skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd settle for an app that merely identifies all of the overwrought elements in a story and color codes them, so that we can teach people that these sources are a negative influence on their lives.

Don't rephrase it, just show me all of the sentence fragments that need to be rephrased. Or better still, make it a 'lint' tool that rates articles and websites by the density of manipulative verbiage they use.

These sites will piss you off and teach you nothing in the process.

These sites will piss you off but actually teach you something.

These sites will placate you (I'm looking at you, Ted Talks).
> At least in Unix the assumption is that disks are always attached (and reliable...)

I want to say a physical disk being yanked from the system (essentially what was happening, as far as the OS could tell) does cause I/O errors in Linux? I could be wrong though, this isn't exactly something I try to exercise.

As for it being a distributed system … I suppose? But that's what an FS's log is for: when the drive reconnects, there will either be a pending WAL entry, or not. If there is, the write can be persisted, otherwise, it is lost. But consistency should still happen.

Now, an app might not be ready for that, but that's an app bug.

But it can always happen that the power goes out, which in my situation is equivalent to a disk yank. There's also small children, the SO tripping over a cable, etc.

But these are different failure modes from some of what the above post listed, such as disks undoing acknowledged writes, or lying about having persisted the write. (Some of the examples are byzantine, some are not.)
> Working to pay off loans doesn’t mean they won’t have salary. You’ve had loans, haven’t you?

I didn't say they wouldn't be getting any money. I said they'd be indentured servants.

Which they would.

Indentured servants aren't slaves. They are beholden to the people or corporation who hold their debt, though—and I have absolutely zero faith that a Mars colony run by Elon Musk would make the life of an indentured servant in his colony look like anything close to the life of someone who paid full price to come.

> That is an uncharitable take.

You're damn right it's an uncharitable take. I do not believe Elon Musk deserves the benefit of any doubt at this point. He has demonstrated himself to be a despicable human being on a number of accounts—even before he started actively allying himself with white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Let me reiterate, just to be 100% clear: I believe that because of his demonstrated behavior, Elon Musk, unlike nearly anyone else one could name, deserves his statements in articles like this to be treated with the maximum skepticism and interpreted in the least charitable way.
Interesting. Ayahuasca has been described as the archetype of the Amazon jungle, while DMT alone has the archetype of the circus.
The biggest difference is that an improperly soldered leaded joint looks very obviously wrong, whereas a good lead-free joint can be pretty much indistinguishable from a bad one.

If you are just starting out - and will therefore by definition have a poor iron, cheap solder, and poor technique - leaded is definitely the way to go. Once your first spool of leaded runs out, it is probably time to switch to lead-free.
> So the CTO reports to the CEO who reports to the chairman. Who is the CTO.

Also, the chairman reports to the board who report to the single shareholder (the corporate parent of X Corp which is X Holdings Corp) which reports ultimately to X Holding Corps shareholders which are…the same person as the CTO and Chairman of X Corp.
I consider that in today's world altruism should help.
https://www.popsci.com/story/science/how-to-spend-money-happ...
i dunno man, stuff adds up. He says he has "more than a thousand different electric components for PCBs" and that's just some random stuff not the big ones. How much do you think his more than a thousand different electric components for PCBs would cost, just by itself? Do you think he buys each one in bags of 1? That's not including any of the other random things.
Its not even a choice anymore. One is far better than all of the others.
What is GFX? A language?
I've been following Douglas Rushkoff for about a decade now. He's written books about this for the last 10-15 years, and his podcast 'team human'interviews some very interesting people.

I don't know about this article, but Douglas is as real as they come. I'm not sure why people here are being cynical.
The coarse carbon mats don't even filter half of the fumes.

These super basic fan+mat fume extractors do get the fumes out of your face, which is the most important part, but the particulate and VOC levels in the room will quickly exceed acceptable levels.

But even with a proper filter stack which filters over 99.9%, you can only filter what's actually captured. You still need some ventilation and it's also a good idea to run an air purifier in automatic mode to filter what wasn't captured at the source. What isn't filtered by filters is filtered by your lungs.
A $2000 scope is going way beyond hobbyist, though. Heck, for most people a $350 DS1054Z is already hard to justify!
> Prove the original crime

The evidence of which was destroyed?
I've done a lot of programmable LED projects (keyword Neopixel or WS2812) and by far my favorite hardware has been this little raspberry pi pico board that takes care of the power requirements for you, a USB-C cable can supply 3 amps, powering one or two hundred LEDs with ease. There's lot of Arduino boards that let you program a few neopixels, but supplying power for lots of them is usually the annoying part.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/en-us/products/plasma-2040

https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/tree/main/micropyt...
Yes, that was my point. AFAIK it is not possible with current tooling, though.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10516

The data goes through two caches instead of just page cache or just arc as far as I understand it.
From the the url without the subdomain;

>During the private beta, only invited buyers or sellers can access the marketplace. Leave us an email if you would like to participate!
It’s not really an indirect charge, he did try to cover it up.
I have a friend in a similar boat who lost hist entire life savings in Gemini
Related:

The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution (1959) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30203398 - Feb 2022 (2 comments)

C.P. Snow – The Two Cultures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328386 - March 2019 (1 comment)

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568791 - Sept 2016 (1 comment)

The Two Cultures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6560085 - Oct 2013 (80 comments)

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025501 - Jan 2010 (1 comment)

Are We Beyond the Two Cultures? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598451 - May 2009 (1 comment)
> Bezels are actually pretty useful on tablets because of how they're held

I think the palm rejection are good enough that think bezels are no longer an issue
Maybe image search and if the image is not novel, ignore it?
The submitted URL was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures but I think we can handle the actual lecture, so I've switched to a copy of that above.
"...it's a fraud that pays below minimum wage off the backs of people who cannot do math..."

Oh, the superiority complex of the white collar masses over the poor blue collar morons. I always like to talk with the Uber drivers down here in Brazil, and probably 50% or more aren't even the owners of the cars. They lease from a local version of "Hertz", and after paying for all the expenses, still take home an amount of money that is way above what they were getting on their prior jobs. I have talked to all range of drivers, from ex engineers to ex burger flippers. It infuriates me when I hear this argument that all gig economy workers are "dumb desperate morons that can't do math". People are not as dumb as you think.
Ask HN: Founders, what tools do you wish someone made for you?
Recruiting, building, marketing, where are your greatest pains?
Yeah that is interesting. Maybe one way to paraphrase it is that "infinity" is very big and you can fit a lot of interesting structure there :)

It actually turns out that there are infinitely many other problems that are not Turing reducible to any of these ordinary halting problems and to which none of the halting problems are reducible.18 And all these problems have halting problems of their own, defined by the halting of computers that have access to their solutions, that are strictly harder.

Similarly with the classic essay Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

If you have infinite space, then you can be infinitely clever ...

Who can name the bigger number? Whoever has the deeper paradigm.
Wouldn't the correct answer be $250k due to the FDIC insurance?
I don't think that's a given, unless you're talking about an untouched dump of c2rust code.

In Rust even when using lots of unsafe, it's usually possible to compartmentalize/modularize it and build safer, harder-to-misuse interfaces on top of the unsafe code. With this you can test and fuzz one tricky thing at a time, instead of having to prove safety of the combined product.

Plus Rust has other features that help with software reliability, like sum types with pattern matching, which are used to make non-nullable types and mandatory error handling, top-notch compiler warnings and lints, and types to describe thread safety.

Check out Redox OS — it has lots of unsafe blocks, but mostly safe interfaces between them. Same in Rust for Linux — they're building higher-level building blocks for all the unsafe primitives that Linux requires.
I buy one lottery ticket a year, on my birthday. A lotto quick-pick. Fantasizing about what I’d do with the jackpot for a couple days is worth the buck a year.

My total winnings in a lifetime is $2.

There was some group that determined that it was possible to get a return of slightly over 1.0 on lottery tickets (I forget all the parameters, although the one I remember was playing numbers only greater than 31 to reduce the odds of sharing the jackpot with people who play birthdays/anniversaries/etc) and the return time to get slightly over 1.0 was several thousand years (this is all based on memories that are 30ish years old, so I may have some details wrong).
It all depends on how risky you want to play the game. Do you log off from one while doing a ride for the other? Do you log on 5 minutes away from drop-off to start looking for your next ride? Do you actually accept rides while doing a ride for the other? From many anecdotes I've read, this one is apparently extremely common. I'm sure Uber has some heuristics to discourage this behavior, but ultimately, unless Uber doesn't want the driver's business entirely, then drivers who are driven will find a way to game the system as best they can. Like always, the sweet spot is somewhere in-between.
> made me feel like an idiot for ever thinking that cryptocurrency was a good idea

The very broad notion of digital currency involving cryptography is as good, bad or ugly as any number of other everyday concepts and mechanisms. There's no special inherent evil in that broad notion.

Your investment choice, on the other hand, was average. Not terrible. Average. That is, you diversified, you lost some, but you're still around to play the game, and still ranking very highly in the overall human race affluence stakes.

Snake Oil, or even simpler, mundanely-poor investments, from all walks of life, are the true basis of idiot bait. Digital currency involving cryptography simply is what it is. It's quite likely that the near-to-medium future of humanity will involve quite a lot of it, in some form or another (not at all like most of the current forms, of course).
(Admitting bias: I've only ever worked with postgres in production with update-heavy tables so I've dealt with more of its problems than MySQL's)

Postgres also has other gotchas with indexes - MVCC row visibility isn't stored in the index for obvious performance reasons (writes to non-indexed columns would mean always updating all indexes instead of HOT updates [1]) so you have to hope the version information is cached in the visibility map or else don't really get the benefit of index only scans.

But OTOH, I've read that secondary indexes cause other performance penalties with having to refer back to the data in clustered indexes? Never looked into the details because no need to for postgres which we've been very happy with at our scale :)

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-hot.html
The next obvious question is who funds it.
You can't copy and paste on desktop. That's thoroughly frustrating, it's understandable, but a more suitable mechanism should be found than strictly disabling it.

From A Random Article[0]:

"In the second case, the court ruled in favor of Louis Ciminelli, a Buffalo developer convicted for taking part in rigging the bid process and property fraud. The justices reversed a lower court ruling based on a theory of law that the government later abandoned."

That might be "boring" to the point of "uninformative." It also gives me strange reminders of the book "Brave New World," and I think most of the authors so edited might feel the same way.

I would presume to _add more_ to the article then to _take away_ from it, in some cases, to the point of blinding the reader from any fact whatsoever.

[0]: https://www.boringreport.org/app/all/645d396cf7c90670355a6c7...
That's SvelteKit (https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/routing)
If you're only counting one set of hours, sure, but do you count your hours by looking at your clock or by looking at the summary view inside each app?
Maybe slightly off-topic, but does anybody here know how to record an(or any) SSH session(s)? On a debian server, for example?

I remember seeing someone do a demo on this but the result, after only 2 minutes where insane. There was so much data to go through that you might aswell just give up on trying to get anything useful.
Just choose Postgres. If you want something more nimble, go with Redis (which does support persistant storage, contrary to popular belief).
Presumably they could, but that's not what the pork producers were arguing in their lawsuit or in their briefs to the Court.

Pork producers argued in their legal briefs that CA was such a big market for pork that they would have to raise all pork in compliance with CA rules in order to sell to CA. Taking them at their word, this will mean drastic increases in prices for most of the U.S., with minor increases in prices in CA.

OTOH, if a producer chooses to forego the lucrative CA market, they could continue raising pork using local standards. Some smaller producers will leave the CA market. The big ones won't because CA represents a material portion of their revenue.
> Musk said he will transition to the role of Twitter's executive chair, along with the role of CTO, where he would oversee product, software & sysops.

Is there really a difference between “CEO” and “executive chair”?

> An executive chair is a specific, premium type of office chair. Executive chairs are tall-backed, providing superior comfort and support for the entire upper body. Executive chairs are an icon – their height and quality conveys authority. In other words, the 'boss chair'.

From Google: https://www.posturite.co.uk/blog/office-chairs-vs-executive-.... Seems like an interesting change in roles
If I recall correctly, Bcachefs grew out of the author's work on bcache, which was explicitly designed for exactly that goal.

I used it extensively back in the day and it was remarkably solid.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bcache
Bird-SQL: A Big Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs
Plenty of apps people call malware do not rob your banking account. They could be tracking your location, using your microphone, and tracking other activities. These are known as info stealers. The problem with the word malware is that it has no clear definition and is evolving along with technology and threats.
Some days I thnk we had to invent ransomware to make what platform and OEM apps do seem acceptable or normal.
This is a baffling comment, since Bloom filters don't use XOR. Indeed, the link you provide doesn't mention it. I honestly don't know what role XOR would play in an explanation of Bloom filters.

The real reason for the ubiquity of XOR in computer science is that it corresponds to addition of two bits in the field GF(2).
If that sounds too complicated for your purposes, sorry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GF(2)
It's also picking on a particularly difficult area. The "second law of thermodynamics" is actually extremely subtle. In its original formulation it's basically a big mess talking about energy flows. In its simple/elegant/modern form, it relies on an understanding of this crazy thing called "entropy" which is measured like energy but isn't, and which gets pushed with an "intuitive" interpretation that is anything but ("disorder" ... is a measurable thing with numbers associated with it?!).

Frankly if you take a bunch of actual physics students out of the crowd immediately after having taken their final exam in statistical mechanics and ask them that same question, my guess is you'd only see about 50% of them give a confident and correct answer.

So... yeah. If you instead ask a bunch of random people "can anyone explain the idea of conservation of energy?" (the first law, of course), you're going to do much better.
Sequoia, NEA, Lux, Insight, Lightspeed, ... these are brand name funds and they were completely duped. Sequoia wrote a glowing, 15,000 word piece about Sam:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220922164619/https://www.sequo...

How do investors put in >$1B without doing any real diligence or having the company setup a board or even have a CFO.
>Of course it can do more semantic understanding related tasks, because that's what the model does.

The problem is that marketing has eroded maintaining any such faith. Too often, simple examples are given to the consumer to extrapolate intended functionality because there's no false advertising involved then. It's used over and over again in products, the examples are well selected and don't actually show a good representation of perceived functionality.

As such, I personally can't make the leap to of course it can do more semantic understanding related tasks like a diff that's not as simple, one where perhaps a characters overall personality over the course of the book is shifted, not just a single line that defines their profession.

This isn't to say the demonstrative example isn't neat on its own accord given whats going on here, it is, I'm just saying I can't make such leaps from examples given by any products. When I work with vendors of traditional software, this happens all the time people dance around a lack of functionality you obviously want or need to make a sell. It's only when you force them to be explicit on the specific cases, especially in writing, that I have any faith at all.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People do some bizarre stuff in the name of clickbait.
> What sort of functional requirements would cause you to choose one over the other?

MySQL failed me big time in the past, so my functional requirement would be "don't f** with my data". And so far, PostgreSQL and SQLite never did. Don't have time to give second chance, don't need to.
What the New AI Google Search Engine Looks Like
They are close enough that it doesn't really matter, in my opinion. It might be marginally better, but I am not convinced it is "€400 vs €500" better.

The only real drawback of the Rigol is that both the host USB and LAN interface are buggy, so you might have trouble connecting it to a PC.
I moderate a largish, active Facebook group on a controversial topic (5k members, 3-5 posts a day). I spend about 10 minutes per day on this on average. But the fact that I care about the topic, that I can directly ask people to not to engage in shit and that people want to have a decent are basically what makes things much easier.

So it's possible on Facebook. It's just not possible for just Facebook. Reddit seems a better model for community at scale but somehow I haven't jumped into that.
Anti-monopoly legislation and strong unions would work. They worked the last time things got too centralized, the era of railroads and steel.
As with railroads and steel mills, what we now call "tech" has a scaling property which pushes towards monopoly. So there needs to be some force pushing back hard against monopolies.
Authors of open source projects don’t owe you anything. If you want something changed, do it yourself, or ask them. You could even go so far as to offer to pay them. If you aren’t up for any of that, well… not sure what to tell you!
> I've seen "the best programmers" adopt tools and patterns that cannot survive their departure because they are too complicated and too specialized for anyone else to own.

That was not the kind of developer I was thinking about.

> But as I've become an advanced programmer, some of my opinions have become much stronger

I don't mind strong opinions at all. What I mind is extremism, and how terms like antipattern and code smell contributes to it.

You called the singleton pattern you described a "pretty much 100% bad pattern", then went on to explain your experience and opinion in a humble way. I think that's a great example of a strong opinion which was not "extreme".
They track and sell it to undisclosed 3rd parties
A whole article to say that abbreviations are obscure
> Inappropriate usage of PII can lead to severe consequences in most western countries.

Facebook still being around shows this is just wishful thinking.
They also have a strong fascist and cult of personality and authoritarian bent, expecting them to be your saviours is a juice that isn't worth the squeeze.
Agree strongly with the "why is this an app?" stance. The front page makes it unclear that there's a web interface at all because your options are big buttons for ios and for "desktop/android". No, I definitely don't want a "desktop" app. I want a web page. So I didn't click it and I closed the window.

When considering installing any app, your first question should be "is there any benefit to the user of making this an app instead of a web page?" The answer is very frequently no, which means effort spent building the app and getting me to install it must be for a purpose that's not in my interests, such as tracking.
AI can just fabricate a new photo for any event.
I mean, WIRED has been shilling for this crap since the beginning – it's only fitting that they capitalize on the backlash :\
Another quote which gets to the heart of it, I think:

>I remember G.H. Hardy remarking to me in the 30's with some mild puzzlement: 'Have you noticed how the word "intellectual" is used nowadays? There seems to be a new definition that doesn't include Rutherford or Eddington or Dirac or Adrian or me.'

Its scientists complaining about not being accepted by the "cool kids". A tale as old as time.
It's more about holding it in my lap to watch or read something and my thumbs are covering part of the display at the edges.

You don't need bezels on a phone because you can cradle it in one hand, but they're useful on a tablet because you've often got to grip/pinch it at the edges to hold it.
Uh, are we living in the same world? Javascript completely and fully dominates the web, he couldn't have been more wrong about how the future would turn out.
If I understand things correctly, the only thing Oracle owns that could impact Open ZFS is the patents the CDDL permits the usage of. Would a clean room implementation even matter?