skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an argument for correct program architecture/design, not one for language. I suspect one could do the same thing in any memory unsafe language. Granted, Java might make this somewhat easier by not having the concept of modifiable pointers, but discipline and static analysis could likely achieve the same.
I'm not sure if many databases offer this, but you can do it in foundationdb like this:

version = txn.get_read_version().wait()
compute_something(version)

Then on the remote computer, you can create a new transaction and call:

def compute_something(version):
txn2 = db.create_transaction()
txn2.set_read_version(version)
# ... Then use the transaction as normal.

This will ensure both transactions are looking at the same snapshot of the data in the database.

Docs: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/api-python.html#version...
Hmm. I'd solve this by marshalling all the data in the parent process, and passing that, rather than the tid, to the compute process.

Maybe you could do it with a database proxy. The whole approach feels unclean, though.
> On the other hand, redbull not literally giving you wings is obvious. Only a child would literally believe this

That was _not_ the claim made in the relevant lawsuit; see the linked article.
>you can sue for wrongful termination, and there will be hell to pay in dollars.

Maybe in your state, or maybe in your country, but in "right to work" states, the best you'll get is unemployment.
The grand rewrite of datahub: good, bad, ugly about the popular OSS data catalog
This is why I really hope the UK doesn't sign a comprehensive trade agreement with the USA encompassing food. UK labelling regulations are currently "alright". They're grandfathered from the pre-Brexit EU regulations, although I'd prefer more-stringent rules. But please, please, don't import US labelling rules.
It's not very compelling evidence (just three selected data points), but the article states:

> According to Perkins Coie, a law firm that tracks such cases, 214 class-action lawsuits were filed against the food and beverage industry in 2022, and 331 cases were brought the year before.

> It's a major uptick from the 81 cases filed in 2014, less than a decade earlier.
> But all that is part of programming. It's not made harder than it needs to be, it is that hard. Because exploring the whole problem space with the stakeholders and deciding together what the software should do is a central part of the problem of programming.

strongly agree, but I've found a lot of developers want to make a 6-figure salary and not have to do that part.

Furthermore, often times the stakeholders themselves don't have a concrete idea of what they want, it's nebulous in their head because they've identified a problem and a general direction and are relying on conversations with the technical team to help nail down the details.

That back and forth is the meat and potatoes of software development and its what separates senior from junior.
I have a VPX cab that but I've been out of the loop for a while because it just works. A refresh of my cab is on the agenda, though, and VPE looks great!

Are you targeting Linux compatibility, by chance? My biggest complaint about the whole VPX scene is that it's locked to Windows.
Intel Demos Lunar Lake Client Processor, Silicon Pulled in to Intel 20A?
Svelte 5: Runes
It made that answer up.
because it is lazy. good and bad are both subjective.

shutting conversation down with “this is bad for humanity” additionally marginalizes a large portion of it. the alternative is also bad for humanity.

i find it weird that you view it as binary.
HN isn’t the place to argue about public health policy in relation to HIV/AIDS unless you have something new or interesting to add to the topic. Literally every time this topic comes up on HN we have stacks of comments making the same repetitive talking points about gay male promiscuity. Quite apart from the rather odious and obvious agenda behind these comments (which surely don’t stem from any serious concern about gay men’s health), this is incredibly tedious. I might also add that your point, such as it is, has SFA to do with TFA - which is largely focused on Africa.
The entire Grafana LGTM stack is phenomenal, and it’s widely used.
Hi there,

Thanks for your question and sorry for the delay in getting back to you!

The pricing information is available here:
https://www.mithrilsecurity.io/pricing
I realize that, but "way to show you didn't read the article bro" is condescending and dumb even if they were correct, doubly so when the article clearly says it.

I agree that in the context of the linked article OP is wrong, and several other people already pointed out the quote you included. I'm responding to the quick and vapid dismissal that shows that imchillyb couldn't be bothered to do a search for "wings" before making fun of OP.
Also this looks to be more of an analytical, column oriented, database. So I can imagine they're optimizing more for throughput than transactional latency.

Yes that is the case
I’m going to have to check this out.

I still maintain that we need an interchange standard for write ahead logs, but tools like this are a step in the right direction.

I would like to point out thought why you may be underselling this. Local-first yes, but that dynamic can also apply to edge-networked apps (at least before everyone started equating edge networking with Lambda).
It’s not apparent as a dilemma until the said architect has spent years -convinced- that the grand edifice is “good architecture”, and finally matured as a practitioner. Only after that phase passes is there an actual ego-driven dilemma, strictly speaking.
Nothing to do with the fact that the company his wife has a $400 million stake in, has a $1.5b contract with BP, and other arrangements Shell.
I presume the idea is to make microservices able to work with database transactions. Microservices: Proof that not all ideas can be winners.
If it was for fun and to learn how, that's fair. But are you aware of https://ntfy.sh?
The problem space is the business, and business needs change with the market
I don't get your reasoning. First not all knowledge is the source of revenue. Many products and services are supported by know how to implement, use and maintain. This kind of knowledge can benefit from protection.

And if selling knowledge is the main revenue, why would transferring it to an LLM mean losing the opportunity to sell it multiple times? Au contraire.

For any category I assume the owner of the knowledge keeps in control and my case is that a LLM can be beneficial for them.
Fortunately, the new wave of unionization and pro-labor sentiment is likely to start changing that. The young people growing up today have seen firsthand the devastation 40+ years of increasing concentration of wealth have wrought, and they are much less willing to accept it than the intervening generations have been.

In particular, I found one of Cory Doctorow's recent pieces[0] both informative and very hopeful.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norm...
Its a long rich history from PRopaganda against consumers.. the mc donalds coffee lady comes two mind, were mc donalds tried to ditch the medical costs for 3rd degree burns and put her up as a ambulance chaser.
Lynx launcher (my personal favorite) is also pretty good. I switched to it after Evie launcher development stopped.
People are allowed to change their minds, even the ones labelled "stakeholders".
We're like 3 steps away from Factorio-style logistic robots...

The factory must grow!
or liquid nitrogen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
"This process can be trivially automated with shell scripts" [Author when speaking about LXD] --> I personally have the reverse experience after using Docker vs VM + pure bash scripts or Ansible.

Dockerfile/Docker-compose deployments fit in a couple of lines, where an Ansible deployments can spread easily across multiple playbooks.

Dockerfile is quite declarative (WORKDIR, USER, COPY, etc). It's easier to predict what it will do than when using a pure bash script or ansible playbook.

And even RUN, by leverage the cache layers, it gives you a bit of immutability + and increased provisioning speed.
This has long been a dream data stack of mine. Best of luck.
Something I’m curious about with clinical trials like this is how they can be done ethically when other highly effective preventative drugs are available (eg PreP.)

I’m guessing that a clinical trial like this needs to be run in an at-risk population, and that population can’t be taking another preventative medicine. Finding people who will take a vaccine but won’t take a pill sounds possible but difficult.
Everyone defending the X11 protocol nowadays should be forced to write at least one GUI app using just Xlib and Xt.

I don't believe people are invested in the X protocol per se, but more the Xorg implementation that still offers a few interesting features not ported to Wayland yet. But allowing people to choose will mean any urgency of porting those features will diminish and you don't get feedback on Wayland from all those people who switch to X11. Linux users seem to be overrepresented at both ends of the conservative/progressive spectrum.
Needs blocks for Stack Exchange hot questions
I found a solution today in an Amazon review. I had to press 3 buttons at once, and the language switched back to English.
That's only a problem if the VPN is in a jurisdiction with data retention laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention
Sorry I find the ability to not allow geo for google.com for more than a day annoying as hell and a stupid feature where apple is over reaching.
Semantra! Shared it yesterday on HN https://github.com/freedmand/semantra
For me the categories aren't super important. I just select something IT, my city, and I just see if there are companies I have never heard of. Thanks for doing that!
Multiple people on this page are relating their experience of being choked into unconsciousness with a knife at your throat, or behind held at knife point and forced to unlock their phones, and OP here is concerned about whether the parts being unusable afterwards will complicate repairs.

Even in the most charitable interpretation OP doesn't care about that but is concerned about false lockout signals, an extreme edge case. Like man screw the people getting knifed over this, right? I might have to call support!

You’ve allowed a noxious, pernicious environment to fester here on HN around this topic. It's normally pretty good but some of these Apple threads are really something else. NVIDIA threads get spicy too but Apple threads bring out all the crazies.

And yes, I do think that's a legitimate strand of thought among Android customers. They don't care if it's stolen, as long as they get cheaper parts and repairs, I've had people say it outright. If you want to counter this in the marketplace of ideas, you kinda have to address the elephant in the room that this is tacitly (or not-so-tacitly) encouraging violent crime. Which sets up this unnecessarily narrow line for one side of the argument - gosh, we can't be too impolite disagreeing with the side advocating violent crime!

"wow, I just want to knife you and steal your phone, but I respect your opinion too, this is a complex issue with a lot of concerns to balance, looks like you have some real growing-up to do!" is exactly the reason HN traffic is not welcomed at some domains. Because of your encouragement of that discourse, and your unwillingness to restrain it when it happens. There are much more serious issues where people's lives are at immediate threat, and you'll find a lot of those places have stopped welcoming HN traffic because they don't want to deal with this... and you override it anyway.
Single meal delivery as an institution is wildly inefficient. The absurd inefficiency of the car as delivery vehicle does not make drones a meaningfully wiser choice.

For every proposed technology, we need desperately to ask: does this really make ecological sense?

Delivering necessities (e.g. medicine) to a remote township with a drone makes sense. Drone-drop pizzas do not.
>The rubber is about to really about to hit the road between climate policy and geopolitics. China is increasing dominating ~all the industries required for the green transition. At this point there'd be no remotely plausible way to enforce a 2030 EV car requirement than to wind up with 70% of your auto market being Chinese EVs. It would be government mandated seppuku of basically all US / UK / European auto makers other than Tesla.

I have long been of the opinion that the (first voluntary, now forced) push to EV is ultimately part of about making China into the next world superpower.

To what end? Fucking beats me, I'm not a part of the Powers That Be(tm).
ChatGPT only swallows data or content but bring back no traffic to content creators. Maybe this is how Google is different from ChatGPT. But what will become of Google if the experimental generative AI's answer replace all the SERPs? An closed web where no search engine no AI can actually enter?
which is why you get in contact with their development team directly.

I've seen internal teams that thought the communication channels couldn't go dev to dev and it was a nightmare.

If you're experiencing this, consider that you have options if you're willing to take them.
Delivery vehicles for packages aren’t traveling very far between stops. A 2 ton vehicle dropping off 200 packages on a 100 mile delivery route is averaging 0.5 miles per package and 0.125 kWh where a drone might need to fly 15 miles each way per packages = 30 miles to and from some central hub to do those same routes. Drones are light, but 0.125 kWh to fly 30 miles seems unlikely.

Food delivery might be a better comparison, but 2 pizzas and a 2 liter soda is heavy enough to need a fairly massive drone.
Makes me look a bit silly now ...

thank you
They use fixed wing aircraft, yes.
Lot's of text here, but very little towards an actual answer.

Are you saying that all of these universities act as one on this subject matter to the point that if any member disagrees "it'd be a real shame if something were to happen to them" type of situation? I'm not in geophysics, not local, nor have casual Australian speech patterns, and I have no earthly clue what/who Mike Dentith is or the relevance.

What's the advantage of being mafia-like in the realm of geophysics? If they are actively promoting bad theories from within the confines of Australia, the world is a big place full of other scientists that can dispute outside the control of this purported mafia.
It should be a thing. Thanks.
If only the system were open source so you wouldn't have to wonder about that...

But we do still have to trust that they are actually running the code they posted.

Unless that code somehow contains some way to verify itself?

I wonder if there is some way to do that? Have the code include a hash of itself and some way to query the running service that guarantees that the running service must be running the code you are looking at?

At first glance it seems any response could always be faked, but maybe there is some cryptography trick where you submit something, like an encrypted copy of the public code maybe, and it crunches and returns something, and that somehow proves that the running code you can't see must be the same as the code you can see.

Depending on how the protocol for the challenge works, that could still be faked. The challenge has to somehow not be seperable from ordinary traffic so that you can't have one piece of code handle the challenge and another piece of code handle other traffic.
Apparently the slogan was: “Italy’s #1 brand of pasta.”
You might enjoy:

"Measuring the intelligence of an idealized mechanical knowing agent"
https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEMTI-2.pdf

"Intuitive Ordinal Notations"
https://github.com/semitrivial/IONs
Mass layoffs? Probably not. The last mass layoffs were the result of interest rate hikes and the end of easy money. Inflation is slowing. So should interest rate hikes.

Macro conditions don't guarantee one way or another for single companies. There's always signs of financial stress internally. Keep an eye out and you'll see them, if there.
It appears that Windows still doesn't have an NFSv4 client: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/nfs...
the message and the messenger?
> This suggests a social trend of...

> Is there evidence...

No. But I have seen nothing to suggest a social trend of pushing back against wishful reporting.

Or one could view such embellishments as low-dose mood meds, added to keep people from getting too depressed, due to chronic over-consumption of news...
https://learndrl.com

I wrote this extensive tutorial for teaching deep reinforcement learning, with a focus on getting intuition from code. you will find RL theory is heavy on math despite needing math for very little other than abstractly representing some machine goal and intuition, of which code serves a native programmer already very well.

i spent years failing to learn machine learning and RL until i just started reading source code. books of integrals i never ended up needing.

dont be turned away by the joking nature of my tutorials. there is a real depth in there
Front end Weekly – Issue 376
I lost confidence at the very beginning of the article:

> In fact, unless you drive a car that gets 33.8 gallons per mile (or carry more than one passenger), new airplanes coming off the assembly line are more fuel-efficient

Cars typically get about 0.03 gallons per mile, so it’s not even close.
This answer is dripping with sarcasm and the AI doesn't even know.

Beautiful.
You haven’t spent much time on IRC/forums, have you? Gatekeeping undesirables was and still is a common practice in those circles, one that keeps the community safe from external activists that wish to corrupt it. This is not “abusing mod powers”, this is cleaning bad actors from the community. Even HackerNews has methods in place to mitigate bad actors, although they’re far more hidden and frankly more dangerous than simply being told one is unwelcome.
And you probably should tip too.
This is why bike delivery is ideal.
It sounds like Hai Karate

Perjorative labels aren't what they used to be, people are happy to be labelled most of the time, so yes, maybe it'll be cool to be a, erm, "wokerat"?
And what is a "mathematical constant" in this context? Not in terms of examples but rather: Is this something that can be defined in a meaningful way? Remembering that one joke about inductive proofs ("there are no uninteresting natural numbers"), my first impression would be that this is a bit of a void concept.

Regarding the joke: "there are no uninteresting natural numbers because if there were any, there would also be a smallest uninteresting number, making this number interesting, which is a contradiction"
i thought the real diamonds campaign was fighting against lab grown diamonds. are they disputing blood diamonds in that campaign as well?
glee now supports uploading images into your ghost database instead of AWS S3. Please check the Image backend Configuration[1] section in glee readme.

[1]:https://github.com/HexmosTech/glee#image-storage-backend-con...
Yeah: this is frustrating to see. At some point, it doesn't matter what anyone else does: the selfish benefits of reducing climate change will be worth it to your nations.
Quick tangential question: I watched a few seconds that video and was immediately struck by how Mark sounds so....YouTube'ey? What is it about his intonation and narration style that is so distinctly YouTube? I don't watch enough YouTube to get a sense for whether it's distinct to him or to an entire class of popular channels. Every sentence or two is a "quip" - it's loud and sing-song'y. Lots of phrases seem to end on a rising tone (my parents used to call this "upspeak?" because it sounds like you're asking a question? all the time?).

Where/when did this style arise?
Caffeine's "stimulation" is somewhat of an illusion, it only makes you feel stimulated if you're dependent and it only gets you to where you'd be if you didn't use at all. https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2012/08/21/caff...
Another important issue is that it will only stave off sleep with sugar.
The actual claim in the Red Bull case isn’t that the drinker doesn’t get wings, but instead:

> Red Bull does not, it turns out, give you wings — even in the figurative sense. Red Bull says in its marketing that the drink can improve concentration and reaction speeds, but the plaintiff in the case said these claims were false and lacked scientific support. While the suit did not allege that plaintiffs were disappointed that they didn't suddenly sprout wings, it does say that Red Bull relies a lot on terms like "wings" and "boost" to give consumers the impression that the drink gives people some sort of physical lift or enhancement.
Say what you will about European regulations, but as an American who moved to Europe, I was absolutely floored when I bought a cheap bottle of sparkling mint-flavored water from the grocery store, and the ingredients were exactly:

* sparkling mineral water
* mint extract

I don’t know if a single brand exists in the US that uses actual ingredients in flavored water, I’ve always just seen the vague “natural flavor”. But here it was in the random budget store brand
Can you talk about the dataset sizes you support? Your example linear app has 112 rows, could you support 1000? 10K? 100k? 1M?
Per the guidelines:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
To be fair to OP, in the context of the US legal system it wouldn't be unheard of for such an absurd lawsuit to be filed and settled, and the article we're discussing doesn't clarify what was actually meant.

See Pepsi and the Harrier jet:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
The Signal Protocol is getting a post-quantum makeover
If I'm immersed in doing something else, I wonder if that is really long enough.

I'm sure it's some kind of progress but it seems to me that being restricted to 40 mph rather reduces its utility. Traffic on motorways is usually travelling faster than that. This means that it will be used quite rarely which makes me think that this is essentially a PR exercise on the part of Mercedes. Also the press releases say nothing about how the car and driver handle the transition from Level 3 below 40 mph to level 2 above and the reverse.
> This is short-term thinking at its very worst

It seems like the "short term thinking" was committing to banning diesel and petrol sales by 2030 anyway. It was obvious to everybody with half a brain that this was completely impossible and unrealistic. The UK doesn't have the needed infrastructure, electrical supply, or anything else to support this move. We're not going to have every lamp post in our major cities kitted out with an EV charger in 7 years, and we won't have built the additional generation capacity needed. Especially when various green lobbies are eg delaying Sizewell C with legal challenges - see the news yesterday about that.

It probably is electioneering by Sunak, but it is quite a smart move. They've made labour promise to overturn it when they come to power, which would then make them extremely unpopular if they did so.

Rather than trying to appease people who will only ever hate you anyway, with unrealistic targets, it is much better to be realistic about what is achievable.
Then there's the real issue on labeling — if there is only X amount of a counted nutrient in a product, such as sugar, the label can say that there is no sugar in the product. This can significantly affect people who keep close tabs on what they eat, & who rely on honest labeling.

Link to recent article detailing this: https://medium.com/@massdatasoft/how-tic-tac-is-misleading-y...