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I only ditched the Solaris train for FreeBSD when all hope was gone after Schwartz’s reign came to an end. Solaris got so many things right architecturally that are damn hard to shoehorn in after the fact. Until today, I don’t know if any other *nix has sorted out ABI compatibility across architectures, which allowed running applications cross-compiled for another target to run against the memory-resident kernel without virtualization (only instruction emulation when needed). In practice, it meant that you could run “universal” x86 binaries against both the x86 and x86_64 kernels, even calling into drivers (!!), with guaranteed compatibility. The last I had checked, FreeBSD had made it a goal to unify all numeric values of IOCTLs across architectures, but I don’t believe they are there yet.
Because that's the radicalized ideology that pops up most often on 4chan. If you know of a board with a contingent of alt-left/identity-politics I would be interested to know. As you said yourself, the case of the second shooter seems to be related to Twitter, not the chans.
That’s a fine translation, better than “only 54.68 yards away from a group of playing kindergarten children.”
Never been to SF (or US for that matter) so genuinely interested if this is a factor - from all the biographies I’ve read and looking from the sidelines it seems to me - novel people + capital + entrepreneurship + technical expertise (post apollo) + boredom are the key sauce for those kinds of things.

And thats not about what SV is today. I was lead to believe the so named HBO show portrays it quite accurately. I was thinking more what it was in the 70s.

Though to be honest living in the mediterranean I vastly prefer the walkable nature oriented laid back kind of places myself. Way more fun (and healthy) to live in. I was just wondering if that boredom thing was a factor
I am fairly certain that any software that lets you remap that key should also let you kill the delay.
Doesn’t China have the right to do whatever they want with their currency, as a sovereign country?
I don’t understand the economics of Brex. I used to work for a large, analytics-savvy credit card company, and people would freak out if the percentage of customers going bad (not paying their debt) exceeded something like 3-5%. Given that VC-funded startups fail at a rate of 11/12, isn’t Brex effectively throwing money down a massive black hole, assuming they’re extending credit? And this is at the top of credit cycle, probably within a few years of a recession, where a higher than normal percentage of good debt will go bad too.
As someone in their early 20s who dabbles on Roblox with some frequency, this completely contradicts my own experience. Granted I only play games that show up in the popular games section on the homepage. I don't go out of my way to find the weird stuff. I suppose it is similar to the Elsagate stuff kids were getting into on Youtube, kids have a remarkable talent to go down rabbit holes you didn't know existed and find the disturbing content. Roblox also has a really bad problem with child/teen dating, so much so that they now have an in game report option specifically for dating behavior.

I imagine it is extremely difficult for the Roblox staff to moderate the disturbing content as they have their hands full around the clock. From people creating thousands of bot accounts to boost their games, security problems revolving around people getting their games/assets/money stolen, people constantly finding new ways to cheat in game, to the issues that you described. I'd also think that the people who engage in the behavior that you described are seasoned in what they do, knowing how to avoid the watchful eye of moderation and parents alike.
Solar everywhere is a great start. Massive promotion of electric vehicles, combined with carbon taxes pegged to temperature. Contraceptive use promotion to reduce unwanted births.
Most of the busing programs actually require that the person have someone to stay with on the other end of the trip. That isn't to say there isn't some abuse, but generally speaking busing actually helps get people off the street.

Only 46% of homeless people are in urban areas, and in LA at least more than 75% of the homeless population have lived there for at least five years, with 57% having lived in the area for at least 20 years. Homeless people don't change cities nearly as often as people try to claim.

The biggest factor in homeless populations is housing costs. There have been multiple studies which show that when rent increases so does the homeless population. The magic number is 32%- when housing costs reach 32% of a typical households income then that neighborhood will see a dramatic rise in homelessness. That number has been reached in a huge number of neighborhoods.
What are you referring to regarding pthread_create()? Last time I checked I thought that it would return an undefined thread* only when giving a nonzero return code, which while certainly isn't handled in a lot of multi-threaded applications could be checked before anything else is done with the newly created thread.
It is interesting how Android that typically has less memory than desktop systems solves such problems. It kills inactive applications and background browser pages. The program that can save its state is more complicated, but it works better with limited amount of memory. Today there are many applications written using languages like HTML or JS, or garbage-collected languages and unless you can unload them from memory, there will never be enough of it.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Crop yields are up 40% since 1988, population growth has slowed, there's more energy technology than ever before, and the sea level is rising at a mere 3mm a year.

The basic needs for life are food, shelter, and water. For modern life, energy is required. But we have virtually unlimited energy vis-a-vis nuclear technology (if we have the will to use it). Solar tech has gotten only cheaper and cheaper and battery tech has gotten only more efficient. There is absolutely no reason to believe that there will be less than the current population in 10, 20, or even 50 years. Period.
How much internet speed can you expect in developing nations at the end of 2020?
I don't think it's that people's natural conservatism when it comes to technology has changed, but rather our inclination to indulge (and enforce) such conservatism on nation wide levels. If merry-go-rounds, swings, and climbing polls were not already staples of childhood play, would we allow them today? I mean a child can get quite high in a swing and fall out. He can even die. Indeed looking at the numbers just between 1990 and 2000 some 147 children < 14 years old died on playgrounds in the US alone. [1] About 45 of those deaths were on public playgrounds. Injures requiring emergency room visits are exponentially more common with the majority occurring at schools.

I think the answer is a resounding no, we would not even consider allowing playgrounds today. And that's quite pitiful.

Taleb wrote an interesting article on how the most intolerant within a society eventually come to determine its fate, nearly regardless of their size. [2] It may be only a few percent of society that would not allow playgrounds, but so long as these people complain loud enough - they will win. Because their aversion to any sort of risk whatsoever is unlikely to be countered by a group that happen to be equally fervent 'playground enthusiast.' And so the path of least resistance is to simply ban playgrounds. Hahah, hopefully this post doesn't give somebody the idea to go start an attention seeking social media campaign to ban playgrounds. It might very well succeed!

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Playground-Inj...

[2] - https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Came here to say this.

UPI is quite revolutionary. Launched in 2016 [0], UPI handles 882.3 million transactions with ~USD 21 billion in transaction value [1], as of July, 2019.

UPI is designed to be a payment utility by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). NPCI is not a governmental organisation but is formed by a collective of 56 Indian Banks including 10 core banks [2].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
[1] - https://www.medianama.com/2019/08/223-upi-transactions-grew-...
[2] - https://www.npci.org.in/about-us-background
Who could have guessed that falling out of the sky would be the main issue with things carrying things through the sky?
Depends on what products you want doesn't it? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I've noticed an increasing tendency to not be able to find some products online outside of Amazon, or there is a significant price difference.
Show HN: HTMLie is a command line HTML Parser
Steve Scalise's assassination was attempted by a radical anti-Trumper, Antifa has cracked open skills and sent people to the hospital. We have strong evidence that anti-Trump Facebook groups and subreddits cause real-world violence.
This reminded me of "Canticles for Leibowitz", a book centered on a group of monks living in the American southwest, whose objective in life is the preservation of "pre-deluge" (the book was published in 1959) knowledge, to the extent that any survived. Super interesting with some fun implicit parallels to "legacy code" ;)

In one scene, a character is ruminating on what the mysterious "Fallout" might be, that their ancestors were trying so desperately to take shelter from. He pictured it as a towering monster, that prowled around hunting for people to eat.

It's a fun thought to imagine what people will think of these warning signs in 5000 years, assuming there are still people left!
It should not be forgotten who initiated the tariff wars! It was Trump’s administration.
> people find time on public transit more pleasant, and are willing to do more of it.

My knowledge of "popular" underground (London) or metro (Paris) lines makes that very unlikely, they're hot, way overcrowded, and odd-smelling when they don't outright stink.

Very useful and convenient, and can be pleasant outside of peak hours, but back when I worked in Paris despite not being a morning person I switched my work hours to take the metro way off-peak (between 6 and 7) so I could commute with some fresh air and have more than "no room whatsoever".

On the most populated lines, the trains are packed line sardine cans, and I don't know now but 20 years back there was no AC let alone AC which could handle a car packed to the brim in high summer.

Just to be clear: I didn't regret not having a car one bit, and given my commute was directly through Paris (from one near suburb to an other on the opposite side of the city) I don't think commuting by car would have been more pleasant. Couldn't have commuted reading books for starters, that's an advantage of a somewhat lengthy train commute (bus is less comfortable for reading especially if you tend to get car sickness, and obviously you can't read in your car though I guess audiobooks might be an option these days).
Point 3 is wrong. OOM killing is not random. Each process is given a score according to its memory usage, and the highest score is chosen by the kernel. The way to mark priority in killing is to adjust this score through /proc. All of this is documented in `man 5 proc` from `/proc/[pid]/oom_adj` to `/proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj`.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
How many kids do you have? Any more than one and car becomes necessary in my experience.
> NPP is a joke. There's a limit of $1,000 for transfers. It doesn't always work if you don't use a PayID.

ANZ have a $5000 limit. It's down to the bank to enforce this.
Web Authentication in Firefox for Android 68
It's about the same if not less dangerous than riding a motorcycle.

https://inspire.eaa.org/2017/05/11/how-safe-is-it/
> someone showed me a 1960s plan that involved taking a corner off St John's.

That's to be expected if you get someone from Trinity to draw up the plan!

Cambridge is becoming an incredibly hostile place to get to and around in if you don't live in the city. Partly it's a function of the population growth, but it is pushing people like me to spend more in towns like Bury St Edmunds rather than deal with Cambridge.
Neurological biotech always grabs my attention. From what I put together from reading this article, a over simplified summary is that they managed to put a device into a mouse's brain that can reciprocate cartridges of a drug, which is then remotely administored. When it comes to this field this is the kind of thing I see in the near future panning out. I know there is a lot of advancement in the 'brain to computer interface' area of biotech, the sort of technology a Black Mirror episode may be based on, but in my incredibly ignorant opinion this is the sort of technology that'll come to fruition in the near future for this field. Rereading this post, maybe the two are incredibly unrelated, but I'll stand by my statement that this path is much more feasible than other recent news about the field. I'm interested to hear others thoughts
You are describing inflation caused by consumption (i.e. high demand driving up prices).

The inflation the OP was describing is the massive inflation caused by printing money.

The US bond is effectively an IOU representing US dollars the USA owes the bond holder.

For the USA to buy back those bonds they only have two choices:

1. Run an strong economy earning lots of US dollars (i.e. a trade surplus) and use that USD income to buy back those bonds.

2. Turn on the printing press and print lots of USD to buy back the bonds.

That later option would render the USD worthless and since most commodities are priced in USD that would also lead to hyper inflation.
It has no bearing on the manufacturing cost but it absolutely impacts the retail price.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/825012731
It exists, https://dev.to
I think the world changes enough in a few decades that we can assume it will adjust to the new landscape.
> 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.

Though that's not really true in practice. Com hasn't exploded under the amount of traffic it faces, and merging in the other zones would only be about twice the load.
I am saying both are violent, not that one's violence excuses the other or that they are perfect moral equivalents.
Pool and all the space in the world don't matter if you rarely use it or have friends/family over. When everyone is so distant, even if in the same city, getting together is harder. Being in a city with more places to meetup and more ways to get there just makes it more convenient and likely to have fun
And I cannot install more than 4 Gb (thanks to Intel for planned obsolence) and have to use several Electron-based programs (each takes not less than 500 Mb). When there is not enough memory, the system can freeze to the point that I cannot even move a mouse pointer.
> If you regularly need to move 250k sums electronically inside the Australian economy.

Paying sub-contractors, settling property transactions, the list goes on.

When buying a house, I remember having to withdraw $60k in cash from my savings bank account and walking over and depositing it in another because it would take the other bank 3 working days to clear a bank-cheque. Some banks do offer an over-night inter-bank mechanism, but surprisingly CommBank does not.
CMD + CTRL + Q

Lock screen
The Apollo Guidance Computer [slides]
> The sellers thereof will suffer and/or be replaced by car-free friendly businesses (restaurants, cafes, light-weight goods).

Not only those, the fans of bicycles and public transport also suffer when they have limited options for shopping at particular places that are only present in the outskirts. In Vienna, IKEA is now opening a store near this "Mariahilfer Straße" at Westbahnhof, where there's also a huge public garage and a huge shopping centre was built a few years ago - you could say that real shopping is moving where the cars can still go in the city centre, while the former shopping street is slowly turning into a tourist promenade with bars, clothes and souvenir stores.
Yes, and every other country has the right to respond to what China does as they see fit, which is exactly what the US is doing.
Exactly. I have hard time finding automated vacuum cleaner that doesnt connect to cloud, do you have some suggestion for vacuum cleaner that doesnt suffer on features?
What is the device that captures solar energy, but does not produce massive amounts of pollution while it is being produced?
What's the use of if __name__ == '__main__': in Python?
I think people tend to paint things in a strong dichotomy always (black and white). So it is either super car focused or pedestrians only. And if you want to reduce cars therefore you must be the proponent of a pedestrians-only solution.

In reality there are much more nuanced solutions. E.g. if you have a small street with people living in it and the majority of the streets traffic comes from cars taking a shortcut between two main roads, maybe closing that direct connection and creating a dead end is the better solution that boosts the atractivity of the whole street, while at the same time making it more friendly to pedestrians, locals, cyclists etc. Cars can still enter. They just have no reason to do so, except if they live there.

The only downside is the loss of a shortcut, which might have impacted traffic on the main roads negatively.

In traffic there are often situations were all involved sides win if you take something away or encourage certain uses while discouraging others. On other paradox occasions, everybody can lose, if you add more lanes to a street.

In case of Mariahilfer it might be still possible to deliver, but the attractivity as a pure transit street got reduced, simply by showing what the priority is. If this impacts other transit routes also in a positive way, I don’t see why Vienna should do more of this thing — especially if it is willing to win the title of “City most worth living in” also in the future.
10 Years SeL4: Still the Best, Still Getting Better
Sure, but all meaning and interpretation of life, all ideas on what is right, and so on, are subjective. There is nothing wrong with that, since it's not like objectivity actually exists on the other side of the scale. When it comes to moral questions, what is "objectively right" simply doesn't apply, and isn't needed.

If everybody simply stuck to treating others how they would want to be treated, we'd live in a much better world already, even if it wasn't "perfect", and even if there were disagreements, and it all still always subject to constant learning and reflection.

Our main problems don't stem from out confusion about what we think is right (and by "we" I mean each of us as the individuals that actually exist, not as a collective abstraction), but from wanting what we think is right for ourselves, while having double standards for others, and rationalizations for those.
Nuclear power for energy.

Forestation/harvesting for carbon capture.
If you can invest with a return of 3% above inflation, 200k/yr buys you 6k/yr/yr of income, so five years would buy you 30k/yr. I lived on roughly that when i was a graduate student.

In any case, i'm not suggesting you take a crappy job to get that money - my first point was that there are quite enjoyable jobs which will provide it!
Valid concern... Probably one shouldn't approach the situation with a 'improve discussion' hat on, but rather with a 'participating in critical discussion' hat. I mean just people actually reading articles, comments, thinking about them and answering would probably be a high advancement in culture.

I recently got an account at a more or less alt-right news website and the comments there were all just rants that stood for themselves.
Useful little tool!
Same here. Moved from Europe to SF. I missed taking walks and seeing plenty of things. Things are really quiet here.
Define “necessary”.

Of course I would agree it’s necessary in the U.S., but that’s saying very little.
I'm a fan of dev.to as well as a writer. But, it's totally focused on development related things.

The super power that I see on medium.com is that it allows any topic to be published user-wise or publication-wise.

Dev.to doesn't allow us to create our own publication and make a community for a business which medium.com allows.

I'm totally in love with "publications" on medium which allows us to grow a "brand name".

But, I think reading and writing should be free :)
Enzymes involved in photosynthesis break down with heat starting at around 20 degrees Celsius, and by 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) break down almost completely. Plants can use their stores of carbohydrates when photosynthesis is not possible. Given a long enough heat wave, plants will use up their stores of sugar and die, even if they have enough water available. Even if they do not die outright, the yield of crops will be reduced to a fraction of what it should be (autophagy when they should be growing).

Rice is very water intensive, and droughts are likely going to be a much bigger problem for rice crops before prolonged heat waves become normal.

https://sciencing.com/effect-temperature-rate-photosynthesis...
What Is ERP Implementation?
The problem I'm trying to point out here is that if the extra metadata in the page cache is entirely under user control (like for example "is mapped shared" and/or "is mapped executable") then it amounts to a user-specified QOS flag.

That might be OK on a single-user system but it doesn't fly on a multi-user one. That's why I suggested you could gate that kind of thing behind some kind of superuser control.
In a lot of places, even 100 person villages have a regular bus system. This isn't about density, it's about infrastructure.
Amos-17 Mission
I think the bottom line is this: Where do you want to spend your time?

Yes, you can use process and tools to make a low trust team “work”. This is in fact how most government works.

This isn’t horrible per say, it is just very ineffective. You will spend 2-3X the amount of time/money to produce the same result as a highly effective team. The multiple gets better with good process and tools, the multiplier gets worse if you have bad processes on top of having low trust.

If you want to change things, and don’t have support/the ear of leadership above you, then the alternative is to do what you can that is in your control. This is where great leadership shines (and leadership is much different than management, more on that another time).

A great leader doesn’t need formal lines of authority. They gain influence indirectly by “casting a vision” and enrolling others to pursue it. If you can do that, you can (over time) shift a culture. It is just very slow, and not straightforward to do.

The one bright spot is that in general, the more something is resistant to change, the more readily it will adopt/embrace it once changed. If you can shift the culture, they will never want to go back to how it was before.

But once again, you need to decide you WANT to do this, and in particular do it for this particular org. For most folks, that isn’t what they want to do, therefore they have to either learn to live with an ineffective organization, or move on.
So it's more or less 1 degree warmer than the 80s quite similar to the global average temperatures. What are you so smug about?
Finnish anecdote: I commute 35km by bike and train in 60 minutes (round trip). By car, I estimate it would take at least 90 minutes. Train service is reliable and runs 6-10 times per hour between 6am and midnight.
Well, people buy Teslas...