skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next in date after FFS, I consider as one of the most innovative and influential filesystems the HPFS (High-Performance File System), which was introduced in November 1989, together with the OS/2 version 1.2 operating system. Among other new features, HPFS has introduced extended file attributes and B-tree directories (both features are ubiquitous in modern filesystems).

Two very important filesystems that have been heavily influenced by HPFS have been Microsoft NTFS and Silicon Graphics XFS, both introduced in 1993. XFS combined ideas from HPFS with some from the earlier Silicon Graphics filesystem, Extent FS, which had been introduced in October 1988 and which had much better performance for big files than the Berkeley FFS (because file blocks were allocated sequentially whenever possible, instead of being addressed indirectly and scattered on the disk).

Journaling in filesystems has been introduced by IBM, in JFS (Journaled FS, February 1990).

An influential research report was "Beating the I/O Bottleneck: A Case for Log-Structured File Systems", by John K. Ousterhout & Fred Douglis, written in 1988-10 at Berkeley. A paper derived from it was presented at USENIX in 1990-06.
These puzzles probably have more in common with "Zebra puzzles" (eg https://www.zebrapuzzles.com/) than Cluedo (USA Clue) itself. I've been doing some one-off experiments with Zebra puzzles recently. All the reasoning models generate an enormous batch of text, trying out possibilities, backtracking, and sometimes getting confused.

From what I can see (not rigorous): Claude 3.7 fails, ChatGPT with reasoning succeeds, DeepSeek with reasoning succeeds.

But of course the best way for a model to solve a problem like this is to translate it into a constraint satisfaction problem, and write out Python code to call a CSP solver.
No one said it was irrelevant.
Given the market share of both platforms, and the relevance on server workloads, they have enough space to mess up.

Additionally I guess this weeks announcements prove the point Apple has given up to Windows and Linux mindshare, the composable desktop space.
> The researchers posted their mathematical work to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences that same month, and the first author is listed as “Anonymous 4chan Poster.”

I love the internet.
Can you make a twitch stream of a single agent playing?
> when so few of our users

existing users, I suppose. New users are looking for exactly this feature and will walk away. So, you can now count it up to 3.

IPv4 has gotten quite expensive. A newer company I'm working with doesn't even have IPv4 access past the edge. There is just a little proxy that handles IPv4 translation on the edge; it barely gets any traffic.
I've only seen qwant being used on heise.de until 1-2 years ago and found it to be bad.

These days i use duckduckgo and perplexity most of the time.
Any recommendations for search engines that do not get rid of results that violate DMCA? You know, "watch X free online" used to give me all sorts of useful websites, now it typically does not or it takes longer to find them.

Of course if you know where to look, it does not matter as much, and I do, but still. :P

I just want the old Google experience.
Sometimes there are new features that are interesting or useful. For example, before Windows 11 launched x64 emulation support for ARM CPUs was only available as an insider preview build for Windows 10.
The whole thing was out of protocols from the get go, it shouldn't have been in public not filmed
I've cancelled and resubscribed a few times. I do the same with Netflix, Apple TV, and a few others. Account hopping is a good way to save money. I don't have a lot of time so I don't want to have a lot of active subscriptions I'm under-using.

I don't think I order enough stuff via them to make the "free" deliveries really valuable to me (it varies from month to month). But I like the convenience of having just one place to order stuff.

Amazon Prime's video offerings are limited but they have a few nice things. I liked the Bosch series. I didn't mind the rings of power thing though it was a bit long winded. I guess if you are a Tolkien nerd, it might be a bit offensive to deal with all the creative liberties the plot takes.

They also have some alright movies; including some recent block busters. And there are some older classics.

The UI and search are a bit garbage indeed. They do a poor job of exposing the content they actually have. Unless you actively hunt for stuff, you could be missing out.

Also, I should mention I watch Amazon Prime via Firefox, which is really effective at blocking the ads they are now injecting. If they "break" that, I'd be more likely to cancel.
Cutting off Starlink was never threatened on Ukraine access. SpaceX, Musk and Ukraine themselves (both Zelensky and other Ukrainian government officials) have all denied it.
Shipping times for vast majority of orders I've placed with Amazon in the past two - three years without an Amazon Prime subscription vary between 2 - 3 days. I don't need Amazon photos/music/video/audible, so there's really little value on that subscription tax for me.

The only real downside is that I can't put in a $0.50 order without a shipping fee, I need a $25 minimum order for free shipping.
Yeah, MU123 is basic (high school) mathematics. The reason for that is that the way the Open University works, they have no formal requirements to join, so they cannot assume that students know even the basic stuff (because they might have left school earlier, or they might be out of formal education for years, or be from a different domain, etc), so the aim of that course is to quickly help you catchup regardless your background.

If you are above this level, you would start with the "intensive start", which skips MU123 (allowing you to pick another module in its place) and then starts with MST124 (precalculus, trigonometry and single-var calculus, roughly), moving you on to MST125 (intro to proofs, number theory, more calculus, linear algebra, etc), in a faster pace.
Both our ISP and the phone company charged for every BRI data "call" placed and for minutes connected rather than a flat rate on a business-class ISDN line. I discovered IBM AIX's web browser package contained a telemetry background process that dialed home to Big Blue every 2 hours, causing our Cisco 1604 router to dial-on-demand even when no one was in the office. A simple deny IP ACL fixed that problem. There was no opt-out and no mention of it, and it never became a story that it should've been.
The Ariane 6 is mainly for larger payloads. Europe was still using Vega and Vega-C for satellites .
>think it's a subscription (q: is it monthly or yearly subscription?),

I've heard from a friend that some of his customers complain that his one off cost is more than the monthly subscription of one of his competitors. If you aren't serving consumers you might be surprised by how financially illiterate the average person is.
The whole new iteration of attempts to game this are going to be fascinating. The adversarial nature of AIs trying to produce content better able to fool the AI judging the content sounds like the perfect Petri dish to quickly increase sophistication.
The Fastest Graphics Processor
In my experience this has not been the case.

I left Amazon years ago because of endless counterfeit stuff, poor search, and prices that aren't actually better than you can get elsewhere. The fast delivery was not reliably fast anyway, and I can wait an extra day for things. I'm not usually in that much of a rush.

I have not found buying things from other places to be worse in general. Often cheaper, delivery is fine, and more confidence I'm getting the actual thing I wanted.

The only thing Amazon does better is simply that it's a one stop shop for almost everything. But given the other downsides, that is not enough.

EDIT: Also, the dark patterns they deploy to try to make people sign up to Prime makes me sick.
Noospeak.com has Norwegian. It is the one I use.
The Einstein AI model (why AI won't bring a "compressed 21st century")
Figuratively, some of Mr. Bezos's famed Two Pizza Teams seem to be throwing their pizza crust ends at The Customer's Chair.

(Incidentally, I think that line should let me skip the hiring screen Leadership Principles made-up anecdote STAR recital. :)

I make a lot of personal decisions on-principle, but Amazon is too essential for me to boycott it.

I also tolerate a number of practical non-customer-focused qualities of the company, of late, because of remaining utility.

Overall, I like that I have use of Amazon, even though in some ways it's not as good as it used to be, and there are obvious ways it could improve customer focus but doesn't seem like it's going to.

Though, I did cancel Amazon Prime awhile ago. The final nudge was that Prime Video seemed to be getting conspicuously customer-hostile, though I'd come to consider Prime Video to be part of the value for which I was paying. Also, Amazon no longer seemed to be taking 2-day shipping as seriously as they used to.

A side effect of canceling Prime is that I recently stopped using my Amazon credit card. Since I'm no longer getting 5% rewards at Amazon and WFM, my non-Amazon 2% cash rewards card is close enough. The last nudge was Chase switching to eight-unhyphenated-digits SMS 2FA, every time I checked my statement. It was a tiniest little customer-unfocused thing, but it annoyed me enough in the moment, on top of ongoing mixed feelings, to energize me to go to the trouble of switching.

Another side effect of canceling Prime is that I've been buying a lot less there, because I wait for $35+ orders, to get the free slow shipping, with the effect that I often end up buying the items elsewhere or not at all.

(Incidentally, Walmart.com had a chance tonight, to get more of my business, since I hate-hate-hate that Amazon commingles product with questionable third-party sellers. But Walmart.com's product search was was no longer filtering by "Retailer" like it used to, which led me to Web search and learn of a potential problem with their supply chain integrity in general, and I really didn't want to be spraying third-party-sourced counterfeit/returned/shoplifted Flonase up my nose.)
There is a part of the video that is exactly about what we're going through: information overload to the point that most people can't form an opinion, you have your extreme position, I have mine, they're mutually exclusive yet we both think we're right
For desktop software I think JetBrains have the right model here; it's a subscription, but at the end of the year you have a perpetual license to the version from the start of the year.

If I decide I don't want the subscription with updates I can just cancel and fall back to that version.

Otherwise the subscription ensures that there will be a new version coming along and that the users are the customers.

It feels fair to me as a customer.
I once bought https://djemynai.bandcamp.com/album/zao. Once is the keyword here, because it allowed me to download the audio files. You are essentially paying for the ability to be able to download, and then you are free to do whatever, just like old times. :D
You may want to consider one-time (full price) and optional annual renewal fees (a fraction of the full price, depending on the value/upgrades delivered in the new version). It's then up to the customer to pay an annual fee to get updates or stay on the old version (which may be a pain to support...).

Basically, what you mentioned—' I don't want to pay a full price' and 'try the full functionality out without paying the full price'—are the primary drivers behind customers' preference for a subscription-based model.
It's not rare in Europe at all...
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Monitoring Compliance Guidance [pdf]
I recently published a set of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) guidance notes on our website. These notes are designed to serve as a compliance manual for banks and fintech companies. While the guidance may need adjustments to align with specific regulatory environments, it is intended to be broadly helpful, regardless of the transaction monitoring software being used. The guidance is available at https://jube.io/guidance/, and I plan to provide monthly updates to keep it relevant. Feedback and requests welcome, I enjoy working on it.

The background to this project is my work over the past few years on an open-source transaction monitoring system. Over time, the system has gained unexpected traction. When I began researching the user base by analyzing email support requests, I discovered that the primary use case was almost always AML, often within surprisingly well-established organizations. This makes sense, as AML typically isn’t a real-time use case and is relatively low-risk to implement technologically. Transactions usually come from a pub/sub system, meaning there’s no need for immediate responses.

At the start of this year, I decided to refine what had become a somewhat unclear message. I then consolidated AML materials I’ve been intermittently working on for over 15 years, which is linked here.
Let's not forget this tasteless AI shit sandwich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslOp883rfI
Some year ago I bought a Surface Pro 8 thinking it was the best hardware to run Windows on and holy hell was I wrong. Overheats in two seconds, performance is probably worse than my Steam Deck purchased years ago and the only way I can have it run relatively well is a barebones Linux install. Before that, I gave WSL(2) a try and besides giving me half the performance compared to running Linux the normal way and introducing various compatibility issues (although it's just a VM?!), a recent Windows update broke the WSL image on disk leading to a corrupted install, never managed to recover from that and gave up.

I can't wait for Ableton to (eventually) get their thumbs out of their asses and make Ableton work on Linux so I can dump Windows fully.

Written from my Linux X1 Carbon which also somehow magically works on my patio, don't ask me how.
> How else should Ukraine pay for the military assistance it's receiving?

Boots on the ground. They're fighting an excellent proxy war against Russia on behalf of NATO, severely stretching NATO's largest geopolitical ally, at the extreme cost of young Ukrainian men ending up in the ground. Sweden and Finland have been brought into the alliance, very valuable lessons have been learned, exceptional military intelligence gained, for a bit of cash and essentially no NATO causalities. By the end of the war, an exhausted Russia will have almost zero capacity to mount a conventional attack against any NATO member for a decade.

In short, why should Ukraine be paying with treasure when they're already paying so much with blood?
You’re a good man. I hope many more people follow your example.
In my country at least Amazon delivery drivers are the only reliable and trustworthy ones, they call when they can't get in the building, they never pretend to deliver something, they never pretend you were not in they deliver fast and reliably, you can get it delivered to lots of stores if you know you wont be in and Amazon customer service actually sorts it out and dispatches replacements fast in the rare cases it does go wrong or and its next day.

Any other delivery service just causes way more stress.

Feel like this article is downplaying which was the real reason because it's definitely only one of the three things listed and we can rule out ethics if you happily used it for decades you didn't suddenly start caring about that out of nowhere.
Yeah, I agree. If I was not a minority, the market would be different.

I don't mind buying major updates for the software I'm using. The issue with software subs is that the moment I stop it, I don't have access to it anymore. But that's not what I want. I want to pay once and be able to use it as long as I want. It should not be different from buying... a bicycle for example. But that's me, as you said.
Indeed, what others have said. Bandcamp files are DRM-free, and they say as much on their site. The only time I use their app to listen is when I'm driving, since the app plays nice with Android Auto, but you can use any capable player you wish. I have probably purchased around 200 albums from there over the years with an average of about $12USD per and discovered TONS of new-to-me artists from there. It is my sole source of music these days and all my purchases are backed up on my home media server in the event Bandcamp shutters its doors or does something ethically stupid.
I cannot recommend the Chris Titus Win Util enough here.

It's a powershell GUI over power shell scripts overseen by one talented windows engineer with contributions from hundreds.

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

There are youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisTitusTech

It's a simple way to declutter windows 10 and or 11, build custom stripped install images, install useful utilities and dev environs, etc.

For any that care to look under the hood (and there are a number) it's open and transparent and a good way to get that Windows VM image for hosted OS's, gameplay, Qubes OS, etc.
With some customisations from the default settings the Windows 10 start menu works best for me, better than Windows 7, better than Windows 11.

Scrollable folder view on the left, pane of shortcuts on the right. Sure they're the panels from Windows 8 but they work really well. I can right click on most icons on the panel and either open a document or go into a specific configuration easily and directly. For example Terminal and Putty.
I think you do not understand the framework you are living under and keeping you free. After WW2 and the formation of the UN we got a new world order, the whole Pax Americana is based on this order where collectively the world decided that invasions and annexation of territory is something we should all band together to fight against.

They're fighting to uphold this order, to show that it's not simply yet-another-treaty that a warring nation can break and take territory from another country with few consequences, where allying to countries doing that will be met with absolute resistance to hold to this ideal.

That's what we are paying for in Europe, if that doesn't have any value to you and you prefer to see it as a purely transactional interaction then go ahead to hold this opinion, other people believe in something further than simply tit-for-tat transactions. Morally speaking is a better way of living.
There's a heck of a lot of good people doing great work at SpaceX and Tesla, and all the lashing out at Elon's companies is mostly going to hurt them, not the man himself.
1. usually in these riddles the entities are oracles, so for simplicity let's say they are all-knowing goblins.
2. the coin flip is hidden from the player and it only influences the goblin being honest or a liar. the coin flipper goblin flips the coin each time he's asked a question.
3. see #1
4. each question is to be asked to a specific goblin chosen by the player, not to the group.
As a self-identified cowboy, I must point out that the article doesn’t cover the downsides of cowboys. For example:
- a cowboy trying to disrupt an established system (for the best of motives) may cause a big bubble of additional work, stress, discontent, etc., in the process

- given a likely predisposition to action, a Cowboy may also sometimes lack the experience/oversight to spot reasons why the system is as it is, and miss downsides or unintended consequences of their disruption

—-

Also, there are also many, many times that you would want a system and ‘drones’ to be in charge - like anything involving detail with life-changing downsides. Y’know, things like radiotherapy administration, airliner QA, pharmaceutical production, etc.

As such, changing the nomenclature to be less negative about the group of people who do important but routine work would help discussion and dissemination of this concept. Maybe “disruptor” and “deliverer” might work better?

(We should also note that this is a subset/simplification of Belbin’s team roles…)
I'm still using Bootstrap 5. Not that "modern" but it gets the job done fast.
Many years ago I had an encounter with the AA ecosystem of companies (Sabre, etc). File and rank were already about half Indian. Middle management was 1/3rd Indian and growing. So this is unsurprising. I wonder if the 30% being laid off are the leftover not-Indian part of the system.

I wonder when are they going to take over the top of these companies. Indian Airlines.
Oh yeah it was 300!
Exciting that we see now so many new approaches to AI/ML since the industry FINALLY realising that naive scaling will not bring us to AGI [0].

This also has the added benefit of small players being able to compete and contribute with actual innovation in a space where the big players (openAI/MS) wanted to make us believe for years that we/open-source couldn't ever catch up on them (infamous Altman quote).

So much resources, time and money wasted on pure GPU crunch scaling the last couple years.

[0] as pointed out by Gary Marcus years ago. Evidence GPT 4.5 after ~ 2 years training, disappointing results.
Prime never made sense to me in Sweden because I've been getting packages within 1-2 work days for years already. And I prefer having them delivered to a drop off station like a bluetooth controlled locker, or a pick-up point in a local store.

Our system here has worked for many years and I much prefer it over people leaving packages at my doorstep.
>[T]he burden is on the company to understand what skills they need to hire for well enough to hire for the role

It's best not framed as a burden, but a tradeoff. Companies who understand better what skills they need to hire for quite reliably higher higher quality candidates, or are able to get away with paying them less, or both.

Take McDonald's as an extreme example. I am certain McDonald's has paid good money to figure out exactly what someone needs to be able to do in order to be an able burger flipper. That's a big part of why they're able to hire such folk quickly, at scale, at $10 an hour.

Most software companies face economic conditions which incentivize them to take the other end of the tradeoff. The work often is percieved to span such a vast possibility space it's nearly impossible to precisely specify the requirements a software engineering job has, in a way anything like the McDonald's position can be.

One of the mechanisms they choose to employ to minimize false positives despite this huge uncertainty in their own requirements is "Offer a lot of money and let the cream rise to the crop via pre-hiring competition". Hiring someone at $100/hr who is obviously and clearly very smart and hardworking is a much safer bet than hiring someone at $85/hr who you think could probably handle the job with a lot of effort, assuming nothing in their personal life derails them over the next 6 months or anything.

Final aside:

>This is surely how you find the best plumber because only the best will take the time to really understand what they are doing when they fix a sink right?

Nobody's ever looking for the best. They're looking for good enough, within tolerances.

I do have an uncle who did become a plumber after a long career as a chemical engineer. He is extremely sought after, and charges to match. He doesn't usually take "change my sink" jobs.
I went through all my US based SAAS subscriptions yesterday and only found EU replacements for some of them. But I will continue to do so for the coming years.

I was also saving money for a family trip to the US in the coming years, but my kids now want to go to Australia instead as they hate everything about the current administration’s rhetoric.
You own the stuff you purchased; that's the best thing about the Basecamp.
Others are saying CT logs but my own subdomains are on wildcard certificates, in which case I suspect they are discovered by DPI analysis of DNS traffic and resold, such as by Team Cymru.