skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As long as other properties weren't violated (eg. ordering)

That is primarily what fsync is used to ensure. (SCSI provides other means of ensuring ordering, but AFAIK they're not widely implemented.)

EDIT: per your other reply, yes, it's possible the drives maintain ordering of FLUSHed writes, but not durability. I'm curious to see that tested as well. (Still an integrity issue for any system involving more than just one single drive though.)
OT depends on a central server to reconcile conflicts. The whole point of CRDT is to not have a central coordinator. Yes they're mostly academic in that the set of problems reasonably solved with eventual consistency is quite small, but not vanishingly small. Many "web scale" data stores rely on eventual consistency, for example.
Nope - any system that imposes on me what my 'home directory' is inherently broken
This is how most return-to-work legislation in Canada has historically been structured, and it has worked.
Not to be the devil's advocate here but... that seems fine to me? Lots of more technical people complain about terrible changelog entries (I've seen quite a few posts on HN about it too iirc), so I guess no matter what Apple does in this case they'll be a target; just that kind of situation.

Maybe it could be a per-project toggle whether having a "what's new" section is necessary (though on second thought toggling that off might become the new norm leading back to the good old useless changelogs).
Aeris revival rumors were my favorite thing to read about. There were so many ridiculous, complicated methods to supposedly revive aeris. In fact there were a lot of different mytha like that.. things like getting the supernova materia, killing tifa instead of Aerosmith, fighting secret weapons, getting sephiroth to join your team, etc. Even though I knew 95% of it was fake, I loved reading about it for some reason. They were strangely imaginative, mixing real mysteries like aeris' ghost with plausible ideas like that there's a way to revive her through that. And let's be honest-- everyone wanted to revive aeris. Her death was one of the craziest moments in a video game I've ever experienced
U.S. traffic deaths rise at record pace
The student wasn't sure if the paragraph was wrong or if she'd misunderstood what Feynman was saying in it. So she asked him.

>She also clearly refused to believe her professor when he explained the problem to her.

There's nothing in the letter to support this conclusion. But in any case, you can't coherently criticize the student both for believing Feynman and for not believing her professor! I thought the point was that she wasn't supposed to 'believe' anyone.

And yes, of course the student was hoping that Feynman might have turned out to be right after all so that she could get some extra points on the test. So what?
Of course the group who stands to be pushed back on would view it as a "bad system." Just as most employers view unions as a "bad system" however, they have numerous real-world benefits.
The semantics of a FLUSH command (per NVMe spec) is that all previously sent write commands along with any internal metadata must be written to durable storage before returning success.

Basically the drive is saying "yup, it's all on NAND - not in some internal buffer. You can power off or whatever you want, nothing will be lost".

Some drives are doing work in response to that FLUSH but still lose data on power loss.
You don't understand - that won't happen because the good guys are in charge now.
None. If the drive responds that the data has been written, it is expected to be there after a power failure.
They literally couldn't care less.

Either you're a sticky customer and you'll figure it out,

or you're a high value customer that they'll sick an engineer or two on for a week to re-tool.

They do. not. care.
There could easily be confounders to that though. Like people who are wealthy might be able to delay satisfaction better than poor, because their needs are more satisfied.
IMO by ¾ it had gone south; the best bit was around (or just before?) the middle, the youngsters driving through rural Facebook Country. The end was too much silly in-game mechanics for my tastes. Bit of a surprise, really; the rest of his works have held up all the way through for me.
But firmware can be updated after the unit was shipped; a date stamped on the hardware can't promise accuracy.
I think your distrust in nutrition studies might stem from the fact there are nefarious entities publishing things. Various industries have a financial interest in making it look like their product, because it contains substance X, is beneficial to people. So they can design the most flimsy experiment with no pre-registration, and re-run it numerous times until they get the result they want.

Lots of conclusions from nutrition studies (especially meta analyses) are robust and useful to follow.

Consider the NutritionFacts website as a good starting point: a non-profit which has no ads, no industry "partners", etc - focused on distilling well-designed studies to see what everyday people can use from them.

https://nutritionfacts.org/
So everybody knows Chris Lattner is an amazing genius. I hate to ask, but is Chris toxic himself, even a little bit? Please understand, you have probably known somebody very intelligent, and proportionately & inversely emotionally not-intelligent... something like that. It's like a spectrum or whatever, and what I asking is if Chriss is on the milder less abrasive side of that spectrum? It seems Chris is probably easy to get along with, but I've never had the pleasure myself, so it's just a hopeful assumption. Perhaps the core team hired some brilliant people, who themselves are amazing, but have a small bit of whatever we call "toxic"?

Perhaps Chris is letting bygons be bygons, and going bye-gone?
A little bit of googling suggests that particular snap is a Wine wrapper:
https://github.com/mmtrt/acrordrdc/blob/master/snap/snapcraf...

Is that code the same as the one the other commenter linked? Not sure, doesn't seem to be a way to tell, as you've mentioned. (That was quite a surprise to me, even Flatpak's Flathub has a little "see details" link to GitHub.) But it would make sense as Adobe has indeed not maintained Acrobat for Linux in many years.
Customer Health Score
this is even worse in automotive ECUs. this shortage is only going to make things more difficult to test and forget about securing.
Focus is almost surely an essential skill for key performers. Even among the most famous Gen Z -- you don't think they focus on their social media presence and what they do? What is an 8 hour photo shoot if not focusing? A lot of work goes into what social media influencers post, its not all done on a whim. There's also plenty of Gen Z doing other more traditional work (almost everyone of that generation, really). If anything, they've probably had to develop coping mechanisms from an extremely early age to deal with distraction, compared to prior generations.
Nice write up.

You mention SICP, but I’m wondering if you are using HTDP http://htdp.org/ ?

I’ve always been struck by the vision the authors state in the preface;

> everyone can design programs

>

> and

>

> everyone can experience the satisfaction that comes with creative design.

>

> Indeed, we go even further and argue that program design—but not programming—deserves the same role in a liberal-arts education as mathematics and language skills.

>

> A student of design who never touches a program again will still pick up universally useful problem-solving skills, experience a deeply creative activity, and learn to appreciate a new form of aesthetic.

I’m not a good programmer - I’m not even a average one, but the book and learning Racket has made me better.
An interesting fact that could legitimately be used by both sides of this debate. :)
Universities only use those metrics in lieu of actual proven results.

A genius with demonstrated novel, reproducible, experimental results in any of the hard sciences or engineering will likely not encounter much difficulty getting a tenure track position at even the most selective schools.

The really interesting question is why do so few researchers have novel, reproducible, experimental results?
Hey, now I want/need to know if my SSD is flushing correctly or not.
> trusting the unregulated gatekeepers.

Mine your own coins, and buy stuff with crypto. I don't see why you need to pass through gatekeepers.

And when you can buy things with crypto, there is also another end that sells things for crypto.

Ok, maybe it's a minority, but it serves the niche pretty well.
It’s a big deal because they are lying. That sets false expectations for the system. There are different commands for ensuring write ordering.
Right, I still remember that Swift for ML as quite a recent initiative. The lack of commitment doesn't feel right, and really calls to question whether people still follow up with his later projects or not at all.
Just say you live in the Philadelphia district of the New York area.
Yet another case of academia going to hell. Every institution is morphing into a centralized monolith designed to exploit the researchers.

Is there a way to stop this? Some bright minds have been able to support themselves through fan donations or start businesses. Too bad that doesn’t scale.
I think you need to be careful and write that some mirrors aren't official and they put their own bitcoin wallet address in donation site.

but thank you for the help
> In a realm of total bullshit the winners are the one who are best at lying. "I don't know what to believe and everyone involved is probably corrupt" is usually just an excuse to disengage and follow base instincts.

Yeah, that's how you win referenda and presidential elections nowadays.
Please consider removing the google tracking
Wallabag: Self-hostable application for saving web pages and articles
Understood. Low-end drives have always done this because: performance.
I somehow doubt IAP revenue with dating apps in the Netherlands >= 5 million EUR a week.
Also well known for many years.
The BBC is not a top tier organisation for original reporting. Just a couple of weeks ago they basically got taken in by a crypto-bro who claimed to have made millions (what he didn't claim was that he made those millions by scamming people). They published a teaser article in the morning to boost their exclusive report on TV in the evening. Basically an hour after posting the teaser article they got called out on their naivete, and pulled the tv programme. citation: https://www.cityam.com/bbc-pulls-crypto-documentary-amid-sca...
I am working on meme tournament platform, which I am calling PlanetMeme. Bracket-style, single-elimination. The platform generates tournaments from current events and trending things on social media.

Users create memes and enter them into their preferred tournament(s). Other users on the app are invited to judge the memes. Eventually a winner is chosen, and they can win a real prize like a digital gift card. Tournaments are free to enter for all users. Each user is given free daily tokens to enter as many tournaments as they want.

Users can also host their own tournaments (for a fee). Users can be regular people, social media influencers, and companies big and small. Users can give away whatever prize they want.

Web: https://planetmeme.com
Social links on the website.
> You rarely need to disprove things. You need to prove them.

Disproving things may be rarely needed, but it is important to demonstrate that they are disprovable (ie. falsifiable).

Things that aren't disprovable can, like invisible and immaterial pink unicorns, be safely ignored.
Yeah Marjorie "The Hulk" politician from GA is pumping this. How dumb do you have to be to think people who understand what ARPANET means will fall for the imbecilic web3 non-sense you are pumping. Go cash out now fool, the scam is running out of suckers.
I only hope you don't get fired. There is another interesting related story "Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future" http://marshallbrain.com/manna.htm
> Canada is freezing accounts of people who weren't violating any law

They outright lost in court.
The tweet only mentioned data loss when you yanked the power cable. That doesn't say anything about whether the ordering is preserved. It's possible to have a drive that lies about data written to persistent storage, but still keeps the writes in order.
There's no mystery about it, the UK government has aggressively cut funding to the police and criminal justice system. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...
Air Pressure and Wind [pdf]
When you look at how long it takes to perform a block write on a flash device, you'll see that no SSD is going to honor flush semantics.
Yes there are situations where it is justified, but we shouldn't draw that conclusion with knowing all sides.

I don't know any details to question legitimacy of the issue, however in my experience I am constantly surprised how many times it is just communication breakdown or gap in what each party perceives.

Also the pandemic has made things more stressful for everyone and outbursts do happen with more frequency perhaps it is easier virtually to shout at some one i suppose.

Torvalds was known for his infamous roasts on LKML, he only goes on a triade when he feels the situation warrants and person should know better. That doesn't make it right , but someone had to really explain it to him before he toned it down recently. I don't think his intent was ever to be toxic or aggressive.

Effectively communicating problems can be hard.
> does the battery cut the power, or does the laptop?

Last time I checked (and I could very well be out of date on this), there wasn't really a difference. It wasn't like an 18650 were the cells themselves have protection, but a cohesive power management subsystem that managed the cells more or less directly. It had all the information to correctly make such choices (but, you know, could always have bugs, or it's a metric that was never a priority, etc.).
Not yet, but I'll be certain to post it here when it's in a form where I feel comfortable doing that.
Just because you don't, doesn't mean someone else doesn't. Or are you going to speak for everyone on this earth?
From the Journal Article: "They included a total of 550 students from Stanford's Bing Nursery School, aged about 4 years old (ranging from 2 to 6). Many of the participants are children of Stanford faculty and staff."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726811...

How can we conclude anything at all about the general population using a sample of Stanford kids?
I'm curious whether the drives are at least maintaining write-after-ack ordering of FLUSHed writes in spite of a power failure. (I.e., whether the contents of the drives after power loss are nonetheless crash consistent.) That still isn't great, as it messes with consistency between systems, but at least a system solely dependent on that drive would not suffer loss of integrity.
I've worked very closely with Chris a number of times and had a wonderful experience every time. I also saw how he looked after the people in his team and how much they repected him.

(Part of sticking up for his team means pushing back against idiocy in the upper tiers of management, which isn't always popular!)
One of my all-time favorite papers is: In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be by Michael Bishop.

The author looks at empirical evidence (experiments) and shows that you can take experts' predictions, use a super-dumb statistical model of what they do, and then outperform the experts' judgments with a simple linear model!

https://philarchive.org/archive/BISIPOv1
I could give a dozen. Let me try to restrict myself...

Single function operating systems.

Cisco's PIX OS ran routers and it did nothing else.

Netware 2 & 3 shared files and printers, and nothing else.

As a result, Netware (for instance) was relatively small and simple enough to understand completely, top to bottom, and the performance was blistering.

When you use the same handful of general purpose OSes for everything, on all hardware, the inevitable result is that they become huge to try to cover every conceivable base. Result: vast OSes which are vastly complex, so much so that no individual can totally understand the whole thing.

A functional OS for one specific specific task should be able to fit into no more than a double-digit number of megabytes of code, and one human should be able to read that entire codebase top to bottom in a comparable number of weeks and understand it completely.

If it can't fit into a normal human's head, then it can't be completely debugged and optimised except by stochastic methods. That's bad.

It's normal now and everyone expects it, but it's still bad.
300uF is not a supercap.
To your point about becoming more communal, we found this the other day: https://www.cohousing.org/directory/wpbdp_category/comm/

We haven’t tried it, but this looks like it could be great if you find a group you’re compatible with.
Memory isn't reliable for any of us, but this is especially true with childhood. I certainly would not have a 4 year old testify in a trial.

My point was that events absolutely do emotionally imprint from basically birth onward. There was a very unethical but interesting experiment that a pair of psychologists did on their toddler. They showed him a pet rabbit and made a loud noise to startle him. As an adult, the man was terrified of rabbits but had no idea why. Children exposed to violent parents as a child go on to have a host of issues even if they're removed from that environment. It's flat out wrong to suggest that parents get a pass from birth to 6 because 'children don't remember'.
Thanks, I appreciate this. I have thought of many of these factors, and am well familiar with many of the ways that non-technical aspects of technical projects can surprise/horrify/block/crush you.
I take the state of things as more a strong indictment of the rest of the industry, than Apple's being super-duper awesome. Turns out pretty-good is, like, way better than the rest. :-(

I guess that's what you get with a market of this shape, having very few viable options, all mutually incompatible, plus all tied in with perverse incentives from other parts of their various vertically-integrated behemoth-corporations—even Linux suffers from what sure looks like some fire-and-motion action from Red Hat, I assume aimed at keeping them on top in the support & consulting game. Ubuntu tries something similar off-and-on, but just aren't as good at executing on those plans and have mostly failed.

Really, one of the most remarkable things about Apple is that they do a good job of aligning most of their own incentives with things that provide some kind of significant benefit to users, even if it's arguably only as a side-effect.
> This study found that the "marshmallow test"—as a single measure—is no more or less predictive than a basket of other measures of self-control the study tested, or any of those other measures of self-control taken alone.

Are we looking at the same study? I don't see where "no more or less predictive than a basket" comes from, specifically where "no less predictive" comes from.

My reading of the abstract is that, the study found that a measure based on the "marshmallow test" ("preschool delay of gratification", RND in the article body), is not predictive of the outcomes they measured (11 capital formation outcomes).

It also found that a basket of measures of self-control (collected at various ages, RNSRI/RNCCQ in the article body) is predictive of the outcomes, whether you include the preschool measurement or not.

So from skimming the study without even reading the article, it sounds to me like they found that the preschool measure doesn't predict the outcomes they're measuring by itself, and it doesn't contribute predictive power when it's used as part of an index of self-control measured at a variety of ages.
Banned from Twitter, Trump returns with a new platform
You may be both right, as android is actually not using Java garbage collectors that are quite good, but they have their own runtime.
Source code metrics tool. Sabik
# What's Sabik?

Sabik is a source code metrics tool.

It's a compass tool for warriors fighting a project that smells bad.

# What analyzable metrics?

Sabik analyzable metrics are following.

* Cognitive Complexity
* Halstead complexity measures
* Line of Code(Logical, Physical)
* Maintainability

For now.

# What types of output are available?

* JSON
* HTML

If you are concerned about the HTML output, click following.

https://sabik.botch.me/example

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I think the most they ever promised for some of their consumer drives was that a write interrupted by a power failure would not cause corruption of data that was already at rest. Such a failure can be possible when storing multiple bits per memory cell but programming the cells in multiple passes, especially if later passes are writing data from an entirely different host write command.
How is Rust memory management totally abstracted away from you? You have to opt in to every heap allocation, just as you have to call malloc() in C.

And it's certainly true that Rust has overloading and C doesn't, but that wasn't what I was getting at. The point is that C is defined in terms of the C virtual machine, not the underlying hardware. The C virtual machine is quite far from the actual CPU instructions.
Thing is, in democratic market economy system there're various checks & balances. Sooner or later (usually, sooner) we learn about all of those issues. If somebody just bids on a wrong evolutionary path... Well, there're many investors bidding on all possible paths. Some win, some loose.

In soviet central planning system, few people make decisions that affect many and there's was redundancy. No free press. No political opposition. No economic rivalries to challenge. Same in civic/industrial evolution. If a committee decides to pursue idea X and drop idea Y.... So be it.

There was no democratic feedback mechanism either. Public is not happy that state money is used to prop up revolutions all around the world while one's citizen are living in poor condition? Tough luck, party line is never wrong.
That reminds me of Mike Monteiro's famous Meetup talk: https://vimeo.com/22053820
Also the shortcut is using an unknown app which doesn't show up when I click show in appstore.
At one point, in Spain, they required you needed to stand up with a mask on, and then remove it in order to light a smoke(outside of course since it's the EU).
This seems to be A LOT of Series A SaaS.

Theoretically, who cares. If you can convince people to buy your product - even if only to scratch each other's backs - that's better than all the other people who can't / don't have the network.
This is a study of an exoplanet. Apparently, a "hot Jupiter" is shorthand for a general classification of planet type.

The planet at the center of the new study, which appears today in Nature Astronomy, is WASP-121b, a massive gas giant nearly twice the size of Jupiter. The planet is an ultrahot Jupiter and was discovered in 2015 orbiting a star about 850 light years from Earth.
It's definitely fraud. The only reason to hide the things they do is to mislead the customer as evidenced by previous cases of this that caused serious harm to consumers.
Tanks, rockets, and other weapons that Russia has in its arsenal
https://alex-hhh.github.io/2021/09/screenshots.html is a nice gallery of one person's apps.