skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That, and also I think communities setting consumerist standards (houses this size, cars this make and year) are mostly suburb type. In big cities it's easier to hide your real worth since people mostly socialize outdoors and for example the car-show-off effect is minimal. When you meet someone in a big city chances are they won't even see what type of car you own. These things become less relevant in this type of environments, at least from my experience.

The big city is the place where you can save on things you probably don't need. Move to the city, find reasonable accommodation which I believe is possible even in places like London and Paris, and just don't buy or do things that you don't see contributing to your life goals much. Just enjoy the vibrant and inclusive environment that's a big city. Socialize, exchange ideas, and save save save.
How is that "gloom and doom"?
Traditionally houses didn't have a lot of windows because glass wasn't as good as it is today when it comes to insulation. Triple glazed windows are becoming a standard in a lot of places.
People also didn't spend that much time indoors because they didn't have anything to do. Times have changed and the needs of the people have changed.

Walls being thinner nowadays is due to the advances in options available for construction & insulation, not to mention safety standards. Modern ceramic bricks with air pockets + 10cm of polystyrene on the outside for insulation is insanely efficient for most residential establishments.
"What do you want us to do? Stay in Afghanistan forever? Where and when does it end?"

Like I said, I don't want Washington to do anything. I'm a disinterested observer.

I can be a disinterested observer while saying something is an objective failure. It does not mean necessarily that there might have been any other outcome, or that I was rooting for some other particular policy.
I live in a London suburb. I don't have a car, or even have a drivers license because I've always lived places where having a car isn't important enough to weigh up the cost and nuisance (to me).

Before delivery services, I'd walk to the grocery store every few days. It was perfectly fine. When I commuted I'd just pop by on the way home from work. There are at least 4 small-ish shops within 10 minutes walk, and half a dozen bigger ones within 20 minutes walk or a short bus ride (that would also coincide with the commute for a large portion of the people living around me).

And I live in perhaps the worst location locally in this respect - I'm pretty much equidistant from three 3-4 different shopping areas, dead centre of a very low density residential area with few shops.

Overall, the key thing to maintain a walkable neighbourhood is simply that enough people who live there actually want to walk. In that case there will be enough shops nearby. The problem occurs when too many of the people in these neighbourhoods like to live in an area that is walkable, but still prefer to use the care.

I think the key to make such neighbourhoods work is fewer parking spaces to explicitly ensure a sufficient portion of the people living in them actually bring foot traffic to the nearby retail spaces. Do that and you get grocery stores without any need for detail regulation.

Where I live the council won't approve planning applications with more than 1.5 parking spaces per living unit on average. It could probably be significantly lower.
I don't love the code style in terms of indentation, line length, alignment and bracket placing but IMO at least it doesn't look childish / reckless.

I think there could be bug in he_internal_send_auth_userpass when it copies the strings because when calculating the string lengths it uses the size of he_conn->username and he_conn->password which are "HE_CONFIG_TEXT_FIELD_LENGTH +1" whereas the sizes of the destination fields in he_msg_auth_t are "HE_CONFIG_TEXT_FIELD_LENGTH" so .

Take it with a grain of salt, I just took a very quick look mostly to see if I liked the coding style and it's far too early for my brain to be functional but it seemed that way to me. Other than that I didn't hate the code which is cool!

Thanks for opening it!
Nah I’d want this from the government not a third party.
Yes, exactly. Linear probing is often easier and faster. Using buckets also helps (each bucket contains multiple slots), for both cuckoo hashing and linear probing. E.g. the cuckoo filter uses a bucket size of 4. See also https://gankra.github.io/blah/hashbrown-tldr/ for a fast hash table implementation.
Which rights would those be? The ones that were given up in order to join the EU?

Most EU countries are not sovereign states, given by the fact they don’t control their borders nor their economy (See Greece, or the other affectionately named PIGS countries). There is an insane amount of influence from Germany and Belgium.

This is a glasshouses and stones situation.
there have never been more millionaires and there have never been more children of millionaires, to say nothing of the fact that the average laborer can afford things today that the average millionaire could not afford ten or twenty years ago.
We know many people who are either on the path towards early retirement or will have the opportunity of do so. They make good, but not great salaries, live frugally (e.g., use public transportation), and save.

It’s not hard.
Your second paragraph hits the nail on the head. Income is scalable, saving is not. Expand your income, and invest. It's all a lot easier when your income is pumping.
At the most basic level: if people don’t leave, they can’t come back with the virus.

Also, we’ve instituted mandatory hotel quarantine for anyone coming to Australia. But hotel quarantine only has a certain number of places; if less people leave Australia, then less people will come back and fill up hotel quarantine spaces.
Individual Choices, Not Lockdowns
Modern day slavery is human trafficking, forced prison labor, re-education camps… you know, actual slavery. Having no social security net is a real problem, but let’s not be hyperbolic.
Those properties could be mortgaged to the hilt too. Me, I paid off my house and maxed out my 401k for 25 years; not yet 50 and well past that threshold. Work now is just for 2x kids college savings, which is almost done.
It's not slavery, but it's a certain amount of Unfree labor.

Unfree labor is a more apt term to describe what you are talking about since it includes: "destitution, detention, violence including death, compulsion,[1] or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families."[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour
Returns on my investments (through both my mortgage and pension) are negligible as well, and considerably more risky.
Yep. This is also the case in other countries.
I think it's also worthwhile to consider not just whether you can amass several millions from frugal spending and steady-hand and sober-minded investments into the market, but whether you should.

I think most people set themselves goals such as working at FAANG, having millions in their accounts, driving expensive cars, not because it'd bring them happiness but because that's the societal expectations that they have unknowingly adopted and never noticed the switcheroo. It makes sense why society as a whole would value this "work to the bone at the cost of everything else" behaviour - it creates good workers whose work benefits the society. It is not clear how it benefits the worker.

At the end of the day, what's the point of having those millions in your bank account when your 75, have bad knees, arthritis and crippling back pain. Decide what you want to do with your life, and work your hardest to achieve that. Don't dance at the tune of someone else's fiddle just so that maybe at the end of that long ride you can get a handshake and a pat on the shoulder.
Of course we should, but the solution is primarily politics, not technology.
Expense Calculator (2005)
I wouldn't say 'die' but I think Facebook has lost a lot of its glamour in the last few years.
The scale and guaranteed perfect recall are not "only" different, they are fundamental differences.

I would find it odd if someone were writing down everything I said. I already find it quite strange when I write something (on Signal or similar), and the person responds with a quote-reply of something I said years ago. "But I thought you wanted to visit Moscow?" or even "I'm sure you said you wanted to visit Moscow" are quite different from "here's the message you sent on 2019-02-05 at 14:32 telling me you wanted to visit Moscow".
-Well, there is such a thing as bio-degradable land mines in the works. [0]

(At least the idea was discussed years ago - whether it is implemented in current land mines, I've no idea.)

While mines are still an abomination, ensuring they are laid down with an expiry date is still progress. Of sorts. I am in the rather awkward position of hoping for development in the anti-personnel mine business - I've no illusions such an effective weapon will ever be obsolete, so the best we can hope for (sigh) is that they will at least not cause collateral casualties for decades after the conflict which caused them to be deployed in the first place.

[0] http://www.metts.com.au/landminesdoc.html
> So, in your view, human rights cannot be suspended, even if there is an emergency?

This does seem a pretty common misconception. People seem to forget that even the most liberal countries still regularly and systematically infringe on people's rights, e.g. by imprisoning criminals. But you don't see many of the anti-lockdown types protesting the existence of prisons.

In both cases, it's a matter of proportionally balancing the loss of individual rights with the interests (and indeed, other conflicting rights) of the community as a whole.
Seems plausible, it fits with the larger theme of mercenary misdoings and their use as an underhanded, unofficial military influence exercised by states. And Russia is particularly notorious for this sort of thing.

I wonder how necessary these things are geopolitically, or how they are justified by either sides. Dealing with mercenary forces and their total lack of accountability or ethics as a local civilian can only leave one disgusted, jaded, and with nothing but hatred for the nations which cause or let these things happen. Does anyone here have experience with this topic, and can say what the advantages are, if the goal is not purely to demoralize?
Yep, but that "lower quality of life" can be surprisingly good. My father had a friend that was an El Salvadoran immigrant, as a teen in the 80's this guy was an illegal farm worker in California. He got his green card, then citizenship, and through all this (teen to adult, to family man with 5 kids) he lived in a trailer park outside Palm Springs, CA. His wealth building method was super basic: he purchased shipping pallets and re-used to wood to create picture frames and bird houses his kids painted in various themes. These items were then sold in the dozens of little knick-knack shops around Palm Springs / Coachella Valley. Little by little he purchased the entire trailer park his family lived, and when my dad met him his family owned a dozen trailer parks near Palm Springs and their 3rd generation has kids at Ivy League schools. They still live in the same trailer park lot, but it is probably nicer than many walled communities, from the actual friendly community aspect this family cultivates.
> But what 30 year old would want to live and work in a village of 5000?

Married with kids and want to move to the country to settle down. Isn’t that what a lot of 30-year-olds do? Especially middle class people like doctors.
Hunger is a pesky thing, however.

And I tend to agree with the conclusion of the article - what's the point in saving that money if one has to live on a shoestring budget to acquire it? Specifically the "work all your life, end with $8 million" case. FIRE is different, with the value being the option to stop working much much earlier than 65 years old.
Ironically simplifying it like you just did is one of the contributors to the diminished reverence for science in that part of the world.

There was a famous and nuanced published discourse between a philosopher named Al Ghazali and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) on the merits and failures of knowledge.

The observers of the discourse basically warped it into science vs. religion battle and as with all things with binary fanbases one school of thought had to prevail over the other. The delicate harmony between religion and knowledge shattered.

As the Middle East has learned and continues to learn the dangers of the spiritual ungrounded by knowledge, the West is now learning the dangers of knowledge unelevated by the spiritual.
Many languages offer similar capabilities without many of the issues C has plagued into the industry.

In fact there used to exist computers where C compilers did not even exist for them.
Don’t put your money in low interest savings accounts.

You can average 7.5-10.5% a year by investing in low fee index funds. Even with the market as inflated as it is, you should still see returns significantly higher than what you will get from a bank.
Game theory, just like essentially everything in math, physics and probability, and cs is about adjoints, norms, and fixed points https://github.com/adamnemecek/adjoint/

Nash equilibrium is a fixed point.
VS desktop class hardware, the power draw is a giant plus also leading to no or quiet fans. An old laptop, however, has about the same power/performance consumption while including an USP, keyboard, mouse and screen, albeit it is bigger and has no GPIO if you need those.

That being said, I am running a NAS and PiHole on a RPi4B right now and am happy. I am planning on turning an old laptop with busted hinges into a server with a nice housing though. I'm very interested how it's going to pan out :)

Edit: I had a 1U server with 2x intel CPUs (16 threads all in all I think?) with 32G RAM in 2012 or so and it didn't see much use. It was LOUD (small screaming fans that pushed air through the chasis) so it didn't see much use.
Slowdown of Earth's spin caused an oxygen surge
Governments have no problem "stepping over the threshold" and using violence. If you think that the US government wouldn't use violence against its own people for breaking laws, even hastily-written or unfair laws, you're sorely mistaken.
Then there is lots of people who just die before they are even retired.
Do you have a source for "tens of thousands"? I think it was fewer than 10k.

Thankfully only 3,500 in Sydney out of a population of 5 million. Fortunately the vast majority of Australians aren't completely selfish and thoughtless. Nobody likes lockdowns. The government doesn't benefit from them, it's not lining some evil overlord's pockets.
it should be the default for all users. so much cybercrime and spying wouldn't be possible if we lost information by default. People can learn to protect their valuable information, and it's a worthwhile risk to take
Someone could, and people did. DoubleClick was founded in 1995 and was using cookies for tracking user interest across sites by 1997 (or earlier; hard to pin down). There was lots of discussion of this at the time:

Any web site that knows your identity and has cookie for you could set up procedures to exchange their data with the companies that buy advertising space from them, synchronizing the cookies they both have on your computer. This possibility means that once your identity becomes known to a single company listed in your cookies file, any of the others might know who you are every time you visit their sites. The result is that a web site about gardening that you never told your name could sell not only your name to mail-order companies, but also the fact that you spent a lot of time one Saturday night last June reading about how to fertilize roses. More disturbing scenarios along the same lines could be imagined. There are of course many convenient and legitimate uses for cookies, as Netscape explains. But because of the possibilities of misuse we recommend disabling cookies unless you really need them. https://web.archive.org/web/19970713104838/http://www.junkbu...

(Disclosure: I work in a part of Google that's descended in part from DoubleClick. Speaking only for myself.)
Drivers and vehicles are by far the biggest expense in operating a taxi service, not matching, ordering, and navigation. The only way Uber was ever going to make sense was if software could eat the drivers, but they effectively gave up on that and it's looking like it won't happen any time soon. We've already long had "better tech" for moving large numbers of passengers between popular destinations in a city: trains and buses. But they're still not profitable and require public investment. Uber as a public service could probably work, but then no one could get rich transferring wealth from late-stage investors to early-stage investors.
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> Borders in AU are pretty naturally secured by oceans.

There have been few cases of people getting indoctrinated with ISIS videos and then doing terrorist attacks.
I'm pretty sure those apps were breaking Apple's design guidelines, though.
Remember when Google Maps had real zoom? You could count someone's eyelashes from space. The fidelity was so good that it was subsequently reduced. I think it was military/gov objection. To those who were accustomed to the power of old zoom, new zoom was super suck and still is.

I think what were seeing with search is a corollary: the results are blurry, not clear like they once were, like an intentional backing away from clarity. Why dirty the results? Except for teaching copyright holders a lesson*, I don't understand.

*$593 million fine in France v. Google
A working class person owning a 6700 sqft home? I live in a MCOL area and that would be a $1,000,000 home at a typical price per square foot. In a suburb of a major city that is going to be much more expensive.

"Starter home".
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I saw that and I was like “everything they did was 2000 years before it right?”

The author is hyping it up too much. The author goes on to speculate that people are going to give up air conditioning for this.
Massachusetts Startup Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
The “State of Technical Debt 2021”
> Decide what you want to do with your life, and work your hardest to achieve that.

This is precisely the "American Dream" mindset that the article is calling out as a fallacy. Most people are not in a financial position to do what they want, much less achieve lifelong success (financial or otherwise) doing it.
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Ask HN: How to deal with coccyx pain while sitting?
Any advice for a fellow IT worker who sits for a living dealing with the discomfort of coccyx pain?

I've done or am doing, seat pad, physio and Doctor's with no improvement for about 6 months.

Keen to hear from others out there dealing with the same nagging problem.
> That's not true afaik.

Can you look first into Wikipedia, online law publication to verify before spreading misinformation?

You are morally obligated to edit your post and correct it with the true facts.
GraphScope v0.6 Released: Code with Eager, Executive with Lazy
In my experience, the end result is having a team of kubernetes fanatics reinventing the wheels themselves and forcing everyone to use their custom ego filling tools instead of paying $100 per month to an already existing solution.

Most developers just need something like heroku, tsuru, appengine, or openstack. But because kubefans want to have fun too and try to be as cool as Google or Facebook we end up having to deal with tons of custom Golang tooling with fancy names, half assed documentation and grumpy looks when you ask for help because you don't understand the 38 steps guide to deploy a service.
In many big data processing systems like TensorFlow, developers usually choose the eager-evaluation in the development stage, as it can ease the debugging of applications, while switch to the lazy-evaluation in the deployment stage for better performance. GraphScope v0.6 introduces this feature to graph computing. In GraphScope, developers can easily switch between lazy-evaluation and eager-evaluation by just setting the value of mode as `lazy` or `eager` when creating a session `graphscope.session(mode='lazy|eager')`.
Build Your Own Fedora IoT Remix – Fedora Magazine
DevOps and Agile: The two worst things ever to happen to software development (and developers).
> Guns in the hands of the Australians who want guns in their hands is an outcome that's about a thousand times worse than a "disarmed people".

It is, until it isn't.

> Also, anyone think that a US civilian militia has more than a snowball's chance in hell against any committed government-deployed force?

See: Middle East
I was thinking the same the other day. FB recommended a news article from Australian media yesterday, basically the journalists translated some Chinese text into some negative words in English, and wrote a piece for it, unbelievable. The way I see it is that both China and US do not want to go to war, but they all know there is a possibility you cannot ignore, the media is preparing for it. If you can label your enemy as non-human or evil, you don't have to worry about backslash from your citizen when a war breakout. I strongly feel this is the reason for what is happening now. In a few years, there will be conflicts.
Amazing. Thrift, savings, and investing are now apparently triggers for the HN downvote brigade.
Turks are there because they have been invited officially.
Seeing increasing number of non-tech related political posts here. Is it HN or ZH?
I wonder if it becomes economic if you factor in insurance payouts for destroyed houses as well as carbon and other pollution from the fires. It feels like something could still be done.

I know Americans hate the whole idea of taxes being used for useful things and would generally rather die a horrible death. But California usually seems a bit more European in its government style.

Has anyone done the maths on some kind of giant lawnmower that bags up the forest floor to create a fire break? Seems like it could be at a minimum burnt for electricity or anaerobically decomposed to hydrogen and be carbon neutral as a bonus.
The analogy just popped before my eyes, that is all. They both claim to have 'really simple solutions to problems'.

Except it is not easy at all. It is very hard.
> chemical weapons are not in use anymore

That’s got to be the most caveated statement in a blog post ever.

For anyone reading casually, I really hope you’re aware Russia deployed a chemical weapon against the UK in anger as recently as 2018.
SlowMist has a non-humorous writeup. https://slowmist.medium.com/the-root-cause-of-poly-network-b...

I am still waiting for Rekt to cover this one.
This is not true.

"The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude."

Hence the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
They fought for clean air.They didn’t know they were part of a gas ind. campaign