skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering about crowdfunding and putting the land into a national land bank.
Contraception.
Magit, Git Porcelain Inside Emacs
Tabletop simulator is great for this. One time purchase and you can run pretty much any board game for free.
FreeDesktop.org solution (being deployed on several GNOME distributions today): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/low-memory-monitor

Used in combination with compressed swap (ZRAM), it greatly alleviates this problem on the (at least GNOME-based) Linux Desktop.

Still, browser really need to do something about the memory problems they're causing. They're Windows 95-level bad at managing their high memory/leak cases - just leave a browser with more than a few dozen tabs open over night. Especially with a tab that does background fetches (e.g. Facebook or Twitter or something with a lot of timer-driven Ajax queries).

I assert that if it weren't for browsers, there'd be no memory problems on modern desktops.
This seems like good use of AI that can auto respond with smart anti-hate speech blurbs. I am sure, someone would counter this by AI for hate speech. Ultimately these forums would be just dominated by different AIs fighting out each other so we can all go back to doing something useful.
I've been in Houston this year and it shocked me how difficult is to move there without a car.

I was saved by Uber and Lyft many times just because both my hotel and the office were really far away from public transport.
China holds only 5% of US federal government debt, down from a peak of 11%. If they stop buying it won't cause interest rates to skyrocket. The impact would be a few basis points at most.
Freedom of speech is really important but every person has a moral responsibility to use this right responsible. it is a bit akin to: the right to bare arms doesn't give you the right to shoot anyone you like.

So you should be able to criticize the king/ president but does it mean you should say anything that pops in to your mind? Defending racist and other hate speech with the first amendment is a banalisation of the first amendment.
1976 in the UK was fiercely hot for months. I've been told that there was smoke in every direction from our house due to wildfire.
why don't all countries let their currencies float?
This and a dozen very closely related and tangential things concerning safety, sanitation, hygiene & propriety of people using public transportation is the reason people like me would never opt for it. Unless standards in those aspects of public transit were raised to such a high degree that they were no longer a threat or annoyance, a car would be exponentially more preferable.

I think people on HN seem to underestimate how small of a cross section, the fashionable opinions on HN appeal to and how unrealistic they are, once you bring into full view the jarring realities of modern life and how people cope with them.
Thank you, I thought I was taking crazy pills until I encountered your sane comment in this maelstrom of illogic.
Many systems (embedded and phones) don't have a proper root console, and people still run daemons which can leak memory as root.
That is a very good question. At some point the board disclosed the maternity benefits rate, I'll see if I can find it. But my guess would be on the "it's fine" side, this is the only one of the dozens of scandals I remember that involved a discriminated pregnant woman.
Also, when you run low on memory, iptables can crash on you:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200651

Poof, no more networking
They banned the game and then you say:

> It's not a parent's job to keep kids away from all hazards
Kind of funny, since some people claim The Intercept has an anti-Obama and pro-Trump bias.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/90qn1h/ecuador_wi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/90qn1h/ecuador_wi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/90qn1h/ecuador_wi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/90qn1h/ecuador_wi...

Even HN sometimes compares The Intercept to Infowars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582751
I think it is better to not think of ; (or lack of ;) as an "active" return: it isn't like the `return` keyword.

If the last statement/expression in a block is an expression not followed by ;, the block evaluates to that expression. Otherwise (such as, the last expression has a ;), the block evaluates to ().

The function "return" behaviour is because function bodies are blocks: a function returns the value of its block (or any `return`).
Read the source code of the OOM killer, the way that it computes the badness score favours userland processes, but root processes must also be considered because it’s possible they misbehave too
> This is the first time we had a failure on the vehicle’s parachute system.

Doesn't this mean that neither Matternet nor the Swiss Post tested the failure modes of this drone enough?
If it never happened before, they didn't test it enough to get any estimate for a MTBF for this particular part.

But this is to be expected from the Swiss Post, they do sloppy work and blame others, just read their dementi:

>As such, we have asked Matternet to implement various urgent measures:

>[...]The shrill whistle, which alerts people near the drone when it is making an emergency landing, will be made louder.

The whistle couldn't be heard in that accident...
Sound like somebody didn't test a single emergency landing in that forest and asked the numerous strollers whether they have heard anything
Take off, landing and cruising are easy to automate. IMHO, the single purpose of a pilot is to handle failures. The experience (for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447) shows that it is difficult to react correctly when inputs are unreliable and that many crash are avoided thanks to smart (and creative) pilots (see Hudson landing).
US sad they can't set Fed rates like the People's Republic of China without incurring interest. Federalize the Federal reserve and we would be capable of doing similar.
Isn't bedrock version just the one with no mods and in app purchases?
Mob power come mostly from two sources. First, the one you point out, people/companies yielding and affirming the efficacy of their method. Second from other public figure joining in the pressure.

The reason the mob has power is in the end that they do not get criticized by those they respect.
As someone who unashamedly frequents 4chan it saddens me to see this sort of view. I'm neither for or against 8chan's banning but I think there's a lot of misunderstanding of the *chan cultures.

The problem with most of the internet is that there are so many psychological incentives to repress unpopular opinions and to fit in with the hive mind. Reddit is the pinnacle of that where your opinion is literally shown or hidden based on its popularity. Now this is good for lazy content consumption since most of the time the popular content is what you want to see. But it's also very dangerous. Very very dangerous. Not only because it discourages changes in thinking but also because malicious entities can literally manipulate what you're thinking.

So yes, I may not always like what I read on 4chan. It may act as a platform for mentally ill people. But a lot of greatness also comes from it too. I mean it's no coincidence that a disproportionate amount of internet memes originate there. But a lot of thoughtful discourse also occurs there, often inciting interesting arguments where elsewhere on the internet it'd be buried by downvotes or deleted by moderators.
You want your browser to be fast. Browsers are often the only thing running. You have a bunch of ram. Unused ram is pointless. Disks are large and fast and are used for swap. It's not clear why you're suprised, what the problem is, or why anyone would put any effort into optimising a browser for memory usage. The number of people who have tens or hundreds of tabs open in the real world isn't as large as it is on HN and other tech sites, and for many people who do just keeping the url around so the site can be reloaded is probably good enough.
It sure does, Edinburgh also no plans to make life easier and sustainable for families who actually live here. Train services are unreliable, ever increasing property prices in the city itself and even the satelite towns are getting more expensive. Commuting into Edinburgh is a nightmare and likely to get worse.
How do not disturb day can improve your productivity?
I've seen some promising research from olivine rocks for carbon capture: https://projectvesta.org/. I can't vouch for the science behind it because I'm not knowledgeable in this but it sounds a good idea.
What you speak of is one way of administering a society, but it certainly isn't anything close to free speech.
Is it easier, though? Both hydrogen and carbon cycles react atmospheric oxygen with some other element, creating a low-energy molecule that is released into the environment. To be sustainable, the feedstock atom must be segregated from that same waste low-energy molecule, an inherently energy-intensive procedure. This energy must be sustainably sourced by either nuclear or energy ultimately from the sun. Separating hydrogen from water requires electricity, a very low-entropy form of energy. Creating combustible carbon from atmospheric CO2 is as simple as planting something that grows fast - it will use sunlight directly. And that's not even getting in to how much more tractable carbon is to work with than hydrogen.

Really, it doesn't matter whether we burn hydrogen or carbon. How much carbon is in flux is irrelevant. The main thing - the only thing - is to stop digging it up. The cycle must be closed. After that, it's safe to let the market decide the most efficient energy cycles.
You can walk in SF, I also did it, but the difference is that you don't really see much of the city if you do, compared to Berlin, London, or Tokyo. In those cities you can go from pretty much anywhere in the city to anywhere in less than an hour with public transport and on foot. Less than half an hour if you restrict yourself to the touristy center area. That is just not possible in SF.
I don't know what other people do, but I think the better option would be to set vm.swappiness to 0. Swap space is a good safety valve. You should never really have to use it, so a good way to detect that something is going really wrong and take action before it brings the system is down is by looking at when swap is busy filling up.

Also if someone opens up an application that grabs huge chunks of RAM but leave a lot of it idle, and turn swap off completely, they should not be surprised. I don't know why people see this as a bug, but perhaps I've just been spending time in the UNIX family tree for too many decades.
The Magic of Creativity
1 GiB of virtual memory, I assume. IOW, not the same thing as 1/32 of your 32 GiB of RAM, for example.
I am not, I am arguing that the rhetoric "if we do not restrain their freedom bad things will happen" is dangerous and with dangerous precedents.
Every currency has onshore and offshore rates. For example, you can buy dollars or Eurodollars, which is simple US currency kept offshore.

Eurodollars have different exchange rates because they don't have the reserve requirements from the Fed. i.e: it's less regulated.

The RMB has a heavier regulation whereby the exchange rate isn't allowed to fluctuate. This does increase the difference in value for the onshore and offshore currencies.

But having that distinction does not by itself make it a currency manipulator.
Sigh...never mind. Classic Internet argument, with neither of us willing to concede an inch.

I apologize for wasting your time.
Again, you're missing the key here. Process. And current paper process includes audibility, security, and more.

Done correctly, it is insanely difficult to swap out an election box. Where would you do it?

At the polling station, where members from ALL political parties are present? Volunteers are present too. All together watch the voting process, following through to opening the ballot box, and performing the initial count.

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=faq&do...

How, then, are election boxes to be secretly swapped?

On top of this, all ballots are serialized. Each voting station has multiple voting boxes. Voting boxes are sealed. How are you going to compromise them?

What I find astonishing, is how intensely some people seem to want to use computing for everything. Paper ballots, and the process used to employ them, are incredibly secure. Incredibly.

Its a problem that absolutely, positively does not need to be solved. At all.

Yet people are consistently working very diligently to do so, and the only real reason for that is one. Profit.

And we don't need that motive in an election counting process.
Yup, totally agree. One thing I have found is that many of these devices use the venerable and cheap ESP8266 chip which is extraordinarily easy to hack. It can't really be factory flashed so the programming pins are almost always padded out on the PCB. So I get WeMo or cheap knock offs for example, and reflash 'em with my own code so it basically is only on my wifi network.
Just laying down what happened:

Central Government amended Article 367 of the Constitution to add new interpretations, by which the Presidential order to abrogate Article 370 and 35A becomes valid.

Basically, the Central Government brought in an amendment, asked the Governor of the State (appointed by the Central Government), who then recommended the President for the same and he just signed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_370_of_the_Constitutio...

> The presidential order also added new "interpretations" to the Article 367 of the Constitution. By the new interpretation, the phrase "[Governor of the State] acting on the advice of the Council of Ministers of the State for the time being in office" is to be understood simply as the Governor of the State. All references to the State Government shall mean the Governor. The reference to the "Constituent Assembly" has also been amended to mean the "Legislative Assembly of the State"

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/double-strike-president...

> To article 367, there shall be added the following clause, namely:—

“(4) For the purposes of this Constitution as it applies in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir—

(a) references to this Constitution or to the provisions thereof shall be construed as references to the Constitution or the provisions thereof as applied in relation to the said State;

(b) references to the person for the time being recognized by the President on the recommendation of the Legislative Assembly of the State as the Sadar-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir, acting on the advice of the Council of Ministers of the State for the time being in office, shall be construed as references to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir;

(c) references to the Government of the said State shall be construed as including references to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir acting on the advice of his Council of Ministers; and

(d) in proviso to clause (3) of article 370 of this Constitution, the expression “Constituent Assembly of the State referred to in clause (2)” shall read “Legislative Assembly of the State”.”
I think the GP's point is that talking on phone can be done without disturbing anybody else when you're in your own car
It is a real problem. People think downvoting will make the problem disappear.

Link 1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...

Link 2:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58e127cb1b10e31ed45b2...
Interesting idea and I completely agree. I have delved into my ed tech projects and reached more or less the same conclusion - content is a bottleneck. Now I don't know if your overall critique is correct but I think the major thing we can agree on is this: we need high-quality source material that is preferably free. I think the solution is something similar to wikibooks (which I personally think is a failed project at this point) but it needs to solve the incentive problem...to encourage people to contribute similar to how people contribute to wikipedia. Writing an article is easy for a few people to do....but an entire book or curriculum for an entire course...now that's a different story. I do think there is a solution to it which is mainly just a hybrid approach of paying people to write the high-level draft and then allowing a community of people to edit and revise it. If that doesn't work then we simply need a funding mechanism to write open source books.

Once we have these open source books then it becomes significantly easier to build additional tools on top of that source material - exams, practice questions, lecture videos, study notes etc.

Most of the ed tech players I see are simply developing tools that are trying to fit into a broken system. Simply put - the current system needs to be scrapped and replaced with something better, built with the internet in mind and built to be a major disruptor of GLOBAL education.

I am currently working on a side project trying to bring it to MVP stage. This is the idea I have in mind: Let's build a new platform that rebuilds education for the 21st century - start with writing open source textbooks. At the beginning, they don't need to be perfect, they can be revised as the platform grows. Then build a bunch of innovative self-study type tools using the latest in technology to make learning efficient, easy and fun. In terms of monetization - simple advertising and premium services (tutoring, live streamed classes with teachers etc.) and of course a simple credentialing system with the possibly to have proctored exams to add validity. Long-term vision would be this: a type 1 civilization university - all major subjects would have a course with a free textbook and an amazing set of tools to self-study it (or affordable options to get tutoring/view live streamed lectures with real teachers). Add in localization tools to translate all of these courses into the top 20+ languages. Each course would have a rigorousness protected exam for students to get a employment worthy credential. Eliminate all admission requirements and allow everyone to attend for free.
> If they are reducing competition, they are hurting consumers.

Not if they are reducing competition by virtue of causing less-competitive businesses to lose market share. I feel like there's some cart-before-horse going on in your perspective on this. Competition is wonderful. Competition is amazing. Competition is good for consumers because competitive businesses drive less competitive businesses out of business. Amazon is a perfect example of everything we want to see, panning out in just the way we want. Amazon has materially raised the bar of customer satisfaction, and if Amazon's competition wants to stay in business, they will have to do even better. I look forward to seeing what they come up with!
Spotify's Premium User Growth
Precisely. The powers that be are apparently intent on forcing mass immigration to high income countries, creating a need for new infrastructure and housing, but somehow apparently all that concrete is magically carbon neutral because diversity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TL;DR: Your chances were best if you were female. Much better than class or other attributes.
Non culpable incompetence - ie what hr put down when they sack you for not doing your job
> New York is one of the wealthiest cities in the country but has the lowest rate of car ownership.

I think that's part causation too. Cars are expensive things to own and operate with most of that money disappearing from the local community. The money that would have been spent on cars still goes somewhere and I'm betting most of it goes locally.
I absolutely hate this argument. In Europe, you take the train and there is literal farm land in between stations. While there are lots of small towns and villages close together in a way that you don't necessarily see in North America, the average density is considerably less than Los Angeles, for example. There is no good reason LA couldn't be crisscrossed by trains instead of by freeways.
Generalized Average
In our small town Nitra/Slovakia/EU, there is one very motivated and intelligent inventor, who created a Car (that can actually drive on public roads)... Also the car can transform into plane... and fly 700km.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYb68qXpD0

Actually now, He struggler's after investors took all the IP and removed the him self from the company. Very interesting story! Part of there sorry is "He" crash-landed the plane and survived! That's something you can't test on real person :) in fact very interesting story about a person who dedicated his life to a vision of flying car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroMobil_s.r.o._AeroMobil

https://www.aeromobil.com/
No one chooses anything since their is no free will and people are biological automatons.
Yep, I hosted a minecraft server for a few years and most of it was just hanging out and talking to people, often with it open on a second monitor while doing other things
I happen to like a challenge, and I can say through experience that picking any modern reasonably priced lock is not something you learn in a week. Besides, the vast majority of burglars do not pick locks - they pry open doors or windows, and if they cannot they either find a different house or break a window.
Reasoning with these people is like reasoning with flat earthers. You present all evidence and they will still flat out deny that Earth is a sphere. They are not driven by reasoning but their internal beliefs that they have already locked in as infallaible. They have already heard all the reasons you just laboriously articulated and put together. You are not giving them any new information. You are just wasting your time. Their goal of listening to you at all is to probe any possibility to convert you in to their little tribe and they happen to have all the time in the world, often being jobless.
and in the actual case the baker refused to write a message on the cake. he was fine with the clients and with the cake.

He only objected to a custom message defying his belief. There are good arguments on both sides. (my stance is sort of about scale as in if he had enough employees to delegate or he was the only cake-maker there)
It's not that crazy, there is zram: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
If day to day fluctuations of just 5% or whatever get your stomach churning then you probably shouldn't be trading futures.
People aren’t rational. And many will.