skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, copying is simply not atomic in linux; directory entry operations (rename, link, unlink) are atomic. There is a definition somewhere that says how many bytes may be written atomically; that's it -- past that writes are not atomic.

The prior comment of "model user interactions in the database" seems spot on -- just keep track of what the user's doing as unsaved data in the database and commit it (in the appropriate way) to the DB as it happens; save is just another user action.

Presumably sqlite has figured out how to write to the filesystem without corrupting itself even in a variety of adverse scenarios?

If not, commit to a temporary copy of the DB that gets renamed to the "main" name periodically or when the app closes. There's an xzzzbit meme there somewhere, yo.
I just peeked and saw what I think is the Westbound Capitol Limited stopped at Elkhart IN. I base that on the Superliner equipment and the fact that the yard is to the left of the train. I

n any case, this is pretty great, though I've got some enhancement ideas. ;)
> Yeah, the US and Canada are the only two first world countries not slated for long-term population decline due to immigration.

Australia's immigration rate, on a per capita basis, is more than double that of the US, and somewhat ahead of Canada's. [0] It has a lower total fertility rate [1] than the US (1.73 for Australia vs 1.84 for US), but still a higher TFR than Canada (1.57), and I suspect having double the immigration rate is probably going to make up for the somewhat lower fertility. And I think you are missing more countries than just Australia.

While in absolute terms, the US accepts more immigrants than any other country in the world, on a per capita basis, its net immigration rate isn't particularly high, and is below that of many Western European countries.

Likewise, US total fertility, while high by Western standards, is not the highest in the Western world; France is significantly higher at 2.02; Ireland and Iceland also beat the US at fertility, and Norway is only just behind the US.

[0] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/net-migration-r...

[1] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility...
Right, and we're talking computers here.

Sure, they can easily be set up in a complex, failure-prone way. But if we keep it simple and stick to known fundamentals, they can run almost entirely passive.

Think: a basic debian stable server with SFTP vs. a cluster of some complex storage protocol.

The basic debian SFTP server can run for years and years with minimal intervention.

Cloud has become a cargo cult.
It sounds like your issue is with the federal government charging fees for the national parks, not booze Allen Hamilton charging a processing fee for it.
It was inop at the time:

"The jet’s transponder, which usually helps locate the aircraft, was not working “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined,” said Jeremy Huggins, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston. “So that’s why we put out the public request for help.”
I think you are supposed to start from here: https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/handbook-of-satisfiability...
Aren't those F-39s invisible anyway?
This will take at another decade at least.
You can use a service like usedigest.com and add in RSS feeds of specific sources related to scholarly papers. Then you’ll get a personalized newsletter with that content every day. I’ve been using it to keep track of top posts on HN and Reddit lately and it’s a huge time saver.
Either one competes with having a fossil fuel power plant that you operate when renewables are not available and turn off when they are.
I tried it, too. Tells me it can't roasts my landing page:

"I'm sorry, but I can't roast your landing page. I am a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive. I am trained on a massive amount of text data, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions. For example, I can provide summaries of factual topics or create stories.

However, I am not able to generate hateful content.

I hope you understand."
Users shouldn’t ever need to adapt to computer crashes like this. Software should always auto save or have recovery files or something. As a principle, software should hold anything a user inputs with reverence.
As a Large Language Model, I
You can import those from ISOs: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Game-Content but the campaign is not complete afaik as it needs to be re-built in OpenRA: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/4989 (I think this is the related ticket)
It’s always interesting to find people who don’t know about `-N` („Do not execute a remote command. This is useful for just forwarding ports.“[0]), which was quite neat to access the MySQL on the same host (with no root database Passwort, duh) at one of my previous employers.

[0]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ssh.1.html
I thought bail values were set based on an estimation of the defendant's worth?

So someone with a net worth of $20k might be released with a $10k bail, but someone with a net worth of $20M would be released with a $10M bail? Is that not how it works?
I think it is more the question of sites/apps being more layered to tackle different segments.

Broadly one segment is the superficial, reptilian brain, one, which are the vast majority of the population. They will crave quick, non-complex, interactions, in order to get quick and easy rewards (dopamine).

The other would be neocortex segment, much smaller base, that would actually seek seek more rational, or deeply emotional, long term results that they see as more fulfilling in the long run.

They are obviously not all different people, as we all have both brains, but we always start our experiences with the reptilian brain and only some of us move towards the neocortex phase when experiencing things.

I think if more services and products took that into consideration, they would have a strategy to move those people along this journey and would have both the reptilian base so needed for growth, but also the neocortex folks needed for long-lasting client relationship.
OpenELA Current Status and What's Coming Next
On the other hand, the ability to communicate with people several decades before they're born should have promising implications for the in-much-higher-demand ability to communicate with people after they've died.
Oh, someone sure is going to have to answer some tough questions. If not in purely military airspace, or combat operations, military aircraft have to be airworthy according to civil standards.

That being said, no casualties, loosing a stealth fighter is somewhat funny.
kind of brings up the question if all apps can do this
Effective countermeasures will soon be created. As you say, these are cardboard junk, it's not very hard to destroy them in great numbers cheaply once it's figured out.
"AI will turn us all into schmoozers and social media influencers" may very well be true, and it's extremely dystopian.
Care to enlighten me? Your comment reads like "assuming the best case scenario for X and worst case scenario for Y, X can reduce the risk". Well, you don't say.
The article keeps saying they will "collect intelligence on enemy-troop movements" like they won't eventually put guns/bombs on them.
Plant-based surveillance cameras, obviously.
That feels like it requires the data model to be very different? The file format would essentially need to be a list of changes, with a "committed" flag.

Like, if someone changes some text in a paragraph, you can't just model that as "this paragraph now contains this new text". You have to model it as "this paragraph used to contain this text, but an uncommitted change changed it to this other text". User deletes an image? You have to still store the image and all the references to it, but with an uncommitted change to delete the image and remove the references to it.

And maybe that's a good thing, maybe a git-like system where the history of every change is tracked is what you want. But it certainly doesn't feel like it'd be appropriate for every application and file format.
For a port-forward with `-N` on client side.

Besides that, I don’t know.
The move Annihilation was based on the book of the same name (first of a trilogy):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel...
I don't have a dog in this fight, but you just said "not impossible", then admitted that culture would change with influx of migrants.
Guidelines say: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
With all the software issues how do we know the plane didn't just randomly eject the pilot due to some buffer overflow...
FR 0:07 / 3:10 Macworld NY 1999-Noah Wyle imitating Steve Jobs [video]
A great thing about just using sqlite as the format is that you get lots of potential features. Sure most applications don't need full SQL power just to save and load data. But then at some point you might want more advanced functionality, or migrate to a new structure. And both you and your users get tools for free, e.g. to extract data or fix problems, or just look around. Other applications can quite easily read your files, without you needing to write various language libraries. Very few projects get around to building that kind of tools for their made up format.

I could agree about the single implementation, but if the alternative is making something new up I am not sure in what way that would be better.
In nyc almost every service now charges a credit card fee. Cash is in its way back.

Though... That's technically illegal in ny. They call it a cash discount that is not applied when using a cc.
Hi, I'd like to come, too (virtually ofc). A few months ago I started a (very minimalist) blog [0], using a very simple blogging engine I wrote myself [1] in under 400 lines of Emacs Lisp.

[0] https://crimsonelevendelightpetrichor.net/

[1] https://gitlab.com/mbork_mbork_pl/org-clive
Yes, it is scratched off metal (you see it also on bathroom tiles if you use a bathroom wiper with aluminum frame for cleaning the shower tiles) or from using cast aluminum pans with machined bottom on glass ceramic cooktops (you get little aluminum deposits on the glass).

It is reversible and you can "wipe" it off using acid and abrasives but it's tedious as the metal adheres really good to the ceramic.
Learning new things takes time. When we were inventing new machines once per generation, that means workers needed to learn new skills once per generation, which is completely achievable.

If we can train AIs faster than human beings can learn new things, there's no way for people to keep up. Even if AIs are a bit slower that's still an issue. Imagine getting a new masters degree every 5 years.
1/3rd is generous. It's not going to go offline. But now it's in a failed social network afterlife like MySpace.
Sorry, I was complaining about Twitter not Nitter. Twitter isn't involved with Nitter.

Nitter crawls twitter in order to function as an (unofficial) mirror for the site. I appreciate the effort although it is not guaranteed to stick around forever given it undermines Twitter's business model.

Your confusion is understandable... I was simply replying to a nitter link to vent my frustrations about Twitter as many use the Nitter to get around Twitter's many new limitations since Elon took over.
If you have an engineering solution that can build skyscrapers on begging income, land prices aren't going to hold you back from being a billionaire...
Of course this would be possible with DRMd books. One could, hypothetically of course, use e.g. some kind of script to automatically turn the page of the e-reader, screenshot it, then use image recognition to convert to epub, etc. to archive them.
aka no join key exists, so ask a language model to hallucinate the next best thing.

most of these “real world applications” of language models look suitable as little more than parlor tricks, certainly not something for production.

then again, that’s why all of it is called “ai.”
We are looking for an F-35...You were not supposed to disclose the existance of the F-39 ;-)
Comparing Local Kubernetes Development Tools
Reminds me of this classic IOCCC entry implementing a flight simulator, where portions of the source code are formatted to resemble a plane:

https://www.ioccc.org/1998/banks.orig.c

https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1998_banks
I think there's largely three groups that home users fall into here:

1. people who just use the router their ISP provides

2. people who go and buy off the shelf consumer routers/wifi - eg Netgear, Linksys, TP-Link

3. the kinds of people who run home labs and use small/medium business targeted routers/wifi like pfSense, VyOS, Unifi, Mikrotik, or even things like Juniper SRXes etc.

The first group will get a 'blessed' and hopefully well tested IPv6 configuration when their ISP rolls it out, and I'd expect minimal problems there. Certainly haven't noticed anything big in the UK with some of our biggest ISPs rolling out v6.

The third group will inevitably have teething troubles, but v6 works okay on those kinds of platforms once you know how to configure it, from my experience.

The second group is where a lot of the pain will sit, imo. I've found consumer routers have really bad IPv6 implementations (things like broken prefix delegation, broken firewalling that can't be changed, IPv6 negotiation not working over PPPoE, weird RA settings, etc). The firmware on these kinds of devices is usually not great, and things like hardware acceleration engines in router CPUs are also frequently missing acceleration paths for v6 for things they already accelerate for v4. It will get fixed eventually, but it's going to be a pain point for a lot of years to come.
Show HN: Carbonyl Terminal – modern textual web browser with tabs using Carbonyl
I've made a cross-platform open source client for Carbonyl textual web browser as the Docker container in the cloud, in order to speed up web browsing on slow network connections. It uses mosh/ssh to connect from your terminal emulator or ttyd for a web client in your browser. Tabbed interface is provided by tmux. There is also a portable Windows Terminal distribution preconfigured to use Carbonyl under Windows.

The demo Carbonyl Terminal Docker container is limited to 15 minutes, please deploy your own instance using the provided Dockerfile.
Let me be clearer: Multiple Brits now in their 70s and 80s have told
me how school dentists in the "old days" routinely performed surgery
that was unnecessary, and ultimately harmful.
I think I had a typo there, oops. I meant to say my kids have been stung 10x. Why? I don’t know! In fact this weekend I took them to a local fair and my 2 year old was stung twice by the same bee… he was doing nothing, just sitting on the ride and it stung him.
I would love to see an A/B test that shows any significant difference in revenue if you just go whole hog on tracking, vs. tracking nothing for a campaign on any given product.
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Good ole' "NOBUS." More fun NSA fumbles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
MLB World Series?
There’s ASN.1 for hierarchical data with a schema. It doesn’t provide a query language though.
As far as I can tell, her point is this is effectively impossible, at least for a user-facing system. Do you want all the files you wrote in your word processor program or text editor gone when you uninstall those? All the files you downloaded from your browser gone if you uninstall it? If not, there is no reliable way to tell what files are created by a program automatically and which are created by a human using that program. You can easily enough remove everything that was created during the installation process, but not all future changes.

Beyond that, consider other changes, like say you decide to change DNS implementations and then later decide to change your default DNS server. If you uninstall the provider to change back to previous one, do you also want to change back to the old server you were using or do you want to retain that change? Personally, I'd want to only change the provider but keep the new server.

Then consider difficulties with directories shared across multiple machines. Let's say you have /home/${USER} set up as an NFS or Samba mount so you can keep the same files across multiple workstations. If a program respects XDG config dirs and stores stuff in there and you uninstall on one workstation, should it remove the files from all of them? Do you want all your devices to be identical or do you only want the home directory to be identical? There is no possible way for a package manager on a single system to know this.
Can we younger people join the fun and learn about retro techniques properly?

(well I'm over 40 but I joined tech for only 5 years so kinda young)
A watch without GPS?
Sometimes it's hard to just accept reality: even the big, mighty and omnipresent supernatural and all-knowing Government(tm) is just a bunch of non-magical, non-demonic regular folks trying to keep things on the rails. It usually works out OK, but there's a lot of rails and a lot of stuff to keep on them.
I'd wager that its still relevant today because the NSA is still the worlds greatest wholesale violator of human rights, at massive scale, and literally nothing effective has been done about this situation - we are still tolerating this repression, because we don't see it and simply don't care enough about the human rights violations, as a people, to reign in this out of control agency.

Bringing these articles to light is of great utility to those of us who do not consider the NSA state of affairs to be, in any way, tolerable.
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Essentially I write whatever I feel like writing about.
A Few Things I'm Pretty Sure About
I think if you run a cluster in a trusted environment it should be more efficient to use ray or something similar
Tangential, but I had my mind blown in about 2009 by a big hypervisor running Windows remote desktop hosts. I believe it was Citrix.

The VMs booted from images. The image and the mutable differencing disks were entirely in RAM (although user profiles were on spinning rust). A desktop host for 25 users would boot to accepting remote logins in about 4 seconds.

Least painful Windows system to patch.
Sorting has a simple local optimum implies global optimum property. If a list is sorted than any (not necessarily sequential) sublist is sorted, and the converse. No such property applies to TSP.

I think that the best way to think about why some combinatorial problems are hard and others easy isn't to ask what makes a problem hard, but rather what makes a problem easy. Combinatorial problems seem to be hard by default. It takes some special simplifying property to make them easy.
Vercel vs. Netlify: Battle of the Jamstack Giants
Jamstack is indeed popular, with the number of sites based on it has grown twofold since 2020. But its performance heavily depends on the deployment platform you choose. The reason is that Jamstack sites are tailored for a certain workflow: hosting HTML on a CDN, serverless functions on an Edge network, and code in Git. Such a deployment strategy makes your site fast as a sparrow.

On the contrary, a Jamstack site will be just another pile of HTML, only reachable by search engines with the right provider.

Netlify and Vercel are the two most popular Jamstack hosting platforms, highly regarded in the industry for their reliability and performance. Here, we’ll cover how they compare.

This is a helpful article if you plan on building a Jamstack website or migrating your WordPress site to Jamstack. But even if you’re just curious about the two deployment platforms, follow on, there’s probably something for you to learn here.
That's a beheviour of quorum systems - majority voting. It guarantees no inconsistent writes in the event of a network partition, where each half of the replicas are workig fine and can talk to each other, but are getting no response from the other half.

But if you can reliably confirm that all but one nodes have "failed", for a suitably robust definition of failed, that's a different scenario. This means even though you can't communicate with a failed node in the normal way, you are able to get confirmation that the node cannot respond to normal messages to any other nodes or clients, and something (maybe controlling the node, or software on the node itself) guarantees to prevent those responses, until the node goes through a recovery and reintegration process.

Some ways this is done are using remote-controlled power, remote-controlled reboot, or reconfiguring the network switches to cut off the node. Just to ensure it can't come back and carry on responding as if nothing happened except a temporary delay. There's some subtlety to doing this robustly: Consider a response packet that got onto the network before the cut off event, but is delayed a long time inside the network due to a queue or fault.

After reliable "failure" confirmation, you can shrink the quorum size dynamically in response, even down to a single node, and then resume forward progress.
Very useful library, nice to see this on HN!
IME, much of the “need to easily scale” is fixed by understanding your bottlenecks, being able to understand the metrics being captured, and how to address them. You would be shocked (or not) at how few people raised on cloud can explain what IOPS are, or what IOWAIT is, let alone linking the two up.

Re: IaC, you definitely should understand what it is you’re instantiating (and why), no matter how you’re doing it. AWS Community TF Modules are all well and good until something breaks, and you realize you don’t really understand what’s going on.
It's cool per se, but I cannot really understand all this waste.

Sure, it's for a cool 20 min video, but all the single-use buttons, mats, acrylic panels, LED strips, custom-made ethernet cables, ... A shame IMHO
The mate 60 uses beidou sats which are not quite geostationary but also in a pretty high orbit.

But messaging is only a small part of their task, the main one is geolocation. They're only able to supply short message service where latency isn't really relevant.
Good thing they can benefit from those changes, now that we’re decades in! Can you imagine if they had to manage ARP still?
Ive used something like
'''
ssh -t user@host /bin/sh
'''

To bypass shell restrictions in the past, but I'm not sure if that will work with your example.
This is nonsense. "Post WW2" describes current modern Japanese culture, not its root. The root goes way back to hundreds/thousands of years BC, they continuously lived on those exact islands and spoke a similar language all that time. Unlike US or Canada which are a new amalgamation of English/French/Spanish/German/Jewish/AA/Native/whatever cultures without any single root. Not to say US or Canadian culture is worse or better, just there's objectively less to worry about not ruining something age old and unique.
Wouldn't it have been easier in this case to edit the script?
Add the transponder not working, and you come to the conclusion that the jet was operating exactly as it was supposed to, by design...
> And the Virginia neighborhood bogusly renamed “National Landing”.

It's called crystal city. Amazon renamed it when they announced HQ2 there. Nobody from here calls it national landing