skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What state is new for transaction 1?

There was always a gap between "write to disk" and fsync. Now it's a bit longer because we did some other stuff, but that gap was possible before, too.

We still don't tell people it's committed until the fsync returns.
I feel like you're discussing this from a legal perspective, when it's really more of a moral (not the right word but the general concept is fine) one.

"GE defending a patent they use in their products" and "an LLC with one patent as an asset and no real business outside of defending said patent" are two entirely different situations, even if legally they're the "same."
Yeah wouldn't the floodplains shift as well? I looked at local flood plains when I was looking for a house and I don't want to live in a flood prone area.
I'm not exaggerating at all. I regularly play Overwatch over this setup and it's totally fine.
I wanted to give this comment some careful thought. My challenge with your position is that no one, or at least certainly not me, has claimed the standard as negatively impacting any life. The standard is "will this spiral out into an ecological disaster" and right now the evidence suggests that we don't know enough to suggest it won't. If you allow some industrialization, then there's more and more economic pressure to scale it up regardless of the safety impacts.

It's also extremely dramatic to call this a suicide pact. The impact of not mining the sea floor is that we increase mining & pay a little bit more for obtaining these resources in other areas. In fact, if the fears of it severely disrupting ocean life bear out, then indeed this turns out to be a mass suicide pact to kill ourselves to enrich the few who profit off of this.

> It's easy to have others than the mining corporation making these decisions. It's not a new problem for undersea mining.

I think you greatly underestimate the challenge of scaling back industry once it gains economic and political power. If this is a 1T industry and we then find out we're heading for a massive ecological disaster, will we shut down the 1T industry on a dime or try to "mitigate" the fall out? Additionally, the amount of regulatory capture that seems to have happened in the governing body that would be making these decisions suggest that it won't be a measured approach to judging safety and efficacy.
Sorry calling him a nazi for that salute is just crazy. Insane, really.
My pleasure, and thanks for creating Cosmopolitan!
Arve Hjalmar Holmen OpenAI complaint for misinformation [pdf]
That's basically the best thing ever. I'm just waiting for a 320x240 matrix and I'll be set for life. Imagine Metal Slug 3 on one of these things, or any number of Sega Genesis titles.
Show HN: Fast Travel – Supercharge your search bar
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just got recommended this and read a good chunk of it! it’s a great read
Greg kurtzer is not the founder of CentOS. This is FUD he's been regurgitating ever since tricking one of the past CentOS community managers into doing a blog post.

If you read the mailing list archives you'll see the truth.
Mill Computing's proposed architecture is more like VLIW with lots of custom "tricks" in the ISA and programming model to make it nearly as effective as the usual out-of-order execution than a "generic sea" of small CPU's. VLIW CPU's are far from 'tiny' in a general sense.
So I clicked the first link to read about the actual claim, and I was floored by the author bio at the bottom: "Clint Deboer was terminated from Audioholics for misconduct on April 4th, 2014. He no longer represents Audioholics in any fashion."

Gotta wonder how bad you gotta screw up to have your byline on every article you wrote permanently set to that.
Musky Browns Ring Donuts?
While I agree they shouldn't be putting their money towards political causes, the scrutiny of the budget is also political in nature. Of the $400 million in expenses, only around $15 million went to executives, and around $1 million went to the DEI stuff. The rest was split evenly between developing and marketing Firefox, which is basically what you were criticising them on not doing.

If they got rid of all the executives and DEI, they could increase the other budgets by 2%. There is 0 chance that the 2% extra budget could help the market share and development in any significant way.

And if you don't pay executives enough, you get worse executives who make worse decisions because the good ones will go to other companies. So you'll be complaining even more if the $15 million executive pay got dropped.

So in short: I agree Mozilla shouldn't get involved in politics. Despite this, no reasonable person could look at the numbers and conclude it's having a material effect on the destiny of Firefox.
We're talking about two separate things.

I'm talking about understanding, fully, the state of the CPU. Not just the conceptual operation of the CPU. Like, given a specific, modern AMD or Intel CPU, understand fully all states of all transistors.
Malignant Narcissism
Virtual Slide Rule
Ahh my favorite professor and favorite class at UW. Remzi is great.
It is because cache coherence requires extra communication to make sure that the cache is coherent. There's cute stratgies for reducing the traffic, but ultimately you need to broadcast out reservations to all of the other cache coherent nodes, so there's an N^2 scaling at play.
Don't worry, just for fun.
Per a recent IBM community post:

"ClearCase is now part of DevOps Create Pillars Code subpillar."
Instructions: https://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n909es/n909-es-instr...
Thank you!

It sounds like you might be interested in my notes and calculations on thermal energy storage in phase change materials, some of which are listed at https://dercuano.github.io/topics/phase-change-materials.htm.... But I think TCES systems are likely to be more significant because of their technical advantages, among other things for managing indoor humidity and possibly even for seasonal thermal stores; some of my notes on the topic are at https://derctuo.github.io/notes/desiccant-climate-control.ht... and https://dernocua.github.io/notes/shower-heating-tces.html. Various kinds of thermal energy storage do seem to beat batteries on cost by around three orders of magnitude; some of my relevant notes are listed at https://derctuo.github.io/topics/thermal-storage.html. I agree with you that there is no real prospect of batteries catching up with thermal energy storage in the foreseeable future.

With respect to the particular problem you mention with needing expensive propylene glycol in your heat transfer fluid to keep it from freezing, ice rinks commonly use brine systems instead, despite the corrosion problems you mention. Brines are very cheap, some like dipotassium phosphate are minimally corrosive, and the commonly used ones are pretty nontoxic.
> mobile (as it capable of movement - pronounced either MOE-bile or MO-bƏl) or Mobile (a city in the state of Alabama - pronounced (AFAIK) mo-BEEL).

The way I learned it (US), "mo-bile" is the adjective for something that can move, "mo-beel" is a noun for the thing that you hang over a baby's cradle.
> Most utilities do not have to face the network

True, but code from those utilities may eventually be used in the network (for example, through copied functionality and shared libraries). Also, a creative pipeline may actually involve them (think of the Unix philosophy.)

Eventually plain C has to die or be relegated to unavoidable places like in the assembly cases, even if Rust is not the best alternative after all.
> These things do nothing to make alternatives more attractive

(Yes they do! I explained why a few posts above in this very thread! If you disagree, I'd appreciate if you could articulate your disagreement, rather than reiterate it!)

Even with no infrastructure upgrades, cycling becomes safer and more comfortable when more people are cycling and fewer people are driving! Transit service improves through increased ridership and less congestion, even with no attached funding increases or infrastructure projects! Taking cars off the road actually makes every method of transportation more attractive, including driving itself!

> Schedules should be clear and consistent

The #1 reason why bus schedules are not consistent is: drum roll congestion! And when it's difficult to keep a schedule, transfer waits are unavoidable. The only way to implement what you say is to either give busses dedicated lanes, or Thanos-snap cars offthe road.

> I wouldn't put as much emphasis on buses as I would on trains

I love trains too, but where are you going to run them? Trains have a large turning radius and run best with grade-separated crossings. You can tunnel the entire thing underground but that's a big project and how will you fund it? In Asia they fund it through property development but how will you do it in a city that's already been developed and had its passenger rail stripped out for highways in the 1960s?

> The busses and train cars themselves should be clean, well maintained, safe, and inexpensive to ride.

I agree! And these days I'm often opting for the car because it's cheaper than bus fare, even when I'd rather not drive. And yes, it does have to be a long-term investment, but one that will never be recouped through ticket sales. So where is the money to fund this level of service coming from? Are car-driving taxpayers who don't ride transit going to approve this much taxpayer funding? Even when those same voters are so die-hard opposed to congestion pricing?

> Bus-only lanes can be nice, but[...] adding lanes in some cases and reclaiming them later.

Are you suggesting to pave over sidewalks? Or to cut holes through buildings? I don't understand how you would add new lanes to a congested city road. I have the same question for your suggestion about bike lanes, where you suggest adding them to existing roads but not by reducing lanes. Do you propose to add elevated bikeways?

I think I don't disagree with you about how good these things are, but I must be missing something about your vision.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Watched that before bedtime with my 3 year old. Somehow we had not seen that one.

Love the music in Beach and Fruit Bat as well.
Ask HN: LinkedIn Profile for a Side Project While Working Full-Time at a Company
I have been working full-time at a media/gaming company. I also have a side project that I'm working on. To bring more users to my side project, I need to create LinkedIn posts to target my potential customers. The problem is, I want to hide this from my company and its employees.

What should I do?

Create a new LinkedIn profile with my real name but an AI-generated photo.

Create a new LinkedIn profile with completely fake identification. This may harm my project if someone finds out.

Or do you have any other recommendations?
> Why don't we just get in on the drug trade ourselves, undercut the dealers

That was tobacco, but they blew it by never going for alternatives nor providing healthier/better products. With the pharma knowledge we have now, we surely could have developed a legally acceptable drug with few enough downsides.

Otherwise, they are of course getting in on the drug trade, just not under the framework we'd want to:

https://www.brut.media/fr/articles/cocaine-11-policiers-juge...
>Please fork for changes

I like this direct and sensible approach.
Honest answer: when the first adherents of it are fully retired, so we can truly see if it has staying power with the next generation of engineers. C has passed this test.
The problem is, that many of the politicians in high positions are corrupt, bought by companies, and/or only went into politics, because they couldn't get a productive job. There are politicians, who never in their life had a proper job, were born wealthy and never had to work like someone in a productive proper job has to.

There may be exceptions, of course, but over and over again, when one checks the background of politicians in high positions, one finds out, that they simply inherited a lot, and never worked in the field they are making decisions about, nor actually in any other field. They "just became politicians". And even then they misuse funds, cars for private trips, first class tickets on means of transportation, let themselves be bought by lobbies, have prospect of some corporate board later, have even more side income than they are being already paid for their badly done job as a politician, and so on and on. Many one could outright call despicable.

The problem is, that we let them do it. Going into politics is such a clusterf' that no normal person even wants to do it any longer. It only attracts those kinds of person we see there. Others are sidelined or never join politics in the first place. Then we also don't vote/kick/protest them out of office the moment we hear about their crimes.
Remotefx is a really big feature addition.

I still think modern alternatives like parsec are better in almost every regard but RDP is extremely mature.
From my experience cloud managed Airflow is the easiest to manage and use.

It's a bit expensive but the only thing they push you to do is to upgrade managed K8S and Airflow once for a while.
Care to cite your numbers?

CSS studied the outer boroughs and found roughly 4% driving into Manhattan versus 57% taking transit, with a 50:1 ratio of low income workers benefiting from the congestion charge versus paying it.

https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/congestion-pricing-outer-bo...

https://www.replicahq.com/post/whos-paying-the-literal-and-m...

> Compared to those who take transit, those who drive into the zone have an average household income 11% higher ($189K vs. $171K) and median income 15% higher ($136K vs. $114K).

There are some poor people who drive in, but it’s a tiny fraction of the total and there is a generous discount for them. It’s almost certain that transit improvements paid for by the mostly affluent drivers will help a fair number of them stop driving to work, too, and losing that expense is a big financial win.
Patent trolls benefit from it being expensive and time-consuming to challenge patents (and defend yourself from infringement claims)

These regulations are actually beneficial to big business. It makes it significantly easier to defend your own patents and sue anybody that infringes on them.

I imagine that these benefits are much bigger than the downside of dealing with patent trolls.
Great read. I think connecting with nature while you’re young is great — when you’re older, even better. Would love to read more of these.
> To me it just proves that they don't understand the very basic of how encryption works.

Hanlon’s razor isn’t always true, sometimes it really is malice. Considering EU ministers want to exempt themselves from Chat Control, that suggests to me they do understand enough of the basics.

https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-wan...
I hate to admit it, because I don't particularly like Rust, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea it should replace things.

The major change is a recent comment I made where I was musing about a future where LLMs actually write most of the code. That isn't a foregone conclusion but the recent improvements in coding LLMs suggests it isn't as far off a future as I once considered.

My thought was simple: if I am using a LLM to do the significant portion of generating code, how does that change what I think about the programming language I am using? Does the criteria I use to select the language change?

Upon reflection, Rust is probably the best candidate. It has strictness in ways that other languages do not have. And if the LLM is paying most of the cost of keeping the types and lifetimes in order, what do I care if the syntax is ugly? As long as I can read the output of the LLM and verify it (code review it) then I actually want the strictness. I want the most statically analyzable code possible since I have low trust in the LLM. The fact that Rust is also, ahem, blazingly fast, is icing on the cake.

As an aside to this aside, I was also thinking about modular kernels, like Minix. I wonder if there is a world where we take a userland like the one Ubuntu is trying and apply it to Minix. And then slowly replace the os modules with ones written in Rust. I think the modularity of something like Minix might be an advantage, but that might just be because I am completely naïve.
Related stupidity: "Security Questions" that enable someone to take over your account just by collecting not-so-secret information that is often shared because the site insists you pick from their own set of questions which other sites have already used.
It's more a hydrogen powered fridge\heater.

A vending machine doesn't really need power or limited power if not chilled/heated.
I agree, Tesla was in a precarious position before Elon Musk decided to sabotage the company by being, to put it mildly, derisive. It would be hard to find a way to sabotage the company more effectively.

Globally, BYD and other Chinese-made electric cars are getting very close to Tesla in terms of price / quality as is Hyundai/Kia and other traditional auto makers. There are also premium upstarts like Lucid and Rivian that are cutting into the high-end not to mention BMW, Audi, Mercedes and every other car manufacturer. Tesla is getting squeezed and their development of new car models is not nearly fast enough to keep consumers interested.

A lot of right-leaning people won't buy an electric car out principle of it being seen as "green" and now a lot of left-leaning people won't buy a Tesla out of principle because they dislike Elon. And even if you ignore all of that or don't care you have to deal with the fact that if you drive a Tesla lot of people will automatically think you are a jerk.

Add all this to a still wildly inflated stock price and you have a potential nightmare scenario for Tesla as a company.
I think it's generally "let God sort out the poors", these types of policies tend to be a carve out for upper middle class and higher. I don't think they care about public transit or there would be a better plan than just "raise prices until we break the poor"
SQL injection on steroids.
They also post (free) documentation how to migrate from the previous major version
Unmeshed - it’s not open source. It’s a new version of Netflix Conductor. Scales really well and has a GitHub actions style agent that can be used to run commands orchestrated by the platform. It’s probably the cheapest commercial tool you can get.
>here are no ancient stone ruins or lost treasures.

Like Stonehenge? How can we possibly know what's there without looking thoroughly?
Well, you seem to suggest that tightening the existing restrictions that all but ban Americans from hiring foreigners will somehow help with layoffs?
I’m American and I lived in Sydney for two years from 2001-2003.

> we got talent right here

You have no idea how right you are. Or maybe you do… There are writers and musicians and … every kind of talent on par with anything anyone else in any country has ever done.

It was extremely eye opening for me to listen to TripleJ or whatever station I would tune to after hearing some American pop junk, and hear music I’ve never heard, before or since, by bands I never heard before or since, play some of the best music I have ever heard, every single day I was there. And, that music was unlike a lot of other stuff on the radio, which was so refreshing. So new! So good! And so much!

My girlfriend (who was Australian and is why I moved there) pulled out her CDs and I was lost in them for weeks.

I was roommates with a guy, and worked with him, for six months before he texted me and told me to turn on the radio. Three minutes later I heard his voice followed by 45 minutes of the best DJ mixing set I have ever heard. He composed the best music I have ever heard, live, by ear, and it was something he did every damn week.

Australia is fucking amazing.
Interesting project. I use command line Qalculate [1] for this (has a very similar feature set to Frink AFAICT) and Pint [2] for scripting. I feel like unit-aware calculators are hugely underused by physical engineers, it's the same idea and benefit as type safety but they're virtually unheard of, everyone just uses excel. Having guaranteed dimensional correctness is so great for the early design stage, it makes it a lot easier to explore the problem space.

[1] https://qalculate.github.io/
[2] https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
at least they kept the articles up. I was pleasantly surprised that that ancient link still worked !
You are probably technically violating the CFAA when you do this. Having your email address accidentally associated with the account isn't authorization.
It's amazing how one out of control wanna-be-dictator can destroy the reputation of the USA in weeks and half the country doesn't care, although I suspect will care when the long term implications inevitably happen to _them_
The CNIL is doing a ton of work to limit private databases and cross-checking as well.

It can be hard to believe from more business focused countries, but the agency setting precedents has had dissuasion effects, and most companies do end up caring about their data retention and management policies. I've been in enough meetings where UX proposal gets entirely reworked because of a simple link to the CNIL's guidelines.
StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text
> not recognizing the implications of an extra reference here and there when the language frees things based on static detections of being unused

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but isn’t the point of the borrow checker to throw errors if a reference “outlives” the memory it references?

How can an extra reference extend the lifetime?
Chrome remote desktop for over internet and sunshine/moonlight for local lan