skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...the flock command uses flock() and it's pretty much your best bet for locking in shell scripts."

I find that mkdir is the easiest and most reliable lock between shell scripts under my control, and I use this approach for several variants of inotify (incron, path units, and inotifywait).

#!/bin/sh
if mkdir /tmp/dirlock 2> /dev/null
then trap 'rmdir /tmp/dirlock' EXIT
(critical section)
fi

This also does not require a subshell, so it is more efficient as it avoids a fork() - unlike the flock shell utility.

I don't try to do this over NFS, but mkdir is guaranteed to be atomic, and I have never seen this fail. It's also more secure to lock in a private directory rather than /tmp, unless you want the lock mechanism to be promiscuous for some reason.
As a former teacher, I would love to see our school system move in your direction, but smaller is always more expensive. It would take more than a reconsideration of size, pedagogy, and age-segregation.
Connecting startup brands with millions of consumers, a profile of dmg ventures
What if the metaverse was dreamed up by an LLM?
This is good news to me. I gave Thunderbird another go just last week, as I wanted a way to reliably get my email OUT of MS Office (work), Proton, Gmail, etc. so I could have a local copy in a format (or formats) that I choose.

After I downloaded everything I ran `notmuch` on the lot. My end goal is to have some kind of locally hosted knowledgebase with nearly-instantaneous full-text search. Haven't figured out what comes next, but I'm grateful that Thunderbird made it pretty painless to get this far.
Best guess?

They don’t charge for their OS because it is attached to their hardware.
In our area they are chained to the pole on the ground. I find it hard to believe standard practice anywhere is hanging them off the line..
If anything the experience with artificial neural networks argues the opposite - biological neurons are quite a bit different than the "neurons" of ANNs, and backpropagation is not something that exists biologically.
Nvidia? Which apple product had Nvidia in it?
Lots of timber industry in Wisconsin and Michigan. The paper mill in my town directly supports several hundred jobs (like the on site jobs) and is a gaping maw consuming wood fiber from the region.

(several hundred jobs doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a big deal in a small town)

Oh oops: It's not several hundred on site, it's ~1,000.
No, they’re definitely not chatting with strangers.

They spend a lot of hours on chat (teen/preteen), and some parents might cut them off at night -- but we don't. We can clearly hear that they're talking with friends. So we let them burn the hours in chat because it's how they socialize... and as a side effect it doesn't leave any time left over for random stranger forums.
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One concern I have more and more as devices reduce in size is their dependence on connectivity. Much of the world is not connected. Much of MY world is not connected. So many AI devices are really nothing more than devices to connect to data centers (e.g. smart phones/watches) and other than being able to download content while online that might be used offline, the devices really are not usable for AI offline. AI seems to depend more and more on the data center (?), so we'll be intelligent when connected and dumb when not.

Or am I wrong? Will future devices hold entire large language models within, not needing connectivity?
My father had a stroke, caused by an afib, caused by engaging in (we think) 24 hour cycling challenges. I was content with my personal best of 110 miles in a day, I think he pushed close to 200.

I don't know if we know how to detect when such damage is initially occurring, but that would be an excellent field of research.
haha. They should just respond to the ensuing criticism and law suits in french.
Why is there a time limit? Doesn’t Java do multi tiered jitting with background compilation? Should be able to take as much time as needed in a background thread while code is executing in less optimized tier.
I'm building a platform using GoFiber + AlpineJS and it's wonderful. I have to go through the Fir project because I'm trying to figure out what problem it solves. Wouldn't it be just as easy as using the vanilla net library + Alpine or one of the more established Go frameworks + Alpine? Honest question. If Fir has a value proposition that's unique im still in a position to pivot.
Nice one. Username checks out. ;-)

Though I have read a few non-fiction books that probably could have been condensed into a single chapter. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of a market for mini-books like that.

For that matter, I've also read fantasy novels that were longer than the entire Lord of the Rings and might have been better as a shorter novella.
…if people were just given a good one for a few weeks.

ftfy

The low-effort EVs from companies that make profits off ICE cars are not going to impress anyone if they try to do a road trip.
I wonder if there are cheap and readily available fruits or vegetables that provide vitamin D in large quantities through food that can meet the daily required dose
The problem is when we start creating stories that place groups of people as perpetual victims, or they play that rôle themselves.

It is hard to be honest about our faults and easy to blame others. Balance that against total erasure of the past - denial is rife.

The present controls the past.
Reverse Tom Scott: physically fit with red shorts.
You'll be happy and/or sad to learn that basically the entire UX has been rewritten - the rewrite is live in the beta/daily branch.

I've found it to be somewhat crash prone, for now, but the overall look and feel is a huge improvement.
> You can still push it occasionally, but there's a really pleasant niche at 60-80% of your max capacity!

Also, there's tons of studies that show elite endurance athletes train at Zone 1/2 (60-80% of VO2 Max) for 80%~90% of their training.
I suppose the heterodyne frequently (the 465 kHz of AM, for instance) can be effectively hidden. Put your whole receiver into a metal enclosure, have a high-pass filter before the antenna connector, and a low-pass filter before the outputs and power connectors.

Such a device would likely look peculiar enough to be easily recognizable, though, so you'll need to hide it, possibly inside some innocuous-looking other device or enclosure.

The whole setup becomes somehow more involved, but still cheap enough.
Apart from Russia and China, which other countries are tired of American sanctions?
In South Asian politics, bribes are a way of life. No one goes to prison for bribes. They go to prison, and then it's decided which bribe will be used an excuse to put them there.

Imran is currently ushering in an 'Arab Spring' style movement in Pakistan. I use that phrase with all the positive and negative connotations that go with it. The army wants to maintain dictatorial-ish control and want to do to Imran what they've done to every Pakistani leader before this. (prison /exile/assassination) But he is too popular, now riding a fundamentalist wave that he himself can't control. So the army is having to resort to increasingly contrived methods to keep Imran under control.

I'll answer the question you presumably want to ask : "who are the baddies?". Sadly, that's a question that only the future can answer.
It was probably the violent, racist screed that came out during discovery in the Dominion suit on top of the sexist stuff. Even Fox News has standards. Specifically, hosts can't be seen or heard saying the quiet part out loud.
Ah, yes … from the `charm.sh` people. They have some nice tools, those folks…
MacBook pros did for awhile until they leaked some detail about an upcoming product and Apple switched vendors.
It could have been a bad EV, or it could have been user error, or you could truly live in a location or have a situation where they are not viable yet. Not ruling out the third, to be sure.
> means that I'll most likely be terrible at cross-browser testing

"likely"? Who fires someone because they're "likely" bad at something? That's really a bullshit reason to fire someone.
If anything, using Firefox makes you better at cross-browser testing, because most other people use Chrome.
They needed to let you go for reasons they couldn't tell you, so they were just looking for an excuse.

(And Firefox is awesome, btw. It's been my default browser almost since the beginning. I tried switching to Chrome several times, but every time I come back to FF.)
ultra runner here...I've never heard this before. can you provide sources for "considerable evidence"?
That's only true for non-Teslas. You can find pictures online of some rare events where Teslas were waiting because 1) the network was not as built out yet; 2) a major highway was blocked rerouting all traffic to a minor highway; 3) it was the busiest driving day of the year. Unlikely confluence of events that will not repeat since the network is being built out with ever increasing massive upgrades. However, again, if you are driving a non-Tesla, you are right.
Some flash based drives will even report this value in SMART, the amount of the over-provisioned space that has been used.

Modern QLC has very low write endurance so those drives need to have spare space to use when it starts to wear out.
Maybe, but there was a specific video camera that would do this which earned the black hole sun moniker that I was thinking of. I want to say it was in the DV era, but I was never a connoisseur of that format so it was all just fuzzy memory from hearing/reading about it. I do remember looking at DV shooters with side-eye jealousy at their tiny camcorders while I was heaving full sized broadcast cameras on my shoulder.
I use aerc at work, and occasionally annoy my coworkers by asking them to send me an email that is readable in a terminal.
> Not really sure what you're referring to and this is not a useful comparison anyway, obviously many many aspects of the US food system and economy have changed in 100 years. I don't really know how to respond to this.

It is extremely useful comparison, and this is why you don’t really know how to respond to it. Your theory hinges on the fact that worse access to fresh food makes people more obese, but 100 years ago (and 150 years ago, even more so) most people had even worse access to fresh, healthy foods, but nevertheless obesity was not a problem at all. This is a problem to your argument, which is why you are lost for words.

> Rich people tend to have more cars and eat healthier food because it's more accessible. Here's a study:

The graph you linked shows that men with a car have higher BMI than men with no cars. Thanks for supporting my argument with evidence, I guess? In any case, this is just purely correlational study, which does not even attempt to answer whether access to car causes lower obesity. You might as well show me a graph of square footage per person against BMI and argue that small houses make people fat. On the other hand, it is perfectly consistent with the theory I elucidated above, which is that conscientiousness causes people to both be wealthier, and less fat.
But the effects globalization has had on the environment has been disastrous
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I visit Eli's blog regularly. I love reading his book reviews and technical discussions. Keep up the good work Eli!
It's not intrinsic, no. It's possible to design a receiver with its local oscillator emissions to be down to an arbitrarily low emission standard. (But who actually does that?) And not all reception techniques require a local oscillator at all. Still. My point was merely that with an average radio, which was designed to just not be harmfully interfering, such as typical satellite TV receiver? It's quite possibly lit up like a beacon if you know what to look for.
There is no real "recommended" dosage for vitamin D supplements. There is a recommended blood level of 50 nmol/L (20 ng/mL) - 125 nmol/L (50 ng/mL). Supplements should be titrated to reach that level, and the necessary dosage can vary tremendously based on ultraviolet light exposure, genetics, diet, and other factors.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer/
Take a deep breath. Let it go. That's 1 out of 670 million (if you live to 80). Just being alive is incredible and awe inspiring.
You are overloading the word “real”. In terms of the mathematics of the reals, there is no difference. In terms of real-life pragmatics, 0 and -0 could be used to differentiate between different outcomes in a way that is sometimes useful.
Yea I keep meaning to look at using Nginx but my website is so small, gets so few hits etc. I know .htaccess, I know the Apache .conf file etc. I do have a nagging feeling I need to drag myself out of early 2000 thinking though...
Steam has an entire top-level category in the store for software.

https://store.steampowered.com/software
Learning from Board Game Design (2020)
Actually no, because contracts are enforceable as long as they don't go against the law, there's a limitation for a contract and contracts cannot be penally prosecuted
I don't write any mundane documents. If you can get ChatGPT to write something what value does that document have to you or anyone else? Better not to write it at all. Maybe figure out how to eliminate pointless writing rather than how to automate it.
WhatsApp says it's an Android bug, Google says they're investigating. This would be a better url.

https://www.engadget.com/whatsapp-bug-is-making-some-android...
Everyone wants copper ingots. Everyone. I’ve traveled pretty extensively in this world, and everywhere I go, everyone wants the same thing: copper ingots. Our grandfathers wanted copper ingots. Our great-great-grandfathers wanted copper ingots. If I know anything about anything, our great-grandchildren are going to want copper ingots, too.

This one might actually have been right - https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper
History also shows that creates instability.

Everyone knows what is going on and keeps the status quo, but a shock (often external) occurs to ignite the dry wood, and disruption erupts.

Demonstrations and riots can be healthy releases of tension in democracies. Bottle-in the regular microquakes, and you get devastating earthquakes instead.
10 years to implode on what basis? That there's an oligarchy of sorts? What an absurd statement.
One of the parts of Rust’s safety story is to always use smart pointers for reference counting rather than the type of ad-hoc manual reference count management seen in the code you quoted. Combined with lifetime checking, it makes it impossible for some random logic error to cause a use-after-free.
Turning off adblocking is a good step towards making the internet significantly less pleasant. Maybe somehow requiring people to see more annoying ads would help.
Spotify is in a weird spot where we have an absolutely fantastic open-source implementation of its client api in Librespot, but exactly 0 upstream support for that api...
Yellow LEDs emit light at 585 nm, which is very close to low pressure sodium lights at 589 nm.
I respect that though. Like what is the point in leaving if you’re happy?
Reaaaaally shooting themselves in the foot here
The NFSv4 client is not dumb, as it implements delegations and can recall them from a client after they are granted.

Unlinking a file over NFS has also been implemented as renaming to a temporary file, so slight of hand intelligence was present in earlier versions.
The army propped up Imran Khan.

Unfortunately for them, IK was too ambitious and rebellious.

He started using the army's traditional rhetoric against them.

However, due to economic turmoil, IK became very popular right under the nose of the army.

This causes more difficulty in removing him for the army, than what they had faced with others.

Now, the army and IK are at loggerheads with each other. Essentially a good chunk of the population with a cult like following for IK, against the army which is a major political and economical force in its own right, but not power given by the people.

An immovable object vs. an unstoppable force.

Looks like IK will be the one who will be destroyed.

All other narratives (corruption, bribes, etc) are for plebs like us to debate. In the grand scheme of things, those don't matter to Pakistan, because the struggle is not over corruption, but power politics.
Still a while to go. I think there's at least a couple of algorithmic changes needed before we move to a system that says "You have the world's best god-like AI and you're asking me for poems. Stop wasting my time because we've got work to do. Here's what I want YOU to do."
Sure, and when they release the mind reading necromancers we'll all be totally screwed, too.
> And let's not forget that people always have a choice of leaving or changing their government

Absolutely don't agree. People definitely don't typically have that power. In authoritarian nations not even motivated majorities might not be able to overthrow their government.

It's a quite rude thing to claim, implying that any time there's a cheating, lying, corrupt bastard leader around, it's because their people choose them.

I'd argue that in the last decades revolution has actually become increasingly difficult because law enforcement authorities benefit a lot from the improvements to surveillance and communication technology.
>Humans can be held accountable so it’s not the same.

1. Don't worry, LLMs will be held accountable eventually. There's only so much embodiment and unsupervised tool control we can grant machines before personhood is in the best interests of everybody. May be forced like all the times in the past but it'll happen.

2. not every use case cares about accountability

3. accountability can be shifted. we have experience.

>I think this constant degradation of humans is really foolish and harmful personally.

Maybe you think so but there's nothing degrading about it. We are black boxes that poorly understand how said box actually works even if we like to believe otherwise. Don't know what's degrading about stating truth that's been backed by multiple studies.

Degrading is calling an achievement we hold people in high regard who accomplish stupid because a machine can do it.

>By the way, I have infinitely more hope of understanding an open source black box compared to a closed source one?

Sure i guess so.
dealing with the same thing in rust, you can't use float in a lot of equality places where you can use ints, and they are moving to change match so you can't use floats in patterns there either.
> But I always find I have nothing to speak about.

Odds are you do have something interesting to speak about. Many people are experts in very niche things and don't even realize it. You may be very proficient with a niche piece of software that is not well documented, or may have created software to solve a very specific problem. Writing blog posts about your niche knowledge can be tremendously helpful; I can't tell you how many times a single blog post about an obscure problem has saved me hours (possibly even days or weeks) of research when I've encountered the same problem.
There is a company called Google just for this. But you can begin digging the rabbit hole here, which has more links https://www.reddit.com/r/pakistan/comments/mpd7cm/pakistan_a...

@dang wants this to stop, so i'll respect that and wont be back in this thread. But do put a link from india's textbook which spews hatred against Pakistanis or muslims? Please enlighten me.
Maybe there's a Ruined Portal there
there was a point in time when you could run nvidia gpus in mac pros. there were first-party drivers for nvidia cards on macOS
Has the line between mention and promotion been tested? I remember hearing about some cases where the former seemed likely, but the latter was argued. I could be mistaken though.
Exactly. It's the typical BS excuse game companies have been trying to use for over a decade, and nobody should believe it. Linux gamers are not looking for "support". They want a binary. And a server that doesn't actively thwart them because of their operating system. That's pretty much it. And thanks to cross platform development getting easier and easier, that binary is in more and more cases trivial to produce.
Apple has made billions (upwards of $300m in pure profit) from Fortnite. If you care about Epic's shitty qualities in that aspect (the case you're linking), surely you also care about Apple profiting off that exploitation as well?
Had a blog that was seeing 40,000 monthly, but I deleted all the posts when my interests changed. I regret it deeply.

I started a new one this month - https://nosduhz.com

So I guess I meet both of your criteria for the best times to start a blog!
TCL with ROKU O/S
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has been outstanding
> Which Indian newspaper has press offices in "every major city in Pakistan"?

Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle, Indian Express, The Tribune, The Print, NDTV, The Wire, Scroll.in, Outlook India, Himal (technically HQed in Nepal) have all supported Freelance journalists plus the beginning few I have listed have had press desks in Islamabad/Karachi/Lahore as well. The list I created is non-exhaustive btw.

> Nonetheless, Indian media has consistently shown to provide either outright false news, or very exaggerated facts to suit Indian narrative. One example is :
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/11/eu-ngo-report-unco...

The example provided was specifically around IB creating fake webpages while misappropriating photos and names of Indian journalists. This was not done by existing Indian newspapers. In fact, Indian media would have had a massive field day parading political misinfo occurring in competing news organizations.

The investigation you mentioned - https://www.disinfo.eu/publications/indian-chronicles-deep-d...

Btw - I do agree that a lot of Indian media orgs have a misconstrued image of Pakistan, but conversely so do similar orgs in Pakistan. Also, the Indian media market is extremely segmented based on readership.

A lot of the bad reporting about Pakistan in Indian newspapers comes from the newspapers aimed at normal citizens, nor policymakers. The type of newspapers that someone working in a Ministry reads is different from the kind that a migrant worker from Assam reads.

Also, you do realize that a significant portion of Indians can speak Punjabi/Sindhi/Pakhtu and listen+read Pakistani news channels or news radio along with Indians ones as well right?

It sounds like you might have some misconceptions about India as well tbh.

Indian reporting about Pakistan is about tamasha/entertainment now - Indian media orgs increasingly talk about China instead now and in the same manner that they used to talk about Pakistan.
Why are you convinced that high blood pressure will lessen your lifespan?
Since you're familiar with this, what was wrong with how Farcaster approached name registration? Signing up or rotating your key is (relatively) cheap on Ethereum mainnet, and client apps could front the cost of signing users up. The user registry doesn't need to be maintained by a closed group in the long run (could start out that way, with Bluesky maintaining the contracts but eventually removing upgradeability when out of beta).
Unrelated, but did you find that book I mentioned?