skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CAP theorem is a precursor of that, even if they are different [1][2][3] and Micali from Algorand claims they solved it (it is included in the original article).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kaspa/comments/18ieda0/there_is_a_f...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3615871

[3] https://x.com/0xmert_/status/1748768344080023805?s=46
Once I saw a case-insensitive switch in C using that pattern of letters:

switch (my_char | 0x20) {

case 'a': ...
break;

case 'b': ...
break;

}
I didn't find zellij to be better than screen. The tabs/screens are not numbered correctly so switching directly to them requires manually counting. A non-starter for me.
John Oliver (and crew) is a national treasure.
I've studied 100's of Unique Selling Propositions from leading companies, and found that each USP falls under 17 themes - some of the best ones actually hit 2 or 3 themes.

I built a simple ChatGPT form integrating my research on themes to see if I could generate some inspiriation for USPs.
I replied to comment asking big tech to create a map of public toilets.
As a concrete example, the idea of a mouse was once counterintuitive to users because they'd never seen one before.

Windows included Solitaire with the OS in part to introduce ideas like "click" or "click and drag" to users that were unfamiliar with GUIs, by linking them to physical concepts users did understand ("oh, I have a physical card, I can grab it and move it around, that makes sense!").
> and the first thing people want to do is mine them for profit

The reason we have the technology to discover non-obvious things is thanks to thousands of years of profit-seeking.
And from what I understand, it’s not due to incompetence; rather, it’s due to not yet having confidence that those optimizers wouldn’t introduce bugs. The SDK and toolchain were very new; SM64’s development itself parallels that of the dev toolchain.

So, better safe than sorry, especially with a pack-in launch title.
> With my income alone I could support children and a wife

Let me guess, you bought a house before 2021 and are locked in on 3% or less mortgage.

> you bought a house you couldn't afford

I bought a 3 bed not so big house. Are you going to tell me that’s too big for a family with 2 kids? Or are you going to tell me I should’ve been born earlier to buy the same house for cheaper and lock in those rates?
std::void_t would have been nice.
Ray tracing might be eye candy, but fast streaming of assets from SSD enables experiences not possible before (large scale open world, super fast movement a la Spiderman, instant teleportation).

GPU-powered dynamic lighting and LOD is also pretty crazy.
I'm a bit confused about what is going on here: This project appears to use Netflix/conductor [0]. But you go to that repo, you see it has been archived, with a message saying it is replaced by Netflix's internal non-OSS version, and by unmentioned community forks – by which I assume they mean Orkes Conductor [1]. But this isn't using Orkes Conductor, it looks like it is using the discontinued Netflix version `com.netflix.conductor:conductor-core:2.31.5` [2] – and an outdated version of it too.

[0] https://github.com/Netflix/conductor

[1] https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor

[2] https://github.com/Netflix/maestro/blob/e8bee3f1625d3f31d84d...
It's a "tiny" part of a services business with a billion subscribers, that generates $20B of revenue in a quarter. $20B in production costs over 4.5 years works out to less than $5B/year in costs, against competitors like Netflix and Disney+ that are spending $20B a year.

I actually haven't seen any numbers on their current marketshare, but I'll give you that they aren't anywhere near their competitors. I don't think the problem is that they're spending too much money.
Because it's saying "you have 6 blocks, they can be either green or blue. No matter what colors they are, you'll always have either 3 blue or 3 green."
This is a good reminder to write our bidets into our wills.

I have two Washlets and a Brondell. Absolutely game-changing. I also have a travel bidet that works amazingly while I'm traveling.
Those guidelines say "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.". That's what the parent commenter should have done.

And "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."; your comment is commenting about voting, and this guideline sets a precedent that boring reading is not desirable.

and "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article?"" which you are doing about the guidelines.

and "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." which reinforces the idea that uninteresting comments are not deisable. "The title is bad" is not a very interesting comment.

Pet annoyance recently is seeing people comment "why am I being downvoted? What I said was true" when what they said was arguably true - but also low effort, flamebait, tangent, off-topic, or similar; "it is correct" alone isn't enough. Since this has been annoying me I want to write more, here are examples:

Searching Algolia for 'downvoted': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039279 which says "Microsoft is like Disney, they steal from others and trounce others for stealing from them. Absurd people." followed by "Sad to see this extremely historically accurate and relevant comment downvoted.". It's arguably true - but also arguably false - but definitely a single line of low effort flamebait. Actually justifying the claim would be better.

And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027729 - about Kamala Harris "I hate to say it yet I don't think she's polling well because even in 2024 I don't think America is ready to allow a woman of colour be POTUS." reply "You’re downvoted, but you’re correct.". Maybe it is correct, but they could at least argue the case for their claim? Something more substantial than a one line which is basically "America racist"? ("Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes." - guidelines).

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41008957 CrowdStrike thread -> substantive comment on centralised control and security -> risks of splaying personal valuables out in front of everyone at security -> security tried to screw me because they had to do their job -> I got downvoted "by some swede who doesn't think this stuff can happen"; assuming the downvote is because people don't believe it happened, rather than because it's marginally - if at all - relevant, substantive, thoughtful, interesting.
I was going for something between YMMW and "whatever you say." The slight tilt toward the latter was received poorly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's just how I talk. Maybe it's generational.
Last that I heard, the Apache were an actual, living people.

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

The announcement has lots of Self-righteous White Ideologue Knows Best overtones. But no hint whatever of the decision-makers bothering to talk to any actual, living Apache, about their views on the matter, before making this decision.
I wonder if, given enough time, these nodules would be the engine of the industrialized Octopus civilization.
Many students will want to know where the minus sign comes from. I like to write the formula instead as S = sum_i p_i log( 1 / p_i ), where (1 / p_i) is the "surprise" (i.e., expected number of trials before first success) associated with a given outcome (or symbol), and we average it over all outcomes (i.e., weight it by the probability of the outcome). We take the log of the "surprise" because entropy is an extensive quantity, so we want it to be additive.
> The vast majority of excess value held by investors is not directed towards consumption.

So why does it need to be created in the first place then? That takes work that apparently does not need to happen for any other reason than economic, not because it is valuable in and of itself.
Can’t you also snapshot LVM volumes directly? So if you have an LVM volume, it shouldn’t matter what the filesystem is, provided it is sync’d… in theory.

(I’ve only done this on VMs that could be paused before the snapshot, so YMMV.)
Tom Ford commented on the issue of counterfeit and "knock off" products in the fashion industry, he said after some research (I assume by him/his company) they found that the people buying the cheap counterfeit products weren't their customers anyway, and so they weren't losing anything.
> Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks

Sounds like it works similarly to git fork on GitHub? That is, if no files have changed, the snapshot doesn't take up any extra room?
> Booking.com wants to charge you for the service, and if they're not part of the transaction they'd have to get money out-of-band

I think you misunderstand what I meant. To be more specific: if the ruling says that automated booking via screen scraping is illegal – what's to stop Booking.com hiring warm bodies in low cost countries, replacing their fully automated solution with a semi-automated solution to dodge the ruling, and continuing to charge their customers for that service?
In some aspects we could say that, given the high number of USSR tanks, ships and weapons that are being destroyed by the Ukrainian army just right now.

USSR was a necessary collaborator in this invasion.
All that is completely irrelevant, you're overcomplicating it. Each person has 1 of 2 states, connected or not. If 4 are connected, 2 aren't, if 4 aren't 2 are, etc.
Decaf that tastes like caf would be great. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible. Or at least I haven’t found it yet. The standard processes used to remove the caffeine seem to also remove enough of the other compounds to make it noticeably more watery and thin.
> I just don't like to see people breaking the civility guidelines here as it's just about one of the last places online where discourse is largely held to a a civil level for disagreements.

I seriously disagree that this breaks any sort of social contract between you and I on the internet. It was intended to be mildly dismissive but not overly rude. There's a higher standard for communicating with care at work (you should care about your coworkers), but do you really think people on the internet have time for this shit? I don't know you guy.
You misunderstood the problem. That's not what it's saying at all.
According to the article, that's the next thing they're going to test for.
Everything you mentioned can and should be automated.
A framework for assessing research integrity
Building prototypes since 2011? That is a long time. I wouldn’t hold my breath. I would read through some of the Glassdoor reviews.
Yup. The reason businesses are willing to pay for convenience is because otherwise they'll have to hire someone to do the job (or reallocate someone from other work to do the job); they're paying in money or opportunity cost regardless.
So on one hand they are saying it's voltage (i.e. something external, not their fault, bad mainboard manufacturers!).

On the other hand they are saying they will fix it in microcode.
How is that even possible?

Are they saying that their CPUs are signaling the mainboards to give them too much voltage?

Can someone make sense of this?
It reminds me of Steve Jobs' You Are Holding It Wrong moment.
Their coffee is significantly worse tasting (especially if you drink it black, as I often do). With milk it’s perfectly acceptable, especially if you go for their ‘blonde’ roast.

I totally agree about opening times! Starbucks is often the only place open after 5 or so.
So much less toilet paper.

SO. MUCH. LESS.

No more endless wiping.

Your bottom's actually clean instead of "mostly" clean.

Washlets in particular have filters in them that mask smells and a warmed seat.
The author is saying "wide angle lens" but means what people would conventionally call a "fish eye lens." Normally when someone says wide angle, it's still assumed to be a rectilinear image projection, same as what you get with 3D game rendering. And if you're talking about a curvy fisheye projection, you specify that.

The iPhone's ultrawide lens is a good example of a rectilinear projection with lots of example photos available.

It can produce weird feeling images with stuff at the edges looking stretched out, and parallel lines being at significant angles to each other, but it does not make straight lines curved like the effect that the author is removing.

Example ultrawide photo with straight lines from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneography/comments/ena7s5/bosto...
After watching https://youtube.com/watch?v=gTeubeCIwRw and some related content, I personally don't believe it's an issue fixable with microcode. I guess we'll see.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/ex... tells me they support these IDPs
1. Facebook
2. Login with Amazon
3. Google
4. Sign in with Apple
5. Open ID Connect providers, and finally
6. SAML identity providers

If we look a bit closer, we notice that the first four use OpenID Connect under the hood. These names are fancy names for OpenID Connect with a little bit of something extra on top from Apple, Google, and so forth.
Right, but the very interesting thing is it turns out that what's random to me might not be random to you! And the reason that "microscopic" is included is because that's a shorthand for "information you probably don't have about a system, because your eyes aren't that good, or even if they are, your brain ignored the fine details anyway."
There is so much stuff Chrome sends to Google though. I was curious how their autofill implementation works and... there is code to send a list of all form and field names to a Google API. That alone could be sensitive information.
An Intel employee is posting on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1e9mf04/intel_core_1...

A recent YouTube video by GamersNexus speculated the cause of instability might be a manufacturing issue. The employee's response follows.

Questions about manufacturing or Via Oxidation as reported by Tech outlets:

Short answer: We can confirm there was a via Oxidation manufacturing issue (addressed back in 2023) but it is not related to the instability issue.

Long answer: We can confirm that the via Oxidation manufacturing issue affected some early Intel Core 13th Gen desktop processors. However, the issue was root caused and addressed with manufacturing improvements and screens in 2023. We have also looked at it from the instability reports on Intel Core 13th Gen desktop processors and the analysis to-date has determined that only a small number of instability reports can be connected to the manufacturing issue.

For the Instability issue, we are delivering a microcode patch which addresses exposure to elevated voltages which is a key element of the Instability issue. We are currently validating the microcode patch to ensure the instability issues for 13th/14th Gen are addressed
Let's hope their extension V3 proposal dies the same way.
I think this was the right thing to do for his health, being president is a notoriously stressful job.
Depends on the application and your personal preference. It's way "faster" for me to see a HN comment was posted "1 hour ago" than it is for me to see the absolute time string and do the math myself. Further, I don't care about the exact time a HN comment was made. I care about roughly how long ago it was posted so I know if the conversation is still going.
Sad. I really hoped that Google would deprecate those for a little bit more private web.
Were they strongarmed or self censored themselves? Would be interesting to know the backstory.
someone dropped a diode?
It’s like asking ‘why practice an instrument you can’t already play?’.

If you only try each thing once and give up, you’ll get stuck in a local flavour maximum.

Basically, what I’m saying is: it’s perfectly possible that the best experiences you can have are those that require a certain amount of less-pleasant experiences preceding them. You can stick with the medium-level experiences and you’ll never try anything bad twice, but you’ll also never discover things that might change your life.
What is it like to attend a predatory conference?
Companies, specifically HR departments, have worked very hard to show their distrust of employees. Look how cold and impersonal layoffs are. What does that signal to the rest of the employees?
So call it 400 liters/min at 30C delta with air's heat capacity about 1kJ/kg/C and 800 liters/kg. You're at 15kJ/min or 250W just for that airflow. Figure there are 40 rooms and you're at 10kW of heating just for that fresh air flow. An ERV can cut that by 90%.

You just saved 9kW of continuous power for the building during the winter with an ERV.
Learning from Major Incidents: The Opportunities We're Missing
There are paper texture-like screen protectors for iPads and they don't really affect the image. I wonder if the same surface can be used so the keys have better texture for typing.
Good for Intel to finally "figure it out" but I'm not 100% sure microcode is 100% of the problem. As in everything complex enough, the "problem" can actually be many compounded problems, MB vendors "special" tune comes to mind.

But this is already a mess very hard to clean since I feel many of these CPUs will die in an year or 2 because of these problems today but by then nobody will remember this and an RMA will be "difficult" to say the least.
> Cortisol is also released during strength training, though.

more than compensated for by the compressive loading signals from lifting heavy.
> I also want you to think about what stops your landlord from raising your rent by $1000 / month right now. Like, why not just go for it?

Answering as a landlord (I have one property I used to live in that I rent out), the reason I don't just keep raising rent is mainly because I like my tenant and want to be fair to them. Having had bad tenants in the past, a good tenant is worth their weight in gold.

More relevant to your question though, the other reason is because I know there's a ceiling after a certain point where the number of people who have the money to rent my property starts to shrink and the time it would take to find a new tenant would cost more than the amount of money I would make by raising rent.

If rent is $2000/mo and raising it by $100/mo means it's going to take an extra month to find a tenant, then I need to believe that that tenant is going to stay for at least 20 months to break even.

If everyone all of a sudden has an extra $1000/mo I could be fairly certain that my tenant won't be priced out if I were to raise rent a few hundred dollars.
Ask HN: Looking for a cheap hosted BI tool like Metabase for my startup
What's the tool you recommend for this? I need something preferably free since my volume is so tiny since we're just starting out.
It's worth noting that the age requirements selected then were less about wisdom and experience, and more about residency in the US. The chief fear at the time was a European power manipulating the country to put a puppet in charge, so to avoid this they wanted to limit power to those who had resided in the US for a long time, but they also didn't want to preclude themselves from holding offices in the future. These numbers (35 for president, 30 for senator, and 25 for house representative) represent a compromise - note that the constitution's primary authors were 36 and 31 at the time it was signed, and the youngest signer was 26.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2OUzBrLEFk is a interesting video about the transport of these weapons
I do not know. I just pointed out that progressive taxation makes UBI more sensible in the "more equitable society" sense.

But I do not like the notion of "more equitable society" at all. I do not think it is fair or useful.
Disagree. Commander Keen 4-6 are better than Mario, imo.
It's kind of baked into C grammar. And there's absolutely no compelling use-case to fix it in C.

In C++, there's a very compelling case for making void an actual type, because you can't use void as a templated type, which means that templates involving functions that potentially have void return types require unpleasant amounts of template metaprogramming.

Now that C++ standards committees are considering basic usability fixes (e.g. the long overdue ability to do`namespace com::microsoft::directx { }`) there's a vague possibility that somebody might look into actually fixing this some time before 2040.
> Most of all, we want to assure the winners of this year’s Hugos that they have won fair and square, without any arbitrary or unexplained exclusion of votes or nominees and without any possibility that their award had been gained through fraudulent means.

It is of course completely impossible that while one person was arranging fake votes using obviously fake names, they or someone else might have arranged fake votes using more realistically fake names.

Like, I agree that there's not a lot that the committee can do here, but the Hugo voting process in its current form does not warrant this level of confidence. We simply cannot be sure whether the people who "won" did so fairly or not.
Yeah, you can take live snapshots with LVM. You can use wyng-backup to incrementally take and back them up somewhere outside LVM. This has been working pretty well for me to backup libvirt domains backed by LVs
It's interesting that coffee (black) is essentially perfect (mostly pros, few or no cons) yet there is a small crowd bent on demonizing it.
>A local dark matter density of the order of 0.01M⊙/pc3 corresponds to approximately one Planck-scale white-hole per each 10.000Km3. These objects are presumably moving fast with respect to our local frame, since we are rotating with the galaxy at hundreds of Km per second, while dark matter probably isn’t.

Anyone know why dark matter wouldn't be rotating along with the rest of the galaxy?
The “you’re holding it wrong!”angle is all your take. They don’t make that claim.
Is Risk Aversion Really Irrational? (2012)
Yes Netflix abandoned Conductor long time ago [0]. The other repo is built and managed by Orkes after Netflix abandoned it.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/orkes-forks-conductor-as-n...
> In China in particular; you have entire villages populated only by Grand parents and Grand children because the Parents are away working in the City. And yet the situation is not dire like what is being painted in the article in spite of many problems.

This sounds like its own kind of dire.
Delta cancels flights after CrowdStrike failures
> that still doesn't explain the continual drain happening, to this day,

Are we sure and can be trust that this numbers are really correct?

Alternative hypothese: Maybe a part of this people "left the country" in 2022 by covid 19 and statistics were masked to avoid public embarrassment. I would not bet against it.
For some reason I think the title of the article undersells the point, mostly because it sounds amazing if true.

I would have preferred the title:

"First non-living naturally occurring source of oxygen production known to man discovered on earth."
- def foo(): int | None
+ def foo(): None | int

Whether or not this makes a semantic difference is language implementation dependent. I think that is why this kind of tool is not especially appealing to me. I would have to have almost complete knowledge of the compiler and the diff tool to truly trust that there is no semantic difference. Moreover, I would like to know why changes to the text that are being made that have no semantic effect are being mixed with those that do.

For me, text is king and that is the level at which I want to evaluate diffs 99% of the time, but I do recognize that others have different goals and preferences.
Don't worry, you'll need to upload your photo ID to be able to login and do anything online.
Yes, the elaboration is that the same link you posted is included in the article you're supposed to have just read.