skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new debug_io_direct flag only triggers direct IO in very limited cases, and is only tangentially related to the AIO patchset discussed in that thread.

Note that the documentation on the config flag explicitly warns about not using it in production:

> Currently this feature reduces performance, and is intended for developer testing only.

Also note that very few things will actually do IO during commit - the only IO that I can think of are 1.) the WAL-logging of the commit (often small, a few 100 bytes at most), and 2.) replying to the COMMIT command (10s of bytes at most). It is quite unlikely that this will see much performance benefit from IO_DIRECT without further infrastructure inside PostgreSQL around io_uring and other async kernel IO apis.
True, but I also imagine that Epic isn't bargaining down the rev share too low. Or, companies are fine paying 8 or even 9 figures upfront in anticipation of such success in a custom contract.

I can't imagine it being chump change.
I really don't see the issue with your happiness split. You have 10 people, and they're are equally unhappy.

This is perfect, because now they are all equally incentivized to do something about it. They're motivated to work together and collaborate for change.

If you do any other split where some people will be very happy and others very unhappy, you've now created certain category of people who are incentivized to maintain the current system and repress any desire for change from the unhappy people.
it's funny because there's another comment saying they really enjoy the stupid face at 1:07
The "global square" isn't a single thing, it is an intersection between many many small sections in a bazaar.

If my peer group isn't there I run away quickly.

The newest outrage in US politics is only of limited interest to international audience, but they "need" the local outrage. As is the Baseball "World Series" maybe relevant in the U.S. but outside barely anybody cares.

For being successful you have to get the local number one stars on the platform. Good coverage of the favorite sport and sports teams. And a group of locals to discuss those things.

Sure American culture has some relevance globally, but over large parts even Europe itself is quite heterogenous.

Once you got it big enough it runs with less oversight. But mind: you can't afford too small growth being Facebook/Instagram/Meta and competing with Twitter/X for people who haven't left already as well as BlueSky, Mastodon, ...for people who already left sets a high barrier. Just see all the news about people leaving Threads already (which is to be expected - people try it out, see nothing, leave, a subset stays and then maybe grows it)
The kind of comment that probably goes with someone being outraged apple ships a USB-C only laptop in 2015. Arguably they kick started adoption of usb C by creating an early market for USB-C peripherals.

Companies aren’t cartoon characters that only do good or bad things, and they also aren’t monoliths with a single brain making coherent decisions.
> the strategy is to unite people from the left and right to create a new set of rules we can agree on, and then use those rules to solve our disagreements.

That's a great way of putting it. To spell it out a bit more for people who are unfamiliar: the Forward Party is very interested in ranked-choice voting [0] because they believe it will lead to healthier politics. It makes it easier for candidates from outside the 2 major parties to run, by eliminating the spoiler effect. And it reduces a candidate's incentive to viciously attack their opponent, because they're hoping their opponent's supporters might list them as their #2 choice.

[0]: https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/
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> It's that they are catering to the worse impulses in all of us and encouraging us to become those people.

That is incredibly unsettling, and not just because it makes me uncomfortable. Dumbing down should never be a deliberate goal, especially of people.
>the world’s first stock market crash
I run a small convention that just needs some easy to setup web kiosks to use for checkin. We bought a lot of 30 surplus Chromebooks at $15 each a few years ago, but we're throwing them out because of lack of support.
We've shifted too much in the direction of punishing based on words rather than actions.

Punishments should be driven primarily from actions and harms, and words should just be used to show intent and involvement.

It seems weird to me that the question of whether company X did something wrong is answered by its own employees' statements (based on their narrow perspective) rather than some objective criteria that something bad happened.
there are a billion people in China, and another billion in India.

only 40 mil in California, and most consumer use bikes / cars / whatever are a drop in the carbon bucket.

we could, and should do better, but unless the rest of the world is onboard it's moot.
Teachers are under funded in the US. In many states if your lucky teachers wages top out at the median income. And they often have little to no funding for class room decorations or much beyond very basic materials.

If we don't pay our teachers decently how can we expect them to put in the effort to do the very difficult task of raising the next generation? (And yes teachers raise their students just as much as parents do)
> the idea of constant growth in user base as the source of value in a company

This is a straw man. The primary source of value is the future cash flow. Since a long future is considered, growth is highly prized. I consider this a major achievement of mankind, to be able to value the future, today. Without this reasoning, financing for new businesses would cease to exist.
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I think the parent comment specifically means coming up with a falsifiable hypothesis and testing it, as opposed to the "body of knowledge" part you are talking about.
Well they were in the right place for:

1) GPU intensive gaming

2) Crypto

3) AI

Regardless of margin % that's a stupidly good read on the future hotness. Luck maybe...but 3x luck idk
Energy is not globally conserved in an expanding universe, dark energy existing or not.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/259759/conservat...

https://twitter.com/WKCosmo/status/1303134701180325890?t=pv5...

Obviously the guy in the video was making the implicit assumption that we are talking about local experiments.
Wow, what a perfect description—“impulses happening erratically in my mind.” I’ve been trying to…get to the root of this in my own life lately. I also find myself writing feverishly during these states. I call them “soft manic” states, soft because I know that mania is a real thing, and so I don’t want to co-opt that term completely.

I had one this past weekend actually. I ended up writing about 15-20,000 words, but most of it doesn’t make any sense. I mean the sentences and paragraphs do, but there’s no coherence to any of it. “Impulses on the mind”, like you said. They’re really affecting my day to day life. I’ll have a period where I feel content and motivated—about my job, for example—and then I’ll have a sharp drop off where, sometimes for days, I’ll find myself in one of these down cycles.

In fact I’m unsure if anything I’ve even said makes sense. How have you dealt with these mental impulse?
2kW to 3kW, sorry!
in that regard I'm sure they will do the same with Unity. But Unity for the little guys that just a little bit too big suffer the most in this deal. At least Epic handles that edge case by letting those edge case devs keep the first million.
> No matter how enlightened we think we are, we're all part of the masses and behave this way at one point or another.

While this is true, it stands to question: why build systems to encourage this? Shouldn't we be trying to do better?

If nothing else, how can one avoid falling into these traps?
I'm not sure if it would suit you or not, but I've been very happy with my lenovo c13 chromebook. You can get a decently spec'd chromebook-version of a thinkpad for a pretty reasonable price I think.
It's not strictly a waitlist! (I'm fine either way.)
Are there any new cars that buck this trend? I've been buying used 00s vehicles for a while but a day will come when I won't be able to use that approach to buy simplicity with reliability and cost effectiveness.
Too full of himself? I'm not sure I understand, can you give an example?
I can imagine it's not just restricted to scientific knowledge.

And having met many of these types of people they all seem to share one trait: definitiveness.

Everything is black/white and there is always a "right" answer or approach where as people with little knowledge and those who are experts tend to be nuanced and flexible.
Ask HN: Do You Maintain a Hobby Dataset?
I'm looking for inspiration and would love to hear about the datasets and how you're using those datasets in your hobby applications.

My personal data set I am building is a single dataset of all SVG brand logos and colour palettes for as many companies as I can scrape. I'm at about 8k now and not doing anything with it except posting it on huggingface and also feeling a bit smug that I have all this info.

So let's see what you're working on.
It can be if the magnet's strong enough!
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I think his point is that current LLMs are too paternalistic. If you ask it how to do something out of the norm, they're inclined to tell you that you shouldn't do that thing instead of actually answering your question. He does show that Bard and ChatGPT are more inclined to other models to actually answer your questions but that they make you provide an excuse first.
Just an FYI it is illegal if you ask. Or something like that IANAL. The author of the original article has a “what letter to write to debt collectors” article and basically says something to the affect of

“Please provide me proof that this debt is valid. Or else please notify all credit agencies that this debt is invalid and should be scrubbed. You are not allowed to sell or collect on this debt until you tell me it’s real”.

Of course doesn’t mean people follow the law. But sometimes you have to have intention in explicitly asking them to delete the record if they don’t have proof.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the weird self-dealing and tiny float that softbank are going for indicate a strong chance that this is going to fall through the floor. Softbank should've learned by now, you can bully the market when you're buying, but you can't bully the market when you're selling. I'd be surprised if this stock weren't down 50% within 12 months. There's too much sell pressure from Softbank and there's no buy pressure.
> Someone (pseudo) anonymously e-mailing "I'm going to kill you all," is generally considered a threat in the US, though it's usually ignored because it's vague and unsubstantiated

Sure. Add any one of a weapon, day or time, location or person and it becomes a specified threat.

> Without knowing what "threat" Unity received, it could have been anything

I agree. But again, it’s a video game company. The cost of deferral is low. Even if it were an “I’m going to kill you all” threat, deferring until investigated is prudent. And if a company takes a threat seriously, law enforcement will, too.

> In the past ten years, has your company (companies?) received general threats of violence? Not "I hope", but "I will"?

No.
This just loops me to do CAPTCHA no matter what browser I try it from.
I'm waiting for a 'stupid' electric car, without all that high-tech spyware bullshit

- a steering wheel, few pedals, and a gear shifter, without touch-sensitive features or needless complexities

- dashboard / user-friendly interface, favoring tactile buttons and dials over large touch displays

- basic climate control, with traditional knobs for temperature and fan settings

- a basic radio system, no need for expansive touchscreens or intricate systems

- ABS/ASR, side assist, and parking assist

In essence, I want the eco-friendly benefits of an electric car, combined with the straightforward design and functionality of traditional vehicles.
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> Open source seems like the only real hope there.

Pretty much, yeah.
I was going to opt for a new EV. But ultimately decided against it. Cited “range anxiety,” poor build quality (specifically Tesla), too many unknowns, locked down cars, changes or advanced in battery tech (solid state batteries?).

Glad I ultimately kept my 30/38 mpg (city/highway) car. Honestly if this car becomes not financially feasible to repair (no repairs yet, only maintenance). I might stick with ICE, specifically a manual and as low tech as possible.

Only need a decent audio system, safety systems (backup camera), and connectivity via android auto/Apple Car Play (if not supported from manufacturer then rip out existing unit and replace with third party unit).

No “in car wifi”. No “self driving.” No tracking. A car should not be complicated or locked in by subscriptions.
> For those, Python actually comes with pretty decent tools: the pool executors.

Delusion level: max.

You have to be in a very, very bad place when this marginal improvement over absolute horror-show that bare Process offers seemed "pretty decent".

Python doesn't have good tools for parallelism / concurrency. It doesn't have average tools. It doesn't have even bad tools. It has the worst. Though, unfortunately, it's not the only language in this category :(
It really was a sleek and elegant system. I got a friend to switch to one after him twice say "my computer is so slow, I need to buy a new one" only for me to find each computer filled with every browser plugin and tracking app you can think of. Even though I'm sure there are still sketchy chrome plugins, the pixelbook cut down on that sort of thing enough it's lasted him several times longer than a new computer does. Like you, I wish Google had continue to make them.
As an aside, this is why buying insurance, despite being a financially bad bet (or the insurers would go out of business), actually is a sensible thing to do from a quality of life perspective.
My SVG Brand Logo Dataset (which needs to be cleaned up. I need to run it through my clean script a few times but this is a start):

https://huggingface.co/datasets/mattrichmo/brand-logos/viewe...
Huh, I'd always assumed the ball simply closed a circuit when it rode on the rails, and that's how it knew when to turn the magnet on and off, with suitable delays. It does seem to me you could still do it that way, but it'd probably be more difficult.
> The account was marked "paid by customer"

This is a lot harder to do these days. Not impossible, but definitely harder. The CRA contracts disallow marking an account as paid that was not paid in full (more commonly, people try to negotiate 'pay for delete' to remove derogatory histories).
I realize the Python script is likely provided for didactic purposes, but you can use `git hash-object` to get the object ID:

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-hash-object

With a bit of sed, the python script in the blog post becomes:

git hash-object <path> | sed -E 's|(..)(.*)|.git/objects/\1/\2|'

The inverse of `git hash-object` is `git cat-file`:

git cat-file -p $(git hash-object <path>)

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cat-file

Aside, when I learn a new subject, I like to go to the index such that it is to get an idea of what I don't know (first stage of learning: you don't know what you don't know). Then I can try to prioritize the order of learning about the topic. With git, I'd start with this page:

https://git-scm.com/docs/git
It succeeded for a long time without becoming enshittified. It was the front page of the internet and it was great. Then they took VC funding. That changed everything. That was the driver for all the enshittification that followed. The VCs need to get a 10x return and they only have one playbook — the one you describe. But if they hadn't taken VC funding, maybe they could have found a different path.
> If they offer a warranty,

Not even that. Tesla (most famously, but many others) have very long waiting lists for many parts, parts that are in no short supply for the purpose of building entire cars, but are not available at all as parts.
I didn't get the impression he's too full of himself, but he was confident for sure. That's not being full of oneself though, that's making a video interesting, confidence, and not filling the space with caveats or self-deprecation.
An online service could ask m/f/other during signup, then collect other information through tracking. I’m not aware of a specific in-car use case today, but I could imagine some personalisation feature asking you in the future.
The other thing is support costs. People sometimes criticize Apple for sticking with Lightning apparently unaware that it predated USB-C by multiple product generations: once you’ve shipped hundreds of millions of anything and have a bunch of third-party vendors, switching is going to be unavoidably slow and messy.
I’m more likely to plug in a display than anything that needs data. Hoping my Nreal AR glasses work!
Even if Nvidia wanted to go that route, they still wouldn't get through regulators, and no one else will try for the same reason.
This circuit is awfully complex.... it's possible to do the same with a far simpler circuit if you use the same coil for sensing and accelerating the ball.

A small microcontroller could do both - perhaps even with low enough power that the whole circuit could stay turned on for years on a charge (when not flinging the ball).

Looking at the total energy you need to impart on the ball, you should be able to do that with a far smaller coil and many fewer capacitors as long as you have a suitably shaped steel core to keep the flux path low. I suspect you might be able to do it with no capacitors at all, since modern lithium cells are perfectly happy to deliver 100 amps for a few milliseconds.
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To be fair the scientists are German. Probably not up on English literature.

It’s such a profound statement I don’t think it’s easy to forget once you know it. But then who knows what Keats’ epitaph was? Except English lit majors and Dan Simmons fans?
My opinion about 10 years ago (most likely affected by inflation now) was that a laptop costs roughly $100/year. When I had an inexpensive $300 laptop, it lasted about 3 years. In that time I opened the case multiple times to fix problems, usually involving overheating. Towards the end the laptop was unusably slow and unable to play full-screen video. When I bought a $1000 laptop, it so far has lasted 8 years and counting. I opened it once to upgrade the memory, and once again to simply tighten screws to reduce the chassis flex that had gotten worse over time.

Failures are random and infrequent if you start with good hardware. Sadly, in my experience a lot of cheap laptops do not come with reliable hardware.
There is a minimum happiness threshold mH. We can increase population P until happiness H reaches mH, give or take some depending on how close you want to get to mH.
Well then building doohickeys would be your new “going to work”
I think three would be the main reason for me. Although I'm not sure if I even deal with that much data which would benefit from that kind of insight. But who knows.
I don't think anybody is saying that you should have to go to jail for everytime you said something dumb! But if you are going to be acting anticompetitively, it sure is a dumb idea to send a memo about it--followup email or not.
HTML comments are not valid CSS. But no one told old IE and Navigator versions this important fact. It's for the best because they didn't really handle CSS all that well. If they encountered 2.x properties they'd often lose their shit and mess up the whole layout from spite.

Eventually both caught on and interpreted everything in the <style> tag as the declared language and thus ignored the inappropriate HTML comment tags. At the same time their CSS handling also improved so they'd break less badly when actually encountering CSS.
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No reason you couldn't do that as long as you just mean the actuation is purely mechanical. You'd still need an electromagnet and power source though, as it only works if you can turn the magnet on and off.
I get where your coming from especially with this whole pronoun fiasco.

But on the other side of the coin very real bullying can come from just words.

Unfortunately what is real bullying and just harmless talk exists actually exists on a gradient so we can't really codify it into anything that seems reasonable. Most good judgements are arrived at by just intuition.
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Aha. One more problem with using FORTH and Lisp for microcontrollers: there don't seem to be very many (any?) sites dedicated to making the language work on micros, just a bunch of sites where people document their own projects. Hmm... I have a couple ESP32 dev boards and a text editor... maybe there's a market for such a site.

I think the best you can do is just search for "lisp on <platform>" or "FORTH on <platform>" and see if any of the hits are useful to you.
I like it as a desk toy, like the row of balls or things like that.
I don't think it's just the driving pattern. GM is actively trying to come up with it's own App ecosystem:

https://developer.gm.com/in-vehicle-apps

https://developer.gm.com/app-gallery

Subaru at least also has driver facing cameras into the cabin for driver attentiveness monitoring. I believe the Mach E also has it but I don't remember right off the top of my head, and I'm sure there's others as well.
I actually had the following (mental) debate about a decade ago:

> Given that we can see that cars are going to send more and more data about me to manufacturers, and that this will get worse with every new generation of car that comes out, I should only buy used cars from the 90s that don't do this. On the other hand, eventually cars from this era will become too old to be practical, even with maintenance and repair. This may be in twenty years, or fifty years, but eventually I'll no longer be able to keep a 1996 Toyota pickup on the road. At that point, I will have to buy a newer vehicle. At that point, I'll either buy a brand new vehicle, and I will probably freak out and panic at the amount of garbage they've packed into it by then. Or, I could buy a succession of newer used vehicles, each more packed with electronic garbage than the last one, and I will have merely delayed the encroachment on my privacy and driving experience by a couple decades, not prevented it. So, really, it's going to happen one way or the other, and maybe it's better to just be the frog who is slowly boiled rather than have it happen all at once. I guess I'll just buy newer cars as needed, like everybody else, and just be slightly less happy about it each time.

This is not a commentary on your decision, this is just a glimpse into my (tortured, possibly idiotic) thought process.