skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The situation you're talking about with two transactions isn't a merge operation, it's just normal database transaction isolation level stuff

I mean, arguably. It's not like there is a standard definition for "merge operation" on data. Even Git tries to do more than line-level changes, taking context into account, and turning one line change into two line changes if merging across a file copy for example.

Dolt markets itself as "a version controlled SQL database", so I think it is perfectly reasonable to consider the standard that already exists for concurrent changes to a SQL database, and that's transaction isolation.

I guess anything more complex than this would be pretty unwieldy though, with probably little benefits. I am struggling to come up with a good example for the kind of anomaly I imagine.
I think this is largely the problem with mobile phones as well. Like you probably aren't going to go mad or get rectangular eyes or whatever, but you can just sort of sedate that sensation of boredom with scrolling reddit or facebook or whatever, which does all of bupkis for making us happy in the long term.
There are gradations between putting people in prison and full legalization. Speeding in a school zone is illegal but it generally won’t land me in prison. I don’t favor imprisoning drug users but that doesn’t mean we need a free-for-all with weed stores.
If you work until 6 then you presumably don't start until 9:30-10, so you can probably sleep until 7:30 or 8 in the morning. So do the same routine and move it back an hour or so.
There are fewer of them, they can switch to a flavorless competitor where they refill the cartridges and ween off the juice or not.

The current tobacco market predates regulations. Let's strangle e-cigarettes before they become too big to overcome.
But dang, they sure made me fall in love with science, as a kid.
Bummer, though, since it looks like Pocket's API doesn't export the highlights or any metadata about them. Unless it's hidden in the "fts" or whatever that is.
Rail strikes: ‘Mick Lynch effect’ sees surge of interest in unions
Well, he certainly won’t lose that by switching to rust judging by the comments in this thread!
Thanks. Part of my journaling is collecting quotes I come across if they are particularly thought provoking or mysterious. I forgot one of the best. I know it's the best because Eastern and Western thought both start here:

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

- Aristotle
Computer power supplies won't care about 50/60Hz difference (maybe except some slight efficiency change).
Wait, so I can try this on Colab right now?
It should be automatic based on license. GPL code definitely shouldn't be included but MIT could be. They already have this information in most repositories and if its missing they have no right to use it at all. We don't need extra options the licenses already restrict the use and derivative work.
I dunno.

I've been unlucky enough to have worked in a brown carpeted cube farm, and I'd take open offices over that any day.

I've also worked at a specific EMR company that used to advertise, "Everyone gets an office" but they were piling us up two-three per individual office anyways, which also just made the building a cold dark maze of corridors and doors.

Really, WFH is superior in all regards for jobs/roles that can do it.
> And as for terminology, the "rec" part stands for (database) records, not "rectum" or whatever one might imagine.

Why are you assuming the pun wasn’t intentional, and that both meanings aren’t implied? What exactly is the point of talking about male turtles copulating in the FAQ?

There is nothing wrong with ignoring the logo and just using the code, that isn’t the issue. The issue is the story of the logo & FAQ are intentionally controversial, even if the author only intended humor, and that loading the site and using the code at work would promote conversation about the topic of the logo and it’s narrative.
Was this one disappointing? Maybe if you're going by the title alone, which granted was the original question. However, it was a decent enough explanation for the target audience of the site.
Pocket PC/Windows CE/Windows Mobile all seem far more like examples of phones trying really hard to be general-purpose like, rather than examples of phones being different. And getting fairly close.

Personally I think it's hard to justify phones as something different than general purpose computers. A device that can load fairly arbitrary apps is already almost by definition a general purpose computers, it's just a matter of what has been built and/or what is allowed to be shipped, and what system resources are available (few, in many of your examples, often owing to it being the aughts). Now that the system resources are clearly no longer a differentiator, it's almost all just corporate-politics & the war-against-general-purpose-computing vested-interests enforcing the distinction.
That seems pretty cool! In the past doing arithmetic seemed less efficient in custom RTL compared to GPU, but maybe I was wrong.
People sleep less than 6.5 hours a night?
Ah yeah, it only supports Chrome (and Chrome based browsers) and Firefox for now. I've been meaning to add an error message if you use a different browser.

No newsletter yet, but you can follow me on Twitter for now @jameslao.
You're really making that study do a lot of work it wasn't intended to. Their main conclusion is that the effect size on cognitive function was very small, and basically disappears after 72 hours.
I stand corrected.. so we’re back at personal responsibility again.

Last I read this was a very rare phenomenon happening mostly in chronic users of concentrates. I still fail to see how that is valid reasoning for anything else in this article..

Just read your comment again, but substitute cannabis with alcohol. You would be dead by now with these dosages, and if you go a step further the article would be correlating end stage liver disease with teens drinking a beer.

I thought it was common sense that too much of anything is a bad idea. A rare phenomenon that mostly happens to the utter top quantile of chronic heavy users is absolutely invalid to use in that kind of generalization.
Nah I think nationality would be almost implicitly obvious (e.g. due to clothing), the relationships would be much more on a personal level, first name basis and such, or the historically appropriate equivalent of, well, "habibi" or "buddy".

But I'd expect that two interacting merchants would definitely know of each other's names, as semi-contractual epistles of orders and corresponding shipping invoices were very much a thing (actually already since Sumer).

Not to mention that when you met someone back then, from what I understand, the idea would be that you would update each other on the stuff you knew about the world at large, sort of like a Fidonet where you got to walk to the next node: the time you spend with each other is precious, and ends up constructing a global grid of relationships and information.

It's mindblowing to consider these past ages, and how all those people who just went on with the business of living and learning even without GPS or Wikipedia, and did pretty well regardless.
It doesn't use cargo but it does use the core and alloc crates. Some parts such as Mutex are reimplemented for interoperability with C code.
> but it seems to me that for more basic inference operations (lets say add two numbers) power consumption from a processor and a brain is not that different

Sure it is - it is too hard to figure it out based on 2 numbers number, but lets multiply that by a billion - how much energy does it take a computer to add two billion numbers? Far less than the energy it would take a human brain to add them.
This is so cool! I've gone ahead and submitted it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=31852403
Nope, US. I also found the "We should vote again, and vote the right way this time!" thing baffling, but again, it was an outsider's view.
Python has dunder methods that allow you to override behaviour (eg operator overloading, hashing, object identity etc).

In this case they’re overriding bitshifting. In terms of why, it does feel like a natural visual choice.

https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams/blob/master/diagrams/...
It is also much more intersiting for the biker.
On many occasions I met people or interesting art / shops etc. while biking, I would have missing those travling by car or bus.
You are much more connected to your environment. You do not need an artificial entertainment system, the world itself is your entertainment, as it should be.
GCC supports quite a few more architectures than llvm. Kernels for these archs would not be able to use Rust in the current state. So, this will limit rust to platform specific drivers until either llvm is at parity for gcc for archs that linux is available on, or gcc's rust front-end is fully capable of compiling any rust code in the kernel.

In addition to the large maintenance effort for llvm to support so many additional back-ends, there is a non-negligible number of folks who would be very opposed to being forced to use a non-gpl compliler to build a gpl kernel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Archit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM#Back_ends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux-supported_comput...
Even if Github did provide that setting, as a courtesy, someone could clone / fork the code to another repo (if you use any licence that allows it) and not enable that setting.
Without self awareness, man acts, speaks, studies, reacts, mechanically, like a machine on the basis of 'programs' acquired accidentally, unintentionally, mechanically. He is not aware that he is acting in accordance with programs; it is therefore not difficult to reprogram him - to make him think and to do quite different things from those he had thought and done before - provided only the new program does not wake him up. When he is awake, no one can program him: he programs himself

- E.F Schumacher
Even that doesn't work all that well - the metabolism adjusts. (I'm experienced with long-term low-glycemic diets. It's better to go off the diet once in a while to "fool" the body.)
What's that saying about politicians and those who want power?

Give power to the ones who don't want it because they'll be the best arbiter. They won't chase power for the sake of power

Maybe we should do the same thing for cops/security. Those who are likely to commit abuses should never be given the chance
I don't know what your usage is like, but that is an outlier response that most likely originates from non-moderate use. Video game addiction is also something that causes severe negative impacts. The existence of these outlier responses does not mean either video games or weed are dangerous in moderation.
This is definitely not the case - I work quite collaboratively WFH, but I get to filter which conversations about who bought a boat or whose kid is sick or which tv show is great are appropriate for that moment. This comes as a shock to a lot of people who view this kind of smalltalk as essential that it in fact is not all that essential to the thing we are doing, which is completing work.
WAL-G 2.0: backup and restore for database in the cloud
How will it add new barriers? You can still program your drivers in C.
Well at that rate, it will crash into the Earth in…never
At least it doesn't have "Accept Anyways" type of button. The only option is to cancel whatever it was being attempted.
I tweet it. There’s always an option to tweet anything anywhere.

Nobody reads my Twitter except me, so it works fine.
I pay for the premium tier. I've been disappointed by their promises about content being retained forever. There's a big caveat that they don't actually keep paywalled content forever. This is annoying because I might save something that's not paywalled right now, highlight it, then come back a year later and I can't get to my highlights anymore. And they've been extremely unreliable in being able to retrieve all of my content from searching. Articles I'm positive I've saved routinely don't appear in my searches. There's some sort of caching going on where they don't include articles I haven't recently interacted with and they haven't been able to fix it for 3+ years. I really want to like Pocket but they just fail in this important use case for me.
How dare us adults enjoy flavors. How about you stop telling me, and other adults how to lead our lives?
You can actually throw a wad of sterile cotton into your vape to fill the chamber. Pax even sells a half pack lid for their packs.

For your case you can also cut your high dose stuff with a cbd only strain right in your grinder to whatever ratio you want. The ground up weed would be no different at all from a low dose strain and certainly a lot more accessible.
Even if it's somehow available under an MIT license (which is questionable on the part of jethrodaniel), there's still infringement. MIT isn't public domain, it still has

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Replicating it without complying with those terms is still infringement.
Ask HN: How to navigate an interview where the interviews has it against you
In a recent interview around culture fit, I got a feeling that the interviewer had some agenda against me.

I was frequently cut mid sentences, without me being able to build the complete context, and was asked to drill into a negative aspect of the answer.

My answers were frequently negated, with interviewer simply stating- “i think here you are wrong and this could be changed”. Upon asking what or how, the reply was - some random philosophy and with the onto the next question.

I lost my temper, and to no surprise wasn’t able to move forward in the interview.

I might have read the signs wrong, but, I got a feeling that interviewer really got something against me.

How to navigate such a situation? Have you ever faces such a situation and were you able to navigate that discussion in your own favor?
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You're making stuff up. MSFT never bought SCO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Information is more freely accessible than it has ever been. If the CDC et al are willing to lie in this modern era with facts right in front of people, who knows what shenanigans they were up to in the 1950's, or really any decade other than the last 2.

Some guy in a lab coat wrote down he did a clinical trial somewhere in the 3rd world, and the government just takes his word for it. Then when you have a whistle blower like on the Pfizer trials, who claims patients were unblinded and side effects weren't accurately recorded, people just slap the old 'conspiracy' label on it.

Before 2021, most people didn't even know VAERS and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program even existed. Now the CDC is telling us the reporting system they manage is inaccurate. Okay, so what have they been doing for the last 40 years?

They finally admitted that the vaccines are affecting some women's cycles, but downplayed it by saying 'on average it's about 1 day shorter between cycles.' That doesn't sound like much, but many women have a very short window of time from conception to implantation before their period starts, and that would be more than enough time to render those women unable to carry a baby.

It's lunacy.
As a physicist, in the spaces I've been in we did not find a way to successfully adjust to WFH in terms of scientific communication. The most important developments occur when we sit together with one person at a whiteboard and we are just sitting and thinking in silence for extended periods. This isn't really possible on zoom, where there is a constant pressure to either talk or end the call. I understand that some have made it work, but I haven't personally seen it work. Even hooking up an iPad to draw some equations is too much friction for most people (assuming they have one)
A little better when TH is involved but incremental isn't as good as ghc/cabal yet:

> When doing incremental builds, though, both stack and cabal-install can use the recompilation checker, and for changes deep in the dependency graph with little propagation, haskell_module is not able to beat them yet. For changes near the build targets, or which force more recompilation, haskell_module would be more competitive.
>> "European battlefields may have provided a convenient source of bone that could be ground down into bone-meal, an effective form of fertiliser. One of the main markets for this raw material was the British Isles.”

So quickly we forget. By weight, most of those bones would have been animal bones. Horses and mules were everywhere around armies until the middle of the 20th century. And, pre-refrigeration, armies did not move food around in boxes. It walked behind the army on hooves. The combination of dead horses/mules in combat, plus all the cattle being eaten, means that the vast majority of bones around a battle would not have been be human.
Counter point taken.

Follow-on question: have you had similar success in your relationships and personal life in the last 4 years?

I was a great student stoned, and a decent heads-down coworker. I became a detached boyfriend and family member and even more detached friend. I made my world smaller, so I could "focus" on work. My time on creative/non-passive hobbies fell to zero. I didn't lose friends but I didn't keep up with them.

I genuinely hope your experience has not been so asymmetrical.
It’s entirely a lifestyle choice to treat work like that, and one I constantly consider. However as a manager who gets to hear what other managers are thinking away from their employees, you are going to end up being treated like a piece of machinery.

There are some bad bosses who might do this on purpose because they feel snubbed, but even good ones who are looking out for you will eventually succumb to this. There is only so much time in the day and the human brain likes to save energy by not thinking about things that come up much. If you try to cut out all socializing with other humans at the job and just do the work, they’re gonna stop even remembering that you’re on the payroll.

This can be positive? I’ve seen a few engineers get a niche skill(frequently in some esoteric home grown software) and just work away at that for 40 years till retirement. I’ve also seen some of those same engineers cut because new management came in and wasn’t given the run down on how important they were because the old management forgot they existed.
I smoke casually just a tiny bit. I liken it to taking a shot. That's enough to get a slight boost of creativity. I hate getting drunk or high but just toking works wonders for me. Been doing this for 20 years and it hasn't impacted my life negatively at all. I actually stopped drinking altogether because of some eczema but I'll never stop indulging in pot this lifetime. I use a $20 bag for about a couple of months
I'm surprised they didn't go all out and call 'solar weather' 'extreme nuclear explosion activity on the sun'. I'm mean, if its for the clicks, why not.
That’s a very strange thing for anti-Brexit people to have told you. The existence of Article 50 was sufficiently well known before the referendum itself that the BBC wrote about it in “what happens next” hypotheticals months ahead of the vote itself: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35946617
I think most people's "bookmarking service" these days, including myself, is to just have an extra browser window that has a million "read later" tabs.
Adding an adjustable mask in a couple of clicks to a webcam without having to fire up an image editor, measure resolution, etc is not overkill for a streaming tool.

Your entire argument in this thread hinges on familiarity == usability. The others are right, OBS is powerful but hard to use.

Could not be more untrue. The OBS team themselves know full well that it could be friendlier and easier to do basic things — the debate comes up quite a bit on the Github repo’s discussions and in RFCs.

Be careful not to conflate your familiarity with the software as it being designed in the best way for the job — the existence of easier to use tools, including Twitch Studio (which does have useful defaults and makes simple things much easier to achieve) attests to this.

Disclaimer: I’m a support volunteer in OBS’ Discord server (opinions here my own). Many other volunteers and I are fully aware of how many things are difficult that should be easy — and rather than just accept that, we do our best to make the program easier to understand.
How Amazon Exported American Working Conditions to Europe
Europe has much older cities than the US, and larger amounts of land were already taken up, which has limited the amount of "freeway"-style development.

Arguably if it had NOT been for the interstate highway push in the US we'd have an America that would look more European.
Commit 1 to 1000 and beyond: Two years of maintaining an open-source project
> Working out [...] learning [...] interacting with people...

You are missing the point here.

I love working out. I just refuse to go to, say, LA Gym to do so, and no one should be forcing me to go.

I love learning. I just refuse to pay tens of thousands of dollars, and I don't want to be forced to do so.

I love my job, but it is a _job_. I socialise with my friends and family, not with my coworkers.

I would argue that if you cannot socialise outside work, maybe you are the one with an unhealthy attitude towards it.
Does caffeine have negative side effects, or does caffeine, taken in excess, including in late hours of the day, have negative side effects?

It's an important distinction to make in this discussion, which largely boils down to "off label use", whether we're talking about drinking simply too much coffee or people with developing brains getting too much thc.
I stopped publishing open source after all this started coming out because I was so uncomfortable with it.
been there, i have a folder "TOREAD"
Interesting, did factoryjoe know that when he proposed hashtags for Twitter? There weren't hash marks in the del.icio.us interface but I don't remember if muxway had them or not.

I still have an XML dump of my del.icio.us bookmarks that I haven't merged in. The linkrot rate is pretty high.
Is that the model used by the russian government to generate fake news?
WAL-G like the litestream for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Mongo, Redis, FoundationDB WIP, Greenplum WIP.
I think this problem has no good solution until IP laws around the world are properly reimagined from the ground up. I'm of the quite radical stance that code, music, art in terms of their intellectual existence should be free for anyone to take. (you can own a harddrive with code on it, and claim noone should steal it, but not the idea of the code itself)

If you have ideas, code, music or art which you wish for noone to partake in, do your best to keep them secret. Certainly, breaking into secret areas should be illegal, but once the cat gets out of that bag it gets out of the bag.

The creative people behind these ideas I believe will be able to find good compensation nonetheless in society, IP-laws nowadays only serve to protect megacorporations to the detriment of creativity and ideas.
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I thought that was a big thing in the 18th century but Atlas Obscura says that may not be the case:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/colonial-calves-men-fa...
I can confirm this. I love this extension and am using Firefox.
Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2
https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

Locally encrypted, open source, free with no ads or can be self-hosted. And most importantly, its not tied to any particular browser. With xBrowserSync for bookmarks and Bitwarden for passwords, I can browser hop as much as I want.