skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Machinery tends to be used to "refine" raw materials. Rough timber is transformed into precisely dimensioned planks, for example. So it's not unreasonable to ask whether a machine for producing numerical data can operate with crude and inaccurate raw materials (inputs).

Consider: The "regula falsi" approach to solving equations in one unknown actually involves a guessed, "false" input. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regula_falsi#The_regula_fals...

Robert Recorde wrote:

Gesse at this woorke as happe doth leade.
By chaunce to truthe you may procede.
And firste woorke by the question,
Although no truthe therein be don.
Suche falsehode is so good a grounde,
That truth by it will soone be founde.
From many bate to many mo,
From to fewe take to fewe also.
With to much ioyne to fewe againe,
To to fewe adde to manye plaine.
In crossewaies multiplye contrary kinde,
All truthe by falsehode for to fynde.

Now, somebody on HN ("wzdd") has previously tried to defend Babbage, on more than one occasion (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605135), saying that he wasn't mystified by the misunderstanding, but instead was making some kind of joke at his own expense (not a snide comment at the expense of the questioner.) I'm far from convinced.

It seems to me that we shouldn't be celebrating this mean-spirited passage from Babbage's writing.
Yes, and that’s the reason for my comment.
Systematic KPI missers must leave in any company: it is hard to understand why it could be otherwise, if you are not living in North Korea or Cuba.
People who make one honest mistake or have a bad quarter due to family issues but otherwise are great performers fit in their culture, they explicitly mention that in slides.
Osmotic pressure. Same reason why it is a bad idea to swim in Super-Kamiokande. The older experiment IMB eventually failed because the ultra pure water attacked and breached the liner separating it from the ambient salt.
Not sure what the limits are for returning content, but I'd set some if they haven't already.
You shouldn't be able to return the content if you listened on its entirety, for example.
I have, but only when Ive stayed up way too late coding, or coding over multiple days without much sleep. It’s never a good thing really.
In addition to the above, while recent, both of Fabien Sanglard's Game Engine Black Books are excellent.

Someone linked to this flight simulator book the other day on here, which I'm now on the lookout for a hard copy: https://archive.org/details/build-your-own-flight-sim-in-c-d...

The second author of the above, Chris Lampton, also has a book on "Programming 3D maze games in C/C++": https://archive.org/details/gardensofimagina00lamp and another flight sim "flights of fantasy": https://archive.org/details/flightsoffantasy00lamp . Further back, he has books on graphics and animation for the apple and for the atari systems.
I don't understand, none of that is unreadable or weird to me. Are you sure the issue is not a lack of familiarity with the language? The language can appear deceptively simple in the beginning.
Ok I think we’re agreement on some fundamentals here about market manipulation and monopolies etc.

Regarding your idea of a scheme to sneak up on and out-fox the market leader… by simply enacting a secret conspiracy amongst a quorum of suppliers:

I do love and admire the idea, I think it’s good stuff and could for example be an interesting movie.

(Actually- one with a similar plot was filmed in my home town when I was a child- some minor prospectors set up an arbitrage situation that turned a monopolistic evil gem dealer against himself… great stuff, and the mayor of my home town got a cameo in one scene).

Bit in reality - outside of fiction - as an actual serious method for unseating a monopoly, I don’t think the shot is even on the board. I don’t know enough laws to see which ones it would break, but I expect there are dozens. But without pondering legalities, fundamentally I see it failing because the conspiracy, among competing suppliers, is effectively a non-iterated prisoners dilemma. It’s better for any semi popular author/publisher to rat on the conspirators and secure a higher exclusive deal from A, than to be online with the B group.

But the first problem is that to fulfill the claim that the existence of such a remote possibility demonstrates that there is “not much of moat” is where I think it really falls down. If you have a technique for achieving a coup like this without getting out the wallet, then please by all means prove me wrong and simply step forward and achieve this scheme. Schemes that have the predicate “If only and not until everyone agrees to do “X” then it would benefit us all” - is generally not sufficient all by itself to bring about the agreement. It takes capital and lots of it.
Yep, the query builder is only designed for simple queries. For complex queries with many joins, it's best to do a raw SQL query instead: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/database.html#raw-sql...
You are right. I removed it.
How can I trust that the website doesn't disappear after I made a payment? There's no postal address, no clear jurisdiction. Basically it's an email address and a discord channel.

> Built by crypto-native mice, rodents, rats, and gerbils.

That's the opposite of what a trusted payment provider should write.
What is a bad post? I sometimes up vote posts that I disagree with because it’s an interesting perspective, but generally don’t reply to them.
Good question. I think it's closer to a crossword puzzle - but differently (since you have more limitation on the letters)
for even more information, here is the lwn article: https://lwn.net/Articles/847412/
Scott and Shackleton's Discovery is in Dundee, Scotland (right next to the railway station)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Discovery#Discovery_Point,...
Execution Beats Strategy in Software
Show HN: pg-online-schema-change – Zero downtime schema changes in PostgreSQL
I agree with you completely. I just want to add for people that do care about domain privacy that there's many certificate provider that do publish the generated certificate over https://crt.sh/ . I did find a few staging subdomains in the past on that website.
Lucid is pretty poor for ERDs, we could use a lot more competition in this space.
Kagi is the search engine I'm most excited about. I'm using it as my default now and will pay when it exits beta.

The placement of financial incentive at the user should help them invest in combatting spam and returning good results. The results are already pretty solid.

Money easily creates perverse incentives in media. The advertising driven model is the easiest to scale. You lose the friction of signups and people don't want to pay anyway. They'll happily blow $50/month at Starbucks but $10/month for media is too much. Unfortunately the advertising model places the incentive around capturing user attention rather than delivering anything useful, so it incentivizes the media equivalent of empty carbs and sugar.
No bullshit [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210311001446/https://www.aussi...

Edit: Switched to an archive.org version in response to comments about a captcha being used at the source URL.
Safari started the trend 2-3 years ago
It has started crashing the night after I upgraded to macOS 12.2.0. The latest update to 12.2.1 hasn't fixed it. I'm pretty sure it's not hardware related as I had no issues before the OS upgrade.

Edit: Here's the first line of the crash log (which I'm sending to Apple every time):

panic(cpu 3 caller 0xfffffe0023be8be0): [data.kalloc.16]:
element modified after free (off:0, val:0x0000000000000030, sz:16, ptr:0xfffffe2fffc9bb00)

Looks like a use after free bug.
I can't believe it's actually happening - I was resigned to the fact it was dead.

I once (4 years ago, sheesh) made a "Pure-JS, no-build-step-required Minecraft Thing": https://github.com/mrspeaker/webgl2-voxels

When I made it I needed to specify it "Requires ES6 modules and WebGL2 support." At the time I was sure WebGL2 was going to be widely available soon and that ES6 modules would probably never be supported!
Use your imagination.
Holy cow, that’s impressive.

Also, from The FAQ:

> Who/what is behind this project?
>
> I've had a couple people and institutions provide a bit of help along the way, but I am — and always have been — one person.

Never underestimate the intellect of a single person. Every corporate team, every open source maintainer, every researcher more or less* has access to the same prior knowledge to build something new.

* some have more money to burn, some are surrounded by mentors/helpers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)

>EPCOT was to be a utopian autocratic company town completely controlled by Walt Disney himself
That's what I love about the Theme Selector there. Every option is passive aggressively the same.
https://unicodeplus.com/U+202E too. You can see the point where it switches from Left-To-Right to Right-To-Left.
There is, and I'm pretty sure if you connect a mouse instead of a trackpad it enables by default. It took me a while to workout why I was seeing scrollbars again and how to disable it when I got a mouse.
It's worth bearing in mind that the Safari major version and OS version are tied together.

Latest Safari cannot be used by users who cannot run the latest MacOS on their hardware, or have reasons not to (such as bricking risk with latest MacOS on old hardware.)

(I imagine it's similar with iOS but I'm not sure.)
The US has gigantic wind resources down the middle that could help power the coasts if transmission was there.
The startup I'm working on right now is actively trying to solve this problem.

https://workpilot.io
The platform is part wiki/ part proċess management tool. After lot's of user discussions it became apparent that lots of business know how falls into those two categories. With the latter being easier to reuse and track.
The early search engines (Webcrawler, Lycos, ...) ranked "relevance" based on some silly metric like "the more times the search term appears on the page, the more relevant the page must be".

So the result was that the first pages were full spam sites that just used search terms as hidden text. Then Altavista came and it was a huge change for the better. They at least made some effort of trying to rank actual relevance. Of course, Page/Brin's invention that made Google what it is today is PageRank, and none of the competition were close to an idea that good.

So PageRank'ed pages, good spam detection filters and ads on the side = Good Google. A search engine that stood out against the competition.

Now Googlee has horrible site spam detection, shows ads in the main result list (some times it's all you see). Google now has very little edge against the competition. Even just 1-2 years ago DDG and Bing were a lot worse than even the modern day Google. But what should make the search people at google really sweat isn't so much that google has deteriorated a bit, but that Bing and DDG have improved so much that they are now on Par. Google search has never had peers at any point since it was launched.
I've been using Pipewire for over a year now. Both for normal desktop tasks and music production. It's just great. So much better than just Pulseaudio or JACK. And at times even better than these two combined.

I have 4 soundcards present on my system (built-in, external webcam, USB audio interface, USB synthesiser) and Pipewire can handle it all at once.

Bluetooth headphones are also handled well. They connect by default with aptX (A2DP mode) but using KDE tray icon, I can easily change it to full-duplex headset mode with mSBC.

And then I can use (not that I would always want to) any of these devices together (e.g. in a DAW).
Counterpoint: Confluence, by itself a great tool, just by hearing its name is making my eyes hurt from all the rolling.

I can't count the projects I took part in, in which the "knowledge database" had grown in to a gigantic, helplessly out-dated pile of words. Few people read another persons content, thus even less correct/update it. Finding anything usually involves scrolling through redundant search results and entries.

I know clean-code can't solve everything but I find self-explanatory code to be a major time-saver: less need to write documentation, less need to update documentation, easier getting an understanding of the code.

For everything more meta, there are still comments or e.g. infrastructure files. And ultimately the README.md. Looking into a package.json or docker-compose.yml often was more helpful if not a requirement to make sense of Confluence's content at all.
F# is too restrictive and poor in terms of types and syntax. OCaml would make a better option as the Haskell "successor". Though, personally I don't think it will ever happen.
I like these kinds of systems. I do feel like in generally they require so much buy in from everyone, maintaining these pages has to be a constant priority. This becomes a problem if multiple people leave at once or someone is very busy when expiration comes up and rubber stamps the renewal with outdated information...

But it's definitely better than no system at all!
Hi HN!
Author of Robyn here.

Do let me know what you think of it and what else would you like to see in it.
I have a strict rule, anytime someone asks me a question I respond by checking the documentation for that, and writing or fixing it as needed. Once I think the documentation is correct I tell them how to find it, and ask them to tell me where something doesn't make sense so I can fix it.

As an expert I often think things are obvious that are not. So it takes a few rounds to make useful documentation.
In cases like this, the spec already exists though: in form of binding contracts. Lawyers already took that matter into their hand and created that spec. Customers agreed to it. Not translating them into technical requirements early in the process is usually followed with a world of pain.
Reddit results are not organic at all but maybe appears to be on the surface.

Subs have their own "reddit" brands in accordance to the topic. They also have their own "reddit" opinions shared among almost every sub with enough people in it for justify propaganda.

I already did my own informal research on this - reddit has transitioned into consumption. I went sub by sub for thousands of posts, even a few years ago, and found that at least 75% of the selection of hobby subs I chose were related to the consumption of products within that hobby, not the active participation and knowledge translation within that hobby. You'd think camping subs would be talking about camping? Sure, see the sidebar for basic info. However, what you'll really see is 80 of the top 100 posts of the day will be pictures of various products within different backgrounds/settings.
> An example for this is UK's covid case tracking early on.

Your choice of the UK's Covid tracking spreadsheet debacle to illustrate your point is curious, to put it politely.

As The Register [1] (and many others) pointed out at the time, it was the wrong tech choice, executed slowly and at huge cost, by the wrong people with little knowledge of better choices, and directed by management and government leaders with track records of lying and incompetence.

> They couldn't have start by firstly building the perfect data collection solution because they wouldn't know how things will pan out and if they tried to force their way(i.e. mandatory formats by the tests centres) it would have been too big of a projects.

I have a different view on every part of this sentence!

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/excel_england_coronav...
Sorry, but the CAPTCHA is probably great at filtering out bots, but in this case it also filters out potential readers.
Those are Linux concepts. What you're looking for is the actual NVMe commands. There's two things: FLUSH (which flushes the whole cache), and a WRITE with the FUA bit set (which basically turns that write into write-through, but does not guarantee anything about other commands). The latter isn't very useful for most cases, since you usually want at least barrier semantics if not a full flush for previously completed writes. And that leaves you with FLUSH. Which is the one that takes 20ms on these drives.
You're just repeating the assertion there. What fundamentally prevents the cost of solar from falling even more? This cost has to come from some irreducible input. Materials? Energy? Labor? Which is it?

As for cost of delivered energy from solar, there is a final reduction that can still be obtained even if the cost/watt were to plateau immediately: extension of the lifespan of the system. This could be obtained by, over time, identifying and addressing all the degradation modes of the components of the system.
Amazon sold all e books from Luxembourg to UK customers, charging them 3% VAT. When calculating royalties for publishers though, their contracts stipulated the 20% VAT rate would be used to reduce royalties. According to The Guardian, some received just 10% of the purchase price, similar to what Audible(also Amazon owned) is being accused of. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/oct/21/amazon-fo...

Uber also sold UK journeys to UK customers but put the fare calculation taximeter in a server in another country to avoid the 20% VAT. I believe they actually won that case as in the EU, VAT is calculated by the seller using their country's laws regardless of the buyer's country's VAT rates and laws.
> A Dummy fallback sink is now automatically created when there are no
other sinks. This avoids stalling browsers.

That is a great change, had lots of troubles watching Videos - especially with bluetooth + seeking in a Video.

Seems like its already part of upstream archlinux.
Our old project manager mandated we must have daily stand-ups.

They were always at least five minutes late for what should have been a five minute stand up because they knew we'd have to wait for them.

I managed to get team agreement we start no later then 2 minutes past, no matter who isn't there, management included, no judgement for late comers but the meeting is starting as we have work to get on with.

Suddenly said project manager started showing up on time. Who knew?
I’ve used downpour for years and it’s a great service. Drm free downloads as well if you don’t want to use their app and a massive selection
Vendors Are Fixing Security Flaws Faster
My solution is a black box crack. Test with each added input digit whether with a certain value the output "z" becomes smaller. If not, then try the previous digits again.

https://easylang.online/apps/show.html?f=aoc21/24.el
Roboto Serif Font Released
By the way, the error happened when the UK was experiencing 7,500 new cases a day.

Pretty much any tech choice (including Excel done sensibly) would work for those volumes.
Where's the proof that Tumblr "died"? This meme seems to contradict the experiences of actual Tumblr users.
Of course it is. If literally nobody wants to hear your answer, you might well (to use an example from a previous article) replace your audience with a rock saying “it’s not true. Go away.”, and have the same effect.

I’m predisposed to saying education is insanely beneficial though. I want everyone to have all of it for free.
If you search "seven movie" on DDG it works fine.
Probabilistic Topic Models in Contextual Advertising
I think it's some kind of a multi-threading issue in the bluetooth stack, as it seems rather random if it will break or not. For me, sometimes my headset connects in HSP mode and won't ever leave it regardless of config and further reconnections won't fix this. Only restarting `bluetoothd` will help.
This is what we should work on. We are currently collecting feedback to understand, how to better build trust in community.
If there is company name and address - will you use the service then, or you would seek for something else?
thank you
They don't exist. Open forums have been dying for the last decade. First they migrated to Reddit, then walled garden Facebook groups, and lately to Discord.

Google has also removed a lot of large and active forums from it's index outright, either due to AI bungling of it's core product, anti-competitive reasons, or political conspiracy.
I had similar issues where I had to basically restart both the pipewire and the Bluetooth daemon after each reboot before being able to connect my headset.

My "solution" was basically to drop using pipewire for now.
> 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.

Unless a failure mode you are concerned about include being cut off from the internet, or your system isn't network connected in the first place, in which case maybe not eh?

Anyway surely the point is clear. "Durable" doesn't mean "durable according to the whims of some anonymous denizen of the other side of the internet who is imagining a scenario which is completely irrelevant to what I'm actually doing with my data".

It means that the data is flushed to what your system considers to be durable storage.

Also hardware failures and software bugs can exist. You can talk about durable storage without being some kind of cosmic-ray-denier or anti-backup cultist.
This seems to be less about censorship and more about decoupling from the western tech stacks (digital import substitution).

This isnt really a shock. Neither China nor Russia want the US to be able to turn the tap off on their tech infrastructure.
Devops/cloud engineers that can do both.

Sr Frontend Engineer that can solve for complex logic as well as make things look good.
Amazon has a worked hard to develop a reputation of being pro-consumer. And yes they will eat consumer facing errors. I have not heard the same reputation made about vendors, and in fact I've heard quite a few horror story rumors about how they treat vendors. And these complaints (vague as they are) seem to focus on Amazon passing the cost of their customer obsession to their vendors.

But yes, I expect if Amazon accidentally sold me an item for 1% of its actual value due to a typo they will honor it. I expect if they send me the wrong item they'll make it right. As a consumer, I'm not worried about them fixing any errors in their favor and ignoring any errors in my favor.

I just don't expect them to treat their vendors the same way.
> I think what we really need is a new language that picks all the good parts from Haskell, but has a very small syntactical core. Something like Go, but purely functional.

I'll wait patiently until people start asking for more language features, like the ten thousand last times... every widely used language ends up converging towards at least C++-levels of expressiveness (Java, TypeScript, Go, Python with static types, Caml, etc... you name it) because it turns out that those features are actually needed.
Why do you think 3% is expensive? let's say, you are paying 100$ bill, it's only 3$ for that invoice.
We're happy users of Confluence (SaaS version) and try to store all knowledge there. At 50 employees we have multiple teams approaching the Confluence as a KB with various success so there are a couple of takeaways.

1. You need to mandate that everybody uses one tools and push for the use from the top down as well as showcase the use bottom-up.

2. Split responsibilities on a per team level; eg people working on product lead the product confluence page, people working on hardware lead the hardware confluence page...

3. Try hard to push all relevant discussions and decisions to the same KB.

4. Request that leads schedule time for updating knowledge base (we sometimes push for this via OKRs).

5. When people are leaving the company, we primarily push that they update the KB to the maximum (other work is not important after they give notice).