skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that secondary libraries, that are not glibc, will not have multiply defined functions for different size of off_t and will not have the switch in their header file to transparently select the correct set of functions based on what the client program wants.

Yet, somehow the article emphasizes that this is more of a problem for time_t than off_t.

This is believable and it's brobably it's because time_t is more pervasive. Whereas off_t is a POSIX thing involved in a relatively small number of interfaces, time_ t is ISO C and is all over the place.

On top of everything, lots of C code assumes that time_t is an integer type, equal in width to int. A similar assumption for off_t is less common.
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I recently wanted to buy a "fun" car, partly because my wife loans her car to her parents while they are in town, leaving me without wheels.

I opted for a 23 year old Toyota MR2 Spyder (5 speed manual, naturally). Yes, multiple things have broken since I bought it. Being a Toyota, I could pretty much DIY the repairs, and parts were cheap and available at Autozone.

It has been am absolute hoot to own, and I have not even tried to boost power output yet. (Although a bolt-on turbo kit is DIY-able for about 6k USD. Tuning it properly is a matter of a lot of learning though...)

To be fair, a base Mazda Miata is probably a much better purchase at ~30k. The Miata is probably the outlier here among new cars.
perfect reminder that when you focus too hard on the proxy, you might win the battle and lose the war
I think the big issue is there was basically no warning and Matt is harming a LOT of innocent people/businesses because of a temper tantrum, rather than being responsible, giving 90 day notice to everyone (I mean this has been de facto status for 10+ years) and give them a chance to adjust. Instead he just tried to do the table clothe pull, wreck all the glassware on the table and act like he’s on the moral high ground.
Humans naturally love to twiddle knobs and move things around. Notion attaches that behavior with money making through an affiliate program. Result is a billion dollar company.
Yes, we wanted to migrate all our data stores away from Cassandra due to stability and performance issues. Moving to something that didn't have those issues (or at least had a different set of less severe issues) while also not having to rewrite a bunch of code was a positive.
PDPL Saudi Arabia Comes to the Data Privacy Table
Saudi Arabia has a data privacy law with on premise needs for compliance purposes.
But what about the poor farmers?
This new hydrogen engine still produces Nitrogen Oxide as a byproduct from combusting the hydrogen. It is "greener" than burning fossil fuels but still not there yet compared to fuel cells or other greenhouse-neutral technologies.

Incremental improvements are still appreciated.
I never understood that lack of understanding by politicians on what people need - totally understandable in US where corporate lobbyists rule congress. Australia, Canada governance are mysteries to me.

On the residential homes - i assume it not a question of land/resources.
Related discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41663432
https://archive.ph/VXszZ
It is limited right? I assume the quotas are done by October / early November I assume.
I have just added syntax highlighting for snippets for more readability. This should work if you have JavaScript enabled. Let me know if you have any suggestions!
And most people like visiting islands. That doesn't change the fact that this was supposed to be 8 days not 8 months.
Notion is popular because it is infinitely customizable. Want to draw in your Notion database? Done. Want to do Kanban? Easy. Gantt Charts? Child's play. Whatever you want Notion to do it likely can be and it is available on any device you want and you can share it with your team so working with other people is not a pain in the ass like it is with most plain text note taking.
I can respect that.

I’ve got a counterfeit Athlon XP on the wall because it amuses me.
Headers can do the magic to select the right ABI more or less transparently, based on preprocessor symbols which indicate the selection: is a certain type 32 or 64.

This is similar to what Microsoft did in Win32 with the W and A functions (wide char and ascii/ansi). You just call MessageBox and the header file will map that to MessageBoxA or MessageBoxW based on whether you are a UNICODE build.

The character element type in the strings accepted by MessageBox is TCHAR. That can either be CHAR or WCHAR.

Once the code is compiled, it depends on the appropriate ABI: MessageBoxA or MessageBoxW; MessageBox doesn't exist; it is a source-level fiction, so to speak.
Former Green card holder now Citizen as of a few days ago.

Submitted an online form 4 months ago, received an interview date two months ago, had my interview last week.

Interview was at 8:30am
Oath ceremony was at 9am
Registered to vote at 9.15am
Back at work at 10am!

Submitted passport application the day after.

Interview was straightforward and most of the time was double checking all the information I had previously submitted was accurate. Learning the answers to the civics test was fun.

I think there is a cliche of a stern interviewer who is looking for any excuse to say no, but this officer was kind and encouraging.

The oath ceremony was actually quite moving. I often see most displays of patriotism as some kind of pseudo mental illness but the patriotism shown by the officiant was actually rational, inclusive and inspiring.

All that to say, am lucky and pleased to have such a smooth journey to citizenship and am happy to be able to vote!
people also use jira as a support ticket system.
Sprint planning system.
Kanban system.
I’ve seen it set up so that it can track work across kanban teams and scrum teams.

Jira has deep integration with bitbucket, confluence, and GitHub.

It can manage your CI pipelines as well.

Jira is an anything app with a bend towards project management.
Setting up jira workflows is a whole career.

Source: I worked at Atlassian for 5 years and they use jira as the backbone for _everything_. It all flows into jira.
Yeah, there `sed` and `git diff` with one or more filenames in a variable might do.

Because pytest requires a preprocessing step, renaming fixtures is tough, and also for jupyter notebooks %%ipytest is necessary to call functions that start with test_ and upgrade assert keywords to expressions; e.g
`assert a == b, error_expr` is preprocessed into `assertEqual(a,b, error_expr)` with an AssertionError message even for comparisons of large lists and strings.
> We had less paperwork getting a mortgage and buying a house.

Generally, yes, this is the way it should be. Path from visitor to citizen should involve way more checks than owning a home.
Fortunately the web is starting (very slowly) to return to sanity, pushing back towards the simpler server-rendered pattern with Javascript being relegated to specific use cases.
The Australian and the USA's immigration system are substantially different in terms of underlying values. The Australian system assigns points based on skill and merit. The US has an emphasis on reuniting families, a lottery system, and difficulty through ambiguity. Anecdotally, my friend who immigrated from Silicon Valley to Australia was able to explain his process to me in about an hour. In contrast, I have had the USA system explained to me many times, and it still hasn't clicked. I can't help but to feel like this is by design.

As for our (USA's) housing crisis, the New York Times had a podcast about that just four days ago [1]. There are some notable parallels to what you have described. TL;DR: The 2008 recession pushed us from building 2.2 million houses a year to 600K, for the last 20ish years. The skilled laborers and tradesmen who used to build houses have closed shop. Now here we are years later and millions of houses short with no clear way to reboot the industry.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/podcasts/the-daily/housin...
sure, it's totally possible that the advantages of photonics or optoelectronics could win out, and iii–v semiconductors are pretty important for optoelectronics, though not for pure photonic systems like second-harmonic generation. sometimes people even use gaas for that, especially historically

what are iii–v based squid qubits? google scholar is not helpful except for finding https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevResea.... i thought a squid was a josephson junction device made out of superconductors and insulators, not semiconductors. gaas isn't a superconductor, is it?

this doesn't sound like a quantum communication and squid research lab though. it sounds like a 50-year-old radar chip fab that's being put on life support as a pork barrel project
Sounds like a solid idea, but I feel like just replacing your UPDATE with a SELECT COUNT(whatever_column_is_indexed_from_your_where) would be a good practice. If your DBMS supports an external language, that might be the best idea, so you can write your own logic, while keeping mostly everything in the database itself.

I only mean this from a more ANSI SQL side of things, where you might want to build your skills up to use as much of the standard as possible, until it's no longer possible and make sense to dip into platform specifics. I used to build code around being cross-platform, but at the same time realized that it's more useful to learn the ANSI standard, and then break free with LOTS of useful comments where it makes sense to do things more efficiently and with safety that you don't get normally.
I guess for enterprise users this might be an olive branch, but I don't trust Microsoft. I'll stay with Linux.
What do you do about flooding or is your house above the levels that hurricanes tend to push water? Do you have water proof furniture? Just curious.
spoken like someone who doesnt deploy clients at discord scale?

the 200 backend nodes surely update significantly faster than the hundreds of millions of clients.
I saw one study of relative death rates that concluded if all US has followed California standards, about 800,000 fewer people would have died. And remember "flatten the curve"? The goal isn't to stop everyone getting the virus but to slow it down enough that the health care capacity is sufficient. A quick google finds this study and a few more recommended: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31709-2 even the way the virus isn't killing as many vulnerable people as we get it the Nth time after M vaccinations is a success if the lower the curve strategy.
> but forgot to tell us about until we had spent weeks following the old one.

To be fair that’s not on Notion per se, there’s an underlying communication problem (which it sounds like your google doc solves!).
My frustration with modern cars is that they are under powered, over reliant on digital buttons, and confusing dashboards. Bring back physical buttons!
I always wonder what will be long term effect of constant radiation this close to brain. I know we already are exposed via phones but wearable wireless devices feel more dangerous because we may constantly wear it so the exposure is strong too.
Does anyone know if any study is done around this?
God I hate notion. The way it splits columns until you have like two horizontal inches to type in, the rubber-band linking of documents, just the total lack of opinionation outside of templates..

I might be strange but I just really vibed with Confluence and I’d be happy with it if people would commit to it.
Octopuses and fish join forces to hunt, and discipline those who freeload
these models are search engines with some interpolation thrown in
I generally think Notion is a pretty great product but IMO it's the poster child for "jack of all trades, master of none."

Yes, lots of things can be done in Notion, but most of them are done better elsewhere with dedicated tools.

I think it's core functionality as a team wiki (aka a confluence replacement) is the one thing it does best and better than most competitors...
I still have exclusively Intel-based Macs, and they continue to work fine. Except upgrading to the latest Ventura or Sonoma, or whatever N-1 currently is, introduced new sources of slowness due to laziness on part of Apple engineering.

For example, the lock screen is animated and takes a little while to become responsive after opening the lid. This is 100% due to stupid and lazy, not because the hardware is incapable of displaying a simple animation movie.
US can take in easily another 20-30 million immigrants over say 5-10 years - the question is always how to assimilate when there is already a distinct lack of affordable housing / schools / medical infra. There is literally no public investments in this.

That said the IRA act is poring money into manufacturing which is having direct effects in those states, but require a hard look at easing infra development,
40-50 total.

I agree it seems low, but for my sample size of ~3 companies it’s held.
This is why I say let the free market decide what insurance will pay. There is no reason someone should have to subsidize someone’s choice to live on the coast just because the state government demands it. I can understand socializing costs within reason; when a house is gonna get razed every 5-10 years by a hurricane or other natural disaster I’d say that ridiculous and shouldn’t get subsidized or regulated and market conditions will fix it in a decade or two.
cant agree more, I initially used to think I am using it wrong but seriously I cant get notion.
Start by asking for a list. An inventory of emails. I was listening to a journalist talk about trying to get documents out of the federal government, and she suggested that the first step to take us to ask for a list. List of emails, list of meetings, and then start picking it apart from there. I guess go small and then grow.

Unfortunately, it probably won't work in this case, because the Adams administration will just ignore you, knowing you won't or can't sue.
What were the contradictions?
So “regular” they had to bump two astronauts who had trained for a mission on ISS.
Web pages are intended to be editable. I wish popular browsers had an easy user-facing way to invoke

document.designMode = 'on'
> Replace ferry with bus, car, taxi, airplane, your transportation mode of choice.

I mean I've certainly been stuck at an airport because I had a ticket for a flight that ended up getting canceled, which necessitated me remaining at the airport for an extended period of time. I had an expectation of getting a new ticket for a new flight, but none of that changed the fact that I was indeed stuck.
And wasn't the mission already on the schedule? The title says "launches mission for 2 astronauts.."
Buses already rely on private car drivers subsidising them via road damage. Bus can do 10,000-20,000 times more damage. Extrapolate that and it’s actually cheaper to be in a taxi.
Considering the most important remaining use case for 32-bit is embedded systems, wouldn't static linking be a non-starter due to space and performance constraints?
I just want an AI assistant that can organize things for me in some kind of note taking /wiki/something… it needs to take raw data and make it useful… you know like an assitant would, specifically around projects etc…
Check out https://www.bespokesynth.com/ as well and it is completely open source
Even when there is nothing wrong with the still-perfectly-capable machines? Capitalism offers strong incentives to force these functional and well-built computers into landfills.
Weird way of looking at it. Was Roscosmos “America’s space program” when they were selling the rides?
That’s a really bad use of resources. It may sound cruel, but don’t build somewhere that constant, every 5-10 years, a natural disaster is going to come through and wipe out your house.
Sure it does. The death rate for farm accidents is not zero and it is not equal across all fields so your dietary choices directly influence farm death rate. that something may kill someone is not a useful metric by itself and it is foolish to expect it to be the same.
Apple Notes is underrated. There is no flashy features to distract you. Just you and your notes.
Speaking as someone who tried quite hard to make it do the thing I wanted, not sure that's true.
brain fart on my end, you're definitely correct that SQUIDS are not something demonstrated quite yet, I should have said Josephson junction, but even that seems more niche than I had thought when I wrote the comment.
It is probably due to the age demographics. People who are nostalgic for those years of the microcomputer revolution are both (1) relative large in numbers compared to earlier people in computing and (2) still relatively young and active. Many will be going into retirement about now also.

Then there is the practicality. The machines from that era were small. If you get your hands on the actual hardware, you can have it at home, set up in a small nook somewhere. Not so easy with some IBM 709 or something.

The stuff is easy to work on, and many components are still easily available.
Discussion (346 points, 5 days ago, 261 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629893

.. you also submitted a version of this story 7 hours ago?
On servant leadership, serving the greater good is the only legitimate form of leadership. But that doesn’t mean being servile to incompetence. That goes against the greater good. A leader defining what represents competence in this situation seems appropriate to me.

You can’t serve your way to success you are serving people with misaligned agendas or whom are not capable of doing their job. You serve the people who are serving the organisation. You don’t ask “what do you need” to a person who is apparently not even working on the same goals that the organisation needs to address. That is just fuelling the misguided path.
It appears you're referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742539

The most likely explanation of the effect you're observing is that the server, having done a database fetch to get you the profile once, is not interested in doing it over and over again.

It's cached. You do not have a uniquely broken upvote button.
Be brave and expressive. Whatever do you mean?
This launch was normal and expected crew rotation, they just kicked a few people off the mission so that there would be open seats on the way back.
Our house is above the prevailing level, built on a cement slab foundation. We have no basement, and water would have to be >3' high above the land to get into the house, but that's only ~10' above sea level.

We have no electrical wiring below waist height, I think 3'? Our floors are tiles and our load-bearing walls are cement, so if we just had flooding we'd be able to get to ~13' above sea level before being in real trouble. Our furniture would be written off.

Our house is actually a bit more durable than the country. If we had a 15' storm surge, the house might survive, but the island would be toast. That would submerge nearly the entire island, and it would be happening during a hurricane. It would take months to recover even basic infrastructure. Our plan for that is to give up everything we own and return in a year or two to rebuild.

_But_, for a variety of reasons, a 15' storm surge is meteorologically improbable here. It's a once-in-a-millennium event, even accounting for the worst of global warming. Nothing is impossible, but there's no point in planning for it; it's like living within a thousand miles of yosemite national park. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'd like to see this feature in all browsers.
They shipped it, as terribly user-hostile, and stupidly insecurely, as they did, for some reason. Did they just not care? Think we wouldn't notice? Conveniently shipped a gaping hole for 3-letter-agencies?

That feature, with its shit security, was designed, aplroved, implemented, reviewed, and see by COUNTLESS PMs, engineers, and managers.

No one cared. That culture is rotten to its fucking core. Microsoft never gave a shit about good engineering when I was there, highly preferring to gaslight and go over peoples heads, dare they say that the entire (initial) design of VMSS is flawed, or that maybe just maybe Azure would benefit from a metadata service and machine identities. Literally "controversial" shit that resulted in my manager getting emailed.

Every, single engineer, bar one, that I respected at that company has left. Says something.

I know it's a hot take but people are out of their minds trusting a Microsoft platform if they care at all about personal or business privacy.
If my car breaks down while I'm at my fully-loaded villa on day 2 of my 30 day vacation, my friend coming to pick me up isn't a rescue mission.

You shift from talking about danger or distress, to "not regular or expected".

Which is it? I think danger and urgency are marks of "rescue". If they had supplies and were in no immediate danger, I don't see how the term or the alarmism qualifies.
(I work at Notion but not on AI)

There’s far more for Notion to lose “training customer data on AI” than for Notion to gain. Like if an AI feature ever disclosed private information of one customer to another, that would be a huge blow to the company.

The closest thing to that that makes sense for us is building “learn to rank” style search models to improve search results, but this is not usually considered “AI” and is typical for any product trying to make search good.
I don't get why Notion is so popular either, but your complaints about it seem like a skill issue on the part of your managers. I see this a lot too, but in my experience it happens no matter the medium - Google Docs, Figma, Jira, etc. People who don't obsess over keeping it organized eventually spaghetti their documentation all over the place. I wouldn't expect the kinds of people who need to be convinced of the worth of refactoring and getting rid of old code to also understand that out of date documentation needs to be updated or it is often more harmful than just deleting it.
Good argument for shift-right-click being standardized to always bring up the browser menu, as does in firefox.
I was thinking about a super simple app I wanted to whip together today... Then I realized I can just do what I want in Notion with almost 0 effort.
Yeah but saying Jira is like Notion makes fundamentally no sense when Confluence is sitting like... Right there...
Related discussions with more comments:

* Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales (arstechnica.com) 110 comments, Sept 2024 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41665593

* CA law means stores can’t say you’re buying a game when you’re merely licensing it (polygon.com) 122 comments, Sept 2024| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671838
“A extravagant waste of CO2 for content that is already on YouTube.”

- Time’s review of the world’s fair after it happens
Public health also studies the most effective communication strategies for sharing public health info even in the face of uncertainty. I bet they will be more explicit about uncertainty next time based on the last time, but that is why they didn't say it. The field started out with a person breaking the handle to an invented ell, not even using communications but taking physical actions to stop the spread.

As far as the speed of revisions, my memory is the initial advice to wash your hands so much faded within months, as well as the wash your groceries advice. It took the US some time to notice how effective masks were in Japan, and push for masking. And now good air filtration for public spaces is gaining momentum, even as the deaths from COVID declined.

And you aren't a bit alarmed anytime a novel virus hits an immunologically naïf population, well you should be.