skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FHS is not wrong; cleaning policies are indeed site-specific and files placed in any temp directory can in principle disappear at any time. (Though, in theory, it's not supposed to happen while the files are still "in use" by running programs.) Still, historically you could count on files in /var/tmp lasting longer than files in /tmp, including across reboots.

Nothing will immediately break because you linked /var/tmp to /tmp. Whether it causes issues depends on the programs that you (or your users) run and how they make use of /var/tmp. However, if someone did have to restart a long-running process from the beginning because recent state information in /var/tmp was not preserved across a reset, I would say that is a problem with the administration of the system and not the program that stored its state there.
These jobs will be lost anyway. It's only a matter of time, and then the question is are they going to be lost to Toyota's EVs, or foreign EVs?

EVs are already cheaper per mile, and often have better TCO for new cars. When battery cost drops further, it will be a bad deal to pay extra for vehicles that carry an extra high-maintenance expensive-to-run engine. Especially that Japan likes Kei cars, which don't have space to waste.
I don't think battery airplanes are going to be a big thing, but I think hydrogen powered airplanes could well be a big thing. It's certainly something I'd invest a lot of R&D into.

Also, the airplane manufacturer business is ripe for disruption. You have an extremely bureaucratic and dysfunctional Airbus battling an even more dysfunctional and mismanaged Boeing. Surely there is room for a hydrogen startup to come in and devastate these two monopolies. Often I wonder how much the world would be different if we had 100 Elon Musks instead of just one.
I agree regarding battery based aircraft, but what about hydrogen?
But she's the Commission President—an executive position for a very complex and powerful international institution. If she were an MEP, then fine, I could accept that an MEP does not have anywhere the representative power such that their time could be so important as to need chartered flights... But I do not accept that for major executive operating in that capacity should be beholden to mere messaging politics. You cannot predict the traffic situation ahead of time, whereas you know to the very minute what any flight times are, which makes them vital for planning at that level.

Why would you want the Executive leader of the EU risking event and meeting timings when she's representing almost the entire continent all in order to "deliver a message"? Should the US president take a taxi when going from DC to New York?

In any case the message is clearly not dependent on this since basically only the AfD and British tabloids are feigning outrage over this.
What do you mean by convex?
Yes.
If you care about the surrounding people's health.
> Especially if you live in smaller city where you don't have a major train station couple bus stations away.

So these small cities don't have train stations, yet they have airports?
Seems like hypocrisy considering Electrek routinely ignores FCEVs (hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles), which are Toyota's apparent future preference.

Among other things, the image at the top of the article clearly shows "FCEV" alongside "HEV" and "PHEV" and Toyota sponsored a small YouTube series by Physics Girl. The indication is that Toyota sees FCEVs as a big part of the future of EVs.

Yet in this article Electrek says "M. Toyoda’s (Chairman of Toyota) [...] has taken a very public anti-EV position worldwide", "the companies and government are scrambling to slow the adoption of EVs in the country and abroad". Clearly Toyota is investing substantially in (FC)EVs, yet Electrek claims a hostile stance.

Electrek even goes so far as claiming that BEVs are "the only real EVs that don’t use fossil fuels". I'm not sure if the intent there is that FCEVs are less "real" than BEVs or if they're somehow injecting fossil fuels into the process somewhere.

This isn't an isolated incident. Just a couple of weeks ago, Electrek called the bZ4X Toyota's "first all-electric car" [0], ignoring the RAV4 and more recently the Mirai.

I don't mean this as an ad-hominem attack, nothing I'm saying necessarily negates other points in the article but it feels like Electrek is attacking Toyota for the very same sin it commits itself. Electrek should take a look in the mirror and consider reporting more fairly concerning FCEVs in the future. They don't have to like them but they shouldn't deny that they exist.

[0]: https://electrek.co/2021/10/29/toyota-unveils-first-all-elec...
I think the articles problem is the lack of a definition of "crisis", and that leads to a bad mismatch between the headline and what is a reasonable look at the data.

My issues with the article are:

It starts from a too high aggregation level - almost no one is homeless in California, they are homeless usually in a very narrow area e.g. within 500 metres of bridge X.

Percentage change in raw numbers are not a good way to measure "crisis", and especially not at a state or city aggregated level. It seems more like traffic to me. Even in peak hour traffic, many roads are free of traffic, and the worst affected roads are those where the level of cars exceeds the roads ability to cope. That happens in a thin range of total cars per minute for specific roads, not due to X% increase overall. The same is true of homelessness in a city vs ... let's call them "hotspots".

Perhaps even more important than numbers in specific areas is the actual conditions homelessness creates in those areas. "Bad conditions" could be everything from human faeces on the street increasing, to murders, over doses, disease and unsanitary conditions, and it is possible for "bad conditions" to decrease and homeless numbers go up, or visa versa. That is harder to measure for sure, but probably closer to what most people mean by crisis.
Thank you for that link. It validates my hunch that holding mostly equities and reducing spending during lean times can be better than holding equities/bonds and maintaining spending.
That's what it explained yes, but that doesn't cover the protocol handler on the shell side at all. Either it's a protocol with a protocol handler or it isn't.
My completely uninformed, wild guess: the manufacturing plants capable of creating those are creating other wires that are more in demand / profitable for them, rather than these cheap ones.
What he's saying is that Microsoft went in and hardcoded around edge deflector. That deserves an elephant-stomp from the regulators.
You can get MEMS microscanners although they're probably a bit small - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscanner but they can orientate a mirror on two axes.

This one looks a pretty decent size - https://www.sercalo.com/products/mems-mirrors/mm160110-2
What's your point? Are you implying that either that statement or article are false?
Checking simple equations or inequalities with z3
Word of warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force#2007_Bo...
Johnson and Johnson’s ‘Texas-two-step’ sparks outcry over US bankruptcy regime
This is a debate that comes up and I'm only familiar with the specifics in San Francisco. I won't claim it's the same anywhere else.

The shelters are full so the obvious problem is not people refusing to sleep in them.

At the same time, many of the "offers" of going inside are disingenuous. People giving up all of their belongings (specifically tent and camping stove), leaving loved ones, and the promised shelter is only guaranteed for a couple weeks.

When I say dorm style shelters I specifically mean each person has a door to lock and feel safe behind. Most current shelters are dozens of cots in a large room. I wouldn't feel safe there either.
Picking a random example from the article: "Deno’s linter, code formatter, and docs generator". Why you need to write a tool like this in low-level system language like Rust? And please, do not answer "performance" because: a) it is not critical for tool like this b) many other high-level modern languages for this type of project will give performance only marginally inferior to low-lewel implementation in Rust or C.
But the rich do control the supply for everyday items. People aren't eating more all of a sudden.
'Frontend developers' like who exactly?

Anyone that's worked in a reasonably sized FE codebase can very clearly understand that changing your framework is essentially migrating a huge production DB but on steroids.

Where exactly have you seen a team of developers change their front end framework every week?
do essential workers make up less than 2% of the population? it's hard to imagine this was ever realistic without extreme invasive tracking + quarantining of infected individuals.

What also comes to mind the Randal Munroe's "What if - Could we eliminate the common cold if we all self isolated long enough?"

In theory yes, but the severe degree of isolation and spreading required would likely not parse well with supply chain economics .. which given not everyone grows their own food, is also required to live.

edit: there's also news now of COVID spreading to deer and possibly other animals, making this scenario even less viable.
It's been 16 or 17 years since I wrote my first line of JavaScript and I still hate the language and almost everything that comes with it. The language is still arcane, even if or sometimes even more so if you use TypeScript; browser incompatibilities are still prevalent (though not as ugly as they used to be); and even popular libraries are barely documented and you regularly have to wade through hundreds of wannabe tutorials on Medium/Hackernoon/… by people who, as it turns out, don't have a clue any more than you do, until you finally come across that one open Github issue that explains (and confirms) all the reasons for your frustration. What's more, people are adding more magic and opaqueness to their build pipelines every day. There's not one linker ("bundler", "loader") and one compiler/transpiler, no, there are several. And depending on the bundler, loaders, compiler and transpiler and the target platform, some things like imports might work in completely different ways. (If you thought getting imports right in Python was difficult, good luck with JS.) Of course, these often happen to be precisely the things that are not well documented at all.

I'm not sure what the point of my post is, other than to vent. I guess sometimes I just wish we would get rid of JavaScript entirely and switch to a sane language with sane build tools.
Just want to apologise for the earlier submission of hop. Which leads to this.
It takes close to a year to re-tool a factory for a different auto model. The suggestion to just produce an older model just doesn't make sense in time or money.
> Then there is a third effect, which is the superiority of point to point designs. Miami Beach was developed in the 30s and 40s because some developers saw its potential as a great beach destination. But it was only with plane flight that the rest of the nation had a chance to enjoy it. Or Las Vegas, another center that sprang out of nowhere.

I don't think that these are particularly good examples for you to cite. Neither Vegas nor MB developed under the wing (so to speak) of air travel, but rather the interstate system. Air travel made them more accessible and accelerated their growth, but it was not responsible for their development, and the many folks who visited either of them in the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s without flying would likely not say that they could not enjoy them without planes.

In addition, although it's clear that Miami Beach and Vegas have benefitted from cheap flights, that doesn't mean that the net result for the country (let alone world) as a whole is positive.

> Even if you never buy a foreign good, the fact that a good was brought in will lower the price and raise the quality of the domestic good you do buy.

This sounds like an incredibly hand-wavy claim, and also easily refuted as a general rule. The easy (flight-based) import of foreign goods has, in many cases, led the complete decimation of various US manufacturing sectors. If you hadn't noticed there are essentially no mass-market US electronics companies any more, very few clothes manufacturing companies, and in many manufacturing sectors that do still nominally exist as US companies, their factories are no longer US based. It's false to lay this all at the feet of relatively cheap air freight, but it certainly plays a role, and refutes your overly broad claim that "Anything that lowers the price of bringing in that good will have a huge positive effect on the economy."

> Anything that makes the world smaller generally has big positive effects.

Yes, the positive effects are well known and oft-discussed. The negative effects are less well known, less researched and rarely discussed. This means that it's hard to have a well-informed discussion about the balance between the two.
Without the details, it is impossible to say.
Even if the train adds a few hours, I'll choose that option over flying any time. With a train you just go to the train station, board and sit in your comfortable chair with a nice desk to work on. Everything is stable, and so quiet you can even sleep. If you take a plane it's just maximum stress and discomfort. Waiting in line to check in, waiting in line to go through the security gates, waiting in line to board, waiting for the plane to take off, waiting for the plane to dock, waiting for luggage, etc.
It was incredibly useful for that, except for the occasions where Rubinius got things wrong. :-)

It was also fascinating seeing how the abilities of their VM fed into the design of the core library. I remember soon after starting work on TruffleRuby starting to look into the performance of some string methods and doing extensive refactoring because the type of code that performed best for us was very different.
I'm running it on my desktop, with firefox, seamonkey (a firefox variant), and chrome. The tor browser is also available (another firefox variant).

I haven't had any problems running youtube and other stuff. Using a thinkpad x260. Very happy with the performance.
"But in all instances there is typically an oversupply of homeless shelters that people refuse to use"

What's a west coast city with empty shelters? The ones in my town are full.
not doubting you, but what models? my 10+ year old 555s and 280pros are still going strong. want to be sure to avoid whatever you bought when I end up replacing them.
Ask HN: Opinion on Modern UIs
Recently I started doing exercises over at https://exercism.org/ and they just overhauled their platform with new features and most importantly a new user interface.

I spent about half an hour trying a couple of challenges and navigating the site and I noticed I started having a headache.

The website contains a ton of information and all of the information is organized in a way to make the UI look good, without giving much attention to the user experience, I noticed the following pattern in the site:
- Overly formatted text (Bold, Underlines, Italics, Heading...). I mean it's just way too much.
- Excessive use of graphics and drawings. Yes, they are pretty, but they are everywhere!
- As a newcomer I found the onboarding to be fair, but after the onboarding things started to go south, I couldn't find where the exercises were located, there were lessons, paths of some sort and exercises in between, things quickly got messy and I was going back and fourth trying to find where I was.

Now I might be ranting and everything's fine with the site, but I want to really know is this the new modern web? Is this the way a website / web app should be laid out? With rounded borders, graphics, icons and different colors all over the place?

Also please do keep in mind I have nothing against Exercism itself, I really do like their platform and their exercises, I am just sharing my opinion on a topic which started to really get into my nerves lately with most sites I visit.
There are several claims worth disputing, but in a nutshell:

1) The claim that "climate change" is a problem is on its face pretty dumb (are we shooting for climate stasis?)

2) The claim that humans are causing all the change is again pretty dumb (we didn't have climate stasis prior to our industrial revolution, now did we?)

3) Most climate alarmists don't really engage much with this outside of research papers, but there's really quite a lot of debate about how much the climate is actually changing (not as easy to ascertain as it sounds), and as well how much of the change is caused by humans (it's nowhere near 100%).

4) The claim that a warmer planet is necessarily worse for humans is... strange and not supported by history (in fact, looking back through ancient civilizations, they tended to thrive and grow with warming periods, and die off, sometimes precipitously during cooling periods--the name itself, greenhouse gasses, kind of hints a bit at this--that is, whaddya grow in a greenhouse?)

So, it's not clear entirely how much humans are causing the change (and thus how much we could realistically affect it in the other direction). But it's not also clear what amount of change is ok or desirable, or even what direction we should target.
Blackblaze Soars nearly 40% Intraday
In that case it was an incredibly stupid move for car manufacturers to wind down orders for semiconductors, even in the face of covid. The down side risk is huge.
This is just an off-the-cuff guess, but I wonder if you're ironically not blocking enough Javascript?

The page loads for me as long as I allow 1st party scripts. I don't have XHR turned on for the site. Iframes obviously don't work, but everything else seems functional: navigation, controls. I don't see a chat option anywhere, I guess I'm blocking that.

Just purely a guess, may not be the real issue, and you may already be doing that anyway. But I've run into websites where it feels like half of their JS exists to break the other half, and when I reduce down to only 1st-party, everything suddenly starts working better.
and did you catch how they swapped out 'global warming' for 'climate change'?
Plenty of trees grow on the north side of hills though. Not every tree needs full sunlight.
Look, the OP implied that autism maybe be a likely reason why someone could be observed regularly making denigrating jokes like "9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape", because we lack "social awareness" to tell otherwise.

As an autistic person, who knows other autistic people, and is a part of online community of autistic people, I'll go out on limb and say that the OP is talking out of their ass, and I can comfortably speak on the behalf of the community on this topic. Other people who identified as being on the spectrum in this thread agreed.

OP never said they were autistic. It's just what they think autistic people would do.

It's an n=√-1 generalization: purely imaginary, and on top of it, insulting, because figuring out why a joke like "9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape" is bad doesn't take that much.

Particularly because so much has been written about it. Go ahead and read [1], it's an excellent article. Or my comments elsewhere.

TL;DR: portraying the condition of "being a jerk" as an autistic trait is a jerk move.

>What I feel is worth spending time criticising is my business.

Then perhaps you should spend less time criticizing, and more time getting a clue — though again, I'm sure you have different plans regarding that too.

[1] https://theconversation.com/psychology-behind-the-unfunny-co...
You nailed it - getting rid of spaces and dashes and underscores is extremely human-hostile. People added spaces to the English language for a reason, and that's because they make it way easier to read.

Your system is only intended for other programs to interact with? Go nuts, make hex UUIDs. Actual people are supposed to use it? You need separator characters.

I also don't see how those characters add "extra complexity" unless you're doing dumb things like text processing on paths and filenames (as opposed to using OS/library functions that handle paths correctly) - in which case, there's your problem.
Is it the tulip’s fault? At least it wasn’t the Mushroom Tower.
Lived in London for a year and a half and almost never took the train because of that... it was soooo expensive.
This is what I've done, but it's still hard to find someone who will do things in idiomatic Svelte.
International trains don't stop just anywhere so you still have to go to a big city to get such train.

If you want to go with train from east Germany to Amsterdam you still have to go to Berlin. It still takes ~6.5hr of train ride from Berlin to Amsterdam. Where flight is ~1.5hr - of course getting through security and all it is at least 2.5hr and then depending on which side of Berlin you live transfer from your place to the airport. Which I would say does not matter because for train you still have to get to Berlin HbF. You might have direct connection to Berlin HbF but as well some people might have direct connection by bus or train to the airport.
If you live in a medium sized city, there’ll probably be a book store focused on art books that stocks it or can order it for you. Many museum book stores have it as well. Might sound old school, but there are apparently quite some people who shop this way because for a niche topic it has done well.

There’s fairly little marketing, it all hangs on the publisher having good connections with distributors, that have good relations with book stores, and then have a pitch and cover design that are convincing enough for these book stores to stock.

As someone often creating digital content, I was impressed by how well these networks function. The book does not have a lot of online presence, yet it still found its way around the world.

When it comes to the digital version, I made it myself, because I figured that it also needed to circulate this way and that it talks to another audience. However, not doing much marketing for it other than posting on social media, there are very little sales. Visits to the website don’t really convert to eBook sales, so I think the audience I have at the moment prefers the physical medium. In posting on Hacker News I was curious if this was going to be different.

When it comes to the license, it permits people sharing the PDF. Ideally for me this means people mailing it to their friends, but I think it includes hosting on a public platform too. Because of the NC clause, to be sure the platform that hosts it should also be non-commercial, so I imagine someone could share it on their personal blog for example. This will probably happen at some point. It’s a bit of an ambiguous feeling, I realise it’s a consequence of the choice I made and that it will help the material reach more people, at the same time it doesn’t feel great to loose control. At least I hope I’ll be good enough at SEO so that people continue to realise it exists for sale :) After all that’s how paying for digital media often works, as a decision to want to support the author rather than a necessity to access the content.
Maybe it sounds like that because they are marketing a toy?
The playmate has a unique interface with its wind up arm thing. I would assume all the already made launch games will use it
right. but is anyone thinking about how the transition may go? how decentralized is the fossil fuel vehicle industry and how might its replacement look? are there policy levers that can ensure the new ev economy is as inclusive as the fossil fuel one was? are there policy levers for taking care of those who simply won't have a place in the new economy and have too much invested in the old one?

it seems this all gets way too little attention.
Being away from other cars is one thing, but how you get there is another.

There are only two ways to go down on a motorcycle. High-side or low-side. Pretty sure most people would prefer low-side if they ever had to pick. I had a high-side crash on a bicycle once. Luckily it was a grass field with soft dirt. Had to go home and change my pants after that one.