skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What's Your Worst Bug?
Inspired by this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158827

Some memorable ones for me:

1. Around 2006: hand-coded replication link between primary and secondary of an HFT component, each with its own data store; primary flushes its queue when secondary acks up to the message sequence number it has done a write() to disk; primary crashes in production, secondary takes over, rebuilds state from its own data store, but one sequenced message is missing; data stream cannot continue; pandemonium; and that is how I met disk write buffers in Linux. Write doesn't mean write until flushed to disk.

2. In the aftermath of (1), to solve the above problem, called fdatasync() after each message write by the secondary; production comes to a screeching halt; latencies go from around 5ms to 100ms; pandemonium; and that is how I learned the cost of blocking I/O in a single threaded environment. I ended up calling fdatasync() only once in every 100 writes.
No, switching from raw aluminium to an obscure synthesised compound is not going to be worth it for a few % efficieny gain. We've had centuries of "scale up" with copper and it's still not worth it.
But the author hadn't seen them in their life
Weed has been legal in Canada for a few years.

I've been smoking for years before that.

No problems from smoking a joint in a park and going for a bike ride has never been a problem for me.

Should Cannabis be more or less commercial than Alcohol?
They fucked around, found out, and then decided to sue.

Idiots gonna idiot.

I hate nfts, but I hope this lawsuit is tossed out as an object lesson.
If you are doing subclasses you are doing OOP wrong.
I have to say my favorite indicator is definitely the Thinkpad's little red dot on the back of the screen.
I did read it.

I know the idea. My statement is saying books can be bad irregardless of context just like how television or video can be bad.

This person is basically saying all books are good. Just reframe context and everything is good.

I mean you can say this about practically everything in the universe even literal shit. Shit fertilizes plants.

I made a comparison to television which flew over everyone's head.

Basically it's obvious to everyone that tv can be universally bad or good right? There are good movies and shit movies and excellent documentaries. This concept makes sense.

But suddenly for books it makes no sense? All books are good? You just need the right context? This is wrong.
Interesting - I'm not really sure how this would work but I'm happy to discuss this in more detail - I see this being as a suggestion for what to do when tests fail. Happy to discuss this via email if you'd like.

Feel free to email me at jacky@twilix.io
Someone needs to decide which physical books to stock in a library. For a school library it would be officials in the school district. It's not informative to describe every book not stocked as "banned".
Resolved all issues - thank you!
I filter by prime more for a consistent return policy. Considering there is so much fake crap on Amazon, buying non-Prime items that don't follow the normal return policy can be risky.
$0.40 may well be a (very) expensive part in some contexts. I've seen companies develop ASICs to shave off four legs from a chip. Once the volume is high enough such small bits really add up.
Copywrite law doesn't ban people from reading the source altogether.

That is what is being proposed, ban AI from being allowed to 'read' the content.

The real argument is how does a human brain aggregate knowledge and then profit from it, and is it really that different from an AI model aggregating knowledge.

They both read in data, perform calculations on the data, and spit out something.
I didn't close the node due to moral reasons, I am all for Tor, but for personal risk reasons due to risks with local law enforcement.
haha, i know but I like telling stories. thanks for the comment!
Cigarette smokers are by far the worst offenders for this here in Germany, stinking up everyone's apartments all summer long when we have to keep the windows open, sparking up on crowded train platforms without a care in the world...

They're as addicted as they come, to a first class drug; are you going to call them "junkies" too? What about people who drink alcohol and make it everyone else's problem?

Seriously, that language is offensive af, wisen up please.

Edit: can't help but notice quite a lot of similarities between Dudester230602 and veave accounts (profile age, topics commented on, use of language, generally rocking the boat...).
If we are then wouldn't that imply better times are to come? Sounds pretty nice actually.
90% of "science" these days is actually politics, pill pushing, clickbait, philantrophic PR, geopolitical soft power flexes, grant baiting or the result of industry money or lobbyism.

Not weird most people are tired of that shit.

The technological foundations are amazing, but were laid many decades ago for the most part and most "bad things" these days are the result of the highly advanced and interconnected but extremely brittle global industrial society we have built, and the inequalities that still exist for 90+ of earths population.

But those problems will not get addressed directly but instead used as excuses to implement various shock doctrines by the upper echelons to pull or push various policies to siphon even more money from the many to the few.

"Science" as known pop culturally is one of these political tools, and it's becoming apparent.
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring fullstack engineers to help make cheaper buildings
Indeed, as a programmer, I deeply understand the power of being able to modify the source code. Doing that with the code of life is a great responsibility we’re not ready for.

What happens when it gets so easy and cheap that any malcontent group can engineer their own super virus? Will we have a defense for that?
It went up for a number of awards, and won three majors including a Hugo and a Nebula, so obviously lots of people like it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_...
Do these really provide any value to you? I've found normal switches, with no light, no internet, no microcontroller, and no touch, to just work fine
There is a Polish writer Andrzej Pilipiuk and he introduced a concept in his fantasy-parody historical-fiction books, that all communists were actually vampires, and there was a squad eliminating them since 1920s.

So maybe this is an indication, that communist movement started already in the XVII century... and the smart village guys tried to prevent it from spreading already at that time... huh

PS. It is a joke. (the idea, not the writer & the books).
Some producers apparently eavesdrop your smartphone, because they install transparent ring around buttons and knobs. The LED is below it and translucing through. Now try to blind these.
So a self selecting group report some symptoms for a poorly defined disease?

What exactly is the take away here?
It never made much sense. Thorium wasn't solving the problem (cost) that was holding back nuclear energy.
I just finished it and don’t regret it, but I feel like it could have been a pamphlet as most of the book seemed like padding to me. I mean I admire Rosa Parks but it seems like a lot of time spent saying that Rosa Parks habits made the difference in that civil rights milestone. Same for the examples of people convicted or acquitted of their crimes based on habits.

Aside from reinforcing what I already knew that habits are really powerful, the concept of micro habits stuck out to me and I’m going to try the snowball and stacking approaches to starting positive habits (putting out shoes the night before as a tiny habit to kick start the big habit of running, etc).

I feel like I really just needed to find the right podcast and would get the same info.
I would put this behind a VPN to keep it private. I have used this[0] Wireguard setup before, which takes the grunt work out of configuring everything.

[0] https://github.com/notthebee/ansible-easy-vpn
Agree fully...I have found working in corporate America, that it is quite effective at stripping off branching talents or 'non-core' skills of a bright person and making them form a lane of specialization. Essentially stunting their natural curiosity and desire for more knowledge, malforming them into a one trick pony.
Good for them. Saving money and exploring alternative career paths is a wise move for young people. Less indoctrination as well.
Well hmm. I may be totally wrong on those points. None of the articles I surveyed support my claims. They may be poor-quality articles, I don't know. None of them explicitly say that YT silently keeps track even with history off. So these controls may be really doing what they say on the tin.

It's strange though: I do recall somewhere in the Googleplex, something telling me that turning off history wouldn't disable collection. Was it in Maps? Some other product? I don't know, but now I feel weird about it.

I'm sorry if I caused confusion about these points. Please accept my retraction and apologies.
The author went from "trust them to do the right thing" to "Set clear deadlines and regularly check in on their progress. Make them accountable for those deadlines" real fast
I posted this, in case we want to collect these gems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160295
Even though the numbers are too big for humans to feel them out, the bigger one is bigger than the smaller one.
> Take your computer out of your room?

That’s not really an option eg for people who share a flat.
Something like the EM MICROELECTRONIC EM6680 or the Seiko-Epson S1C63004 but a bit more spartan. Also parts from OKI/Lapis/ROHM semi (they do the dies for Casio watches and calculators) and I think some Chinese vendors who bought out operations form Toshiba/Sharp/NEC for similar old school parts.
> You should not be allowed to smoke in public, only at home.

Why?
This sounds like a great series and one I'd definitely be interested in. Rothfuss (even more than Martin) has me shying away from starting another, currently unfinished, series.
Baruch de Spinoza, Francis Bacon, Hans Christian Andersen, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. I wonder if we would have enjoyed any of them had they been allowed to enjoy love. Let's pray in gratitude for the moral laws that made them possible (/s).
Many things are super smelly. Some people apply an atrocious amount of perfume, but somehow we live with it. I also don't think weed smells that bad in an open area.
Mitigations=off is aging like fine wine.
But that depth can be wrong. And it can be lies. It can be deception.

And who's to say visual media can't provide that depth? One can provide audio narration along with visual narration which in totality is greater information then just text alone.

You example of 19th century people saying books are time wasters and people now saying they are not illustrates changing bias in the people. Who's to say the people in the 19th century are wrong? Who's to say our opinion now is right?

It's simply cultural opinion with no logical basis.
my funniest was a wrong param in a template generator which turned off escaping parameter values provided indirectly by the users. good that it was discovered during the yearly pen testing analysis because it lead to shell execution in the cloud environment.
The Case for PowerShell on macOS and Linux
> One battery breakthrough will obsolete this entire process

Certainly, in year 2060 when it's too late.

I can't help thinking that peolle who believe in Rapture have a similar thought process - if you are holding out for a miracle, it doesn't make sence to put in effort now
Wh cant prudes just stay at the church all of the time? There is no reason for them to be walking out and about.
Indeed I updated my voter registration, and my ID card now loudly proclaims: NO PARTY
In theory, we could have had a much better power grid with more transmission. The reasons we don't have nothing to do with the price of aluminium, or the resistive losses of it. It's just difficult to build large-scale infrastructure. Transmission projects typically spend longer in court than actually building them. Superconductors would not change a thing, unless it changed that.
I couldn't finish it
At least my Acer and Gigabyte monitors have a status LED that's more easily covered. But the Gigabyte monitor will whine while in sleep mode, so you have to turn it off anyway before going to sleep. And to turn it off you you have to keep the control joystick depressed for several seconds, being careful not to move it. Because it feels like if you move the joystick so much as a millimeter while depressing it, you'll fail to turn it off.
It doesn't work because the state interfered. College is so expensive because of federally guaranteed loans. This means colleges can charge any price they want because the student has access to any sum of money.
Have you never worked on a legacy product with lots of paying customers? The not-so-hard to imagine case is where updating your code to be Pure and Wonderful would have a negative impact on thousands or millions of existing deployments.
I think it's great for some pieces of the puzzle:

- CDNs, webservers and/or load balancers: SSL termination and compression acceleration for serving content
- VPN nodes: Encryption acceleration
- Storage: Compression acceleration

It's sad they stopped making PCIe cards, and the older PCIe cards aren't compatible with the new drivers and "hardware revision". You could combine AMD processors with Intel QAT acceleration.
More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias
If anybody's interested in a packaged solution, Auber Instruments has been making PIDs and timers for Gaggia and Rancilio machines for a looong time. Their support is also top notch. (I use their PID with my Silvia)

https://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6&s...
How you are being perceived is based on the assumptions and character of your manager.

Early in my career I remember had a manager that brought it up to me in a 1-2-1 that I was "the negative nancy", which I found strange because I strive to be honest and try to do what is best for the projects I am working on, I never thought of myself as someone like that.

I didn't change despite getting those comment, and it kept being brought up in my 1-2-1. I was producing beyond my expectations so nothing was formally written down. It was just the impression.

After a while my manager moved on and a new manager stepped in.

And from then on in my following 1-2-1 I was getting feedback contrary to my usual feedback. Now I got told that I was a very positive(!) and valuable member of the team making a positive impact.

You yourself rarely change, but the first impression you give away combined with your managers capabilities and characteristics can very much color how other perceive you.

Managers need to stop using words such as difficult and use their tools and skills to do their job and work with understanding and resolving challenges.
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
by Erika Fatland

Nice book if you find this part of world interesting.

Now started to read "The Border: A Journey Around Russia" by same author.
IMO this list isn't specific enough with the causes and takeaways, and esp. not specific enough to highlight minor critical omissions.

Most of these feel like "They didnt act fast enough or do a good enough job. They should do a better job".
As an externality, secondhand smoke tends to affect others. Those affected usually aren't happy about it.

There are many externalities that affect others... think of noise, smell, etc. Our parent chose smell as an example. I don't see what's wrong or inappropriate with that.

In the end, you have to find some middle ground, and then you have to manage that middle ground, which usually means keeping at bay those who want to ban externalities as well as those who simply want to make no concessions to those affected.

It's classic, really.

This specific German draft contains very specific ideas on where you can and where you can not smoke and is about to radically reduce the spaces where patients can use medical cannabis as well. We'll see whether parliament will change that.
I see it’s part 3 in a series. But people also recommend it alone.

Do you recommend starting with this? Or something else?
Black tape and black nail polish FTW.
Yeah you got my point entirely. We are in total agreement.

I'm not attacking books. Books aren't bad.

They are the same thing as any other piece of content. They can be good or bad.

I disagree with the premise of the article that all books are good you just need to reframe context.
List of Extinct and Endangered Crafts in UK
Can't happen with my 3D printer simply because it doesn't have an internet connection. By the way, neither does my TV or my car or my refrigerator.

Sometimes, simple solutions are the best.
> 1) transportable in existing pipelines, including to millions of homes and small businesses.

Thats not an advantage if hydrogen does not need to be transported at all - you burn it in a powerplant and send out electrons.
Some people sadly have a living situation with only one or two rooms, where the bed and computer / other devices must be in the same room due to space constraints
Ok now I dug from abyss of my memory Mercedes front logo illuminated with blue light. Somewhere seen an article it luckily is connected to some crucial circuit and screws with it.
You're not wrong.

I've been developing with kotlin-js and kotlin multiplatform for three years now. Kotlin-js and multi platform is pretty usable but the upgrades can be challenging. Parts of the ecosystem have been pretty stable for years at this point and there are lots of multi platform libraries that are very usable and stable. I use quite a few of those on jvm and js.

Even though it is in beta since October, KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform for mobile) is already used by a lot of apps; including some flutter apps. It doesn't provide a UI layer but you use it to share business logic across Android and Ios. Jetbrains has done a lot of work on the native compiler to get IOS more stable.
Quite usable at this point but still some instability indeed. I expect they will announce a 1.0 release some time after kotlin 2.0 is released, which includes the revamped compiler. Kotlin 2.0 should happen by early/mid 2024.

Compose multiplatform is yet a different thing that relates to this. Some of the compilation targets are still experimental (IOS, WASM) and indeed not ready for production usage. That too is going to benefit a lot from Kotlin 2.0. The whole compiler chain for wasm is basically built on that.
Not necessarily, varies by jurisdiction.

In some jurisdictions, the underlying legal philosophy is "Wait a second... You really didn't know you had human beings living on your property? Every person in this neighborhood has a responsibility to know what's going on in their property. The law is therefore not going to lean heavily into your ownership rights if you've been so irresponsible with your ownership that people can just put down roots without your knowledge."
>One battery breakthrough will obsolete this

Maybe this is the battery breakthrough.

Further gas storage of energy is cheaper than battery storage (with a fixed cost for actually burning the stuff)
Are batteries ever going to get to the point of being viable for storing a week's worth of energy? A month's worth?

In a lot of the world that's what you'll need to do. Solar isn't going to cover that European January where there's no wind.
After watering down what slavery means to basically nothing.
Maybe she hasn't watched the Oppenheimer movie yet :D
> The book is very old, first published in 1999

I beg your pardon! 1999 is not very old! Especially in terms of books.

It does look really interesting, thanks for sharing.
“The Man Who Folded Himself” by David Gerrold. The writing is pretty terrible, but it’s the most fascinating exploration of time travel I’ve seen so far.
The keyword is "alongside intellectual curiosity". If you can make a point in a funny manner, do it. But if just making jokes becomes accepted, jokes drown out everything else, simply because they are infinite. Like all those gaming subreddits that consist 99% of "funny thing that just happened" or "this reference to a thing that occurs in the game, which you can recognize as occurring in the game to confirm that you have, indeed, played that game". You can call that socializing but to me it's just turning everything into everything/nothing forums. If HN becomes soft on that, we need a new HN.
This is such a great paragraph, true not just of fusion, but room temperature superconductors, fast-charging, high-range, non-degrading EVs, machine learning and others:

"In any case, the public reaction to the fusion story tells me a lot about our collective psychology. To me, it speaks to a sense of desperation. I think people sense that the “bad news” side of the ledger is overcrowded of late, and it’s starting to dawn on people that the future could possibly be worse than the present. This causes a cognitive dissonance in that our cultural narrative is one of progress, growth, and innovation. How can these competing visions be squared? News of fusion has the effect of temporarily permitting people to shed the anxiety and embrace the dream all the more strongly."
Spinoza used to live around the corner from where I live now, and I used to live a few hundred meters frome here, on the Spinozalaan (-lane). Another fun fact, a few houses down from where Spinoza lived, is the residence of the Huygens family. Christiaan Huygens is the inventor of the pendulum clock, amongst many other scientific improvements.

Apparently the two knew eachother... :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens
https://www.hofwijck.nl/nl/spinoza-op-hofwijck
I'm interested in something like this. I would be even more interested in a curated list of books by language level. Maybe you can offer a couple of books per level and cache those translations, minimizing costs and giving users an easy way to get started reading in a new/intermediate language.
We have: CPAP. Battery backup for the CPAP. Fan. AC unit. TV. My wife's Bedjet base unit. Chargers for our phones. Heating pad or heated blanket during winter. Kindle. Phones.

:)
Hmmm. I was a teen in the late 1980’s and I recall vividly a Steam Punk espresso machine I saw at a SOMA art gallery in San Francisco.

It had a volleyball size spherical steam chamber heated by a propane wok burner. I’m fuzzy about the connection to a smallish brew chamber with a foot long lever arm. It was all a play on scale. The whole setup was somehow a unified whole out of a Miyazaki anime.

DIY meets art. Would be thrilled to see that device again compared to my memory palace.
They then also proceeded to _repeatedly_ exceed the design parameters (depth) that FEA had been performed with. You can't beat stupid.
Try to find a nightlight that isn't blue. Good luck. Talk about unfit for purpose design.
I don't understand how these shady sites are monetized. Through shady ads from other shady services? How are these shady ad networks operating? I've been led to belive that operating a file sharing site would be quite expensive with all the bandwidth and storage needs.
And here is an easier way to boost the range of your car keys :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jACSPipPSE
I dont think it should be "instead". Suggesting that emergency brakes are inadequate due to one passenger failing to locate one is kinda cheap.

We could also easily construe your argument as "engineers would never design a flaw", which is demonstrably untrue. We should both work to minimize errors, and to provide a variety of corrective measures in case they happen.