying you can't blow off a leg is also inaccurate. Reducing the number of footguns laying about is generally a good thing

> Now take a look at ND tables exchaustion alone.

No different than ARP table exhaustion (a finite L2-L3 mapping table). "First hop security" is a thing in both protocols.

> So, IPv6 should be simple, easy to implement and so less prone to mistakes. All extras should be put layer up.

I would argue that IPv6 is simpler to get going than IPv4: to start you don't need BOOTP/DHCP. In fact IPv4 later took some ideas from IPv6, e.g., 169.254.0.0/16 link-local addresses:

This document describes a method by which a host may automatically
configure an interface with an IPv4 address in the 169.254/16 prefix
that is valid for Link-Local communication on that interface. This
is especially valuable in environments where no other configuration
mechanism is available. The IPv4 prefix 169.254/16 is registered
with the IANA for this purpose. Allocation of IPv6 Link-Local addresses
is described in "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration" [RFC2462].

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3927
"once they penetrate organizations."

Yep, that is the key. Crashing your own org hasn't done that. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are claiming?
> It would have been better to have bought a house, kept the easy job, and gone home at 4:30 each day. People see this. They see that wealth is handed out, arbitrarily, to the people who are connected to the issuance of currency and the banking system. That homeowners make more in a year from asset appreciation than well paid engineers do.

This is an oversimplification naturally but the gist of it is spot on. Based on this dynamic, you should absolutely buy a 2nd home before the first is paid off, assume things continue as they have been so you can contribute to and benefit from rising prices everywhere. One thing leads to another, and that's how most wealth is created by robbing the future. But the future actually arrives some day, and we're seeing some of that now.

There's no exit strategy for this behaviour though. Since so many people did exactly what they were incentivized to do, they of course don't want the rules to change now. The current generation will always need to pay 10x whatever a house is worth, because otherwise all of the people in the last generation can't afford to settle debts / retire / pay unreasonable amounts for healthcare. This puts the current generation in debt, so that they have to rob the next, and so on until there's some collapse. Most millennials have had a rough time waiting for that collapse though, so lots have bought something on credit to build equity rather than continuing to throw away money on rent. Soon instead of cheering on any kind of collapse in the housing market, they also will want it postponed because they will need to rob the next generation. But each iteration of this same game isn't exactly the same, because every generation does a little worse while more wealth gets concentrated in the hands of the already-wealthy.
Dissections of “what is wrong with the iPad” have become so tiring at this point, I kind of wish that Apple would just rename it to “artist tablet and media pad” so that people would stop complaining that it’s not macOS.

Sure, you are right: Apple loves iPadOS and macOS for having closed App Store ecosystems that funnel 30% of that entire economy to their coffers.

But at the same time the discussion has become tiring because it’s a bunch of people who aren’t iPad customers telling iPad customers what they should want in their device.

The vast majority of iPad owners are just using it to derp around with entertainment apps and shove Baby Shark in front of their toddler.

The tiny sliver of power users that buy the pro models are in creative fields like art and video where the iPad’s shortcomings on the “computer” side don’t really matter. An iPad with ProCreate is then best artist’s tablet on the market and that’s pretty much the end of that story.

At some point we should just let the iPad be what it is.
Oh cool, I wasn't aware of the book but I'll check it out.
My point isn't that Marx invented the idea of a UBI, I don't actually recall him specifically writing about the concept. My point is that the idea of a UBI is rooted in very much the same arguments as what Marx wrote so much about.
If Google starts using AI to calculate their emissions, they can report incorrect numbers that look better.
It’s a question on the DS-160, IIRC.
To put this in perspective: for CO2 emissions (which is what we're talking about here, I guess?), you have the Big Four, in descending order of pollution: transportation, electricity, industry and other (mostly commercial/residential), for a total of about 65 Billion Metric Tons of CO2 per year.

In transportation, the biggest polluter (by direct emissions) by far is shipping. This is about 8/65 (12%), compared to 1/65 (1.5%) for the much-maligned aviation sector, or the 4/65 (6%) for cars, that, for some reason, nobody likes to talk about.

Then, when it comes to electricity, data centers are really quite marginal: 0.4/65 (about 0.6%). And, like aviation, the sector is taking measures to Be Better: higher airco setpoints, mandatory purchase of "green" electricity, etc. etc. Unlike the shipping sector, which pretty much continues to burn raw dinosaurs just because they're based in a jurisdiction that allows, nay, encourages that.

So, if you want to get mad about emissions, start with things that actually matter, would be my take? I happen to be of the opinion that AI is bunk, and any energy invested in it is wasted, but that goes doubly or triply for the shipment of novelty hats...
https://gist.github.com/abrichr/455f0e569bf1bd104c696a7ad9e6...
> A store is a commercial place, and that’s exactly why it should be further away

I still fail to understand why, of course I understand that some people like sweet coffee vs others who like it bitter and others who do not like it anyway but I fail to understand a reasoning for suburbs and commercial spaces.

Commerce might means traffic back and forth and that's a good reason to not want it near a home, but SMALL commerce does not means much traffic anyway and "nearby" does not means "aside". A cemetery it's the same, I see reasons not wanting it aside homes, but the opposite... Well... I understand that for some a church nearby is important, but it's still not a residential home and host ceremonies so have various peoples and cars coming and going so again I see reasons not wanting it aside a home and still not much reasons not wanted it nearby.

Anyway, IF local resident like having church and cemeteries but not small store it's perfectly fine, my original comment was about the discussed articles where I do not agree in general, in conclusion in particular, but I agree about some sub-rubs problems.
There is no reason to assume so.
SQL server has image, text, varbinary(max) and varchar(max) none of those except varbinary(max) are filestream enabled, and varbinary is only file stream if that is setup and the column is specified file stream when created otherwise its in the DB like the others.

image and text with READTEXT and WRITETEXT are deprecated but still work fine, varbinary(max) and substring UPDATE.WRITE are the modern equivalent and use the same implementations underneath.

Filestream allows larger than 2 gigs, stores the blob data in the filesystem but otherwise is accessed like the other blobs along with some special capability like getting a SMB file pointer from the client for direct access. It is also backed up and replicated like normal, definitely not just like storing a path in the DB.

Filestream performs worse the in db for blobs under about 100kb I believe where it would be recommended to keep them in db for max perf.

I have used MSSQL blobs long before filestream existed and it works well except for the 2 gig limit and once the db gets large backup and log management get more unwieldy than if you just stored them outside the db but it does keep them transactional consistent, which filestream also does.
> And it can be a little hard to go back and learn the things you miss.

Yeah, if you've got a deep hole in your knowledge, it can be difficult to know where the bottom is (which is problematic because that's where you have to start filling it in).
Point.-

PS. In a bit, like the weather? The further from the present you go, the "harder" it gets to solve for that?

That said, when approaching (or, surpassing) some "imposibility boundary" - for more an more parts to actually exist, ultimately leading to the whole being impossible ...

... that's when it gets interesting.-
The problem is that DNS is not zero configuration. ARP and NDP are which is why nobody complains about Ethernet being hard to type. DNS has to be “stood up” which is a whole extra deployment.

In modern devops in particular it is common to create and tear down IP networks in seconds and sling stuff everywhere. The extra moving part is an extra thing to break.

DNS also runs over IP which means if IP is down DNS doesn’t work. What do you have to do then? You have to debug IP without DNS.

There is mDNS but it’s not reliable and doesn’t scale to large networks. It also runs on the IP layer so if there is a problem there it can break.
> As my app matured, I found that I often wanted hierarchical folder-like functionality

(1) Slim table "items"

- id / parent_id / kind (0/1 file folder) integer

- name text

- Maybe metadata.

(2) Separate table "content"

- id integer

- data blob

There you have file-system-like structure and fast access times (don't mix content in the first table)

Or, if you wish for deduplication or compression, add item_content (3)
> This works because function.toString() in modern runtimes gives you back fully parse-able input source.

TIL - that is good to know. I'll probably leave the post as-is but I will use that in the future.
> the multistep process of C compilation

it can be a single make command
net.core.wmem_max is a maximum value, as its name says.

net.ipv4.tcp_wmem is a triple value, with minimum, default and maximum values. The maximum given here cannot exceed the previous value.

TCP is a protocol that should be the same regardless whether it is transported by IPv4 or by IPv6.

See e.g.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_data_grid/7...
UBI requires changes to the tax code, but look at the comparison between SNAP and the 10% tax bracket for people making 0-11,600$ in the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41086690

At least for single people how SNAP sunsets with income is almost 1:1 with the discount for the lowest tax bracket.

Thus changing SNAP to a low UBI could have almost zero impact.
I don’t think that’s really fair to Swift. It has some really interesting things to say about devirtualization, compiling generics, and even memory management. It’s not necessarily a better language than Objective-C for every task, but it’s certainly very different.
"When we do retrieval, we embed the query and then find other points close to that query."

To me that just sounds like OpenSearch with extra steps.

How is this different/better than a search engine?