skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not enough evidence to know which of the claims is true: either one or neither could be. But both claims are as valid as each other in that the observations are true (but correlation != causation applies: both claims show a correlation, there is not enough evidence of whether either of them show causation)
Here is the current hurricane: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/DORIAN_graphics.php?pr...
Was using the plugin earlier and I love seeing some reviews directly on Amazon. I trust the YouTube reviews more than the actual reviews, sad times.
If this is true, how come we have this many security bugs?
I hope the claim to being fully async I/O is just a buzz term, as it's no longer supported in SQLite.

https://www.sqlite.org/asyncvfs.html
Postgres like most other databases pretty much copied MVCC from Interbase/Firebird.
I found the following explanations for Transactions in Firebird very helpful in terms of understanding MVCC aka MGA (multi-generational architecture)

https://ib-aid.com/en/transactions-in-firebird-acid-isolatio...

https://www.slideshare.net/ibsurgeon/3-how-transactionswork
Except, the claim he's making is not that easily accommodated minority preferences are often accommodated. This is obviously true.

He's making a claim that minority preferences will "win" -- his word, not mine! That claim is not supported by anything at all in his argument, nor is it what you are claiming.
AFAIK kernel itself is only coded in C and assembly.
Shell, python, perl and make are for building and tools.

Linux kernel does not support c++ (its exceptions, RTTI etc). Only c++ I found was related to perf tool, 6 of 7 cpp files had test in their name.
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So, and really just for the sake of argument, if we could look at the sun with one of its poles at the center, it would still be elliptical?

Or if we could somehow see cross-sections of atoms are elliptical and not circular too?

If so, how do you know that?
You can do whatever you want in your free time as long as you directly do not compete with the company.

If you do have a neat offer that would compete(or any good and realistic idea/offer), you can bring it to the company, get proper support and start a new project with you as project manager(or you can get a dedicated one if you feel like it).

For now i do work salaried, but i plan to swap to being paid by results, not time.

Also - whole of IT gets a some free time for personal projects on Fridays.
C++ was also considered an option for the whole kernel; there were a few releases which could be compiled as C++. The C++ option was dropped because the generated code was slower.
I also found https://www.tapwithus.com/ which looks similarly cool.
I'm really tired of this "hurr-durr Hilux indestructible" meme. They used it because they were there and available. In areas with limited supply chain infrastructure there is very much a network effect when it comes to machines that need a pretty substantial supply chain. It would have been the S10 war or the Ranger war had GM or Ford been the dominant manufacturer in that region. Toyota does not make cars that are magically immune to the laws of physics. They degrade with use like everything else and eventually suffer mechanical failure.
Someone needs to tell Taleb there is a field called Social Psychology where everything he is raving about is formally studied

He's a smart guy, so he's no doubt fully aware of all the people you mention. He's also equally aware that he sells more books than all those people combined by probably a couple of order of magnitude.
Is there like, some sort of website showcasing new features and providing idiomatic examples that would make someone go...holy shit?
No wonder the American auto industry is going to shit if you are a representation of it

Clueless
So first of all, I don't want to get stuck in a home office. I want to share an office with my coworkers and engage in normal human social behavior during the workday. A coworking space does not appeal to me either: I'm not comfortable spending my workday around strangers who appear and disappear every few weeks.

That's all fair enough. Everyone is going to have their own preferences for something like this. But why should the office be located in a hard-to-reach central area at all, if most or all of its staff live somewhere else?

But besides that, I think that work is only one part of the equation. There are other reasons why people live in big cities. I grew up in a German city with 100k inhabitants, and there was basically nothing I could do after 8PM once shops had closed.

Again, that's a fair point. I did acknowledge that there would always be a need for some facilities to be located more centrally and serve a wider area. Anyone wanting to use those facilities will also benefit if there are fewer unnecessary journeys competing for space with their private vehicles or overcrowding public transport, though.

That's not to say that everyone wants to live, or should want to live, in a big city. But it's not a good idea to force everyone to live in small communities either.

I agree, and this is the point I was trying to make in my final paragraph before. Sorry if it wasn't clear.

The problem, IMHO, isn't having large cities. Many people prefer to have less personal living space but be nearer to a wider range of facilities, much as you described yourself. The problem, IMHO, is the design of many large cities today where there is a central area with most of the places people want to go, surrounded by suburbs with most of the places where people live.

The geometry of such a design prevents it scaling well. As the city grows, the residential area spreads outwards. This means more people live further from the area with the services. Typically, the area available for the services also can't grow proportionately, creating a problem of where to put enough new services to meet the needs of the growing population.

A less centralised design based on clusters that each combine residential accommodation, basic services for the local population, and possibly some sort of business district, has much more ability to grow without separating large numbers of people from their everyday needs, even if you then position large numbers of such clusters close together, introduce additional areas among the clusters for more specialised facilities, and form a big city.
>I wonder how many of the spam calls are actually powered by Twilio?

Probably not very many. Think about it: the spammer has to pay for each minute of call time on Twilio. Let's say a spammer spams for 12 hours a day at $0.013 a minute. On average that's $9.36 a day. So if they want to do this with 24 "lines", that's $224.46 a day.

Now consider the the cost of (on-premise) phone lines provided by a company like Time Warner Cable: $25-$45 per line per month (the last time I checked). That's more like $36 a day. So with Twilio the spammer would be paying 6x the cost.
I can confirm this as I'm living in Berlin :D
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Quoting the post:

“Second, the cost structure matters quite a bit. It happens in our first example that making lemonade compliant with Kosher laws doesn’t change the price by much, not enough to justify inventories. But if the manufacturing of Kosher lemonade cost substantially more, then the rule will be weakened in some nonlinear proportion to the difference in costs. If it cost ten times as much to make Kosher food, then the minority rule will not apply, except perhaps in some very rich neighborhoods.”
Absolutely agree on the flooding angle being the biggest danger. It's why I mentioned that people need to be aware of their personal situation.
One explanation is that a lot of the scams are for things that wouldn't work in Germany. Like health insurance, extended car warranties, etc. For those sorts of things, lots of commission based referalls are available to the call centers for the US. They just have to send leads or sales, and get money in return.

Also, they are often manned by call centers in places like India where English speakers are easy to find, German less so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions/Bl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=cryptocu...
Major cryptocurrencies deleted include Cardano, Chainlink, IOTA and Lisk.
Also the Wikipedia admin David Gerard runs an anti cryptocurrency blog.
One thing to note is that most weed strains now are very high in THC and low in CBD. Naturally, they were much more balanced and I think high-THC might be part of the problem and consuming more balanced (and lower percentage) strains may be much better. Anecdotally, I definitely find that higher less balanced strains give me more of a brain fog than weaker more balanced strains (less balanced strains but taking CBD pills separately to balance it out even works too).

I mean, heavy use either way may be bad and boundaries are important with anything (weed, beer, chocolate, etc), but smoking the strongest stuff may be extra bad.
This is not a criticism of cars, but rather a criticism of the sorry state of software and computer hardware in a free-market (-ish) world.
And raw materials.
How are schedule-based safety models different than arena-based models?
Google begins penalising domain leasing
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At least in the UK the price per square foot greatly increases after each new build that replaces an older one. Surely prices would go down?
You can even verify yourself. Go on a property portal such as Zoopla or Rightmove and compare the cost of a new build and old build in the same area. I have yet to find one where the new build is cheaper per square foot.
> Outside a few filter bubbles like HN rust is virtually unknown or little thought about.

It's still pretty new, but it's gaining adoption quicker than what I would have expected. It's now used in Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox and Microsoft. Most of the time it's for some niche or experimental project, but it's still an interesting trend.

> I think the biggest issues are reliance on cargo (the systems language that ignores your system libraries)

This is not accurate. There is no "reliance" on cargo, you can just use plain rustc and it would work. And you can of course link dynamically to a system's library: by default Rust's binaries are even linked with the system's libc actually, and AFAIK most external C dependencies are linked that way (bindings to openSSL for instance).

> and lack of a stable ABI

Many people would love to have a stable ABI, but it's way too early for that because it would freeze Rust development, while there are still a lot of things that need to be improved in the language.

I agree with you on compile times though and I hope things continue to improve in that regard.
So much for developer friendly computers. Why not return it as defective at that point?
Compasses to point true north for first time in 360 years in UK
Given the depth of China's interest in controlling and accessing dissidents worldwide, I would think it highly likely that China is behind the entire exploit. What I did not see in the articles (too many to read everything) is the requirement to inject the implant from a website. Did the article indicate what sites were compromised?
From watching chronic weed smoking friends... I do not believe this. If anything, they're much worse and much scarier more dangerous while driving. They definitely should not ever drive high.
I feel like we need a term for popsci like his and Jordan Peterson’s that instils in the reader an unearned feeling of elitism.
1.5 million over 30 years means $4166 per month (ignoring interest because it's untaxed and almost 0%). When you look at the median 1BR price in San Francisco that mortgage is absolutely nothing in comparison.
The ‘Great Wall’ of Malta
> Use USB devices like ... full size keyboards,

My Moto G5+ and my Lebnovo 10" tablet work perfectly with a USB on the go adaptor and a full sized Lenovo keyboard with built in hub and a mouse.

Edit: It also works well with memory sticks.
Yes. Or some virtualized equivalent.
I'm always a bit sad, that we don't see the compute module used in these kind of projects, especially when size does matter. But I understand it, they seem hard to source and expensive for hobbyists, which kind of defeats much of the open source spirit. Still, the form factor would work great for add-on boards.
As someone who is in recovery for drug and alcohol abuse, my own experience disagrees.

Given any choice of substances, I’ll run wild with them.

I can successfully self destruct no matter what the substance. Harming not just myself, but everyone around me as I go.

From a risk assessment standpoint, yes, marijuana has lower physical impacts (you’re not going to seize from withdrawals afaik).

However, the psychological impacts are different to alcohol. Alcohol encourages “release” of emotions. Marijuana closes everything off.

Furthermore, the impact I have on society can be damaging with both, but in different ways.

So, in my own experience, put down both.

It’s a hop, skip and a jump from one heavy night to picking up the beer/spliffs again.
The author is previous deputy chairman of the National Trust and English Heritage.

A quick search would’ve shown you who the author of the column is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jenkins
The very top of that page suggests WAL with PRAGMA synchronous = 0 accomplishes roughly the same objective.
I live in Poland and it is the first time I hear about it.

I am absolutely apalled.

Not even at the idea of grading by algorithm, but by the fact that many, many people had to cooperate to make this happen.
Aware? Sure. But I think the comment is directed at a lack of understanding. That is:

Understanding > Knowledge

Taleb hammer is economists. All his nails are defined by that hammer. Yes, it's one way of trying to manage thoughts about the __complex__ world around us. But it's not complete. It doesn't always work. That hammer has blindspots.

You'd think Taleb would know this as well. But his hammer doesn't change. The least he can do, as every good argument should, is to mention the blindspots and how others might have insights. He leaves that out of the picture.

Given Taleb's theory...ironic, huh?
Afaik, they don't actually "purge" the history, merely hide it. If the robots.txt is updated again at any point, all the history pops back. Hiding information requires active maintenance, which is a very clever way of making as much as possible available while avoiding liability.
Yes, this means they have saved 1 million dollars vs buying the house today which would cost them the full amount.
His argument is not that minorities are also provided options suitable to them when it is economical to do so. He makes a much stronger claim -- that minority preferences will "win".

He supports this by using the anecdotes about how airlines don't serve peanuts and how he had a social encounter where only kosher food was served. And from these two incidents, he jumps to the claim that "Europe will eat halal."

Notice he doesn't make the claim that Europe will increasingly offer halal food as an option. That would be a plausible result of having more Muslims in Europe and would in fact be equivalent to the Indian scenario where people are given a choice of vegetarian as well as meat options. But he says Europe will eat halal! If that were true, we should've seen India eat only vegetarian food given we have way more vegetarians than Europe has Muslims and yet that has not happened. Is this because Indian vegetarians -- of which I am one -- are uniquely tolerant, or is it because he is absurdly overstating his case? I think it's the latter.
Most robocalls are illegal in the US. We have a do not call list and everything. I believe is it a name change is currently working its way through to change the name to "seriously, do not call... please list".
[https://www.forthepeople.com/class-action-lawyers/robocallin...]

The problem is that determining the source is difficult and even if you did it is most likely over seas where enforcing the fine is impossible.

I would love to hear a technical solution that has been implemented somewhere that had a significant impact.
At some point, if essentially everyone is forbidding class action and requiring arbitration clauses, do we just not have rights anymore? At some point a judge will have to recognize that the abuse has gone too far and decide it's unenforceable because companies should not have the power to unilaterally "license" our rights out of existence.
glad you find it useful :)
And again, I will offer in support of my case that meat is actually more expensive in India than are vegetables.
Wow - should have been marked for improper use of : though :-)
> if that even exists

Of course it exists. You can be addicted to anything: caffeine, chocolate, sugar, video games. It just means you have a dependence on it that is tough to break. It could be a physical addiction like nicotine or alcohol, but it could be a mental addiction or even just a routine that's hard to break.

Anything that either provides stimulation or that numbs you is, in my opinion, pretty addictive: all you need is someone who is somewhat susceptible to it (maybe they have a stressful job and like a distraction. After a while it becomes routine and hard to break out of).

Just because there are worse addictions doesn't mean its not a big problem and causes people hardships. Your comment seems very callous to me.
Eh, there may be 12,000 names on the list, but that doesn't mean you have to wait for all of them to get a garden before it's your turn. Many of those people will have changed their minds in the meantime, or they don't like a particular lot that's freed up, because you usually can't just leave it as-is. The one in the article burned down, many other lots have houses that violate new regulations but were grandfathered in, so you have to demolish and rebuild. Then there's the workload of actually gardening...

I'm also not sure where they're getting the 12,000 from, since to my knowledge every "colony" manages their own waiting lists. If they're just adding the number of people on each list to arrive at the total, they're double-counting people who're not looking for a garden in a particular location and appear on multiple lists.

All in all, if you really want a garden, it's absolutely feasible with a few years of waiting. And if you just want to dream about having one, you can still put your name on the waiting list and politely decline each lot they offer.

EDIT: there's also a sharing platform for people who need help gardening and those who want to do it: https://www.datschlandia.de/ That is another way to get the benefits of a garden bypassing the waiting lists.
It takes 1 hour to transfer everything from one mac to another.
I got a leaf about 6 mo ago and it has carplay/android auto. This makes the infotainment/nav stuff no car maker ever could be arsed to do proper, completely moot.

It’s a requirement from now on! :)

I keep saying that an EV with carplay has made me look at a car differently - it’s a chassis with a battery. Choose the size of both according to what fits, say, 99.9% of all trips.
For someone who lives in a city and have a charger in the garage of course this is a luxury, but to me it just makes so much sense.
It is an increasing problem. I've defaulted to never answering numbers I don't have saved unless I expect a call. If it's important they should leave a voicemail. I wanna say a few years ago it wasn't this bad, then I realized I had missed a lot of spam calls cause I had my number behind Google Voice (free with Sprint) and now it is just ridiculous.

Also idk about other states, but in FL everything is public record, so after I bought my house I've gotten spam letters and calls like crazy.
There was a 40 year waiting list for allotments in some parts of London 10 years ago[0], and 6 years ago the number of allotments had remained the same but the waiting list more than doubled from 800 to 1,765[1] so it could be longer than 40 years now.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/jun/02/allotments-sho...

[1] https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/allotments_and_waitin...
Perhaps the "minority" part doesn't matter, and it's just the (in)tolerance that matters.
Exactly I am doing this as part of some work I am doing with some content changes we are experimenting with on a major brands site.
Why librarians are up in arms against LinkedIn
I think "make the product better" is really an excuse, considering what has actually happened with the changes in Win10. The most useful changes have been suggestions that came from the users themselves (of which they ignore most of them anyway), not by watching them. "The telemetry told us to do it" is a convenient excuse for making unwanted changes, because everyone else doesn't have access to the data and even if they did, it could still have been massaged to fit their narrative.
Recently, there as been a lot of calls where older people got called by a fake police detective. The display reads "110" (which is the emergency number for the police in germany). So, if there are countermeasures, they are not effective.

Source:

German Press release PD Westerstede early this year:
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/4174253

Follow-Up a few months later, warning that it's still an issue:
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/4358872
I use LineageOS which has something called PrivacyGuard. I can give the app permission to access my contacts but then deny it at the PrivacyGuard level. I'm pretty sure that it just returns an empty contact list in this case.
I don't have the same vehement hate you do, haha, but I can agree that the UX here is bad. On desktop, I usually switch between users and channels using the Quick Switcher (⌘+K) so don't really have to dig through the sidebar, but I have noticed it on my tablet and it annoys the hell out of me.

One simple tweak to that would be to have that specific user at the top in the Drafts section, but also leave the user in the Direct Messages area as well.
po-tay-toes po-tah-toes

If weed gives you the dopamine release that you're addicted to, then there's no real difference to the user. There are also other mental reasons to get addicted, eg, to the escape from a stressful or unfulfilling or depressing reality.

When taking opioids you are also addicted to a dopamine release, just because it affects that more directly doesn't really mean much beyond that the addiction happens quicker and more intensely.

People can and do get addicted to gambling or video games too and those can destroy lives as well. Maybe not as often as heroin, but it certainly does happen.
It's the same story with the predecessor, the Pandora. It took forever to come out, while the preorder price steadily increased. It turned out to be pretty great when it finally arrived, but the specs did not look good anymore at that point.

And it seems to be even worse for the Pyra, especially since gpd has finally understood the need and is now manufacturing similar devices.

I think the concept is good but maybe it would be better to design a solid handheld with a slot in option for a pi or some similar form factor sbc. That way, users could actually upgrade the device and keep it current. The hard part these days seems not be the actual computing, but the quality and usability of the screen, keyboard and game controls.
Inkitt raises $16M to publish crowdsourced novels
There are two "Nassim Taleb's" out in the world. Taleb the academic and Taleb the pop-culture author and their writing styles are completely different. The former actually tries to make a coherent argument while the latter is basically competing with Gladwell to sell as many books as possible and gives zero fucks that not all his arguments stand up to scrutiny. Perhaps that is Taleb's attempt at being Antifragile.
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