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Here's what SQLite has to say about the matter in their article "How To Corrupt An SQLite Database File" [0]:

> 1.2. Backup or restore while a transaction is active

> Systems that run automatic backups in the background might try to make a backup copy of an SQLite database file while it is in the middle of a transaction. The backup copy then might contain some old and some new content, and thus be corrupt.

> The best approach to make reliable backup copies of an SQLite database is to make use of the backup API that is part of the SQLite library. Failing that, it is safe to make a copy of an SQLite database file as long as there are no transactions in progress by any process. If the previous transaction failed, then it is important that any rollback journal (the -journal file) or write-ahead log (the -wal file) be copied together with the database file itself.

So no, it doesn't appear that it is safe in general to just copy the file whenever. If there are transactions in progress, things can go wrong. I don't quite understand why (isn't this the same as if a power failure happens, and SQLite is resistant to that?), but this is what the docs say.

It might be different with ZFS, since the backups are atomic (and this doc might assume that they are not), but I'm not 100% sure I would rely on it.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html
They try to get away from that model, though. Not very successfully (how to get people to pay for a browser?), but they try.
Don’t even care that it’s AI. It’s just that the AI-based products simply suck. Which is saying a lot considering all the money being thrown at it to solve simple problems.
Is there an API that allows me to see, unpack, and set my own cohort? The FloC explainer [0] suggests the basic API just returns a stable hash [0]. I am curious about the space of cohorts. Also, whether there'd be an advantage to choosing a cohort for my task, vs just being anonymous.

EDIT: that would appear to be TURTLEDOVE [1]

[0] https://github.com/WICG/floc
[1] https://github.com/WICG/turtledove

The FloC announcement is https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/2021-01-privacy-sa...

The whitepaper explains the approach: https://github.com/google/ads-privacy/blob/master/proposals/...
can be done, but often isn't. It requires someone to be suspicious to trigger the various institutions to start tracking it.

there is lots of scope for laundering by giving the cash to third parties, before it gets to the banks.

Laundering inside bitcoin is pretty futile, because we can trace from mining to current wallet. we don't even need to trace all bitcoins.

All you have to do is pay for something illicit, and you can trace the flow of money from wallet to wallet, until its either converted into real cash, or held as a "reserve"
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Your best bet is to find a local friend or acquaintance who does have experience who can talk to you in detail about it and help source etc.

Reddit is a good source of anecdotal information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/7fv5oj/beginner...

https://www.reddit.com/r/microdosing/

This is also good:

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/microdosing-guide-and-explain...
A bit unrelated but important thing to note is that yoga isn't just exercise poses, it is a framework for a specific way of life. Asana is the part of that framework that deals with different postures that can build a healthy physical body while other parts of the teachings get into self-care, breathing, social interactions and self-reflection.
I've been using XPS13's for a good few years now. No major complaints.

Video camera is in a poor location. Otherwise totally solid. Great battery life. Amazing screen. Great build.

Consistently rated one of the best laptops on the market.
Why are people using this editor? It is unclear what data is being sent to Microsoft:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284

There are many other and better editors.
Looks like a solid idea. I'd been thinking about something similar myself.
Would be great if you could list out some potential use-cases though to give people ideas on what all one could do with it.
Secondly is there some sort of commitment that the product will be available for at least x years ?
FAANG typically pay more than everyone else.

Also sites like glassdoor report 70k for the average Berlin Amazon Software Engineer Salary.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Amazon-Software-Development...
quick googling would show that your knowledge on this is dated (laws changed in mid 2000). See linked article[1] (or many other articles like it - it was a huge topic at the time creating much outrage).

The bank will not be informed of the invasion of privacy (the excuse is so that banking customers don't have any negative impact when they realize customers get probed - it's probably more to avoid spooking the public about the frequency of how often this happens).

> Also the request must be authorized by the state tax office, it's not like every government employee can request and obtain the list of all of your transactions.

you're mistaken. These are the organs which have automated access (in addition to the IRS):

- social services
- job center
- bailiff
- state attorney
- customs authorities

it's designed to put pressure on low income groups in society, while the HNWI's and corporate big fish can cloak themselves with an armor of impenetrable offshore tools[2].

[1] in German (just run through any translate service): https://www.vlh.de/wissen-service/steuer-nachrichten/kontena...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_a...
I use many Google services, and generated many records on their platform such as payment, cloud computing service, email, file storage. That is a lots of information, making me slowly losing my confidence on whether or not I can recover if someday Google turn their back on me.

My opinion is, if DDG is showing me some ads based on my search keywords (which is sort personalised) so they can make some money out of their not-so-bad service? Fine by me.
their app sucks so badly. Very tough to find something to eat unless you know exactly what you want. Language translations not fully there-- it's just not an international-worthy offering (even the name tells you that).

But Wolt is also here, and their app and service are great.
The Middle Ages are usually considered to have started after the "Fall of Rome." Typically referring to the 410 sack of Rome.

As Justinian was responsible for the last attempts to reunify the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, you can also consider his reign to be the true end of Rome and thus the start of the Middle Ages.

There's no true distinction between the ages, and even of you consider the fifth century the "start" you're likely to view the Justinian Plague as one of the "starting points."
That's fair enough.

edit: actually in that case

> There's not much reason to believe an evil AI out to conquer the world is a self-consistent idea.

Wanna argue this? The case is mostly based on the notion of basic AI drives ( https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv... ), indicating that for nearly any agentic (with general intelligence and capable of plan generation and execution) system driven by nearly any goal, perpetuating its own existence and protecting itself from danger will be instrumentally useful. (For an AI, "danger" = "human with off switch")
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I'm pretty sure it's because of the nuclear reactor which is in the rear half. The Perle's reactor has still some years to go, and it's much simpler and safer to simply weld the half containing the reactor, instead of trying to pry it open and move a live nuclear reactor from a boat to the other one.
I wouldn't store web logs in an SQLite DB, but I wouldn't do that in any RDBMS typically. Easiest solution is a flat file, which you can import and analyze offsite (in SQLite, or Excel, or whatever :-).
I think the complexity of the Octatrack is a bit overstated and probably scares people more than necessary. Only confusing part is the whole track/machine/part/pattern/banks thing, but other Elektron machines have similar complexity. Or maybe it's the sequencer people are scared of? But it's a easy one with just a lot of depth.

But I'd agree with you, as a owner of both a Rytm and Octatrack, to go for the Rytm before the Octatrack as it's simply a nicer standalone machine, the Octatrack really needs companions to be fully useful.

> I agree that Elektron are making some of the most fun and exciting music gear out there, I love all their stuff

Hear hear! My wallet likes Elektron less though.
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Right now I’m trying out MailChimp.
We will invade your privacy to the extent the law and browser choice allows, Chrome users can expect to have their privacy extremely compromised!
DuckDuckGo works really well for 90% of my “searches,” which are basically asking for a specific Wikipedia article / blog / Twitter account / etc, so I don’t have to type in the full URL.

But I find DuckDuckGo really bad for some searches where I’m not looking for a specific domain:

- searching for papers or technical blog posts is almost useless in DDG. Software stuff in particular seems heavily front-loaded towards SEO trash and plagiarized blogs/“tutorials” instead of useful information. Pure mathematics is a little better (probably because there isn’t a “pure mathematics boot camp” cottage industry)

- political news is heavily slanted to the right, often prioritizing flagrantly disreputable sources. While this might be a userbase issue (lots of lonely white men) I do wonder if DDG (or someone in their tech stack) is putting their thumb on the scale (maybe this comes up in Bing as well? I haven’t checked). I realize people on the right might say Google is slanted to the left and don’t want to get in to that. But DDG seems to push more outright propaganda than Google. Google also returns plenty of conservative results for politics news/blogs, but it seems very rare for DDG to return liberal commentary (even from major sources like The Guardian).

Obviously this is anecdotal and colored by my own interests and biases. But, especially with computer science stuff, I have given up on DDG returning reliable results. At this point I basically only use them as a Wikipedia gateway.
That way you distribute data, not power. That way you are resilient against a single computer catching fire, but not against the computer the dictator writes his stuff in getting hacked.
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Yeah, I had to look up Calendly too to find out what this does. Definitely one thing to improve.
> Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years

I switched for privacy and to de-google my life.

But for complex queries I often end up using the "g!" shortcut in the query to do the search on google instead.
I would be fine with actual personalized ads. Hell, I'd give them even more data if they needed it to accomplish such a feat. But the best they can do is try sell me washing machines after I've already purchased one, or show me youtube snippets of scenes from Netflix shows I've watched recently (yes this one really did happen. No idea how, still checking).
You skipped the best (worst) part:

> 9. Fill out the fields (remembering to encrypt your password with BCrypt)

That's...
A lot of manual work for something that surely is implemented in the code anyway (initialize a user).
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Btw I tried registering but it failed. Would love to try it out. Would also like to contribute if you're looking for help.
Renting a penthouse/dachgeschoss apartment in Mitte costs more like 2k nowadays.
> any comments on how hard it is to this without compromising safety?

I would say it greatly depends on your welding skills. The same welded materials can be very solid of very weak depending on how they were welded. I would not dare to do that, personally.
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Please compare Berlin prices with Hamburg, Dusseldorf or Munich. It's really not close, Berlin is largely still 10-15€/sqm, peaking to 20.

Similar offers in e.g. Hamburg are 20, peaking to 30€/sqm. And it's been this way for a decade or two. Having lived in Hamburg, whenever I was with Berlin friends and heard their complaints, they usually turned into being happy for the good fortune not to have to pay those prices when they compared it not with Berlin 10 years ago, but with Hamburg today.
I honestly think stablecoins on a layer 2 network have a good shot assuming merchants find a good way to incentivize it over credit cards.
They use your browsing history. That browsing history used to be sacrosanct: We spent years fighting to get every bug fixed through which even parts of the browsing history could be leaked.

Now Google controls the browser and simply accesses the browsing history and hands a processed version of it on a silver platter to advertisement-sellers.
Much of Logo's history took place at MIT, and the Incompatible Timesharing System was a workhorse for Logo development. Many historical Logo implementations are available for running on ITS on a PDP-10 emulator:

- BBN's PDP-10 Logo

- CLOGO

- PDP-11 Logo

- Lisp Logo

- Apple II Logo (cross assembled on ITS)

http://github.com/PDP-10/its
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I work on a system like this. We provide agricultural advice to farmers (mainly in India and Kenya but also in some other countries). They can leave a missed call on our system, and will receive a call back where they can navigate a menu with information on a variety of topics, or they can record a question which will then be answered by an agronomist (the answer will be pushed to them as a separate call, once it's researched and recorded).
understaffed -> it was only me and still only me but with a great list of contributors :)
> But that framing is based on a false premise

Another false premise is that the "old tracking" will stop because of the "new tracking".
No. Since you mentioned 2000s, you know how revolutionary and welcomed were Google ads at that time. Text based ads all in specific positions? Give me more! It was so much better than the nightmare we had.
But look at Google and web now ... it's back to square one, now with extra spying on top.
When I try the product by clicking on to booking your time [1], my first question that pops up in my head is: What is the time zone? I couldn't find this information anywhere. Thanks

[1] https://app.calendso.com/bailey/1
"Modern" file systems (say, ext3 and onwards) scales pretty well.

The problem is that most tools that operate on file systems doesn't. Things like readdir() is a linear scan and takes a long time on a million files.

So in practice it's not optimal. A thousand files, no problem. A million, start looking at doing it in-memory (or use some database tool).
Refueling a nuclear reactor on a submarine is very, very expensive. The Saphir obviously would need refueling to be put back in service, costing lots of money. If the Perle was recently refueled and the back part is where the reactor is, then it would almost certainly be cheaper to repair the Perle instead of refuel the reactor on the Saphir.
> if you're using Windows 10 there's no reason not to use Edge because you're already allowing Microsoft to invade your privacy

If Edge was still using its own layout engine, I would agree with this. But even on Windows 10, by using Edge you not only trust Microsoft, but also help Google's takeover and control of the internet.

Using Safari, Internet Explorer, Links, Firefox or Serenity Browser all help a bit by reducing the Google browser marketshare. Using Brave, Edge, Vivaldi or Opera still help, but to a much smaller degree.
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I hang up as soon as I can when I hear the beep that gives away it is a sales call.
I don't think Behringer only creates clones of "out of patent" hardware but also current gear that is still being sold. I guess the latest example is the Behringer Swing that is obviously a clone of the Arturia Keystep.
I tried Brave about a month ago and stuck with it for a week, but was constantly hitting stability and site compatibility issues.
I was interviewed onsite at Amazon's Berlin office. The breathless technical marathon ensured me they're place for toxic assholes and the only motivation for going through the process could be above the market salary. Having given up on trying during the process I truly regret the time I wasted on dealing with them.
I've had to use this kinda method for other things. No way to get a hold of a real person for support, try their new customer contact details. you can get they answer those real quick!
There's a huge range between "a toy" and "high throughput applications", most of which are still serious business.
With real flat earthers out there (and a lot more than I thought) - no one is probably taking that bet.
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The moment MS surrendered to Google and adopted Chromium was the last momment when using Edge made even slightest sense. Why choose lesser evil?
The customer should sue Twillio into oblivion, or at least try to.

Can you imagine running a business and having a critical aspect of it just entirely stopped without warning or recourse?

People could lose their jobs during a pandemic due to ineptitude and systematic arrogance?

If you factor these kinds of risks into business equations, it does not look good.

Depending on Tech is starting to feel like US Health Insurance: you're 'covered' until you're 'not' in which case you're going bankrupt.
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Qt and GTK do, there is the freedesktop menu standard https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec/

Despite these standards we still don't have this feature widespread. It's a pity.
In collaborative editing systems, we usually treat strings semantically as if they were as arrays of codepoints. Its the only sensible way to do it, because the other options are bad:

- We don't use arrays of bytes because different languages have different native string encodings. Converting a UTF8 byte offset to a language that uses UCS2 is slow and complicated, and it opens the door to data corruption.

- And we don't use grapheme clusters because what counts as a grapheme cluster keeps changing with each unicode version. (And libraries are big and complicated).

So inserting an emoji into a document is treated the same way we would handle inserting a small list at some offset into a larger list.

> At least .length tells you how much memory the string will occupy

How much memory the string occupies isn't something I've ever wanted to know. I do sometimes want to know how many bytes the string will take up when I store it or send it over the network - but in those cases you pretty much always want UTF-8. And string.length doesn't help you at all with that.
Oh wow what happened? Their 2019 numbers were terrible.
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It might, although current PrEP can cause kidney damage so it's a good idea to monitor for that, which means you need to draw blood anyay and so doing STD tests as well doesn't result in any additional inconvenience.
It's a Win32 app, that just so happens to use UWP-like XAML for the UI. In the near future, the lines between a UWP app and a Win32 app are going to get blurrier and blurrier, until you should be able to do anything from either type of app (and there's no longer any distinction at all).

I'm actually hard at work on tearing out tabs - it turns out that's a bit of a hard problem, but one we've got a plan for!

> the app was very slow

We actually fixed one particular memory leak in this release that was causing a lot of sluggishness. That might be better now!

> the UI, context menu, sizing/scaling, animations, all felt very bad

Unfortunately, "it felt bad" doesn't really give much constructive feedback to work with. Anything specifc?
Care to give a few anecdotes?
The main idea of the book is the very exciting idea of reference frames which are created by cortical columns and whose function is to model aspects of the world such as physical objects and abstract concepts. Thinking is then moving through reference frames and is directly analogous to moving the body.

Importantly, we use many different reference frames to model, say, a coffee cup (Jeff Hawkins' favourite example!) and they vote between themselves in order to produce a coherent/unitary experience. Hence 'Thousand Brains'.
I'd venture a guess and say I'm very much an outlier in the HN crowd, because I consider myself a socialist. Even with that said, I don't really understand the long-term logic behind rent caps, and I don't think it does much for fighting the old trope that "socialists are economically illiterate" either.

If you have a finite supply of something, like housing, it seems pretty obvious that the reason the price is going up is because the supply is unable to catch up with demand. Not only do more people want to live in the city, they're also willing and able to pay more. The mechanics are obviously more complex because this is all affected by things like interest rates, influx of foreign capital and whatever, but I think the basic assumption still stands: there's not enough housing.

So if we approach this problem from a "neo liberal" and a "socialist" point of view, I think there are two ways you'd normally go about it, none of which include capping rents because that achieves nothing except make people hoard the commodity that was previously rare, and is now even more rare because of market manipulation:

Neo-lib: The market will take care of it, and poor people being pushed out is not a problem, they can live somewhere cheaper and new housing will be built because builders want to make money.

Socialist: Poor people have a right to live here too, but there is a lack of affordable housing. We should tax the rich to enable a wider array of housing financed by the state.

Regardless of which extreme (or somewhere in between you are) I still can't understand what rent caps would achieve apart from being a destructive policy for almost everyone except the ones who already are lucky enough to have a contract. You don't get more houses to live in by making the houses a more valuable commodity through market manipulation.
[epistemic status: amateur speculation]

I’d expect it to take up slightly more disk space. More importantly, the more indirections, the longer it’ll take to get to the file.
Yeah the early hype around disrupting transaction fees turned out to be... somewhat misguided. Although, to be fair, Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper made this exact same miscalculation.

While Coinbase does function as something like a forex market market at this point, I think its business is not nearly as commoditized as that label would suggest.