skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, that's not something you escape when you're driving at all. You still have to deal with rude drivers, people that cut you off, honk, road rage etc.

And I don't think in my entire college life of taking public transit to and from school did I ever really encounter anyone or anything that made my day worse. In fact it was the opposite, since one of the things that still stands out in my mind is the day a complete stranger decided to give out roses to men and women aboard the bus I was riding, myself included.

It was such a small thing, but something that really stuck with me.
Pollution was described as the immediate problem in Ulaanbaatar. It then says:

"Despite the toxic air, Ulaanbaatar is still a draw for many. Life in the countryside is harder. To understand why Mongolians are moving away from rural areas to urban centers, let’s hit the road."

That is, the population increase in Ulaanbaatar helped drive the pollution problem, but why did so many people move to Ulaanbaatar in the first place?

That's where the discussion of climate change comes up, with quotes like:

"Mongolia is a drier, warmer place than it was in her childhood."

"Climate change is degrading the pastureland further — through drought especially."

"Mongolia weathered consecutive dzuds from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2009 to 2010, all against the backdrop of a drought linked to climate change."
Yup. A company reached out to me after a few years where I'd left their recruitment process because someone else made an offer (and they were being quite slow in their responses). I'd had multiple interviews, a coding project, and apparently they had been "ready to fly me out where, had I done well, I'd have had an offer at the end of that day".

So I indulged them. I spoke to a manager who said that he'd reviewed my coding project, and been happy with it ("so we can skip that"), so we talked (largely about K8s, as I am looking for an SRE management role - I'd told them I was happy where I was but was curious, and after all they'd reached out to me).

I talked about my experiences architecting K8s from a green field mostly by myself, and he was excited.

I spoke to someone else and he was excited. Okay, I thought, this has potential.

Email from HR: "We have a tech screen lined up for you. Please nominate some languages." I went with Python. Bear in mind I haven't written substantial code in _any_ language (except YAML, hah), for years. And was looking for a _management_ role in SRE.

So I had two rapid fire coding exercises (15 mins each ostensibly). Python lists and comprehensions, and some tokenization stuff. I struggled. Google was my friend but there was a good bit of "error message programming". I walked through the processes and my thoughts. I hesitated a bit at what Big O notation some of my code was, but I recognized routes to loop optimization and could see what was happening, even if I didn't know what the name was.

"Sorry, we are unable to continue following your tech screen".

Oh well. If your SRE PMs and group managers are required to write Python list comprehensions, maybe your idea of "manager" and mine... differ.
Alfred is amazing. I just buy every new version even if I don’t use any of the new features to give money to the dev.
Isn’t iOS basically a flavor of macOS that runs without swap ?
Yeah, it's really rare that the company where you work for more than 5 years gives you a $50K+ raise, if you get 5k or 10K you are already at the top.
But you are invaluable, because of all the stuff you've learned and can do.. leaving will mean bigger costs
Are you familiar with a planogram? Walmart the physical location is a platform, with paid placement for premium locations on a shelf. Same goes for virtually all national retailers.

Hell, Frito even has their own employees stock the shelves, which is why the chip aisle tends to look immaculate compared to the rest of the store.
When speculators hold onto domain names without using them, their right to exclude imposes a cost on the other member of society who wishes to use the property productively. So like progressive property taxes in general, a domain tax should be high enough not only to pay for the direct cost of services, but also to discourage idle speculators and encourage owners to use the domain productively.
I live in SF, and I am not homeless but still struggle to find somewhere to use the restroom without buying something I don't really want or need in a restaurant/bar/whatever. More than once, I have purchased something or just tipped someone merely because I needed to use the restroom. I frequently struggle to find somewhere to throw things away. I have walked several blocks (probably close to half a mile) carrying my dogs poop simply because there is nowhere to discard it.

I am not surprised that the streets are full of trash and human excrement. I have a place to go home to, and frequently hold it until I get there. I have a lot of empathy for those who live on the streets; I don't think anyone really wants to shit where they live, it's a matter of necessity. Where would you relieve yourself in SF if you didn't have a home or money to needlessly pay someone to use their restrooms?
First HTTP/3 with Curl
Japan's FTC investigating Apple over pressure on parts makers
I had this, myself. I had a similarly named domain in the early 2000s. I think, technically, I was there first, and I had my name registered as a combo of a gaming tag + "tech" in the domain name. If I had more resources, maybe I could have secured the name, but they jad had a full company, and I wad just exploring amd didnt have anything commercial in the works.

I decided to just let it go and let my domain expire. I didnt approach the company to try and sell it, just let it expire. I wasn't squatting, amd I intended to use it, but the purpose didn't materialize, so I let it go. I never had any communication from the similarly named company; I dont even know if theyre still around. I just didnt renew when my time expired.
I have to doubt that TechCrunch understands gaming when they post about a game without including a single screenshot.
>promote alt-right ideologies

Why are invoking alt-right? One of the two shooters was radically left, and he posted his threats on Twitter.
And reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol it seems that the skull and crossbones is now enticing to kids because pirates! Gah.

Also, the biohazard symbol was designed to be memorable but meaningless so people could be educated.
When you say SQL format do you mean being able to read the output of a jdbc or odbc driver?
If this is the case then mostly just time. You are not the first person to ask about this and now that there are java bindings in cudf this might become easier to make a reality in the next few months.

Or do you mean being able to read a database's file format natively?
If this is the case there are many reasons.
1. There are many poorly/non documented formats
2. Even if you decide to read some other DB's format natively, those formats change over time
3. Little control of how and where the data is laid out
Being basic as a virtue
All content is designed to influence you. Just the brand association should be evil enough.

Subconsciously, you are being told whatever feeling you have about the content to associate with this brand or idea.
Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
Indeed, it seems like the biohazard sign could be interpreted as a symbol for the sun with a naked man running from it.

Maybe the primitive people back then were getting cooked to death from standing under the sun too long? Good thing we have clothes nowadays.
Makes sense as European cities were designed and built before the car. For us in the new world I'm afraid our foundations in suburbia have locked us in.
How recent? Did this happen back in the 4.x series or is it new to the 5.x series?
Scientists can now manipulate brain cells using smartphone
And eject a disk from the desktop.
Spectacle is great but abandoned. It hasn't been updated in years. Bug reports and PRs are piling up.

It looks like someone else is currently working on a Swift rewrite. https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
I haven't seen that option in the picture captchas, probably because it can now easily be defeated. So the question still stands.
This is sort of just kicking the problem down the road. Your idea actually might work for (presumably) low-volume use ssh, but what about the next important service? When does the work-around to a papered-over work-around to a virtual problem that is supposed to just be RAM-backed or handled at

ptr = malloc(42);
if(!ptr) exit_error();

end?
It's basically this generation's Second Life, but targeted at kids...seemingly without strict rules on user created content.
Unexpected ‘Germline’ Plant Cells May Shield New Generations
I don't know about Australia but in the United States nuclear is cheaper than fossil based energy by >30% : https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_04.html

And as far as I know, conservatives are pro-competition and not against nuclear at all in the States.
In the paper by Glen Weyl linked above, the property tax should be set at about 1/normal turnover rate (e.g. 1/30 years = 3.3% per year), owners should declare their own assessed value for which they pay the tax (e.g. on the $1500 asking price in the article, the tax could be about $50/year assuming a 3.3% tax rate), and then if someone else wishes to buy the property they can purchase at the same self-assessed value.
A cover isn't going to fix the inherent shittiness of Apple's keyboard.
Really? Seems obvious to me that its the opposite.

The US can always find other countries that manufacture things for cheap. China can't find other customers. The domestic demand isn't remotely high enough to propel their mercantilist economy, ironically due to the fact that the currency manipulation of the yuan has suppressed the wealth of Chinese citizens by devaluing their savings.

The idea that Americans are too weak and whiny to tolerate inconveniences can be refuted by every natural disaster here. People band together, and grin and bear it. Just like every other nation.

How a nation where most of the older generation have only 1 child to support them will fare with an economic crash is uncertain, because the one-child policy was an experiment that's never been attempted before. I think it certainly boosted wealth, but I suspect it created a society that is less resilient.
Cloudflare cuts ties with 8chan after El Paso shootings
Depends on the environment and the people. I'd often take the long way through campus: pleasant architecture and landscaping, light filtered through tall buildings and trees, chance encounters with classmates and professors, lots of porous buildings with stuff going on.

The walking parts of my Bay Area transit commute, on the other hand, were urine vapor mingled with pot smoke, harsh direct sunlight bouncing off concrete, dozens of homeless people in varying levels of distress, shitty decaying $1.5 million houses, random commercial and industrial facilities with no windows or public access, lifeless expanses of "open space." A $22 parking fee is well worth it to avoid being a pedestrian anywhere near Civic Center Station.
I've thought about this before and respect the open-mindedness. How do you justify words purely meant to harm others and not express ideas, like the n-word?
like Google Search using human raters to verify their updated algorithms improve results
They still have the only good touchpad on a laptop. I wonder what kind of patent or engineering magic prevents every other vendor from emulating it.
Assuming you have that skill after years of having a computer drive you around.
Seeds a folk horror tale w AI ALGORITHMS, pagans vs. Church for a woman's soul
You’re talking about housing developments where the owner of the land requires builders to build certain numbers of houses. That’s because they are in the process of developing it already and want it to be appealing to home buyers.

Prior to that the land was owned, probably for a long period of time, before the area was deemed worthy of development.

Do you really think there are just empty tracks of land waiting for the first buyer... that are held by whom???

No... someone took a risk and bought the land speculating that eventually the land would be wanted by someone to develop something on it. Same as purchasing a domain, paying the yearly fees... and hoping eventually some one will want to develop on it.

And if it’s beach front property... the equivalent of a nice domain name... it’s gonna go for a lot more.

Again, there’s no public trust or anything to hold property just in case someone wants to develop on it, because who decides who gets to use it?

Instead there are private investors taking a risk to carry the property, possibly for a loss.

> Nobody. Nobody says that. What people say is that the first person with an intention of building something on it should get it, and not just the richest person with that name. Squatters prevent anyone using the domain until someone with a lot of money to spend shows up.

That’s some utopia!! Who decides if what you’re building is valid or useful? What if I just display “hello” on the page? How about relevant ads related to the domain? What if I want to display my favorite music... what if my son just wants to post pictures of his LEGO’s? Who defines the line?? You’re gonna say “hello” or “ads” doesn’t count but pictures of Legos do? Why? You or some cabal get to dictate what speech is relevant? Your method of handing domains to the first person with “intention” quickly falls into abuse, corruption, censorship, etc.

I’d rather have a free market, thanks.
Yeah, another brilliant Apple "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist. WTF?

They did the same thing to the Eject key: They put a hardware DELAY on it, so you couldn't remap it to be a real Delete key.

How can Apple work so hard to screw up a KEYBOARD? Incredible.
It's extremely different!

In a free market, no one truly knows how the market will respond to some signal (like the purchase of bonds). Although an unrestrained manipulator (The Fed) can get pretty close to setting the price of all bonds by buying huge quantities of certain bonds -- The Fed doesn't know with certainty how that will affect the price of the currency (USD). And they don't really care that much, to be honest. They don't measure inflation with respect to a basket of currencies. They measure inflation with respect only to the USD.

When China literally sets the price of the RMB, there's no question what will happen to the price of the RMB. It is whatever China says it is.

There's a huge difference between manipulating the price of your currency and your bonds. And it's because there's a huge difference between what bonds and currenies are, and how they're used.
In India it is common to set your profile pic as flowers and little girls for women, supercars and superbikes for men.
99pi had a great episode on this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
> .. and USB-C on the other.

In my Satechi dongle, that other USB-C port is for charging only, not true USB. Sigh.
Assuming it has that skill.
Newer TVs are starting to support Dynamic refresh rate, ostensibly for gaming modes.

I wonder if this tech becomes mainstream, it will eventually start to be used for normal content.
Picking a Programming Language for Investment Pro
Better for interviewing related jobs.
I witnessed MySQL bringing linux servers down two.

In my case it happens like this:

I have a long running PHP process that constantly fires away mostly SELECT but also a bunch of INSERT and UPDATE statements and also some DELETEs.

Since the DB and the key files do not fit into memory, its all disk bound work.

All tables are MyISAM.

Like clockwork, this stalls the virtual machine once per day.

All I can do is to hard power down the VM and restart it. Afterwards the table data is corrupted beyond repair.

Not sure it is related to memory though. Because the memory usage of PHP and MySQL seem to be constant. Most RAM seems to be used by Linux for caches.
Those goals must be hilariously inadequate then: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/
Indeed, this is why UAVs preceded unmanned cars. See the DARPA Grand Challenge.
I've (nicely) reported interviewers like this to the recruiter. If other feedback comes back good, they might look back on the interviewer's past feedback, and they might request a follow-up interview.

> I continuously refused all their recruiters since then.

Even the almighty Google has people who don't know what they're talking about. Unless they're all like that, I'd write it off as a fluke. It's an embarrassing fluke for the interviewer--this is their problem, they should know it forwards and backwards and all the common solutions. If you get a lot of interviewers like that, then you should run.
Yes, this was the original license. My bad.
While it might be rational from a owner’s standpoint, their buildings usually have a public part (e.g. because it is directly accessible from the street) and my gut feeling is, that you should own up to it.

I know that many like their brutalist concrete surfaces clean, but ultimately your building stands in the public with public roads connecting to it and a public walking by and you have at least some moral responsibility to also serve that public if it doesn’t kill you.

If you wan’t to avoid people peeing everywhere, lobby for public toiletts. Real estate owners are typically really good at that kind of lobbying, typically it is always for thwir own good and never for the public good.
Relatively small but very rapidly growing (like the smallsat market in general). A decade ago there were a dozen or so cubesats launched per year. Now there's a few hundred, and that number is projected to continue to grow [1].

Personally I do think that the small launcher market is a bit of a VC-subsidized bubble— I suspect that a lot of the companies in the space are going to fold over the next few years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat#/media/File:Nanosatell...
You can configure your kernel for that, but you can't configure most software written for linux not to make absurd allocations.

It's also hard to get a good idea of how much memory a program is really using, which makes setting reasonable limits for things tricky.

The best you can do is to have a small swap space, and alert when it gets to 50% and fix whatever. But then you have the problem of filesystem pages evicting anonymous pages to swap which ruins the utility of the swap usage as a gauge and/or drives you to configure way more swap than is reasonable. Although, maybe a bigger swap space and alerts on swap i/o rate might be ok, other than it's awful painful to have swap space of even 0.5x ram if you have 1TB of ram.
Writing Your First Browser Extension Tutorial
Edging? It's been the case for Europe for a few decades all along. You can live perfectly fine in Berlin without a car. You'll never need it. U-Bahn, S-Bahn, DB work perfectly. Lots of bike lanes everywhere.
I don't mind the high frame rate so much as the obvious artifacts.

I can't help myself and I end up hunting for artifacts to be annoyed by more than enjoying the show.

Every TV that uses motion interpolation is the same, it's horrible.
In the extremely unlikely event that there's room to hold your phone in front of your face, and you have a free hand (usually it's one on the overhead rail, one holding your bag).

It has happened for me, but only if I board at the beginning of the line or commute several hours off peak.
Improving .NET Core Installation in Visual Studio and on Windows
A lot of talk about unicorns (Asia AI News)
There is no additional function afforded by making the laptop thinner through the implementation of a defective keyboard and reduced battery volume.

Nice strawman, but portability has long since been achieved.

You say you prioritize usability but then defend an idiotic and regressive design that impedes usability so disgracefully that even Apple has had to admit failure.

The trackpads are another failure, being way too big and thus suffering from spurious contacts from the heels of your hands. Why didn't Apple at least make the giant trackpads useful by having the Pencil work on them?
It's not hard to learn how to drive. Otherwise not ~everybody would be able to do it.

I don't think that self driving cars will replace all cars immediately. That makes little sense from CAPEX perspective, cars are fine for 5, 10, maybe 15 years. You'll not replace an okay car for the latest self driving vehicle, dumping the previous car to the junkyard. Rollout may take decades. And we still don't know when are they coming to the market, that may also take a very long time.
Mate, you want to see the poor suffer...then immediately ban all use of fossil fuels. THAT will cause suffering of levels unseen in modern times.
Lock Picking as a Service?

I can imagine someone cracking these locks en masse, then setting up a website to sell the fruits of their labour. A local thief could log into a website, provide a street address and pay a fee, and the lock will be remotely unlocked.
Similarly, there are many annoying Linux bugs:

`pthread_create` can sometimes return back a garbage thread value or crash your program entirely without any way to catch it or detect it [1]. High speed threadding is hard enough as it is, without the kernel acting non-deterministically.

Un-killable processes after copy failure (D or S state) [2]. If the kernel is completely unable to recover from this failure, is it really best to make the process hang forever, where your only available option is to restart the machine? I ran into this with a copy onto a network drive with a spotty connection, that actual file itself really didn't matter - but there was no way to tell the kernel this.

Out Of Memory (OOM) "randomly" kills off processes without warning [3]. There doesn't appear to be a way to mark something as low-priority or high-priority and if you have a few things running, it's just "random" what you end up losing. From a software writing stand-point this is frustrating to say the least and makes recovery very difficult - who restarts who and how do you tell why the other process is down?

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/3/pthread_create

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/539920/cant-kill-a-sleeping-...

[3] https://serverfault.com/questions/84766/how-to-know-the-caus...
Not sure it works the way you're thinking. Obviously they keep a record of everyone that interviews, but I seriously doubt they look at that list before deciding to email you. There is no list of candidates to remove yourself from, as every recruiter will just troll github/linkedin/facebook/twitter and email you.
You don't need a third party library for marble testing
How did they do that? No port free? Do you know about https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/_tools/VSTK/Form01Beschwerd... ?
Small planes flown by amateurs are extremely unsafe compared to most kinds of transportation.
One reason I won't be moving to Seattle. I worked for AWS in the Bay Area, and while I didn't go to a competitor, I didn't have that in my contract, either.
It's more because it was written in java, and would be more work to not support linux than to support it. (Granted, it wouldn't be java if they hadn't bought it that way.)
None of the people replying to this post ever took an European public transport.
Trust me, it is not pleasant or comfortable, bumper-to-bumper is still better than jumping up and down in an overcrowded oven full of stinkies.