skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Time to bring trolleybus back instead of EVs that as any individual cars have no place in a city.

If a city / transit agency does not have overhead wiring infrastructure already, I do not think they will have much interest in setting it up from scratch.

It's probably a lot easier to either (i) have a few charging spots on a bus route, (ii) use hybrid buses, or (iii) have EV buses with range extenders where needed.
It's not as open as the Librem phone, I think. What do you mean with "open"?

What I meant to indicate is that it is a viable alternative to iOS and Android, available right now. (Except it's hard to get outside Europe, China, Russia and India apparently. I missed that.)
The problem was with your math. 10.7 per 100k != 10,000 in a million.

10.7 per 100k == 1.07 per 10k == 107 per 1000k (1m)
Also suffering under mysql 5.7 here and agree. Also even stuff like CTEs/WITH make queries more readable and composite field types like ARRAY are still missing (you see GROUP_CONCAT shenanigans being used instead).

For indexing on function expressions in particular, the workaround we use is to add a generated column and index that.
Nginx Is Now Part of F5
By "conflating" I mean that Rust's memory management technology provides just one kind of multi-threading safety (i.e. "multiple readers/single-writer" model), but to implement other kinds of multi-threading-safe algorithms/data structures, you need to transcend beyond ownership+borrowing.

I think "epoch-based memory reclamation" (which Linux kernel also uses IIRC) is still a (primitive / limited / contained) form of GC. For those that aren't familiar with it, a quote from the article @pedrocr posted:

> The basic idea is to stash away nodes that have been unlinked from the data structure (the first source of reachability) until they can be safely deleted. Before we can delete a stashed node, we need to know that all threads that were accessing the data structure at the time have finished the operation they were performing.

So basically, the runtime needs to keep track of allocated objects until it's certain there are no more references to them... sounds like GC (the difference between this and a real GC is that (1) you know there's no cross-references between the nodes, so you don't need to mark&sweep but just need to keep track of the epoch, and (2) the nature of lock-free data structures is such that threads will move to the next epoch fairly soon (unless they infinite-loop)).
Mastering the Ghidra Reverse Engineering Tool [video]
Appreciating AppKit, Part 1
Cyclic data structures, memory safety, memory management without tracing. Pick 2.
You can appeal to a court in China, too. When people's homes are bulldozed in it, they are also entitled to market value compensation.

It is just like eminent domain. And yes, people quibble over fair market value. They do so in the US, too. Poorer communities have been hit very hard by it.
1366x768 has been the default resolution for cheap laptops for over a decade now. It's only very slowly being replaced with 1920x1080, but even when this transition is complete, effective information density is unlikely to change much. There are only so many pixels you can squeeze onto a 13" screen before most users need to scale up the UI.

For someone with bad eyesight like me, the sweet spot for a 13" laptop would be 4K at somewhere between 250% and 300% scaling. That would give me just about the same effective information density as good ol' 1366x768. I guess there's a reason why this awkward resolution still refuses to die.
You seriously should just start the discussion by actually checking out how garbage collection actually works instead of touting random garbage about how it is just a predictions game.

Garbage collection has multiple variations, multiple optimizations, multiple tradeoffs. Different variations are powering the most popular and the most used languages all around the world (see also: C#, Javascript, Java).

To think that that is just "research thrown at a bad problem" is sheer insanity.

I propose we split this discussion up, because dealing with leaks is a completely different problem than dealing with garbage collection. You can have memory leaks in manually managed languages too, it has nothing to do with GC. But lets not throw the whole field out just because you do not want to deal with automatic memory management tradeoffs.
Guix System or NixOS could allow something similar. You can make an image of your system trivially. Also most configuration is done in one file which can be applied during install.
Slides and script examples at https://github.com/0xAlexei/INFILTRATE2019
SQL Server is a registered trademark of Microsoft at least in the US and I’m sure other jurisdictions. Using SQL Server to refer to Microsoft’s relational database product is perfectly reasonable and pretty much every will know what you mean. The generic term seems to be RDMS or some variation on that.
employee 50 at lyft made ~1M over 4 years from their stock gains, i'm assuming that they have not sold much of that stock. fb and google tripled their stock price between 2013 and 2017, and fb quadrupled the stock price from 2013 to now. at that rate, to make a 1M stock package over 4 years only required a stock grant worth between 250k-350k over 4 years, which is rich but does not seem out of the reach of engineers with a few years experience.

is the risk premium really worth it?
AFAIK nobody is offering PaaS for social networks. Youre missing the part where "ads, anti-evil, localization, social graph, development tools, frameworks, runtimes" are part of Company 1. If I want to spin up my own ad network, or social graph, identity service, spam blocking service, I can go to Company 1 and lease their technology, and plug it into my product. They wont have access to the data in the social graph, or in the ad network, but they provide the software infrastructure that makes it possible. They are the flux capacitor of Company 2 style social networks.

The barriers to entry into the social network realm (at scale) can be high (security, spam, compliance, censorship, localization.)

The government splitting them horizontally, means that by virtue of Company 1 existing, competing with Company 2 is infinitely easier, and a great way for consumers to benefit from a more diverse marketplace. Possibly the next best way besides the government funding a public/private hybrid version of Company 1, or the government enforcing some kind of interoperability standards.

Breaking up facebook this way leaves the consumer client side fb roughly how it is (and still at risk for privacy fines, and fcc action) but levels the playing field for the next generation of companies. Thats the kind of goal antitrust action should be looking to accomplish. Not to punish facebook, but to make a fair competitive marketplace for social media and messaging clients. Facebooks privacy and other scandals should be handled by other government bodies, they arent antitrust imho. FCC, AG, DoJ (for other reasons like criminal negligence.)
You can (and I do), but it requires disabling the verified boot process that makes Cromebook security so nice.
Exactly, a private corporation has no public control/oversight board. Our government is run for and by the people. I wonder where this mindset was started.
How is that not unsanctioned access? I can't get a mortgage in your name just because we're friends.
> But it’s always going to require a substantially greater number of batteries than trucks.

I already addressed this is my comment. It's a loss that applies just as well to batteries that cannot be attached to vehicles, so it's not an argument against detachable batteries.

> Also, truck batteries are going to be much bigger than car batteries. A long-range truck pack will weigh several tonnes.

Stations already have massive underground infrastructures for dealing with fuel, which has an effective energy density that is less than a factor of two smaller than batteries. And unlike fuel, which must be stored on-site for the entire time between fuel shipments (~24 hours), you don't need to store a comparable number of batteries on site, just enough to have them continuously charging.

> A station that can swap these quickly in a semi-automated way is likely to be a substantial, expensive undertaking.

Putting in miles and miles of overhead charing capabilities is, I claim, significantly more expensive. But I'm not interested in having a detailed conversation on the expense of swapping machinery if we can't even agree on the simple point about utilization rates of swappable batteries being as least as large as non-swappable ones.
The domain name provider I use[1] takes $2 less per year for a .com compared to a .info.

[1]: https://domainname.shop/register
"carding" is apparently the trafficking in stolen credit cards and banking information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carding_(fraud)
Interesting. I used to live in the Canary Islands where all dogs look identical, a medium size brindle kind of like a Rottweiler.

The islands were actually named for the dogs (perro canario from the Latin canis) and the bird named for the island.
But httpd does mean Apache, and sh means Bourne shell.

It also helps that nobody says "The SQL server is down" when their mysql instance is down. Even when using a generic term it's "the database is down"
Well it was French spies that instigated the war against Libya..
Couples are having less sex, study finds
Calling S3 and (single-datacenter!) B2 “nearly equally reliable” with a footnote that “science is hard” strikes me as... unprofessional.
> AFAIK many wait-free data structures are pretty much impossible without a GC.

That makes no sense. You can implement a garbage collector in a manually managed program (or even just the specific parts that gain you the attributes required to accomplish something), so even if a GC made certain data structures easier, there's nothing to prevent their use in a manually managed language. The argument you're making is sort of like saying that certain things can only be accomplished in ain C or Java, and not in assembly.

More specifically to your actual assertion, anything a GC does for lock free data structures could be handled by a special routine or manually in a language where you handle memory manually.
Well it has been built in rail networks that are as long as highways.
> push the politics of its employees

Defense of the status quo is ideology too.

To see the information portrayed in the article as normal and good is a political position, just like seeing it as bad is a political position.

But even if pro-business pragmatism weren't an ideological alignment, politics isn't some dirty thing that innately sullies everything and should be avoided.
Even 2 million at a very safe 2% is still 40k/year without touching the principle. That's livable if your house and vehicle are paid for and you have very simple tastes. Realistically you could easily do a lot better through a mix of leveraged rental property and stocks.
> dictatorship enabling mechanism (powerful Executive Power, heavy sectorial financing of the government, etc).

+ significant increases in secret courts and endless budgets and free reign for intelligence agencies that report to executive branch.

All shifts that have been happening over the last two decades.

It only becomes a problem to most people when someone they don't like is given those powers. Which is why they should never have those powers in the first place. Something many have warned about this for a long time and something the US has had a unique history of pushing back against, which is now long ago.
IRS Needs to Improve Oversight of Third Party Cybersecurity Practices [pdf]
There's only really 3 major AV companies that are US based, so it's pretty much a clue in itself.
So do the people. It's the only way to be.
It's probably fairer to say that Neal was involved with The Long Now anyway, and wrote a novel about it and also some Liebniz he wanted to tell you all about.
We have one big thing that shows the code has quality or lacks it. Number and severity of defects. You can normalize it by dividing over number of features supplied.

This data is generally fudged and hidden though by management in closed software products as well as being mislabeled.

And finally, users are not informed on how to report software issues and trained to normalize deviance - ignore problems and apply workaround.
Can you point out a specific example then? I'm genuinely not trying to play dumb. I very honestly not see that complexity that should be obvious to me given that I spend most of my time writing code in non-GC languages.

Maybe it's just Stockholm syndrome and I'm so used to working that way that I don't even see the problem anymore but there are now a long string of replies talking abstractly about the overhead of programming in a non-GC environment and I simply don't relate at all. It's a complete non-issue as far as I'm concerned.
The inherent problem with AV software is that they require deep system access, thus if they get compromised the system is absolutely screwed.

So the question becomes "Is the operating system without AV but with hardening steps implemented more secure than the OS with AV?"

Of course, the only real answer to security is OpenBSD ;-) but that's a whole other barrel of worms.
> Ultimately, self-driving vehicles require maintenance on the road, meaning a human riding along; if the self-driving capability fails, the human will take over the wheel.

Maybe in the first several years. After that the technology will mature and maintenance won't be needed that often. And if there is a problem the truck can stop at the roadside, like in case of a failure today, and call for help.

I guess logistics companies will keep teams on the road which can respond quickly if a self driving truck has problems.
Also i would assume that the non-Tesla offerings will be cheaper.
What i saw about the automobile industry ist that they are very good in building factories/supply chain's where they can produce as cheap as possible. The setup of such a supply chain takes years but when it's there i assume that the prices will be lower than Tesla's. (Also so far i know Tesla need's still a relativ big amout of work hours per car, 60h compare to 30h industry standard)
It's amazing. Not that I'm interested in Polish composers specifically. If you could find a way to generate these for different fields (mathematicians in specific domains, machine learning researchers, electronic musicians in different genres, DJs, etc whatever people are interested in), it would be awesome! You could have a set of websites for different topics (and, who knows, maybe make money from ads related to the topics).
This was announced on the Nodecraft blog last month. HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19648607
CD Sohbet
The real threat it poses isn't to democracy but to established political players who don't want to lose any influence they have over the electorate. they use the election manipulation bogeyman to scare people into believing all their troubles would be taken care if we just trust the political class.

The real threat is that politicians will step in and decide who can have a platform, how big it can be, and worse, who can use it.

Are these large conglomerates an issue, perhaps in areas of needing regulation to insure we have privacy and no not need to opt in. however they should be able to trade for rights as well and in no case should we ever allow politicians to determine what the platform is or who can use it.
Many people believe that businesses and corporations have a responsibility to uphold and respect free speech as a societal virtue moreso than as a constitutional right. This isn't a crazy position given the power many companies wield over the workings of society.
Due to S3 and B2 being at least nearly equally accessible, reliable, available, as well as many other providers*

Does Backblaze have a multi-datacenter option yet?

AWS storage costs 3X more than B2, but they are also spreading your data across 3 independent datacenters miles apart.

Full datacenter failures are rare, but they do happen, like when Microsoft lost cooling in a datacenter, which resulted in some hardware failures.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-releases-details-las...
Do you actually not know what OS those apps are running on? Aren't there extremely stark and obvious differences between the three classes of apps?
I might be mistaken, but it's a 20k euro price difference isn't it? I'd hope the Model 3 has at least a nicer interior to justify the cost.
IIRC Chromium OS doesn't collect the data the way the closed-source Chrome OS does. It's a great OS for getting work done (on Gapps, of course.)

Debian (and all other userspace-run operating systems) are in a container.
This is implemented using Wayland, not X11. I just checked on my Chromebook, GTK+ apps use Wayland by default, Qt5 apps use X11 by default (through Xwayland) and look ugly when told to use Wayland. I guess X11 is going to stay as a compatibility layer, but this won't help it stay to the front.
That would be my interpretation. That the traditional Golfs and Tiguans will continue to be delivered with ICE/Hybrid drivetrains but that any pure EV model of an ICE car would always be a compromised design because of how radically different they can be built. So even if they make the ID look like a golf in the body it’s a radically different car, and if they still make the golf they shouldn’t be selling this under the same name. As the article says, the interior will have much more space for example. Calling it eGolf might be confusing, and might be underselling it.
AlgoExpert – 70 Video Explanations of Popular Coding Interview Questions
>> While physics has the nuclear bomb, philosophy may well lay a claim to that bomb never being used after 1945.

I really like that quote as much as the other poster. But then I realized that the reason it hasn't been used may lie in game theory. That also brings us back to evolutionary biology. Still, philosophy is a nice abstract way to think about it. Oh, and never say never.
Blueprint for a Better Digital Society – Jaron Lanier, Harvard Business Review
>because I don't have the expertise or the time to make informed decisions about everything my government is currently doing for me.

I don't think our current career politician representatives do either.

>Direct democracy will likely devolve into a reign of demagogues imho.

That's more or less what we already have, I think.

An unpopular solution is some sort of qualification based voting, possibly per issue, say having subject matter expert vote on particular bills within their domain. But there's no realistic way of competence based voting without disenfranchising the vast majority of voters.
Ahh. That makes sense. So insurance is more interested in the potential for a claim within the current policy cycle and not the long term risk.
My point was that it doesn't make sense for you to bring up overnight charging of batteries in the context of short-electric-range trucks. If that were sufficient, we wouldn't be worrying about swapping vs. overhead charging.
I initially did a 'dirty carnivore' type diet for around 18 months. I took it up because of the fairly extreme praise that a family member for the diet, and its effects on her mental and physical well-being.

In the end, I lost a bit of weight, and I never really had to think about when to eat (skipping meals was easy on this diet if it was inconvenient, and I'd just make it up later. On a higher carb diet, I find hunger to be a more insistent sensation with worse effects (tiredness, irritability, headache). But since eating 'on time' is usually pretty easy to do, the diet had no great impact on my life. But I can't discount my family member's subjective and objective results either. Even in this thread you can find lots of folks talking about how great it is. I suspect this is just a YMMV kind of situation.
The Ride-Hail Strike Got Just Enough Attention to Terrify Uber
... to do what?
You can vote to change the government in most countries, you can't with Google. But Google won't leak your data and will delete it when you request it. What do you trust the government to do better? Or what do you think google will do with it?

Edit: I understand you don't want Google to have your data, that is fully your choice. I'm just curious what risk you are concerned about.
Funny. I think my Mate Desktop works pretty damn well.
Court Refuses to Keep Patent Licensor's Secrets
You’ve never had to refactor code that was used as a library by other developers?

Do you realize how many hacks is built into Windows just because developers were using undocumented features?
You might need city architect permit or equivalent and have to employ certified civil engineers by law.
The world's most expensive drug?
>Legal marijuana shops are still mostly cash only specifically because they can’t bank, due to weed being federally illegal.

There is a world of difference between closing accounts that are used to pay for activities that are illegal and closing accounts because the client does something you don't like, especially if the service provider can't even point out which part of their TOS was violated.

>businesses designed to spam, defraud, mislead or abuse people

If you don't draw any distinctions between "defraud" (illegal and well-defined activity) and "mislead" (can be applied to almost anything), there is literally nothing to discuss here. You don't draw any objectively defined lines between what should and should not be bannable and your stance boils down to "I like when PayPal bans someone I don't like".
In fact, Facebook’s first investor wrote the book on this idea.
A waste if you know what your doing.

For my Grandpa who’d never figure it out on his own it was a real benefit.
Back in the days, when Google was still somewhat new, I tended to laugh a bit inside when my parents and other non-techies would search Google for a domain rather than to go in the address bar. They'd search for Ford or Ford.com, rather than just put Ford.com in the address bar.

Though I quickly realized it wasn't such a bad idea at all, for exactly the reasons such as this. Even I mess up domains sometimes, so I usually tend to use Google instead except for the ones I know by heart (or have bookmarked).
A Linux laptop that forces the user to log into Google in order to use their Linux laptop.

Am I correct? I can't imagine I'm not since there's no way ChromeOS's security model would work otherwise.
Volkswagen is positioning this as the 3rd era of the company. They started with the beetle, then the golf has been the backbone of the company for 40 years, and now the ID.3 is going to be their core identity.
We're literally talking about how this teen decided who is trustworthy. As pointed out in the article, googling around to confirm GAVE HIM "confirmation". Recognizing that their views fell apart under inspection despite the previous confirmation required (as written, at least) above-average critical thinking.
Ask HN: Do Read/Unread/Online/Typing messaging app status make you anxious?
In my opinion Read/Unread/Online/Typing status don't provide any important information to the end user. Having them enabled by default just increase total n. of messages sent for any messaging app, as you always feel "I have to reply because he/she knows that I read the message". What do you think about it?
Are you forgetting investment returns? You don’t need 7 million to sustain an upper middle class lifestyle for perpetuity.
That page says €9.95/yr for .com which is $11.17 USD...
Faced with the .info and .com I would have bet all my money that .com was the legit one.
$7m is $210k annually, do you really think people need that much to retire in Texas? I know many that pull it off with closer to 1.5m in assets with zero principal depletion
As they say "If it bleeds, it leads"
Inline-JS:seamless JavaScript/Haskell interop
> Chromebooks reach "end of life" after a few years

6.5 years is not what would usually be described as "a few years."