skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot very interesting details in your reply - thanks. I have this question:

If you aren’t budget constrained today and had to set it all up again. What would you do?

While I’m a Linux guy, I’ll happily run BSDs when appropriate, like for pfSense, and if it really has better mt tools or driver for LTO-9 drives due to the culture/contributors being more old school, then I’d just grab a 1U server to dedicate for it run a BSD and attach the drive to that.

You seem to have extensive practical hands on experience and while I was doing tapes 20 years ago this will be first time I’m hands on again with it since then. So I need to research most reliable drive vendors and state of kernel drivers and tools, just as you are alluding to.

Pretend you have $50K if needed (doubt it). 2PB existing data, 1PB/year targeted rate, probably 10-20%/year acceleration on that rate. with a data center rack location, 20Gb/s interconnect via bonded 10Gb NICs to storage servers (45drives storinators) and then an office center cabinet/rack/desk (your choice) and will put a tape drive holding at least 8 tapes in data center, planning for worst case of 100TB a month and data center visits to swap in new tapes shouldn’t be too frequent. Any details on what you would do would be interesting.
> If you build a power station and undercut everyone else they will have to lower their prices, just like every other market.

It does not work like that. You're paid the price the most expensive power station running is setting. And as the most expensive power stations earn via the capacity market, what you do is keep your old gas/coal power station spot price set really high, and you'll profit anyway.

Also, electricity 'price' set for wind and solar are 0, good luck getting lower.
The app crashes because "too many files" includes the fd accept(2) wants to allocate so your app can respond to the health check.
There are several third parties to get this data.

I prefer Shippo, know the founders, and integrated inside Weebly (now Square).
Yes, this is correct, although it may be more obvious to visitors than to residents.

The evidence that this is correct follows: visitors, tourists if you prefer, can collect reimbursement for VAT payments, the first link I hit was Norway but this is very common if not universal: https://www.toll.no/en/tourist-in-norway/reimbursement-of-va...

If VAT were a tax on the corporation, it would make no sense at all to reimburse it to specific consumers who are not obliged to pay it. That only makes sense when the tax is on the consumer, and merely collected by the corporation. Which is how VAT works.
Brilliant of Ireland. They get the Apple (and Google and Microsoft, etc.) business with low tax rates, thus bringing a lot of money into Ireland. Worst case scenario, a decade later some 3rd party they cannot be blamed for gets them billions more.

I agree with your recollection. AFAIK the rules were changed years ago.
No, we don’t require any paravirtualization at all, and nothing needs to be manually rewritten. I’m not sure where you got that impression.

It also is not in any sense a replay engine. We don’t need to record anything except the inputs!
What is the best pointer tagging method?
My solar panels can't power my home if the grid goes down. Thoughts like this make me wish it would (yes, batteries, I know I know, but my panels are already a decade old so I'd rather pair with batteries when I upgrade to something new)
> What happens if you have an extensible app, say Microsoft Office, which enumerated it's own subkeys to discover 3rd party plugins?

Then you have Microsoft Office/Plug-Ins/plugin-guid, whereby Plug-Ins is user writable

> What if an app provides COM services and needs to write that to a centralized location that is enumerated to discover available COM services?

If it is providing services it can write, if it enumerates it can read. You can also have multiple levels, like HKLM (machine) and HKLU (the user).

> What if your app happens to be a god-awful HP Print Center app with it's own print drivers and a Windows Service, where it needs to write to a central location that is enumerated for device drivers and Windows Services?

May God help you. No, but you would have, again like above, a central location you could write to. Up to the Admin if Joe can write to this location or only privileged processes.

It's just, a lot of this was not enforced, only partially (from the windows side when it looks for things), so for everyone else, it's a free for all.

The biggest disadvantage on the Linux side is that something like Group Policy is ridiculously difficult, because every app has it's own location and DSL, and sometimes you have one, central, config file, and sometimes the app is considerate with something like override.d.
Why should driving a sedan only be safe in a city?

Trucks worked fine 40 years ago. I don’t see why they need to be the insane size they are today. I’m not saying they all have to be the size of a Miata or something.

The industry taught people to want giant monstrosities because it saved them money. I don’t think they’re inherently superior and trying to control the size is de facto making them worse.

Where lines are drawn is for lawmakers. I can see business needing big trucks. Maybe put them behind a tougher license. I don’t know.

The status who is insane. I moved up from an Accord because SUVs had hoods above my roofline. My little SUV isn’t much better. It’s an arms race and we need to do something.
I agree that the title is ambiguous - it's what piqued my interest to read the article in the first place. Personally I lean toward fewer comments overall - perhaps to a fault - but explanatory comments as shown in the article are absolutely valuable. It's a good reminder to explain the whys and the why nots.

This especially applies to your own code that you write and still have to maintain 5, 10, 15 years later. Just the other day I was reviewing a coworker's new code and thought "why choose to do it this way?" when the reason was 10 lines up where I did it the same way, 8 years ago. She was following the cardinal rule of maintenance - make the code look like the existing code.
IME you get the same amount of back and forth but I get to write "as the comment says" a few times
And the SSD.
Why SaaS Isn't the 'Easiest' Path to Success Despite What You've Heard
At the same time it's clear that Ireland has been "gaming the system" here, and the proof is the huge delta between the effective tax rates between member nations we're seeing in the judgement. I don't know that there's much of a moral or principled argument to be made here, every system gets gamed, and the European Commission is another such system. And Ireland absolutely agreed to be bound in that game as a price of joining the EU in the first place.

Basically, from the other side of the ocean I don't see much to care about here beyond the microtactics of business development decisions. Let Europe sort out its business on its own.
I second this, NocoDB is great!
My family has moved houses in a minivan. If you and the missus are exceeding the carrying capacity of a van moving the gear for and the infant, you are bringing WAY more shit than you need to be bringing.

And, even if you are somehow doing that, then don't buy a minivan, buy a van. A full size van with a finished interior can hold an astonishing amount of stuff.
RE DFA: possibly, but not completely obvious to me. The DFA in aho-corasick doesn't typically have 256 different transitions per state. It uses "byte classes" to represent a typically smaller number of equivalence classes. Two bytes are in the same equivalence class if a match/non-match cannot be distinguished between them.

To be clear, I'd bet trie-hard is still more space efficient. And using byte classes does require an extra look-up per transition.

But, worth measuring.

As your your RuneSet thing, I'd look at lightgrep and icgrep. I'm not 100% they have relevant work for you, but they might. In practice, I just combine sets of codepoints down into UTF-8 automata since that's needed anyway for lazy DFA matching.
Estimated monetary value might be a wiser metric to use :)

Going by the calculator, EMV of going from buying 0 tickets to 1 is -$1.85 for Mega Millions, same as going from n to n+1; n >= 0. The first ticket is the first one you lose with, statistically.
Turning to the community to create an open swipe dataset
> It would just be really good if companies stopped avoiding tax.

You first :/
From Core Memory to the Internet: The History of the PDP-11 [Dave's Garage] [video]
Yes, but they should be able to investigate without placing an undue burden on exit node operators (or regular people with a compromised device that was used as a proxy). Unfortunately it's hard not to be cynical and assume that these kinds of overreactions (and worse) are going to continue. But in my opinion, any society where policing is convenient for the police is a horrible place to live. (Is it really such a radical concept that law enforcement should be focused on protecting the innocent, not punishing the guilty?)
The web, i.e., HTTP and HTML, is designed so that Javascript is not necessary to redirect URLs or publish direct download URLs. But here a $2 trillion online advertising company tries to coerce the computer user into enabling Javascript for basic redirection.
While tape does not last forever, the LTO tapes are specified for at least 30 years.

The more serious problem is as you say that the older drives become obsolete. Even so, if you start using an up-to-date LTO format you can expect that suitable new tape drives will be available for buying at least 10 years in the future.

For HDDs, the most that you can hope is a lifetime of 5 years, if you buy the HDDs with the longest warranties.
US player Skydio seems pretty interesting - for non-consumer applications anyway.
Other countries in the EU, however, can sue ireland for taxes they missed out on. Which is probably what will happen. The money will be divided up over many countries.
That's the proposal, there are multiple threads going, should all be merged
From drugs to deprivation: a Bayesian framework for understanding psychosis
That's rubbish. HN has an algo-feed, it has public profiles (and if you stick around here, you start to recognize people), and there are plenty of ways of following other people (hell, you can see everyone's comment and post history). Hell, HN even has a "social credit score" - which is published on your profile.

HN is unambiguously social and unambiguously media.
Many European countries have standing police armed forces, closer to army national guards than blue shirted civilian police. They're for suppressing resistance forces and revolutionary uprisings, and they tend to fill roles of FBI too. I think that contributes more to normalization of MP5 ninjas fast roping down through your chimney for Internet crimes in Europe than law enforcement over-militarization had done.
> there's still a long ways to go

Sure, in the way that technically this is a computable problem, but maybe not a simple one. Any exponential in the real world is a sigmoid and given all major AI labs, having spent years and incomprehensible sums of cache, have arrived at about GPT-4 performance, including OpenAI's latest release being a smaller model, should tell us something. Be the limiting factor corpus size, model parameters, or an architectural defect, we're clearly loosing momentum, at least until it's to be diagnosed and solved. Deferring to hypothetical futures without meeting the burden of evidence seems ill-advised, especially when it comes to incompetent use today.

> there's no putting AI back into the box

There's also no complete undoing of an oil spill, nor the practical possibility of unilateral nuclear disarmament. The weights are public, the corps is as well, as much as it had broken the open web to gather it, the architecture is known, ergo today's open-weight models are the baseline of capability for all future models. Still, seeing that LLMs form a natural monopoly given the required compute power to enter the field, we can enforce policies like mandatory statistical fingerprinting on all outputs of proprietary models beyond a certain size. LLM detection is also getting quite good; my hope is that adversarial fine-tuning will work out like Bayesian poisoning for email spammers, only giving the discriminator new stable patterns to look for. We as consumers do have power, however small and unconcentrated, to vote with our wallets, which a study posted here shown many are beginning to do [0]. The copyright question also gives quite a nice kill switch if our society decides this whole industry isn't that beneficial, removing the commercial incentive for training new models while providing some for detection.

There's great value from transformer networks, such as state-of-the-art speech recognition, that will make its way into consumer products and will be here to stay. As for the FADs like useless chatbots in every product, that may come under question.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390375
> It just feels, I don’t know, done.

If you can't find something that excites you right now in the technology space, that tells me more about how boring you are than anything else.

Real Translation of VC: Wahhhh! With interest rates above zero I have to do actual work!
> the money doesn't just vanish

Of course not.

Laughs in government contractor
This is great! Skip features you don't need and add ones you want. It's not just a player, it's a journey in code and creativity.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498358
You're pulling numbers (and a whole lot of other dodgy assertions) out of the air, and no, it's not fine at all.

On top of that -- when politely confronted for having done so, rather than simply acknowledge what (up until then) might have been charitably dismissed as a mistake -- you doubled down on these purely invented numbers.

It's flame bait, and against site guidelines, which instruct us that comments be "more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One step at a time. We'll get to smell-o-vision one day.
VAT is collected by the retailer and paid to the exchequer of the country of sale.

The VAT sum is recorded at the time of sale, but the whole amount sits in the company finances until the VAT is settled with the exchequer.

The company holds the VAT sum between collection and settlement, potentially benefiting from the temporary cash flow in that period.
43% vs 13% obesity is a theory

Actually, given that, it's kinda remarkable the US life expectancy is only 2 years less.
Ah yeah, the rules get messy.

Is the local tax on just the product, the product + shipping, or product + shipping + handling (now you know why these are sometimes broken out)??

New York and California do it differently. And then all the way down to local municipalities. And tax holidays! So many cases to track.
Are sfx for the web making a comeback?
That isn't the reading I would make of the situation.

Like the OP says, it's harrassment to discourage continued operation.
> The development model of illumos is different from Linux and thus there are no Rust drivers in upstream illumos yet. But that is to be expected for new things. In our model, we take the time to mature new tech in a fork, and for rust, the Oxide fork has taken that role. In there, we have several drivers for the Oxide Networking stack that are in rust. Based on that some experience could be gained.

Soft forks are also good, but doesn't illumos have a stable driver ABI, such that you could just make your drivers completely independently? I thought that was how it had ex. Nvidia drivers ( https://docs.openindiana.org/dev/graphics-stack/#nvidia )
Websites can't really assume anything that's not a web standard. If this is important to them, they should be lobbying the web standards bodies to come up with a list of fonts that browsers are required to make available. Then the browsers will pull them in as dependencies when they're installed.

The Linux distributions did their jobs with excellence. The fonts are all there and installing them is a oneliner. The web folks made their own OS though so if anyone is to be blamed it's whoever is in charge of that OS called the web platform.

Who's in charge of the web as a platform these days? Google. Who is no doubt profiting from the Google Fonts thing.
That would be great, but after 7 years since the initial announcement it does not seem to be any closer of a commercial product.
> while enamored by big tech compensation packages.

The thing I think that is highly ironic is that a huge reason you are "enamored with big tech pay packages" is that they're enormous, and a huge reason they're enormous is they sucked up a ton of the revenue that used to go to newspapers.

I think fair equity grants are a great idea, but as another commenter said I don't see why this should in any way be specific to the tech team. What I think is just darn right silly is to compare compensation packages at any newspaper with big tech. It's simply unrealistic to think that there is enough money at other companies to pay those extremely high salaries.

Here's a very easy exercise for you: I haven't looked it up, but I'd be definitely willing to bet per-employee average compensation at, say, Google or Facebook is higher than per-employee revenue at the NYT.
“Correlation is not causation”
The paper shows that wealth inequality and corruption are correlated, and pontificates that maybe reducing inequality with wealth redistribution might reduce corruption, but offers no evidence that this is the case. Your chain of reasoning is not really supported by the paper.
For those unindoctrinated with the underlying phenomenon being exploited, this demo[1] was shared almost a decade ago.

Also, undiscussed mitigation techniques[2] relevant to this general class of nuisance that circuit designers may find of value.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862689

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505772
LOL precisely
Not my experience. I got a cheap Sparkfun logic analyzer on a whim and it sat idle until I had a work problem that I spent a lot of WFH time debugging with it using Pulseview.

I later recommended that we buy a Saleae analyzer just in case the SF one was hiding a problem and I didn't find any substantive difference between the two.
Thanks for replying, I really appreciate you taking the time to check my concerns! I was afraid I was going crazy haha.

The part about big O being usually about the average case was helpful, I'm still at uni where we mostly talk about worst case performance.
Forest for the trees, compadre.

:%s/USC/law/g

I distinctly believe you do not care to better understand the reality and the nuance, however.
Editing high-resolution video comes to mind as an example of something that will still stress most PCs. Being able to scrub through footage and preview the effect of edits in real time without using low-res proxy files demands a lot of performance. I think higher-spec modern PCs are there for 4K, but I'm not sure about higher.
If you want to do great things yourself, then it's natural to look for people who have similar things and figure out how to emulate them.
I think this lottery simulator is a scam. I played a hundred thousand games and never made my money back.
I'm Irish and the later is more correct. There isn't going to be a major political crisis over this. Irish corporate taxation is to the Irish electorate what the flag is to Americans. It's quasi religious.

The government isn't really blaming lack of money on the housing crisis more they are claiming it takes time.
Yeah, that's where I first encountered them too and liked it a lot. I'm now using small caps for links in my Obsidian, I like it a lot
They can't drop the price because they can't shrink the chips anymore like they used to do.
> Because all of those things impact battery life.

Oh 'all' of those zero specific things you mentioned impact battery life? Ok.

Anyway, I don't even care what the battery life is - my initial comment in this chain is replying to a guy who didn't mention any of these elusive (apparently taboo to name) missing features - they literally just tried to argue that lower batter life is an advantage because they can't keep a routine otherwise. Pointing out how absurd this reasoning is seems to trigger a bunch of other apple fanboys, which is just hilarious tbh.
It’s a final ruling. Not a current (over-)ruling as you paint it. This is a decision from the European Court of Justice. No appeal possible. The 13B€ are already in an escrow account and will now be released.
I used to work at a lotto counter in my towns supermarket. When I started I noticed alot of older regular buyers, a weekly lotto purchase like the daily newspaper. However, as the younger generation started bringing in kids I didn't see this habit, instead just an occasional purchase for a birthday gift or rolling the dice because the jackpots gotten big enough (funnily enough the time when the chance of winning is actually lowest).

Overall I would consider lotto small next to the scratch cards (our countries version at least). I have never seen a more predatory marketing strategy, and completely swept under the rug next to lotto being berated with anti-gambling campaigning. To be fair, lotto is bad, but scratch cards are much, much worse.

A memory that stuck for me was a customer blowing well over $100 bucks on scratchcards over 20 minutes, just pulling over and over, then getting card declined at the grocery checkouts.
> If you want the Union's opinion, their strike demands are the place to look.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/10/nyt-tech-union-strike-vote

> The New York Times Tech Guild, which represents more than 600 staffers, on Tuesday voted to authorize a strike in protest of stalled contract negotiations with The Times' management, sources confirmed to Axios.

I haven't found anything else. While stalled contract negotiations would be reasonable ("we're not going to work without a contract"), it appears that so far those negotiations aren't public for what it is that they want.

...

> I'd consider lowering executive compensation as well.

The CEO has a total compensation package of about $10M per year. Lets slash that to $4M (average for the size of the company of NYT is $8M - so half of what a CEO would get somewhere else) and divide that $6M up between 600 tech workers and they got a $10k pay raise. If this to be divided between all the workers for NYT, it's a $1k pay raise.

While we can bemoan the amounts that CEOs get, slashing the salaries will not often produce significant increases for the rest of the workers.
When I see a sequence of string replacements, instead of performance the main thing I worry about is if the output of one replaces matches a pattern for another replacement. I see variations of this often during code review.

Doesn't seem to be a problem here though because they're replacing macros by symbols that are known ahead of time.
Exit nodes are not the nodes that are directly facing tor users. Those nodes are called "Guard Relays".

Guard Relays usually don't have these issues, since you have to be somewhat technical to actively probe relays by requesting content through tor. And technical people know there isn't any point to rading an operator's home.