skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. A snapshot is a point in time on the storage media. It allows you to make a backup as if the backup occurred at that point in time, i.e. files are not changing while the backup is running. A snapshot is not a guarantee that any particular file is consistent with the state of the application that is using it. It's still a backup of an "open" file with all the potential issues that implies.
That is kind of Moxie’s point. Buy functional stuff. Use it. Don’t become owned by the consumption, selection and use of it.
Fair. It's 2022 now. I figured in the 19 years since they would have done something like this.
> Preston concludes, “Those who exhibit the most traditional behavior with respect to marriage and women’s roles will always be overrepresented as parents of the next generation, and a perpetual disaffiliation from their model by offspring is required in order to avert an increase in traditionalism for the population as a whole.”

This has huge political implications.
I was just thinking the opposite - that by choosing such a tiny problem one might be able to actually develop some intuition about what's going on inside that very black box
Can't wait for the $2,000 "Texas TruckNutz" option for the Tesla Cybertruck. Retractable, obviously - for better aerodynamics.
It gives a nod to https://github.com/kinvolk/go-shamir but doesn't go further to say why a whole new project is required; is there some story there?

Related to that, one will observe the kinvolk repo has tests -- are those still pending?
Didn’t it read into it too much, but wouldn’t it work way better with some sort of timing attack post processing?
"Any reasonable person wouldn’t feel liberated by a $50 fork, but constrained by it." I mean define "reasonable person".

I feel content is just about being divisive now-a-days. Moxie is someone I always put on a pedestal for his seemingly altruistic values. But this content seems to be a passive aggressive attack consumerism (nothing wrong with that) through Dustin Curtis, which in turn seems kinda personal.

I don't know when we stopped: "live and let live".
My point is that just having the GPL doesn't guarantee that modifications will be contributed back or published, even without violating the license.
Well I have literally never posted from twitter in my 5 years or so of having an account, but I'm on there almost everyday and use it as my news feed for topics I want to read about and blogs I follow. However according to them I'm fake/spam. hrrmph.
And pushing the button does nothing. I believe you must hold it.

Considering the amount of Zoom, Teams, Huddles and Google meets meetings I been into over the last couple of years I would be surprised if a majority of people fix this.
I kind of feel like someone needs to do a post about the missing middle now.
I think this was the original megathread:

The Best - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470 - Nov 2012 (295 comments)

I feel like this response also got discussed on HN back then - but if so, I can't find it. Anyone?
All of these adverse effects happened during or immediately following meditation. That metastudy gives a base rate of 8% - that is waaay above background noise.

Ibuprofen is a great drug and I recommend it. It also kills people, is toxic, and can have severe side effects especially when misused.

If something is powerful and has an effect.. it will have side effects and negative outcomes.

Even as a secularist, I think we lost some of safety practices that were encoded in religious meditative practices.
community is small but extremely dedicated.

I agree that the hiring pool is small but if you want go level performance, metaprogramming and developer productivity, common lisp was your best option.

Shopify went with ruby. not a terrible language but it did come at teh cost of performance.
My main account literally has “fake account” in the description as sort of a joke, because I really use Twitter exclusively for browsing, and maybe liking/RT’ing stuff.
I actually find tech like this kind of depressing.

It's such a lovely art form... but such an anachronistic one.

It's funny, you could say the same about all real-world art forms too, but somehow hand-crafting things don't bother me on the same level as this kind of tech.

With things like the pi zero, the cost of a machine that can endlessly run full video is vastly eclipsed by the screen to present it on. So simple palette animations are now pointless. Filesize? My phone has over 100GB. Bandwidth? Streaming is everywhere.

But I love this stuff. I love the aesthetic, the limitations, the tech that is simple-enough I can fit the whole concept into my head until I see the hellscape of optimizations that it took to squeeze out every last iota of performance on old machines that shouldn't be able to do this.
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"I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring." -- Mitch Hedberg
The PR is priceless.
The problem is, the programmer (caller) forgets and that’s the whole point of having a more or less automated way of releasing/closing/etc.

Apart from that, it’s bad design IMO (leaky abstraction).
> Musk has a history of making public, bad-faith declarations to pump assets he later sells at profit.

Could you point me to those instances?

His offer wasn't a lowball offer at all considering the tech stock bloodbath we have seen as of late, and especially so because the offer was made just right before the massive downturn we have witnessed. I think it's quite the contrary; 44 billion is way higher than its worth imo.

> Musk is trying to weasel his way out of paying anything.

He would need to pay a $1 billion break up fee. I don't understand what point you are trying to make here.
I found it interesting because while I can see how the other things in your list would naturally happen as attachments lose power, I don't see why an increase in neurosis would be a necessary or even a common result. (For context, I've been meditating daily for a year and a half, for 30-60 minutes and this simply hasn't happened to me yet. In fact, if anything, the opposite happened, where I engage less in self-aggrandizing behaviour.)
The application is self-modifying and partially server-defined, as well as being an online communication tool. Discord-the-company can change it at basically any time, and disallow any versions deemed "inappropriate".
Uh sorry, what? You say ""your OS"" so I'm guessing you mean an eyeball device. Routing tables (well, it's just knowing which pid bound which socket really) on eyeball devices is pretty much free at the order of magnitude of a standard website where 99.99% of the CPU and RAM is spent in the browser. I don't even understand what kind of resource we would be talking about here?

I'm guessing I'm missing something, though I can't see what, could you help me?
These arguments apply to external backups, but if you use a filesystem like ZFS or BTRFS, than snapshots are atomic, essentially instant, and can even be sent over the network as diffs/deltas against the last snapshot that was sent, so backing up a TB drive over the network every hour is total reasonable. These filesystems also give you access to snapshots via the FS, so you don't need to restore a snapshot to access your files, it's as easy mounting the readonly-snapshots directory, which you could even just keep mounted 24/7, making deleted files just a `cd` away, or quicker with a shell script that jumps first into the last snapshot of your current directory and then recursively back to the last one before that.

Not that I've gotten around to writing that script for myself :c

But the automatic snapshots are much easier c:
> 3. Breastfeeding mothers would store breast milk that they would pump while at work in a fridge they shared with beer for some reason. They complained that their breast milk was being stolen without any action taken.

That is categorically insane. Who was stealing the breastmilk... like why?
One time I dropped my iPhone and broke the screen. Apple wanted $150 to fix it but I can buy a whole Android phone for that much so that's what I did.

Now I don't really give a fuck if my phone breaks.
I bought a "conbee" (basically a USB Zigbee dongle) and after setting up their DeConz software and detecting all my devices (IKEA, Philips, Lidl) I never bothered with Home assistant. Or should I say, I started to, but gave up because it was a pain in the neck and anything it offered beyond what DeConz did, wasn't worth the hassle. I always meant to go back and have another go, but over a year later I simply don't have the motivation.
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A woman was hospitalized after taking CBD along with herbal supplements
Far be it from me to suggest that the $50 fork is an artificially constructed edifice set up for the sole purpose of being tilted at, but the $50 buys an entire place setting of five items, not just the fork.

A set by the late David Mellor, the British designer who invented the pillar box, the traffic light and the bus shelter as well as arguably the 20th century’s most iconic cutlery, will set you back twice that much.

https://www.davidmellordesign.com/cutlery/stainless-steel
Original title, 34(!) too long: A woman was hospitalized after taking 6 times the recommended dose of CBD along with herbal supplements for months
So this experiment seems to create a virtual atom (the box with the mirrors), yet unlike a real atom, this system isn't quantized internally, so it's possible that you could get quanta of any energy up to the sum of all photons inside the box.

Alternatively, it could be that the language used by physicists has overloaded too many conventional words, and the impedance mismatch between them and the public can not be overcome.
It has fairly bad performance in UI-terms in my experience on Linux as well with large files, I think because it's written in Python, so things like highlighting take ages...
> McDonald's will sell operations to a Russian company which it will still profit from "behind the scenes" (via offshore proxy or some other indirect way).

so Huawei way of solving sanction issues...

let's all pretend Honor is now different entity bought by bunch of unrelated companies
There is a right way to do this using RAII, and it works for files and for any other resource that might fail on close: you simply explicitly do the close yourself, but only along the success/happy path. That way you get the best of both worlds: automatic clean-up (ignoring errors) along error paths, and proper close-and-check-for-errors along the happy path.

Of course it'd be even nicer if the implicit RAII close could somehow add its error to the error you are currently propagating, but that's beside the point for your example.
If I were a bot, I would simply set my location field to "bot/fake"
If I recall correctly, it's similar to how fasttext vectors work. For fasttext, this means that the representation of words is dependent to a certain extent to its morphemes (not really, but bear with me), so rare/inflected words can have a better representation due to the similarity with words that are similar-looking and more frequent (e.g. "unconstitutional" might never appear in the training data, but the system can approximate its meaning by composing that of "un", which it has seen in words such as "unbelievable", and the remaining subtokens, that come from the word "constitutional" that was present in the training set)

Not sure if the same thing happens here, tho
This is a conversation our team had for a while. We are still on the fence about it because the physical schema is very stable at this point. There haven't been any major issues with migrations in years.

But, this is one of those things like planting a tree. If the entire business depends directly on the physical tables, getting a major change in could instantly become a nightmare.
> I'm not a slave to my $40 dollars in silverware and I'm happy every time I used it that I'm not wondering if it was some rat's and cockroaches play thing for 20 years before someone found it behind a refrigerator while cleaning a house and threw it in the good will bin.

I assure you that after a good wash there's no permanent damage a roach can possibly do to silverware. I'm not about to throw around the word slave in regard to silverware or consumerism, but you've fallen for the "used is unclean" myth that's partially contributed to the absurd amount of waste in the world.
$50 for a place setting is not that outrageous for something of quality. My one suggestion would be to get twice as much silverware as you think you need because somehow pieces end up going missing. Our pattern was discontinued and when I looked up getting replacement pieces, it was going to be some ridiculously large amount per piece (I think $40 or $50—whatever it was was high enough that I’ve been trying to talk my wife into just getting a whole new set of silverware with at least 12 place settings, but better 16).
The headline is totally false
JWZ's law is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

I also look forward to this new subsystem starting to participate in the innumerable "use after free" CVEs that seem to plague Chrome
I feel comforted when I buy nice things, use them however I feel like, and have them hold up for years.

I feel annoyed when I own something that so nice, but otherwise useless, that I don't feel that I can get rid of it and so I carry it around for years.
There are three forward-facing cameras, each with a different depth of field, which I would _hope_ it can use as binocular vision, but this still doesn't solve for this exact problem when looking sideways! The single B-pillar-mounted cam, in my mind, cannot POSSIBLY be capable of, say, looking around a bush at an intersection of a side street connecting to a large, fast arterial road. Again, humans move their heads around the bush, they'll creep forward and then _lean_ forward to get a view around it, without having to extend the nose of the vehicle into the perpendicular traffic. The car simply does not have the sensors to be able to replicate this functionality. It has a single camera in the B-pillar for perpendicular vision. That's it. In a position fixed BEHIND THE DRIVER'S HEAD. I cannot fathom how that will ever work for these cases.
I think .ca is one of the safer TLDs if you’re Canadian.
He’s not saying functional though, he says the worst version of something, which usually means crappy and unpleasant. Things like that make your life a little worse every time you use them. If it’s something like a fork that you use a lot every day, that’s just adding a lot of low-grade background unpleasantness to your life that is completely unnecessary.
> Is it really that common for companies to violate the GPL today?

Every company I've worked at is careful about GPL. Some are more careful than others, but they all put at least some effort into ensuring nobody brings in GPL libraries.

As a lawyer explained to me, they understand at some point GPL code will be shipped - it is too tempting. The real goal is to ensure that when it happens they can convince the courts it is a rouge employee doing something he wasn't supposed to, as then the penalty is a slap on the wrist and a bunch of developers emergency switched to rid our stuff of GPL. If the courts decide the company didn't do enough to prevent infringement then the court will decide that it was company policy to make their product open source and the courts will force the release of source code. This is why all developers I work with have to take open source training, we have someone assigned to audit all our code, and we have bought tools that look for potential open source code, it all builds a case before the court. To my knowledge the above as kept us from infringing in the first place, which is the real goal, but since all tools have holes eventually we can assume it won't.
I mean, yes, this describes "ponzi," but also nearly literally all "investment." One may not like "Capitalism," I suppose, but yeah.
I don't think there is anything "numerical" about the core language design of julia; it is just a general generic-function-based OO language. In fact I think we made many decisions in line with trends in the broader language world, e.g. emphasizing immutable objects, having no concrete inheritance, using tasks and channels for concurrency, and deliberately avoiding "matlab-y" features like implicit array resizing. Of course many in the "general purpose" crowd don't like 1-based indexing, but surely that is not the source of all of our problems :)
I think eventually people will do something like this: keep Disney+ subscription active all the time, as the default (because it will be the best), and occasionally buy one month of the other services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime) just to see what's new there.
I’m a naive person and believe any form of advertisement is intrusive. So by definition anything that wants to show me and my kids ads will eventually try to circumvent any filters in place.
This lack in Meld is exactly why I switched to kdiff3 for merges. It's just too hard with Meld.

But Meld is great at 2 way merges, and allowing you to selectively apply changes.
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I still use WinMerge under desktop Linux. Has quite some features and importantly it's fast (unlike anything Python...).
Why this might be a bad idea: APPL MSFT and Google want you to go passwordless
Arguments for why this might be a bad idea.
Join Jitx (YC S18) to invent algorithms that optimize electronic designs
Is solipsism wrong, or is it just me?
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Tesla Roadsters on fire off the shoulders of Orion.
Yes, if you use tooling (mypy). It definitely helped me a few times.
Experienced liars tell the truth more often then not. The lies they add are things they need to be true and they know each lie (contra Churchill) needs a bodyguard of truth or it'll be seen for what it is.

The clearest example of this to me is the broad similarities between the maps that show who controls what territory that the Russians and the non-Russians are producing. They're not the same but there's more agreement there then you'd expect if it was just people making up anything and everything out of whole cloth. The real ground truth is probably that no one knows exactly who's controlling what piece of ground but the confusion behind that isn't designed.
> Any reasonable person wouldn’t feel liberated by a $50 fork, but constrained by it. [...] is it going to get dropped or stepped on if a dance party erupts in the kitchen?

I've always thought part of the "flex" of owning certain expensive things isn't just that you're rich enough to afford it, but that you're rich enough you don't care about it getting damaged.

Plenty of people could afford to buy a $10,000 watch (if they wanted to save up a bit). Not many people could afford to lose a $10,000 watch.

If you buy a $100 wine glass and a guest drops it by accident, you gotta be ready to laugh it off.
DNS has always supported UDP and TCP. Traditionally queries used UDP and transfers TCP but this wasn't a requirement of the protocol. With the advent of EDNS and large responses such as those when DNSSEC is involved TCP was increasing being used for queries even before DoT or DoH.

QUIC is UDP based so by being able to handle large responses DoQ reduces the need to use TCP and brings your vision of a UDP only DNS closer to fruition.
Would you mind elaborating? I'm not a Windows expert so I don't know off the top of my head what VSS provides that helps poorly written applications survive sudden power failure more robustly than without VSS in the picture, and how that's better than a file system point-in-time copy-on-write snapshot.
The last part reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H25ve3qts4
They’re probably ok, but .com is massive by comparison and there’s strength in numbers. Anything shady involving the .com TLD will get immediate, large scale publicity and pushback.
Have you not heard of the spiritual ego? Most practitioners eventually grow a big ego around their practise. Chogyam Trungpas book “Cutting through spiritual materialism” is all about this
This type of documentation is the only kind I have positive experience writing. Tutorial-like documentation is another kind I have positive experience reading.
> I feel content is just about being divisive now-a-days.

I don't want to make assumptions about your perception of timeline, but it's worth noting that the blog post is fully one decade old.
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I just meant general intelligence over all varies among animals. I'm not stating facts, I'm stating my observations.

Personally, it's pretty easy over time to tell the difference between apathy and intelligence when you spend a lot of time observing interactions.

"People like you" should check your tone btw.
The alternatives are learning at the character level (way more complex, and scales badly in memory/compute), or learning at the whole word level (needs absurdly massive dictionary of words, and still can’t handle really rare/novel words). Breaking things into a set of subwords that allows you to encode any string solves lots of problems and is the relatively standard way to do things these days.
What spec? I just looked up what the issue is with vh on mobile and the very first resource I found talked about how the spec isn't clear on how it's supposed to behave in the presence of movable chrome, like the address bar on mobile browsers.

It also says that Safari's initial implementation updated `vh` when the address bar changed visibility and this caused a bad jump in layout, which is why they changed it to ignore the address bar so it's a fixed value instead. And it says Chrome mobile followed suite as well, which means it's not just Safari that thinks the "fixed value" approach is better on mobile.
I see thumbnails I can't click on.
You still need to solve the Wifi router issue.

Automatically exposing ports is very flaky and doing so manually is way beyond the understanding of almost anyone.
I wonder why not much is done to bring high performance scientific computing to common lisp. There are some interesting projects I was able to find like https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp and https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp and https://github.com/takagi/avm. But I guess it would be good to have a coordinated effort in this area.
Post about a hackathon I went to: https://vtomole.com/blog/2022/04/25/nyuad
Reading on a fully featured tablet with a browser, apps, notifications vs reading on a special purpose device is a world of difference when it comes to attention for me.
I meant it mostly as a joke, but there is a certain amount of irony to it. This goes way beyond prompt engineering - he wrote an algorithm to run on GPT in a way you would not expect a non-programmer to write. I think the idea is cool and the process to write it was revealing.
Dropbox is literally creating a vector for copying your files to the Internet...
we don't talk about this enough, or ever, but being retired and building software is kind of like a super power in this case
I think that's right - fiat currency is not asset backed; in the case of the USD, it's backed by "the full faith and credit" of the U.S. government.
Me too. I love my Vitamix. But I've never had cutlery break. In fact, I frequently use the same forks, spoons, and knives that I used when I was 5 years old. They look like shit too.
Cloudy night, will try again soon.