skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think that progressive taxes and benefits can be quite reasonable, as long as they’re kept simple and non-discriminatory. As soon as the designs start to get clever and, say, phase benefits out with increasing wealth or income, they break down quickly.

Medicaid would be an example of getting it very, very wrong.
For those considering buying speakers: (1) do it, (2) get passive ones and a separate amp. Honestly it’s such a mature market that buying these active speakers just creates e-waste. Keep the e-waste to the amp. You can get really solid speakers for $300 and a cheap amp with BT for $50-100, replacing them basically independently depending on your needs.
stop claiming someones work. https://github.com/VxKex/VxKex is only legit
It is amazing how the U.S. consistently gets away with this and is still perceived as a free country.

In the 1980s the only border I knew where printed material was searched was the East German border. Back then the practice was considered outrageous.
huh? DBUS is very much a thing and has CLI-tooling?
Hmm... How about the opposition/tension between the cardinal virtues of prudence (aka the cognitive virtues) and wisdom (aka the non-cognitive)?
There are kids today that can draw that well too. The handwriting, probably not, but we do not teach them that level of handwriting.
numbers are from 2017, update would be cool
As opposed to Maniac Mansion, where you could die if you drained the pool and waited too long to refill it.

(Among many other ways, which you can find here: https://www.maniacmansionfan.50webs.com/waystolose.html)
> QE didn't change the amount in circulation

Amount of what? QE/T changes the amount of money and government debt in circulation.
ANF is very much not considered a dead-end. It is the opposite number of SSA from the Functional programming languages perspective. CPS overlaps with it but also has properties, like requiring whole-program transformation, that do not help with predicting the final shape of the program.

See https://pauldownen.com/publications/anf-continued.pdf, https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/13w3c... and https://langdev.stackexchange.com/a/2254 (as well as https://www.college-de-france.fr/sites/default/files/media/d... as a bonus)
why not look for a jailbreak capable iPad, iPhone, and a MacBook Air. There are places to find them.

That should check most of the boxes. They want everyone to buy one of each thing in their store and they want to skew them so you buy a more expensive version each time until you only buy the top tier of each for reasons.
Proxmox puts the VM configuration information in a SQLite database and exposes it through a FUSE file system. It even gets replicated across the cluster using their replication algorithm. It’s a bespoke implementation, but it’s a SQLite-backed filesystem.
Based on this logic, should the default mode of operation be to stop I/O when a disk dies?
If you just describe software that solves a truly painful problem, people will ask "how do I sign up?" even if the software isn't built yet.

The key is to describe the problem better than the prospect can describe it themselves. The prospect can instantly relate and assume you have the solution.

Other software is harder to sell, especially "aspirational" software that doesn't solve users' top one or two problems. Often those are "solutions looking for a problem."
It's interesting how this was republished just at the cusp of the rise of indie games. And indie games certainly have been exploring lot of the ideas mentioned.
Additionally, it may also be that accesses to a single file allows the OS to efficiently retrieve (and IIRC in the case of Windows, predict) the working set allowing the reduction of access times; which is not the case if you open multiple files.
Zero-code instrumentation for every application via OpenTelemetry
That's a very rigorously written article.

Let's also note the 4x speed increase on windows 10, once again underlining just how slow windows filesystem calls are, when compared to direct access, and other (kernel, filesystem) combinations.
> it's not a big drain on time to do the occasional full text search or look something up through programmatic introspection

Okay, this won't probably be 100% on topic, but in my experience how well these methods work is inversely proportional to the size of the codebase and also quite badly in some cases depending on how the code is written.

The other day I was working on a Java enterprise codebase (monolith, ~300K LoC) and I shouldn't have had that many issues navigating the codebase, however someone made a validator that resolves the logic to a specific class at runtime. So you'd basically have validator.validate(Object someObject). Suddenly if I wanted to find all of the places where validator.validate(MyObject myObject) is called, I could not do that easily and with naming like validator.validate(entity) all over the place, text search didn't help much either. They had an okay type system but chose not to use it, just because they wanted to pass in arbitrary objects, without regard for how easy finding usages will be in the future.

My point is, that you can probably write code that's easy or hard to navigate in any language (within reason), but I'll gladly take whatever tools I can get in any stack out there!
There are at least two for macOS. But they run into trouble nowadays because FUSE wants kernel extensions.
List of Companies Affected by the Global Microsoft-CrowdStrike Outage
That doesn't matter a lot. They pay it to Lockheed who pays it to employees or subcontractors who buy stuff at Walmart and then prices at Walmart go up by supply and demand. The same thing happens if they pay it to General Electric or Pfizer.

To reduce inflation they'd have to throw it in a furnace or otherwise prevent it from going to anyone who would spend it.
I recall you need to do the mug'o'grog-puzzle fast.
I remember reading someone's comments about how instead of databases using their own data serialisation formats for persistence and then optimizing writes and read over that they should just utilize the FS directly and let all of the optimisations built by FS authors be taken advantage of.

I wish I could find that comment, because my explanation doesn't do it justice. Very interesting idea, someone's probably going to explain how it's already been tried in some old IBM database a long time ago and failed due to whatever reason.

I still think it should be tried with newer technologies though, sounds like a very interesting idea.
A few years ago, adventure games had a revival on smartphones, especially with The Room series and the Cube Escape / Rusty Lake games. They were greatly helped by the fact that A) adventure games have no action and B) most action games do not work well with touchscreens.
I did some research in a database research lab, and we had a lot of colleagues working on OS research. It was always interesting to compare the constraints and assumptions across the two systems. I remember one of the big differences was the scale of individual records we expected to be working with, which in turn affected how memory and disk was managed. Most relational databases are very much optimized for small individual records and eventual consistency, which allows them to cache a lot more in memory. On the other hand, performance often drops sharply with the size of your rows.
I think a few other things like memory models also matter and affect cpu architecture. E.g. the x86 total store order vs arm64's model. You potentially get to do a few nice optimizations on arm64 vs x86. I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes though.
Insured losses from CrowdStrike outage could reach US$1.5B
Insane. 3k loc shell script. I admire people that can maintain things like this. For me it’s unapproachable hot mess.
> if you want to keep being a superpower

Foreign aid is about avoiding war. The hope is the belligerents will end things themselves, or at the very least delay the point where we have to ship soldiers.
In the bottom left of the compensation graph, there is a non-zero percentage of people earning less than 0 USD per year. I guess they used a smoothing function fit to the data points. The alternative is that some people are paying their employers some dollars for the privilege of working for them :p
Annoying though it may be, you can run a program in the background
that can write to your open terminal.

Just in userspace you have;

dmesg -w

tail -f /var/log/messages

There's also dbus to monitor on Linux systems and a lot of kernel hook
tricks you can use to get a message pop up if an event happens.

Because it gets annoying to have a process splurge notification stuff
to a term you are working in, that's why you have info-bars which many
terminal emulators support.
Similar New York Post story, published 12 minutes earlier, but with a somewhat different focus:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41085408
just point it at your block device
You can long-press it.
That sounds like a good recipe for getting pulled for secondary screening
How does WoW relate to turn limits?
Similarly, in Minneapolis/St. Paul, there's Axman: https://www.ax-man.com/
Fun aside re: guitars:

Guitars as we know them are actually quite new, and going by "350 years" in the article, didn't really exist when these bits of paper were dropped through the floorboards.

Vermeer's The guitar player dates back to just over 350 years ago, shows a baroque guitar, and as far as I am aware these were complex, really expensive things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o-TOg-y_BI

I would guess there were lots of lutes and gitterns, though; they are relatively less complex. And I would absolutely think that the children who went to this school saw, owned and were expected to play musical instruments; they came from those sorts of families.
Before you can innovate you need to level the playing field.

Sure at the moment the amount of inner European Innovation in digital technologies is low, but local companies have to fight against foreign behemoths that simply disregard local regulations, or just buy the likes of Luxemburg or Ireland to get their own special law zones inside the single market.

Let the big US companies leave, the vacuum left behind will foster competition and local solutions.
Body odor, loud snoring, talkativity, offensive political decals on clothing, meal choice,
flatulence: plenty of reasons to avoid sitting next to...

...me...
> What does this actually mean? It it a proposition? If so, is it falsifiable? And how?

If you saw a sequence of 1000 coin tosses at say 99% heads and 1% tails, you were convinced that the same process is being used for all the tosses and you had an opportunity to bet on tails with 50% stakes, would you do it?

This is a pragmatic answer which rejects P(X)=0.5. We can try to make sense of this pragmatic decision with some theory. (Incidentally, being exactly 0.5 is almost impossible, it makes more sense to verify if it is an interval like (0.49,0.51)).

The CLT says that probability of X can be obtained by conducting independent trials and the in limit, the average number of times X occurs will approach p(X).

However, 'limit' implies an infinite number of trials, so any initial sequence doesn't determine the limit. You would have to choose a large N as a cutoff and then take the average.

But, is this unique to probability? If you take any statement about the world, "There is a tree in place G", and you have a process to check the statement ("go to G and look for a tree"), can you definitely say that the process will successfully determine if the statement is true? There will always be obstacles("false appearances of a tree" etc.). To rule out all such obstacles, you would have to posit an idealized observation process.

For probability checking, an idealization which works is infinite independent observations which gives us p(X).

PS: I am not trying to favour frequentism as such, just that the requirement of an ideal of observation process shouldn't be considered as an overwhelming obstacle. (Sometimes, the obstacles can become 'obstacles in principle' like position/momentum simultaneous observation in QM and if you had such obstacles, then indeed one can abandon the concept of probability).
Aka paper darts though, maybe slightly datedly, and it is striking how the design there resembles a throwing dart, relatively unlike a modern larger and more forward winged paper plane design.
The VCs ask you to relocate to the bay area if you want money. People go where the money is.
A) I didn't say it was their responsibility

B) I don't wanna assume malice where incompetence will do
>> sure these finds must have dated in some way to verify the authenticity ....

What happens if the uncle used very old wood or cloth to make the toys. Will the dating technique be able to find the actual age ?
POSIX interfaces (open, read, write, seek, close, etc) are very challenging to implement in an efficient/reliable way.

Using SQLite let's you tailor your data access patterns in a much more rigorous way and side step the POSIX tarpit.
Creating a Mini Programming Language
Standard spelling was only being proposed around this time, so it's not a misspelling.
Looking forward to these changes!
As a buyer you also don't pay VAT to the government. You pay the seller a price that's marked up exactly by VAT, which the seller then pays to the government.

In summary, if you don't pay it directly doesn't mean you don't pay it indirectly.
I don't know, the ergonomics of the type system is not the same in all languages. A tool chain that report early useful feedbacks in a non cryptic sentences will certainly gains adoption quickly.

Unfortunately most of the time the result is at best needlessly cryptic, with zero thought about simplicity of use. Ruby has a reputation of taking care of this topic.
* for certain operations.

Which is a bit d'oh, since being faster for some things is one of the main motivations for a database in the first place.
Use a burner phone for sketchy countries.
I think that analogy to programming then and now is very fitting.
> “It’s only a matter of time before someone shoots one of these killer whales,” Powell ominously warned.

There's no "animal lovers only" screening for boat ownership, and the captains & owners of small boats are often very invested in them (emotionally and/or financially). Reasonable assumption: The shooting started a while ago, it's only scale-up and media coverage that are matters of time.
Telltale Games was big for a decade with their adventure games, in which Gilbert was somewhat involved as well. The Walking Dead from 2012 was one of the best selling video games of all times.
Without a time limit, every game just becomes an optimization game. Like playing a board game with a player who will spend two hours thinking each of their turns through to make sure it’s the optimal play.

If you like doing that on your own, go for it. But for me it just becomes boring and not fun. Not fun because if I choose to spend a reasonable amount of time I know I’m leaving good things on the table, and boring if I play every turn optimally. With a time limit, the game becomes about prioritization and making the most of a limited resource (time).
Which speakers would you recommend in that price range?
Only two from the same chain? Laughs in Brazilian

https://x.com/choquei/status/1661450590474362887
Monty Python were mostly making fun of the BBC; the BBC at the time had very stiff and paternalistic presenters. It's why the BBC had the nickname "Auntie", after your old-fashioned Auntie who know's what's best for you.

I think the requirement that they must speak RP had ended by the 1960s, but the BBC still had a lot of programmes and presenters with that schtick. Here's an example from 1968: https://youtu.be/GwRRSJ_wtIg?t=152

They do make fun of the upper class speech in e.g. Woody and Tinny Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-51DhOzHE

In terms of comedy, a lot of what Monty Python did had already been done in the 1950s by The Goon Show - the surreal situations, the funny voices, the silly noises; Python were massive fans of the Goons, and to their credit, the Pythons were able to bring that energy to television in a way that the Goons couldn't.
No mention of how it performs when you need random access (seek) into files. Perhaps it underperforms the file system at that?
The Korean War: A Civilian's Recollection [video]
i remember "discussing" on HN about alcohol how in "muslim majority" countries, there are no/negligible drunk driving accidents but i was pummeled with "oh but alcohol has been part of human culture since day one, noooo you cannot stop it, see how we tried it in the 1920's"
I didn't mean to suggest it doesn't work well, as I said I've not used it.

It's still proprietary if you self-host it, I was thinking in particular that tailscale uses Wireguard and Zerotier uses something custom, i.e. proprietary. Note that the context was:

> The internet succeeded because it was built on standards and was completely free. With Tailscale, I get wireguard is open source and we have things like Headscale. But [...]

to which the commenter I replied to asked of alternatives. So I wasn't saying tailscale great and open and standards compliant, and Zerotier not; I was saying it's the obvious competitor but if that's your problem with tailscale then it's if anything worse in that regard.
I once knew a (very old) old accounting system that had to work around a 64kB limit and therefor used a programmatically generated set of many hundreds batch files batch files calling each other (not containing the program logic of course).
But each of them was less than 100 lines long.

But 27 kLOC for the WII thing or 3 kLOC for the recovery tool which even looks a bit more convoluted then the WII thing sounds interesting to maintain.
On the other hand, if it works, no dependencies no 200 MB binary blob.
The FT would say that!

https://privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/

a huge map and list of all the privatised NHS services

JUST INPUT YOUR LOCAL AREA IN THE SEARCH BOX:

https://privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/your-constituency-r...

I was shocked to find that my mums local hospital is in fact private and even her local GP practice.

HERE ARE THE LOCAL PROVIDERS IN MY MUMS AREA.

THE ASHFORD HUB: Central Surrey Health Limited (CSH) is not-for-profit community services provider

ASHFORD HOSPITAL: Greenbrook Healthcare operates a number of urgent care services which it delivers alongside NHS provider organisations.

STAINES HEALTH CENTRE: Central Surrey Health Limited (CSH) is not-for-profit community services provider

ASHFORD PCC: Practice Plus Group provides the Surrey out-of-hours service for patients in the North West Surrey, East Surrey, Surrey Downs and Guildford and Waverley CCGs. The service can be accessed by calling 111.

There are no signs showing that one hospital building is private.

the private companies seem to be allowed to use NHS signage outside the buildings.

The patients visiting the hospital are none the wiser, and as I did, assume that because there are NHS signs everywhere that I was getting treatment in a NHS hospital department.

Absolutely no mention of any privatisation.

It is also not that incredible to learn that an awful lot of politicians have investments in those private hospital

How wrong I was!

The slow creep of privatised money entering our nations health care system which we all pay for with our national insurance payments.
> What IPng team should do, is just take IPv4, extended it to 64bit, call it IPv6 and we are done.

Tell me you've never had to seriously design and operate networks at scale without telling me etc...

This is a bit like Chesterton's fence - until you understand why (for example) ARP is a hilariously bad design and a major problem when trying to design networks at scale, then you can't understand why someone might want to replace it with something more effective. IPv6 doesn't get a lot of stuff right, but the motivation behind replacing v4 was much more than simply "more addresses pls".

IPv4 was the mistake, Vint Cerf is on the record as saying so. Should never have been let out of the lab.
Australia does this too.
I'm sorry to hear that. It is not clear to me if the dog attacked you or the dog owner, which in out discussion would make a difference.

Anyhow, the real upset here is the police refusing to take a report. Obviously, this is not unheard of, but it is still forbidden* All reports must be filed. The reporter may need to come to the precinct, but the reporter may not be refused. In Germany the prosecution determines if a report is investigated, not the police. The police officer was therefore in negligence of his duty. You can, without respite or form, file a disciplinary complaint, in your case direct it to the office of the police president of Munich.

* That's actually not quite correct. If the report is obviously non-sensical, erroneous, or false the police officer may refuse to file it. You can escalate and you can still file a disciplinary complaint.

> In US few million people go to ER with dog related injuries every year!

I guess, in Germany it's less. I've only found numbers for Berlin (3.5 million citizens, 130000 dogs) where about 500 dog related injuries are treated each year. But that's something different than a dog attack. I've been injured by dogs, and the dogs were certainly not attacking me. Believe me, if a dog wants to attack you, you get ample warning and you'll notice.
Not so much working set, as you only have to check the access control once. Windows does a lot of stuff when you open a file, and creating a process is even worse.
Some babies actually do not have that intuition and rather bite and need time to learn.
The command line is king, but sometimes the king is mad. Which is to say, it can be difficult to work with the monarchy when the syntax is shit. And there's a lot of bad syntax out there: overly cute, so terse as to be cryptographic, the straight-up baffling ...

Outside of the syntax (which seems to live forever), you have things like non-sane defaults, obscurantist man pages ... the list goes on.
That still has the same issue. Powershell will refuse to run scripts that are not signed by default.
Not even that. Newborns have to learn how to suckle, and their mother has to learn how to hold everything in the right positions so it can work. It’s a tricky skill and many aren’t successful even if they want to breastfeed.
Foreign aid is often direct (and somehow legal) bribery.
I have never come across a house museum that claims to be haunted. Must be a cultural thing that doesn't exist in Belgium. Possibly because loads of things are ancient here anyway, no need to embellish with more nonsense I guess.
Not all GUIs are just a graphical wrapper for a CLI.
But in general sure, understanding the tech behind helps.
I found it amusing. the bot (meme) / bat (movie) usage. Don't think of it as memeing for memes sake, but to reinterpret a meme in a manner directly relevant to the what one is responding to.

It's possible I guess that one would say all jokes should be banned from here, and every response needs to be fully serious (otherwise will lose it's black)
> instead of databases using their own data serialisation formats for persistence and then optimizing writes and read over that they should just utilize the FS directly and let all of the optimisations built by FS authors be taken advantage of.

The original article effectively argues the opposite: if your use case matches a database, then that will be way faster. Because the filesystem is both fully general, multi-process and multi-user, it's got to be pessimistic about its concurrency.

This is why e.g. games distribute their assets as massive blobs which are effectively filesystems - better, more predictable seek performance. Starting from the Doom WAD onwards.

For an example of databases that use the file system, both the mbox and maildir systems for email probably count?
Because that's what they practiced, presumably. Given that they misspelled a 3 letter word, I suspect they were better at arts and crafts than writing?
I like getlang.