skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the convenience that’s missing.

The difference is not having to worry about the weather (too hot, too cold, wet) and even aside from that, carrying an extra set of clothes even in ideal conditions. And you’re obviously limited as to how much you can carry.

Speaking as someone who cycles as a hobby and for transport around the city (commuting and leisure).
> Lunatic builds on WebAssembly's security. We all use unaudited third-party libs that get deployed with our code, Lunatic can use capability based security to limit them.

If they happen to load all dependencies into a giant blob of linear memory, C written extensions will take care of corrupting their runtime's memory, regardless of WebAssembly "security".
I only commute by bike in Paris, France. The infrastructure has so much improved that if the city continues to protect bikes and pedestrians, there will be a point where I don't care if drivers aren't attentive (thanks to protected bike lanes everywhere, larger sidewalks, car max speed soon limited to 30 km/h on all streets, Idaho stop for bikes at almost all traffic lights, car ban in some districts on Sundays, no more "send uniques" for bikes, better signs, camera and speed traps, "coronapistes" that duplicate the subway map, etc).

I generalize but infrastrucures changes everything to a point where a city can easily get rid off car (give us a few years...). It's all infra since that's the only thing that changed here in the past decade: we finally dare to bike now, only because it's protected enough we don'fear for our life every few meters nowadays. For this reason, biking has become the default for most of my friends and colleagues. And the last few who haven't swichted are either taking the metro/RER or walking. The last drivers are professionals (who need to move heavy things and the infra does not support electric cargo bikes yet), old and fuck-you-momey rich boomers who still see biking as being weak, some families (who can afford to still live in Paris?!) but same issue as cargo bikes, and lost tourists (why the hell do huuuge tourist buses are allowed in so dense blocks?!).
So where do you suggest cyclists bike?
Joel's article is a bit long in the tooth. As of C++11, std::string is required to use both a length and a null terminator. With the short string optimization, it could even have that exact layout.

> Lazy programmers would do this, and have slow programs

char* str = "*Hello!";
str[0] = strlen(str) - 1;

Modern compilers understand strlen, and will replace the function call with a constant where possible. That code's not slow anymore: https://godbolt.org/z/Kjh8b44Kf
Depends on the circumstance. Skype office in Tallinn had free food because it was an efficient way to feed the mass of geeks in that part of town at the time (10+ years ago).
dd is ironically just used as a bad replacement for cp in most cases.
My guess its a side effect of „Getting to zero“. And once a metric becomes a target…
>The vaccine doesn't stop you from getting covid.

lets that sink. Especially considering that according to the above mentioned CDC data infected vaccinated people spread virus as infected unvaccinated.

>It reduces the effects so you're less likely to need hospitalization.

So, as current vaccines don't stop infection and spread, why would the most of the population whose risk of hospitalization is very low need (and even forced) to vaccinate?
It feels to me like you're somewhat missing the issue. You have a lack of trust issue due to your self proclaimed reclusiveness.

Begin outside of your work. This will help drop the inherent fear of material security. Take a look at your relationships. List them out if you need to. Choose the ones you feel comfortable improving in some way. And here comes the important part. Promise yourself you're going to make it better and as soon as possible promise to someone you respect you're going to improve it. This will keep you accountable.

Depending on how it goes and where you are right now it might take a couple of years so be patient. At some point your experiences will more or less auto transfer to work. Aim at creating trust by e.g. organizing events, even remembering a birthday might help. Good luck!
Smalltalk80 wins with only 6 keywords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
bummer on not being able to write to sqlite. I am using neocities and was wonder how i could get a db into play
Here's what one of Firefox's Android developers thought of users after they raised concerns over the abolition of extensions and the rushed, buggy and inferior release:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200731235001/https://twitter.c...

Meanwhile Mozilla's CEO continues to fleece increasing millions of dollars while being responsible for a massive collapse in market share (she increased her pay 400%, while destroying the company).

https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/09/23/1528219/firefox-usa...
By Noether's theorem as long as you don't have the laws of Physics change over time then energy will be conserved. The problem is that the definition of energy changes when you model a different system or change the way you model an existing system (ie Newtonian -> GR). A follow up problem is that the energy definition that results from applying Noether's theorem can get hard to translate in plain English.
This needs either external pressure on the people writing them or an independent solution. Reality is it's only independent solution.

I'd suggest a hash or a heuristic hash or a 3rd party algorithm run on the error linked to a crowed sourced location the user can chose.

So the 3rd party can say ignore this it's stupid. Something the original error message writer could never tell their boss. Or when the error was written their info was wrong, now it's this. Or they can say use root permissions on the code. Or undo this security patch. And just like Stack, people could explain why and why not. Teach around the error.

Their conclusion "that the difficulty of reading error messages is comparable to reading source code" can't be solved at the error message writers level. Politically or even for the ultra high users who need the hard core message.

Even by allowing the user to rule out the easy solutions it might give, they can turn their brain back to source code mode to tackle it.
Good writeup, thanks!

All the code snippets, when run, give me the following error message:

[error: RuntimeError: abort(Error: server uses gzip or doesn't have length). Build with -s ASSERTIONS=1 for more info. (evaluating 'new WebAssembly.RuntimeError(e)')]

Could that be a Mobile Safari thing?
Most people need at least one thing in their life to put their name on which acts like an external incarnation of their self-worth. I feel this way about my side-projects. Luckily those can't "die", though they can be threatened by eg an excessive employment contract.
That sounds wrong. There’s a whole range of life expectancy metrics that are calculated carefully as they constitute a fundamental metric about a population in everything from the insurance industry to the health industry. Life expectancy metrics are heavily used for geographic and historic comparison as they have standard and specific definition. The starting age is always specified - e.g. life expectancy at 18 or 60 or whatever. When the age is not specified, the implied age is zero or “life expectancy at birth”. I’ve never heard of “life expectancy at conception” nor can think that one country would calculate it but use the value for “life expectancy at birth”.
It’s the planning codes, zoning, and orthodoxy.

(And relative deprivation for why it never improves.)
Totally agree. I’ve been thinking the same, and it’s odd to me that he didn’t go that route to begin with. You’d think he’d be all over it.
Point taken, I don't know enough about individual solutions on the ground but fatality numbers are better, not just in Sweden but in multiple European countries.

Ideally pedestrian and cycling should be prioritized and vehicle traffic should be separated by rerouting, bridges, tunnels, barriers, and other physical means (probably cycling / pedestrian too).
Sorry, but I don't understand the question. Can you rephrase?
Self driving cars will be great because everywhere becomes a zebra crossing.
It also has a lot with the car-centric nature of urban planning. Can't recommend this guys entire channel of videos enough:

https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM

He delves into a movement known as "Strong Towns" that look to undo a lot of the mistakes city planners have been making for the last half century.

Edit: Here's a link to another of his videos where he shows why it is dangerous to walk in many North American cities:

https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54?t=240
Amazonian moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds
Yeah it sure has changed. People on social media today are more polite toward eachother than the revolutionary era founders of the US were toward eachother. The politics has calmed down considerably.
slim is pro-coup and our guy here is obviously against it. it makes the situation a little bit difficult.
I understand your frustration, but the condescending remarks are not conducive to wholesome scientific discussion.

Diversity is the way nature builds robust and balanced ecosystems - AI tools that reinforce ideological homogeneity could be catastrophic, for reasons I consider self-evident.

Returning to the topic at hand, and as a counterpoint to your claims, there are legitimate second and third order effects to consider regarding vaccines and the evolutionary dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. Don't take my word for it - here is peer-reviewed research from the brightest minds and top institutions in the world, raising serious concerns about approaching eradication of the virus purely through mRNA vaccines in their current form [1].

I cannot emphasize enough that the spirit of science is to question assumptions and rigorously prove hypothesis.

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (April 2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/
I don't think the rule is the problem. I think the problem is a lack of enforcement of the rule. Each car is meant to come to a complete stop before proceeding, and then only proceed if it is clear. Basically, no one stops. So all of those drivers are breaking the law and running the red light.
It certainly wasn't purely political. It was based on the idea that the decision to approve the vaccine is the job of the FDA and that they have to pass their safety and effectiveness verdict.

The US FDA was among the first world-wide to approve (Europe was months later) which in my mind shows that there is not much to an argument that political forces delayed the announcement (and how could the opposition / democrats influence a government institution such as the FDA if the ruling party couldn't? Please no deep state bonkers).

> The vaccines they are pushing now are the very same ones that were developed and tested while Trump was in office.

I would challenge that Trump should receive any political credit for supporting the development of the vaccines, because when the development was happening at Moderna (US) and BionTech (Germany) in spring 2020 Trump was still rejecting SARS-COV-19 as irrelevant. Trump should receive credit for Warpspeed that made sure the production of the developed vaccines is happening and is happening in a way that benefits the American people first (to great frustration to many Europeans).
Give it a try! It's strangely fulfilling.
Revoke the statehood of stuff like Wyoming annd Delaware[1]? Certainly doesn't feel all that unreasonable.

___

[1]: Hm, maybe gotta wait four years for the latter.
> I am slightly bemused by this because to all intents and purposes Darwin is unix

The oldest version of this article in the wayback machine is from 2003, but I see a reference from 2001 here:

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=912937

So I suspect it's from before the introduction of OS X.
I walk a lot and have to regularly deal with distracted or dysfunctional drivers as I cross multiple busy roads and poorly designed intersections regularly. Very few incidents that I experience involve drivers looking at phones, under 10%. Usually it's people zoned out, or only looking at where they want to go, or just not giving a shit.

I don't use my phone when I'm walking.
It looks like a strip version of freelancercv.com
That zoom in on S2J is hilarious.
I would say the sad answer is don’t. Biking in these three feet wide unseparated American bike lanes on 30mph and up (i.e. 35-40mph and up in reality) roads really feels like tempting fate.
I’m not sure if adboys includes FAANGs, but mqny of those companies have spent billions of dollars to do just what you said.

There is an argument they weren’t as effective as they could have been. Is that what you mean?
I would rather use C++, however if I really must write C, then a string handling library like the SDS from Redis project is a must.

https://github.com/antirez/sds

Naturally turning on all security features of the C compiler being used, warnings, warnings as errors, static analysers, FORTIFY like libraries, the whole package.

And like almost everyone else, I end up having my occasional segfault regardless of the amount of precautions taken, because I am not elite enough.
The 'article' is just lifted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...

which was published in 1999
This absolutely legit and you shouldn't be downvoted.
Sure: LG 27UL850-W. I can’t say whether it is exactly as sharp but to me it looks similarly sharp. Both scaled and on native resolution. The colours of the M1 screen are better however.
The answer is randomness. We don't come close to reading or even seeing all the posts here—there are far too many. Basically, it's the same boring reason as why cops don't pull over every speeder. Of course it always feels like you're the one being singled out when you do get cited (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) - but this is an illusion!

So when you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. And yes, you can definitely help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Anonymous contributors answer: What’s some underrated general life advice?
I believe I’ve seen designs for busy intersections, that pop up spike strips along the oncoming side of each crosswalk for as long as the pedestrian crossing light for that crosswalk is active. Big disincentive for being an asshole, that.
FYI, Tesla battery packs are designed for fire, and they're designed to vent fire upwards and contain it from spreading horizontally.

https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...
More like oompaloomlas counting how many Jaffa cakes they can produce before anyone notices the leaking dirty water pipe in the corner. The factory was pretty run down. The sugar and chocolate warehouses across town were being converted to bespoke high end flats, they had to sandblast the brickwork 2-3mm deep to get rid of the redolent, slightly vinegary odour of the raw sugar and cocoa mass. When the chimney blew our way down fulford road it was almost like smoked fish, I never quite worked out why a chocolate factory smelt so unappetising.
Despite the spam threat, you can get valuable contacts. So I'll do it someday.

P.S. My github profile is the same, so I got 10-20 strange followers - definitely HN-users :)
There have been some trials of cameras that detect phone usage. They ran one just as an experiment in Australia and found on one road in one day they found hundreds of phone users driving.

I haven’t heard of any of them being put in place for actual enforcement yet though.
The vast majority of anti-vaxxers I know are more on the Green side. The Trump supporters got the vaccine as soon as they could.
“Rising”
@democracy disagrees. The continued pollution/negative externalities by car mobility and the associated tax breaks (at least in my european country) are also making a car a net negative.
> But then again, I'm not sure our current times even allow that kind of humor anymore.

What do you mean? Seriously.
Well, one, is personally, I have texted and driven before, and I don't do that anymore, because I rear-ended a person while doing it. The temptation is too high so I put the phone in the trunk while I drive.

Second, I support any legislation to penalize texting and driving with penalties similar to or beyond what drunk driving currently gets. I am happy to support a criminal penalty of second-degree murder (i.e. ~25 years in prison) for impaired driving leading to death.

What more can I do? I'm happy to.
Tunisia never was a colony of France, it was a protectorate. Words have meaning, so please stop spreading disinformation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate

"Le protectorat colonial se distingue de la colonie dans la mesure où un territoire colonisé est placé sous l’administration directe de la métropole dont il fait partie intégrante, tandis que le territoire sous protectorat conserve théoriquement une relative autonomie." https://bibliotheque-numerique.diplomatie.gouv.fr/MEAE/fr/pr...
Have they ever partnered with the government to such an extent?
Our current list of the most important world problems
Modern militaries everywhere seem to have an attachment to elaborate synonyms for the simplest ideas. Superiority. Without qualifiers to narrow the context, one would think superiority requires superiority in all the relevant domains to, in fact, be superior? Though, perhaps it serves to emphasize the perspective that is broader than simple superiority in the air, or on a battlefield.
I have a 7mi commute I do by bike, 50% is along an isolated channel, the rest is city. At first I tried to find the shortest path, meaning more city than channel, now I do the opposite, I'd rather enjoy the peace even if it means 2-3 more miles.
This is from "In the Beginning was the Command Line"; more specifically it's section 11 of such. So this was written by 1999 at the latest, before Apple had released any consumer Darwin-based operating systems...
Can you find that?
> I would think twice about executing bash code from people's profiles

Perl is better, safest language, write only
Please do not swerve into nationalistic flamebait in your comments here. It generally leads to nationalistic flamewars, which are tedious and nasty and the kind of thing we're trying to avoid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's true, but then cops don't like doing traffic duty. I am not in favor of even more cameras and automated systems either.
As mentioned in another comment, Quest for Fire is a great film that tries to explain exactly this.

It follows the path of a group of Neanderthals in Paleolithic Europe (80,000 years ago), that try to tame fire, and their contact with homo-sapiens and other humanoid species.

It is outdated/inaccurate, given our today's knowledge, but We know The authors tried to do as much justice as they could, given the knowledge of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Fire_(film)

It was one of those slow but very captivating movies of the era. Movies like this (both indy feel and very high quality), are just are not made anymore.
Why is snprintf slow? I am surprised that it would be slow especially when compared to methods like asprintf that allocate the buffer.
Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011)
>Superspreaders (antimaskers, antilockdown, antidistancing, antivaxxers) are the people keeping COVID alive.

It's not as black and white as you try to paint it.

I'm not living in the US but I've encountered a sizable number of people who dropped all caution and safety measures as soon as they got vaccinated even though they still can catch the virus and spread the virus with the added bonus of favoring the formation of immune escaping mutations.
It is more profitable to crack down on minorities than it is to police the majority for day-to-day infarctions.
Fonts influence users’ perception of your product (2017)
As an old electrician, the description was accurate. Look at a Makita HR2470 for comparison to a normal power drill.

The handle has to be removed after every use if you want to put it back in it's case.

The handle is just pipe with a rubber handle at the end, whereas most tools use molded plastic that slides over the chuck.

And yeah, the body is a cube of metal, as opposed to large unibody plastic castings.
The reason why cars are prioritised is because they are objectively the most useful vehicle. By far. A bicycle is really a joke in comparison when you actually consider the usefulness, and even though I love to ride my bike sometimes when the weather is nice, I can also realise that it really is a luxury to spend money on bike paths in addition to already existing roads for cars AND public transport. Especially in colder climates like Sweden where they will be largely empty for most of the year, it's pretty obvious why this isn't a priority really. Why is it "wrong" to prioritise the most useful transportation?
It's also annualized, so it's $500m over the entire year.

And it's interest earned by the banks, not the Fed.
Recent and related:

A critique of Safari's influence on the web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27985783 - July 2021 (184 comments)
I can’t believe how often I start walking when I have right of way and the driver slams on their breaks and throws their hands up, honks, or cuts me off. Then when I’m driving I understand why pedestrians wave me on: it’s better to be wrong and alive.
interesting, can you elaborate how are you going to help? Financial, emotional support? Are you open to international companies?
Noam is often a well of discouragement. Over and over it's, "you can try, but ...", "those are good ideas, but ...". Here it is once again.

There's a difference between realistic and fatalistic. Yes, knowing what you're up against is essential. But if your life is spent at that ....

Vaclav Havel wrote:

" Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither ... can history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack."
I think it incentivizes banks to buy the securities from the Fed (to hold overnight). Otherwise why bother?
Take a look at this free serverless options for developer https://freestuff.dev/tags/serverless/
Once he realizes he actually lost the election and that the Trump insurrection failed he can move on to other important matters such as public health.

Maybe a Trump branded vaccine can be sold at a premium. Throw in a Trump Steak and a Trump Uni Diploma with it to bring people in?
Articles like this makes me realize how privileged I am, living in the Netherlands with such good pedestrian/bicycle infrastructure. The law here is also in favor of more at risk road users, so a car is more or less by default financially liable in an accident with a pedestrian [0]. There are exceptions, but overall this makes you really careful to not hit even the most reckless of cyclists.
[0] https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0006622/2018-03-15
Nobody'll see this, but still,

> Milton pled not guilty to the criminal charges in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday afternoon. He was freed on a $100 million bond secured against two of his properties in Utah. He is barred from contacting investors.

I saw a story a while ago somewhere about people selling houses for "wait what" amounts obviously more than they were worth, as a way to funnel cash around.

I wonder if the properties in question ($50m each?) were independently valued as such, or if the properties were deemed appropriately equitable (if that's the right way to put it) on the back of "I paid this much for this property".

If the latter, it's possible the bond's value is itself tied to a payout. Which is a bit meta.
switched full time and i'm a hppay camper myself. haven't used firefox since chrome 2 came out.