skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume one reason Apple has made it more challenging to extract the dictionary resources is in order to satisfy licensing constraints with the dictionary authors. I wonder if they'd block an app like this through the App Store submission process, if submitted.
Yeah I dislike a lot of the barriers on the bridges. Even the large iron/concrete barriers on the pavement are inconvenient for pedestrians (they are narrow choke points if a lot of people are crossing and must be particularly bad for those in wheelchairs.) I would much rather they were bollards that were easier for people to pass between but perhaps they would be insufficient at stopping motor vehicles.
Nobody has ever succeeded proving an all-quantified statement by showing only one example.
In a lot of cases, they don't want to do the job. There are teacher shortages in a lot of the United States, especially in states that are infamous for mistreating teachers, like Texas.
Upthread context is someone positing/supporting a total ban of all ICE in their city and someone arguing that’s disproportionately harmful to the poor because pure EVs are more expensive. In that context, it matters quite a bit that the Volt has an ICE, even though I overall agree with you on the Volt being environmentally beneficial.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504461
What Is Photography, Anyway?
Citizens need to enforce and assert their rights there before it's too late.
So, the truth is exactly what everyone thinks it is?
Isn't your poll mostly gathering data about what kind of friends people have? You could have asked people directly - will you quit, do you disagree but it's not your hill to die on, do you agree
> If I follow your logic, it's okay to have AIDS, TB, leprosy, etc. passports too?

If they start spreading exponentially via aerosols, sure.
The quote was from Mere Christianity
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The question is too broad. It will depend on your situation and resources. If the code has been stable and secure for 15 years with a bit of maintenance? Why would you replace it? If you are adding new features or the code has become hard to maintain? The sure refactor and rewrite away. There is something to be said for using timetested code, but you should never turn it into a religion and remain practical and open to revising it if good reasons come along.
Management and leadership are not the same thing. One person can lead millions of people through clear and emotional articulation of their vision.
Ah, you're right. I remember seeing these ages ago, I wonder how I forgot. There's 4-stroke lawnmowers though, how bad are they?
Most of those discussions are not quantifiable, not following restrict logical, so they can easily dilute to playing word games.

For example: "Wages are not the simple product of supply and demand in Smith; bargaining asymmetries are key." -- "key"? How is this key? If bargaining asymmetries are the key, why not low skill workers get paid $1million and the management get paid $1k instead, since workers are out numbers and they can easily win the bargaining fight? Of course, supply and demand is the key, and bargaining is simply a side factor.

The whole article does not have a clear methodology, totally driven by the author's perdetemined conclusion, just picking arguments from here and there. Seem useless to me.

BTW, I always think left-wing academics should just go out, open businesses, pay workers twice their market wage. And boom, a big win-win! You win your ideology fight and workers get better pay.
Should have mentioned, I'm running testing/unstable. After the stable release, all the new experimental stuff for the next release floods into unstable.
I assume lone wolf attackers are harder to foil.

Personally I don’t really mind if security services are stretched a bit thin as it makes overreaching harder (but perhaps being stretched thin makes them want more mass surveillance)
'feel' the surfaces it would ultimately interact with

I would like to see the map of the universe at different potential speeds (or thrusts). E.g. you choose a point in space nearby the sun. At thrust zero you only see hot sun everywhere, because there you go anyway. But at greater thrusts the sun turns into a circle and you start to see sections of the “sky” where you could land, given the thrust is constant. Some areas would be still black because of blackholes, orbits and event horizon. I always wanted that simulation but never found it. It would be much more interesting than just looking around via reversed photons flying into your eyes.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that the rich people clogged the road in developing countries, but we heavily depend on cars/motorcycles for our transportation. Poor people use them all the times (especially motorcycles). And people with low wages do take loans just to buy a cheap car/motorcycle, even way before buying a house since they provide immediate benefits with manageable monthly installments.

EDIT: It makes me think why there is not much push for electric motorcycles. Whenever EV is mentioned, it's always been a car.
Sure.

Fork some child processes, and keep an AF_UNIX socketpair() open to them so you can pass them file descriptiors with SCM_RIGHTS.

Have the main process divide up the fds it is waiting on into a "hot" subset and cold subsets of size at most N, and for each cold subset pick a child process P. fds can be moved between hot and cold at any time, and generally you will move them to hot after they have woken and been used, and move them to cold after a few consecutive poll-cycles where they were not ready.
Don't move fds to cold subsets belonging to child processes that you don't want to wake, though.

When the main process is ready to "poll everything", have it iterate over each child process that is not already sleeping, and send a message over the socketpair(), containing a list of fd_set additions and removals to that child's wait-for subset, including the type of poll (read, write, etc).

For each fd where the child doesn't have the real file descriptor yet, pass that over the socketpair() as part of the message. (If threads are usable instead of processes, there's no need to send the file descriptor. But on old systems, the system threads were often implemented by userspace multiplexing with poll/select anyway, so it wasn't a good idea to use threads with this technique.)

As well as a list of changes, this message tells the child process to run poll/select on its subset, and then reply with the set of fds that are ready (and their readiness type).

After issuing all the child process messages, the main process does its own poll/select, to wait for hot fds and replies from the child processes.

The reason this has different scaling properties, despite the overheads, is that each child handles a limited size subset, messages scale with the amount of change activity not the size of sets, and ideally the "coldest" fds end up gathered together in child processes that continue to sleep between a large number of main process polls, so the number of active child processes and messages scales with the amount of change activity as well.

Keep in mind, even active fds are removed from the wait-for subset if they've recently reported they are ready and the poll loop hasn't read/written them yet. So it has similar algorithmic properties to epoll.

As a bonus in the case of select(), the fds in the child processes have smaller values than in the main process. So in addition to the number of fds polled per cycle scaling with the amount of activity instead of the total number of fds, the fd_set bitset size does not grow with the total number of fds either. In the main process the bitset size does grow, but it's possible to juggle fd values with dup2() to overcome that.
Not very good writing, and a not particularly insightful take. The comparison they make with 9/11 is somewhat instructive: coronavirus has killed multiple orders of magnitude more US citizens, even killed multiple orders of magnitude more people than the entire war on terror, and caused more economic disruption than both combined.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that coronavirus as an endemic disease requires different management strategies, but to think of it an extension of the politics of fear is absolutely missing the point: Coronavirus was and is a real crisis. They do sometimes happen.
No, for forward time travel you don’t need any sort of exotic matter. You just need a really fast rocket.
A really interesting BBC documentary from the 90s about reconstructing early human languages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7x7vLM_q50
Even if it is stable, it may have accreted many features over that time such that the code is now difficult to modify. Being able to leverage standard c++ stuff could be quite valuable, and could even result in less code (for them to maintain).
They appear to be doing it very gradually, where the first step is probably little more than simply compiling the existing code as c++ instead of c.
On the contrary, GINI vs per capita GDP show a negative correlation (really, more of an L shape with the US as an outlier). The US is the only country with a GINI over .4 and a per-capita GDP over $35k.

https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-chart-shows-us...

Much of Western Europe has similar GDP per-capita and much less inequality.
("throwaway81523", ok; I'll take the bait.)

Check your chronology: I wasn't a Mozilla higher-up when HTML 4.0 replaced 3.2. IE won the first browser war and MS was instrumental along with Dave Raggett in finalizing HTML 4. MS also was all-in on "JScript" by that point, having contributed to the ECMA-262 standard as I describe here:

https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.12.html

I was not a "Mozilla higher-up" during this period, I was not in management. From engineer role doing JS in 1995, I was promoted to Principal Engineer at Netscape by 1997. So your chronology there is bogus.

Also, mozilla.org did not exist until late 1997, and was not launched until April 1, 1998. Once again you are out to lunch on history, out of some bizarre desire to blame me personally for the web standards in full, and consequently browsers that implement them, being so complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#HTML_4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars
I’d definitely assume this would be a copyright problem if used in an app.
Probably EHfive for their pioneering work on integrating those into PA/bluez https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
But people with AIDS are not allowed into the country already, why you add conditions? Does the Constitution say anything about aerosols?
Besides, TB spreads with the aerosols so we should have the BCG vaccine mandates, right?
Did you never learn that the definition of a government includes having a monopoly on violence?

Australia would essentially become a failed state with your suggestion, and I don't exactly think the government is just going to let that happen.
I highly recommend N95 masks against forest fires from personal experience.
Market excesses are always marked by a "hot" sector. Remember the Nifty 50?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty

The members of that group were the tech giants of their time.

Replace "large-cap" with "tech" in that article. Rinse and repeat.
We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Join China probably, because I strongly doubt the US is coming (or will stay) to help given it’s track record.
What compiler flags did you use? Perhaps -Os would even things out a little more.
Can you let us know which public school system has 2-4 assistants in a 24-person kindergarten classroom so I can move there when I have children?
A full rollout of those ideas would take decades. I'd love to see all of them happen, but you can't just force someone to get rid of their ICE car and promise they'll have good public transit and a walkable neighborhood come 2035.
because light doesn't experience time, and the closer you get to the speed of light, the less time you experience. So what OP didn't say was that, while YOU can travel many lightyears in your lifetime, everyone you know will long be dead.
Strikes me as almost the definition of survival bias; the species that survived have these properties and therefore survived. We don't know that much about the species that didn't but let's assume they didn't have those properties.
Cool, but is anyone using IRC day to day in 2021? Not trying to be snarky, I'd love to, just don't know where I'd be.
I was surprised to see no examination of the American healthcare system vs. those of the European countries listed anywhere in the article.

Doesn't it make sense to see life expectancy fall for every age category when every age category and group have to contend with the same byzantine and terrifying medical industrial complex to get even the most basic care?
Your 42% Pfizer number appears to come from a study that suggests we (1) use Moderna, which is 76% effective, and (2) get boosters, not to not bother with the Vaccines. Also, it's a single study, preprint, and not yet reviewed, so not that appropriate for setting public policy.

It looks like your X*1.6 formula is made-up nonsense.
Hypothetically, what would happen if we (USA) banned all fish imports and greatly restricted domestic catches for a few years? For the sake of argument assume there's no economic impact on local fishermen (e.g., through grants), but would that be enough of a catalyst to make China's illegal fleets economically inviable and allow the oceans to recuperate a bit, or are more drastic measures necessary?
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This software turns a Windows PC in to a personal cloud server with browser-based remote access, file and data storage, and webcam access with motion detect. Currently looking for general feedback on the product and its usability.
Wow. It’s like the twilight zone over there. I’m quite concerned at the lengths governments are going to take away our rights. All in the name of “the good of others”.
I think what makes brown unique in this regard is its ubiquity in nature, partial desaturation, and lack of obvious mapping to a saturated color.

Emergence of names of colors in languages usually goes black, white, red, yellow, grue, then blue forks from blue, brown, orange, then "specialty" colors like pink, purple, indigo, teal. It's the only partially saturated shade that gets a name before its saturated variant (orange). Being able to name things brown is more important than orange, so that mental link is weaker. Hence why we have "dark blue" but brown is not "dark orange." (though I think some languages call it "dark red"? I'm a bit hazy on that detail)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term
Learn functional style programming, it will take you a long way towards writing maintainable, concise code. The request/response cycle and stateless applications are a great fit for functional programming in Ruby.

You may be tempted to use a lot of meta programming, because Ruby makes it easy. Resist the urge and only use it if you have no other option (which is rarely the case).

Byebug (or whatever debugger you have available) is your best friend. Also using your repl (irb/rails console) will let you “play” with your application and use your application like a shell with a domain specific language.

If you have access to Ruby 3.0, absolutely learn how to incorporate static types into your application it will save you so many headaches in the long run.

If you’re working on a web app, learn how to use your database without the ORM. ActiveRecord, for example, is really nice but if you don’t understand the underlying SQL it generates you’re going to be in for a word of pain. Learn the different ways to inject custom SQL into your active record queries. Use the .merge function to easily create complex queries using scopes from multiple activerecord classes.

Checkout Trailblazer to learn modern paradigms for building web apps with Ruby.

If your employer will pay for it, or you can afford it: Rubymine is absolutely worth every single penny. Use the 30 day trial and you’ll be hooked, I can almost guarantee it.

Take a few minutes and understand how the Ruby Ghost Class works, it’s seldom useful but you’ll impress any senior developer with his salt if you know what it is and how it works.
i don't think New Zealand has actually had intense lockdown for the entire last 18 months? I think they had short periods, but over the whole pandemic period I think they've had much less interruption to daily life than here in the USA, with much of that time having few restrictions, no?

> you all recently had one of the highest rates of infection since the pandemic started.

I don't think so?
> It was Jan. 31, 2020, and a leading infectious disease expert, Kristian Andersen, had been examining the genetic characteristics of the newly emerging SARS-CoV virus.

> “Some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Andersen wrote in an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci, noting that he and other scientists “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”

> But, he added, “we have to look at this much more closely and there are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change.”

> Change they did. Just four days later, Andersen gave feedback in advance of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine letter that was referenced in the prestigious Lancet medical journal to argue against the idea that the virus had been engineered and brand it a conspiracy theory.

> In his email, Andersen called the ideas that the virus was engineered “crackpot theories,” writing, “engineering can mean many things and could be done for basic research or nefarious reasons, but the data conclusively show that neither was done.”

It appeared that the expert gave an unbiased opinion, and 4 days later, not only did they retract the opinion but denounced it as a conspiracy theory.

Maybe he just had more time to review the information or maybe the elite told them that this theory is politically sensitive and should be dismissed.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fauci-s-emails-don-t-pr...
I work remotely even before Covid. I am also vaccinated.

I would quit if this was mandated on me. My country already has vaccine 'passports' for certain activities, and while I am fully vaccinated and support vaccines in general, I fully oppose vaccine mandates/passports and refuse to do any activity that requires it. I guess if in the future to go to the supermarket to buy food I might show my passport as the alternative is to starve, I am 100% against this and will as much as I can, remove myself from civilisation if this the path we move towards to.

(ps: also no FB, IG, twitter, bla bla blah before someone says X or Y are tracking me already)
NY has the “Excelsior Pass Plus” that can also include recent CoV test results.

In my experience only high end restaurants, union industries, and major public institutions are requiring either, but the number and type of venues is increasing.

Both types are publicly funded apps for both the QR pass and reader apps, and they have data privacy terms that I think most of the HN crowd would find palatable.

One can debate the effectiveness of the mandates in NY, but the state did play a reasonably proper role in providing the tech to facilitate it.

And yes, anyone can create and sign a SHC, but the VCI initiative is trying to create trust networks so that only certain signing keys may be considered valid. Not moving fast enough there, IMO.
If governments all had a permanent monopoly on violence we would all be forever living under the eternal dynasty of God-Emperor Hammurabi CCCXXIVI in the all-kingdom stretching from the Euphrates to all the sun has ever touched.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to make long-term positive changes.
"Database performance is the single most critical factor in our ability to scale while meeting service level objectives."

Ah, that's unfortunate. It's hard to get RDBMS reliability/performance "right" in the face of changes, and scaling it isn't easy. But at least all the problems are well-known.
Is it just me or there is not way to download the entire book as pdf?
>> glance inside your bag and maybe a metal detector

Why would you like transportation staff to treat you like a criminal?

>> Forcing criminals to move to the streets

Maybe a better approach would be to have less criminals rather than to move them around?
~1% with good care was closer last time I checked. There was a good paper explaining differences between locations were mostly because of demographics and the total result was in that range. 0.4% is the rate of total NYC residents who have already died for example. So for that to be the IFR NYC would have had to have 100% infection of its population. Not impossible but seems unlikely.

Without good care, like when hospitals get overwhelmed by a wave, 3%+ was likely. But that heavily depends on the exact pressure and maybe we've gotten better at treating it anyway.
Because Google “invented” it as a competition product, and it wasn’t purely an ad product. It failed because of that. Then they acqua-hired YT to later transform it into primarily an ad revenue product (and now also a separate revenue product).
Armed rebellion is not always needed to make changes. However just letting the state do what it wants without push back certainly is not going to change things.
PostmarketOS // Release: v21.06 Service Pack 2
gonosztopi is the main developer, and he’s doing a really great job in keeping the software alive.

The introduction of CMake does not mean anything for users, but is a major feature.

Previously the different build systems were mixed and not integrated: autotools, xcode, vscode, shell scripts..

It should now be easier to maintain the code base.

Congrats!
Australia is already a failed state. That happened the second they decided to imprison their populace and started talking about the "New world order." The state has failed its people, and the only thing left is for it to crumble.
Generally countries are doing ok job blocking extremist from immigrating but preventing kids of those immigrants from radicalizing is hard to impossible. Police struggle to penetrate insular immigrant communities and political environment (for now) prevents harsh measures against even known terrorists (case in point - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-guantanamo-khadr-i...)

UK, France and Germany each had more than 1000 citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq - most of them are second gen. Most of terrorist in French terrorist attacks on 2015 were citizens of EU and second gen immigrants. I would expect situation to get much worse in the next 20-30 years unless global Islam looses steam and purpose similar to Christianity loosing them earlier in 20th century.
Source code for the South Australian app is at https://twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley/status/14308771839966904...
I don't know how you got into this state, but suffice it to say that most of your comment is quite flagrantly false. It is clearly not worth trying to talk to you.
That depends on how the standard library is implemented. I wouldn’t be surprised if libc++ or libstdc++ used explicit template instantiations for STL containers of primitive types, e.g. std::vector<int>.
Is there even an elephant in the room? Most of these other countries have effectively free access to health care, whilst millions of sick American's avoid seeking care because of the crippling debt that comes with it.

Also, I know how unpopular this opinion is, but as someone who's lived in America, several European countries, and Australia... the average American has a lower standard of living than the average European, and the bottom of society in America tends to fall much lower than the bottom in a European city.

Life is more civilized in France, Italy, Spain than in the US. Sorry :D