skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting - would you be able to expand a bit on why hugepages makes a difference for Postgres?

I have only the most basic knowledge of hugepages - picked up on it being a necessity for stable performance in VMs, but don't understand why it would matter for Postgres as well.

And do you end up having to configure Postgres to use hugepages, or does it pick them up automatically?
I am the first person to appreciate the pro-online-privacy legislation from the EU in the last couple of years.

Yet...How can the same organization be behind this? Is it a result of the sheer size of the org, with malevolent people reeking their ugly heads? A more cynical "privacy legislation as a smoke screen with totalitarian measures in the backend"?
Yes, this is a tactic some companies resort to in order to incentive resignations. However, as you correctly highlight, this typically results in a loss of talents. AFAIK, Intel is already experiencing challenging times. Attracting – and retaining – new talents is especially hard to do, when the job marketplace learns about this peculiar work culture that prioritises paying dividents to talent retention. I would be very happy to be proven mistaken, for the sake of friends working at Intel.
Only few big players will obey this law. Maybe that's the point EU lawmakers were going for...
It always seems like a bad idea to attempt a technological solution to a legal/social problem. Surely the age of people using services is a purely a social issue - similar to not allowing alcohol to be sold to underage drinkers. This kind of law would be analogous to making a law that alcohol cannot be physically consumed by underage drinkers.
Not in that sense. Localised in the sense that the dangerous zone was limited to a few tens of meters radius, and was unlikely to spread. As opposed to an airborne, or water soluble contamination which can spread to a wide area as the winds or the ground water flows.
36 HTTP requests totaling 459kB of random things to render a simple (and single) html input ?? Truly personalized experience.
That statement dopes not tell us much without you also telling us how that is handled in other countries. If you look at "List of countries by traffic-related death rate" the USA is far from the top of that list, so other countries would have it much worse with their own life-expectancy impact.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
As an European: good luck with that/buena suerte con ello. It won't last long.
Do you really think they are this stupid? Or just trying to control the public opinion?
Having had my account somehow hack in the past, they should have implemented that verification feature long ago (though I'm not sure it will prevent password sharing). It seems like a basic security feature, but I can understand that 'growth' took precedence for a while.
Why would one use digital communication assuming 24/7 monitoring? Just send regular mail and keep intentions between the lines.
Open Secrets has FTX.US linked to 135 House candidates (62 Democrats, 73 Republicans) and 33 Senate candidates (16 Democrats, 17 Republicans).

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/recipients?id=D00007...
No matter how many people fap on Brrrrtt it's a 50 year old design currently capable only for running amok against guerillas with rusted AKs and allied supply convoys. Any theater with enough MANPADs makes A-10 an angry fireball on the ground.
You don't think "you deserve it" is a little harsh?
There is a cleaning product called "Stardrops" in the UK which has advertised itself as having this stuff included for decades - probably a big deal for them, since the logo used to be a smiley little falling star; obviously much more appealing to children than most cleaner fluid containers.
Nuclear powered subs, there is no intent or request to provide nuclear weapons. It is not unusual for nuclear capable vessels to visit Australia and in the usual "will not confirm or deny" sense nobody is going to speak to visiting vessels with ICBM or tactical nuclear weapons.

But the formalism remains: Australian defence forces are not overtly seeking nuclear arms to operate under the Australian flag.
> In the normal default kernel settings, this only happens for processes that use the madvise(2) system call to tell the kernel that a mmap()'d area of theirs is suitable for this.

And everything makes sense now. I was having terrible terrible problems with Java and transparent huge pages. It only affected Java. I think this is because Java was the only thing we were running that would pre-allocate a large chunk of address space for the heap like this. I ended up disabling THP.

However, on a more recent install, the problem magically went away, and I got the impression that the problem was fixed. The article is recently-written, but they're not using an old Linux install, are they?
this guy is much smarter than mentioned on the internet i'm convinced of that lol
Damn, that was funny, Thanks.
Both pro-privacy and anti-privacy have one common theme - more power to the state.

And that's the point of EU bureaucrats. To gather as much power in their fight against both outside forces (e.g. US-based multinationals) and inside forces (member states).
> And it's not just this surveillance law that depresses me, reading up on the cyber resilience act just feels to me like it will suck even more fun out of software development, at least in a professional context.

God forbid people who love to use the title engineer will have to apply the rigour and standards of actual engineering to the work they do.
Sure:

BHP Billiton has claimed a West Australian record for the biggest open cut mine blast after detonating 11 million-tonnes of iron ore at its Jimblebar mine. More than 50 hectares of ground at the Pilbara mine was set off with more than 6,400 detonators.

The explosives used to create small atomic bomb scale blasts are carefully watched, as are the toxic chemicals used in gold processing, the crushers and screens which can make jam out of people, the HV electrics that can discharge and kill, the many propane tanks that can rupture and explode, the unstable stope slopes that can collapse and bury, ...

Come to think of it, everything about heavy mining is dangerous.

No one in W.Australian mining history has yet been killed by a stray Cs-137 source so in realistic terms they come a long way down the list in a domain that has seen hundreds of deaths per annum in the past.
I had always assumed it was because of backwards compat that the proposal was never accepted but since it turns out that is not the issue, do you have any idea why the proposal was never accepted ?
A database server seems like the ideal use case for (real) huge pages: a single application with a low-ish number of threads on a machine with a huge amount of RAM. Lots of page table misses with normal sized pages, but very little memory wasted from huge pages and no memory contention from other software.

Not coincidentally, Microsoft's primary use case for 1GB pages on Windows is MS SQL server.
Sail the seas in e-style with an electric yacht, eVTOL and sub combo
I also think that it's still very new, and we have not yet discovered the creative limitations of the tech.

I personally expect that it will turn out that there is zero creativity inherent to the tech, and that it will become apparent after a while that without constant new training input from real brains, the output will not creatively evolve, and therefore become boring to many and end up relegated to elevators, hold music, etc, while people rebel and quite possibly have another folk music explosion. Banjos refuse to die, and that will remain true.

I might be wrong, but that's how I'd bet my twenty bucks.
If they cut dividends they get kicked out of a multitude of basket goods retirement products which will absolutely bomb the living fuck out of the stock price and send them on an even worse death spiral.
There is absolutely nothing good about this law, and it really will be a disaster if it passes.
> This kind of law would be analogous to making a law that alcohol cannot be physically consumed by underage drinkers.

We don't have a law like that in place for alcohol, but we do for any number of other substances.
We just have to get used to this being an eternal political fight. There will always be politicians with a desire for control and/or a lack of technical understanding that will try to take control of people's communication in this way.

I guess the best way to counteract this is well funded institutions whose purpose it is to fight that fight for us. I'm using this realization as an occasion to make a donation to the EFF.
Great stuff!! If there were a whole course in this style, I would pay good money for it!
Don't be too hard on them, they're only a baby after all.

More seriously, I agree with you 100%. Many, many, times I've stopped halfway through a writing an explanatory comment and refactored the to make the comment unnecessary.

This habit was formed by realizing that most people (including me) don't read comments half as carefully as they read code. So if you want something to be noticed and understood, you better put it in the code.
I mean, we sent Ursula von der Leyen as head of the commission to the EU who became infamous in Germany for rather having CSAM stay online as long as she could prevent Germans from seeing it…
>Yet...How can the same organization be behind this?

Very easy. The organisation is huge and composed from 100000s of people working on different goals. They don't have any supervision, no democratic vote and if they decided they want to grow 400% in one year, they simply could and would, because no one feels like EU is "their government" they could easily protest against. If they want to create EU-Online-Child-Safety-Agency, they would just take our tax money and create it. What could you do against it? Shitpost online that you don't like it? It's too big and broad to control by citizens.
Even the seemingly independent ones can get acquired by Google and eventually killed.

Anyone remember Parse? It was quite successful until Facebook got hold of it and seemingly out of nowhere decided to destroy it.
How do you decide where to break up the chunks for embedding? On mine I am currently just doing something like X words per chunk. It's seems like ideally I could parse out all source code and avoiding breaking up functions but not sure how to do that for arbitrary languages.
The big metros are more efficient (dollar-wise) and have a lower environmental impact than small towns. Small towns, in the US, are already subsidized by big towns, at least economically.
> Russian mothers love their sons just as much as American ones.

It doesn't matter at all what they think, average citizen has absolutely no influence on how the government is run in Russia. Russia is a colonial power: security apparatus chiefs, billionaires and their servants in Moscow and St Petersburg form the elite, and together they plunder rest of the country.

Typical things that a person from a free country would think of don't work: elections are rigged, no point in participating. Civil society and non-governmental organizations (eg NRA, ACLU) barely exist and have no influence. Media is under full government control, no way to publish anything to wide auditorium. Courts are utterly corrupt. If you stage a protest, then the loudest ones will be dragged into a police van and beaten and raped on the spot, with screams heard by others outside on the street[1].They'll go home and do nothing, or they'll get the same treatment.

So many people in the west see Russia as "just another country", while it differs fundamentally: it never developed much beyond slavery. It never developed a free multipolar society where everyone's voice mattered through elections and all sorts of public organizations from book clubs to church groups. It never had freedom and its elite never had to listen to the people. There is simply no tradition of everyone participating in how the country is run.

Putin has sent a hundred thousand to death, and nobody will do anything if he sends a million more. He can mow down those mothers with a machine gun, and the default reaction from brainwashed population will be "I suppose they had it coming".

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/xmza9r/...
Ha, this bit me a few weeks ago. Almost went back to the store with the Duracell batteries, thinking they were empty on arrival because none of them worked in any of my AirTags, until I found out the bittering agent was the problem.
The size of the GDP is really just a part of it. Indonesia for example has a high gdp ($1 trillion+) but Switzerland or The Netherlands can make tech that they can't, currently, produce. So it's not like it's half gdp, half the power. It's more like 80% power.

I think some regional players (middle-east like UAE and Saudi Arabia) have enjoyed some playing field in this Russia war because of the circumstances. This might make it look that they have "power" but they don't. Once things calm down, they'll probably regret these decisions.
The only mildly strange thing about it is that such a check should take like 10 seconds and this article was apparently written after the capsule was found, but before the result of the check was announced.

But the serial number check itself is an obvious thing to do and it doesn't necessarily imply they believe there are more of the capsules missing.
> The lost capsule is a density gauge, commonly used in mining and forms part of a level sensor.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-30/how-wa-authorities-se...

... possibly like this?

https://www.vega.com/en-au/products/product-catalog/level/ra...
I agree with you, but outcries as these are needed to make it clear how bad the law is.
This isn't in relation to either the chat control law or the cyber resilience act, I haven't read either proposal in enough detail to have a strong opinion on them. But I want to comment on the "sucking the fun out of professional software development" part.

Should we expect professional software development to be fun? There's a lot of laws out there which arguably "suck the fun out of" civil engineering, but I certainly appreciate the fact that there are standards in place to try to keep bridges, tunnels and buildings from collapsing.

Maybe it's not the worst idea in the world to have enforced engineering standards for the digital built environment like we have for the non-digital built environment, and treat it less like a playground where programmers can do whatever they want?

Just a thought, I don't have very strong opinions on this topic.
Or get a degree in engineering.
>Seems high time for some civil disobedience.

First time ACTA was presented there were protests mostly in Poland. 2nd time it was presented there were protests in Poland, Czech and Germany. 3rd time... it just passed. No one cared to protest again.
Seems to me it'll also ban package libraries like pip, npm.
No offense, but that just means the EU will no longer be compatible with FOSS. FOSS runs the world, and Europe will find themselves without software to run the majority of their systems.

Without FOSS? No Internet. No business. No nothing. You'll have maybe 2/3rds of what ships in Windows and less than half of OSX. Oh, and no Ingenuity, which iirc was a joint NASA/ESA project.
This is the 2023 version of a geek show.
>cyber resilience act

In my brief reading I don't see any problems or privacy implications stemming from it. What about it are you referring to?
EU is neither free nor open. I'm saying this as a citizen of EU member. It's getting more and more pro-big-business and pro-big-government day by day. While citizen self-governance is crushed over and over.

Good example is Poland vs EU conflict for political control of judges. Meanwhile nobody bats an eye for existing political control of judges in my country. Here higher level judges have to be approved by parliament. Currently parliament speaker is a leader of a party that is trialed for corruption. This party is in ruling coalition as well. So the party that is in trial also makes a call who can work as a judge. Yet there's zero complains about that :)
You really think those various actors are part of one plot?

Also this is proposed not passed law. But you already have conclusion about whole org.
Isn't it easy for Russia to order US chips with e.g. China as the middleman?
That is predicated on Google [Docs] being run by someone with a shred of product common sense.
Such as? I can't think of any examples apart from possibly child-proof caps on medication, but that is serving a slightly different purpose - safety rather than authoritarianism.
I wonder what lessons learned and mitigations will come out of this. My armchair analysis is that there should be a Geiger counter on any vehicle moving radioactive material. I suspect the device had shielding to protect the driver, so an alarm should have gone off when that shielding broke. From that point on the driver was sitting close to an unshielded radiation source and in danger. I'm not an expect, but I suspect they'd want to evacuate the driver from truck at that point, although maybe the distance/timescale was small enough? Secondly, the sudden drop in radioactivity when the capsule left the truck should have triggered an alarm and GPS log. That would have shortened the time to notice the issue, reduced the search area, etc.

I'm interested in other ideas.
>the only one that can even dream of producing their own chips is China, but still it will take decades to catch up with modern Western chips.

The reason behind China pushing so hard for RISC-V should be bloody obvious to anyone paying even remote attention to the recent goings on.

The question is whether the west hands China the keys (yet again) by obliging (yet again) their underhanded attempts.
Yep.

Also re the timeline, the acquisition was announced in 2010. So your own usage was already a few years post.
Its more politicians blaming technology for social problems. Ones that have existed before the internet.
So, similar machines are in the 7,000-10,000 US$ range?

I had thought they were far more expensive, I vaguely remember checking the costs for a "cleaning" laser only a few years ago (probably it was more powerful/better quality/etc.) but it was in the several tens of thousands.
Not a very good interpretation of the law, but I'm sure it gets a lot of traffic. The EU definition of online intermediation services specifies that a contractual relationship must exist. It's focused on businesses.

RPM repositories, apt repositories, pkgsrc, and so forth are therefore completely unaffected, as there's no contractual relationship between the providers and users.

Elementary OS, Flatpak, and Canonical's Snap store might have trouble here, and need to implement further controls to be compliant. But nothing is going to "outlaw open source operating systems."
Australia has large Uranium reserves.

It was an Australian nuclear scientist (who later became the South Australian Governor) who convinced the USofA that building an atomic weapon was in fact possible.

Australia has a reasonable number of people in the International weapons inspection (conventional and atomic) game.

Australia performs a significant amount of radiometric surveying.

There is no nuance on anything nuclear here (in Australia) because most people choose to remain unaware.
Great algorithm! The paper is from 2017. Anyone using this so far?

Slides of a tutorial by the original author: https://harabor.net/daniel/index.php/2019/03/20/gdc-2019/

Here's the original implementation in C++: https://bitbucket.org/dharabor/pathfinding/src/master/anyang...

A Rust crate: https://crates.io/crates/polyanya
It may be a lot of money in total but the amount of money you spend per capita tells a different story. Big cities have traffic problems, but good cities have public transit and you don't need a car. Small towns have low traffic but the amount of money you spend, per capita, on infrastructure like roads, water, electricity is higher.
just deployed a fix for this; if you see this and happen to check let me know if it's better :)
I'm afraid all of this comment is essentially nonsense. For starters, the EU system (including the Commission, all the various agencies across the Union, all courts, etc.) employs around 60,000 people.

The government of Sweden alone employs more people for a population of only 10M. The EU is in fact fairly lean given its scope and the number of languages. National governments are responsible for implementing almost everything agreed by the Union members.
Most weapons do not use <10nm nodes, or can plausibly not use them. In a military context, these devices are more likely to be in research phases (like supercomputer simulations and machine learning) than built into the weapons themselves.
"We"? Who? What EU legislature makes consumption of any substance illegal?
I read the Wikipedia article... it's scary and sadly a number of people died or were injured... but then I think about something like the Covid pandemic and, compared to that, the number of deaths from radioactive sources like this basically round to zero.

If people are strongly affected by the radiation, then it's probably not going to be that long until the problem is tracked down and dealt with.

I suppose the worst case scenario would be if the radiation was in a place where it wasn't affecting people as acutely and lots of people were passing nearby it, such that the existence of the radiation wouldn't be as obvious or as easy to track down.
True, especially for Netflix where I’d rather have a simple password because I might have to enter it on a virtual ABC-keyboard on a TV.
Sorry for that; I'm a backend engineer; still learning some of the frontend best practices. I just deployed a fix for this; if you see this and happen to check let me know if it's better :)
This is probably the biggest issue with having an executive which isn't formed by the actual members of parliament, particularly if that executive has powers that the parliament either cannot challenge by design or can't really challenge in practice. The EU commission really isn't democratic at all, and this is by design because of both the origins of the EU as a technocratic-economic project but also the EU parliament just sucks and doesn't really act like a parliament that governs. Because it doesn't really, the EU commission is the only thing people really talk about when it comes to the EU doing stuff. Sometimes the EU parliament will kick up a fuss but it's rare. The real fusses get kicked up in national parliaments.