skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cockroach Labs themselves freely admit CRDB allows for causal reverse anomalies [1], and Kyle reproduced it in his Jepsen analysis [2].

HLCs don't prevent causal reverse, because they don’t guarantee message exchanges synchronously happen across nodes between transactions. Which most HLC implementations piggy back on to properly advance the HLC on each node.

1: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/consistency-model/

2: https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829
I know where the servers for HN are hosted (as does anyone that cares), and it's not in your country. Our servers. Yes we give you access more than you deserve, but dang does his thing quite well.
Not in the US, but we like to do that in Spain.
This is an almost perfect solution - but they've gone and put a proprietary application protocol on top of Zigbee instead of using a common profile. Nonetheless, very cool smart moving rocker switch:

https://getden.co.uk/products/switch/#1G
That doesn't make sense to me at all - you can have a closed source system running on top of Linux, today.
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It really depends on how precarious he thought his position was after the breach. If his career as an executive would not be significantly harmed by breach, trading 4 months in jail and 5 million+ future career earnings as an executive for a 500k payday is not something rational people do, IMHO.
They can skip school.
As we know the Rockefeller Foundation, three generations from now Allen may be similarly known. Paraphrasing Horace Mann, Allen certainly created more than a few small victories for mankind.
There is a comment in this thread by rolleiflex on the number of worker deaths and shambolic state of the airport 2 weeks ago.
Press freedoms in Turkey might be the actual difference.
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The balance of processing power: American ban hits China’s supercomputers
Yeah it's pretty confusing.

The article explain later what that means:

> Europe’s five hottest summers in the past 500 years have all occurred in the last 15 years, not including this summer.
Anecdote time. (hey its saturday were I am ;-))

This comment: "at some point (and $) you lose the fire to write."

I had noticed the same thing with another author. And at the time I was working with Jerry Pournelle[1] helping him with things he didn't need or want to do with his BYTE column. I asked Jerry about it. His response was fairly enlightening so I share it here.

Jerry said that writers were arrogant, and in their arrogance they despise editors because editors tell them what they wrote doesn't read well, or isn't necessary for the story, or has the wrong character point of view and demand that the writer rewrite it. When a writer is young and hungry, they do this because they have to, if they don't they won't get published. But if they become successful, they get more sway with the publisher. At some point they have enough sway to override what the editor says and have them publish it the way they wrote it. And that is when you find out if they are a good writer, or if they are only a good story teller and without an editor their writing is sub par.

That made so much sense to me at the time and it was also the basis for Jerry's oft used phrase which was the secret of good writing was re-writing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
I don't think there's a connection. The interviewee, Bob Lazar, is pretty well known in UFO enthusiast circles and has been telling the same story for decades now.
Well, the first sentient device will probably be some supercomputer, so it won't be either of those. ;)
In fighting cancer, look to what big animals do
Or when he successfully screwed him the first time, cause his dad was a lawyer who drew up the papers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2011/03/30/bill-...
But Why...
I know the answer and the site gives a good explanation. But still, practically speaking? Who cares about CP/M, perhaps because it's the only useful OS running on 8 bit processors? Does CP/M have something DOS doesn't have? Or is it impossible to run DOS on the Z80?
> I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care?

I always hate this, because we've seen all throughout history that legal wrong and moral wrong are different things. You can do something that is legally wrong and morally right. Lots of laws change for this reason. It is no longer illegal to have an interracial marriage. Or a gay marriage. I think part of this thinking is "we've come so far" but people don't realize those things weren't that long ago and similar things are happening today.
Pessimistically, global warming is going to kill us. You might as well install that window unit in Munich and be comfortable for the next few decades.
Fair point. When I bought my Hue lights, this turned out to be an unexpected pain point. Not only did guests routinely used the switch, I myself had a really hard time unlearning the habit of using it.

... and then I realized that using a phone instead of a switch is much less convenient. Because on poweroff, Hue bulbs revert to ugly, warm color (I bought the color ones to have some mood lights), I wrote a script that repeatedly queried the Hue bridge for color values of all bulbs and changed them according to presets I liked whenever it detected that a bulb has default color values. The script ran on always-on Raspberry Pi, which was plugged in solely for that purpose. Unfortunately, in order not to saturate the bridge with API calls, this script polled the bridge only every couple of seconds, which still made the accidental reset annoying.

All in all, my experience with smart lights turned out to be pretty disappointing. You really need a smart switch for them to make sense. An ideal smart switch would be stateful and have an actuator built in, so that its mechanical state always reflects the software state of the bulb. Unfortunately, I've never seen anyone make such switches.
That was by far the worst part, when your keyword search got you called to the deans office. Never happened to me, but this one kid I knew got grilled by the dean and a police officer because of his search history once. If I remember correctly he had googled "DeathBomb Arc" which is the name of a record label[0] in order to look up when a band he liked was touring. The dean and the police officer repeatedly refused to believe that he wasn't up to something.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbomb_Arc
I can't count the number of times my wife and I have been to Disney properties (Anaheim, Orlando, France, Japan, Hong Kong so far), and even though she's seen everything Disney has to offer, the animatronic Abraham Lincoln is still the thing that most impresses her.

Every time we go to the Hall of Presidents, she eagerly sits through the entire show waiting for the magic moment when Mr. Lincoln stands up. It's the highlight of the trip.

She's as addicted to Facebook as the next person of her age, but this is still the apex of modern technology.

(Then she drops me off at "daycare," which is the little film gallery showing old cartoons, while she goes shopping. Though I hear that is being desecrated with a gift shop, too.)
Bullshit jobs :)

These are jobs that are useful sometimes, mostly not. At best you can say they keep an eye on the organization.
You guys are reading way too much into this. Its just an objectively true observation - not a declaration of "superiority". An OS company should win in the OS space.
Typo alert: Title here says 1.99.1 but it's actually 1.99.10.
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You can remove government from that sentence.
I have said this before, but I will say it again here:
I do not personally believe in a “happiness optimization algorithm”
The best I think any of us can really do is have a “regret minimization” approach.

Whenever you have a decision to make, ask yourself “What would I regret more if I didn't do in 20, 30 years?

The only caveat is really make sure you think of yourself in the long time horizon: would you regret not saving enough money? Not spending more time with your kids? You get the themes... some things are obvious... others less so.

In general this has worked out well for me, and I have few genuine regrets.

It sounds simple, but in my personal experience, it is the simple things that are both the hardest and most important things to do right.
Java 8 is end of life in 2023. The OpenJDK one maintained by RedHat that's the de facto standard on all Linux.

Java 7 is end of life in 2020. It only support TLS 1.2 if you have a recent JVM release. Don't expect people on java 7 to ever update their JVM though.
I use GPG quite a bit. I sign my git commits with it, occasionally use it to securely transfer files with people, and appreciate to have everything coupled with my Yubikey.

What are reasonable alternatives to this right now? If I’m not using the keyservers, it’s not that bad, right?
I read that as more like "We're Microsoft, they're "Google"[Small fry]." Given the stature of the company, and the combined brain power of the staff it was their battle to lose
This is a crazy idea. Even if they worked, this would be a bad one. Most kids who get angry and aggressive never shoot up a school over it, and all this will result in is a bunch of kids who get in arguments being hauled in front of the cops and being interrogated about "where is the gun, and what day are you doing it?".

This applies to the whole "report suspicious behavior" thing too. Most of the time, when a kid is acting like an edgy teen he's just... being an edgy teen. I don't like the whole spanish inquisition rat-out-your-buddy direction this thing is taking.
The significant difference is that in Rust, like in Lisp, `if` is an expression, so if-else essentially is the ternary operator.

const x = cond1 ? a
: cond2 ? b
: c

becomes in Rust

let x = if cond1 { a }
else if cond2 { b }
else { c }
Ok, but let's talk about your keyboard. Why does it have so many function keys?
This piece isn’t argued in even remotely good faith. Among other things, I don’t know why the writer tries to drag one of the current presidential candidates into it.

In any case, here’s a piece which seems to stick to the facts. Form your own opinion.

https://richmondsfblog.com/2019/04/09/historic-wpa-murals-at...
Given that most European countries all speak different native languages but also speak widespread English as a common, second language, it seems a reasonable thing to request in an airport in a European capital where there are likely travelers from many different, non-German speaking countries.
I am happy to learn more on this (see my first sentence). But to keep this on focus and constructive. Your diet absolutely influences the protein absorption. Human body does not produce all the proteins that it needs. Need to come from the food. Change food, change bacteria. Change your body's capability to digest/absorb those proteins.
Pai's FCC Crushes Rules That Brought More Broadband Competition to San Francisco
What you can do with the type system depends on the language. It can't replace tests entirely, but it can usually make some more boring tests superfluous, and in more exotic languages the type system can be surprisingly helpful.
> Given that it seems to be the only project that provides modern e2ee in a way where your data is actually controlled by you without a central authority, ...

OMEMO on XMPP?
I think this falls into one of those social problems with no technical solution. The culture of PGP, as described in the post itself, is that anyone can participate, anyone can upload signatures, anyone can run keyservers, there's no way to remove uploaded keys or signatures ever, and there's no central authority for what is on the keyserver network. Given that culture, there's a social expectation that if you're not going to let the pedophile with the anime avatar have the rest of his arguments taken at face value, you're censoring people and might as well go use one of those corporate sell-out encryption systems like Signal.

(To your actual question: meta.stackoverflow.com, Wikipedia talk pages, meta.wikimedia.org, etc. Also various email/chat communities have defined off-topic lists/rooms. When the participants do actually want to keep off-topic discourse to the side, and the off-topic discussion isn't an attack on the competence of someone reporting a problem or a desire to propagate child pornography, then it's merely a technical problem of enabling them to do it.)
I don’t think the first one is true because the US government doesn’t have to pay a license to use US patents. It can even allow a private company to use another company’s patents for work being done on behalf of the US government.
I think the secret is adding a livestream.
It made sense to me?

Is it an obscure idiom (Native English speaker, so hard to tell)?
His potential lifetime earnings were probably already suffering as a result of being a CIO who presided over a massive data breach.
The cynical take: These projects are just run and delayed over and over to hand out money and contracts to the friends of politicians.
Qualcomm is largely modems. The actual base stations with which the modems communicate are not made by them to my knowledge. Nor the fiber optic infrastructure, switches, etc. Their statement is accurate. You can't build an all-American telecomm network today.
I used texmacs not so long ago and as a guile user I was a bit thrown off by the ancient guile version. Are there any plans to migrate to the newer and faster 2.2 or later 3.0?

I am not in any position to request things, but I got bitten a bit by the fact that macro expansion happens at every startup, and due to me loading a lot of extra modules for my own convenience texmacs took a long time to start.
There's also the practice of the Big Pharma companies either buying the generics producers or contracting with them not to make generics. I think Big Pharma might be more hated than Congress at this point.
I used to have a scrabble bot playing itself three times a day, posting its games to tumblr: https://scrabblebot.tumblr.com/

IIRC simulating an AI-AI game only took a short period of time (maybe a few seconds to a minute), so replicating the study with this scrabblebot wouldn't be too difficult.

Source: https://github.com/dbieber/ScrabbleBot
That makes no sense. You can't scroll and drag at the same time.

You are probably just trying to use the trackpad in the suboptimal way that you're used to using trackpads with physical buttons. When you can click anywhere, there's no reason to use your thumb in the first place, other than muscle memory.

Incidentally, as others have pointed out, there is no issue with using the thumb to press the button on an Apple trackpad if that's how you want to do it. You can "roll" it as much as you want to while clicking and dragging and it won't move the cursor.
This is a great video that explains how climate change is slowing the jet stream and how that is affecting the climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQliow4ghtU
"defect of JSON" while it could be better, it has some type definitions and as I said, people are too deep in the static world to see outside of it
I live in a 300sf studio in a tenement building built in 1917. There's a single overhead glass dome fixture for each room, but with 10ft ceilings they don't shed much light at all. I've added several hue lamps around aimed at the walls so there's plenty of light (I've also added some under-counter ikea halogen lights on a tp-link smart plug). If I had added these bulbs as regular bulbs, I would have to go around turning on/off each bulb every time I wanted the lights on/off. Instead, I can say one command to my google home (picture: walking into the apartment with hands full of groceries -- "ok google lights on" - done) or tap a button on my phone. I've also set up a cron script on a spare raspberry pi to change the color temperature when the sun sets (like flux but for the apartment lights), which helps with sleep cycle and eye strain. By this point, all but one of the dim overhead lights has burned out (I'm responsible for changing bulbs per my lease, but also since I'm living in a small apartment I don't have room for a 10ft ladder, so it's always a hassle to replace them) and I just don't use the wall switches at all.

Is this a major life improvement? Nah, not really. But having lived here for almost a decade, I can say that I like having a reasonable level of light, and the convenience that comes with the smart lights makes that less of a pain. Not like my lease would let me put in more outlets or light switches (the whole apartment is on a single 15A slow-blow fuse circuit).

But thanks for the _order_ to stop buying smart bulbs. Not like anyone has slightly different use cases for these things than the "_horrible_" replace-a-light-already-on-a-switch case that you demonize.
I can't speak to other services, but the Air Force is pushing hard (relatively speaking) into investing in startups. Naturally, since the minds behind this are rather technologically inept the results are mixed. (3d printers and virtual reality for everyone!) but they have implemented some programs to provide funding and contracts for startups that fill a critical role - afwerx being an example.
https://www.afwerx.af.mil/
I think they were comparing the fact that both ISIS and the people in this article (leftists) were bent on destroying art that they didn’t like. And you were directly rude to that person.
The backend is pure Java, and is composed of four separate microservices. The web server (we use Javalin) is nothing special; the transcoder works as follows:

* An POST request is sent to the web server. If the file is valid, it is moved via FTP to a local server. I then create a message for RabbitMQ to add to a transcode queue.

* A worker listening on the channel gets the job, and does all the needed work to make the file "streamable", e.g. segmenting and encoding file parts, creating the M3U8, generating the waveform, storing to S3, etc. Throughout the process, progress is saved in Redis, which is made available to the client for visual feedback

* Once the process is done, an identifier is generated, which the client refers to when saving any modifications to the track information. We primarily use MariaDB.

The transcode process is the most complex piece of the puzzle, of course. Everything else is pretty much CRUD operations.
Semiconductor fabs require MASSIVE amounts of electric power. In fact, to the first approximation, 5-10% of the cost of a silicon wafer is purely the cost of the electricity consumption. Source: worked in finance dept managing fab spend
>My sample size is small at ~5, but former classmates who joined the military research labs were not the brightest bunch. Of my overall cohort, the smartest ones went into industry, sometimes a different industry than their field of study. The smart but idealistic ones went into academia.

I hate to point this out but "smartest" doesn't have monopoly over inventions or discoveries.
what do you feel is the best way to prevent monopolies forming?

the way i see it, access to capital is a huge barrier for many potential competitors and it may take many decades for a natural monopoly to fade, all the while the population suffers....

(just to be clear, i’m not necessarily for burdensome regulation, but things like environmental degradation, predatory financial speculation (see post glass-steagal deregulation and 2007) and natural barriers to competition such as capital, land etc make it difficult for me to believe in complete laissez-faire)
"optimise" is the correct spelling in some variants of English other than American, like British.
Wasn’t it more like Clinton’s emails were selectively released and Wikileaks ignored Trump’s?

And what does that have to do with this article?
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If they continuously upgrade the hardware, one day it may get elected.

edit - of course, by then we'll call it multivac - https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
The smart switches I'm used to are the wide paddle style and sit in the center, not the on or off positions, so you can always press either side. They also have a status light that shows on/off/dimmer positions as well.

Insteon 2477D is an example you can look up, though I don't recommend people go with the Insteon protocol for a new build.
Ask HN: What are the recent tech adoptions that online pornography has driven?
What are some of the more recent computer engineering innovations that have been born from the online pornography industry?
Ah, so they're not using the waits. It wouldn't be that surprising if in practice they're just too slow to be practical.

Do you have anything I can read on the rest of what you're saying? It contradicts the HLC paper.
I just got a ruby gem from someone who actually made tables on the stuff. I made a script that cut out far past and future times to lower loading time from 10m to 30s and figured I could upgrade the gem to leverage an expert’s research as timezones changed (e.g. India changing zones)
> This isn't the first time the GnuPG ecosystem has responded this way to attacks.

Hmmmm, I think this is a bit of squeaky wheel situation going on. Remember that the sks keyserver pool is mostly a decentralized group of volunteers running a server as a hobby. So you can have all types of people operating keyservers in the pool.

For instance, I've been running a keyserver in the pool for several years. However, I don't blame the attackers like you describe. In fact, I'm openly asking around for a mentor to build a keyserver implementation that can better deal with these kinds of flooding situations.

Anyway, even though I can totally understand why operators get mad and lash out at people trying to take down the service they are running as a hobby to try to help activists communicate securely, I want to stress that that reaction isn't representative of the many of us in the pool.
Our grandmothers canned countless jars of summer fruit and vegetables this way.
> I am not sure why its okay, or that people even suggest giving these organizations more money

Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM
Tips for building your work network
>C levels are making multiple millions per year and could retire anytime

You must not know many C levels... The majority of those in my sphere are loaded down with jumbo mortgages, private school and college obligations. And they're not all making multiple millions per year.
How to pick a random number from 1-10
Luckily noncompetes are illegal in California. The Bay Area/Silicon Valley wouldn’t be what it is today without the freedom to move between different companies and/or start your own company yourself.

Edit: illegal should be replaced with non-enforceable as mentioned below. Initially I didn't see any difference between the two words, but I can appreciate the nuance in meaning now based on hedora's provided example.
The fact that it is simultaneously a "hobby" and an "attempt to help activists communicate securely" is emblematic of the whole problem here.

Either way, the time for Hansen to have warned people about the keyservers was when he first became aware of the vulnerability ("well over a decade" ago), not right after it got exploited on him personally. Everything about this response, from the personal offense he's taken to the lashing out he's done against vulnerability research to the apparent decade-long delay in notification, is unserious and unworthy of a project that purports to protect dissidents against governments.
> Stop buying smart bulbs. It’s an absolutely horrible idea from beginning to end. What people want is a way to switch a lamp on and off. For that you need a smart switch. For it to work you can’t have a dumb switch in your wall first - because when the dumb switch is in the “off” position, the smart lightbulb doesn’t work!

While I agree, a large part of the challenge is that people live in apartment buildings, where replacing light switches is out of the question, but replacing lightbulbs is doable. I personally use smart bulbs for exactly this reason.

That said, if I had a house I would either:

* use smart switches

* use smart switches + smart bulbs