skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Driving in Tuscany can be a bit intimidating. I've done it, albeit before GPS, and in retrospect I'd probably not have driven. That said, you look at getting to and around smaller towns and it can get difficult and time-consuming to depend on busses.
Considering that every other American suburb has these same qualities of being boring, yet did not become Silicon Valley, I'd say this has very little impact on why Silicon Valley is what it is.
Yes — for instance last year in North Carolina's 9th congressional district.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_North_Carolina%27s_9th_co...

> On February 21, the board unanimously voted to call a new election because of fraud by Republican operatives.
I'm an American who began doing online gig work (for a different company, not Scale) while homeless. It allowed me to pay down debt and get back into housing under circumstances where a normal job was out of the question.

This worked in part because my income was portable, so I was able to take a train to a more affordable area to get a place within my limited budget. This ability to move at will and take my income with me was historically largely limited to the Jet Set and comfortably well-off retirees.

For many people, doing gig work is a tremendous opportunity with a very big upside. It can be a huge improvement in both their standard of living and quality of life.

Most people decrying such labor arrangements aren't doing anything whatsoever to offer a better alternative. Color me unimpressed.
Roughly 5 corporations effectively are nearly all forms of mass communication.
Communications is a huge one. Think satellite TV, telephone, and Internet services.

From the governmental side, another major application is Earth observation, both for science and for weather forecasting.
>that they drive people who disagree with them away.

/leftypol/ was more or less just active on 8ch as /pol/, you'd be hard pressed to find any groups more diametrically opposed than that. people also often fail to take into account that the userbase was at varying points self reported to be upwards of 60% lgbtq and presumptively far more neurodivergent than more mainstream platforms.
also worth noting that practically every mass shooter that has been newsworthy had an abundance of typical social media accounts, so the dangerous subset of fascists you're so worried about are already present on all the so-called moderate platforms.
so who is actually dissuaded by this course of action?
certainly someone motivated enough to plan and inflict mass-death upon a group of innocent people isn't gonna be kept away from extremist content simply because they have to take 15 minutes to set up tor browser.
>B - The real poor need cheap energy today, they die without it. It's not just a discussion point by the ultra rich on a Bulletin Board.

Fossil fuels need to stop being used altogether, and as quickly as possible. This means that it’s up to the wealthy nations who currently use the most CO2 per capita (https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/mb-ex...) to drastically reduce their share.

And guess what happens if the price of fossil fuels doesn’t match the ecological impact and their use is not drastically scaled down?

It’s precisely the poorest of the world who will suffer the greatest consequences of global warming.
Those were just examples. This issue can be reproduced using any process.
100% agree but every time anyone comments that vaping should be regulated, the wolves come out shouting at the top of their lungs how safe vaping is, and how much better vaping is than smoking, and saying that you're basically forcing people to keep smoking by doing anything to regulate vaping.
I've got no practical experience with 3D printing, but surely dremel + grinding/sanding bits = no more layer lines?
You understand that China is unlikely to just leave the cash sitting around, aren't you? That money will probably end up being dumped on Forex crashing the US dollar.
You are quoting garbage websites. This "Life site" page is literally nothing more than hot garbage that is about as good as the Enquirer as far as the validity of its reporting goes.

And the idea that trans and POC have "huge networks of support" has no correspondence with real life. You've ever met real trans people? Clearly not, otherwise you would know how their traumas come from intolerant families that disown them, find no support networks and turn to drugs and prostitution as a means of subsistence. The median life expectancy of a trans person is of 35 years, dying from conditions related to drug abuse, STDs, and psychological issues where abandonment is the primary cause of these.

So before copying a bullshit website that seems unhealthily obsessed with trans people, George Soros, and the signs of the antichrist, I dunno, go do some research and try to distinguish real journalism from garbage. This is not even worth our time debating.
If you regularly need to move 250k sums electronically inside the Australian economy, using this kind of mechanism, I'd love to know what you're doing. Only because I am nosy: I cannot conceive of transactions on this level which demand NPP class behaviour.
>working set size limit on a process which includes the buffer cache

You can control this with cgroups. Plug a process into a separate cgroup and set the `memory.limit_in_bytes` knob to whatever your heart desires.

I use it to limit the qBittorrent's memory usage on my machine. `firejail` is very convenient for doing this. If I don't set a limit (30% RAM in my case), it eats up all the memory with a uselessly large file cache, which does not improve upload speeds at all.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
It's a minigame-oriented Second Life for kids. With all the time I split between that and Minecraft growing up, Roblox's popularity doesn't surprise me.
20:1 or thereabouts as far as people who take an informational call to those who pass the loop and accept.
> I'm not sure how he's getting swap even with swap off

It's not data swap, it's executables. Linux knows it can reread the executable from disk if needed, so it uses those memory pages from other things, and reads them in when needed.
Unenforceable, not illegal. There’s a big difference.
I used to play Roblox when I was a teenager. The game has a scripting engine that players can use to program their own levels/events in Lua. The code editing/debugging was pretty tough to use when I was playing it, but it's one of the reasons I got into programming. I learned about programming, viruses, and hacking through Roblox. People write all kinds of amazing scripts on Roblox that you can download and put into your own levels.
How many such "new cities" are there really? Car culture wasn't a thing until the 1950s and I can't think of a single metropolitan city that was founded after that.
Pop up an error message (which will probably take memory to display)?

I don't know how common this is on the Linux/POSIX side, but in DOS and Windows it is usual practice to allocate some amount of memory at startup and use that for error-handling code, so that things like showing error messages will not cause any more allocations.
Sure but I interpreted the claim being made to be about hate existing anywhere. Reddit can do what they want, but we can argue whether it's good for society or not, even if it's clearly good for reddit.
On the other hand, software that manages traffic in the air automatically might be much more simple. No kids suddenly crossing the street, no traffic deviations due to construction, no obsolete system of signalling that can be manually overriden by any construction worker, etc.
The United States at the time of the drafting of the Constitution restricted the vote to white male property owners. Even after the constitution, some states restricted voting to white male property owners (about 6% of the population). Even in colonial times, enfranchised citizens were typically at least literate and often well-educated.

> Even as recently as 1945, the median American only had a 10th grade education.

Again, high school diplomas were more common among the enfranchised population.

> But there's no reasonable definition of the term, whereby you can honestly make a case that the America of 1789 was somehow more educated than the the America of 2019.

I would be completely unsurprised if voters in 1789 -- white male property owners -- were far more likely to have studied the enlightenment philosophers.
Senators demand Google lets contractors go after 6 months
If you have a touchbar - https://pock.dev is a huge improvement.

Cmd-tab for switching between apps quickly. Takes a few days to get really good with it.
From their perspective, they have hundreds of candidates and need to quickly filter a bunch out. So, having low-technical knowledge recruiters ask questions and look for a standard set of answers is the way they do it. There is no room for technical discussion during this phase, no room for nuance.

I'm not saying this is a good process or that it's fair, but it is the reality right now. You still get OK results and it's far faster and cheaper.
The U.N. now recognizes dzud as a slow-onset natural disaster
I've used nylon SLS for lab and commercial optical work. It's strong and you can tap it. It's much cleaner than dealing with resin prints. The quality is fine if you're making simple polygonal shapes and unless you need really fine detail it's enough. You can also do things easily with SLS which are really annoying to do with printer technologies that need removable supports, like cavities and overhangs.
Obvious things are not patentable in the first place, so it doesn't matter what the "with a X" refers to. That the patent office continues to patent things that are obvious to a normal practitioner is a serious problem. I think part of the problem is that the field of technology is so wide right now that most patent examiners aren't good at judging whether something is obvious or not -- so they don't generally attempt it. If it's novel, then it's not obvious, is what I think they are doing.

Having said all that "with a laser diode" is categorically different than "with a computer". In the latter case, you can do any general purpose computation you like. So if you have a machine driven by a computer, you should not be able to patent it if you would not ordinarily be able to patent the machine. In other words, the driving of the machine by a computer should not be patentable, IMHO. Of course it gets complicated as you add more and more machinery to the machine -- should "computer driving a car be patentable"? Probably it should as it is not just software, even though it requires software. I think it's tricky.

If a laser diode allows you to do things you wouldn't otherwise be able to do and that use of the diode is not obvious, then it probably should be patentable. However, generally if "machine with a laser" is not patentable, then "machine with a laser diode" should also not be patentable. There's got to be something special and non-obvious about the use of the laser diode.
>We already have a warrant system in place that is more than adequate for protecting privacy and excessive dragnet fishing expeditions.

Do you have a citation for that claim?

There are vast[1] systems in place that violate laws and norms, so much so the IETF has labeled pervasive monitoring as an "attack"[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
That is not completely true. 50% of the US population live in just 35 metropolitan areas (Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC; Detroit, MI; Houston, TX; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Boston, MA; San Bernardino, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Minneapolis, MN; Orange County, CA; San Diego, CA; Nassau, NY; St. Louis, IL; Baltimore, MD; Seattle, WA; Tampa, FL; Oakland, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Miami, FL; Cleveland, OH; Denver, CO; Newark, NJ; Portland, OR; Kansas City, MO; San Francisco, CA; Fort Worth, TX; San Jose, CA; Cincinnati, OH; Orlando, FL; Sacramento, CA; Fort Lauderdale, FL) that together have 173328 square miles. That is a density of
654 inhabitants per square mile or 253 inhabitants per square kilometer. Compare that with the 232 inhabitants per square kilometer in Germany, or the 118 inhabitants per square kilometer in France. And yes you can live without a car even in rural Germany (at least if you don't have kids).

The 20 densest metropolitan areas contain 25% of the US population and have 400 inhabitants per square kilometer, comparable to the 416 inhabitants per square kilometer averaged over the Netherlands.

The lack of public transport in the US is not a density problem. That is just the excuse because people don't want to change.

EDIT: Before anybody says "but the density in German cities is much higher": I lived for years in a German district with a density of 217 inhabitants per square kilometer, without needing a car.
Yea but what about 50 years? 100? 300? I don’t see a world where the US can maintain hegemony forever, it’s going to be multilateral.
So does that count for all the Brianna Wu's and Anita Sarkeesian's as well? All the outroar and backlash to the was called harassment and transphobia.
I'm not sure why that should have anything to do with it. Like anyone else I still feel the pain of losing thousands of dollars, and I still get the dopamine rush from seeing the numbers going up and turning green. The only difference is that I have more of it.
She can't keep getting away with this.
Cathay Pacific says it's monitoring passengers via onboard cameras
Doesn't the low clearance between the keyboard and the display cause an issue? I get key rub marks on my display, and I don't even have a cover.

(I do transit with my macbook in my backpack, which is a likely cause of the rub marks)
I think both these cases are fundamentally different -- the baker can refuse to bake a certain type of cake, on the grounds of religious expression clashing with the cake he is making. However, it's different if he refuses service on the grounds of the type of people he is making the cake for.
This is surprisingly hard to explain off the cuff. In DNS, zones are separated by dots, and a fully-qualified domain name ends in a dot. The zones exist because there are too many domains for just one server to handle and this way zones can be distributed and managed separately. DNS queries right to left, for “Google.com.” it would look at “.” and query the root servers asking if they know “Google.com.”, they could reply saying ask “.com.” at this IP. Then the .com. servers look up Google.com. and (eventually, there’s one more lookup for a Google server) return its IP address. Google.com. loads in your browser because an A record is returned by a Google name server. “ai.” is an A record returned by the name server for .ai, as registered in the root DNS servers. Similarly, Verisign could register an A record for .com. But they haven’t... um... Google for how DNS works for a more thorough and perhaps animated example.
He’s not getting swap. Or in a sense he is... you can still thrash.. the read only pages of the executable and any memory mapped files are still eligible to be paged out. When you get into a memory pressure situation you end up with a handful of executable pages of all the active programs getting faulted-in on every context switch.
The public has already accepted the risk of car crashes, but not the risk of drone crashes. "Safer than cars" assumes people have a purely mathematical approach to risk, but in fact people always err on the side of the status quo unless a new thing is way better.

This particular drone crashed near a school -- if it had hit a child, there would be demands to ban drone deliveries, and you just know that politicians never miss an opportunity to grandstand about public safety, particularly when children are involved.

It's better to back off for now, improve the drones, and try again later, because one or two bad accidents could end the entire project. We are more likely to end up with drone deliveries when the drone companies are sensitive to managing the public reaction.
FWIW, I use the Double Use Shift for parantheses. Tap left Shift for (, tap right Shift for ), and shift works as usual for normal typing and shortcuts. Karabiner is really an essential tool for me, especially this shortcut.
Freedom of speech ensures we can always debate the value of the rest of our rights. Without it, that amorphous 'tolerance' could remove the ability to speak against bad things.

Who defines hate speech? Mobs? Who gets to enforce the official definition of intolerant behavior? Trump? Hillary? (hyperbole to make a point) If we don't maintain freedom of speech above tolerance, then we cannot speak out when our words violate the accepted (and as you pointed out, transitory and unpredictable) definition of 'what is fine'.

Do you really want to just stop talking, without recourse, when a future mob decides your words are unacceptable?
Sorry, mispaste. The fourth link should have been https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missbraeuchliche-Nut...
I'm curious about the too-rough-to-wear bit. Would an extra (leather/plastic) layer below the glass be impossible?
Sometimes, locals decide to respond to the installation of hostile architecture by "killing it with kindness," such as covering anti homeless spikes with pillows and cushions. Here is one such article:

https://archive.attn.com/stories/14655/manchester-england-re...

I think most hostile architecture is basically an admission that "We don't actually have a solution to our social problems, so we are resorting to a beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves model as an outward expression of our incompetence."

That's my charitable take. My uncharitable take is that a lot of people in power don't care, have no heart and can't be arsed to pretend to care.
Individuals can see their own vote, and who they voted for, right?

If that's the case, it would be evidence that an individual voted for a specific candidate. This is, essentially, proof for anyone who'd want to purchase votes.

If they can't see who they voted for, they'd need some alternative way to verify that their vote counted for the candidate they wanted to vote for, without actually disclosing who that candidate is. Which would add some complexity to the solution.
> It's fine to create a pee-deflecting wall, but there better be a public bathroom nrearby

I’d say it’s perfectly fine for a private builder to arrange things such that people are discouraged from peeing on his building. There’s no moral requirement to provide public restrooms.
I don't support a feature like that yet, but it wouldn't be tricky to add. Filed https://github.com/mystor/git-revise/issues/10 to track adding it.
FWIW ROCm, which is what AMD has indicated they will be investing in moving forward, doesn't support OpenCL 2.0 either.
Throw a signal like it would do if the process were out of memory completely and about to be killed? (for clarification, no snark intended, actual question)
>It is a hidden benefit of the western system of IP that China et al. have not yet caught on to.

Oh China has caught on. When they see some new IP they want, they acquire it or steal it. Why bother with all those silly rules the West thinks are so important.
I've never liked the approach Linux kernel and userland take to memory exhaustion. Many people confidently asserts that it never happens. The somewhat better-informed suggest that it's unreasonable to write programs that recover from memory exhaustion because unwinding requires allocation --- a curious belief, because there are many existence proofs of the contrary. Then we get a feedback loop where everyone uses overcommit because everyone believes that programs can't recover from OOM, and people avoid writing OOM recovery code because they believe that everyone is using overcommit and allocation failure is unavoidable. And then they write kernel code and bring this attitude there.

Memory is just a resource. If you can recover from disk space exhaustion, you can recover from memory exhaustion. I think the current standard of memory discipline in the free software world is inadequate and disappointing.
Apparently WordPress.
This is all highly subjective yet you state it as fact. There’s nothing wrong with prioritizing portability in a laptop. I for one prioritize usability over almost anything else and Apple’s ethos fits pretty squarely with that, between the portability, the OS, and the trackpads. Sometimes form _is_ function.
it might be possible to create an LD_PRELOAD'd library that wraps open type syscalls (i.e. those that return an fd, might just be open, haven't kept up with all of linux syscalls) and that based on a config file calls fadvise on those fd's that correspond to specific files/paths on disk). Won't help for statically linked binaries or those that call syscalls directly without glibc's shims, but that should be a small number of programs.

heck, if I were still a phd student, I'd want to run performance numbers on this in many different scenarios and see how performance behaves. feel like there could be a paper here.
Ah yes sorry, American centric term. The US fed is the equivalent of e.g. ecb or pbc

The naming on pbc always confuses me because there's also a bc which is now spun off if you squint at it the right way
The costs of the status quo are already priced in when people think about risk. Drones are a new thing, and new things are always harder to accept than the status quo.

If you want to appeal to the general public you'll need to stop treating people like perfectly rational mathematical calculators and start treating them like people who are embedded in a cultural context where car accidents are accepted as part of life and drone accidents are not. Statistical arguments are not convincing.
Have you ever worked for government? I have. There are a myriad of ways to do those things.

Civil servants tend to occupy a public perception of a bunch of incompetent idiots or a malignant threat. The reality is that they just do their jobs, and they are on the whole pretty good at it.

If you want unmanageable, replace the professionals with political people. Have fun getting Senator so-and-so’s kid to stop drinking at his desk or having county chairman such-and-such’s spouse not screw up everything they touch.

The United States did the spoils system for 100 years, it sucked.
I'm assuming you are echoing my case for making sure they do their business in the open. Or did I misread you?

In our particular case there violence isn't of concern at all. It's just an older man getting pulled into a dark corner full of hateful messaging. This is having negative consequences as friends and some family don't want to be around that kind of negativity.

In other words, our older family member's case is more about FB effectively destroying his quality of life than him becoming a problem for someone else. It's really sad to watch.

With regards to your comment about it being harder to intercede in the case of complete strangers. Yes, absolutely agreed, it's nearly impossible with someone you've known your entire life I could not imagine what it might take to "reprogram" a complete stranger.

My assumption, when it comes to the case of random strangers, wasn't that someone would necessarily intercede to try and play amateur psychologist. What I would expect is for law enforcement to become involved, bring experts into the fold and deal with each case as necessary. I am not a psychologist, so I can't even being to presume to know how or if this could be done.

My other assumption is that the task is much easier when the conversations happen in the open. That said, I am not in law enforcement, I could be completely wrong, it might be the case that the various agencies can do a better job when these people think they are invisible. I don't know.
What are those? Simply curious
Scrolled down pretty far to catch this point being elevated.