skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd wager that you're speaking from the privilege of living in a community where you don't have to worry about your kid being knived, shot or raped at school, otherwise you might have a different opinion.

Not that it makes a huge difference, but I'd wager that, outside the USA, that's almost unheard of in the developed world .

I know that doesn't make a lick of difference to an American who is in that situation, but surely it's a reflection of American society and culture, not the concept of public schooling in general.
Hopefully GH will apply this to Github Actions, which seem like an exploit vector just sitting there.

GH Actions are:

- complex enough to develop that third-party solutions are attractive, especially for simple-seeming tasks (I have just been through this)

- but yay there's a "marketplace" for actions!

- the code in the marketplace is the wild-west, but you'll find something that seems like it'll do what you want

- you'd better hope the code that was committed to be executed is actually the compiled source code (if, eg, it's based on the official Typescript example and committing some [com/trans]piled JS blob that is what actually gets executed)

- it has access to your code, maybe including write access

- or it could do damn near anything else
Western societies don't aim for safety at any cost. The states place a cost on each life, and you'll feel that the numbers are too high, but they're numbers, backed by rationales and research.

I looked up the number for one country now, and the report that contains the number also contains references to four decades of academic literature.
> We're at the point where phone calls are so cheap that I doubt it costs them more than the salary of the representative.

Oh wow, I had not even taken that into consideration.

Checking prices on the first API-service that I know of, with standard prices (no need of any volume).

€ 0.064/min = € 3.84/hour
https://46elks.com/pricing/se-eur#prices

Salary cost would probably be about 10x that, and with volume I expect the calling cost to drastically go down.
The author offers a solution in the FAQ: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq.html#i-get-errors-about-...

Kitty normally identifies itself as 'xterm-kitty' (in the environment variable TERM). The problem is that most terminal programs don't know that terminal type and use some less featured fallback. Most modern terminal implementations use a workaround it by pretending to be 'xterm-256color', with varying degrees of actual compatibility. (That's also what changing term in kitty.conf does).

Kitty's author really wants you to use the traditional solution of telling (programs on) the remote host what your terminal is capable of and how to use the capabilities by installing a new terminfo entry in ~/.terminfo/x/xterm-kitty on the remote side, which is what `kitty +kitten ssh [remotehost]` does. (It needs to be done only once, unless the file gets wiped on the remote end).
> Battery EV trucks have had range limits of measured in single-digit kilometers

Battery powered trucks that you can buy today from the likes of Scania/Daimler has a range of 200+ km. Not some prototype but currently in production for delivery next year.

Sure, it's not 1000 km, but that single digit km is off by two magnitudes.
I’ll look at this, today. I have bunch of OSS repos, and, even though I might feel smug about my quality and security, I don’t think it hurts at all to shine a klieg lamp on it.

I’m fairly aghast at the state of things, and every bit helps.

Thanks, GH!

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Such kind of issues exist everywhere albeit varying levels. I would like to draw an analogy with the research field. Researchers are solving a very specific problem in the hope of getting a paper published. Mostly they don't care about how their research would fit in the bigger picture and it is evident from the fact that most research ideas do not get adopted in commercial products (equivalent to PR requests not getting accepted)
I tend to see Rust as "only the good parts of modern C++, and then some".
Outlook.com is down
So this is also an issue (by which I mean something to be aware of, that I think most aren't) with Linux docker containers on Windows/macOS?

It makes perfect sense now you say it - I knew hyper-v was a hypervisor, I knew in basic broad strokes what a hypervisor is and where it sits, but for some reason this didn't occur to me.

It could be very alarming to people running containers 'on a Windows' server, but then such people are probably more familiar with hypervisors anyway.

Is hyper-v networking still somehow configurable from the 'host', or is it undesirable for containers unless you don't want to do anything to the network (in software on that machine)?
Same for me, I hope it won't be laggy at all and the UI is good to use. So far I like my setup with a chromecast and my phone as the remote/tv library (youtube, netflix, amazon video, disney etc.).
I especially like that I can start watching something and at the same time I can browse around for something else to watch.

It looks like the remote has volume buttons on the right side by the way.
Not only is the equation of deaths to would-be births obviously flawed, the notion of quantifiable independent factors in decision to produce a child is excessively reductionist. There are not 8,000 couples who thought "I am 99% ready for a 3rd baby, but the car seats are the deal breaker"

also to your aside, japan has uniformly considerate, alert, and obedient drivers, more than i've experienced anywhere else. The only exception seemed to be foreign cab drivers.
Asteroids: By the Numbers (2019)
Sure the both Lisbon and Porto grew and Salazar enforced a de facto architectural style, but the regime only built public buildings and some social housing.

Perhaps this is an English-as-a-foreign-language thing but to me "under Salazar" implies that the regime ordered, and payed for, most of the construction in that era which is not true.
Actually Kinesis Freestyle Edge/Pro is relatively cheap in split keyboard world including DIY.
Ask HN: Will domains always cost this much in future?
Minimum you pay for a domain is 10$ / year. Sometimes the cost is upwards to 100 or even 1000s.

But I don't get, there is like no cost in owning a domain. It's just an entry in a DNS server. How is even 10$ justifiable for owning a piece of address as recurring cost?
I see this not changing the fact that genuinely rural populations genuinely need an automobile.

Yes, American urban population, and city builders can certainly consider going without a car, and building cities without making car ownership a prerequisite to live in.
You mean forced busing? That’s been done. It did not end well. The backlash against it made the entire program counterproductive.
Alongside Object Pascal back in the old MS-DOS and Apple days, Ada 95, Swift, Python, and a couple of others that I won't now bother to search for on my papers archive.
Thunderbird Users –Ever Have Emails Vanish?
This has happened to me on a couple of occasions now, that I know about, and possibly other times I'm unaware of:

The first occasion:

I was waiting a response to an email sent via one of my accounts that uses Yandex Mail for Domains. As Thunderbird fetched email, I very briefly saw a subject line from that company flash past in the notification area at the bottom of the Thunderbird window.

However, when I looked, the message was not in my Inbox, nor had it been moved to the Spam folders or the Bin.

I logged onto Yandex webmail and checked there, in case it had been intercepted server-side and binned there. Same result. The email was nowhere to be seen. It was as if it never existed, apart from it was listed in the mail logs as having been received.

I contacted Yandex support and got a typical unhelpful copy/paste reply and thought not much more about it. As Yandex have proven themselves to be fairly incompetent in the past, I just put it down to experience and resolved not to use that email address for important stuff again.

Fast forward to today and the second occasion:

This time it happened with an email account that uses Google's mail-servers. Which would eliminate the 'Yandex factor'

As I usually do, I had a look through my Spam folder in Thunderbird, to check there weren't any false positives in there, before I emptied it. I spotted an important email that had been marked as spam. So I unmarked it as spam and dragged it into my Inbox. Similar result to last time. GUI showed the email dragging out of my Spam folder and into my Inbox but, when I looked in my Inbox, it wasn't there.

As with the Yandex account incident, I then checked the account online in a browser via Gmail and found the email was nowhere to be found. Not in any of the folders which sync to Thunderbird or in any of the server-side only ones.

Hence the question. Has anyone else had Thunderbird 'disappear' emails as if they had never existed, like this?
> You'd need a collective of home teachers

Most home school parents already do this - dance class has a dance teacher, math has a math tutor or teacher, swedish class has a swedish teacher. It's like school a la carte
Esc should be positioned to Edge RGB position but anyway it can be configured by firmware.
What is the age that children are required to be in a car seat? My parents had five children and I don't think they ever even owned two car seats at one time, but they did have a booster seat.
When have you actually phoned a company the last time and were put on hold?

In the day and age of live chats, mails and whatnot, I haven't made calls to any company for quite some time. If it's important, somebody will call me. That's the way it should work, not me going on my knees and begging to talk to someone who takes money from me.
> It feels like kitty takes _slightly_ longer to start up but it's still a tiny amount of time.

For me the difference was large enough to switch to st. Kitty's
startup takes 5-10 times as long and it's very noticable for me.
As I use terminals a lot this meant a delay every time I opened
an instance.

But this is a subjective thing of course. I have all the
features I need with st and use a terminal multiplexer for the
rest.
I have nothing against broccoli, but 2000 calories-worth is 13lbs (setting aside the coconut oil).
Would you rather have citizens fight amongst themselves because their cultures are in conflict with each other?
Only if the objects aren't heap allocated via new/delete, and you happen to forget to call delete on it.
I suspect the reason is then that readers may not know what a quadrillion is.
Would it trigger for some commit message like "wipe out xxx"? If yes I guess using something like [ci-skip] is safer
The “way” is technology. Malthus famously saw exponential population growth outstripping linear growth in food production. Earth had an estimated carrying capacity of about two billion people as I recall, and it turns out that their estimates were pretty good by and large.

But, they didn’t account for technological takeoff, which allowed us to escape that linear production growth. Nearly half the nitrogen in your body came from the Haber–Bosch process.
Slots don't control how much data you consume, your query does.

If you need to read a terabyte of data to answer your query then more slots only gets it done faster.
I am fine with it when the chat happens on a platform I am already using. I often use Facebook Messenger to contact companies as I have realised a lot of them actually have chat support there, even though it is not listed anywhere and their website only mentions calling (and they usually answer way faster than email!).

But if I am having to stay on your website and use your chat widget I expect a faster reply!
I don't know for english world, but I can say that in France Mafalda was relatively well known in the 80s and 90s, since you could find Mafalda comics in every public library for example. However she was not very popular amongst french kids probably because 1/ it was complicated and filled with political satire that kids could not understand 2/ kids were not accustomed to "comic strip" style.

Amongst adults, Quino was appreciated for Mafalda but even more for his other works (of which I am a huge fan)
As that article notes, IBM (which obviously has a dog in this fight) has strongly disputed Google's claims. I don't have enough expertise to judge.
This is some ridiculous overvaluation. I've used their product and while it worked all right, I could definitely notice part of their websites and docs being half-assed by not very experienced web developers. Which didn't really conjure an impression of quality to me. More like, "let's do things in hurry to get the money".

I don't know how can you, as an investor, rationalize the price by any other reason than speculative increase in share price. Which is again driven by some fundamentals but mostly by hype. If they fail to gain almost 100% increase in revenue for the next year, that 60B is looking way too high.

Compare this with something like Splunk. They make high quality product and have over 2B in revenue (with a nice growth curve). Market cap 30B. So is Snowflake as of now worth two Splunks? I don't think so. I could see it maybe being half of that, 15B, if I squint real hard.
That really depends on what you mean with real thing, I would say our understanding of time and space is heading towards them being emergent phenomena and not fundamental ones. As far as we know, there is no thing in the universe called the time that you can just measure, you can only look at the ordering of events. And then we invent a variable called time that lets us express the laws of physics reproducing the observed events in a simple way, but that is much more a convenient mathematical and everyday tool than a real thing than one usually realizes.
Then how come everything is so ridiculously slow these days, despite faster computers?

I've ran into situations when displaying text on the screen was lagging - and that in several different programs, on various (modern) computers. Not saying GC was a problem there, but I guess this has something to do with the generally accepted culture of "only 2% of programs need high performance".
Nowhere. Gravity is just inherently radial. (But if you have a very large spread it can look fairly uniform, of course. Especially if your measure of “flat” is actually curved to the same radius.)
A better way of framing the question would be "how is Mexico not the inevitable consequence of anarcho-capitalist systems?"
It is over the top, but worst experiences tend to overshadow the rest. If someone beats you, odds are you won't forget that humiliation for a long time. Ideally, people should not get beaten in school at all, much like we do not tolerate the same in a regular workplace.

Some schools manage to prevent that, good for them. Those that cannot or are unwilling to do so, will end up as bad examples in conversations.
Many went through the school system, it is their very own experience that makes them skeptical.
a key argument of UBI is that it is argued to be net overall economically beneficial

That argument has been lost woefully before it even started. Nobody has provided a convincing argument for this and it doesn't even make logical sense: this is the economic equivalent of a perpetual motion machine. It's literally arguing that resources can be created out of nothing.

In reality UBI is a form of wealth redistribution. That's all. The money being handed out to non-workers for free represents resources that other working people are creating. Those people will get less for their work as more will be taken from them by the government, same as any tax and welfare system.

The belief that this will create new wealth is a form of magical thinking, which is why when pressed UBI advocates start talking about how everyone on UBI is going to become an artist or poet instead of just playing video games and screwing around on Instagram all day. If UBI thinking were true then we'd be drowning in stories about how people lost their job, went on welfare and very quickly found themselves the owner of a successful new business doing the things they always loved.

But virtually no such stories are to be found anywhere. People who are on welfare today don't typically start spontaneously creating wealth. That's why there's an entire enforcement infrastructure in place, just to ensure they start doing anything productive at all.

Non-citizens of a country are workers, wealth generators and tax payers too, if you hadn't noticed

You're implicitly making assumptions you aren't stating, which is something UBI advocates do a lot.

Think about it. Your statement is logically very wrong: the vast majority of people in the world who are not citizens of a country don't live there and never have, thus are certainly not workers, wealth generators or tax payers for that country.

What you mean is "non-citizens who are permanent residents" or some approximation of that, but you aren't saying it, and as discussed elsewhere in this sub-thread UBI advocates don't agree on who would actually be eligible to receive it.

Moreover to stop UBI degrading into giving out free money to the entire world, the concepts of citizenship and residency would need to be much tighter than they are today. A border wall wouldn't cut it because suddenly anyone who made it past the wall would have a flow of income they could cut a corrupt border guard or immigration officer in on, so you'd suddenly need a much tougher enforcement infrastructure. "Immigration is wonderful, let's have way more of it" would have to stop immediately because otherwise it would actually be giving money to the whole world.
That's a frequent glib response to good ideas, which boils down to, nice idea but it'll never happen, because no one cares. It's cynically defeatist.
This is key feature. I should mention that the middle button also must work for middle click if not touching trackpoint.
Have you considered putting the website back up and instead adding a purchase link so the hosting costs are worth it for you (assuming people are still bugging you about it).
Mostly outdoor: surfing, windsurfing, wilderness survival, off-road driving.

And not courses per see but ways to completely detach from everyday life: Vipassana meditation, Camino de Santiago.
I don't trust elites or any product which quickly gets popular on any form of mainstream media. There is so much dirty money flowing around and most of it goes to lying psychopaths (the selection bias for psychopathy is systemic and seemingly intentional).
Our modern economic growth is founded on coercing people into continuing to accept currencies which keep getting dirtier and which keep losing their value.
It's 100% about coercion, manipulation and gate keeping. If you can't figure out what the product is that they're selling, you're the product.
Foreign election interference works by cultivating distrust, reducing consensus
I think they should completely reverse their approach: instead of instigating people to create senseless PRs, DigitalOcean should use the GitHub API to find contributors who made meaningful first contributions to existing projects over the last year, and send them T-shirts... in October?
Snowflake doesn't absorb the cost because there is no cost.

The benefit of native tables for all columnar databases is that it provides an optimized format with metadata for each column, which is then used to eliminate most of the data retrieval during query time. The more selective your query, the faster the results.
Strange, I always found Kitty (or Alacritty) extremely laggy for those use cases, plus firing up the fan of the computer.

Also even though constantly running at 60 FPS, input lag is in the order of 300ms.
Time is absolutely a construct, just like the iPad I’m typing this on is a construct. I really can’t be sure it exists, but the model I have in my head that I’m tapping on a large flat surface with my fingers agrees with my observations. If in my next tap I get a painful burning sensation in my finger and I hear the fire alarm go off I may need to change my model to consider that I was mistaken and I may be touching a what appears to be a flame instead.
Thanks for replying!

> there are very few people assigned to maintaining old systems, and it's quite hard to get these issues brought to anyone's attention. The ones I mentioned only got fixed because they crept up to the top most common causes of crashes.

Thanks for this info. It kinda matched my own intuition about what to expect, but I wasn't sure where/how I might find out for sure. It's nice to be able to calibrate how to optimize effort.

> A bug report would be the first thing I'd want for something like this - in addition to logcat info it includes a bunch of process information, and apps can add custom data to the report.

Ah, of course. That's straightforward to do; I can just watch logcat for system_server crashes then automatically take bug reports when they occur.

> It'd also be nice to know anything to narrow down when the problem started - whatever bounds you can provide on when you were last absolutely certain it was up to date and working, plus your best guess.

IIRC™, this has been happening from day 1 when I was given this phone (it was previously sitting unused in a drawer, yay).

> Someone's going to have to dig a Galaxy Note 3 out of a drawer somewhere, go into the archives of old Play Store versions, and try installing them until they find the version that broke it, so anything that makes that binary search process less terrible would be a start.

Oh meep. Of course.

I'd have no problem loaning the device (perhaps the carrier-specific image it's using is implicated), but that's probably a huge pile of overhead to deal with. I wonder if I can help out with the bisection process myself?

Hmm. Given that this is the Play Store and the device is (currently) not rooted, I couldn't do it the "russian" way with random APK sites even if I wanted to.

I'm very curious what the internal path is here - does it depend on rooting or is there a way to isolate devices and send them specific versions of apps?

(Now I'm imagining being given a (bespoke) HTTP endpoint to hit (just for this) to switch versions...)

Maybe the best path forward would just be to root this thing already. I'd be very surprised if rooting affected the situation.

Thanks very much for the thought about bisecting GPS though. Definitely hadn't thought of that myself at this point, and don't think I would have anytime soon.
It's funny that this took so long since multiple people in this thread (including me) mentioned that they implemented their own UUID generation function which encodes the timestamp into the first bits just to create sortable UUIDs.
Microsoft Outlook is down in India
Don't forget good old Ada.
Not everyone wants to learn CS – Hope people understand this soon [pdf]
I quite like that as well, it works very well in ranger.

However, I was in awe at libsixel's support of animated pictures. I'm not sure how that's done, probably just re-drawing still images? That got me thinking: as kitty supports displaying images from shared memory, couldn't it just expose a buffer for the app to draw inside?

Going further, it would be an interesting experiment to make the terminal a fully working "wayland compositor", maybe with some extensions to control buffer placement with escape codes.

What would it bring? It seems that the most stable API for application development has been the command line interface. Going further, I'd be interested in running a terminal emulator such as kitty as the sole application on a TTY, like a fbcon replacement.
> It's not a lot of code, but if I had to actually go through and internalize it, it would certainly take me a while.

Oh yeah, I definitely didn't mean to imply that it was easy code. It has that elegance that you really only see in the kind of concise code that can only be written by people who really grok the underlying system (both programming and FFT).
You will not find these on mainstream media. They will not be promoted.