skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may not have looked inside a modern dryer recently but the level of chincy-ness is unreal.

The wires just hang off the parts held by the flimsiest of little twist ties.

I just fixed a blower fan in mine. The plastic fan was held onto the motor shaft with tape.

The fact that this crap doesn't instantly fly apart and catch fire is an admirable engineering feat in itself (in a twisted sort of way).
And worth noting that parts of today's modern northern Italy and France also had Celts. Though I also read another claim that Romans just over-applied the term "Celt" to foreign people. (Like the grandparent states, there seems to be a lot of conjecture and folk opinion on these subjects.)
POSIX extends standard C. atexit() is part of standard C89.
spread information to others

So only consume - not produce?
I think it's a combination of many factors, for sure. Definitely also being impacted by the tighter mortgage regulations that our government enacted recently.

It's also really unfavorable to be a landlord (at least in Ontario) as it's possible for a tenant to take up a lease and not pay for almost an entire year while you legally evict them. So I suppose it's understandable why people prefer to AirBNB their units, aside from making more money.

Really shitty situation all around.
Oh man, I can't wait to make -j 128...
> I'm sure there is some tax thing involved here

Loyalty tax, perhaps. They expect people to just "take it".
More than any performance boost that could be achieved from this, I think what's cooler is the ability to unplug the storage device that held the OS.

For example, if you want to run hardware diagnostics on multiple machines at the same time with 1 consistent, custom environment, you can just setup one USB stick with this, and plug it on each machine in turn to boot them up. You wouldn't need to keep the USB stick plugged in while they're running.
Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use may be to blame
Well, it might still be the case.
I always wonder why the same argument isn't applied to hotel rooms. If the government forced every hotel room to be converted to affordable housing, the homelessness problem could be solved overnight!
Government jobs like creating software are required by law in most cases to be done as contracts that are put out for bid. Then the lowest cost or most corrupt choice wins. This entire system creates massive perverse incentives. Failing to complete the project on time is a business win. Making it hard to maintain is a business win (because maintenance will be separate ongoing contract and the company that authored it is thought to have some advantage on getting that contract). Making it hard to modify is a business win. Delivering as little actual functionality as possible is a business win (they might make new contracts or contract mods to add more functionality).

I worked on a system for over a decade that originally got awarded as a contract to build 3 systems. When all was said and done, 3 contracts had been awarded to get it to completion and 1 system (which required 9 months of full time work to get into a state to be used in production) was delivered. There are only 2 words for that in the contracting world: stellar success. That was a bigger win than they could ever have dreamed. Just drag it on, hiring the lowest paid new grads you can find to slap something together, stack the project with absurd layers of management, and collect the checks. Eventually, after years and years of this leeching, someone in the government will decide to make it an achievement in their career that they actually got the thing across the finish line. To do that they will sign off on the project and accept it no matter how short of contract requirements anything is. Their goal is to get the thing in the door and get credit for that, no one is going to blame them when its terrible. And the idea of actually punishing the companies that do this, penalizing them financially and legally for violating their contract when they don't deliver a working system on time? Forget it. Never happen. The companies will get the public fighting against 'big government' and crying crocodile tears for how harangued the billion-dollar megaconglomerates are with the RNC clanging finger cymbals while whirling around chanting 'jobs jobs jobs'.
Is that really a problem when you have a mobile app and a desktop app?
For the families in the story, the problem is they can't get rid of homes that are uncomfortably big. Definitely a 1%-ish problem (hell, a .1% problem. I would have plenty of use for more space but I simply can't afford it in London).

However, there's another problem here, one for the rest of us — The site used for a single-family 700sqm home could've been used for something denser, that would've lowered housing costs for everybody else.
You mean if BOTH services are insecure. That's the point, with 2FA you'd have to compromise TWO services to get access to all your accounts. As opposed to storing your TOTP keys in your password manager, where only one service would have to be compromised to get access to all your accounts.
It's probably not just the chip, Intel provides financial incentives for manufacturers who build products around their chips.
It's also things like Invitation Homes. They buy hundreds of thousands of houses and charge really high rents (even in areas where it makes you scratch your head how they can charge that much), they also have a guaranteed 5-6% rent increase each year you stay. So renting from them is never a long term possibility, you will always eventually hit a point where the rents just too high and will be forced to move.
and still have some I/O operation block your entire GUI/OS :D
Thanks for this. I wasn't aware the marine ecosystem is so sensitive to changes.
I hate responding to anecdata with anecdata, but my experience is that Real Names was a HUGE DEAL in a very small and specific sector of the internet (some of which has clear overlap with HN), and an absolute non-story in the rest of the world. I worked at G at that time also, and while I agree that Real Names was a dumb decision, at the time I did not see any direct impact on interest or engagement from my friends because of it, aside from the small pocket who we truly incensed. While the incensed group was extremely loud, they were also a tiny, tiny minority, and I don't think we should mistake their volume level as an indicator of quantity.
If you speak French, the authors already gave the presentation at SSTIC 2019.

Their material is online.

Paper: https://www.sstic.org/media/SSTIC2019/SSTIC-actes/hsm/SSTIC2...

Video: https://static.sstic.org/videos2019/1080p/SSTIC_2019-06-05_P...
But surely without the original data, it's impossible to judge the accuracy of the report. How can one address the claims of the article without any idea whether its conclusions are justified? People have a justified skepticism when it comes to online reporting: it is not unusual for media outlets to take a skewed, partial, or plain incorrect view of a piece of research.
"Our rental agreement states a mandatory 10% increase if you rent from year to year"

Why even sign that agreement? That landlord obviously isn't going to give a toss if there's a issue. Its just a huge red flag for me.
Most people have the same thoughts (at least in the income class that can afford to move around), until they have children and need a good school district.
I would assume the first bank advised against it, and the other banks passed on it, is because they need to think not only about whether you can be expected to repay the loan, but also about how easy it is going to be to offload the property if you can't afford the loan and they need to foreclose.

Yes, YOU might be perfectly happy in a 1,900 square foot home, but if the market demand is for houses significantly larger, then you, or the bank, might find it (relatively) hard to find a buyer if you ever need to sell.
Primarily to support nine_k down below, wtf are you smoking. I've yet to see a wheelchair user climb stairs.
As for the remainder of your comment, I'll leave that low hanging fruit to dangle.
Nobody has "ditched emails for Slack," and if they have that's a company I wouldn't want to work for. You still need a way to have more permanent personal documentation besides a wiki and the ability to send things more securely compare to slack.
Young People Are Growing Weird Bumps on Their Skulls, Evidence Shows
You can flip this argument around for the person buying the house, though, so it doesn't really work. What if the house didn't sell for $1m less? Then those new buyers just lost an extra $1m that they otherwise could have invested elsewhere in the economy. Or conversely, when the house sells for $1m less, you're freeing them up from that additional burden and they can put their next $1m into investments besides the house.
> You appear to be one of those who worship at the altar of inviolable individual self-determination.

Actually, the opposite is true. My ideal place to live is a commune without personal property, and I love being in such temporary environments in places like music festivals (local copies of burning man).

But I draw a very sharp distinction between society and state, and want to minimize the state's reach. All these ideals of sharing and charity should only be implemented through personal free choice, and never - through organization which has monopoly on violence.

For me, it's the basic security principle of separation between minimal operating system kernel and a fat application that manages all of it's features. The smaller the kernel, the less code there is to have vulnerabilities in, the less chance there is of compromise.

The less power the state has, and the more functions it gives away to society, the less chance there is that the state can be corrupted.
I believe there are a few projects where satellites are actually providing this functionality directly from space.
Every electronics device has the risk of catching fire given the right circumstances. It just takes one cable or switch being damaged causing it to overheat and set something flammable ablaze.
Even your wall socket or wiring in the wall is not exempt. Screw in one clamping screw to loose and the amps running through it will heat the small contact area it makes to melting point.
Computers screens or TV's? Even worse, all the dust they collect through their cooling vents are an accident waiting to happen (happened to me with a crt screen in standby mode).
Right, so they had better data (though I think that includes free accounts), yet they chose to use something misleading in the intro to the article.
This is true of old John Deere equipment too. The point is manufacturers (like John Deere, or Apple) are trying to make this kind of repair impossible.

I'm not advocating for people breaking emission laws. I'm saying you don't prevent that by revoking the right to repair.
Having a Rome 64 processor doesn't sound very promising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome
Is it not possible to write a 100% safe TCP/IP stack in Rust? Why is there a need for 76 lines of unsafe code?
Google locked you out of advertising and that's Apple's fault? I'm not sure you've really got a good grasp of the situation.
I use USB overdrive to bind the swipe up motion to one of the extra buttons on my mouse. I'm using a basic wireless ergonomic mouse. I have a magic trackpad but I absolutely hate it compared to a mouse.
I'd imagine it going something like this:

"Hello, I have information that would likely be useful as evidence for the antitrust lawsuit against Google."

"Thanks, but I think we have it covered" -or- "Thanks, let me take a note so we both feel good about this interaction and never actually follow up on this."
Maybe this comment was about UK banks which I can't speak to, but we have banks in the US (Ally as one that I'm familiar with and use, but there are many more) that offer high-interest savings accounts at above 2% interest.
That's a helpful comment. Nevertheless

bq. commitment to not breaking backward compatibility

Backward compatibility with what? People's brains? We're talking about markup language and rendering right, which is not an API consumed by machines.

bq. it's hardly the case that they hired a bunch of inept engineers.

So why is the new "Visual Mode" WYSIWYG text entry mode so terrible? And why that absurd "link" icon in the top right of the text entry widget?
Have updated my comment to be more clear.
Am I the only one who has always seen renting as a temporary arrangement only? If you don't own something, somewhere, doesn't that mean the same as being homeless? Not trying to offend anyone. Genuinely wondering, are there people who really don't want to own real estate ever in their lives?
As a counter-point, I lived in AirBnBs for over two years in places ranging from Morocco to France to Bulgaria, and had an almost universally positive experience.
Google Earth WebAssembly
The number of immigrants admitted to Canada per year is very stable and only slowing rising. On average it has been between 200-300 thousand per year for at least the past 20 years. This is not the driving force of lack of housing, and is a driving force of a stronger economy with the introduction of skilled labour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/443063/number-of-immigra...
You can buy a 64 core dual socket EPYC workstation today for ~$15000. I wonder how much cheaper it'll be 2 years from now.
In general, the framework for Rust unsafe code is that you're allowed to relax certain invariants in unsafe blocks (e.g. create additional mutable pointers to something already referenced), but you're still required to restore them when the block ends. If you have two mutable references to the same thing at the end of an unsafe block, you'll won't get an issue in the unsafe code, but it's still the unsafe code that's wrong by definition. This means that all you should have to do is inspect each unsafe block and ensure that the invariants hold at the end of it. (This of course assumes no bugs in the Rust compiler with regards to safety, but if you include compiler bugs, then even 100% safe code with no unsafe blocks could potentially have an issue)
i ran a cluster of 6 nodes in 2001 with (before PXE) network book and NFS root. it was awesome.
What about as an indicator of impact?
Those two coal plants are only being run sporadically now, which probably means that they're being run as "peaking" plants, which is a very expensive mode of operation. A year or so ago TVA closed our local coal plant after replacing it with a natural gas one, and while they were at it they also built a one megawatt solar plant nearby. Which is all well and good, but that solar plant, even under ideal conditions, can only produce 1/1000th of the power that the natural gas plant can!

And just a couple of months ago TVA opened a 53-megawatt solar plant in my area, and they are promising that it will produce enough power to run thousands of homes plus some industrial-scale stuff. I haven't yet been able to find output stats for the two newest installations which I've already mentioned, but I have been monitoring a third local solar installation of basically identical design. And even under "ideal" conditions it's only producing 60% of its promised one megawatt output, and on average only a small fraction of it. (I don't know if it's always been that way or if the situation has deteriorated in the five years it's been in operation.) If TVA keeps building out solar plants which on average only produce a small fraction of their promised output, then before long they're going to be in trouble.

This is a general problem with wind and solar; they only produce a fraction (on average) of their "nameplate" (full capacity under ideal conditions) output, yet "nameplate" is what gets quoted in press releases and such. But actual average capacity may be only 25% of that (to use a ballpark number), meaning that you have to divide the quoted capacity by four to get a far more realistic capacity. Meaning that the 1/1000th number that I quoted above is probably actually more like 1/4000th!
And then this person you like and respect starts a political rant, and you just wish they'd keep talking about the thing you are actually interested in... til eventually you unfollow him or her.
>Publish the actual paper or this is just vaporware nonsense.

Even without the data it's not non-sense. It's a pretty rational hypothesis. Being rational definitely doesn't make something right, but it's about as far away from non-sense as you can get.
That entire series on Google is really weird. They claim to have a 78qbits computer, that would be the one this group is working on.

That should put them well on the quantum supremacy area, and make a great computer for chemistry and semiconductor research. Yet, the article is claiming the group is still trying to get quantum supremacy, and there is no sign of results from the computer.

I imagine they have a computer that doesn't really work.
Or if the insider slowly siphoned off tiny amounts from lots of accounts over a long period of time. That sort of thing would probably be very hard to catch.

I am not likely to notice one day if I have 4.96551 ETH and the next 4.96530 ETH
They announced AirPower before it was ready and had to publicly cancel it.
I'm not sure if you live in Toronto or Vancouver or elsewhere, but I have noticed a lot of comments like yours are from Bay area residents. It's a valid comment for the Bay area, but not in Canada where the nature of the situation is quite different. In Vancouver the construction industry has been going more or less full throttle for the past decade or more, and the city is being continuously rezoned for higher density. Supply is still short but it's not for lack of construction.
icache, TLB entries, and even L1 are much more limited than main memory, especially on embedded devices. By linking everything into a single object, iOS can save on wasted padding and use superpages to map the shared library into each process in a TLB-efficient way.
> Most people didn't hear about it.

Lots of people did. But then they couldn't get an account.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2010-05-20%202...
Are you assuming that Airbnb and demand for housing is somehow spread 'across all of Canada'? Are you also assuming that the new 31K homes (if you manage to build them) won't also just become Airbnb fodder?
It's not about the words. If you are taking information about the Tiananmen incident and cross-posting to Chinese websites that's a no-no. If you are just going on Facebook to catch up with your friends from your college studies, or an investor reading about new tech in the US, or just bored and reading about goofy pirates on Wikipedia, or accessing academic papers on Google, or a manufacturer using a banned IM service to negotiate deals with your customers, they won't give a crap. It is the intent that matters, not your actions.

Hell, you can translate all the awesome startups on TechCrunch into Chinese and distribute it internally, that's also okay, just leave out anything about the HK protests and you'll be fine.
School today is an archaic design. Education has no bounds with the internet and the spread of information where it is no longer asymmetric. School and universities are falling out of favor. What matters is what skills you have over what degree. The internet and the corpus of knowledge equalizes this. This assumes connectivity is a given – I believe connectivity will be tablestakes in a variety of situations and incentives by those that can provide it.

Additionally again, education outside of pure learning like we're limited today on the internet will be more immersive with VR/AR and your need to go to a physical location will differ.
Also theres the "That place was so expensive back then, but now I realize I should have bought 2 of them"
People rarely discuss the positive impact of AirBnB: boosting the number of tourists. I wonder how much additional tourism spend and tax revenue the city is getting from the influx of tourists. Hotels aren't closing down; AirBnB's just make traveling easier.
I guess what I was trying to say is that it makes it so easy to write down types, even really complex ones, that it kind of gives a safety net that lets us be more creative in coming up with types than we might otherwise feel comfortable with. So we end up with really complex, 10-line types representing a single function's parameter list.
Well, there is the important connection between how Apple was able to get Google to implement a ban on advertising. That was glossed over. I don't think it's impossible, but it's not such an easy leap as to not need any explanation.
The first thing I do when I read a news article that includes any company or organization saying that they are 'serious about security' is go to their website and check their job listings. Sometimes they have openings for security-related positions, but what is actually telling is their software openings. They NEVER so much as mention a single thing about security or knowing how to create secure applications. I've literally not seen a single exception, personally. Most companies do seem to have reached a level of 'caring about security' but it amounts to hiring some people to play Patch Patrol and nothing more. I guess that's better than nothing, but it won't actually help much.
When I rented the company sent a letter every year asking us to agree to a 8-12% hike. Every year we ignored the letter until they called and we talked them down to either keeping the rent the same or raising it only a couple of percent. It's one of the headaches of renting, but it makes a huge difference over time.

A fixed mortgage is much less painful.
Facebook is not dead. It may be evil. But to hear someone who liked Google+ call Facebook dead is kinda funny.
I'm left unsure what your point is.

Saying that you have to look at social mobility as a relative thing is certainly false, because we have an optimal yardstick: perfect fairness. If measured against that goal we don't do very well.

Then you go into what the relative numbers are, and it turns out we don't do very well there either, being behind China, Hungary, South Africa and perhaps a dozen others on your preferred yardstick.

You then note that there are at least one or two more cases of this happening (which I believe), and that it requires capitalism with a social safety net to do so. In current application the first part is right, but isn't broadly correct, and the second part just isn't true.

Regarding the first part: for such a huge change in life circumstances to happen you have to have both the extreme poverty and extreme wealth. Capitalism is very good at generating those huge disparities, and is by far the most common system with that characteristic today, but monarchies like Saudi Arabia also experience it (extreme individual changes in SES in Saudi Arabia are most downward, however). The presence of a social safety net doesn't seem to play much of a role in these extreme cases, and certainly didn't in this case. Examples of self-made millionaires going back to early colonial history abound, and certainly there was no strong safety net in place. Given the relative infrequency of such events, I would be skeptical of any attempt to compare between two historical periods or societies based on relative count between those societies or periods as well.

After all that the only thing I can think you were trying to say is that the US is doing a-ok, which just isn't supported by the points you made.
One of the big advantages is that you do not need to install file systems on your storage for single purpose servers, which allows your application to run on top of the raw block devices. Databases and similar run much better in this configuration (assuming they support raw block devices), especially if you are running on top of a hypervisor.