skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would has a guess that 16ms is the physical limit for most consumer hardware (and maybe commercial computing) to detect mains loss.

Doubtful. 16ms is an awfully long time these days. There's no reason why you couldn't detect power loss much sooner, given a good input signal. The concept also gets used quite often, in the form of SSRs with zero crossing detection. Those are used for dimmers.

The reason is likely related to the awful waveforms produced by some UPSes and inverters:

https://www.christidis.info/images/blog/scope_20.png

Unlike a nice sine wave, those spend a good while hovering near zero volts, so the PSU has to be able to tolerate that. Detecting loss of power sooner in this case isn't a question of cost, it's a question of that you don't have a good signal to do the detection on to start with.
No problem - sorry if i came off harsh, i thought you were being pedantic :D

TBH, im not so sure its that different. Scanning through the linux docs it seems that this behaviour can be configured as part of mount options (e.g. barrier on ext4). At least its explicit on macOS (with compliant hardware).
Taiwan is the name of an island. The country name is Republic of China.
I’m a fan of the subscription model just because I can get books that are normally a lot more expensive than a credit with a single credit. And if there’s any cheaper books I can just buy them for cash.
But this goes to the heart of problem at Amazon: "Customer Obsession". Which really means "we only care about people paying us money".

If Amazon cared about creators, they would have built an automated system that monitors royalties and ensures that no matter what changes occur, creators are being paid fairly, correctly. They'd have a small product manager team who are experts in royalties because it's their job to be.

But that doesn't benefit a customer, so none of that exists. Because only people paying Amazon money are worthy of such attention.
Many developers think that the user's systems are their own playground or ad billboard.

They refuse to play nice around theming, user-selected icons, security sandboxes, disabling of tracking functions, providing security updates. Many are careless around the amount of memory or CPU used.

Distributions, instead, are on the side of the end users.
Sure I realize. I'm not alone in this thinking but reaslize I am out-on-a-limb. I totally understand your point-of-view; it was how I thought for most of my life. Perhaps it was my shift from being mostly developer and one-company focussed to later helping and/or working with or alongside hundreds of startups, including YC S12. Without ads to gain awareness and gow many now great companies would not have crossed the chasm. And we all benefit from those companies, from innovations that flourished, and use them in our toolset. Sadly a few of them acheived their own, or backers, goal of being a monopoly, leading to the annoyance, damage and extraction we all experience.
This makes no sense to me, if business types care about their business data and thats why they use windows, why does the argument start off by pointing out that all the mission critical stuff like email and customer facing sites run on unix? Even Microsoft runs its mission critical stuff on unix.

Windows isn't popular because its good at anything its popular because windows it meets the bare minimum and has a huge marketing budget unix doesn't.
yeah use signals https://docs.temporal.io/docs/typescript/workflows#signals-a...

example usage in a billing workflow
https://docs.temporal.io/docs/typescript/subscription-tutori...
There is a point at which a redundant array of inexpensive and unreliable replicas is more durable than a single drive. Even N in-memory databases spread across the world is more durable than a single one with fsync.

Unfortunately few databases besides maybe blockchains have been engineered with that in mind.
This is a common sentiment but it is wrong.

Making money is just one of the operational constraints that a company has to take into account.

Companies exist to fulfil a purpose. That purpose is not just "make money".

Steve Jobs founded Apple not to just "make money". I think this does not need further elaboration.

The same applies to Tesla and SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk.

Companies that only exist to make money are probably terrible by any measure you choose.
That looks really interesting, and I want to also say that that is an exceptional landing page. It has a lot of useful information at just the right level to inform and interest me.

Looks like a good way of getting back into experimenting with haskell.
It's not "never investigate". It's "never assume".
This is more up to date as stated in the slides:

https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
> Qt says hi.

Yeah, Qt feels better to use compared to GTK but with bugs like these

https://bugreports.qt.io/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/QTBUG-...

and having to pull in hundreds of MBs of dependencies to use just one KDE app, say Gwenview, I'd say that platform agnostic GUI apps are either dead or rare. qBittorrent is a good example of such a rare app that works really well across desktop environments and window managers on Linux.
I can't stand the popup menus from a single button, like the single button in Firefox. The Gnome apps seem to have adopted it and it is horrible.

I would like a proper menubar so I know what the accelerators are without having to move from keyboard to the mouse. It's so slow.
Heads up, you seem to be shadow banned. Happened around here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aaron695&next=283000...
We went with Notion and while it's a Jack of all trades (it can be a wiki, a database, a public-facing web, an issue tracker, or a combination of everything at the same time), and needs a bit getting used to, we haven't regretted it and find the wide array of features very useful.
Did you try Kindle SW update(> v.5.13.7)? When last time someone said the same during discussion on related topic[1], I asked the same and they confirmed that the experience is much better after the update.

It's day and night difference from previous versions and even browser is out of experimental.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29225964
I advocate rotating roles, and having an operational doc, the trick being people have to repeatedly read and update the operational doc to fill the role they have just been assigned.

Mandating the doc stays up to date when noone is actively using it is an exercise in time wasting

The problem you are facing is the weakness of having individual specialists. The problem is not the doc maintenance but organisational
The low effort racist/political/pepe shitpost image macros came across from Facebook. My grandparents love them.

I wouldn't mind seeing a lot less of them on Reddit, but that's apparently the only part of the site's userbase that doesn't have adblock installed which is why Reddit caters exclusively to them.
MacOS was really just FreeBSD with a fancier UI. Not sure what is the behavior now, but I'm pretty sure FreeBSD behaved almost exactly the same as a power loss rendered my system unbootable over 10 years ago.
I don’t have an answer for a general audible competitor because I too use audible. However I do purchase directly from one studio that I’m a fan of, Soundbooth Theater. There may be other groups with a similar set up, but I’m not aware of any (nor have I looked though)
Thanks for highlighting this — I’ve been waiting for something else by QNTM! I’ll note he has done this sort of thing before, in the form of HATETRIS [https://qntm.org/hatetris].
It's not overly loud. I just don't hear other loud vehicles without the radio off and the windows open, and I don't typically have the radio off and the windows open. This has always been the case for me in any vehicle at highway speeds.
For anyone else who couldn't make head or tail of the linked page, there's more context at https://pipewire.org/ :

PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK.
What I've seen happen at other companies that state they value impact over effort, openly discouraging overtime, is that eventually certain individuals will attain higher impact by not recording their overtime, who then pressure others to do the same. No, no one is directly rewarded for overtime, but effectively, yes, undocumented overtime becomes the expectation from your peers. That is toxic.
If I recall correctly, in IHP you can have at most three joins in a SQL query, is that right?
"Human Resources" departments are a relict of a dark and long gone past.

It's called "people and culture" now.
80% of queries have no ads
Normally I don’t use ear buds because I find them uncomfortable, but I might try these. I like the idea I could use them on my bike and not be cut off from what’s going on around me.
This, and the sibling answer, actually quite resonate with what I could be looking for! Is there any way to know more about the role(s)?
> the deputy ice technician for the curling events, said, “it would burn your insides.”

Simply not true at all.

Quora can explain how water is not dangerous to you (remember when it was Yahoo Answers)

It might taste different to what you expect... if you haven't drunk pure water before.

Also doubt they get it to lab level. And I would expect air is the problem not impurities, but not sure, probably related, impurities create air bubbles?
Ask HN: Do you upvote bad posts so that more people read your criticism?
Surely I can't be the only one doing this.

This points system really screws with my head.
Can you use a proper neutral title like in the previous submission?

The upvotes were already not counted. If you asked friends or used multiple accounts then please don't, it's against the guidelines. You risk getting the URL banned.
This is awesome. And way harder than expected. Does anyone have any insight into why this particular thought process feels so unnatural?
That was my intention! I found Wordle got a bit simpler and this makes it exciting again!
Dutch Cities Ban 15-Minute Delivery Services
Not sure if intentional or not, but it was a good joke, thanks :)
I think it would be a mix in my view. Most of that should be income taxes at the state level, but still allow for some smaller percentage income tax to be collected at the local level. This should provide a higher base level of per student funding across the state, but still allow local municipalities to collect a smaller amount of funds that wouldn't have state restrictions on them. Maybe something like 95% fed and state funding with 5% local.
From the summary: "The four major oil companies the study focuses on account for more than 10% of global carbon emissions since 1965, the researchers said.."

As with the title so with this little paragraph, the narrative behind them is perfidious, dishonest aimed to arouse emotions and prejudices. It is simply vulgar to think within boarders outlined by such lazy argument. If you are so concerned (authors) than do it right (with your wallet). Immediately stop using any and all oil based products and services rendered using oil or its derivative, not only used in transportation of raw or derived parts in any machine in the supply chain.

Im puzzled how can a modern educated men produce or consume without outrage these arguments grounded upon such a childish complex of fallacies that we must form societal and political taboos in order that they cannot be argued away by even the most infantile of reasoning.

*A serious debate upon transition from fossil fuels and products is beyond the scope, which has dimension of physics, geopolitics, culture, ecology, etc. It definitely does not being with a blame game of such a volume of stupidity as to shift it onto a private-state owned businesses.
> My problem is, I know that we are missing information, what I don't know is how to tease out that information from myself and other coworkers.

I would start by reflecting on the way in which getting that knowledge out of the coworkers into the knowledge base is incentivized.

I keep my notes in markdown files. A lot of my coworkers use Obsidian, CherryNotes, OneNote, and I'm sure that there's a dozen other solutions out there. Keeping notes locally is actively encouraged by the fact you can't rely on the Confluence server to be up after business hours and the fact that the centralized knowledge base upgrades destroyed our documentation efforts twice over the past 10 years.

I also keep my notes short, omitting everything that's obvious to me. This makes them less valuable when it comes to knowledge sharing, but makes them better for me - short notes mean less visual noise to filter out. Writing a version of those notes that's more comprehensive is extra effort. That extra effort needs to be visible, treated as 'real work', encouraged and valued. Otherwise, I will prioritize other tasks that are visible, treated as 'real work', encouraged and valued.

The first thing I would worry about is making sure the central knowledge repository is as convenient as the local notes. Then, I would examine if creating / updating documentation in the central repository is encouraged, and in what way.
- Can I get promoted?

- You can't even get paroled.
A good measure would be to take the median distance between any two points in the two countries.

Median is great for removing outliers.
This is how Apsley Cherry-Garrard, in The Worst Journey in the World, his account of the Terra Nova expedition, described leader Captain Scott.

Temperamentally he was a weak man, and might very easily have been an irritable autocrat. As it was he had moods and depressions which might last for weeks, and of these there is ample evidence in his diary. The man with the nerves gets things done, but sometimes he has a terrible time in doing them. He cried more easily than any man I have ever known.
> demand for this is very low and implementation cost is extremely high.

Demand is real as evidenced by everyone in this thread wanting such a search engine. We are not representative of genpop, but we aren't insignificant either.

Google had this in 2002 (i.e. a default to novel and info dense results unless otherwise specified), so it can't be that hard or expensive.

> No one will pay for that.

So we have ads.
Correct, but it pretty much forces a scan through the file. For AWS, you pay for scanning the file, even if only a few results are returned. Currently this is $0.002 per scanned GB, plus request and transfer fee.

For MinIO you "pay" in CPU time and disk iops to scan the file.

So for retrieving single values it is a very inefficient/expensive method.
Q: Is wanting to succeed considered a bad thing?
While just "making money" may sound a bit short-sighted, it IS the reason for the company's existence.

Hopefully, however, profit is correlated with/caused by providing value to humanity, which in turn encourages "good behavior" from companies. If a company is seen as "bad", it starts to lose clients.
Avoid the Apple App Store
I have said a few times already - F_BARRIERFSYNC. This is likely equivalent to what linux is doing.

edit: sorry - not 'standards compliant' (whatever that is - does linux declare support for SIO?), but probably what you are looking for.
Instead of just continuously firing off questions when you acknowledge you’re not even reading the articles linked too … nonetheless, bedrockdb has replication and failover.

https://bedrockdb.com/
What was the audio book market like back in the cassette days? My gramma used to listen to books on tape all the time mostly through the library.
Can’t read the article but 100% agree with the premise in the title. Companies should not assign nicknames to their employees.

Employees are not in a cult, they’re not in a “family”, they’re in a business arrangement, and the relationship should be kept professional.
I really like my Anker Bluetooth speaker, it's an old one that just keeps on working, lasted longer than Android phones. Listening to it now, every morning - the Anker love is real. ;)
This actual vs described values mismatch is a red flag and it could be an easy way to discover toxic culture. When applying for a job, you usually have multiple interviews - HR, team, direct manager. It makes sense to ask all of them about their values and compare the answers.
Seems like a cool idea until i read "A 3% service fee is applied".
Does anyone here run a desktop Mac without a battery backup device?

All of my Macs are either laptops or have a hardware backup device, so unlikely a write would be lost due to power failure (unless backup device failed which could happen).
Pipewire is great for many reasons. I love not having to worry about starting and stopping a JACK server every time I work in reaper or sclang, and I can still open qtjackctl and use the transport.

Everything else about it alsa and pulse wise is totally transparent, dont even have to think about it.
Does anyone know if there is something particular special about release 0.3.46? Or is a normal release (once every other week)?
One thing people seem to forget regarding tradeoffs is that it's possible to do objectively bad ones: It's possible to have neither a bias for action nor curiosity. Mentioning both values is a reminder to be on the efficient frontier.

Further, you probably dont want to pick an extreme tradeoff. Getting a drop more action at the cost of huge learnings is a mistake as is getting very irrelevant knowledge at a huge cost of action.
Very similar to https://crosswordle.vercel.app/#
If you are searching for a way to make docs more accessible to everyone and publish them as a knowldge base website for your users check out notaku.website/product/docs

It takes Notion content and generates a docs website

I am the creator of this tool so don’t hesitate to give me any feedback
I'll hijack the thread: is anyone else having Bluetooth audio issues on PipeWire?

I'm super happy with it in general, but a certain BT headset that worked just fine with PulseAudio just refuses to connect with PipeWire. As with all things BT, debugging is terrible :-(
Yes build quality is poor. "Luxurious" to me has quotes, looks pretty on the brochure but everything needs replacing after 10 years.
Does anyone know where I could find a list of what distros are already using Pipewire by default?
Reminds me of Apple Live Text/Google Lens vs tesseract… Sad.
How we expand the art of "describing behaviors to our machines" from < 1% of the world ( who can program ) to the other 99%...
The dirty secret about today's high density NAND is that tPROG is not fast. It's an order of magnitude slower than the heyday of SLC. Now that doesn't really matter for enterprise drives, they complete writes into very fast storage that is made durable one way or another (e.g., flush on power fail), and this small store gets streamed out to the NAND log asynchronously. This is why random single queue depth durable writes can actually be faster than reads on enterprise drives, because random reads have to come from NAND (tREAD is still very fast, just not as fast as writing to DRAM).

Apple may not implement such a durable cache, that's fine it's not an enterprise device and it's a cost tradeoff. So they might have to flush to NAND on any FUA, and that's slow as we've said, but not 25ms slow. Modern QLC NAND tPROG latency is more like 2.5ms-5ms, which could just about explain the EVO results when you include the OS and SATA stack and drive controller.

There's pretty close to 0% chance Apple would have messed this up accidentally though, in my opinion. It would have been a deliberate design choice for some reason. One possible reason that comes to mind is that some drives gang a bunch of chips in parallel end you end up with pretty big "logical" pages. Flushing a big logical page on a 4kB write is going to cause a lot of write amp and drive wear, so you might delay for a short period (20ms) to try pick up other writes and reduce your inefficiency.
> which was purportedly the precise ratio of positive to negative emotions you should experience to be mentally and emotionally healthy

This doesn't make any sense. It's not a matter of some formula using bad maths, it's the fact that maths isn't applicable to something so obviously subjective

I'm surprised it needed debunking at all when the premise is so obviously and immediately flawed
> What is the difference in the context of your comment? The likelihood of the risk, and nothing else. So what is the exact magic amount of risk that makes one thing durable and another not, and who made you the arbiter of this?

What's the difference between the sun exploding and a single machine failing?

I have no idea how to answer that. Maybe it's because many people have seen a single machine fail, but nobody has seen the sun explode? I guess I've never had a need to give it more thought than that.

> It does to anybody who actually understands these definitions. It is durable according to the design (i.e., UBER rates) of your system.

You are wrong about that: Nobody cares if something is "designed to be durable according to the definition in the design". That's just more weasel words. They care what are the risks, how you actually protect against them, and what it costs to do. That's it.
You have to have a VM to run a _single_ service? You have no multi-application VMs?
I agree it's a positive move to bring formal logic and statistics into other fields, but (at least where I'm from) the social sciences do engage heavily with epistemology. And as a STEM major myself, I'll admit it's often in critical ways that the hard sciences fail.

The problem with many attempts to apply statistics is that even for the best quality science, the conclusion is only ever relative to the foundational assumptions. I don't mean they're intentional manipulations, but that it's very clear that Caplan is so far off the mark here that his work is difficult to take seriously.

I think a common critique of the trolley problem is an apt analogy here. Not an ethical argument about a specific choice, but that the thought experiment itself is flawed. It presents an absurd binary that neatly removes the human experience and incommensurability of individual life and insists on it's own utilitarian nature.

The problem with the spreadsheets, as with the trolley problem is that these kinds of analyses are founded on ad hoc assumptions that conveniently remove important context.

There is always a better approach. There are issues with our education system that don't work for many children, and wages do not correlate evenly with education across the board, but the conclusion that we should therefore slash public education funding and transition high schools to vocational training is doesn't follow from that unless you make those trolley-problem-style simplifying assumptions.
Best comment of this thread!
We use Nuclino: https://www.nuclino.com/
Living in Berlin, 60k isn't really possible anymore for new hire. I bet there are people in their old jobs making that much, but for our backend hires we had to offer around 70 to find people.
This doesn't answer your specific question, sorry, but Fedora 35 uses it by default.