skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sqlite3-rsync is in the makefile. I got sqlite-rsync to build by just checking out the main branch and going:

./configure
make sqlite3-rsync

I think the rsync branch has been merged?

I'm really excited for this new tool; I'm hoping to use it for nightly backups of a webapp I'm building that uses sqlite exclusively. Although I'm hesitant to rely on sqlite-rsync right away because it's so new.
Yep. CICS, IMS, etc. all get updates along with z/OS itself, yet I had once plugged in an user exit written and compiled before 64bit z/OS existed and it just worked.
I don't know what "hole" you're talking about. The hole of correctly describing how the Lisp community destroyed itself by permitting Naggum to dominate its public communications, and to some extent has recovered since then?

Perhaps you're implicitly criticizing me for violating some taboo so dreadful you don't dare even to name it; for example, a taboo on speaking ill of the dead. Unfortunately, any truthful accounting of almost any tragic historical events requires willingness to speak ill of the dead, so I'm more than willing to "dig" myself into that "hole". I'd like to invite you to join me here; cowering in fear like that is unworthy of you.
as a wider reply to the many comments here - thanks! this is indeed a nuanced topic with trade offs everywhere and truly it is possible to argue for Rat and Num as the default depending on your preference

just to mention that the Raku numeric also improves over the Lisp/Scheme number tower? why - because truly a Num is _not_ a subset / child class of Rat, they are sets that intersect
Sometime the storage places are not what they seem. Some are really about doing something with the land until its value goes up, hoping some developer will buy it the future. That is, it just has to be a low effort to pay for some management and property taxes, while waiting for the value to go up. They won't bend backward to "satisfy" customers, so speak.
> I have a 10 year old daughter with a very rare genetic condition. She has no one to care for her if I pass away.

Wow that sucks.

When my daughter was one and half years old, her mom passed away after one year of absolutely exhausting illness. I thought it was tough to be left a single father, but hey my daughter is perfectly healthy, so maybe I have it easy...
We just recently discovered, that during childbrith, vaginal microbiota is transferred to the child and this transfer is quite beneficial for the development of the immune system of the child. It's called vaginal microbiota transfer (VMT). It's so beneficial that babies being born via c-section are now artificially covered in their mother's vaginal microbiota.

Now imagine the thousands of factors that happen during pregnancy that probably influence the neurodevelopment of a human and which artifical womb doesn't take into account. Simple things such as: hearing and feeling the heartbeat of the mother, feeling the environment, heat, cold, being carried through life and so on.
> With grid-scale solar and batteries (Chinese production is driving prices down aggressively) you can spin up gigawatt-scale plants almost overnight, until you can cover the shortfall with nuclear or thermal plants.

Can you show an existence proof of someone spinning up gigawatts of energy overnight?

And solar doesn't help with night time and batteries haven't hit giagawatt scale yet, you might be a bit over your skiis with your claim here.
Isn’t it because the US supports large scale money laundering and tax evasion whereas more civilized societies try to get rid of it?
FYI, I forked and improved [1] a Rust implementation that supports both table- and SIMD-accelerated CRC-64/NVME [2] calculations. The SIMD-accelerated (x86/x86_64 and aarch64) version delivers 10X over the table (16-bytes at a time) implementation.

The original implementation [3] did the same thing but for CRC-64/XZ [4].

[1]: https://github.com/awesomized/crc64fast-nvme

[2]: https://reveng.sourceforge.io/crc-catalogue/all.htm#crc.cat....

[3]: https://github.com/tikv/crc64fast

[4]: https://reveng.sourceforge.io/crc-catalogue/all.htm#crc.cat....
It's really only the sideways ones which give people trouble. Especially if it's sideways on the back of a computer (or tv) so you can't really see what you're doing).
Was this stock? I do not recall this feature in either the 1998 nor 2001 Subarus I drove into the ground. Seems strange but not implausible it would have been briefly an option in the generation after that. 2005 is about when Subarus got less boxy with big plastic bumpers and crumple zones.

Jokingly, perhaps it was not a feature but happened accidentally due to the head gaskets design on the EJ25 engine.
I think it has been confusing how you bounce between your personal views of moral justice and cynical description of the word as it is.

While I do share some of your cynicism about the extractive nature of the state and public, I think is also clear that norms exist and the public does push back. After all, we dont currently have a tax on breathing the air or home use solar generation.

The state and proponents of these measures go to great lengths to justify or obfuscate purely extractive taxes, which again speaks to public moral sentiment. The idea of might makes right with respect to taxation and state power is still transgressive.
> It's only in Hollywood movies that you refuse perfectly good money for geopolitics.

So why did Russia stop delivering gas via Nord Stream 1 from 09/2022 on (before the sabotage)?
> JavaScript is weird, but show me a language that doesn’t have its warts.

False equivalence much? Languages have warts. JS is a wart with just enough tumorous growth factors to have gained sentience and started its plans toward world domination.
This "Wayland thing" is what the X devs would rather work on instead of X. It's the future. Best to rip the Band-Aid off now.
No, not anymore:

Xfce is pronounced “ecks-eff-see-ee”. The name Xfce originally stood for “XForms Common Environment”, but since then Xfce has been rewritten twice and doesn't use the XForms toolkit anymore. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as “XFCE” and is no longer an abbreviation for anything (although suggestions have been made, such as “X Freakin' Cool Environment”).
all network devices that terminates a subscriber (broadband or mobile) has a feature called LI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception, which is required by law in almost all countries
one requirement is that operation of LI feature is totally separate from normal network operator, so that even normal network admin are not supposed to know what kind of LI operation is ongoing...
Most projects will eventually remove the X code path.

The long-term solution is to switch to Wayland.
Wayland is still broken in so many ways it's not funny.

Just recently I had to switch back to X11 because Wayland was just awful performance wise, like stuttering and constant fps drop. And this on a what 2023 high quality laptop with standard Ubuntu.

The way Wayland is done is a mistake.
What's going on at the end of the game, where it looks like the black king is moving around without white doing anything?
There's really nothing that can be said then but I personally use `waypipe` like this `waypipe ssh user@127.0.0.1 sway` so that I can run remote sessions and it works amazingly. I sometimes use it to run GUI apps like thunar on my home laptop with tailscale when Im not at home. its basically `ssh -x`

https://manpages.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed/waypipe/waypipe.1.e...
I presume you mean some new technology to transfer the fetus?

As it is now, people ‘adopt’ babies before they’re born, all the time.

Mother wants to give baby up for adoption. Couple is matched up with the mother and they help the mother during the pregnancy, physically, emotionally and financially. I’ve known several people involved in adoption.
Same for me. Many times I would have an idea, but I would think ahead of all the mundane and tedious things I would need to complete to implement it and not even get started. Now I work with the LLM to do those more tedious and mechanical parts and frankly the LLM is generating pretty similar code to what I would have written anyway and if not I just rewrite it. A few times I've even been pleasantly surprised when the LLM took an approach I wouldn't have considered and I actually liked it better.
If you spend less than 15 minutes before even deciding which library to include and if include it at all. You're probably doing it wrong.
Millions of people already do it across the population.
Weston has (for the time being) an X11 backend.
Geico terminating insurance coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks
Or it can be multiple access points on the same SSID without 802.11r set up properly
Well technically, every time the sun comes up those panels start producing all over the world. FYI, it happens because the earth is spinning.
It's crazy how unnecessary things can be trillion dollar industries :)
A bill could never replicate the gratifying "plunk" of putting a dinner plate sized 10kg coin worth $5000 into the Carvana vending machine
A recent filing "revealed that Tesla has now built and sold 27,185 Foundation-Series Cybertrucks for customers."

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2296/nhtsa-reveals-tesla-c...
Exactly this. I have seen this a lot of the times first hand.
I found Danish and Swedish coins to be just as annoying as American coins. They are difficult to tell apart immediately. The Pound and its denominations, I agree, are the best I've encountered so far in real world use.

I wish America would get off its butt about getting rid of the penny. It's such a waste of resources. We don't need it. In fact, Ecuador uses USD as well and they, a country with much lower GDP and prices, don't use our penny. They round up.
Geo location aside, putting things off shore is really a way to drive up cost such as maintenance like mad and it makes even less sense when you are working with large surfaces rather than something designed around having height and wind tolerance.
Something must be wrong in your estimates, the biggest solar farm is ~60sqkm and only 2.2gw, it's in India and definitely get much more sun than taiwan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park

https://globalsolaratlas.info/map

Edit: nvm it's not the biggest anymore, but still you need at least 2x to 3x the area to get to 10gw and that's with much better settings that's what Taiwan offers
Is there reason to believe that the human genome would produce almost arbitrarily large brains, solely as a consequence of removing the space and time constraints imposed by in utero development? An extra arm might come in handy, but I don't suppose that would just happen.
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I don't think that's true, although maybe you could define "Perl programmers" to include people who downloaded broken, insecure CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive and made random changes to them until they seemed to work. Even a lot of those people relied on clpm for guidance—often asking questions rather than just lurking. As you can remember, we didn't have Stack Overflow at the time, or even PerlMonks, so clpm was pretty much the main public forum for people to ask questions or announce libraries. Corporate and academic institutions to support Perl basically didn't exist; perl.com was running off Tom Christiansen's home internet connection for several years.
The core wayland does not even implement the idea of a window, to show how far the differences go.

Based on experiences of an acquaintance writing from scratch support for wayland for an UI framework that shares absolutely zero code with any of the major ones, the differences in even basic things like how to implement drop-down menu are staggering.

Funnily enough, said acquaintances needs would have been fully covered by slightly more capable XRender and a way to synchronize to VSync that does not depend on GLX.
For what it's worth since the DMA went into effect in Europe, you can now turn off sharing between almost all Google services.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14202892
Check out waypipe. It's not compatible with every piece of software, but when it works, it's like one of those magic "run x application over the network" legends except it actually works well.
I can recount from memory nearly every minute in the last like 10 years I have spent listening to broadcast AM/FM radio outside of a car. Nearly all of them were spent testing new stereos. On one occasion I was circuit bending a Casio keyboard and randomly stuck an inductor coil somewhere and it accidentally made the keyboard an AM radio, Hi Fi Gilligan style [1]. I may have been using the tunable capacitor from a radio to mess with the clock speed as well.

1. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1230840/
The main idea behind the popular book _The Happiest Baby on the Block_ is that true cause of colic (inconsolable crying by newborns) is "The Missing Fourth Trimester". During the first 3-4 months after full term, the best methods for soothing an infant are recreating the conditions it experienced in the uterus. Humans evolved to "evict" their babies earlier due to the species' growing head sizes necessary for larger brains. After the infant's first 100 days, they are better able to self-sooth and can explore their environment (with help and supervision) to best continue brain development.
Am I wrong to say that north stream 1 & 2 were put out of commission and Europe procures it’s gaz now via LNG that flows via the huge terminals that were built after 2022?

The Russians are managing to bypass restrictions to some degree using their “dark fleet” but that’s oil, and hardly a case of Europe continuing as if nothing were.
So...are you able to articulate what you have learned about web development through LLMs that skimming MDN wouldn't net you?

Your "strong" disagreement and claim that you were able to learn so much about web development by using AI should be able to withstand simple and obvious followup questions such as "like what?".
It also hasn't been enabled everywhere yet because the associated constellation is not complete yet. Current service is probably going to be intermittent. Basically, it's just better than nothing when in an emergency like this.
Thanks for the link. Reading the rationale for not signing the legislation the governor wrote

> "By focusing only on the most expensive and large-scale models, SB 1047
establishes a regulatory framework that could give the public a false sense of
security about controlling this fast-moving technology. Smaller, specialized
models may emerge as equally or even more dangerous than the models
targeted by SB 1047 - at the potential expense of curtailing the very innovation
that fuels advancement in favor of the public good".

This doesn't make much sense to me. Smaller models might be more dangerous so lets not place safeguards on the larger models because they advance in favor of the public good? Some pretty big assumptions are made here, does this make sense to anyone else?
Not sure you're qualified to comment here if you don't already have all these downloaded somewhere on an external drive.
The font you use could choose to display something for control characters, so they would have a visible shape on top of having a meaning.

Perhaps like [0] (Unicode notation).

[0]: https://rootr.net/im/ASCII/ASCII.gif
I am skeptical too, but the company is Finnish. Anybody know more about them?

Edit: looks like a non-free OS indeed. The developer tools just seem to include an SDK. It's a pass for me.
How does it compare to the built-in CRC32 instruction? [1]

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/ipp/developer-g...
> If Elon with all his billions barely can make a dent in saving a planet

Huh? Is he even trying to? What gave you that impression?
I'd be retired already if I had the magical advice.
Who would that benefit? Like, they have to service these devices, a cable connection is just much more reliable.
No, that person is doing it right. That’s 15 minutes of your life you’ll never get back; no library is worth it.
That's not the title of the article.
I find quite refreshing to see her examine the evidence sceptically and rationally instead of just assuming whatever the current trend is true and working backwards to cherry pick evidence to fit it, as many popular science communicators do.
So dramatic... There are so many people who are so psyched on what LLMs have allowed them to achieve, and so many beginners that can't believe they've suddenly got an app, and so many veterans who feel disenchanted, and so on and so forth. I'm quite tired of everyone generalizing LLM reactions based on their own experience!
I mean yeah. Wayland started with a feature aversion from its initial developer, then continued with feature avoidance by committee, the committee in turn required by the "everyone gets to implement the X server equivalent" design and some of the trouble coming particularly from "everyone" including Gnome. Some of these missing features are really not considered optional at this point by many desktop Linux users. But there aren't many left now. I'll probably make the switch in 0.5-3 years ;)

What is there in Wayland is really quite clean though, so it will... EVENTUALLY... be pretty good.
Germany may require a first aid kit but it is not required in France. In either case, that argument is moot. We are talking about the USA.
Also have a read of this fabulous short web from 2009:
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
I use them almost exclusively as collectors items for whatever country I visit. And nothing else. America is mostly cashless nowadays anyway. My thought is that at least in America, we will not be rid of coins for another few decades at least . Because gauging by the current climate it looks like the only way we start to phase some of these denominations out is when inflation makes them impractical and useless.
Title is: The Truth Is Out There, Part 3: The Game of Belief
As far as I'm aware, the V2 minis are different from the DTC sats. V2 mini just has expanded network bandwidth. DTC are a specific variant of the V2 mini with the hardware needed for DTC. Not all V2 launches, even now, are DTC variants.
Tutorial: Creating a Twitter (X) Bot using Python
My partner died of cancer two years ago. Our daughter was one and half years old. We're doing fine now.

The year of dealing with my kid's mom's cancer was by far the worst time in my life. I quit my career to focus on taking care of the two of them, and it was still impossible to meet the needs of both of them.

Hang in there!
Coding Machines (short story, 2009)
Don't get too worried about microplastics
The issue is that lots of things might be useful, be in the USA we dont typically mandate useful.
Not just web development learning is affected. Students handing in homework in all kind of coursed generated with AI. The problem of course is that part of learning depends on spaced repetition (ask any AI how it learned ;-) ) so skipping that part - all across the board - is having an impact already now.
I see, thanks. I thought maybe we were talking about the choice of json vs something else being automatic and chosen at runtime.
Your take on "toc" is a relatively new one. When Hardin first wrote about it, the message was (and was for some decades after it) that holding resources in common is doomed to failure and that is why private ownership/control of them is a good idea.

Even with your view, there's a subtle shift involved in talking about it as an issue of whether or not resources are properly managed or not, because the question is, quite directly, what is the best way of ensuring that this happens?

TOC has been routinely used over the last half-century of so to justify the answer to that being "privately owned", and reasonably given the name Hardin came up with: it's a tragedy of the commons, implicitly not affecting privately held resources.

> And if four countries that border a sea want to limit fishing but a fifth one says I'm going to overfish as much as I want, well then what do you think is going to happen

It depends a lot on scale. If country #5 plans to sell the fish to countries #1-4, it won't work (or at least, it may not work). If country #5 plans to eat all the fish it catches and has no effective internal population that will be able to gain control over its fishing behavior, then ... tragedy.

But notice the key point here: it's not as if country #5 is ignorant about the situation. Countries #1-4 will be quite belligerent in their objections to #5's behavior. So the problem here is not that "people just blindly take from a commonly held resource and destroy it". It's the people (in this case, country #5) willfully ignore the social structures in place to protect the fish in order to pursue their own greed and selfishness.
Xwayland is basically Xorg with a Wayland DDX layer -- and it recently got a rootful mode. So that means it's possible to run a complete X desktop, including WM, on top of a Wayland compositor.

However, the drawback is that with the exception maybe of Weston, one does not simply start up a Wayland compositor. You need to have support for logind seats and that sort of thing. So unless you want to spend an afternoon assembling the components like a piece of flat-pack furniture from Target, you basically need systemd and a distro that bundled those components for you the right way.
"but if you use Mint, Fedora, Pop_OS, Ubuntu/Debian etc... it pretty much is "just works." "

I just started to make the transfer to Linux from windows. I have limited experience after running Ubuntu on a dual boot laptop back in school a long time ago. It wasnt my daily driver at the time but class required it.

I recently downloaded fedora onto a desktop and it has been a horrid experience. It's sooo slow compared to when windows was on the same hardware. It's so bad the kids won't use the computer unless it's the last one available. I regret the switch, but want the results. I cannot seem figure out what's causing it.
> I may be misinterpreting here, so please do correct me

I meant to say that being open source doesn’t automatically mean you can use the software commercially, hence the need for a liberal (enough) license (to permit you this option).

No ideology intended so to say :)

> Does the permissiveness of the license matter more than the utility of the tool?

No of course not. A useless, but free tool is still useless. Likewise I’d argue that a useful open source tool you can’t use commercially is equally useless to many.

> However, a lot of FOSS options would be much better off if consumers did contribute to the project

I agree with you here
100% on the SO replacement, which is a shame, as I loved and benefited deeply from SO over the years.

I wonder about the proliferation of edge cases. Probably true, but an optimistic outlook, and at least in my own work, LLM’s deliver a failing test faster given new information, and the edge gets covered faster.
It would be interesting to know the stats, but one reason may be that it's easier to carry a baby with you when running from a predator.
Related X-Files parts (more about the show's origins and development):

https://www.filfre.net/2024/09/the-truth-is-out-there-part-1...

https://www.filfre.net/2024/09/the-truth-is-out-there-part-2...
Thanks for the recommendation, looks like the kind of book I'd enjoy.