skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly they might consider any fatal crash to be company-ending event? After all they could be paying the passengers' families as well as the employee's. This is the purpose of a limited-liability company, to enable the operation of potentially-insanely-risky businesses.
> If you estimate the world's ability to generate proof of work, you can get a lower bound of how much time must have been passed in order to produce that proof, or estimate how much it cost, and you can be as conservative as you'd like, you'll still get a meaningful lower bound of time. Your only assumption is your own estimate

You literally can't! All you can get from this is a lower bound on the _reported_ amount of time. But there's no way, definitionally, to assert any constraint on the _actual_ time. This is my point.
The model you are suggesting works to some extent but it just isn’t as effective or efficient as the Microsoft model. Compare the usability and the prevalence of the Linux desktop (mostly advanced by red hat) to the Windows desktop.

In any case people are already free to build projects collaboratively and the GPL provides a workable legal platform for that model. Microsoft has opted out of that model and it’s their right to do so, it’s no one else’s right to force them into it. If people want to build a retro modded Windows XP compatible experience, the law fully allows them to reverse engineer and reimplement it. They are better off basing their work on something like ReactOS, which has already done lots of that work, instead of Microsoft’s IP.
This is probably scientism. (he thinks big words make him more informed) Also a bit unclear why he says “from a medical perspective it’s gross” but then every detail after that contradicts it.

> while trying to stray away from anything opinion-based.

This is just depriving yourself of information. Not be even nerdier, but there’s a thing with headphone reviews where people reject all subjective reviews and would prefer to just look at some graphs like on rtings. However the “objective measurements” aren’t actually objective - headphone behavior depends on your head shape, how loud the room is, how long your hair is, the amp, etc.

So a subjective review in a more similar environment is actually more informative. Even if it’s written by a guy who thinks gold cables are good and his headphones are “effortless” and have “speed”. And why closed headphones get a bad rap; they’re less accurate in a lab but could be more in practice if they block your fridge noise.
Same. In fact, lofi seems to really disrupt my focus. There are times where a beat/kick is so loud it becomes disruptive. I also like background sounds and true ambient music.
That article's argument is that you can't be sure that you have rights to use public domain software because there are legal differences in how public domain works in different countries.

I do not find this argument very persuasive. Other aspects and of IP law and of licensing related law are different in different countries too.

If I find some software purportedly from a developer in Wheretheheckisthatistan that says it is under some OSI-approved license all that tells me is that the developer (probably) tried to license it under that license. But I have no idea if they actually succeeded in doing so--for instance maybe their employment agreement for their day job says it belongs to the employer and they are in a country where such agreements are enforceable.
The best typeset books I've seen in Devanagari (a non-Roman script, used for Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) have been typeset with XeTeX (XeLaTeX). Of course this involves other system libraries like Harfbuzz to handle the kerning and measure widths of individual words, and leaves some of the complexities mentioned in the post to the user, but the Knuth–Plass algorithm from TeX is still what is at the heart of it, for breaking paragraphs into individual lines. Take a look at TUGboat and the TUG conferences or the TeX.SE website to see it being used for many languages and scripts (including Arabic, Hebrew, etc). TeX is also big in Japan it appears, and they maintain their own variant engines (ptex, eptex, uptex, euptex).
dd lets you specify the write block size. This is essential when writing to 9 track tape. Everything is a byte stream… except for the things which are not.
The article did not say they would be using flourocarbons. They probably have not decided on what to use. So lets not judge them prematurely. Furthermore not all flourocarbons are toxic or environmentally dangerous.

But most importantly, they seem to be pricy. If this stuff is going to be successful in the datacenter industry, a lot of it will be required. So intel will likely go with the cheaper option -- mineral oil.
I used to used dd to convert EBCDIC to ASCII reading tapes from a 1/2" reel-to-reel tape drive. The "convert" capability of dd is what differentiates it from utilities such as cat.
Here are the folks from my local school district (San Francisco) explaining their approach: https://youtu.be/3RsitD6m0vU

The questions towards the end of the video didn't receive satisfactory answers.
If you wirte to USB sticks / SD cards you should use (a multiple of) of the erase block size in oder not wear out the flash. I don't know what somewhat current sizes are. But 1M sounds likely to be a reasonable multiple.

For USB also make sure to power it off before removing otherwise you might lose data. Eg. by

udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdX
I am a developer, not a lawyer. I also do not understand why it was necessary for you to talk down to me? As strangers, your absence of patience, kindness, and courtesy makes you sound hostile, and frankly rude.

I can appreciate your passion for open source. Perhaps you feel that your behavior is justified because you are protecting something near and dear to your heart. However, please recall that we are both flesh and blood human beings, we make mistakes, we fix them, and we both deserve respect and decency.

All in all, I hope to see you with more kindness in the future. Thanks in advance!

P.s: technically, I can be a fridge. But then again, you would be being rude to a fridge :p
Fair, to a point.

But colordrops said "supporting every single language, culture, format". So by definition, it's more than English. And as soon as you start looking into non-English writing systems, you realize that it is very much not simple.
Back then, many NoSQL/MongoDB opportunists were in positions of authority on the web. When WebSQL was discussed, those folks pushed the lie that "SQL is SQLite. Therefore, SQL does not belong in the browser". They pretended that SQLite and SQL APIs were the exact same thing, as if no browser could offer a dialect of SQL without fully exposing the database engine running under the hood. In their rhetoric, encapsulation was impossible, the specification was the implementation. With SQL and SQLite conflated, the opportunists were then able to wield the valid argument "SQlite is not a standard. Browsers should be based on standards" against the simple point "SQL ought to be a standard". Once they beat the more reasonable voices into submission and were then free to assert that only NoSQL can be standardized in the browser. Which misdirected years of efforts into IndexedDB.

Nowadays, if you look up those opportunists on LinkedIn, you can see their NoSQL careers didn't quite go the way they were expecting. Their wrongdoing is a very, very sore point for them, and it's unfortunate the web had to pay for their hubris.

For more details: https://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memor...
You move like them. Are you the chosen one?
There are workloads where some data loss is acceptable, like analytics.

But more seriously if you want the best of both worlds (in-memory speeds and durability) there are NVDIMMs.

SQL Server can take advantage of them: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/pe...

I imagine with some effort SQLite could as well.
Re: your edit, point is that doesn’t necessarily mean unholstering a weapon is assault as a matter of law.
https://fullstackeconomics.com/the-2000s-housing-bubble-was-...
In the bad old Linux days, if you read a huge amount of data off the disk (like if you were doing a backup) Linux would try to take all that data and jam it in the page cache. This would push out all the useful stuff in your cache, and sometimes even cause swapping as Linux helpfully swaps out stuff to make room for more useless page cache.

One of the great things about `dd` is that you have a lot of control how the input and output files are opened. You can bypass the page cache when reading data by using iflag=direct, which would stop this from happening.
> The 'complaints' you list are non-issues or already solved.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/08/the-curse-of-wh...
The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret

https://electrek.co/2022/03/21/heres-what-the-future-of-batt...

'EV batteries have a 10–13 year lifespan, so while they may not be ready to be recycled in large volumes just yet, we know they’re on the way. Companies worldwide are already investing in recycling plants to meet this demand. From our perspective, the biggest hurdle is figuring out how to create a system of shared collections across multiple original equipment manufacturers and recyclers for both cost and environmental efficiencies.'

Lithium-Ion Battery Fires in Electric Vehicles - Safety Risks to Emergency Responders
https://youtu.be/J6eS6JzBn0k

We are just beginning to grapple with some of the core issues should the BEV political sales onslaught and incentives succeed.

This BEV bus blowing up in RATP Paris this month should give you some pause for thought, fortunately it wasn't full of people
https://youtu.be/5r-yN8SugWM

Multiple buses burnt as a result of a charging fire in Germany
https://www.sustainable-bus.com/electric-bus/sbb-stuttgart-f...
"One and two-way doors" is a nice way to phrase it. I use a similar heuristic to figure out where to spend more effort designing things upfront. For most web apps, the one-way door is usually going to be the database schema - data migrations are trickier to do once you have to deal with real data.

The other big class of "one-way" decisions are with regards to code that live in environments you don't control, e.g. mobile and desktop apps.

One tip I would offer is when building something new, you should try and delay making one-way decisions as long as you can, until you have a clearer picture of how things should work.
it was unknown in the homeland.

Somalia's child mortality under five is 20 times that of the US - it was, for many years, one of the most troubled spots on earth.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORT?locations=S...
It’s hard to tell whether the book is talking about bias in hiring “systems analysts” drawing flowcharts, “programmers” punching cards (who lost their jobs to automation), or both.
Well that's weird since java validation frameworks usually collect validation failures before throwing.
This is like somebody from Love on the Spectrum tried to process their insecurity with kissing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Spectrum
inflation is (due to) shortage
“One by one the old parking lots, gas stations, and muffler shops are being transformed into new structures and uses.”

Not if the SF Board of Supervisors has anything to say about it. They’ve actively blocked the transformation of parking lots into dense house as recently as this year. SF is anti housing somehow wrapped in a veneer of progressivism.
For debate class, I could argue those releases were good, and 2000 improved on NT4/95, but I can't argue from belief.
The OP wrote: "If inflation continues and the fed becomes aggressive with hiking, all assets are dead. Bonds will be wrecked, stocks will be wrecked, cash is wrecked, even gold (depending on how aggressively they hike) will be dead because it's actually a really good deal to buy bonds when they yield north of 10% (if we get there)."

Reads like they are referring to the Fed. Even if they aren't, US AAA-rated bonds generally track the Fed rate +1% to 1.5%[1].

So corporate bonds at 10% means the Fed rate is 8.5%+. I don't think this is realistic within the next 2 years.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/moodys_seasoned_aaa_corporate...
Of course it's not the point! The problem with the thought experiment is that it misses the point!

Getting from point A to point B faster is more than an incidental convenience to a driver, it is the primary goal of having a car and driving it!
Ask HN: Is R Down?
I have been unable to access http://cran.r-project.org/ for 2 days, and there have been reports of an outage at https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/cran.r-project.org.html and https://updownradar.com/status/r-project.org . Are others seeing this? Since R is important for statistics/data science/machine learning, it's important that the base software and packages be continually available.
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Linux 5.18
https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/reading
yes for me and them: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/cran.r-project.org.html
California church shooting suspected anti-Taiwan hate crime by Chinese-American
The seven most frequently prescribed classes of psychoactive drugs were antidepressants, stimulants, tranquilizers/antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, hypotensive agents, anxiolytic/sedative/hypnotics, and benzodiazepines. The data on other relevant diagnoses indicate that children and youth are frequently treated with medication under an autism-spectrum diagnosis, even though the target symptoms may be commonly associated with other mental disorders. Age data indicate that about 70% of children with autism-spectrum disorders age 8 yr and up receive some form of psychoactive medication in a given year.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cap.2006.17303
It wasn't an 'obscure monetary change'. It was the defining economic decision of the century.
There are two things I absolutely do not want to implement, ever, if I can get away with it.

Any kind of dynamic page rendering: we want to write code once and re-use everywhere, in the Web browser, mobile, iOS, Android, etc.

This is a fool’s errand 99% of the time. You’ll end up building something super constrained if it is usable at all. Admittedly there are some viable options for this like React Native. Yeah, I just don’t want to work on this type of code.

Client libraries: I want to write my own client, in top of a third party networking library, to send HTTP requests, and handle threading, tcp connections, connection pools, thread pools, etc.

Even when using something as simple as libwebcurl, innocuous things fail in weird, unexpected ways that almost never come up in (my) unit tests, integration tests, and chaos tests.

Server side client code that calls another service can be dangerous. Device code that you ship out to millions of devices is even more dangerous.

Oh… 50% error rate because suddenly the code can’t access an SSL cert on the device. Wait… what??? I can’t even reproduce it?

I’ve been writing code since grade school and am a decade now into my career. I’m an above average programmer on a good day, and terribly average at best on most days. So of course, I might be sounding melodramatic here.
Batteries after they are used up will be broken down and recycled. Being interchangeable in their initial form is irrelevant.
What if you need to test direct IO, or test various partial-page, partial-block, or full block/page access to pagecache? Sometimes you might actually want to try using direct IO too, if buffered IO is not giving you sufficient control or reporting of errors from the device, or continuation from part-way through the copy, and in some cases possibly because you don't want to consume memory for page cache (although dd isn't good with direct IO so that's probably unlikely).

That said if you don't know whether or not you need it, you don't. And those who do would know not to listen to your advice (for what they need to do) anyway, so it's not bad general advice to give.
Here’s how I’m reading the scenario: Rather than admit that the wording of your comment is easily taken out of the context you intended (that is, taking accountability for your previous statement), you claim that I’m “twisting” your comment to my view (for some unknown reason).

And all this spawning from your post claiming that nobody these days takes accountability (but they did in the past).

And none of that includes mention of your snide “hehe, I’m right you’re wrong” ending comment. (Really raising the bar of interaction here).
I have the same issue and I lost a very significant amount of time reading and organizing stuff which is very useful sometimes but also impact my ability to just do stuff.

One question that I'm making to myself is: what if I just delete everything? Worst case scenario nothing bad will happen. Less (stuff) generally is more (value).
I don’t think the author is intending to tell everyone to always use something else, I think the author is trying to tell most people who use dd that there are easier ways to do what they are trying to do, and that things are files, which is something that a lot of people here seem to be forgetting.
I have a terrible habit of mixing camelCase with snake_case. I'll start out using snake_case because I find it slightly more readable, but then use some library that has camelCase methods, and before I know it's all a bit of a hodge-podge. (Or is that hodge_Podge?)
I have a couple to-do lists. But, I have one "master map" to-do list, with timelines, stretching out many years. I then have a "check this each day" to do list. Finally, my third to-do list, and the simplicity and power cannot be overstated, is a list that I completely erase no matter what at the end of the day. If there is something new on it that I really believe is important, it will go to the "check this each day" list, or if I'm putting it off, or if it is something further out into the future, onto the "master map" to-do list. My master to-do lists doesn't have to only be far out goals.

Each morning that I wake up, I look over my "check this each day" list, and make a list of everything I want done for that day on my third to-do list (the one that I delete all contents of at the end of the day, and leave a blank template). I have habitual habits labeled as "ritual 1" (such as waking up & eating & showering & hygienic stuff) and evening stuff labeled as "ritual 2", so that instead of writing all of those smaller tasks out that I do each day, I know in my head what they are when I see "ritual 1" and so forth. You can use other terms other than "ritual xyz".

Since I have began this process, my to-do lists have been much more manageable. The drawback I suppose is I look at my "master map" to-do list much less than I used to, although I do look it over from time to time to see how I'm doing.

For my journal I categorize everything inside of it. It is not as organized as it could be, but it gets more organized as time passes.

For my work, I use a centralized service. It is extremely organized.

Best of luck to you. I hope my suggestions are helpful, especially my to-do lists suggestion, because I believe a to-do list system like that is very helpful.
Much like bow ties, Genomics Is Cool
Well, immigration laws artificially constrain supply of laborers.
Not exactly dd, but in my NOC tech days, ddrescue was _indispensable_ for cloning drives with pending sectors/errors.
What *REALLY* happens to 'Recycled' Glass? – (you might be surprised)
Wow, this was great.

Thinking about codes and permits, I think the idea of self-reinforcing change is interesting here. As more people rent or frequently buy/sell, it makes more and more sense to have strict safety codes and permitting rules because the people building and making money off the structure don't bear the safety risks of bad construction. But as this raises costs and places barriers, it makes renting more common, etc.
I think it’s a bit extreme to go from “our bodies likely have some amount of tolerance for a hazard that has existed and been a fundamental and inescapable part of life since before there even was life” to “the body must surely have a way to deal with this toxic element that isn’t common in the environments where our species evolved”. I’d go so far as to say you might be ignoring some important differences between the two!
Reminds me of the time the narrator quizzed me on my understanding of what is an isn't a bucket a few days ago (clip from The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe game):

https://youtu.be/8HGJSKKpn6g
I had almost managed to completely forget about 9 track tapes. Now you've made my head hurt.
You're not without representation. If you don't like the actions of CEOs, you should have run against them in an election.

- The US Supreme Court (more or less)
Due to outside countries refusing to sell their products to Russia, the demand forforeign currency in Russia actually fell. Moreover, the legal limitations on currency trade there means that the conversion rate is not true. This is why Russia wants payment for gas in rubles. If the conversion rate was true, they would convert the euros to rubles themselves. But instead they want Europe to pay for the difference.
The details were there for years for whoever cared to pay attention.
While there’s a lot of truth here, there are times when you can do much better than cat. A while back I tweeted:

Today I found the magical dd command that causes an NVMe drive to run at almost full speed:

# dd if=/dev/nvme3n1 bs=4096k iflag=direct of=/dev/null status=progress
959090524160 bytes (959 GB, 893 GiB) copied, 178 s, 5.4 GB/s

The trick to getting this throughput is telling Linux to do an insanely large IO (4 MiB). The drive can't do 4 MiB reads - the largest IO it can handle is 2 MiB.

# nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme3 | grep mdts
mdts : 9
# echo '4 \* 2^9' | bc -l
2048

More in the tread starting here:

https://twitter.com/OMGerdts/status/1514376206082269191?s=20...