skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lose events due to inotify buffer overflow, or provide backpressure on entire vfs and allow a watcher to DoS the entire system. Pick one.

Similar "minor implementation issues" occur when considering how to fix all of the other "bugs."

It's fine if you don't like the design trade-offs of a particular solution. But pretending that they aren't trade-offs, or they aren't valid choices, is just going to leave people shaking their heads at you.

Edit: and by "you" i mean the authors of these articles. Although I think Marek is a very talented guy and probably just a bit hyperbolic with his titles.
For an extreme example of this, look up 'rubber rooms' for teachers [1] -

> It’s a June morning, and there are fifteen people in the room, four of them fast asleep, their heads lying on a card table. Three are playing a board game. [...]

> These fifteen teachers, along with about six hundred others, in six larger Rubber Rooms in the city’s five boroughs, have been accused of misconduct, [...] or, in some cases, of incompetence [...]

> The teachers have been in the Rubber Room for an average of about three years, doing the same thing every day—which is pretty much nothing at all.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/31/the-rubber-roo...
I happen to study/photograph insects as an amateur and can casually confirm the collateral damage pesticides have on insect life.

A common manifestation of it is to find lethargic insects. Bodily fully intact and seeming healthy, yet barely able to move. Insects normally skittish that you can simply pick up. I'm not talking about insects at the end of their life cycle or them being very cold. There's something very wrong with these individuals, I believe studies suggest their brains are messed up from the pesticides.
Circa 1990 I was a DJ at a college radio station and we had a pair of these that I recall fondly.

Lately I've been watching Techmoan and that's got me thinking about vintage audio gear. I recently got two minidisc players, I am thinking about getting a turntable but most of the ones I see are either cheap in both senses of the word or crazy expensive. Even though I see a lot of vinyl records for sale at reasonable prices, the inability to record is a negative compared to the minidisc.
It's not a pot-shot to say that remote learning is ineffective for children. If an environment tailored for education isn't effective, how could a home environment filled with distractions sans any full-time adult motivation be considered an upgrade?

Plus, once-in-a-100-years or not, a substantial portion of a generation of kids spent their formative years in a world that enforced physical separation, covered faces and general agoraphobia for a world bearing an unseen, airborne and contagious horror (with a fatality rate between 0.001 and 0.003 for ages 0-19, established since late 2020[1]). Children born during the pandemic have already demonstrated decreased IQs, and that's just in the short-term. We're probably going to see an upward trend in childhood neuroses and maladaptive social behavior in the years to come.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0
But then you can protect against both keyloggers and stolen laptops by enabling TOTP 2FA. You can even require all three!

I have a bastion setup somewhere in my network that's locked behind either an SSH key or a password + TOTP token for when I lose access to all devices with a signed SSH certificate. All devices are encrypted and I don't lose sight of them in public so my threat model would include "the police" and "people violently breaking in and stealing my stuff" but a password isn't going to protect me from that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/08/racism-our...
paypal stole my free $5 or $15 in the '90s by removing my account
my bad, not native speaker
I have not dug deeply into the technical content, but the headline as written is pretty far off the mark.

I believe the press release is here: https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/all-news/new-data-transmissi...

The innovation: Normally, data over a fiber is multiplexed using many wavelengths of light (wave-division multiplexing, or WDM for short). These wavelengths are generated from an array of lasers, forming a frequency comb.

The result here creates a frequency comb from a single laser, and uses that for the transmission. It saves all the power associated with the many lasers traditionally used for WDM. All the "chips" that do the modulation, transmission, reception, and de-modulation are still there, but you've cut out all but one laser from the system. It's a nice result.

That was my quick take, please correct if you have more info.
Blockchain and web 3.0: kicking the hornet's nest
Why would that 'terrify' you, out of interest?

- ed : are you thinking that microbes and germs and whatnot might lie there dormant until they're dug up again, unleashing some plague on unsuspecting descendants? If so, I imagine the chemicals leeching from the plastic will kill or retard their essential survival/replicative mechanisms...
I blow them off my wood deck, so they don't rot and damage the wood.

I let them lie on the rest of my 1.6 acres. And the 1 acre that's forested, we're working on trying to de-invasive-ize the forest and try to help rehabilitate it. Its just 2 of us, but we're trying.
This is not a new thing at all. I remember articles about "sick buildings," from years ago.

Personally, I try to keep as many windows and screen doors open as possible, for as long into each season, as possible. I'm fortunate, in that I live in a fairly temperate climate area.
Pretty much all the time, whenever I'm not on my ThinkPad keyboard I use it in place of the trackpoint when I need to make small text selections etc without moving my hands away from the homerow.
Building the SHAKTI Microprocessor
I like how you choose to use your own domain ( subdomaining ) for this project. Do you have any story behind this choice? I think this is most underrated one but people realise the brand power from it. I'm digging it.
Demand doesn't need to have a rationale (in the sense of "real needs" or "utility value" or something of the like) to work in raising value. It just needs to exist!
I wish I didn't give cnn a click for this...
In your case assuredly so, for you uttered the magical invocation "emacs" which will be supported 'til the heat death of the Universe :)
Putting random login pages at /wp-admin/ is great for farming IP ranges to block. They don't even need to go anywhere, all you need is a form with a login button and bots will try to log in.
In the UK/Australia, this would definitely qualify as constructive dismissal just for the role change. If they changed the salary then even more so.

Of course, if they didn't change the salary then it could turn out interesting; the customer support folks could demand equal pay as the ex-engineers.
> In capitalism the timescales of cause and effect are so distant that many people will not even see the consequences in the grand scheme of things.

Can you give a counterexample? Why are you talking about capitalism, and not, say, people?
> So merely showing the intent to fight back will make them move onto another target.

This is magical thinking. "If I do A, he will do B" as if it were a cosmic law. No such deal exists! Bully has a whole alphabet of responses to choose from, including taking you up on your challenge.

You need to take a hard look at what you're suggesting here. You're describing people who are verbally violent. You're telling people that the way to get them to stop is by using physical violence. You're escalating the situation. You're doing this on the assumption that verbally violent people are not willing to go further. This is false. The problem with violent people is there's always someone willing to go further than you.

What you're actually doing is telling kids to make a threat display. Like a thug displaying his gun to intimidate the other person into backing down. This is an effective deterrent but you better be able and willing to follow up on that threat if necessary. If you do this, all bets are off. There is no guarantee that your opponent will back down. It's also possible that your threat will be perceived as a challenge to his masculity, especially if you do it in front of his peers. He'll think he'll have no choice but to take you on because he'll lose face if he doesn't.

If you're going to do this, you better be able to quickly incapacitate your opponent. I don't mean punching his face once and walking away victorious. I mean literally breaking his jaw and then following up with more attacks until he's unconscious on the floor. Then you better hope that this display of extreme violence was enough to intimidate any other bullies hanging around or you'll have to do the same thing to them before they gang up on you. If at any point your confidence in your ability to do this ever wavers, you should not attempt it.
> a tax on plastic

How it making it a profit centre for the government gonna fix anything?
shrug youtube is really good at adding content similar to what you've already watched to your recommendations. If you're getting jordan peterson and andrew tate videos its probably related to what you've been watching.

I suspect as well that simply watching shorts over long form content makes the recommendation algorithms assume things about your ability to concentrate on long form content.

Even still youtube has a function where you click the dots near a video and say 'not interested' to get rid of channels and topics from recommendations that works fairly well, so if its recommending something you dislike, you have the ability to remove those recommendations and tune future ones.

PEBCAK
Why have a child? It is completely optional.
What are the units of internet traffic?
> It's not a pot-shot to say that remote learning is ineffective for children

It's not remote learning that is being discussed here, it's remote learning during a pandemic. That's what repeatedly keeps being ignored. We have never had a proper experiment with remote and in-person learning side-by-side when, you know, there weren't headlines about the number of deaths in the paper every day.

> Plus, once-in-a-100-years or not, a substantial portion of a generation of kids spent their formative years in a world that enforced physical separation, covered faces and general agoraphobia for a world bearing an unseen, airborne and contagious horror (with a fatality rate between 0.001 and 0.003 for ages 0-19, established since late 2020[1]). Children born during the pandemic have already demonstrated decreased IQs, and that's just in the short-term. We're probably going to see an upward trend in childhood neuroses and maladaptive social behavior in the years to come.

Yeah, this is all fair and should be discussed – I just don't understand why a 2% decrease in average scores during a pandemic is considered the gold standard of evidence for it.
I'm so excited about this . It's a testament to how well-built-up modern frontend tooling is, especially around React. The things that used to take hundreds or even thousands of lines of config can now be done in a few dozen at most with managed libraries. And better!
It is telling that the feds are unwilling to eat their own cooking.

Although "disable" is not the same as "remove" it is better than nothing.

https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/disabling-intel-m...
Advances in air filtration technologies (2021)
Pakistani journalist killed in police shooting in Kenya
Don’t group all white collar workers with those in SF. Some of us have been offered lucrative jobs in that city and turned them down because of what’s going on up there. The ones you should be mad at are those paying $4000/mo to live in a laundry room (or equivalent)
Ask HN: HN, but for Mathematicians?
Are there platforms/communities such as HN but mostly with members that are high on maths?
"ative to a software behemoth like Elasticsearch, what they actually mean is: "An alternative to the 10% of functionality of $tool that are interesting to me"

Which is perfectly fine. A lot of tools become so general and bloated, that there are large groups that would be fine with many different 10% subsets of their features...

Kind of like how I don't need MS Word or OpenOffice Write, any simple text editing program with a few basic features (like printing, bold/italics, and word count) will do for my needs...
Ask HN: HN, but for Scientists?
Are there platforms/communities such as HN but mostly with scientists instead of CS/engineering people?
This is one of the key "promises" of agile development, which to me shows why agile promises more than it can deliver often times.
How about we at least “work to reduce, reuse, and recycle” _until_ we have energy scaled up sufficiently to do what you describe?
We have plenty of water on the surface. Most of it is in the ocean. While that is not fresh water, it is where bassically all non sequestered water will end up. The limiting factor of fresh water is the how quickly the water cycle can produce it, which does not decrease if some water gets sequestered somewhere.

To the extent that net water in the water cycle is relevent, we would have the opposite problem where we are introducing far more water that had been sequestered (mostly in the form of glaciers), causing sea levels to rise. It would be great if we could find a way to sequester all of that extra water; but even putting a dent in that would nake carbon sequestration look trivial.
Thoughts on the current backlash against the SAT/ACT/other standardized college entrance exams?

The liberal refrain is "High-scorers just had rich parents to hire them a tutor!", as if the tutor's instruction didn't actually uplift the children and make them stronger.
I don't know the specific answer to your question, but have you gone into the power management settings and specifically disabled sleeping/power management for that application? I ask because I remember this being a thing on Mac when I had one so I assume the iPad must have something similar. Same thing for network.
Mostly I listen to podcasts but there's a few I listen to for learning, specifically a podcast discussing recent developments in law. I might try listening to these podcasts in Snipd (or with Airr) to try out how easy it is to clip relevant chunks, while using Pocket Casts for the vast stuff I listen to for fun/entertainment.

I think most people listen to podcasts for fun and entertainment so it's unlikely they'll want to clip, get transcripts etc. But the small number of podcasts doing deep dives on scholarly, technical or professional matters? It's potentially quite useful to be able to get transcripts/excerpts with highlights and audio clips to add to personal notes for future reference.
Our public parks went downhill. People park cars on the grass, do donuts in the grass, race through the park. People drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in the park, leave their trash all over, play obnoxiously loud music...
Yup, collusion without having any meetings.

Now, if the tenants had an app that could organize rent negotiations and strikes without meetings based on algorithmic market analyses, we might be getting to an actual market.
I think you may need to unlearn this conversation style before you can participate meaningfully. Vocalising your stereotypes and memorised emotional responses isn't worth much.
Better start damming rivers too, we don't want all that fresh water sequestered in the ocean where it becomes unusable due to salt contamination.
Could you recommend a better article on air-launched tracking devices, commercial or otherwise?

> A cylinder with a GPS tracker about the size of an aspirin bottle is launched using air pressure from the front of the police squad car and adheres to the back of the fleeing vehicle using magnets and a sticky adhesive.
One has to grant permissions to install unknown software. That means going into settings and flipping a toggle. Are you saying these ads somehow bypassed that?
A lot of microplastics also gets into the water from our clothing - one vector is via washing & drying machines.
Are you sure you need elaboration? They're rendering natively when opened: https://i.imgur.com/1Q7KjB0.png

Windows 98 dropdowns look like e.g.: https://imgur.com/rVQhAIq
I disagree with the author on the below:
>With GPT-3, we now have an infinitely-scalable technology that is years away from being able to enrich our lives, but is already more than capable of drowning out all remnants of authentic content on the internet. And because you can leverage this to earn money or sway opinions, that outcome is probably hard to avoid.

I can't speak for GPT-3 specifically as I haven't spent enough time with it, but it's open equivalent Bloom is very useful today. Author says it is far from being able to "enrich our lives". I think otherwise. The whole "AI revolution" definitely did enrich my life. It renewed my passion for programming in general. The possibilities are truly endless. From translation, to content summarisation and search. Then it is only a step away from enriching other people's lives with products that make them more productive, help them in execution of mundane tasks etc.

I think AIs like bloom will in not to distant time allow us to fix the Internet to how it was before all the shitty content generation replaced genuine content in Google for example.

Also, there is a huge potential to improve our understanding of what it means to think and understand complex concepts. For the very first time we have something that comes very close to such understanding. Something that doesn't have feelings, it can be cut, modified, transformed and studied in myriad of different ways.

Also, believe me when I say the next AI revolution will be with models like Bloom that will be able to run on the edge. This is currently impossible due to their size, but it is very likely we'll find methods to optimise them significantly.

Then there is potential application of such models to decision making. I bet there is ongoing research in that field right now.

Addressing the negative side, "ability to generate garbage content that looks good". The ability has already existed for advanced adversaries. Hostile nations can simply employ people to "generate content". Smaller players have lots of other (inferior) tools. Their content doesn't have to fool people most of the time. It just has to fool various algorithms. Even without advanced AI models the search engines and social networks have been loosing badly in this fight. Existence of those tools will improve the bad actors capabilities, but it will also give good actors the chance to innovate with something new.
A transparent shakedown. I and those like me will continue to exercise our rights and pursue our own interests in spite of these threats of coordinated harassment.

By the way, your cries of being perpetually marginalized ring hollow, when in the very same sentence you boast of your ability to silence and damage those whom you hate.
Why? I've been on HN forever and I'm a huge TikTok fan. I will never understand the outright rejection on TikTok, there are so many cool projects which produce TikTok devlogs. Not just that several niches which I don't see often enough on HN (like AI ethics, not just copy right stuff) have entire channels on TikTok.
My mother went/is going through similar issues.

Removing windows and putting a user friendly Linux distro changed everything. No more invasive software in her way and her aging PC was brought back to life. At first we were a bit scared that there might be technical challenges with Linux that might appear but so far nothing of that sort.
Communicating with Extreme Clarity
Could you not? BlackByte ransomware slinger twists the knife with data stealer
They could try training and compensating moderators more like software developers, for one.

Ultimately maybe it just doesn't make sense for social networks to be centralized monoliths.
Election spam text time in the USA
People want a product that works for MVP in most cases. If you are a brand new tech that no one has ever done, okay. But if there is even 1 competitor that kinda works, a mock-up is worth 0. So I think depends on the market for the product.
Yeah a raw pointer makes sense but is equally unhelpful for the caller, since there's still no safe way to access the data.

It sounds to me like the Python buffer protocol is under-specified, which can lead to data races in native code.

Here's an example of how this could occur without Rust being involved:

- Two python threads with a shared buffer object

- One thread instructs a C extension to write into the buffer

- The other thread instructs a C extension to read from the buffer

- The buffer is implemented to return the same pointer for reads and writes (not forbidden by the spec https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/buffer.html#buffer-request-t...)

- The C extension releases the GIL while accessing the buffer (explicitly allowed by the spec)

In this case, the C extension is reading and writing to the same buffer at the same time without the use of atomics, which is the definition of a data race, and therefore triggers UB.

IMO, the best fix would be for the buffer implementation to expose a "concurrency mode", and require that users of the buffer API use the concurrency mode specified by the buffer when accessing it. In one mode, no synchronization is necessary because the buffer only ever hands out one writable pointer or multiple readable pointers but never both. In another mode, you might be required to have the GIL, in another mode there might be a buffer-specific RWLock you have to hold while accessing it.
If an employee drags ass, but doesn't want to quit... and an employer tries to manage them out, but doesn't want to fire them... then I would say that it's a draw. And in this case, the employee generally "wins" in the event of a draw.
No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go
It's up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN_ZVatL8-Q
Ask HN: How to break my habit of folding legs on chair and hunchback?
I have a regrettable habit of folding my legs on the chair when working and hunch back, which is unhealthy.

Anyone who had struggled with something similar in the past, please share your advice and experience.

BTW, I also have ADHD which comes with challenge of behavior inhibition.
"her main duties now consisted of simply being available between 0900 and 1800, sending the occasional email and completing the odd routine task from home."

Sounds like heaven, finally I could get some work done on my side project.
It doesn’t matter how long it takes if it elects to do it when you want to do something else. Computers are our servants not our managers. Choosing to do something which can neither be deferred or cancelled is unforgivable.
Data volume transmitted per time increment.
It's only legal if employer refuses to file the proper paperwork (firing / layoff) if they leave and it is ruled constructive dismissal.
It's nice after having a few kief bowls for breakfast when you're in a strange neighborhood and don't know where to get a good cortado, but the fact it's supposed to be served chilled is annoying as hell, I wouldn't drink it warm.

It sucks that the guy who invented it or whatever died, but at least it sounds like it was natural causes not, like, the guy who invented anti-virus moved in next door, started flying in pretty biology PhDs to invent new forms of bath salts, then murdered his neighbor when he rightfully complained about the lunatic American.

(And I say that as someone named Gregory who... hasn't always the best neighbor.)
I prefer to build MLPs (minimum loveable product) instead. If your MVP is bare bones and far away from the ideal product, you are effectively working against your core business viability. You instead have proved that an unfinished product is not viable.
Another correct solution which avoids the issue which is entirely of userspaces creation :)
BLISS is ignorance!