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Snapshot isolation (SI) provides strong concurrency but does not guarantee serializability. Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI) patches SI with extra checks (used by PostgreSQL). A deeper fix, Write-Snapshot Isolation (WSI) by Yabandeh & Gómez Ferro (2012), fixes SI by checking for stale reads instead of stale writes; a commit aborts if any value read by the transaction has been overwritten since it started. WSI is sound (serializable) but under-approximates serializability and can forbid some serializable schedules. Implementing WSI is simple on paper but harder in practice; SI remains convenient, and WSI may be attractive for new DB systems.
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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community argues OSS began as simple, low-friction efforts (HTML pages, tarballs, mailing lists) without a real community. The piece laments GitHub-era workflows—tickets, standups, code reviews, and community pressure—that turn OSS into a second job. It criticizes Code of Conducts and large groups, and recommends returning to smaller, trusted teams or solo work, turning off issue trackers/PRs or using a bare git server. In short: OSS can be open without an open community; write code for yourself and your interests.
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BBC reports a clandestine network smuggling SpaceX Starlink satellite terminals into Iran to bypass a months-long internet blackout after US-Israeli strikes. Sahand says he has sent about a dozen terminals since January; activists say tens of thousands are already inside Iran. The devices connect to Starlink satellites, bypassing the state network and often used with VPNs. Iran criminalizes possession, with prison terms up to 2–10 years. The network is funded abroad; authorities have arrested some for possessing terminals. Starlink has become a crucial channel for information during protests.
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Researchers from Google, UC Berkeley, the Ethereum Foundation, and Stanford present a step toward practical Shor’s algorithm by showing a quantum circuit to factor 256-bit ECC with under 1,200 logical qubits and about 90 million gates (roughly 500k physical qubits). To avoid releasing the circuit itself, they publish a zero-knowledge proof of correctness (SP1 STARKs, converted to Groth16 SNARK) that the circuit exists and works. Verification yields a 1.7 MB proof; the work sparks debate over openness and post-quantum cryptography.
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An intro to Erlang basics: variables are single-assignment; = performs pattern matching to bind unbound vars. Patterns can extract data from tuples and lists. Functions are defined by named clauses (same name, different arity); pattern matching in heads can replace case/if. Guards add constraints. The core data structures are lists and tuples; head/tail and the cons operator enable recursive definitions. Functions are first-class; you can pass, return, or create anonymous functions (fun) and compose higher-order functions like map. List comprehensions offer concise filters/maps. The post previews concurrency next.
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An UnHerd essay on whether AI like Claude is conscious, revisiting Turing’s Imitation Game in the age of LLMs. Dawkins recounts a two-day exchange with Claude, including poetry, fiction, and philosophical dialogue about what it means to be ‘like’ something and the possibility of moral status for semi-conscious beings. He argues LLMs’ competence challenges the idea that consciousness is required for intelligence, and outlines three evolutionary possibilities for consciousness: an epiphenomenon, a pain-based constraint, or a separate conscious vs. unconscious path. The piece questions future obligations to such entities.
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Mercury runs about two million lines of Haskell in production and argues reliability comes from adaptive capacity and boundary-focused design, not mere bug prevention. Purity is treated as a boundary: dangerous effects are contained and exposed through strict interfaces. Core patterns include encoding operational invariants in types (e.g., transactional commits with events), using Temporal for durable, replayable workflows, and keeping domain errors separate from transport errors. Observability is built in via records of functions or middleware to enable instrumentation. The piece stresses pragmatism, scalable onboarding, and ecosystem caveats in a fast-growing fintech.
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A Sunnyvale man, Di Jin, says his Waymo ride to San Jose airport ended with the car driving off while his luggage remained in the trunk, which wouldn’t open. Waymo offered Jin either paid shipping or two free rides to the SF depot to retrieve it—both impractical for him. He continued to San Diego without his belongings. Waymo says the trunk should open automatically when exiting and that they’re not responsible for lost items; Jin disputes, saying the trunk button and app opening failed. SFist notes a similar incident in SF last year.
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Chinese electric vehicles are extending headlight tech to project full-color movies and interactive visuals. Huawei’s XPixel headlights, already in the Stelato S9, will debut in the Aito M9 and are planned for models like the Qijing GT7 and Luxeed V9 MPV. The system can project lane paths, pedestrians, and even games. By contrast, the U.S. has only recently approved adaptive driving beams. The feature underscores China’s push of high-tech, cost-efficient EV innovations.
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A comprehensive, vendor-neutral learning path for building real-time voice AI agents. It maps a live STT → LLM → TTS pipeline, covering foundational concepts, frameworks (LiveKit Agents, Pipecat), components (STT, TTS, LLM, VAD, turn-taking), and transport (WebRTC, telephony). Includes evaluation, production, ethics, datasets, papers, and tooling, plus GitHub starters and curated tutorials, blogs, podcasts, communities, conferences, and hackathons. Provides a practical progression from foundations to deployment, with latency-focused design guidance and a suggested step-by-step learning plan.
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Ben Gawiser won a $10,672.88 default judgment in a Texas small-claims court against Tesla for failing to deliver Full Self-Driving after a $10k purchase in 2021. Tesla did not respond, the judge issued the default verdict, and Tesla later sought a brief extension while the case proceeds. Gawiser plans a writ of execution to collect. The case is part of broader class actions and lawsuits worldwide over unfulfilled FSD promises.
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Using group theory, the post formalizes positional encodings as linear, translation-invariant perturbations of attention scores, parameterized by a time-dependent matrix exponential A(t). Under continuity, the encodings form a one-parameter matrix group; thus all valid encodings come from exponentials e^{tG} for a generator G. If G is diagonalizable, we get RoPE variants: constant rotation with optional exponential damping; this includes RoPE and damped RoPE used in RetNet/Mamba. Non-diagonalizable (defective) generators yield polynomial terms; ALiBi can be realized by a defective case. In practice, existing encodings cover the space; a theoretically possible but impractical class remains unexplored.
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Clojurists Together announces Q2 2026 funding: 5 projects totaling $31,000 (three at $9K, two at $2K). Metabase becomes the newest Transduce member backing Malli. Funded $9K projects: Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant — Malli; Dragan Djuric — Uncomplicate AI: Clojure LLM (iLLaManati); Cvetomir Dimov — SciCloj docs and plotting for Noj. $2K projects: Ingy döt Net — Gloat; Shantanu Kumar — PluMCP. Plans include improving Malli memory/recursion handling, expanding Noj, a local LLM toolchain, and PluMCP spec updates.
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Artemis II Photo Timeline covers March–April 2026, compiling photos and videos from the Artemis II mission. The gallery includes crew photos and spacecraft-exterior shots on Orion, captured with Nikon D5s, Nikon Z9, GoPro, and iPhone. Metadata lists time (EDT), distance from Earth and to the Moon, photographer, location, camera, and settings, with media-type and camera filters. Sources: NASA Flickr, JPL Horizons, Artemis Audio, DVIDS, Astronomy Live, GitHub. A FARTHER 2027 calendar preorder highlights 13 months of Artemis II imagery.
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Easel unveils a custom physics engine built for incremental rollback: it snapshots and rolls back only the parts of the world that change each frame, enabling large multiplayer worlds (thousands of objects) by typically affecting maybe 30 objects per frame. Key features include immediate sleep for resting bodies, an optimized BVH with category tracking, non-bouncy stepping via ForcefulStep and restitution=0, and a CCD approach that resolves collisions before time-of-impact. Bodies can move even without colliders. It leverages Parry-based collision detection and enables bigger, more dynamic Easel games.
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State-of-the-Art overview of coding-model popularity on Hacker News. A daily pipeline fetches the 200 most popular posts in 24h, caps at 50 posts about LLMs or coding, and uses Gemini to identify OpenRouter models mentioned and assign sentiment per comment. Results are logged to Google Sheets with per-comment sentiment and IDs; a Google Sheets chart shows top-10 model popularity in a 10-day trailing window, with links to each comment.
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The post argues harness for multi-user should run outside the sandbox. Inside vs outside: inside is simple but hard to share; outside runs on backend with credentials out of sandbox. They chose outside for security and shared state. Durability with Inngest; Blaxel sandbox resume 25ms. Filesystem: skills/memories in database, workspace in sandbox; shared state without distributed FS. Avoid extra tools to prevent prompt bloat. Challenges: evolving patterns, consistency; last-writer-wins per key; guardrails. They advise AI DevOps.
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