skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically, this is a mostly toothless law, that requires small companies to follow to the extreme detriment of the large companies... which already likely do the bare minimum.

I'm not sure of the term. It's like a regulatory legal barrier that keeps new companies from entering the market.
I wonder how many projects will be oblivious because they use their own allocator (eg: we use a modified version of Doug Lea's allocator).

If the system allocator gets slower people might be more inclined to switch to something custom or use locally recycled allocations which may make use-after-free bugs even harder to find.

I'm sympathetic but I wonder if it would be more sensible as an option that's on by default instead.
Depending on who said it and how it was said, it could certainly have happened. It's basically what we did with the bird flu years before, and somewhat with SARS.

There may be an argument that if Covid was either more deadly or less deadly it would have had less of an effect.
Suppose we were in 1890 discussing how we need to get rid of horse manure in our cities and there were a hot debate on how this "horseless carriage" thing is highly experimental and threatens the livelihood of a whole supply chain around horses. As it turns out, you can get rid of manure and it does in fact make a lot of people poorer, but in the end it enables a lot more prosperity for future generations.
That issue has absolutely nothing to do with the First Amendment and seems completely off-topic for this thread.
Maybe politics would be better if people didn't jump to stereotypes (which don't always hold true, as evidenced by your comment and the replies pointing out your error), and instead of blaming/attacking each other, we could focus more efforts on making things better.
You need both.

Companies collecting data on you directly or indirectly is a problem, even if they don't do anything malevolent with it (and some already do). The issue is that eventually they'll be breached, and then that data can end up in the hands of malicious actors that might use it in a way that could harm you (e.g. identity theft, compromising other accounts thanks to peronal info, etc.).
React is bad because it's great
Wow. Such a story. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Precisely. "It's the economy, stupid". Among the employed and single in Silicon Valley, estimates are that there are three men for every two. It's an awful place to date, even beside the fact that nobody moves anywhere for the dating pool.
That’s correct the browser limits us to do automatic discovery sadly.

WebBLE support is on our roadmap though!

However, if you use Ditto in an electron (and soon Tauri) you’ll be able to take advantage of multicast, BLE, P2P WiFi etc… while “feeling browser”-like with your development.
> Heat Your Clothes, Not Your House

In the name of environmentalism, you will live like an impoverished, preindustrial Inuit, but without any of the upside.
We need to update the website. A lot of ES APIs are now compatible.
Low-Tech Mag also discusses insulating the body without electricity: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-th...

As they mention in that article, the main advantage of synthetics over wool is that synthetics weigh much less while providing the same insulation. However, I figure this is less important if you're sitting around your house than if you're e.g. hiking and have to carry the weight with you, and wool should be great indoors.

Personally I will avoid buying synthetics from now on in an effort to eliminate plastics / fossil fuel products from my life, and reduce microplastic pollution. I will probably be buying more wool, to avoid "death cloth" / clothes that stop insulating if you sweat / get wet.

Are there any other notable natural fibers besides wool that continue to insulate when wet?
A month ago someone here suggested the hilarious theory that Tether is being used for crime in a way easily traceable by the government, so certain agencies are propping it up so they can keep the operations going. Meaning that the criticisms a) "Tether is insolvent" and b) "Tether is used for crime" effectively cancel each other out...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32588210
Who's problem exactly? The communicating packs are WAY better. They last much longer than the old style. It makes sense why this was done.
> Users can't set a default browser on iOS.

Yes they can, starting with iOS 14: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211336
Biden straight up said that social media companies are killing people by not censoring certain content. The article goes into this in some detail if you want more context, but if the President is saying that you are killing people, that's a pretty clear threat that they are looking to regulate you if you don't get in line.
If the Taliban is against violence then I guess we did win the war /s
Often, the SQLite database would fit in RAM, and reads would be served straight from the page cache, with no overhead.

Disclaimer: I wrote the FUSE framework LiteFS uses, https://bazil.org/fuse -- and I also have some pending performance-related work to finish, there...
I support the charging connector standardization, but not tool batteries. There are so many factors in play I don't see how standardization would offer enough benefit to offset innovation penalties. Even within a given brand/connector, there are variations on capabilities like size and duty cycle and power output. I have a bunch of Milwaukee cordless tools on the M18 platform, and the smaller tools (e.g. drills) can use any battery but some tools (e.g. chainsaw) only work with a subset because of higher power draw.

I have cordless tools across a number of battery platforms and while it's convenient when they can be shared, it's ultimately not a big deal to have a few if another company makes a better tool. Tradespeople won't lock themselves in if the right tool is on a different platform.
It just happened with a movie in the last year. An Asian person speaking English with a Mandarin accent was subtitled. If I could remember the name I'd link it to you. Maybe you just aren't watching content with diverse casts that speak with accents.
Funny thing, as a clueless little kid in the 80s whose mind was shaped by popular fiction, I often suspected this kind of thing already existed back then. One of my 'gotcha' questions for adults was, "I've only ever seen him on TV, so how do I know Ronald Reagan is even real?"

Over 30 years later, while I would've never anticipated smartphones... I really thought impersonation technology through video & audio editing (not dependent upon look-alike actors) would've been here sooner. Another example of wildly underestimating the complexity of what might seem like a simple problem.
No it does not. You have to control the humidity, not the temperature.

As @bombcar pointed out, preventing airflow to retain heat can cause mold.
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The main difference between guix and nix(other than ideology) is the language used to define the packages. Nix uses its own language, guix uses guile(compatible with scheme). Many people will find the nix language a lot more readable and easy to learn, but one may argue scheme/guie is a more general purpose language. It has been in existence for a long time. As such it has a large number of libraries, editing tools and it is easier to do stuff without having to resort to third party tools and scripts. Therefore in the long run guile (for one that learns it well) will prove more useful.

I have to admit I'm not 100% convinced by the argument. I've been learning guile for a couple of weeks and I just start to "get it". Compared with other languages I learned the difficulty with guile was many many times more (for various reasons). I now see it as a pretty powerfull language, but not without many faults.

The above notwithstanding I think something like Guix/Nix will become really popular when a truly easy for beginners to learn and powerfull language is used (such as python for example). Perhaps it would be an interesting project to attempt to auto-translate guix from guile into python. I can definitely see it takeoff then.
Yeah, you can implement a basic FSM and use `next` to handle fake `RS` (e.g. newlines).

I'm not necessarily recommending it, but it's certainly possible and could be portable and really fast to run with a low memory footprint.
"Oops! My mistakes cheat authors but bring me more revenue. Win-win!"
Maybe it was named for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(goddess)
Yep, I think it's more accurate to call them the next Nikola - another vaporware effort with "superior technology" supposedly waiting in the wings
Idk about Facebook specifically but it seems the old wisdom of not discussing religion, politics and diet is more relevant than ever. We have added more topics to the list: controversial medical procedures, celebrity drama, conspiracy theories etc.

I stopped using social media for many years, recently came back to have access to local cycling/running groups and my experience is largely positive. All I see is cool people doing cool things, fun events, some local cycling related trade etc. I managed to make some connections and keep them going thanks to social media it's just positive experience all around.

I think Instagram can be like that if you filter out politics/celebrities and "I have money/am attractive" influencers. It takes some work for that to stop showing in your feed and to learn to ignore whatever is left though.
I run into similar problems in a corporate context. Being able to quickly tell someone "the provisioning portal is at corp.short/provision" is easily 10x more useful than "go look in the wiki for the link"
You hit the nail on the head. We are working on this as a major initiative to solve the problem you detailed. As you can guess the truly decentralized authentication is quite new and we are releasing some features to get us less reliant on online services for connectivity.
You must fandom everything you can.
Podcasting is just radio now
You can harden and configure a Linux system to have many of the ChromeOS security features, but ChromeOS has all of these enabled by default:

- All user data is encrypted at the login level. A guest user cannot access any other users’ data. Whereas in Ubuntu, for example, home directories have 755 permissions.

- The Linux userspace in ChromeOS is actually running on KVM, so ChromeOS itself is insulated from user-installed malware.

- Verified boot is huge. It is theoretically impossible for a modification to system-level software to survive a reboot. An attacker would have to modify the hardware too. And even if someone stole your Chromebook and modified the hardware to run malware, your data is still encrypted.

If you are interested, a more thorough explanation can be found here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/sec...
In Firefox the code text is only readable in dark mode. In Light mode it's dark grey on black with a bright page around it.
We use multihop ad hoc network connections! That’s the BIG thing that we add to the mix!
This seems like an agenda-motivated post because even accepting your point as true, you ignored the actual subject of conversation and pivoted to the thing you wanted to talk about.

Imagine the following headline: Academics make stronger connections between sedentary lifestyles and heart disease. This is true. Imagine someone replied to that conversation with "I should go to the gym more often." You then butted in with "People 150 years ago didn't go to the gym, they just worked physically demanding jobs. Modern office jobs are the entry point for sedentary living. Therefor the solution is not going to the gym, it's becoming a construction worker."

You're not even wrong in that you are proposing something that's part of a solution, it's just bizarre to hijack someone mentioning dental hygiene into a hobbyhorse post about dietary sugar.
It's just completely disingenuous writing to constantly read headlines like "Tesla slams into median," when you will literally never see a headline like "Ford Tempo slams into median."
aha, that's a pretty sharp conceptualization then, if it's being generated at too slow a rate we basically drain the reservoir before it can fill up and replenish.
How to sell B2B software to big corporations?
Why not?

Why would anyone not consider climate when deciding on a place they'll be living?
DC had a pilot LED roll out project & everyone hated the harsg low quality intense light.

They said they heard the feedback, but it's still like 3600K bulbs they're going full stram ahead with, without having trialed them.

Its weird thinking the 2200K night is on the way out, will probably be gone.
At the cost of billions incurred by France and UK though. The economics never looked good for Boom.
Please do not resort to personal attacks, we are just having a technical discussion.

In intel parlance 'serializing instruction' is a Word of Power; Please see Vol 3A, under serializing instructions. CPUID is listed there.

In the same section, LFENCE, MFENCE, SFENCE are listed as 'memory ordering instructions' and the documentation explicitly says that:

The following instructions are memory-ordering instructions, not serializing instructions. These drain the data memory subsystem. They do not serialize the instruction execution stream

Handling self modifying code requires serializing the instruction stream, so the memory fences are neither necessary nor sufficient[1].

Going back to the original argument, the memory fence instructions (and the various LOCK prefixed operations) do indeed serialize memory operations to guarantee ordering, which I don't dispute. But that's nothing to do with synchronizing caches like you claimed.

[1] IIRC MFENCE it is actually also a serializing instruction in practice, but Intel has not yet committed to document this behavior as architectural.
This does not work, typical residential solar inverters compliant with UL 1741 or similar will not power a dead grid—main breaker open or not.

Yes, it's theoretically possible to grid form with an inverter and battery to trick your solar inverters to thinking that there's a compliant grid to island your house, but doing so safely is not for the average end-user, and may also involve dangerous components like suicide cords.

Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islanding, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid-tie_inverter
You can't point to another project because anything else would have been canceled five years ago
If there's a piece of the bill that illustrates your objection, please do share. As is this feels like a canned response based on a stereotype, not a substantial objection.
I don’t want to have to go to court to not be extorted over my data.
Previously discussed at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835000
Misery starts when the struggle ends
Ventilation controls the mold in places you can see, like showers, but has little effect on mold growth in concealed places like sealed wall cavities. That's the far more dangerous form of mold, because you can't clean it.

Many old uninsulated wood houses, despite their reputations for being preserved primarily due to their mold resistant old growth structural lumber, were preserved in major part by the fact that they were constantly being heated all winter by high capacity heating equipment like wood or coal stoves that had to put out a ton of heat (at very low efficiency) to overcome the lack of heat distribution, resulting in significant vapor drive [1] wherein radiant heat and air pressure pushes water vapor out of warm spaces through permeable walls, therefore keeping them dry.

Vapor drive and the location of the dewpoint boundary are important principles in designing a house's envelope, and maintaining permanently enclosed mold sensitive materials above the dewpoint is needed to prevent mold in walls and other areas.

This is especially critical in houses with vapor barriers (usually plastic film in the wall), which essentially trap vapor on either side of the barrier, so the dewpoint boundary (the line in the wall assembly maintained at a temperature where vapor condenses) should always be in a place that can easily dry out the condensate that develops there. Otherwise, mold will likely grow.

1. https://www.finehomebuilding.com/project-guides/insulation/v...
This is a defense that weakens the defender.

If it’s is true what you say the fact that so many of the population are primed to rebel mean the unrest already existed and would have been unleashed with another trigger.

It is not the truth about the trigger that matters here but the truth about the situation which has prepared the unrest.
With Coreboot and the ChromeOS Linux kernel running well on the device, how much would it take to release a Framework Laptop Linux Edition based on the Chromebook mainboard, but with a standard keyboard and somewhat optimized for a pre-installed Linux distribution?

I would imagine that regular Linux won't do as well as ChromeOS in terms of battery life, but perhaps still considerably better than the Windows mainboard+firmware.
It's kind of hilarious that of all the datapoints websites will gorge upon, DNT is the one thing they all toss out.
Notice I said profitable niche. You won't magically become the profitable behemoth that Slack will. But you can build a company just on this one angle.
Since we are here does anyone have idea about how to schedule 1000 calls per day?

Background task:

I am building a service to send twitter messages daily. The limit of Twitter API is I can't send more than 1000 messages so I have to limit the call in the backend.

The closet solution I found that is I schedule a celery beat background task exactly 3 minutes and I call the Twitter API 2 times per task so daily it can send upto 960 messages in 24-hour window.

So I am still finding the solution to make this happen. Suggestion welcome.
I would put Vespa and also Weaviate in a new category called "Vector Search".

We're also actively working on adding Vector search to Typesense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851894
Generally speaking, the nice thing about bitmap indexes is that you're able to access the data in a very granular way. If you have a WHERE clause that's calling out specific values, you only access the data which is pertinent to those values within a column, you don't have to scan the whole column. This is simply due to the structure of a bitmap index where you have a separate bitmap for each value in the domain of a column.

Furthermore, access patterns for bitmaps tend to be very linear and cache/prefetch friendly.

I think it's very feasible that adding SIMD could result in a real-world speedup in an otherwise well-optimized in-memory system. I agree if you need to go to disk, that will likely dominate the overall performance of a single query, but it may still be overall more efficient which can still help in a multi-user situation.
CalVer and SemVer
Heh, I did the opposite recently after reading "Software Engineering at Google" and I discovered that even though it would be very easy to make: there is no equivalent to the `go/` permanent "friendly" URL shortener.

It can be backed by a TOML file for hardcoding URLS or a database for making it easy to add new ones (which I think is the Google way).

If I did a stupid; or a better version already exists: let me know.

https://git.drk.sc/dijit/redirector-rs

https://github.com/dijit/redirector-rs
The EU appeal the article is about has nothing at all to do with GDPR, user data, or privacy.

It's about anticompetitive behaviour, i.e. antitrust. Antitrust is not particularly about tech companies, and it has been around a long time, since before modern computers.

It's about misusing a position of market dominance to prevent a healthy competitive market from operating. Very large companies which are market-dominant face this problem, but they also have the resources to understand and handle the responsibility. They can either do so, or face fines and injunctions to make them do so. In severe cases they can be forced to break up dominant business units, such as happened with the breakup of AT&T in the USA some years ago.

This is the same sort of thing as might have blocked nVidia from buying ARM, for example (until nVidia pulled out voluntarily). You can see how that has nothing to do with GDPR; it wasn't even in the EU.
In my experience men and women's emotional levels aren't very different but how they respond to those emotions can be different because cultural context must also be navigated. In America it isn't manly to express a deep craving for cuddles, but every heterosexual woman I've met have been surprised by how touch-needy men end up being.
The wealthy before the Chinese Communist Revolution are back on top
I've personally been doing C and then C++ for about a decade before moving onto Rust 2-3 year ago. I don't think you're missing out on much by skipping C or C++, but I recommend dabbling in them a bit (doesn't matter if before/while/after learning Rust), as it will make you appreciate Rust more.
> those aren't "applications"

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This is great, and I think if it was fully adopted initially in greenfield, this would be a completely feasible solution. My question is though, these problems exist at large organizations and will be seen as "another tool to rule them all" synonymous with things like "sharepoint". Disclaimer: I'm not saying that backstage is anyway comparable to sharepoint except that it presents itself as this grandiose solution to all things on boarding and learning on your own.

With that said, what's the low hanging fruit to entice adoption of backstage into an organization that already has a "process" like mentioned in the article of whiteboard meetings with stakeholders. Obviously that's not a great use of time, but it's also no extra learning or work, that SME can talk about their function without any preparation and can interactively answer any questions the learner asks at the time.

That doesn't scale in practice, but it also doesn't require any more whole team buy in
This completely ignores that Reddit admin’s are also moderators that the moderators have extreme power in censorship, including to the topic, automated tools and algorithms.
You can help them if you want! :)

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/
Your cell carrier will be able to pinpoint your location very accurately in a urban location. If you look at people getting convicted of various crimes you'll see the location data they're able to extract from the phone number.

Also, they will almost certainly be able to tie it to your identity even on a burner phone by who you contact. If you have a contract then obivously they will tie it. If you have a pay as you go and make payments via non cash methods then that will be tied. Cash payments and the location you made them from will help conclusively tie it to your identity with a half decent amount of work.

You are able to disable gps hardware on some Android phones. But as previously noted, no matter who your phone manufacturer is, it is a tracking device.
> Communications software is powerful enough to put fear in the hearts of political rulers!

Yes. Encryption software can also defeat courts, judges, governments, militaries.
As long as Apple's allocator continues to zero freed memory, programs accidentally depending on that behavior will only be a problem for other operating systems.
"Hypocrisy is taking pride in Unix shell scripts kept since the 1990:s while scoffing at banks running Cobol."

Well, maybe obliviousness is.
“Extract fines” makes it sound like the EU is the evil one here, rather than Google abusing its position.
My company - roadie.io - offers SaaS Backstage. We're the second largest contributor after Spotify and we're co-hosting the first ever BackstageCon at KubeCon NA this year.

Get in touch if you ever want to discuss Backstage. Email in bio.
no dice, you'd have to climb it, and that would be exercise.