skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It completely killed my soft drink buying habits. So it was either a success or failure depending on how you look at it.

I can’t stand the reformulated sweetened drinks. The flavour profile and aftertaste is completely different. I wasn’t a huge consumer of soft drinks to start with, but now I consume absolutely zero.
This is a long essay; there's a lot of really good and a lot of not so great.

One might compare the first century of Christianity, where the only way to increase the number of adherents was to personally convince each one to make a commitment which would potentially be costly to them; and the situation a few centuries later, where Christianity offered opportunities of riches and power to those who accepted it, and many of those with power succumbed to the temptation to increase the number of the faithful at the point of a sword -- although of course, all that can be imposed is compliance with certain kinds of external behavior, not an actual change of heart.

The thing about BLM and Me Too is that these things are still problems. Black people are still disproportionately killed by police officers, and it's very difficult to hold them to account. One powerful person was found by a jury, who had examined evidence which the accused person had every opportunity to rebut, to have sexually assaulted a woman; after that he was elected president of the United States.

When the only way to make people more aware of these problems ("woke") was to personally convince each person to make a commitment which would be personally costly to them, things were fine. But as Paul points out, at some point getting on the "woke" bandwagon offered opportunities for riches and power; and it became a temptation to short-cut the process of transformation with threats of punishment, rather than changing people's minds individually.

I mean, yeah, the ideological madness that refuses to have reasoned discussions, and attempts to enforce the latest complex orthodoxy (chosen by a few without the proper level of reasoned debate) with the threat of punishment rather than convincing each person one by one, needs to die. But if the result is that people in power are still not held responsible for their actions, then I think we will have lost something important.

EDIT: One thing I've tried to do when possible is to point out that bullying people into silence won't change their mind. Obviously it takes the right kind of person to hear this, but it has at least a few times seemed to help someone begining to go "woke" wake up to what it is they're actually doing.
> A cigarette will not allow anyone to smoke it if the vendor locked down sales and can't sell it to you, so you don't have it.

You're equivocating on the word "vendor". You know full well that in this context, the vendor means the manufacturer of the computer, for example, Apple, and not the retail store selling the computer, which may not be Apple but rather Best Buy, for example. Likewise, in my analogy, vendor lockdown of a cigarrete would mean lockdown from the manufacturer of the cigarette, for example, Philip Morris, and not the retail store selling the cigarette.

> This is a much more serious restriction of consumer freedoms than if anyone can buy and use, but can't smoke when drunk and in bed (fire safety) due to some other lockdown mechanism built into the cigarette itself. More people are affected

This is actually false, because the only restriction on the sale of cigarettes is that you can't buy them if you're under age 18. Anyone age 18 or older is free to buy and smoke as many cigarettes as they want. Adults have full, unrestricted freedom. And that's what they should have for computers too. For better or worse, children have a huge number of legal restrictions on them.

Computer vendor lockdown affects all adults, no matter how old. Indeed, some people claim that the point is to protect your grandma, yadda yadda.

This is actually my point about being "dangerous". That is, we seem to consider computers as the most dangerous product for fully grown adults who have no age-related restrictions on purchasing things, because nobody is proposing or defending manufacturer lockdowns on other products for fully grown adults. We think that fully grown adults get to decided whether to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, eat junk food, etc., but for some reason fully grown adults can't decide to install software on their own computer.

> So here is your mistake when you only accept something almost literally identical to computer lockdown (same with your fridge example), but brushing off more serious usage "lockdowns" that don't exist with computers

I wasn't "brushing off" legal restrictions. I was merely distinguishing them from restrictions that come from the manufacturer.

The difference, of course, is that computer vendor lockdown is not legally mandated, and thus they don't have to lock down the devices. They're doing it totally voluntarily, and I believe the reason is increased profit rather than increased security.

> Yes, this exists and is common in complex mechanical things, e.g., you lose warranty if you use unapproved parts, or for some parts there is actually not even an alternative, so manufacture is the only one getting a cut

And this malicious practice is being challenged by "right to repair" laws.

> So again, there is nothing unique or "most dangerous" about computers in either reality or people's prescriptions

You're missing the entire point here. There are a lot of people who defend computer vendor software lockdown, in the name of "security", but there aren't nearly as many people who defend the warranty practices you just mentioned.
- CI/CD triggers and runners;

I've used up 17h of CI time these two (slow) January weeks, for free, testing stuff across ~20 different OS/CPU combinations.

That's on just one "personal" project; a bigger dependency of that, of which I'm a maintainer, spends an order of magnitude more.

Can you (GP post, people complaining, not parent) blame us? Should we instead self host everything and beg for donations just to cover the costs?
weirds me out since acpi etc. is uaed to control power qnd such states why would devices even need to do such things to support some OS.. the OS should be able to manage states, its the controller and hw should listen... in this case, windows could simply not put the devices to sleep?

i know it didnt end up with this logic but it melts my brain as to why... is it cheaper to implement the hw without support for deep sleep?

most specifications have it included (pcie, nvme, ahci etc. etc.) so you'd expect most devices working via pc platform would implement these things :(

cant wait to push my OS onto real hardware and burn my fucking house down
> The Overland Route is now freight-only, and the closest equivalent, the California Zephyr, takes about 52 hours to make the journey this train did in just 40!

I mean, this is largely a product of the US's general disinterest in and underinvestment in passenger rail; with a modern high speed system it'd be about 10 hours.

10 hours is _probably_ too long to be particularly useful, mind you; people would just fly. The sweet spot for high-speed rail is more in the 5 hour and less range; at that point when you factor in the faffing around involved in getting to airports, going through security, the inevitable delays etc, the train is still faster.

The longest high-speed route in the world is about this length: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing–Kunming_high-speed_tra...
I agree unrolling is usually helpful :)
6: Training data and stuff in the context window can backdoor the LLM into hostile behaviors.

https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-sl...
And, of course, I decided to see what happened if I fired up firefox in webtop and loaded webtop in it. Oops.
Regardless of the merits of the language itself, the presentation here leaves something to be desired.

The landing page itself conveys zero information, and when I click into the Introduction, it's almost entirely dedicated to a particularly persnickety whitespace standard, and the grammar rules for parsing comments and identifiers. This is not really helping me understand what the language is about...

Between that and the odd jab at Javascript assignment operators, I have the sense that the author is more interested in grinding axes than in explaining.
Once a month (or possibly more often, I didn't keep track), the local Sikhs where I used to live would set up a stall on the high street and give away hot food to all-comers, no questions asked, donations gratefully received but absolutely not necessary, zero attempts at proselytising.
> All that zero page addressing offers is a faster way to access memory

I like to say if made me feel I had 256 general-purpose registers to play with.
To give an answer that nobody else has given, ZFS is great for storing Steam games. Set recordsize=1M and compression=zstd and you can often store about 33% more games in the same space.

A friend uses ZFS to store his Steam games on a couple of hard drives. He gave ZFS a SSD to use as L2ARC. ZFS automatically caches the games he likes to run on the SSD so that they load quickly. If he changes which games he likes to run, ZFS will automatically adapt to cache those on the SSD instead.
> VMware had a solution for all of these natively and with support

VMware support had always been a crapshoot. Now under Broadcom it's even worse.

So having support that may or may not be useless isn't a big advantage, really.

Not everyone needs an SDN, depending on their networking requirements or topology. Storage is also not a very complicated problem if you already have a SAN. Solutions like Proxmox come with everything included too, so you don't have to build everything from scratch.
Well, that future is now, and it is better! People keep saying that things are on a downturn since forever, but the numbers don't support an actual impact on quality of life [1], at least in the EU. According to levels of consumption prosperity has been pretty stable over the last ten years [2].

Could we all be more prosperous? Sure, distribution of wealth has become unjust _and_ unfair and we need to do something about it, and we can do this democratically. The future does not look bleak if you live in one of the rich, western democracies that make up the EU members. Anybody who fearmongers and tells you that we are under siege, or in the crapper, or threatened by immigration or whatever is trying to sell you a narrative to further their own agenda, an agenda that will harm the blue collar workers. So stay vigilant.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
I don’t blog. I do write for myself though.

I used to think I would blog but I came to realize that it takes a certain personality to believe that others want to read what you think, and ultimately that’s not me.

Which is freeing: I can just write without caring about what anyone except myself thinks.

I refer back to it quite often. And it helps me clarify my thoughts to write them down.
I don't think it's fair to say that he advocates against gay marriage; it would be accurate to say he's willing to donate to politicians who advocate against gay marriage, however. Blake Masters and J. D. Vance being the obvious cases. Kris Kobach and Ted Cruz also come to mind.
> 1. The actual deep ML researchers that work on models

> 3. The "AI researchers" who basically just stack LLM's together and call it something like Meta-Cognitive Chain-of-Thought Advanced Reasoning Inteligence or whatever it is.

I actually think that working purely within the traditional neural nets model is starting to hit against its limits and the most fruitful directions for research are systems that incorporate and modify LLMs on-line, among other systems, despite your unserious characterization of this class of research.
Bitcoin and Late Capitalism
I think it's important to remember that we know neural networks can be trained to a very useful state from scratch for 24 GJ: This is 25 W for 30 years (or 7000 kWh, or a good half ton of diesel fuel), which is what a human brain consumes until adulthood.

Even though our artificial training efficiency is worse now, likely to stay worse because we want to trade efficiency for faster training, and because we want to cram more knowledge into our training data than a human would be exposed to, it still seems likely to me that we'll get within orders of magnitude of this sooner or later.

Even if our training efficiency topped out at a hundred times worse than a biological system, that would be the energy equivalent of <100 tons of diesel fuel. Compared to raising and educating a human (and also considering this training can the be utilized for billions of queries before it becomes obsolete) that strikes me as a very reasonable cost (especially compared to the amounts of energy we wasted on cryptocurrency mining without blinking an eye...)
Leviathan: A fast Zig-powered event loop for Python's asyncio
You should clarify what you mean by PM; product and project management are different things. I assume its one of those rather than Programme Management or Prime Minister...

ps. a cheatsheet for a famous general management-onboarding book The First 90 Days; while it doesn't specifically address your question a lot of it will apply:

https://sourcesofinsight.com/doing-the-first-90-days/
> I just don't get it how the Windows world - by far the largest PC platform per userbase - still doesn't have any answer to ZFS.

The mainline Linux kernel doesn't either, and I think the answer is because it's hard and high risk with a return mostly measured in technical respect?
It's only "open source" if it's from the OSI region of France. Otherwise, it's just "sparkling available".
> The reason corporations don't do things like this is because they are interested in scoring brownie points without undermining the status quo class related power structures.

And above all, without incurring any actual monetary costs. (Unprompted raises??? Muahahahahaa!)
Wokeness means awareness of things like racism, the functional purpose of complaining about wokeness is to rollback anti-racist policy and social norms. Whether or not PG is a useful idiot or a thought leader on this subject would be a homework assignment for the class.
I love this. If you’re going to be religious then being true to whatever that is and actually living that faith is cool — especially cool if it benefits society as a whole like this does.
It says "for NonCommercial purposes only"

None of us gets to say that there are some commercial purposes that are ok and some that are not. You have to go by what it says. Or put it this way, some day someone what wants to use it against you, can and will go by what it says, and they will be right and win that argument.

This license is really pretty bad because while they try to allow educational use, educational use is itself usually also commercial use. If you use it in a class that you charge for, if a school that charges tuition uses it, if a youtuber even so much as uses it in a video that has either ads or a sponsor... those are all conmmercial use of the software.

Relying on the the rights-holder to just not persue it, ever, including next year when the rights-holder is some new owner, is just gambling.

Trying to carve out non-commercial is just misguided and ultimately self-defeating in my opinion. It is better than purely traditionally closed software, but ultimately really not by much.

The primary value is, if you happen to rely on this software and can't avoid it, then having any form of access to the source is better than being helpless to the usual black box. At least you can fully document mysteries that aren't fully documented, let alone maybe being able to debug or customize.
It's what it meant until white people started lecturing each other on what it means, then conservatives started using it as a derisive catch-all for anything conceivably liberal or simply empathetic.
This guy is worth following for commentary on the situation in the UK economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeH5UXYEzPE
> but then I’d have to relieve the horror of being forced to submit my email address to Microsoft to install the damn OS.

all it takes to install Windows 11 without an account is to press SHIFT + F10 on the "Connect your internet"-screen and execute this command: OOBE\BYPASSNRO

never in my life have i linked an MS-Account to my personal windows, i always use a local account.
Surely there has to be better ways of “vendoring” (including hosting your own package repository that doesn’t automatically pull new versions) than adding thousands or maybe tens of thousands of files to the git repo?
Can you tell me what font is this?
It may interest you that Guy Podjarny, one of the Snyk founders, now has an AI coding company (https://www.tessl.io/about) that looks like a competitor of yours
AH, my bad.
What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Thank you so much for this reference. It is the truth, and I have bookmarked it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-google-ceo-schmidt-advised...
Depending on how the wealth tax is structured the "wealth" is most likely aready taxed, so there is no reason to tax it again. People have worked hard for their already taxed money.
Social media puts us all into an alternate reality.

The video on Reddit is on some level a good example, as the title directly contradicts it's content. In the video you see precisely one person identifiable as a Sikh and many other people, who are clearly not Sikh, performing the same task. Most definitely it isn't "the Sikh community" doing anything. It isn't even clear who provided the resources here.

Reddit especially is full of things like that, small snippets of an event presented as if it were the whole story. It is a very effective propaganda tactic and groups obviously benefit from portraying themselves a certain way and using these tactics to frame an issue a certain way.
I presume the essay went through many revisions earlier, but right now, talking about embers bursting into flame and burning hotter than ever feels a bit - awkward?
Honest question. As an end user that uses Windows and Linux and does not uses ZFS, what I am missing?
Its backwards when you read it and redundant.

def do_on_click(): # What's being clicked?
foo()
bar()

backup_system_panel.reset_button.bind(on_click=do_on_click())

Oh it's the backup system, maybe I should have named it that. Now I have to worry about reading backwards or keeping names in sync. Having to give it a descriptive name is like uneccessary comments. Giving it a temp name is ok but then you are reading bottom to top to know what is going on like you are programming in reverse polish notation or something. It can be multiple lines and scrolled off the screen before you know the context it is used in, instead of just being able to read top to bottom and get everything. Most other languages let you just stick it in line where it is used. It's error prone like C variables when they had to be declared up top.

Sometimes in other contexts it does make sense to do, but with other languages you can choose to pre-declare and name it or not. In python often you see code with all the error handling lambdas up top before you even know what is going on, when exceptions aren't a good fit.
Technically speaking, bcachefs has been merged into the Linux Kernel - that makes your initial assertion wrong.

But considering it's had two drama events within 1 year of getting merged... I think we can safely confirm your conclusion of it being really hard
NTFS is good enough for most people, who have a laptop with one SSD in it.
You can use different sized disks, but RAID-Z will truncate the space it uses to the lowest common denominator. If you increase the lowest common denominator, RAID-Z should auto-expand to use the additional space. All parity RAID technologies truncate members to the lowest common denominator, rather than just ZFS.
Are there any decent class D microscheme in dip casing?
Not if the "founder" experience as a founder was micromanaging a startup of 10 people. I had a PM like that once and he was one of the worse PMs I've had.
Summary: Old successful man thinks the social justice movement is unnecessary and stupid. Also, twitter is better since Elon.
We both know I was hoping you'd tell me anyway :)
Is that the case? What if I expand a 3-1 array to 3-2? Won't the old blocks remain 3-1?
Hello hello, is this position "remote in Europe", or a "global remote" (with European Timezone overlap)?

The job posting says "Remote Europe" but the job description goes on to say "Option to work from anywhere in the world (CET +/- 3h)."

The former implies some sort of European location / residency requirement, while the latter just implies a reasonable requirement of overlapping working hours :)
This is the annual reply that Oracle cannot change the OpenZFS license because OpenZFS contributors removed the “or any later version” part of the license from their contributions.

By the way, comments such as yours seem to assume that Oracle is somehow involved with OpenZFS. Oracle has no connection with OpenZFS outside of owning copyright on the original OpenSolaris sources and a few tiny commits their employees contributed before Oracle purchased Sun. Oracle has its own internal ZFS fork and they have zero interest in bringing it to Linux. They want people to either go on their cloud or buy this:

https://www.oracle.com/storage/nas/
At my age, I assume that everything that "everybody knows" has a large dollop of fiction pasted around it.

"Byzantine generals", anyone?
There's no real need for celestial navigation on land, the same way there's no need for celestial navigation in most coastal waters: if you can see lines of bearing to known landmarks/navigation markers, you can obtain a fix.
Any of the Creative Commons licenses are not recognised as open source licenses by the Open Source Initiative. [0]

[0] https://opensource.org/
This misses that evolution has been pre-training the human cognitive architecture - brain, limbic system, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, coevolved viral and bacterial ecosystems - for millions of years. We're not a tabula rasa training at birth to perfectly fit whatever set of training data we're presented. Far from it. Human learning is more akin to RAG, or test time training - specialising a heavily pre-trained model. It's not that we're born with very much knowledge, it's more that we're heavily specialised to acquire and retain certain kinds of knowledge and behaviour that are adaptive in the EEA (environment of evolutionary adaptedness). If the environment then doesn't provide the correct triggers at the correct times for activation of various learning mechanisms - best known being the critical period for language acquisition, we don't unfold into fully trained creatures. Bear in mind also that the social environment is vital both for human learning and functioning - we learn in the emotional, cognitive and resource provision context of other humans. And what we learn are behaviours that are effective in that context. Even in adulthood, the quickest way to make our cognitive architecture break down is to deny us social contact (hence the high rates of 'mental illness' in solitary confinement).
GNU/Linux and BSD had and still have WindowMaker and the whole Cocoa/OpenStep implementation with GNUStep.
Can you tell the ISPs in my neck of the woods (Brussels, supposed capital of Europe) to get off their ass and offer 1G symmetic fiber for any price.
I use mise with uv for automatic activation of venvs when I cd into a directory containing one (alongside a mise.toml). Do you tackle this in some other manner?
Deep Analysis of Apache DataFusion [video]
This seminar talks about:
- Extending Apache DataFusion: PromQL & Elasticsearch query string support
- Performance extensions: Windowed Sort
- Architectural extensions: Distributed queries
- Query type extensions: Geo / Vector / JSON / and more
We just call it not bring racist. We also used phrases like stay woke long before 2010 and conservative whining.
Doom running inside a PDF file