skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stuff has always seemed deeply wrong to me, as someone that actually believed in the values I was told were right and proper.
> Technically speaking, bcachefs has been merged into the Linux Kernel - that makes your initial assertion wrong.

bcachefs doesn't implement its erasure coding/RAID yet? Doesn't implement send/receive. Doesn't implement scrub/fsck. See: https://bcachefs.org/Roadmap, https://bcachefs.org/Wishlist/

btrfs is still more of a legit competitor to ZFS these days and it isn't close to touching ZFS where it matters. If the perpetually half-finished bcachefs and btrfs are the "answer" to ZFS that seems like too little, too late to me.
Can I build an EMP device to take down a drone if it flies over my property?
I'm using Mac OS for 3 years now but still find KDE/Windows to be way better.
> I saw political correctness arise. When I started college in 1982 it was not yet a thing. Female students might object if someone said something they considered sexist, but no one was getting reported for it. It was still not a thing when I started grad school in 1986. It was definitely a thing in 1988 though, and by the early 1990s it seemed to pervade campus life.

> What happened? How did protest become punishment? Why were the late 1980s the point at which protests against male chauvinism (as it used to be called) morphed into formal complaints to university authorities about sexism?

Wait, what? I feel like I'm not hearing this right, but this feels a lot like implying "people should be able to complain about things, as long as there's no consequences of those complaints". It goes on with:

> A new set of moral rules to enforce was exciting news to a certain kind of student. What made it particularly exciting was that they were allowed to attack professors.

Really? You think they just like attacking professors, that this is, in and of itself, exciting, rather than... Oh, let's say: Seeing a professor who has been actively misogynist towards you face some consequences for that? They just like to attack, with no cause at all?
The actual real world impact of wokism is that the left-leaning part of the elite is distracted into performative games outdoing one another in verbal righteousness, instead of actually doing something for the people, which should be the defining part of being left.

Woke is all rituals, no substance. If anyone profits off it, it is highly educated individuals that belong to the visible minorities = precisely the people that don't need so much support.

Woke is deeply uninterested in actual problems of the poor non-academic population. High cost of living? Food deserts? Meh. That doesn't register on the high-brow radars.
One shouldn't claim to be "data-driven", when one doesn't have a clue what that means. Just admit, that you will follow the leader's gut feeling at this company then.
What's an insurance focused model in this context? Sorry if it's a stupid question.
5/12 years?
The New York Times takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT's future could be on the line
am I allowed to answer my own?

https://arielche.net/

I also quite like Dan Luu's website

https://danluu.com/
Sikhs are literally the nicest. Just read anything about them from any source. Best if you can find someone how has ever met any.
I've known some but you don't know me so it doesn't count for much.

They are the real deal.
> However, in my naïvety, I wonder whether vastly simpler algorithms could be used to end up with similar results.

Almost certainly. Distillation demonstrates this. The difficulty is training. It's harder to train a smaller network and harder to train with less data. But look at humans, they ingest far less data and certainly less diverse data. We are extremely computationally efficient. I guess you have to be when you run on meat
I'd guess that it just came about after the wildfire story, and a few curious people looking further into it.

From my one experience at a Langar event, it really was as advertised - very welcoming, zero pitch or expectation and quite refreshing.
I don't get why React is still so popular in 2025, even though it's slower than many JS frameworks like Vue, Lit or Svelte.

Also: PHP, C and Ruby are still somewhat popular in 2025.
> Plenty of Americans and Canadians (and, I’d posit, Brits) meanwhile could probably recognise the headdress and little more.

Probably not even that. In the early noughties, as the US reached Peak Neuroticism, people attempting to hate-crime Muslims sometimes accidentally murdered Sikhs, instead, due to confusion about turbans: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/us/sikh-hate-crime-victims/in...
The HN account was created 2013. Did you create it when you were (18-11=) 7 years old?
I'm missing file clones/copy-on-write.
amen

home screen icon theming hit like an empty bus
>The Great Fire of London destroyed 15% of the city's housing

LA - 500 sq miles. The Palicades Fire is 37 square miles. With other fires it is smth like 55 and it is still not done.

>the LA fires are driven by extreme weather conditions

yes, sounds very familiar - in USSR we had a saying "suddenly came winter" explaining all the societal/economical/etc. failures there
In the UK state education system it would be covered in Religious Education lessons, around ages 11-13. They cover most of the world's major religions. As a completely non-religious person I try to keep myself from telling my concientious son not to worry too much about his RE homework
There's a difference between not wanting to do a war because it would be very expensive in terms of lives and money and not being capable. The US doesn't want those wars but does have the tech. Russia is of course worry because of nukes and no one really wants NYC and Moscow flattened.
I like how I can copy the prompt into the AI for my editor - its nice UX to let me actually implement it. Good work!
> I’m using AI every day and I don’t see why I would ever stop

If you have to pay for its full actual real costs, you might decide it's not worth it.

(All the AI startups are losing money even on their paid tiers. Google and Apple and Meta can eat the costs for some time, but at some point they'll have to try to recoup their investments.)
AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes
In all cases, data-driven means we establish context for our gut decisions. In the end, it's always a judgement call.
Not to pick on your point about Denmark, but the fact is that there has been no aggressors and thus none to defend it against. The US did try to have a sort of covert base on Greenland many years ago, and in the end it failed.

Yes, someone could invade. But they didn't.

And if they did, they probably wouldn't have been able to stay there for long enough to actually get anything out of it long term, without it turning into a war against NATO.

It is my understanding that it has been agreed a few years ago that additional monitoring should be put in place. I don't think anything else than general tech incompetence of the Danish defense forces has prevented that from happening yet.

But on the hand, as far as I understand the matter, there is still too much ice for it to become a major trade route.
> I found it all really weird, fake, and reminiscent of 1940s Germany where people had to wear their pins

did you know LGBT were explicitly targeted in the holocaust? You know about the holocaust, right? You are aware that 1940s Germany is when and where the holocaust happened, right?
> Conspiracies

Not when the dissidents put their name to paper.

We, veterans of Unit 8200, reserve soldiers both past and present, declare that we refuse to take part in actions against Palestinians and refuse to continue serving as tools in deepening the military control over the Occupied Territories.

It is commonly thought that the service in military intelligence is free of moral dilemmas and solely contributes to the reduction of violence and harm to innocent people. However, our military service has taught us that intelligence is an integral part of Israel's military occupation over the territories.

The Palestinian population under military rule is completely exposed to espionage and surveillance by Israeli intelligence. While there are severe limitations on the surveillance of Israeli citizens, the Palestinians are not afforded this protection.

There's no distinction between Palestinians who are, and are not, involved in violence. Information that is collected and stored harms innocent people. It is used for political persecution and to create divisions within Palestinian society by recruiting collaborators and driving parts of Palestinian society against itself. In many cases, intelligence prevents defendants from receiving a fair trial in military courts, as the evidence against them is not revealed.

Intelligence allows for the continued control over millions of people through thorough and intrusive supervision and invasion of most areas of life. This does not allow for people to lead normal lives, and fuels more violence further distancing us from the end of the conflict.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/israeli-intell... (and that's from 2014)
Wokeness means an elaborate holier-than-thou pecking order among affluent people, allowing them not to do anything of substance at all, because they already reached secular salvation by using the right words ceremoniously.

It reminds me of the deeply corrupt late Medieval church. A reformation is long overdue.
Too many services to pay for just to try it.
"This country is not built on a specific racial, ethnic, or religious identity like many, many old-world Eurasian nations."

I know there's an ideal of what America should be, but don't muddle the reality. America was built on whiteness (whose definition shifted over time) and class identity.
Not a sonos engineer, but its a good external analysis
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-sonos-app-techn...
It may not be legal, however rights holders will have to enforce their claims, which takes time and money. I'm betting they believe people will just take it and not sue them.
You can also console.log those credentials as a PoC, and then show that the console.log could trivially be replaced by a fetch().

Kind of like a lot of exploit PoCs just "pop a calc" (AKA open the Calculator app), not because opening the calculator is valuable to an attacker, but because if you can open calculator, you can do anything.
I'm not sure how accurate it is but my gut feeling is that the level of meaningful compression is somehow correlated to the level of intelligence behind a model, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a major focus in general intelligence.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it were organic, spurred on to some extent by recent news in Canada.

Many years ago I worked on a project in Amritsar, which had me regularly engaged with the Golden Temple (the most sacred place in the Sikh religion) authorities. I have to say that all the Sikhs I interacted with were fantastic: honest, generous, hard-working, fun-loving, good-hearted people. I do think a lot of this was grounded in Sikh religious principles, which promote a kind of radical moderation that's actually pretty unique among religions. (the story goes that the founding guru of the Sikhs had two sons, one of whom destroyed his life with gambling and alcohol, and the other of whom destroyed his life with asceticism and abstinence. The guru repudiated both of them, saying that the latter was as much of a vice as the former. Instead, he preached that the point of life was to be happy, and to make other people happy: have a family and take good care of it, take care of other people, don't be an asshole, and have a good time. Balance these imperatives well, and you're doing God's work. As far as organised religions go, it's really pretty great.

And langar at the Golden Temple is a truly amazing experience. Men and women from every strata of society, from every religion, sitting down together to eat good food in silence. No preaching or any other bullshit -- the shared togetherness and humanity is enough. Honestly, it's profound. One of my dreams for later in life, when I have the time, is to go back there for a few weeks and volunteer to cook in their kitchen.

That said: Sikhs aren't all cuddles and sunshine. Early in their history they were strictly pacifistic, and also heavily persecuted. After a while, one of the head Gurus decided that if the way to do God's work was to live a good life, and there were oppressors who were committed to preventing you from doing so, then a necessary part of God's work would require, er, helping those oppressors to reincarnate as quickly as possible. Ever since then, they haven't been keen on turning the other cheek, and have had a very strong martial/military culture. There's still a very strong ethic that you shouldn't use violence unless there's absolutely no alternative -- but if you do have to use violence, then you might as well be bloody good at it. But of course the more that one participates in violence, the greyer the morality becomes. So I wouldn't dare wade into the India vs. Khalistan conflict: I'm sure that many of the beefs on both sides are well-founded at this point. But if you can separate the culture and the religion from the politics -- then yeah, it's a really great thing they've got going on there, and I think it's great for the world to have more exposure to it.
I find it weird that after scrolling through hundreds of messages here nobody mentioned blogs.

You would think that this one place where you would specifically find out about huge life events like deaths / births ?!
Yeah afaik they don't need to raise any reputation.
To be honest, the situation with Linux is barely better.

ZFS has license issues with Linux, preventing full integration, and Btrfs is 15 years in the making and still doesn't match ZFS in features and stability.

Most Linux distros still use ext4 by default, which is 19 years old, but ext4 is little more than a series of extensions on top of ext2, which is the same age as NTFS.

In all fairness, there are few OS components that are as critical as the filesystem, and many wouldn't touch filesystems that have less than a decade of proven track record in production.
Of course "your precious" is always a favorite :)
Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions [pdf]
It can be a boogeyman but it also a generic term for a bunch of different phenomena that are connected through the way they are brought up, which is mostly very paternalistic.

In some cases people tried to change or police language, mostly around the topic of gender, but it isn't restricted to that. In some countries that use "gendered" languages there were aspirations to change language to be more inclusive, with the indirect accusation that common language cannot be so. That reaches from Latinx to trying to remove any form of gendered language, a culmination of sexual and grammatical gender.

Many just saw this as a vanity project, but even language changes in some official capacity persists. Again, these isn't agreed upon language, it was paternalistically described for people to be better, allegedly.

Of course the worst aspects get the spotlight, but that isn't unusual in todays exchanges on social media.

There is also another factor of "woke" and that is where it behaves pretty similar to the "far right". These are both nebulous terms for that matter, but both promote policies that a summarized as "identity politics". Another volatile term, but I believe there is a strong connection here.

Still, just as people point to the woke excesses as being representative, the same is happening with criticism towards some of its goals and tenets.
Coming to Theaters: An AI Generated Bollywood Movie
I have the impression that Paul Graham does not read. His essays are such a product of echo-chamber diatribes and accolades that I cannot fathom him sitting down and reckoning with public information that contradicts his personal philosophy.

(He very well might reread his own essays and read other people's work at a 1:1 ratio. He might also simply have poor reading comprehension.)
as far as stability goes, btrfs is used by meta, synology and many others, so I wouldn't say it's not stable, but some features are lacking
A ChatGPT Moment Is Coming for Robotics. AI World Models
Ask for sales to give you the same demo they give customers.

Ask the engineering team for a demo.

Ask the founder/execs for a demo.

Ask tech support for a rundown of the most frequent issues.

Each of those will show you what each silo think is important.
Like others said SR71 etc.

Problem is those fly high enough that the sky is pretty dark and you can actually see stars.

That's not an assumption we can make for the avg plane
I'm quoting the article.

"Things cost more in the U.K. than in Mississippi"
2024 Through the Eyes of a Climate Scientist
> Low doses of fructose are ~90% cleared by the intestine, with only trace fructose but extensive fructose-derived glucose, lactate, and glycerate found in the portal blood. High doses of fructose (≥1 g/kg) overwhelm intestinal fructose absorption and clearance, resulting in fructose reaching both the liver and colonic microbiota.

> In many microbes, fructose is phosphorylated on its 6-position and thereby follows nearly the same metabolic pathway as glucose. In mammals, however, fructose phosphorylation occurs on the 1-position, not 6-position, catalyzed by the enzyme ketohexokinase (Khk) (Heinz et al., 1968). The location of this initial phosphorylation is a pivotal difference, as fructose 1-phosphate (F1P) can be directly cleaved into three-carbon units, whereas F6P must be phosphorylated on its 1-position by phosphofructokinase, the most heavily regulated enzyme of glycolysis, before such cleavage. Thus, fructose bypasses the gating step of glycolysis.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6032988/

"try to find an actual proper double blind academic study that demonstrates a taste difference between sucrose and high fructose corn syrup"

are you not able to tell the difference between regular coke and mexican coke?
Set your alarm clock for an earlier time so that you want to go to bed earlier in the evening. And avoid putting off your evening sleep with random entertainment. Plan your time around work (both morning and evening), make sure your sleep hygiene is good (cold and dark room).
You're going a long way not to address reasonably simple questions I had. You're very combative for no obvious reason - I think I had my arguments laid out in the most objective form I could but unfortunately you seem to be very triggered by those especially by the logical concerns I raised. You are in the wrong here simply because you're assuming that all the experience you have is representative of all other experience people have in this industry. There are much larger challenges than designing a filesystem, you know. No need to be so vain.

Not only you're ending up being very disrespectful but you're also pulling out the appeal to authority argument. Also something Brendan Gregg did on me here at HN meaning that no experience can substitute the amount of ego in some guys.

FWIW you can be let assured that you can't match my experience but that's not the argument I would ever pull off. I like to be proved wrong. This is a way I learn new things. BTW I designed my first CPU 15 years ago but during the career I learned to put my ego aside, discuss objectively, think critically and learn on my own reasoning mistakes from other people. Many of these points you are obviously lacking so this is a waste of time for me - I see no way to drive this discussion further but thanks anyway.
Australian funnel-web spider enthusiast discovers a new species
Requiring "precise location" is probably necessary because it wants to use Bluetooth to discover speakers.

Any app that uses direct bluetooth could theoretically get your precise location from a Bluetooth geotag, so Apple requires apps to get "precise location" permission before being allowed to use bluetooth.
Different plans have different stakes.

An exam being postponed is pretty drastically different as a worst case scenario than hundreds of people ending up frostbitten or worse
They sell "Sonos Radio HD", a subscription based radio service which is supposed to be an upgrade from their free offering.

But as much as I dislike the "new" app, it doesn't push subscribing to this service, so I'm not sure they absolutely want device customers to become subscribers.
they do mention the dns are still owned by advertising agencies fronts...
The Indian government got caught trying to assassinate some Sikh activists that have previously called for an independent Sikh state. The Indian government considered them terrorists and the US/Canadian governments didn't.
Product companies tend to have more product managers and less project managers (they’re usually called something else, like simply software engineering managers or tech leads who have take on the project management duties).

Traditional enterprises and software consultancies tend to be organized around projects rather than user-centric products and their features, so they will more often have project managers instead. The product responsibility in turn tends to become more ad hoc, sometimes with someone assigned as a “product owner” outside their regular title.

(My personal view: if a company has project managers and product owners, that’s a sign that it’s probably not the place for me.)
Way better data security, resilience against file rotting. This goes for both HDDs or SSDs. Copy-on-write, snapshots, end to end integrity. Also easier to extend the storage for safety/drive failure (and SSDs corrupt in a more sneaky way) with pools.
This used to be a practice at my workplace. When there was a new manager it was "abolished" because they felt bombarded with mails every week.

But what I mostly took away from it is that I should document the work for myself. I basically have one huge journal text file that gets a new entry every day. I see it as a complete empty whiteboard and scratchpad.

It's helped me so many times when I've had to look for how I did something in the past and was able to retrieve not only the command used but also the reasoning and context!
Was the Linux port made by Loki Software by any chance? That shirt lived company did a lot to make Linux viable for gaming. They developed a bunch of new libraries to help with porting and open sourced them. SDL was one of them.

Edit: OpenAL was another one of their libraries.
But Facebook is almost, but not quite entirely unlike commons...
It's a severe case of form over function and the worst launcher-task manager of any current desktop GUI. The only worse one that I've personally experienced is Windows 3.1. (Early 2000s twm or fvwm or whatever don't count, right? They weren't even trying.)
Meta apps are like that, particularly around accessibility.

It's pretty common for one person to have an issue that no other people have, just because they fell for some feature flag.
Smoothly Stop an Infinite Rotation
Related: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/

2019, 79 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665225

2023, 69 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38826014
> In 2017, the president of Iceland was forced to clarify that he did not plan to formally ban pineapple from pizzas after telling students at a high school he was “fundamentally opposed” to the topping.

This is the kind of leadership we need. You can order it, but I'll be giving you a stern look.
I don't think this had the desired effect for me (or maybe it did). When I have a coke, or other soft drink it's generally because I want the sugar and caffeine, for instance part way through a long drive or during a night out. Generally I drink water, tea and a little coffee. I don't really want to be eating/drinking any artificial sweeteners. I have a hunch that this is not good for you and adjusts your taste to wanting more sweet things, so I tend to avoid. Regular Coca Cola still tastes ok, but now all promotions tend to be on sweetened drinks. Drinks such as Irn Bru have been ruined, as there is now no full sugar version available.