skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always had imposter syndrome. Built out Infrastructure as Code for our company from scratch, with tight security policies and a lot of separation between resources, which got a lot of flak from other, more experienced engineers. One of the access key sets we share with customers leaked Monday, and due to how those rules are built, the attackers couldn't get anything. Felt pretty OK after that !
The S3 API doesn't have the concurrency control primitives necessary to guarantee consistency in the face of concurrent writes.

I wrote a distributed lock on Google Cloud Storage. https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2021-05-19-robust-di...
During my research it was quickly evident that GCS has more concurrency control primitives than S3. Heck S3 didn't even guarantee strong read-after-write until recently.
I was talking specifically about the "impulsive" part. Sorry, english is not my first language and adjectives order[1] truly messes up with my brain.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/senten...
> I mean, believe what you want, but you're trying to invalidate my opinion by simply sharing your own, which I'm not sure has much purpose at all in a conversation.

If they have a different opinion that's fine too. Discussion shouldn't have a first mover advantage.
I didn't have any expectations and still left unimpressed.

All of the dark patterns are already there. No timeline control, no web UI, everything is aimed at data harvesting and it brings absolutely zero new innovation.

It's kinda sad that we can't make a better Twitter. Is that really it?
What's so suspicious about the distribution on that graph from, say, ExRates?

It's far from uniform, looks plenty ragged and random to me. Though I can't read the axes so I may be misinterpreting it.
I think people compare perfect agile with dysfunctional waterfall - i.e. Project Manager creates a gantt chart and screams louder and louder at devs as reality deviates from the plan he prepared on Day 0 of the project.

Burn-down charts, jiras, gantt charts are really just plans of how much work is left, what will it cost, and roughly when will we finish.
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Reading this didn't surprise me a bit. Actually it makes sense from a user lock-in/enshittification perspective.

It just bolsters the fact that I'm not install threads, ever.
I think many people suddenly realized that moving heat translates to efficiencies far north of 100%, also for heating. Moving in opposition to creating heat, which tops out at 100% in the best case.

Plus, they can run on any power source, including green and/or decarbonized.
> For the record: to mount a multiple device btrfs filesystem, use an ordinary mount command with any one of the block devices that are part of the file system. Every device contains information about what other devices are supposed to be part of that filesystem.

If something works "automagically" like this then I jump into thinking about failure modes. Will it mount if one of the other devices are missing or failing? Will it just warn that the raid is degraded and I should add a new device? Will it mount read-only?

> I'm not sure if there are any techniques documentation writers can use to avoid this "hiding in plain sight" kind of problem.

The problem is probably lack of emphasis. It's guess it's hard to achieve in writing, if a solution is simple than you don't need many words to explain it, then it becomes easy to skip over.
It's like murder but scaled up.
The most likely alignment we will get is the alignment m of money to power.
No surprises in this fluff piece. This is a little flippant towards junior devs. The job was apparently beneath the author- the same attitude that is going to eliminate even more jobs.

It must be murder trying to break into the field of web development right now.
People gonna people.
As if performance issues at launch time were comparable to a 17-year old service that started having issues after his new CEO decided to fire 80% of the staff…
Browser only allows to view posts and preview user profiles (shows first 10 posts and replies and basic user info). It's bad.
Twitter is full of interesting niche people talking about their favorite subjects. For example, there is no better way to follow the war in Ukraine.
That's a valid comparison iff you ignore everything else Musk did during and after the Twitter takeover.

Not saying people saying that where correct but it wasn't just people randomly blaming the CEO for no reason.
It's not quite a typical case of left-right confusion, but I wonder if it could be partially related.

There seems to be a very wide range of abilities there. Some people seem to always know the difference, but for some of us we're giving directions by pointing, because a turn is coming up and we can't figure it out in time which is which.

I wonder if the people involved had trouble with direction and mirroring in general?
Yes, it seems unlikely that this was the only time the captain disregarded the sterile cockpit rule. (But I guess we'll never know)

GP:

> > It does not imply they are mentally unfit for captaining

It does, if they do it during the sterile cockpit periods.

You could also argue that sexist and racist ideas indicate that that person is a bit dumb. Which isn't what you'd want to see in a pilot
> legally binding guaratee that users’ data will be maintained for 100 years
That almost sounds like a threat to commit a crime in certain jurisdictions.

It’s (or was) the promise for you to be able to access your data for so long, provided you agree. Not hoarding private data against your will.
Deep Mind’s chief on AI’s dangers – and the UK’s £900M supercomputer
> The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter” in front of it.

As if twitter or tweet was when twitter launched?
You overestimate the average human's ability to critically think for themselves.
You don't see a lot of C written in lisp-case since it parses as a subtraction.
> bigger shareholders might think they are smart and part of the scam and that they will jump ship (sell the stock) before smaller shareholders notice

Absolutely. Decades of “you can’t beat the market” propaganda has created a large class of “investors” whose only strategy is buy all of the stocks and hope for the best.
As someone from the first generation after Portugal's dictorship, I hate this, because it feels like comming back to the Europe my parents have to live through, and I still experienced as a kid and listening to family stories.

However many seem to only know this from history books, or from other countries outside Europe, so they keep voting for the wrong parties, until it is too late.
https://sschueller.github.io/

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Jumping from the frying pan into the fire
Friedman literally described Inflation as a government imposed stealth tax.
Ask HN: Is Val.town Down?
Since a few hours, all my vals are failing.
I connected to the website, tried to create a new dummy val and run it, and I got an "Error" popup message.
Their Twitter account doesn't mention anything.

Am I the only one having this issue?
Does anyone know what is going on?
Hmm apparently there is this thing SO_PEERCRED which gives you the identity of the client connected to unix socket, that might fit here quite well.
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The moment you want to upload a simple screenshot, they will demand access to all your files. That's how today's OS security works.
I have a private github repo for this. I don't have a commit discipline for any of this, just using github for storing some MBs of plain text.

Having a log maybe useful some day, though.
Their application is however limited by climate: I've heated a room with a split AC last winter, but around here that is quite a bit of noise for quite a lot of time in the day/year. Having a heat pump warm up central heating water and use appropriate radiators or floor heating allows you to move the noisy bits outside the rooms you're in.
Unless Twitter is able to replenish its lost advertising dollars (lost views) through AI labs using their API, they will undo this change.
There are some forks (or reimplementations) of acme that have more keybindings, allowing you to avoid mouse chording. Here are a couple that I like:

https://github.com/karahobny/acme2k

https://github.com/aarzilli/yacco

HTH
> until recently

Almost 3 years https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea...
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True, theoretically it might have been one user creating 10M accounts.
I don't believe branches are protected by default.
On the news tonight, anyone I don't like is a Goebbels Jr.
It doesn’t ask for contacts. It pulls everything from Instagram
Call it insurance. It’s the R&D cost to try to make sure your models don’t do/say anything that will get you into trouble.
I like this pip metaphor. If we had required `--trust-remote-code` for every `npm install` we could have avoided left-pad and most of the software supply chain drama in the past years.
Noctis was amazing, he also had an assembly compiler called linoluem which is what I used to learn assembly.

He had a advanced CMS website and Noctis had an "Inbox" of worlds that people had discovered and I think named that you could download.
Yeah me too. I love syncthing but prefer using it with an always on 'server' like dropbox rather than just pure p2p.

What I really like about it is that you don't have to sync everything everywhere. I have work folders I sync with just my work machines, and personal ones that go to my personal VPS.
You can even prove that languages that can do IO are equally fast. For example for every Java program there is a C program with the same performance: just put the binary of the JVM in a .c file, and write out a JVM on the disk at compile time, and start it from C at runtime. Then you have a C program for every Java program, which has the same performance.
> and we can always pull the plug.

No we can't and there is a humongous amount of literature you have not read. As I pointed in another comment, thinking that you found a solution by "pulling the plug" while all the top scientists have spent years contemplating the dangers is extremely narcissistic behavior. "hey guys, did you think about pulling the plug before quitting jobs and spending years and doing interviews and writing books"?
Capture the Flag (Carr Software, 1994)
The people jumping are from insta and brands. Don't think anyone else cares about this.
This week is sponsored by the letter "S", as in "semi-solid":

https://www.electrive.com/2023/07/04/nio-has-started-integra...

You can't buy the battery though - it's only for rent.
Funny how you think what macron wants is legitimate but what orban wants is not, when in fact both are equally wrong. France should absolutely not block social media when the french are rightfully protesting against corruption and poverty just as orban shouldn't when hungarians protest against similar issues in hungary. Those who commit damage and acts of violence should be punished but not the whole society.

The real question is what brought the french this level of despair.
Google Drive's yearly cost for 2TB is almost equal to monthly payment for Dropbox for the same capacity.

However, Dropbox have some underrated yet very powerful features like Apps and automations. I buy books from plethora of places, and new versions of the products I have are uploaded automatically. I just receive a notification. Same for some fonts and design assets I have. SendOwl leverages this capability for anyone, easily.

Auto organization, a clunky but reliable native Linux application, LANSync, etc. are all good things to have, and they have solved the syncing problem.

Also, Google Drive is a ticking time bomb, because if you accidentally put a file Google doesn't like, you have the risk to lose all your Google access at the middle of the night.
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I agree that Apple Maps are better, but as a whole i find the infotainment in a Tesla to be very functional, and while directions do take some getting used to, it does work.

> So thanks to VW not supporting USB-C

I previously owned a VW ID.4, which has wireless CarPlay. Sadly, something in either CarPlay or VWs implementation causes the phone to run VERY hot while using it wireless, which in turn causes a lot of battery drain, which again means you will want to charge your phone. Conveniently the ID series have wireless charging (extra option) in a small enclosed compartment, which adds enough heat to make your phone shut down.

Aha you might say, but i will use wired charging. The ID.4 has ample USB-C plugs, 2 for the front seats and 2 for the rear seats, and yes, they do charge your phone, but they don't allow wired carplay, so the heat issue persists.

So yes, the car does support CarPlay, but most of the time it was not worth the trouble.

Besides, any CarPlay implementation today should surely include Apple Maps EV Routing, which will more or less replace the built in route planner and let Apple do the route planning based on real time data from the car, which in theory could be almost as good as Tesla route planning, with the huge caveat that Tesla knows the drag coefficiency of each car, making it able to plan much more precisely.
I get the feeling that this is a skunkworks project for Meta. The fact that it's completely blocked in the European Union suggests that either they're doing something really bad (worse than Facebook), or they don't have the resources allocated to this project for their lawyers to greenlight it. And it just being a product built on top of the Instagram database would also fit in with that idea.
Yeah like Zuck said your Instagram followers are already there - so the question is: if you gain a follower on threads, is it also a new follower on Instagram?
Is that even valid? This seems to be the only place where they’ve made this exemption, it’s not written in the license. Even the weights on hugging face are licensed under apache 2.0.

Doesn’t apache 2.0 allow for fairly unrestricted commercial use? Isn’t that the whole point of using that license?
Threads (App)
Amateurs cracked a 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets
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It's a side income, as the market is way to small to make it a full time thing, but I've designed a digital score card for tabletop wargaming, with relevant tokens for each game (starting with the Warhammer franchises, Bolt Action, BattleTech, Marvel Crisis, Star Wars Legion, Malifaux, and ASOIAF). It's basically a few 7-seg displays, and buttons to tick them up or down, and smaller ones for wound tracking on specific models. The main draw is the different cases depending what army/faction you're playing, which you can paint to match your color scheme. I've yet to scale it beyond my local clubs and the occasional tournament, but feedback thus far has been great. Website on its way, with a Kickstarter in progress so I can hire a designer to help me we the casing. Also selling STLs so people can 3D print their own.
https://malura.de

Random thoughts, computer stuff, home automation and small projects. Mainly in german.
Interested in underground electronic music in general. Any recommendations for artists or accounts to follow?
>By that logic, Congress is powerless against the President as well, as the President has the guns.

No, he doesn't. The military does. The military is sworn to uphold the Constitution, so if the President is impeached and his powers removed by Congress, the military has to follow Congress's orders, not the President's. Of course, the military could ignore the Constitution, which would be a coup, but then it seems unlikely that all the officers and enlisted would go along with it because they'd all be breaking their oaths as well, not just the top brass.
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This is a lot of FUD around Java with no substance at all. If you're afraid of the platform owners being in your way you should go with Java and not with Microsoft.

The JDK is under the same GPL 2.0 license as Linux, which is a rock solid way to ensure nobody can ever make it less open source. Several big players are contributing to Java and due to it being GPL licensed everything is open source.

For the .NET ecosystem it's still 99% Microsoft with virtually no others contributing. And it's only MIT licensed so anybody picking it up in the future can do so without contributing back to open source.
Kubernetes' meta storage has to be resilient. If a single node can provide it, fair. If it needs replicas and consensus, so be it.

I feel K8S chose etcd because of its clustering support and availability guarantees. And kubernetes should not need a full fledged RDBMS. A light weight KV store like etcd should suffice, without the overhead of ACID.
Security software does not flag based on intent or consent.
> enough to be willing to pay $8 a month

you realize $8 a month is nothing to the majority of adults who would be in the "knowledge worker" category? a month? a couple of coffees is $10 and that's a day.
A data processor has no say in how and for how long is the data stored. They implement exactly hat the data controller said, not more, not less. So in this case guaranteeing 100 years is just nonsense. But... in our case it's Evernote itself who gathered all its own data from its own users according to its own rules, so I really struggle to understand why you won't see them as data controllers.
Which backend did you use for sync?

You usually get better sync performance by either self-hosting or using Joplin Cloud. I don't know of any good WebDAV provider, let alone a free one, and even the paid ones have limitations that make them unusable for sync.

OneDrive and Dropbox have a free tier and work with Joplin, but they throttle the connection. But I guess it depends on how many notes you have and how you use Joplin - a lot of people use OneDrive or Dropbox and it works good enough for them.
They did though. You used to have unlimited devices syncing for free, then they took that away and made it 3 unless paid.

It's why I ended up switching to OneDrive. (Which I ended up paying for later.)
It's pretty much impossible for them to be WORSE than Musk, although I am sure this is a perverse challenge in some sense.
I have a private git repo in Github which is the folder that Logseq uses. I have a cron job to runs script for git-sync on all machines on reboot. I also have syncthing running on my personal desktop that shares this git repo with my android phone. It runs smooth as long as you don't do simultaneous edits from multiple machines.This will break the git-sync and you will have to do merge conflicts of that happens.
I work in IT (hence my daily visits here) but blog about something else – cycling.

https://bikeinfolab.com/

Been blogging since 2008, on and off, using few different domains. This current one is the so called work in progress, no about me page etc. Mostly write via newsletter these days though.

Sharing for the variety's sake I guess this being HN.
> Given no recession on the horizon

Is that a given?
Less excited that you can't freely take work from academics to resell it in a shitty SaaS company ?
Enshittification is a (very good) name for when you start off with naturally non-scarce information resource, and later impose artificial scarcity on it in order to make the moneys. It's like building a theme park, and only later adding walls and a turnstyle that checks for tickets. Of course people are going to hate you for doing that.
It can work like that in principle,
if you have several microphones and emitters, though most practical implementations do focus on canceling at a certain point in space, as you mention.
The author conveniently fails to mention Galileo was found guilty of heresy by the Church, forced to retract his Dialogues and lived the rest of his life under house arrest for advocating the Copernican heliocentric model over the doctrinal geocentric model.[0]

When one cherry picks evidence like that...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
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Or `read` or `write` or invocation of any syscall. There is more to computer system than pure computation.
Because being based on C, and the GPL license, meant that in the old days it won the adoption war against KDE.

If you as a user or developer, wanted a full stack experience regarding UNIX desktops, the choice was pretty much either GNOME or KDE, as everything else were plain window managers without any GUI development stack (think desktop frameworks in macOS/NeXT/Windows/MacOS/... sense).

Nowadays the reality is quite different regarding licenses and all of that, and there are lightweight desktops with frameworks like XFCE as well.

However, the path to adoption is a long one, and all major distributions are still GNOME focused and changing to KDE or something else is a major effort than rewriting their distribution specific changes to a newer GNOME version.

Regarding Windows 11, we keep hearing similar remarks since Windows XP, it has hardly changed.
Strong agree, but said hypocritically as a net beneficiary of the degree dilution of the 70s and 80s.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m443/elon-musk-george-soro...
I am pretty happy with Obsidian.
>> Every 30 seconds, stop writing, make a copy of the old database

That sounds so simple that i almost glossed over it. But then the alarm bells started ringing.

If you don’t need to collaborate with other people, this kind of hacking is mostly fine (and even where its not fine, you can always upgrade to using filesystem snapshots to reduce copy burden when that becomes an issue and use the sqlite clone features to reduce global lock contention when you grow into that hurdle etc etc) but if you need to collaborate with others, the hacky approaches always lead to tears. And the tears arrive when you’re busy with something else.
This is such a ridiculous take. Make up a hand-waving doomsday scenario, assign an arbitrarily large probability to it happening and demand that people take it seriously because we're talking about human extinction, after all. If it looks like a cult and quacks like a cult, it's probably a cult.

If nothing else, it's a great distraction from the very real societal issues that AI is going to create in the medium to long term, for example inscrutable black box decision-making and displacement of jobs.
>or is it just always happening?
It's happening right now. The BTC to $30k rally is entirely fake. The volume collapsed after 15k and it pumps to 30k with trading volume a 10th of the descent? "Sure".
Yeah zuckyboy is totally a better dude than the muskrat
In Europe we call that a success story.
Assuming that a wet-suit does not help with such bites, would it be feasible to make a full-body suit from the same material?

I'm a layman (or worse) in this area, and I was wondering if somethings similar could be made for shark bites.

After Googling, I found someone claiming that they have.

How hard would would it be to "combine these two"?

(Both of the above may be stupid questions)
I think the strong response is to your opening statement. Cory is a thoughtful writer. The analysis may be inaccurate in your opinion, but that doesn't make it garbage.

I happen to agree with your actual take: biased unfair algos are the result of platforms being coerced (internally and/or externally) to ultimately serve some socio-political agenda, and thus their content enshittifies. No blue checkmarks needed.