skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extended file attributes can contain arbitrary data associated with the file, whatever the user chooses, unlike file metadata with fixed content, like file name, file size, file owner, time of last modification and so on.

I am not aware of any earlier filesystem with extended file attributes. What you have mentioned are just examples of fixed file metadata, which are defined by the operating system and which cannot be defined or extended by the user. The only earlier similar feature is the resource fork of the Mac OS files, but that had a different purpose and it was accessed in a different way than extended file attributes, which are a set of name + value pairs, so they are accessed with a special get/set API, not with file read/write functions.

Once a method for storing arbitrary file metadata exists, it can also be used to implement features like access control lists or to implement any of the legacy file metadata.

The Oberon file system has been described very summarily in a paper published in 1989-09, i.e. 2 months before the commercial introduction of HPFS by IBM and Microsoft, which must have worked at HPFS for a few years before that.

Therefore these 2 filesystems must have been developed completely independently and the idea of using B-tree directories, which both teams have presented as novel, must have occurred independently to them.

While the Oberon filesystem has the merit of introducing independently and simultaneously the same improvement in directory implementation, its historical impact has been very reduced in comparison with HPFS, which had a significant user base and which became well known immediately, all over the world, influencing strongly all the filesystems developed after it.
Despite the actual performance and product implementation, this suggests to me Apple's approach was more strategic.

That is, integrating use of their own model, amplifying capability via OpenAI queries.

Again, this is not to drum up the actual quality of the product releases so far--they haven't been good--but the foundation of "we'll try to rely on our own models when we can" was the right place to start from.
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> Anthropic has been on-and-off available on EquityZen

Please note that EquityZen is notorious for being a premium payer in the market, to the tune of 20 to 500%.
i wasn't really talking about about any "verification". just a way for parents to disable what they want their kid to be able to browse. if parents don't care to change the setting, their kids would be free to browse anything.
With the constant deluge of AI slop everywhere, your voice is basically all you have.

This is basically a tool to train a computer to "steal" your voice. I find that sad.

Why can't we figure out how to use this technology in something other than creative tasks? I don't care what anyone says, a blog post showing off some technology or accomplishment should be a creative task, otherwise what's the point?
With 'only one country', I assume you refer to South Africa. Are you aware that the ANC itself approved of nuclear disarmament?

If you look at the Budapest Memorandum, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine also voluntarily gave up their nuclear arsenals by becoming a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in exchange for security guarantees.
Russia seems to be using the same "missing in action" trick as the USA used in Vietnam. "They're not dead, we just misplaced a few tens of thousands of soldiers!"
Theres evidence of that happening today at medical companies. [0][1]

The way to do this while retaining trust is to gather data, release the methodology and data transparently, then have other labs reproduce the studies and see if they get the same results.

RFK and others have touted they will be aggressively transparent. In my opinion, lets let them do it and see if their words match their actions.

If it ends up being a connection, we should be able to reproduce with independent labs. If not, then proceed as normal.

Given the historical mistrust with pharmaceutical industries, investing resources in a study such as this is low on the “wasteful spending” list.

Worst case, its a scandal and we need to reevaluate how we handle vaccine testing. Best case it builds trust back in institutions.

Classic scientific method has been tainted by corporate interest.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w

[1] https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/ar...
There are valid criticisms of Aider (I feel like it might use more tokens than it needs to, but I haven't done a lot of comparisons), but output quality is certainly the model.
> and now their economies cannot support spending at the levels required for them to catch up, without serious cuts to citizens quality of life.

There's a long history of crippling economies to fund armies and buy weapons.

Frankly, that's how US military spending has worked as well. The country would be much wealthier if it hadn't squandered so much on military spending. We just overlook that effect because the country looks so wealthy overall.
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We've entered the era of the nightmare scenario. Under the current US regime, use of Trident cant be guarenteed. We would never have used them independantly before, but with the US abandoning the western alliance and Europe facing Russia alone, that possiblity is more real now than ever before. We either need to develop our own launch capability or cooperate with the French and use theirs.

Whatever happens, we need to break free of the USA for defence procurement.
but ukraine needs successes -- today
Many doctors will give you a prescription for things like this if you want to have them on hand.
Or consider that, assuming the expansion is uniform, it's applying a scale transform to the object and otherwise leaving the shape exactly the same. All aspects of the shape will therefore grow larger.
Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener
Haven't checked the others, but at least for the skin cream bill, the text explicitly lists "a date of birth entry or checkbox verifying age system" as sufficient, so the outrage about privacy seems overblown.

Of course this raises questions as to what is the point of requiring verification that doesn't actually verify anything, but that's an entirely separate problem.
Suddenly seeing broad support for the military industrial complex from Democrats was not on my bingo card for 2025.
At the very least iPhone is GLONASS and Galileo capable, I would imagine Android devices have been as well
The archive of the post is linked in the mathsci.wikia.com page: https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S3751105#p3751197
I have no idea what they are afraid of - that is why I asked "afraid of what?" I don't think anyone is afraid of "militant state forces"
I think they have realized that even if OpenAI is first, it won't last long so really its just compute at scale, which is something they already do themselves.
Not being critical here, just a question from my curious naivety (lunar exploration is hard): these landers seem spindly and unforgiving, landing-wise. Are there bouncy ball type craft that could be made, or something that can reorient or push itself up after landing? I have a vague memory of something like that being used on Mars.
Do all of geohot's posts come off as manic to anyone else?
A few friends and I run Deepseek (and other LLMs) on some hardware we jointly own and offer endpoints to each other via VPN. Deepseek is a big step forward for open LLMs and is something I use when writing scripts that process lots of data because we've all split the capital to build the machine, but Claude was and still is a lot better than Deepseek in the kinds of day-to-day usage that I'm after. And with how cheap Gemini 2.0 is, I find myself considering whether to use my local LLMs even for data analysis.

I realize that on benchmarks it appears R1 is very close to Sonnet 3.7, but in practice I use Sonnet 3.7 much more.
And open sourcing: https://github.com/facebookincubator/strobelight

C++ from Meta/FB is much more pleasant to read than ones from ... other older big techs. I appreciate that.
The real power is custom commands and a standard way to implement them. The built-in commands will always be just conveniences that many convert to a custom version as complexity increases.

Even something like close will wind up being --my-close, and several additional checks will be run before dialogEl.close() is called.
That happened (the planning stages at least) before 9/11.
>Polls are weird. In 2016, the polls strongly suggested Trump would not win.

None of the polling suggested that. They suggested Clinton had a 2-3 point popular vote lead. She did in fact have a 2-3 point popular vote lead. It's not the polling's fault that it's measuring something that the US doesn't actually use to select the President.

Outlets that did take state polls into consideration and tried to simulate the electoral vote, namely 538, gave Trump a basically 1/3 chance to win.
It's an interesting approach. I used clip on sun glasses for years, but you still have the problem of having to juggle the clips and while they are smaller and easier to carry they are also far more fragile and easier to lose. I'm not sure they would provide any benefit over what I have now but it's good to know there are options!
Also random aside. I dislike this pattern for modal dialogs. Often times I will need to gather information from somewhere else, and in the process of attempting to get focus back to the dialog I've touched/tapped/clicked on something that dismisses the dialog. Very annoying.
Smart talking winter cat shelter with Pi and ESP32 tech
They're likely running the Dark Reader extension and turned it off for the site, but didn't refresh the page. The extension doesn't always fully reset when you disable it for a specific site. Reloading the page with the extension turned off fixes the issue, so it is not your site.
more builtin behavior, less JS to ship. pretty dope
Yep, and you yours of course.

But man is that dude a bad example of how to be a human.

I'll cut him some slack for growing up in public with stupid money and no one to regulate his impulses, but uff da.

Wake me up when he's old enough for his lagging prefrontal cortex to catch up with the rest of him.
Idaho Pushes to Reform Coroner System as Counties Seek to Limit Transparency
The normal title is:

> As Idaho Pushes to Reform Its Coroner System, Counties Seek to Make It Less Transparent
for me, i’ve only been able to tell my stories at scale with the help of a lot of infrastructure. as a solo creator, i’ve never had the impact i did in local news or at cnet or engadget.

it’s not about having it write for you, it’s about having it help you write better.

writing is thinking, but 90% of writing is editing.
And what do they have to compete with Google on content access?
Surely this is a place where a good faith reading solves the conundrum. If the author had written, "while keeping the cash-like characteristics" we wouldn't be here and they would have made the same point they were trying to make.
Look, I don't believe Trump is a Russian asset. But I'll be honest, looking at some of his actions with respect to Canada and Europe, I can certainly see why people think this.

Based on your response, my guess is that you are at least less anti-Trump than most people I know. So I'm genuinely curious, do you have any ideas about his stance against Canada?
Because the Canadians are angry at America, but the reverse is not true.
Claude Code is amazing. Typically it has costed me about $25/day of using it but it's well worth it. I ran into the $100/month limit and now waiting for my account upgrade so I can use it some more.
Well, I generally am inclined to take DD from geohotz over anonymous wsb posts.
go bigger this could be a pancake stack that separates into a swarm of puck like units according to some sequence
Strong agree based on my experience.

Worth noting that this is easily enforceable with eslint:
https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/return-await/
But where do those voters get their beliefs? Who controls their information space, and who is injecting ideas? This is classic Russian strategy all over the world, and they are experts at the psychology and how to control parts of the population through division of that population.

This might in fact be the only innovation that Russia can claim since the fall of the USSR: complete mastery of the technology of propaganda for controlling populations.
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> There's nothing stopping you.

So true.

But at some level, people who live together have to be able to make some decisions together.

The top level of that is what we call “government”.

It complicates things that governments are as prone to dysfunction as any other structure. And that governments are often weakest at the job of improving themselves.

This is getting a bit abstract.

The specifics of what a government taxes and for what matter. The line would be only to tax for things that generate a net positive expected sum for all citizens, and only in cases where the positive sum is significant and only achievable as an agreement at the top level of society. And these systems are monitored and adapted or cancelled based on their actual, not envisioned, impact.

There isn’t going to be a general answer to the question of whether taxation is good or bad. Only cases where the net benefits are positive and negative. Real or imagined.

I share the view that blind redistribution does not deliver positive returns in reality or in any sober theory.

But the societal level returns we get, from real (not unmeasured, not just imagined or ideologically assumed) surpluses of common efforts, are a legitimate source for funding those efforts.
Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail
agreed, my sense is that frameworks will update to take advantage as they've done in the past
The stock prices of US defence companies have been falling for the last few weeks because of the cuts to the defence budget by Trump. Conversely the values of European defence companies have been shooting up. Primarily because of the re-armament. That wont be of much consolation to the US defence companies though, they're very likely to be excluded from the process. More fuel for the recession it seems.
One of the reasons that there were historically so many machinations around the election of the Pope was that the Pope was not only a spiritual leader but a temporal ruler as well. The Pope was the monarch of the Papal States in central Italy (along with a number of other territories throughout Europe that changed hands more frequently). So it was a position of immense political power and wealth.

Starting in the 18th century the Papal States began to be chipped away by European powers, and
this culminated in Pope Pius IX losing all control political control of the Papal States in 1870 to the Kingdom of Italy. Since then the papacy's temporal power has been limited to the Vatican City, along with the moral weight of the position.
I think it's clear that he's simply too old to understand what's going on. By his own account, when he talked with Trudeau yesterday, he was confused why Trudeau couldn't tell him when the next Canadian election was and concluded that he must be planning to "run again for Prime Minister". Because Trump has a reputation for dishonesty, people tend to assume he's lying when he says nonsensical things, but as you say it's hard to imagine what strategic value there could be to lying about this.
It ain't March 8 either
They're already dropping.
No it isn't. Just gave some context to it (purpose) and copied into it some 250 lines of code I know has some bugs someone looking more or less closely would find and asked to evaluate its correctness. It did not find any of the problems and reported 5 supposed problems that don't exist.
No, I want to add headlight lumens/angle checks and window tint checks to the smog check. It's an annoying chore but it's the one time car owners have to (semi-regularly) get their car looked at, we should take advantage of that.
I don't think the issue is whether or not it's obvious. It boils down to weighing the risks. It seems to me that the weight has favored dependence on another superpower for the past several decades. I'm sure everyone involved understood that the consequence of that decision was quasi-sovereignty. I'm not in Europe, so I'm not sure what the UK government has been saying this whole time, but it probably sounds really bad to admit that publicly. So, I'm sure they perform lingual acrobatics to try to reassure the public that they are truly independent when it comes to military security.

Perhaps it's a naive take, but I'm just armchairing this from the perspective of playing a 4x grand strategy game and the sort of decisions you have to make in these contexts.
Ahhhhh, that makes sense. Treating this as security mechanism rather than an anti-jamming one.
I believe the misunderstanding may be that there are black air traffic controllers so Elon assumes they are incompetent DEI hires rather than a true qualified person like Hegseth or Daniel Penny
It's still not 100% clear to me, but I definitely see what you're saying. I know there's no album reference, but it seems entirely possible that Image files returned are all from a specific album, without having to choose them one-by-one. That seems entirely consistent with the API, the only question is the actual Picker interface.

If Google really has removed the ability to share all photos from a picked album, that's so idiotic I just don't get it. I don't see what possible benefit there is to security or to Google here. Why would Google screw over users for no reason at all? Companies generally remove features for a strategic reason. They don't upset consumers just for the fun of it.

Also, their blog post [1] clearly states, emphasis mine:

"The Picker API offers a secure and intuitive way for users to search for and select photos and albums through a seamless integration with the Google Photos app."

Does anyone have a link to the actual picker in action? And if it's missing selecting an album, is this intentional or an oversight that will be quickly corrected?

[1] https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-photos-picker-ap...
Please identify the storage facilities in the US where this equipment would be mobilized from. To note, state national guards report up to governors. The Sierra Army Depot is located in California. It's a hike from the Lima, Ohio tank production facility to Ottawa (~600 miles). Lots can happen on the way.

It isn't the US vs Canada. It is the part of the US willing to wage war against everyone else.
What's hard for you to understand about the word "voluntary?"
nothing at all. it’s not just about blog posts though, it’s figuring out what to write about, finding the best comments of fans who are smart and interesting without spending your entire day doing that (or hiring a team).

it’s not about having it write for you, it’s about scaling who you are to do lower value tasks.
Why? Why do we need to waste money on something that's already been researched and confirmed to death? And why would you trust someone to be aggressively transparent when the first thing they do when entering office is outright lie?

This isn't a 'big pharma doesn't want YOU to know the truth' problem. There have been multiple and independent studies done into this topic across the globe. The people perpetuating the line of vaccines causing autism are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet with zero credentials and zero actual evidence backing it up.
The main difference is that when "listening" most people here talk about doing it while doing something else.

Whereas reading requires a person's vision to be focused on the book, and therefore precludes driving, and most other activities. The book therefore receives the readers full attention, it's not background music to the commute.

The difference in attention is significant.

Given all of that, I don't think the "reading a book" metric is really significant in measure how thoughtful society is, given that most books mentioned here are vacuous make believe. Entertainment is fine, but reading "Pink Unicorns Fly Through Hyperspace" isn't expanding anyone's awareness of the world.
Apollo landers had human brains operating them. We're not quite there yet with technology.
No, because the same is true. At least about half of Americans are angry at America too. And if you look specifially at the administration's stance towards Canada, if you believe polling a sizable majority are as angry and baffled as you are.
+1. The Web Platform is this interesting blend between declarative and imperative, but with the benefits of neither.

IMO, the web platform needs a retained mode UI model like Qt Widgets, AppKit, or UIKit. Then desktop-like applications like Figma wouldn't need to compile to WASM and render WebGL for their UI. They could just treat <divs> as views or layers.
To be fair your comment is fairly benign and I shouldn't have overreacted, sorry. Seen one too many of replies sharing this sentiment lately. "Poor performance, runtime errors, lack of support for X or Y (when there is one), etc." - the platform makes it difficult to run into many of these problems. And yet whenever something goes wrong, I find it interesting how teams using other languages seem to blame languages/platforms they use much more rarely.
> but forcing the age-verification onto websites is just moronic.

Agree.

> parents should be able to access a (password protected) setting in any browser that can exclude some types of websites (like porn).

How would this work? Who's going to set up the taxonomy / classification tree for every domain/site on the internet just so a guardian can say "yes to drugs, no to porn, no to news, no to weapons..."?

Or if that's not the implementation, how would an arbitrary site signal to the browser what the age limit is? Once you move beyond a binary "require parent consent for $domain" flag, you're quickly approaching traditional parental control software.

I know I'm not the only one one this site that made a bit of spare $ back in the day helping kids at school go _around_ overbearing parental controls.
> locking up all content creators into exclusive deals

This is the worrying part. The real content creators are people like you or me (not reddit or stackoverflow) and we aren't getting a piece of the exclusive deals. So if this is the end game, then it means either exploiting real people who are writing things or that people stop using it and the internet uses a lot of its utility as a place for communication and shared knowledge; probably a bit of both
There are indeed craft like that. The NASA Pathfinder probe and MER rovers (all to Mars) are probably what you're thinking of.
I like to describe my job as a software engineer as "wizardry" to people. With the way LLMs are writing code, it's only getting closer to writing actual spells.
Serious question: if the EU wants a root program they control, shouldn't step one be building a browser that anybody wants to use?
Shit, NASA does space stuff, it fails sometimes! Do we want to only fund things we know to be 100% easy to do? And don't fucking tell me, "we already landed on the moon once, how hard can it be?" because this shit is really fucking hard and takes lots of cash and a lot of what apppears to be "waste" or "failure" on a first order approximation, but in reality is actually "learned knowledge".

I can't believe people think they're going to "make america great again" by cutting funding for all the stuff that makes America an economic, cultural, and academic powerhouse.
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Plus it helps them recruit engineers who are already familiar with their tech stack.
This is the President who redirected a hurricane with a Sharpie. We shouldn't assume they're above just making shit up.