Hacker News: arboles

New comment by arboles in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

arboles — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:18:19 +0000

What kind of interesting patterns are you expecting? What is the hypothesis?

New comment by arboles in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

arboles — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:20:33 +0000

Care to share what you are curious about?

New comment by arboles in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

arboles — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:35:36 +0000

They didn't scrape the entire map. A minecraft map is 30 million blocks^2

New comment by arboles in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

arboles — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:06:04 +0000

> Providing a Torrent for this amount of data is not easy whatsoever. We are currently working on creating a Torrent that includes all data, but this may take a few weeks.

What do they mean by this? I understand that it would be a download on the order of 26TiB (if we extrapolate from the recent 200k^2 download, which is a ~1TiB torrent[1]). If bandwidth costs are the issue (certainly it's an issue) they could throttle their seeding speed and let the swarm seed it. That's what bittorrent is for.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t_Uncensored/comments/1tefffd/in...

New comment by arboles in "Haiku"

arboles — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:44:03 +0000

I mean, barely anything you mentioned in this reply to do with the kernel.

New comment by arboles in "Haiku"

arboles — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:24:06 +0000

I was asking what they did differently in the programming.

New comment by arboles in "Haiku"

arboles — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:40:25 +0000

> Its design from kernel to UI is intended to make the system accessible to the user sitting at the desk.

What does this translate to, in some amount of technical detail?

New comment by arboles in "Googlebook"

arboles — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:28 +0000

That comment was criticizing Google's support. Did you also have an experience with them?

New comment by arboles in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

arboles — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:03:34 +0000

Why are phone calls or SMS under attorney-client privilege[1] but AI transcripts of a call with an attorney isn't? I was under the impression there isn't any expectation of privacy from phone carriers either. AI's recording of a conversation is actually more like a fourth-party, no?

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-legal-help/what-ar...

New comment by arboles in "Composition Shouldn't be this Hard"

arboles — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:13:24 +0000

Have you ever asked an LLM if it understands this stuff?

New comment by arboles in "Composition shouldn't be this hard"

arboles — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:11:50 +0000

That comment seems off-topic, but just to exemplify:

In your example even as the interface for those products is unstable (UI that changes all the time, slightly broken API), those products are coded in a language like C++ or Java, which benefit from compiler error checking. The seams where it connects with other systems is where they're unstable. That's the point of this blog post.

New comment by arboles in "Composition shouldn't be this hard"

arboles — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:33:30 +0000

I've always found system administration much harder than "coding". You get parser and compiler errors for a lot of your mistakes, but administering a server you're testing it all at runtime.

New comment by arboles in "curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd"

arboles — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:52:54 +0000

I didn't know file descriptors worked like that admittedly. Also instead of moving the files couldn't we copy them to the new root and pivot_root then?

New comment by arboles in "curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd"

arboles — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:01:08 +0000

Don't you get any errors even if you race immediately to start pivot_root? pivot_root also won't modify all open file descriptors at once. Seems it's not fatal, but have you managed to do this over ssh and not be disconnected?

New comment by arboles in "Shall I implement it? No"

arboles — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:11:09 +0000

Please elaborate.

New comment by arboles in "FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers"

arboles — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:04:31 +0000

Or just run sshd on your client computer and mount (sshfs) a directory on the render farm server

New comment by arboles in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

arboles — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:38:33 +0000

What are the HW issues with Pixels?

Writing C with indent-based Python syntax

arboles — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://sph.mn/computer/guides/c/c-indent.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182115

Points: 1

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New comment by arboles in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

arboles — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:52:40 +0000

A list of hashes (tuple of [hashed url+date metadata, hashed content]) takes much less disk space than the archive contents themselves. Archive websites could publish the list for all their content so it can be compared against in the future. People would save copies of the list. If you didn't store the list yourself ahead of time, and don't trust a third-party to be "the source of truth", the archive could've uploaded the hashes to the blockchain at archive time:

https://gwern.net/timestamping

New comment by arboles in "How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model"

arboles — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:35:42 +0000

Great. Thanks for the link also.