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There are all kinds of cases where filesystems might issue an extraneous sync, but it is not atomic, merely ordered. You've switched from talking about one to talking about the other and they are not the same. This is the core of our disagreement.

Because it is not an issue of atomic behavior but merely ordering there's no reason to modify the kernel or touch syscalls. It would be far more reliable to provide this in a library -- rename(3) -- which would then automatically provide the benefit on every posix compatible filesystem.

It would also allow for a use case of wanting to rename a file without forcing a full data sync -- which could be performance critical behavior in some scenarios.

To recap:

No filesystems provide atomic syncing of data during rename(). The words don't even make sense. Ext doesn't do it, zfs doesn't do it, xfs doesn't do it. Achieving this would require mechanisms that don't exist.

Some filesystems do guarantee that an fsync will occur alongside a rename. There is no specific guarantee as to what file state will be synced. These filesystems do this to mask the impact of folks mis-using the API, paying an efficiency cost as a result.

In ext4, for example, the sync does NOT occur within the same transaction as the rename. The sync is NOT atomic (it would be wild if this were the case, as noted above -- architecturally inconsistent and extremely non-performant)

It would be ideal for this to happen in libc rather than in the kernel.
I think that is the biggest reason for the excessive safety as well. Just like all services try to be safe for those same things.

What do puzzles me is why those companies act that way. Is it because costumers are dumb enough to not differentiate "user generated content" from "a company endorsing such content", or their shareholders actively want to push such moral values?
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40% of the food in the US is thrown away every year and yet millennials suffer from obesity.

It's time to stop thinking like you’re in a wasteland because it’s the very way to make it so.
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People are sick of virtual spaces but metaverse is the future?

Isn’t the metaverse the ultimate virtual space?
It costs $53 dollars a round, not $10: https://www.dacis.com/budget/budget_pdf/FY10/PROC/F/352010.p...

And again, the point is moot because there way more flight hours to train a pilot than spent flying combat missinons.
Yeah, let's get a ban on video games (waste) and video game achievements (proof of waste.)
There are several PRNGs that are faster and more random than Mersenne Twister.
Adult humans also sometimes give their offspring names like "X Æ A-12".
Well that’s what I pay out of pocket and have everything fully covered. It’s not unusual to have a plan like this in tech.
Yes, this is not a list of "Best SciFi books from 1964 to 1983", it is specifically meant to cover the subgenre of New Wave. This is also why for instance "Flowers for Algernon" or "The forever war" is not there, since they are not considered New Wave but are for sure classics that would be on a generic "Best SciFi" list.
We're fully remote and I was feeling worn out from zoom calls about a year ago. I found that turning off "self-view" was a really nice change.
I have no problem with this. Animation on the web improves a page 5% of the time and makes it worse 95% of the time.

I don’t need to see any more Flash “Loading…” screens in my lifetime, especially just to see nav menus.

Even with instant broadband loading, the nav menu is better when it’s not animated. The post-masthead features section is better when it’s not animated.
Isn't public photography legal? It can be creepy but it is legal, at least in the "democratic" west. And btw all modern cities have cameras all around it so you can easily catch creeps if they cross the line of legality.
> Plane hijackings are pretty rare, yet we have TSA screening and no liquids over 100ml on flights.

Without wanting to sound too sarcastic, it’s possible there might be an implication going on there.
I would guess one outcome of that was a significant increase in bad words used on non live TV. Since they'll be beeped out it's not really big deal anymore.
Why do you feel you have to be immobile during meetings. I pace all the time, regardless if someone's watching through my webcam or not
That is surprising and does not track with what I have heard from other nurses. Are you in a specialized unit with extra care or something?
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Yes locking the doors == good

Making me buy over priced water == Security theater that does nothing for safety

We do not need to be illogical about it, extreme government over reach should not be excused when a simple door lock was all that is needed
How strictly do you want to define "minivan"? The Tesla Model X is plenty spacious, with 37 ft³ behind the rear seats or 85 ft³ if you fold down the rear seats, or you can fit in a 3rd row of seats (which reduces the space to 15 ft³). The doors go up instead of sideways, but as long as it can move all of your stuff from A to B, does it really matter which way the doors go?
It also depends on your objective. I play in nominally easy mode but if I get a certain threshold of information on my first guess I’ll go for a possible answer. Whereas if you use three words to eliminate the most letters you’ll probably never solve in less than 4 or 5.
> > Creating a currency

> Shouldn't be illegal.

This is exactly where the bullshit should stop. Creating currencies should be the sole privilege of sovereign governments.
It's not remotely true.
> My mind is blown that this oddly specific behaviour was apparently so common that the government mandated all cellphone cameras must play shutter sounds that cannot be muted. What the hell

It was and is extremely common. It's happened to my partner, many of her friends and has been an issue for years. And is not just contained to cell phone cameras but hidden cameras in general. Public bathrooms are such a hotspot that many women fear using them.

Not sure if it's an issue involving a lot of men or just a smaller more active group. But there is a lingering issue with how young Korean men think of women. For example in a poll, 76% of men in their 20s oppose feminism:

https://www.theglobalist.com/south-korea-anti-feminist-young...
For some reason that I can not remember there was no pull down key available in the first version of Sopwith I remember playing. Possibly something with the layout of the (Swedish) keyboard I played on. But a later copy I got from some friend had a key to pull down, making the game far easier. But I want to remember I managed to get quite far even when only being able to pull up.
That’s correct. I didn’t know the EV vehicles were only keyless.
It’s all science, reproducibility is a larger crisis within science at the moment not unique to nutrition. But even if it was (and it is) slightly higher in food science, the solution is not “eat whatever you want”, it’s more like that you should understand the fundamentals instead of overfitting to individual studies.
You don't need the compiler to run the program in production. You only need the binary. I'd argue that a heavy toolchain in the dev machine isn't a big deal.
It’s sad to realize that such a project would be completely impossible in America now. We’ve become the Microsoft of countries.
And conversely, if precision munitions saves the life of 1 more soldier than strafing, it's worth it.
I don't think this holds, you can enforce filtering in the encoding step, i.e. be strict about what you output, but always decode, even if the input is profanity. This means you can also be backwards compatible if you update the list etc. So in short, the old maxim of be strict about your outputs and lenient about your inputs.
This is a list for New Wave SciFi, not all SciFi, and Pohl and Halderman are usually not considered as "New Wave" authors.
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Cash does facilitate crimes. Yet we consider that a cost or a bug, one we're willing to accept in exchange for its benefits. Cash itself is clearly a neutral tool, yet even it is regulated if transactions exceed certain thresholds.
Seems like this strategy is exploitable. An opponent could just bet on only their strongest hands and trap you. That is where game theory comes in.

You also need to bluff. You can't just bet your strength.
Education?

Supervision and intervention?

Supportive environment?

Friendship?

Discovery of the people around us?

Anonymous support forums?

Peer contacts?

Not making self-defense illegal?

I mean I'm sure we could launch more research into what might possibly work but we do have some to get started with. It's not like ONLY non-verbal people are being bullied and can('t) talk about it.
There used to be a way to pay with credit card IIRC?
I know that in the UK, you can photograph everything that you can see in the public....not sure about rest of the Europe but I suppose laws are liberal as well.
In the US, it probably differs from state to state.
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> That moment shouldn't be awkward if you have a legitimate reason for taking that photo.

Think of for example quiet libraries with a bunch of students quietly studying. They do not like other people making noise, however legitimate the reason is.

> you can record a video...

Video recording also has a mandated start/stop sound, FWIW.
FYI this list wasn’t “everyone said every one of these things.”

Also, the “only real devs touch the real world” attitude is pretty sad. Not everyone wants to write guidance systems or heart monitoring firmware.
She changed her tribe. Until her whole ex-peer group believes, changing her mind hardly helps. From article:

influenced by friends at church in the US south. I spent years doubting the science of climate change and spending time with people who didn't believe in the science either.

* To move away from those people meant leaving behind an entire community *
This was the highlight of the article for me on how Claude Shannon gained a deep intuition:

Shannon took a youthful interest in cryptanalysis after reading a detective story and continued to reference detective stories in later years as he worked out his ideas about information. (In the early 1950s, for instance, he tested his intuitions about probability and communication with a noir story by Raymond Chandler, “Pickup on Noon Street.” He spelled out a sentence, letter by letter, to his wife and research assistant, Betty. After each letter, she guessed what the next would be. Eventually, demonstrating the predictability of communication if you have a large enough sample text, she was correctly guessing three letters at once. A S-M-A-L-L O-B-L-O-N-G R-E-A-D-I-N-G L-A-M-P O-N T-H-E D … E-S-K. Shannon figured that the letters we can predict aren’t information, because they don’t tell us anything new.)
How many times per day are you on video calls (camera on) with < 6 people?

For those of us who are on constant back-to-back video calls with a small group of people, “zoom fatigue” is a very real thing.
Removing the kid gloves when dealing with bullies. Mandatory mental health resources and support, along with fines proportional to wealth for the parents. Basically here's everything you need to curb your kids bullying. If you can't, it's going to cost you.
I'm pretty sure any attempted plane hijacking after 9/11 would result in the hijackers getting mobbed by passengers.
I appreciate any list of sci-fi books, and it's interesting to see, but for me, this list sucks. It's very fantasy / literature heavy as opposed to hard sci-fi. Seems like a list of "sci-fi" books from someone who doesnt really like sci-fi. For me it's like a bottom 75 list.
I don't have problem with KYC/AML, I have problem with the lack of consumer protection, with their shitty websites, security theater app and processes, their inability to do proper risk and compliance checking/monitoring/reporting respectfully.

Strange opaque "post hoc" enforcement (when you are allowed to transfer money in, but not out) should be illegal without probable cause and "habeas corpus", etc.
I wonder if it's less a single action of taking one photo, but the collective noise of lots of people taking lots of photos.

With film photography people were be restrained with the cost of film and photo development, whereas now there's no restraint and lots of people take lots of photos of the most mundane things. I can imagine the noise and distractions of 'click, click, click' in public spaces, events, gatherings etc. An always on chorus of 'click, click, click,click, click, click,click, click, click'.
I hope you have already watched "Dragon Warrior by NEScardinality" that shows exactly what slight advantage is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgh30BiWG58&t=428s
You're probably not wrong, but a 99% sensible plan can still be catastrophically bad. The complex knot of decisions to be made in the 1% may completely invalidate whatever the AI already told the higher-ups. This happens even now when humans painstakingly plan something out (usually because someone is abusing their "soft skills" to buy time or keep others from worrying).

I think humans are still miles ahead in being able to spot a lie that will derail a project. If you force people to work under an equally incompetent AI middle manager, prepare to see them quit in a mass exodus for somewhere that doesn't. Nobody (except naive college grads) is going to risk getting fired or having their career ruined by an over-glorified cost-cutting measure that prioritizes the convenience of the rest of the business over the quality of the work being done.
I am quite aware of what the document says. It's just that it hasn't been updated since April 2019, and today more clarity is needed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38414770
I think the reason is that on iOS if you are capturing the video it forces the screen on.

Where as with the camera you can turn it off. Hence the need for shutter sound.
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"Many people think that the human mind is the apotheosis of cognition.

I don’t"
In my experience, working from home is similar to many of the other skills we hone in our careers.

Yes, the tools you use will impact performance and quality of life. Invest in these. But also, getting better at video calls helps with performance and quality of life.

I have found that when we treat video calls as real time conversations, we get frustrated with latency and the lack of proper audio mixing.

However, if I and the people I video conference with obey certain protocols: 1 person speaks at a time, raise your hand to speak next, etc, many of the frustrations that cause fatigue go away.

It still isn't a replacement for the real time, able to talk over each other style that we might prefer, but at least it's productive and less of a drag.

I'll note that when we adhere to these protocols, we find not only are we less fatigued, but the quality of communication sky rockets. I think this is a result of everyone having more room to think and being forced to prepare your thoughts rather than reacting with whichever thought comes first.

Regarding the "they're just trying to get us back in the office" debate - I'm hopeful that genZ will come fully immunized against zoom fatigue and it'll be less of an issue.
I’m a diehard MCMC advocate but love that the is system is built for real-time applications. Hope I get a chance to try this out sometime!
>New York should read and weep

an understatement
I'm as surprised as well.

I'm trying to guess why, and can only imagine that at some point the idea was to support multi-window webapps, like maybe you'd have separate windows for documents and different tool palettes, and they'd want to know each other's locations to try to prevent overlaps? I mean, back in the day, framesets were another idea that experienced some popularity before being totally eclipsed by <iframes> -- all of this back in the era when everything was based on the multiple-windows paradigm rather than the multiple-tabs paradigm. Window.screenLeft apparently originated in IE [1].

Just a guess though. Very curious if there's any legitimate reason for it to continue to exist, or whether W3 ought to deprecate it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scre...
Jason Donenfeld (author of Wireguard) replaced Linux’s SHA-1 based PRNG (remember, SHA-1 is cryptographically broken) with BLAKE2. What is shady about it?

You can’t get cryptographically secure random numbers without platform support, so it’s really bad to tell people to avoid the kernel CSPRNG.
I doubt it's the only thing. Me and my friend moved to Korea, had the same Korean sim card. Only thing that changed is that I have an Android (Xiaomi), and she has an iPhone. Mine didn't start to do any sound.
In a Ruby app we just convert to a high base, like

> 1234567890.to_s(36)
=> "kf12oi"

That gets us most of the way there, but Sqid has a Ruby library and lets you set a much higher base, including upper case characters, and I suppose, emoji. We're going to need much bigger numbers before that space savings makes much difference. I like it, but it's hard to know when something like that is worth adding a dependency.
Pointing out that video meetings are bad doesn't mean that remote work is bad. I'm sure remote workers would be happy to excise this unnecessary practice.
I believe that a human's ability to ask clear questions and give clear answers is a great way to see if they are coherent.

I can imagine AIs watching what we do at work, and flagging someone who is incoherent in their dealings with another human being.
I'm not in endless meetings, I'm in a reasonable amount of to-the-point meetings. I hated when all of them were all video calls during the various lockdowns.

I choose to go to the office on most days, because I prefer that. Not everyone prefer all remote all the time, and you people need to stop that everyone else is like you.
It's not true that I cherry-picked a slow PRNG for my 7 GB/s number. In fact I selected the second-fastest PRNG on that page (because it's popular)! The fastest one is 8 GB/s. PCG32 is 3 GB/s.

Your 4000x factor speed up for a linear-congruential generator is just a completely false number.

Yes I did pick ChaCha20 for its speed -- it's designed for speed!

"A few hundred FPU instructions" in your Monte Carlo is not comparable to generating a number with ChaCha20. If you need a few hundred FPU instructions per number, you will be running a lot slower than 2 GB/s. ChaCha only requires a few cycles per byte.

I agree that you can optimize out the side-channel free part for non-crypto-purposes. That's a good thing! I recommend doing that.
Easy upvote.

I think there’s something else mentioned on that page that is a major contributor to feeling cold: redirecting blood flow away from the skin and in to the muscles (/organs)
"Data training expert" sounds very much like what an currently academic does. For example, we have a set amount of historical data from, for example, the Middle Ages, and this data has been repeatedly re-analyzed, sometimes with the benefit of additional archaeological data.

>7. Best paid Healthcare jobs in 2040. Projected rise in healthcare spending show the average American spending at least $3,000 annually by 2040, up from today’s $1,000 per year.

I think the amount paid today far exceeds $1,000 per year.
The number of people that tone deaf must be very very small.
I used to daydream about having a web proxy that could store every page I visited (instead of having to manually save interesting pages... something I do a lot). But I never had the storage space for that, and the bloat in web pages has grown faster than the size of disk I can afford. Since I started using Offpunk for Gemini some time ago I at least get a complete saved record of all the Gemini pages I read. 65 MB in one year. Far more realistic to maintain than with web pages.
If you are really dedicated to the task of clandestine photos, someone could purchase a dedicated point and shoot. Or a secondary phone for which permanently disabling the speakers is not a concern. Or just shoot video.
Usually when I can't find a simple way to do something, only a messy/complicated one, I find it worth popping into the info file and looking around - as long as you're comfortable using bash-specific (vs POSIX) idioms, there's often some generalization that helps. (Having said that, stack overflow "isn't great until it is", I've found some real gems of "can't you just do this?" that vastly simplify what I was trying to do by, effectively, doing something else entirely.)

That said, I think with bash (and anything with a man page more than 5 pages long - "screen" and "lsof" for example) it's worth just doing a quick skim of the entire man page once every 5 or 10 years - sure, most of it will be "yeah, I know that", and a bunch will be "... who asked for that? why do we even have that lever?" but there will be a few things that fix something that's annoyed you for years, and a few things that you'll ignore and then 6 months later you'll say "wait, I read something about this" and go back and fix the problem.

(Reading the changelogs of your primary tools is also smart, and I'll admit I pretty much only do that when looking at security changes, or when looking at a weird behaviour change between releases and trying to figure out what the intent was - not that I recommend that part per se, you just become the greybeard everyone comes to with weird questions :-) Most recently, bash pipeline tail-exec...)
It's a minor inconvenience to many but it's a necessity to a few who desperately need it to keep safe.

What if I wasn't vigilant about my surroundings? Could someone weaker have been able to confront the individual? These are the many reasons why I welcome the camera shutter sound as a required feature.
I would use one of those for scenarios when I need proper measures of uncertainty like credible regions.

The methods listed in this project (EM algorithm, VI) tend not to provide this as well but usually produce something that looks like a good posterior mean (global optimum under mean square loss) in my experience.
MANPADs are still way cheaper than the aircraft they shoot down. You're also shooting a lot more shells to down an aircraft than missiles. On the order of thousands.

Most short range air defenses are infrared guided, radar cross section is not relevant there.
But the product was gambling and funvestment (buy funky pictures, silly named coins/tokens), the crime was doing it unregistered. (And it's not like the constant whack-a-mole evasion did not cost them anything.)

Right now these serious claims (that the main product was money laundering for ISIS et al.) are unsubstantiated.
I used to use Word Hippo quite a bit. These days only if I’m pretty stuck and just don’t want to fill a sheet of paper with manual permutations.
Blast from the past! Looking at its author David Clark's profile on LinkedIn, I see he went back to school ten years ago to get a PhD in geophysics!
68 new stations in the Paris area and it took forty years to get a Metro stop at DC's biggest airport.
All content on this blog except for the about page was created by scraping news headlines and feeding them into an LLM. The result is truly awful. It costs about a penny per day to generate 4 daily articles.

It's a python script that periodically runs on Azure, that then posts to a ghost blog. The whole thing took less than a day to make.
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