skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really? You somehow can't create a ZFS file system on an hardware RAID block device?

Sure you can do it, have two layers of checksums and a volume manager on top of a volume manager. But ZFS is designed to talk directly to block devices and try to detect and complain about the numerous failure modes. Like say a parity calc that goes awry because of a memory error.

For this and other reasons it's recommended that even with Hardware RAID it's recommended to configure it in JBOD mode.

I've also seen numerous cases where software RAID on top of hardware RAID running in JBOD mode is faster than just using hardware RAID.

> When you operate like that you can accommodate sophisticated integration such as this for efficiency gains.

Sure, if there are efficiency gains. If the strong bottleneck for writing to the controller is your limiting factor you might get a 33% increase in I/O. But for that to be true you need:

* The bottleneck not to be elsewhere
* The controller inside a NVMe device (often passively cooled) to be faster than the one on the CPU
* The bandwidth between the PCI controller or PCIe switch and the NVMe controller to not care about a 2x increase in needed bandwidth

Seems unlikely to me.
Welcome to HN! FYI, you can edit comments for two hours after posting them.
out of curiosity: how much are you guys paying per month? i had, at that moment, 7 years of no accidents and the 9/1999 version of [1] and was at ~25euro/month

[1] https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/auto-kaufen-verkaufen/...
Are you morally perfect? No? Do you still have legal rights and ownership of things despite that?

It's like that for companies. It doesn't matter if Disney sucks in many ways, if they own something, they own it.

If you think this is vague bullshit, then I'd invite you to read up on how societies tend to work without it. Even communist China instituted reforms and amendments in recent decades cementing the concept of private property ownership.

And Dotcom does have a tie to the US that he willingly and knowingly created: he committed a crime against their citizens and companies.
> I’d have to bring in closed-source software and engage with a bunch of megacorps to make an open-ecosystem device do anything I care to do beyond playing with it. How is that an improvement?

Benefit of choice? Currently you rely on iCloud, I assume. iCloud is about as "trust me, bro" as you can get in the cloud storage industry; blatantly backdoored, expensive beyond understanding, and integrated too deeply to replace entirely. On other platforms you're not forced down just one avenue of convenience, you get to exercise your choice as a consumer between different solutions, or even roll your own. The express advantage is that you are enabled to not be helpless when a corporation makes mindbogglingly dumb decisions on your behalf as a user.

It's not trite or pedantic to point out your hypocrisy here. Supporting a company you think "sucks" is a terrible example to set for the rest of your social circle. I used to be that way about Google - might as well use their products since everything else is borderline garbage, right? But it isn't right, and supporting their business is actively making the world a worse place. You're welcome to suffer through whichever corporate woodchipper you think is less painful, but I can tell you firsthand the only thing I miss from MacOS and Windows are the built-in ads. If the dark patterns get any darker, I doubt most users will want to keep using their preinstalled OSes in the first place.

With regards to your wife/dad/family/whoever, "so what" indeed. If I replaced my dad's Android phone with LineageOS I legitimately don't think he would ever know as long as his YouTube app worked. Is it really that hard to imagine the people that suffer through Windows 11 slogging through Debian and Fedora instead? It's not a problem for Steam Deck owners, and for the average Google Sheets-bound employee it's probably an even easier switch. How am I expected to commiserate with people that, by your insinuation, don't care?
720x480 is not 720p, that's 480p (assuming progressive scan and not interlaced).
MFW people somehow feel like there is any guarantee of privacy when typing on a touchscreen keyboard on an android or IOS device…

If you want actual privacy you need to run a keyboard/ terminal running bare-metal code for capturing and displaying text, encryption, and sending the encrypted packet over your reticulum client as an encrypted blob.

This could be a hardwired serial or Bluetooth, for example. Or you could run a separate MCU to handle networking and protocols. The important thing is to run verified code on bare metal with no binary blobs, and that the encrypted payload should be the only thing sent to the network node, preferably over a TTL serial link between the terminal controller and the network controller.
Land Value Tax (the Georgeism discussed in the article) just taxes the land on what it is worth, not the buildings on it. So holding land vacant costs more because the speculator is not making any money from it, while they could be making money from a building.

A side benefit for homeowners is that improvements increase equity and resale value without raising taxes
The “solution” mentioned is political. A requirement that data on an individual is properly deleted when presented with the data would be “good”. A requirement that captures every nuance of mistakes would be “perfect”.

Hashing a birthday and SSN is deterministic. We could deterministically keep that data deleted. This would be better than we have today, and could be done reliably and affordably.

The companies can easily be required (by law) to implement the “good” solution. Everyone complaining it’s not “perfect” is stopping “good”.
Fascinating how you jumped to that conclusion given that vacation and air travel are two completely different things. Shows you the power of good marketing I guess.
The problem isn’t the data centre, it’s the peering with networks in other countries.
EV sales will pick up again as they continue to get cheaper and become less expensive than ICEVs.
So the better way would be something like average angular distance? If it's close to correct, but just off by a second or so - then that average will be very small.
Those are about rural communities. It makes perfect sense that a very low-density community doesn't generate enough demand for a robust grocery store. The 2nd article mentions that the community used the newly built grocery store for a while, before going back mostly shopping at a Walmart 30 miles away. My guess is that those people were going to that Walmart anyway for this or that in many cases. So at that point, why drive to two locations, esp for most people in the rural area, that grocery store isn't actually that much more convenient, and can't compete on price with Walmart?
Crossroads! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_(folklore)
Thank you, and because you named traction, I remember the book from DDG's founder Gabriel Weinberg [1], that was previous to his success.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Cu...
> There are no clean image models. Zero. Using today's model architectures, the problem of using non-expressly-permitted data for training is insurmountable.

"This would be hard to do while respecting licenses on creative works" is not an argument for being permitted to ignore those licenses.

I don't like copyright, but I strongly believe in everyone following the same rules. If AI companies are finding that copyright is inconvenient: welcome to the club, Open Source developers have been saying that for decades, and others have been saying it for centuries. There shouldn't be a special asymmetric exception for AI training that lets AI ignore licenses while everyone else cannot. By all means remove copyright restrictions for everyone, for all uses.

> So if the artists prevail, image generators are donezo.

And for exactly that reason I hope they prevail. Model training can start over and do it right this time.
That is terrifying. If the elite of the elite can't interact with historical works, how can we trust them to make informed decisions about the present? I really don't want foreign policy on India set by Harvard grads who have never read Ghandi, and I don't want domestic policy set by people who haven't read the Scarlet Letter.
What if someone went to the effort of congregating around making a standard out of my weekend (? I dunno) Perl script? I would be elated. But maybe my standards are low because I’m not already “famous”.

If the crucial part here is the fact that he apparently already copyrighted the name then that seems kind of like begging the question. I wouldn’t copyright a bland name like that which has no connection to my own person. (Maybe I would copyright something like keybord-lang though...)
Why do conflation artifacts always exist with a box filter? AFAIK conflation artifacts are a product of the compositing process, not the filtering process.

If you have two non-overlapping shapes of the same color covering the plane and use a box filter on the first shape to sample a pixel on the boundary, and then use the same box filter on the second shape, and then composit them with alpha blending, you get a conflation artifact along the boundary where the background bleeds through.

But if you use the fact that the shapes are non-overlapping and sum their contributions instead, the artifact disappears, while still using the same box filter.
Plus, for a stable coin to work, you need to be able to redeem it at face value. If you burned the dollar bill... Hard to do!
The classic book references for programming shmup bullet patterns (in Japanese) are シューティングゲームアルゴリズムマニアックス and シューティングゲーム プログラミング, but in general, a lot of this stuff is folk knowledge and isn't communicated well outside of trial and error until you get something passable. I would suggest looking up web tutorials and game source code and learning from that (also will mention the Development sub forum on shmups.system11.org being quite useful).
90% sure the reason is that new users, not familiar with the app, want to see that the change is actually taking place. Without it, the user may expect the post would literally be '*text*' instead of being bolded.
> Anyways, the burden to disprove the harm done through me not buying it is on you.

Is that legally how it works?

This sounds a lot like being guilty until proven innocent...
Very true. There are many areas in the US (Detroit for example) that have lost population over the past 50 years that wouldn't have to start from scratch with new development.
What It's Like to Remove a Brain Tumor
If the desire is just to grep for your name, email address, whatever, and then throw the rest of the data away, I don't think waiting multiple minutes is a big deal.
I agree, and I think even the folks who are against that would actually end up enjoying it more. But people hate change, especially when it means changing something that has been that way for generations at this point. My main point though is that people who think this is about money are simply wrong. Trying to argue numbers with these folks will not move them an inch. It has everything to do with emotion.
To explain it somewhat, that was also pre-MAD (in the modern sense, since ~1975), which meant a combination of (a) sudden potential existential threats & (b) rapid technological change.

In that environment, it was more reasonable to run parallel development projects, as one didn't want to be caught flat-footed if one approach failed (e.g. SLBM + ICBM + bombers).
NVMe drives fail at a fairly low rate so this is an optimization for a very small edge case and since they are also very fast it's not like you'll be doing a rebuild for 6+ hours like with HDDs.

It also doesn't change anything for distributed storage.
The structure of neighborhoods I’ve seen pop up in the last couple decades (maybe also earlier, I dunno) is that of a neighborhood developer who farms out the work of building the houses to (usually) a few select other firms, which do the actual GC work and sell the houses, having bought the lots they’re building on from the owner of the neighborhood. The neighborhood developer is mostly in land speculation, they don’t GC the building of houses. IDK if such outfits bill themselves as “home builders” in some contexts, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
> either you have to have a central controlling authority for addressing, or an adversary can just flood your network

False dichotomy. IIRC reticulum does something like an inverse TTL, so packets have priority based on how local they are.
Which always seemed to me just a retelling of the Robert Johnson “crossroads” legend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson#Devil_legend
Maybe shifting further but ’the silver tongued devil’ by Kris Kristofferson is a beautiful song with a beautiful message in my opinion
You said:

> The neat thing about capitalism is that stores will be built to serve the community if there's a market for it.

I am pointing out that this is not a given, magic that will just happen. Capitalism is not always efficient nor reliable, based on the evidence.

> before going back mostly shopping at a Walmart 30 miles away. My guess is that those people were going to that Walmart anyway for this or that in many cases. So at that point, why drive to two locations, esp for most people in the rural area, that grocery store isn't actually that much more convenient, and can't compete on price with Walmart?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/walmart-clo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/05/what-...
I my country making a copy of copyrighted works is illegal unless you have permission from the copyright holder.

It’s impossible to use a copyrighted work to train without making a copy of it.
But isn't this about LAION, an open source model? Looks like they're going after Stability, not OpenAI or Anthropic.

Maybe this is more about stifling open source models.
Yes. I mean it's a fair objection to that question as is. Many people
expect technology to happen magically and for free. When it comes to
critical infrastructure like roads, reservoirs and the army, nobody
asks "how much would I pay?", because people elected a government to
make those decisions and raise taxes appropriately. Ironically one big
missing source of income is fair tax on overseas tech. Although we
have a body that recognises digital as critical national
infrastructure [0], some people in London haven't got the memo yet.

[0] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/ncsc-warns-of-emerging-threat-t...
> Was he trying to stick it to the man, or find a way to enrich himself

Why not both?
Truth. I'll go further. He was a scam artist. Back in the day, I remember using MegaCar.com as an example of all the evils of Flash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9RIkwvFjfw

Also Data Protect was a fraud masquerading as an information security company. I was living in Germany then and it was a joke in the infosec space.
What were the steps to get it to make a call?
I'm sure the artists don't give any care about the parts of the training that aren't directly related to generating images, such as models which generate captions for images.
But things like datasets are massive and structure is important. Do they retain them digitally with the same original structure or do they transform them into some kind of massive PDF?
Nowhere does RMS say that, oh, if the user modified the program, it's okay to limit their freedom to run it in some ways, as long as it's via a license blessed by the GNU project and the FSF, the ultimate arbiters of what is free who can change their minds at any time.

However, in this article, RMS is cheerfully recommending Affero:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
Why can companies not use GPL3 software? I cannot see how its so different from GPL 2 for companies that are users.

I can see it has some disadvantages for companies incorporating GPL software in their products, but none for companies merely using GPL 3 software.
This is an interesting argument but at the moment the laws say piracy is illegal. And they do so in a way that is super reasonable, no kidneys involved.

The pirated works were created under this understanding of the rules.

In other words, movies and games were financed and made at great expense and effort with a view to selling copies and tickets and making money off of VHS rentals / Netflix streaming. Piracy is a clear subversion of this, and by the way, if it became mainstream, would break the industry that creates some of the things we like.

While the law isn't part of some cosmic order, there's nothing written in the stars that entitles you to every creation of every other person, at your convenience, for free.
It was South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. I was a sysadmin so only tangentially involved, but the programmers were having a hard time because the situation was basically unknowable, That is, there was no primary source of information, I think they ended up buying a service that specialized in keeping track of what address charged what taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair%2C_Inc.

The basic idea is that some localities charge a use tax, which is a sales tax applied to items bought outside their jurisdiction. The citizens if the jurisdiction are required to self report and pay this tax. The problem(or beneficent depending of what side of the transaction you were on) is that this is very nearly unenforceable, just too large an attack surface. The standard way to enforce tax payment is to move it a rung up the ladder. The store collects collects the sales tax before you get the item, your employer collects the income tax before you see the money etc. now there are exponentially fewer collection points. the collection points are hidden, out of the voter base and each point has far more to loose if they rebel keeping them in line.
In which case why isn’t he in a New Zealand prison after being found guilty by a jury of his peers in New Zealand?
> I recall a few years back, Packt et al would publish like "Modern React" or something, with examples that wouldn't build by the time the book was out.

This says more about React than it does about the publisher.
Yes those benefits can now be realized now with modern controls. Back when the Saturn V was designed the control systems necessary to manage 30 engines didn't really exist. Digital control was in it infancy and was only really implemented with a backup on the whole Apollo stack.

Trying to manage that many engines while technically possible with controls of the era (check out the N1) means your control system would be introducing reliability issues instead of adding fault tolerance through redundancy.
It absolutely feels like it
Career Choices for a Polyglot?
Hello.

I always showed talent for learning foreign languages: as a child at school I was miles ahead of other kids in English (and also the quirks of my native language, which is Polish, but that's a different story). At the university I dedicated a lot of time to learning Dutch, after achieving the level of "I don't need to actively study it anymore, I only wish I could practice it more" I moved onto Spanish. That one is work in progress, but when on holiday I was able to effectively communicate with people who didn't speak English. A few months ago I picked up Japanese. It's going to be a long journey, but future me will be proud of current me.

The thing is, I don't really see any way of incorporating these skills into my career. The entirety of tech revolves around English, and even those rare positions that require knowing a language would rather see a native speaker.

Regarding my tech career, back when I was a student I loved low-level programming and wrote a thesis on the topic of compilers. Unfortunately, job market pushed me into being DevOps, and I spend my days with Terraform.

Do you have any suggestions? Or should I only expect foreign languages to stay a hobby of mine?
The major of Los Vegas says otherwise.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/commentary-government-...
And then you have the people who say that language changes based on usage. Get enough people calling it property, theft, stealing, irregardless, etc. and then you can change the dictionary.
What do people think of this? Is it useful/helpful?
Yeah, I found if I add

<div>
</div>

at the end of the example, some of the letters of "div" would be green and some would be white.[1] Adding a class or something changed which letters were green and which white.

1. https://imgur.com/a/Ib2R9gh
In the style of New Yorker, a joke as old as gpt itself.
> “This was very deleterious of trust, to have third-party, unvetted insecure software on it,” Dane Stuckey, Palantir’s chief information security officer,

That is pretty funny
This Matt Stoller guy paints a misleading picture of the dynamics of what is to be in the industry.

I grew up in the housing industry as the son of a homebuilder. Not to date myself, but I wrote what was probably one of the first cost accounting spreadsheets on the nascent PC of the day using VisiCalc. The spreadsheet took into account all costs associated with building a starter single family home, including land acquisition, financing, municipal fees, material, and labor costs, I.e. everything one one need to run a successful business as a home builder. I know this industry intimately.

Yes, Stoller is correct it’s harder to be a small (i.e. 10-20 homes per year) home builder than it was 40 years ago. But it’s not due to some conspiracy. It’s because the local zoning has become much more arcane and the red tape so Byzantine that the little guys have been effectively pushed out. For instance, you need a full time staff person to negotiate with your local ZBA (Zoning Board Association) to get permission to get something built. Beyond the direct costs, the delays and uncertainties are killer as they eat into your profits. (The gross margin is slim, somewhere between 10-20% on a home for a small time builder. I know - I wrote the damn spreadsheet that calculated it.) As a consequence of all these regulations, only the big builders can afford to absorb and amortize these costs over tens to hundreds of homes. Of course, this also means the big guys still need a fatter profit to to deal with zoning hurdles, long time frames, uncertainties, and what have you, thus margins need to be higher on average even for them. This is what is going on. Not some monopolistic conspiracy.

I looked Stoller up. Here’s the Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Stoller

His gig is railing against monopolies. The housing industry is just another nail for his one-size fits all monopolistic hammer explanations.

The real culprit here actually is a cartel ironically. But this cartel is made up of homeowners who flex their power through local zoning codes that make it near impossible to build new homes, especially apartments.

TLDR: In other words, the YIMBYs are right: the problem is zoning restrictions on new supply. Reform zoning and small time home builders will be back with a gusto.
Ahaha I'm also working with a bank and "customer communications" is a really nice euphemism for "barrage of class action suits". I'm sitting here in the office laughing out loud.
Merging multi-viewports but not docking (when they're both in the same branch) doesn't sound like fun, but I guess the code is largely separate.

I can definitely relate to concerns about new features attracting new users with less expertise and more questions; it's something I've directly experienced, albeit on a much smaller scale.
Incremental View Maintenance Replicas
As long as Canadians live 4 to a bed, the housing situation is keeping up.

Maybe it can be like hot desking at the office. Just have to make sure you and your roommates work opposing shifts.

https://www.tvo.org/article/ontarios-housing-crisis-is-becom...
I love this. It captures the vibe to perfection. Too cheap to include the y, no Y for you! We make you figure it out so we can monetise the Y without actually delivering it.

On brand, 10/10