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by wgjordan 9mo ago
This clarification is helpful, thanks! The README currently implies a slightly different take, perhaps it could be made more clear that it's suitable for use unmodified in closed source products: > The AGPL license is suitable for o
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by wgjordan 9mo ago
> The benchmark suite is trivial and opensource. The actual code being benchmarked is trivial and open-source, but I don't see the actual JuiceFS setup anywhere in the ZeroFS repository. This means the self-published results don&#x2
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by wgjordan 9mo ago
For a proper comparison, also significant to note that JuiceFS is Apache-2.0 licensed while ZeroFS is dual AGPL-3.0/commercial licensed, significantly limiting the latter's ability to be easily adopted outside of open source proje
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by wgjordan 9mo ago
Related, "The Design & Implementation of Sprites" [1] (also currently on the front page) mentioned JuiceFS in its stack: > The Sprite storage stack is organized around the JuiceFS model (in fact, we currently use a very hac
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by wgjordan 9mo ago
Please follow the HN guidelines [1]: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." [1] https://news.yc
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by wgjordan 10mo ago
Very helpful hearing about your own similar experiments with CRDTs. As a followup I'd be interested in more direct comparison between Marmot and Corrosion in terms of features/performance, since they both serve a similar use case
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by wgjordan 10mo ago
Related, Corrosion has experimental support for the pgsql wire protocol (limited to sqlite-flavored SQL queries): https://superfly.github.io/corrosion/api/pg.html
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by wgjordan 11mo ago
SST has not been AWS-specific since Aug 2024 [1], it is now based on Pulumi/Terraform instead of CDK/CloudFormation. [1] https://sst.dev/blog/sst-v3
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by wgjordan 1y ago
See also a rebuttal of sorts [1] from Brett Glass, the sole programmer singled out by name in phk's essay: > Poul-Henning's assertion that all such ideas should be dismissed as "bikeshedding" reflects this dismissive
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by wgjordan 1y ago
I think the biggest missing piece in the opposing accounts of this incident is how exactly the production-access removal was communicated. There's a huge gap between how the two posts are framing the clarity of the communications that
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by wgjordan 1y ago
It's a legal requirement for most US non-profits to file public and accurate accounting of their funds and expenses, Ruby Together is no exception and all the info is publicly available [1]. Having previously worked as a software engin
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by wgjordan 1y ago
As a non-profit, the exact amount that Ruby Together paid Andre was publicly disclosed in its annual tax filings [1]: 2015: $29,250 2016: $43,988 2017: $48,143 2018: $51,058 2019: $60,000 2020: $32,693 2021: $21,420 The filings also note th
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by wgjordan 1y ago
The problem is not that Searls has opinions, it's that this petty hit piece against Andre was heavily wrapped in neutral, 'all I can do is offer a little bit of context', 'I'm not rushing to take sides' framing
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by wgjordan 1y ago
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by wgjordan 1y ago
It's a section titled 'The Joys of the Craft', from Chapter 1 of The Mythical Man-Month : https://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/class/adages/joy.html
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by wgjordan 1y ago
My (not-a-lawyer) understanding is that a trademark is 'genericized' only when it's become so ubiquitous that its public use no longer refers to a single, unique source or origin of product, but to an entire generic class of
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by wgjordan 1y ago
Note it's not available to everyone yet: > GPT-5 Rollout > We are gradually rolling out GPT-5 to ensure stability during launch. Some users may not yet see GPT-5 in their account as we increase availability in stages.
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by wgjordan 1y ago
Completely agree- this is a very well-done, A1 argument I can certainly sink my teeth into.
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by wgjordan 1y ago
> The memory issue will mostly be addressed as needed I have no allegiance to either lang ecosystem, but I think it's an overly optimistic take to consider memory safety a solved problem from a tweet about fil-c, especially consider
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by wgjordan 1y ago
I thought the man's hand was either missing a pinky finger or had an abnormally short one. Here's another one, this tweeted image shows either six fingers or an abnormally large middle finger: https://x.com/OpenAI&
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by wgjordan 1y ago
Look at the hands in "selfie view of the photographer, as she turns around to high five him".
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by wgjordan 1y ago
"How we decreased reading 'How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes' times from 4.8 minutes to 41 seconds"
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by wgjordan 1y ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
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by wgjordan 1y ago
I agree, the judgment read like a post hoc rationalization from someone unfamiliar with game development, uncritically parroting arguments of the side with a deeper bench. What surprised me most from the ruling was how it took the legal doc
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by wgjordan 1y ago
Not just 'Tetris' (and *-'tris') trademark and Lanham Act trade dress, but they have also successfully argued in court [1] that the 'look and feel' of Tetris constitutes its copyrighted expression. In that case
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by wgjordan 2y ago
Even assuming the model was somehow publicly available in a form that could be directly copied, that would be a more blatant form of copyright infringement. Distillation launders copyrighted material in a way that OpenAI specifically has ar
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by wgjordan 2y ago
Free sites on WordPress.com are: https://wordpress.com/support/no-ads/
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by wgjordan 2y ago
From the FDA page [1]: > To meet the updated criteria for the claim, a food product needs to: > 1. contain a certain amount of food from at least one of the food groups or subgroups (such as fruit, vegetables, grains, fat-free and low
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by wgjordan 2y ago
> For maximum performance, users have to choose WAL mode over journal mode, disable POSIX advisory locks, etc. Speaking of "wal" mode, is "wal2" mode [1] on your radar for this project to prevent wal files from growin
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by wgjordan 2y ago
thing_to_use = enums; // fixed

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