skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true. He also said that suppression of intolerant ideology is unwise as long as public opinion counters it. 8chan isn't really the center of public opinion.

There were third parties that pointed their fingers to those losers on these boards and now some people lashed out. I don't want to blame anyone besides the murder, but that is the game that is being played.

Being opposed to nazisim wasn't exactly rocket science some years ago, so I don't really can get behind comments pointing to the need for education and that the lack of the latter is reason enough to curb speech.
I'm about 20km away from work. I sometimes ride in but the road to the city is super unsafe.
Yeah, back when I used to take the train to work (about 35m each way) I got so much more reading done than I do nowadays.
This, so much. I am not needed in cities and should do my part by never setting a foot there again. Just send me specs and I'll code them from home. I'll only leave once a week for groceries.
Last time I looked at this, the magic bullet was the official stance. When did the narrative change?
Here you go: https://www.flyingmachinearena.ethz.ch/wp-content/publicatio...
In the 80s there were plans to roll out fiber every with a 30 year plan under chancellor Schmidt, but with reunifiction plans got dismissed.

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/cocoon/barch/00/k/k1981k/kap1_1/k...
You are ignoring the number one problem. Population Density, dense areas need public transport less dense areas require custom transport. You argument here is against small towns and in favour or ultra dense cities. Public transport is just a mean to complain.
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-27ca231db82b604e391a3e...

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-627ee5187b673bfa6d413e...

From:
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-against-anti-homeles...
I'm looking at these pee deflecting solutions. It's pretty hilarious to design a void filling mechanism to simply use gravity to deflect the urine back onto the urinator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_urination_devices_in_Norw...
What's stopping the developers of Minecraft from just implementing what OptiFine does? I mean, if the FPS boosts are real...
> If you want to take anything secure, and make it unsecure, simply transform it from paper, and put it on a computer. Bam!

In what way, exactly, do you think paper voting is 'secure'? Do you think pieces of paper cannot be forged? Do you think it's difficult to swap out election boxes or to alter ballots?

> But, to pause and take a step back ... I'm not sure how you think adding a computer to the mix, improves auditing. The entire point of a voting system, is that your vote remains anonymous. Therefore, the device or method that records your vote? Must not ever ever be assigned to you. And this also includes any form of anonymization.

Sure, if you think about it for only about 1 second, the system you might come up with sucks. However, people have thought about it for more than 1 second on occasion, and come up with some pretty good designs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
I'm not denying any of these and am absolutely not saying metros are bad, I'm just pointing out that in my experience there's very little chance "public transit commutes" are considered "more pleasant" than car commutes. They're mostly a different kind of unpleasant.

Even the best metro systems in the world are going to be hell when full to the brim (e.g. Tokyo's attendant pushing people so they pack tighter and the doors can close).
Try the silicon covers, I find them to be even better than the plastic ones. The plastic tends to move around randomly on me and the silicon feels nicer.

$13 is expensive too, someone is making some cash... I'm in Vietnam, they are about $4-5 here (obviously, proximity to China certainly helps).
Right, I wasn't actually suggesting that water vapor emissions from hydrogen vehicles would be a climate issue - on the contrary, I was drawing the comparison to illustrate that greenhouse gas emissions aren't necessarily a problem, if part of a closed loop (or other stabilizing influences like you point out).
What a bunch of horse crap. Being told what to think,
what to buy, who to vote for, how to feel.

We don't do anything else this way.

When an airplane has a problem in midair, we don't let the passengers each have one equal vote on what ought to be done, regardless of how much they know about flying.

A doctor doesn't crowdsource ideas in the middle of surgery. She certainly could, and it might work, but only if the crowd consisted of qualified doctors.

I'm not advocating to anything other than "one person, one vote" democracy, but surely the success of such a government depends almost exclusively on the quality of minds found in the electorate -- and I'm sorry, but "quality of mind" correlates pretty strongly with education.

You may fancy yourself some sort of exceptional autodidact who needs no education. Perhaps you are right! This is not the case for the vast majority of humans. The vast majority of humans are (by definition) not of exceptional intelligence and drive.
Cause there's sizable opposition to government issued IDs.

IMO, it's bloody retarded that this feature is still non-present in the US, resulting in all the pseudo ids like driver's licenses and SSNs.
Pegasus can lift ~300 kg into SSO of that altitude (https://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/Pegasus/Documen...) and it costs over $50 million. But it is known for the unusual high price even among old style launchers.
Car ownership rates in cities have nothing to do with being rich enough to own a car. New York is one of the wealthiest cities in the country but has the lowest rate of car ownership.

> Viewed from a different perspective, a country where most people can spend 48 minutes a day commuting, because it’s rich enough for everyone to afford a car,[1] might be considered better than one where many people have to endure two-hour public transit commutes

You are misinterpreting the data, the 113 minute figure is for ALL public transit travel, not just commuting.

> That’s mainly because Europe has higher public transit use, and public transit is slow.

Where's your evidence for that claim? It seems plausible to me that these countries have a larger fraction of the population living in large metro areas, and big cities inevitably involve longer commutes whether you drive or take transit.

Public transit is not intrinsically slow. If your city has decent transit it is usually much, MUCH faster than driving in rush hour traffic. I live 10 minutes away from work by train; the corresponding drive would take 30 minutes during rush hour. If you want to get from the suburbs to downtown for work, it would take you only 30 minutes on the suburban rail whereas driving would take 90.

You're also missing one the main points of public transit, which is that it is compatible with density whereas auto culture is fundamentally not. In denser cities it is physically impossible for every person with a 9-5 job to be in a single occupancy car on the road at the same time. There is literally not enough space for that to happen. It's not about deciding, as a matter or public policy, whether you want everyone to be able to drive or not. You literally CANNOT, within the laws of physics, accomplish that feat.
Agreed.

For a week or so tourism SF, Manhattan, Seattle downtown, Boston. Cities I can think to not be very walkable are LA and DC perhaps.
Myfordboy is an excellent mechanic and engineer, and one of my favourite youtube channels.

VOG [1] runs another channel that does a lot of (artistic) metal casting with mostly 3D printed positives, called "lost PLA casting".

He uses casting plaster and built his own vacuum chamber and furnace to improve the quality of his casts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkEYj8wtK3aEW8vSGhlB43g
I recall my child years ago playing this game (maybe age 8?) and explaining how they communicated with words like 'socks' for 6, 'ate' for 8 etc. because numbers were banned to avoid kids giving out sensitive info like their age, address etc.
For in-person transations Twint seems to be the established service.
Hiphop has only grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can dance to a loop of James Brown or Kool and the Gang.
Last time I wanted to give it a try they wanted to install on the small system drive. :-(
You're right the memory allocator ultimately gets the memory it manages from the OS but as a programmer you're looking at it from the abstraction that its API provides and assuming any particular condition that would cause a NULL to be returned or bad_alloc to be thrown may or may not be correct.

The other point is that there's a distinction between kernele's view of OOM condition and some memory managers's OOM condition. Consider you run two processes, both allocate X gigs of memory and both succeed. However once you start running and committing the memory you'll get a kernel OOM condition and one process is killed. This is the overcomitting you mentioned.

Personally I don't see why people make such a big fuzz about dealing with memory allocation failures. Memory is just a resource same as any other OS resource, socket, mutex, pipe whatever. Normally in a well designed application you throw on these conditions and unwind your stack and ultimately report the error to the user or print it to the log and perhaps try again later. Just because it's "memory" should not make it special IMHO.
> it's banned for the effect that it casuses, the intention it has, and the attorcities it shows.

What rational person will see an ISIS video and go: "Hmm this looks good, guess I should join ISIS".
Even bare metal hardware has potential vulnerabilities, eg Spectre & Meltdown, micro-code bugs and management console back-channel attacks. Hypervisors have been shown to be vulnerable to certain advanced attacks. And there are no doubt, many zero-days that are yet to be discovered. Making an OS lighter by changing the implementation is likely to introduce unintended new vulnerabilities.

The OSes you mention have relatively small user base and thus their security models are relatively unproven. I note that all of the environments you mention use Linux for the userland and thus you will have apps that also have potential security risks.

Perhaps it would be better to re-frame your question in terms of the requirements that you intend to address. For example for highest level of security you could go with an OS like seL4 and rewrite everything to avoid Linux system vulnerabilities. Probably not practical. And the rewrite is not guaranteed to be bug free.

The most secure environments are carefully specified and architected for their intended application. The more general purpose an environment the greater the number of potential vulnerabilities. It has been said that the most secure computer system is powered-off, disconnected from all communications and located in a locked and sealed underground vault in a remote off-the-grid location.
Isn't this human nature? Most people should probably lead a much more healthier lifestyle. We are fully aware our bad habits are slowly killing us, yet most do nothing about it.
It is standard scientific process to discard models that fail to predict actual outcomes.
You're supposed to write correct code in Java as well. The reality is that it doesn't always happen. C doesn't claim to handle the issue at all, and doesn't verify it, which is at least a performance gain. Rust does verify it, but issues an error type that is not guaranteed to be recoverable at all.
Amazon can behave like that because they act as a store, by taking responsibility for the delivery and covering returns/refunds. It means that amazon incurs in Losses to be classified as such. To be honest, that is the genius of amazon. A store backed ebay.
Android is described further in this thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/5/1121
surreal to think a simple tasks can end up with individuals making over 2,000 USD on the side by phone farming.
Not crazy at all, very useful.

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

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zram

https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam

Or Armbian, a Debian derivative for many RaspberryPi-like
ARM boards, where it helps avoiding trashing the usual sd-cards, and holds the logs, with different compression algorithms for /var/log, /tmp and swap.

Their script is here:

https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/co...

I really like how this enables a tiny NanoPi Neo2 with one GB Ram booting from a 64GB SD-Card in an aluminum case with SATA-adapter and a 2,5" HDD mostly idling to draw only about 1W from the wall socket, while clocking up from about 400Mhz to 1,3Ghz if it needs to. It's not the fastest, but sufficient.
I think you're living in a make-believe world of homogeneity. There are vast differences between the quality of schooling - both public or private - even within global metropolises like NYC, London, Paris & Tokyo. Its downright laughable to assume otherwise.
I always used public transport (metro/train/bus) to go to work.
Two years ago I had to commute daily by car (just 20 minutes) and felt miserable. For me it was a total waste of time and energy.

Two months ago I switched jobs and started to go to work on my bycicle because the office is just 1 metro station away from home and I have bycicle way from home to work (which is very unusual in Madrid, by the way). This is probably the best job perk I ever had.
Would it be possible to just run 100 instances of an android emulator?
so what? surely it is their freedom to do with their currency as they please
XFS is still better than any version of that ext dreck!
Swiss banks are not leaders on anything now... They are just expensive. I pay 10 swiss francs per month to have an account and card there. And they still want 5 more so I can make more than 10 transactions a month (which I want since I started paying contactless in shops). And there aren't really any good alternatives, any bank is like that.
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20589870
Seems like the discussed article was published in October 2018:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-018-0256-3
Do roads have place in national parks? If so then cell towers also.

I mean if I see asphalt then it is quite reasonable to expect also cell service.

I was i national parks in Europe and I always got cell service. I might be lucky (considering the article and posts about Germany) but in US I was in one park (actually two, but I don't remember situation with mobiles in one) and I did get cell service even before the gates.

I don't expect to have cell service if the park doesn't have roads, just hiking tracks.
These are preventable risks. We have the technology where this would be a much less likely problem (hexacopters, octocopters, better string for the parachute etc), as many people in this very thread have pointed out.

Things Tyson pointed out (Medical errors, flu, suicide, car accidents, homicides) are preventable too, but he's making an unfair comparison.

We're already doing a lot to prevent deaths from the reasons he stated (better training, vaccination, suicide hotlines and more available mental healthcare, safer cars and better driver training, [many things]), but we're not doing nearly enough to prevent deaths that are caused by pure hatred towards those that are unlike them. Deaths from those reasons aren't going up by any significant amount while deaths by hate crimes are, which is one of the big reasons why people are taking problem with this, they want to prevent deaths of many innocent people before they happen.
When people care about what you do (for them)
> We're discussing anti-competitive behavior, and it seems this is a clear exhibition of that.

It's not anti-competitive behavior, it's just ordinary competitive behavior. Sometimes Amazon decides to compete with the sellers on its platform, and woe betide them when it happens because Amazon is an extremely competitive business.

Anti-competitive behavior is when you interfere in someone else's ability to compete with you. No amount of outcompeting competitors can make a business anti-competitive. It's almost a tautology.
That html code in lore.kernel.org is weird, I wonder how it's generated.
Additionally, you need "collective pitch" control, i.e. the ability to angle the rotor blades for windmilling and then for hover flight right before touchdown. Multicopters just have fixed-pitch rotors and rely on differential torque/thrust for attitude control and ascend.
Use rget to automatically and securely verify a download is legit
I assume such projects to be worthy. When I don't understand why though, I discovered this question to be very valuable to ask.

Clearly, when people invest so much time in one project, they have a good reason (for them). Even when they are emulating an apollo guidance computer in minecraft redstone.
I might be late to the party. However, I still want to warn you guys that by shutting down these sites, you are doing nothing more than hiding the filth under the rug. There is an adagio going on 4chan that shutting down /b/ would be similar to clogging a toilet: it WILL overflow somewhere else.
Congratulations, you have shut down yet another site. Do you think these people and their ideologies have disappeared? Nope, they are now gone into an even more remote corner of the internet to foster even more anger.
I would consider talking hands-free (if you're holding a phone you deserve to lose your license) no more distracting than listening to music.

There are worst things like eating or talking to someone else in the car. (look at the road not the person when you're talking)
Because these things are abused. Simply providing them doesn't solve the problem--we'll just have really disgusting facilities that few people, if anybody, uses.

I don't know how to solve the problem. But railing against the symptoms doesn't help. Filthy public spaces are worse than no public spaces, and no public spaces is precisely what we'll get if we try to address the symptoms without addressing the underlying causes. Parks disappear, buildings are built without public spaces entirely or with "public spaces" inside buildings where security patrol and which become inaccessible after hours, etc.
> The logical end to deplatforming is arguing that ISPs should be able to block or decline customers based on the content they are hosting.

Not at all. That's an obvious strawman.

You're mischaracterizing what's going on there. If I run a company, it is my right not to make business with radical hate groups and terrorists. They will be someone else's problem then.

That's exactly the reason that Cloudflare has given, not some nebulous talk about "deplatforming".

> which is to make the content no longer available on the internet

LOL. That is decidedly not the purpose of deplatforming, as the word "de-platforming" readily suggests.

> the FBI could already have had them pulled offline just like they do to ISIS websites

It is obvious to me as an outside observer that the FBI applies justice selectively. Domestic terrorism is underrated. Of course, 8chan could be raided and closed for the same reasons as ISIS websites are raided and closed. The laws are there and 8chan could easily be considered aiding and fostering domestic terrorism. The laws are just not applied in this case.

It's also kind of 'reasonable' not to apply them as harshly, since US judges and juries suffer from the same bias. They are unlikely to judge of some deranged gun nut that he was planning or aiding a terrorist attack. They are highly likely to judge of some deranged ISIS sympathizer that he was planning or aiding a terrorist attack. Police authorities make the call on what to pursue and what not to pursue based on the prospects of a successful trial.
I love how "rakastevagen" => "rakaste vägen" is Swedish for "the shortest path", but also sounds a bit Finnish to me, a non-Finnish speaker. Reminiscent of "rakastan", which a Swede would know from "minä rakastan sinua", or "I love you".
It doesn't get in that situation, because malloc() can return null on Solaris (i.e. it never¹ overcommits).

While in general I think this is vastly better than the somewhat insane Linux OOM killer, you can get in awkward situations where you can't start any processes (including a root shell) because you're out of memory.

I rather like the FreeBSD solution to this, which is to not overcommit, but after a certain number of allocation failures it kills the process using the most memory. This prevents situations where you can't start any processes.

There's no one-size-fits-all solution to handling low memory conditions, but the Linux solution manages to almost never do what you want which is kind of impressive in a way.

¹ I seem to recall hearing somewhere that you can allow allocations to overcommit on a per-application basis on later versions of Solaris, but don't quote me on this.
The most common cause here is something causing a situation where some queries hang or takes a long time to complete, while also locking access to something, while new queries keep coming in. This builds up quickly.

A good way to catch this would be to have something log the list of running queries every couple of seconds. Look at this log after the crash and you'll hopefully be able to identify which are the long running processes, and which are the regular queries that builds up.

To fix it would be a combination of making the queries that cause the locking to be less like that, also perhaps putting in a limit on how many queries can build up and also implement a way for the regular queries that build up to time out or fail quicker or more gracefully.
That just works with € transactions, and it's still not instant. But yeah every ebanking software offers SEPA transactions.
You banned some undefined terms. They mean whatever you want.

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

We should designate a copy of archive.org as critical infrastructure.
And there are rampant reports of election fraud. so your point?
Python Coding for Minecraft
Still does generally. Sometimes city administration is picky in granting these tickets, but my city is a special case when it comes to money anyway. In Munich for example the subway is usually crowded with children around 7:30.
This is an obvious idea, so I presume there's a reason why it wouldn't work, but what would happen if you had different rules for uid=0 pids and for everything else? If processes running as root were never eligible for oom-killing, and could force mallocs by triggering an oom-kill of user processes as necessary, wouldn't you always be able to recover a thrashing system from a root console? Or is it too hard to isolate console IO from the rest of the system in that situation?
In Germany, we also have paper based voting and yet, we do not have the issue that ballot boxes disappear. Everything and I mean literally everything is accounted for and if the numbers do not match up (e.g. less boxes of ballot boxes than before, or n(valid votes)+n(invalid votes)!=n(total votes) there is an immediate recount. No one leaves until shit is done, and if it gets too late everything is packed up, sealed and boxes counted.

The horror stories of the US are a failure of their system, not of paper voting.
The issue here is the notoriously shit science media with no room for nuance.

This one goes in along with "SCIENTISTS CURE CANCER" in which you get potentially interesting findings that get blown horribly out of proportion by whatever rag that decides to post it, often with a political spin to boot.
Why can’t a user make QoS decisions for their own pages?

Because then you just get everyone asking for maximum QOS / don't-page-me-out on everything they can.

The pages in the page cache are not owned by a particular user, they're shared. If there's three users running /usr/bin/firefox, they'll all have have shared read-only executable mappings of the same page cache pages. If you do a buffered read of a file immediately after I do the same, we both get our data copied from the same page cache page. So it's not at all clear how you'd do the accounting on this to implement that user-based fairness criterion.