Was curious how they get such performance with a FUSE based design. It seems that they sort of cheat, FUSE is used to manage metadata but to get high performance you have to link in the C++ client library and do all your reads and writes through that. So it isn't general purpose, you have to modify your application to take advantage of it. Still, that's a clever trick, and makes me wonder if there's a LD_PRELOAD strategy that could generalize.
Readit Newstetron commented on Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) github.com/deepseek-ai/3F... · Posted by u/wenyuanyu
A big fuck you to rssDaemon on Android which came out with a 3.x to 4.0 update that nuked all my feeds (this was a few years ago. I switched to Feedly and it's been great.
tetron commented on C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg... · Posted by u/Twirrim
I don't think this has been discussed on Hacker News before, but I wonder if people have any opinions about Arvados?
tetron commented on A Stock Prius just drove across America averaging 93.158 MPG theautopian.com/a-prius-j... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
I've driven between Boston and Montreal in a 2018 Prius Prime and got something like 60 mpg despite a large part of the trip being through the mountains of Vermont. Hybrids are a fantastic technology that, in a rational world, should have completely taken over the mainstream car market 15 years ago. Momentum seems to be slowly going towards PHEVs, which actually benefit even more from ubiquitous charging infrastructure than long-range BEVs. Unfortunately having owned a PHEV for the last 5 years, charger availability does not feel like has expanded at all, despite there being 10x as many EVs on the roads as 5 years ago. So if you can even find a charger, it is probably occupied.
tetron commented on The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins jamie.ideasasylum.com/202... · Posted by u/mooreds
"Manager" is a broad category, but in my case I am deeply involved in product design and technical architecture (with lots of input from my team) so I find that being able to plan a feature together, hand if off to one of my developers to implement it, and then see them successfully execute our vision to be just as exciting as if I had written it myself.
This is possible because I have exhaustive knowledge of the product, having worked on it for many years as an IC (and watched several other people struggle to manage it before I took the wheel). I imagine I'm a scenario where a manager and team are more disconnected, and nobody is really passionate about the product, that milestones would feel a lot more muted.
tetron commented on The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd noahpinion.blog/p/the-dar... · Posted by u/paulpauper
I don't think it has anything to do with resources. It's more to do with anyone in the galaxy can decide to end your planet, do you really want to bet your civilization on ALL other civilizations being friendly? It could be rational, game theory, "grabby aliens", religious reasons, etc.
The other issue is you could meet a perfectly sane looking alien civilization, but lose track of them, and before you check in again (say after 100 years) they could be a completely different civilization. Just imagine if the USA can go from far Obama to Trump in a year (or a day), how far you might get in 100 years.
Combine the high latency communications and impossible defense against a good offense (near light speed weapons) leads to the dark forest hypothesis.
Yes, my recollection of the books is that it isn't about the need to keep consuming resources, it is about the premise that it is impossible to judge if another civilization is hostile or going to turn hostile
If your civilization can annihilated in a single strike, the only civilizations that survive have the strategy to a) avoid being detected and b) destroy anyone who has detected them (which results in destroying everyone, to eliminate uncertainty).
The idea being that assuming the actual survival of your species is at the top of your moral pyramid, all kinds of atrocities in its defense are justifiable.
tetron commented on Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle theverge.com/2021/10/30/2... · Posted by u/Terretta
Been checking the #roblox hashtag on Twitter and the two main themes are addicts going through withdrawal and devs saying how they wouldn't have their llama appreciation fan site be down this long let alone your core business.
tetron commented on Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Just as a quick bit of context here, Konrad Hinsen has a specific agenda that he is trying to push with this challenge. It's not clear from this summary article, but if you look at the original abstract soliciting entries for the challenge (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03296-8), it's a bit clearer that Hinsen is using this to challenge the technical merits of Common Workflow Language (https://www.commonwl.org/; currently used in bioinformatics by the Broad Institute via the Cromwell workflow manager).
Hinsen has created his own DSL, Leibniz (https://github.com/khinsen/leibniz ; http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/~hinsen/leibniz-20161124.pdf), which he believes is a better alternative to Common Workflow Language. This reproducibility challenge is in support of this agenda in particular, which is worth keeping in mind; it is not an unbiased thought experiment.
There seem to be some misunderstanding here.
CWL is intended for stringing together other programs. It is useful for reproducibility in that it attempts to provide a fairly specific description of the runtime environment needed to execute a program, and also abstracts site-specific details such as file system layout or batch system in use. CWL platforms such as Arvados also generate comprehensive provenance traces which are vital for going back and reviewing how a data result was produced.
Leibniz seems to be a numerical computing language for describing equations, which is more similar to something like NumPy or R. It seems like an apples-and-oranges comparison.
The original call-out is weird, because CWL did not exist 10 years ago so you can't yet answer the question yet of whether it facilitates running 10 year old workflows.