skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see a city in the Western parts of the US accomplish this mainly because of how difficult of a task it would be. The majority of people live >15 miles from downtown areas. Mass transpo can only be generously described as an after thought. I've played SimCity, and if you did not place your subway/train/bus stops efficiently, the citizens did not use them. That plays out in real life as well, except it is much more difficult in real life to just break out the bulldozer to re-engineer the city to make it more mass transpo friendly.
Yes,

Keep your chats short and to the point...I never even noticed there was a search feature
Had almost exactly the same problem, down to identical symptoms -- same side of my body, etc.

My guess it that it's due to some supplements I was taking years ago (chiefly 5-HTP and magnesium) causing chest pain and/or heart palpitations, and the experience of that etching trauma into my psyche in a way that makes me experience physical symptoms. The worst part is that it feeds on itself, until I was sitting on a sidewalk having a panic attack causing massive hyperventilation and crushing chest pain, certain I was having a heart attack, barely able to dial 911.

Unfortunately it took $8000 in hospital bills from multiple emergency room visits to figure this out.
Teams does suck, but man... it's marginally better than Skype for Business. Skype for Business was so bad, you could send a message on your phone and you'd never see it on your desktop, and vise versa. Or you'd get bombarded with notifications on your phone while you were typing on your desktop. Microsoft would point to your local IT team's setup causing caching issues or what have you... and notifications were never in real-time, calls were impossible and would constantly drop people, and heaven help you if you ever changed your password; you'd sign in again only to find all of your messages had been erased and wouldn't ever re-download from the server. It was such a productivity loss for everyone and I'm guessing the only people who ever had a complete and sequential chat history of my chats were probably NSA employees who couldn't care less.

It's absurd that Microsoft didn't just buy Slack when they had the chance. Building this in-house has forced a lot of people to use some really shitty software.

https://www.inc.com/business-insider/bill-gates-passed-on-sl...
You know there is a difference between what people say and mean. Maybe people should communicate more clearly than blame someone else for not understanding.

Also, where are you getting the numbers about a woman’s preference?
> Async I/O isn't anything new, and it's stood the test of time.

What do you mean? User-mode threads also use async I/O. They do just what async/await does, only without the syntax. I mean that async/await hasn't stood the test of time just yet.

> Linux can spawn hundreds of thousands of kernel threads.

Yeah, not very active ones, though. And their stacks are never really uncommitted. And the scheduler is badly optimized for many of the very uses you want in a server. On the other hand, you can spawn many millions of active fibers, schedule them how you like, and play with their state and its representation in many interesting ways (like moving a running fiber from one machine to another).

> Now it's unmaintained, because nobody actually wants M:N threads in Rust—an interesting outcome to be sure!

Just to make sure, when people say "M:N threads" they can mean a lot of very different things. In Java, they'll behave like async/await, only without the syntactic constructs. Stacks and stack frames are moved, can shrink and grow, can have various representations etc., and the scheduling is entirely pluggable. You can schedule the continuations manually, or in a scheduler of your choice, shared, or not, with ordinary tasks.
If you don't have an answer, please don't answer.
Agile at its finest!
My very limited experience with tumblr (pre-rule change) is that it was essentially impossible to use without being frequently exposed to sexually explicit photographs. ... in contrast to reddit, which is full of outright porn but there I seldom see anything more risque than a bikini shot unless I navigate to a relevant subreddit.

Maybe the critical difference is that if your account would have anything remotely adult at all, including text, or would repost anything from account that was flagged adult then your account would need to be flagged adult. And as a result a lot of accounts were adult flagged and a lot of users felt they had to log in and enable view-adult in order to not get left out. And then even if you have no particular interest in browsing the explicit content on tumblr you can't have many contacts before you start getting occasional reposts of it.

Regardless, being able to have a site which users can fully engage with without a steady stream of surprise crotch shots that they aren't interested in seems like a pretty reasonable goal. Banning the content outright seems like a really blunt way to get there, but maybe that was less damaging to the monetization strategy than making a lot of images click to load?
Its an RNA virus, so like flu it evolves all the time. RNA viruses replicate because there is no check on the NA helix when a cell replicates, unlike DNA which by virtue of being a double helix, a basic checksum method to ensure consistency of the DNA helix which the adaptive immune system relies on to do its job.

It is why flu vaccines can be ineffective by the end of the flu season. It takes about 2 weeks to grow a flu virus in sterile eggs, the most "high tech" solution known to man currently. Every time someone with flu sneezes, they are emitting new multiple strains of the flu virus.

The other problem with Ebola is it can hide in parts of the body where the adaptive immune system does not work, places like the eye and testes. So even though the virus may not show up in test results, it could reappear when someone's immune system is weakened sometime in the future. There are other ways to kill it though. Just for reference, someone I know works at Porton Down in the UK, MOD facility, they told me Ebola is nothing compared to some of the viruses and bacteria they have in their facilities. In other words there are far worse things to be worried about than Ebola.
In 1990 I had a coding job, working for Neil Squire Society (then called Neil Squire Foundation).

https://www.neilsquire.ca/

One of the input devices I was working with was a sip-puff switch: a breath operated device controlled by tongue movements to create small air pressure or rarefaction.

I was working, among other things, on a sip-and-puff operated text viewer/editor, and a kind of boot screen that would allow people with different disabilities and input device requirements to share the same PC.

We had a driver (then for MS-DOS) which allowed an encoding derived from Morse code to produce any key code that a PC-101 keyboard could produce, right down to the three finger salute.

I wanted to know what this is really like, so I decided to spend time with my hands off the keyboard, learning how to use it. After a while I was able to write code.

The Morse code entry method encodes input symbols in terms of sip (negative pressure corresponding to Morse dash) and puff (positive pressure, Morse dot), which are sampled in relation to a fixed time base.

As you get faster at producing the symbol patterns, you can crank up the clock speed to shorten their duration. Some of the fastest users were able to type 40 wpm, which is faster than "hunt and peck" typists.
>>>"Or you could do the unwise thing and go there and just walk around."

I would really discourage that. There are strong signs that the People's Armed Police might intervene (they are already staging/exercising in Shenzhen). It could turn into another Tienanmen Square situation.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-12/global-times-shows...
I'll note that we never actually acted on this plan. The idea came up when we were comparing the two. The designated Microsoft Guy at the office was pushing Teams, because it's free as in beer. However, the inability to mute or leave a channel was a big 'wtf' and I'm honestly shocked that two years later they still haven't fixed it. It was a show-stopper for us back then and still would be now.
I think that New York City may be particularly bad in this regard. I remember when I lived in Saratoga Springs (a small city upstate), I could strike up conversations with strangers on the bus or train, and did all the time. Here in NYC, that's nearly unthinkable—only crazy people do it.
FWIW, as far as "scrutiny" goes, I think the track record of Red Hat and Debian/Ubuntu on this stuff is about as good as... well, basically any other distribution system I'm aware of. The Android and iOS stores have hosted malware, as has Microsoft's. Steam has pushed bad stuff. NPM is a straight up train wreck...

I mean, I agree in principle that it's a hard problem. But the actual solution we've landed on in the Linux world seems like... well, just not really the first thing we should be worried about.
Based on the title, I wanted Evangelion.
> You have the right to protest, but not for your protest to be consequence-free.

I don't understand what you mean here. Do you mean that you have the right to protest, but then you can be punished for protesting? That doesn't sound right.
What an informed reply! Thank you for pointing out the influence of mobilized, coordinated resources on security. I will have to factor this perspective into my own and reconsider.
Axios now reporting [0] that the purchase price was under $3 million

[0]: https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1161038705295089664?s=...
Thank you for asking, but I probably shouldn't get into that :) I'm inherently conflicted / biased due to designing a solid chunk of Tumblr's backend, and also previously worked for another Automattic competitor (Six Apart, the defunct company behind Movable Type).

Edit to avoid anyone misconstruing, I'm not trying to imply one thing or another, just that I can't approach this impartially. And in any case, I wish everyone well on both sides of this acquisition. I'm just genuinely curious how they plan to proceed from a technical standpoint, as it's a really interesting challenge.
> Are lifts really as efficient as escalators?

I wouldn't be surprised.

> An escalator is constantly moving (unless it's malfunctioning), so there is no wait to continue moving.

That wastes energy but makes it time efficient for users (in terms of latency). OTOH, escalators are slow compared to most lifts/elevators, which means total trip time efficiency isn't good unless you are only going a floor or two or are competing with an elevator that stops a lot, where the latency gain may still beat the loss of vertical speed. Which is why escalators tend to get used where you've got lots of traffic volume but they aren't going up/down lots of floors.
What is an alternative to Google search that has better search results than DDG? If I use Bing, will it use my data to customize my searches (I don't mind this too much anymore)?

Google sucks now for technical, science, math, and philosophy searches...

I haven't vetted or researched this at all, but I get a feeling that I am just getting advertisements or google sanitized reputation rankings on Google.
It’s good for business continuity too. You don’t want to overly depend on any particular person, as they could quit/hit by bus/leave at any time.
nah, even the default theme is very heavy and laggy...that's on the developers, not the users. Tumblr also uploads every GIF as an actual GIF, and doesn't convert them to webm or something that would reduce it to a fraction of the size. Lots of sites slow to a crawl because of this.
That boggles the mind as well. The purpose of an ad is to be seen. Whether it's seen next to porn should be irrelevant.

I guess, because prudery.
You probably can figure it out with some sleuthing. For one example, SeatGuru records every airline fleet's different plane types. Once you have airline + plane type for each of that airline's routes, I bet you can dig up the engine type from that info.
This is direct action don't need any intermediary. You can just start by launching a good website explaining these 3 fundamental issues of house, education and health. People conflate this issues with unnecessary issues to vent their anger, you would have helped such people to see clearly with your content.
The data is not always in the same location, and the images/documents are user submitted, so no guarantees about resolution. I'll continue to look for off-the-shelf solutions. If I were to invest in doing this myself, what would you recommend? Are there any books/courses that'll help me with the foundations?
Sure, but can't you just call and pay over the phone like with any other credit card?
So far as I can tell, there are two kinds of (effectively) single-user systems, in which a malware infection is targeting a single person:

1. The kind where users are rarely asked to assume admin privileges and all the data a user has to protect is available without administrator access.

2. The kind where users are frequently asked to assume admin privileges and some of the data a user has to protect requires administrator access.

I don't believe Linux has any real edge here. I agree that 95% of the effect is due to Linux's paltry desktop user base; I'd guess than at least 4% is due simply to malware that targets Linux not being called "a virus".
I’d say about 200 people IT team. Our company culture is not very tightly interested with each other so may be there is less chatter around the company channels. At this point its email tool in chat format. I personally love it.
You NEED roads though. Even if you can reach 100% of the city through walking and public transportation, what do you do when you move? Take a train trip for your sofa, and another for your dining room table, and so on? How do local stores and restaurants get their goods delivered? How do you get packages larger than an envelope delivered to your home? How do emergency services and fire rescue reach your home?

Do towns exist with public transportation but no roads?
Many of the homes came with a caveat that you have to bring it up to code. The home was only a $1,000 but the renovation costs were 10s of thousands.
Are you sure you're talking about Conda's virtual envs? Everything gets installed into the folder /envs/my-env-name.
I don't care about the guides they sell (they have to sell something to those interested to make their living and I don't mind). I just type a substance name in the search field and get a list of good and bad things it may do with links to relevant papers. Or I type a condition name and get a list of substances which may have relevant effects.

The fact they are sincere as science makes me feel very sympathetic: they don't hesitate to mention nicotine (don't confuse it with cigarettes, it's about pure nicotine which may be delivered by many ways while cigarettes also load your lungs with tar and heavy metals) is great for weight loss and many other things. I don't really like the idea of using nicotine (because I mind physiological addiction) but I'm pleased they let me know and think for myself. They also don't hesitate to mention beneficial effect of some illegal substances.
https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...
Disavow the bad backlinks via webmaster console, you'll notice a huge penalty for letting these bad sites link to you without disavowing them. It looks like (to Google) you're buying backlinks, and in this case ones on sites that are slammed by the latest updates. Try this on a few of the worst offenders and you'll see a noticable difference.

In your space you have the most aggressive blackhat seo actors (supplements) looking at you as the bad guy for exposing them, I wouldn't be surprised if you discover a ton of bad backlinks from domains that have a terrible reputation.
Source: lost over 100,000 unique Google visits per day because of a malicious competitor putting unsolicited backlinks to our domain without our knowing and it took months before it came back.
It is worse than that, the curve of human hearing is not only everything else than flat, it also changes with volume.
A real Easter egg?
Not when 99% of beekeepers are white, no.
Do you need to re-read my post? The entire point is that there are now multiple definitions of 'violence'. We mustn't pick and choose definitions to fit a particular narrative.

One definition of violence appears to be used when describing ER as 'non-violent'. But another, very different definition of violence appears to be used when declaring that mis-gendering someone is an act of violence.
Twitter is terrible for flagging NSFW content. Either everything you post is NSFW, not nothing you post is NSFW. You can't flag a single post as NSFW
Also it seems the airline chooses the engine type they want on their planes, not Boeing. It's a purchase option.
I appreciate the warm response! Usually when I marshal a wall of text to rebut someone on HN, they're less happy about it than you are. :)
Yeah, you are right - I missed out the capacity part. Why is the parent pointing out Vec as being “opposed to a raw pointer, a length and a capacity”?
Rabb.it, a “video watch party” service, shuts down; IP acquired by Kast
Cool TY!
And with a by-line from Philip Lewis who is conspicuously melanin-advantaged.

Look. Every demographic that does conspicuously well in an avocation has role models and mentors that children and young adults can identify with, from hard sciences (Feynman comments on this I think as far back as the 70's) to professional cycling.

If it seems childish, recall the target audience. Then take a deep breath, and relax.
I've been a JS developer for many years but I think if we are serious about having a truly fast and robust hyperlink information exchange exchange system then we should have a new paradigm that actually goes back to the roots.

For example, the original web was mostly just text pages linked together with a few images. There wasn't a ton of scripting on the web pages because they were actually just about sharing substantive information.

So I wrote out a concept (haven't got much of anything done yet though) for a p2p microsites browser system that only supports RST and web assembly. It's on GitHub under runvnc/noscriptweb.
Er.

About 7 years ago, EV charging points essentially did not exist.

Right now we have rapid chargers that allow you to drive across Western Europe with 30 minute stops.

In about another 7 years the chargers will be a complete non issue. Certainly in a place like the UK that has very few real "rural" areas.

It may be the case that for that short period it made sense to produce hybrids. We'll still look back on it as a transition period.
> And they don't glide particularly well either

Nonsense! Modern airlines glide exceptionally well. For example a 787 has a glide ratio of over 20:1 !

http://www.lissys.demon.co.uk/samp1/

https://seekingalpha.com/article/2494925-boeing-the-airbus-a...
That's definitely the feeling I've gotten from the Debian repositories, which are very cautious about what to distribute. I was thinking about it in the abstract.
>It's funny the stuff HN fixates on. If all you read is this comment thread, you might actually believe that non-porn Tumblr really is just "an exercise in blowing several million dollars"

Which it pretty much is. That kind of content (which wasn't exactly porn, though if one is prude enough everything is porn) was Tumblr best differentiator.
Eh. Nowadays it's mostly people partying with their countrymen they met far away from homecountry in hostels (where locals don't go) partying in touristy bars (where locals don't go) in touristy neighbourhoods (where locals don't live and rarely goes).

On top of that, many people travel in groups and don't communicate with people outside of their group at all.

Want that authentic experience? Go solo to barely visited places. But that's not what 90% (if not 99%) of tourists do.
Code is screenplay.
Permits, load studies, switchgear components for 3-phase systems (breakers etc.) cost more, engineering costs drive this up, etc. The grid and city permitting processes weren't designed for broad "consumer" scenarios, at least basing it off of the current Seattle experience, where even Level 2 charging can be difficult.
“Simplify, then add lightness” Chapman, Colin.

The Lotus philosophy is to create small lightweighted sport cars, after all.
Do you have anything better?
We really need some kind of image-less Wikipedia for things like this.
>Obviously this isn't something that could not be fixed in Windows, and maybe it already has been.

There is nothing even remotely obvious about that statement. If it was anything near possible it wouldn't an ongoing problem, unsolved for the last 12 years, since the introduction of UAC in Windows Vista.

Now I wouldn't say that Microsoft didn't progress. Far from it. Almost no one I knew kept Vista UAC enabled, as it was constant nag. Nowadays most folks can live with it, and corporations don't feel like they have to disable it and compromise their security to maintain their employees productive.

But it is still annoying way to often for it's own good. Many people are just automatically allowing everything, just like they press Yes or OK on every dialog box without ever reading it.

The reason it is so different on Windows is, in a nutshell, that Windows is a very different beast, and the way users and developers operate on it is not at all similar to what is done on Linux.

The integration of Windows applications with the OS API is something that, for better and for worse, doesn't exist on Linux. Be it the GUI, the Settings storage (registry vs config files) or any other part of the system.
It describes my symptoms - anger, lashing out, sleep issues. Meds have helped enormously.
I know there are a lot of nay sayers in this thread about the viability of this acquistion but consider this:

> Even still, Matt says Tumblr’s user base is, “several times larger than [WordPress.com].”

I don't know what Automattic paid exactly, but the story speculates that:

> Dan Primack of Axios is reporting a “source familiar” put the price, “well south of $20 million.”

So even if Tumblr is plateaued or declining still, it has several magnitudes of declining (for lack of a better term maybe?) before it even hits the same size as wordpress.com

Using the $20 Million Dollar as the ceiling here, all they would need to do is convert:

- four million users to their $5 month plan to make back $20 million dollars

- two million five hundred thousand users to the $8 a month plan to make $20 million dollars

- eight hundred thousand users to their $25 dollar a month plan to make $20 million dollars

- forty five thousand users to their $45 dollar a month ecommerce plan to make $20 million dollars

Now, if you figure they'll likely monetize some of these users on a wide variety of these plans, the numbers start to pan out quite quickly. This doesn't count things like ad revenue on free tiers, for instance.
That’s the closest way yet that I’ve seen Little Bobby Tables come to life :D
Pls go ahead away.