skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over what timeframe? It can't be yearly.

The population of NZ is 5,000,000.

The smoking rate is 12%.

A saving of $5B/y would mean $8,333 per smoker, per year.

Don't forget that a typical smoker in NZ might pay about $5000/y in tobacco tax ($100/w for 2.5 packs or 1 pouch per week taxed at 80%+).

Let's call it a saving of $13,333/y then.

But wait! This $5B figure obviously can't be based on eliminating smoking, just a reduction. So the estimate must be based on saving much more than $13,333/y for each smoker this 'stops'.

On top of that, smokers on average die much younger than non-smokers. Healthcare costs are mostly accrued in old age.
> Touch is by default idempotent.

maybe, depending on your definition of idempotent. It does update the modification time of the file, which does result in a different state if it is run multiple times. Although in practice, that probably doesn't matter most of the time.
Really cool!

I've never understood why modern software projects use names like `mw` or `mr`? What's wrong with `memory_read` / `memory_write`? Or `opcode_execute_fn opcode_executers[NOPS]` is magnitudes clearer than `op_ex_f op_ex[NOPS]`, and the only advantage of the latter is less time to write.

You will spend at least twice as much time reading your code as writing it, just take the extra time. Nobody needs another `vsnprintf_s`.

ETA: I have to repeat this is an insanely cool project idea, and very good execution
Na, the key imo is having good feedback loops and properly aligning the incentives with the objectives
I apologize. I'm just about worn out by the conspiracy theorists after these last couple of years. That's no excuse – I should have just quietly notified the admins. I'm sorry, it won't happen again.
We're talking about renewables? How is that frying the planet?
The userland was largely BSD, but the Mac kernel was a Mach kernel w a BSD shim for syscalls, iiuc.
Yes games have been a social forum for over 2 decades. But they're not federated like ActivityPub nodes are.
Why is it absurd?
One thing I do want to point out is that "not allowing any apps to interfere with 911 calls" is much more complex than it sounds:

1. What about someone who has a tablet (with no cellular functionality) but has a VoIP app installed?

Clearly, the only way to call 911 on such a device would be for it to go through the VoIP app, so it seems like Android at the very least still needs VoIP apps to be able to handle 911 calls under certain circumstances, such as when there is no cellular functionality.

2. How about a situation where a cellular phone has no communication with any cell towers (for any network) but has a VoIP app installed and access to wifi?

Unlikely, to be sure, but possible. In this case, the only way for the phone to reach 911 would, again, be through the VoIP app. If 911 access must get through no matter what, Android would have to let the call go through the app, despite that the phone has cellular functionality.

Those are likely just a couple of instances and there's almost certainly others I haven't thought of.
if making games is a game...
In a single party system, one entity as large as CCP can never be "coherent": you'll always have people pulling in different directions.
View source is completely disconnected from the developer tools, and poses no self-XSS danger.

The given reason to disable view source itself was "students are able to find Google Form Quiz answers in source code" which is pretty ridiculous.

Also something about getting past a really broken web filter.
Yes, but they also introduce a lot of complexity to the developer experience. It is turtles all the way down with async code, as they say
Not really meant for friends, but for organizations and companies we have build Open Social as open-source platform: https://www.drupal.org/project/social and SaaS at https://www.getopensocial.com/

We are happy to have the backing of orgs as the UN and the European Commission. Goal is to go fully decoupled using React and GraphQL next year.
It’s simple. The difference goes to the guys in the article so they can ride in a helicopter, and they in turn give 5% of that to your Representative so he can ride in a Limo.
> Linux doesn't support such platforms, and I don't think Rust ever will either.

Almost all software not written especially for such devices doesn't support non-8-platforms. Heck, POSIX mandates that char is 8 bits.
> Golden Arches Theory was intended as a joke. Trying to "debunk" a joke, does nothing to negate the trend of increased economic cooperation leading to decreased conflict.

I think you misunderstand. I wasn't specifically referring to the Golden Arches Theory as bunk, but the more general one you describe. It's bunk because it makes assumptions about motivations and strategies that aren't necessarily true, not because of some specific counterexample to a jokey formulation.

In China's case, I don't think it's playing the same "economic cooperation" game you assume it is. If the "decreased conflict" result has any truth behind it, it's because if increased interdependency, but it's pretty clear (for them) that's not a desired end-state, but rather a transitory state on the way to more independence and greater strength.

Those I suppose you could still have "decreased conflict" even in that case, as long as other nations remain too dependent on them to be able to object or resist if they want to do something objectionable.
Iirc new ICE models will be banned in some countries as early as 2030.
What is it, then, if not a dark theme for Vim as wel as a bunch of other editors?
Of course not! They choose their targets using Google Maps: nobody was ever fired for using Google Maps! :D
Yes, I don’t use pure white, but the lighter solarized themese seem to work reasonably well.
That’s a good point. Both companies also offer single sign on services too so again maybe that could keep redirecting users back to their sites.
150% on desktop here.
I wonder what academia (sociology, anthropology) says about the issue. Any pointers?
Curious about that. I recently made something similar, but for SQLite w/JSON. The backend can use a local sqlite3 file instead of mongodb, while using the same queries. It can only translate the queries we actually use, but it's quite doable to translate $lookup, $group and $project to their SQL equivalents (which were the inspiration for the aggregation in the first place, IIRC). Initial evaluation shows that the performance is quite good, and the translations look decent, so it might be possible to get some mileage out of ferretdb.
Can you please elaborate more about "in terms of civil liberties and all that stuff Russia is far behind"? Have you ever been to Russia?
You can raise hell about this.

The FCC regulates 911 service. Here's the form for filing a complaint about 911 service:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new?tic...

States also regulate 911 service. Try your state's office of emergency services.

There's something called "Kari's Law" that may apply here. This was passed in 2018 after someone was being attacked in a hotel room and their 9 year old daughter tried to call 911. She couldn't get through because the phone system required dialing 9 for an outside line. So, now, all business phone systems are required to recognize and pass through 911 to the main phone network. There are criminal penalties. (Microsoft might argue that "Teams" is not a "multi-line telephone system". That probably wouldn't go far with a jury. The clear intent of the law is that if you interpose something between a phone handset and the 911 network, it has to pass through 911 calls.)

The whole 911 area is heavily regulated, since it requires that so many things interoperate reliably.
I'm impressed that Dracula Pro generated over $189,389.50. It's cool that they managed to make money from their color scheme.
I guess as long as the tank tread on your neck is Chinese - it’s not a problem.

Better to be called a facist in democracy than to live in the authoritarian dictatorship you provide unceasing support to.

I pity the people of China, who don’t have a say in their government, and have no choice but to tow the party line, What’s your excuse?
Last time when I use this app, there is no login and comment function, only reading. I had to use Materialistic - Hacker News [0], with old UI and no update.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...
For some of the reasons mentioned by other people in this thread, I don’t think glasses actually fix the problem. I have astigmatism and generally light text on a dark background is difficult to focus on.
I'm testing io_uring for file I/O for a database engine, which is a very different code path than networking with epoll, and so far I've been disappointed to find it roughly 20% slower than my userspace thread pool doing the same thing for that task.

Most likely there is some tweak to batching and maybe SQE submission watermarks, but I haven't found the formula yet.

I was surprised to find the sqpoll thread spins instead of a fast timer. Seems like a contention problem on a single core system, which still exist in VMs, etc.
What immediately come to my mind is companies. When they made mistake they tend to have a specific person to take the blame and apologize. If it's too much, then that particular somebody would (be forced to) resign or get fired. And then life within the company goes on normally as if nothing happened.
Think docs.Microsoft.com etc - some people spend all day every day on there!

I spend quite a lot of time looking at new MacBooks :)
Quackery it is.
Right but those cases are already solved in a cheaper and less complex way and have been for an extraordinarily long time.
Have private Slack. It is good.
When I write a bot like this I generally prefer using browser automation (like puppeteer). This requires less reverse engineering and is often a lot simpler and faster to implement.
Maybe a smaller line under it akin to "and 227 others" would make that clearer
Yes, this report is about CVE-2021-3489 which is patched a few months ago.
I(author) forgot to add such info.
If a zombie could detect it doesn't have thoughts, it would report about it. This can be done with reflection. If a zombie can't do reflection, that would be an observable functional difference from human, which is not allowed by definition. Therefore a zombie knows it has thoughts the same way a human knows it. A zombie only doesn't have qualia based on the assumption that it's possible to think without qualia.
Why does this comment thread need a "get off my lawn" type response? Some people like dark themes cause white strains the eyes. I like off-white themes but none of those I've used are all that great for coding so I stick to dark themes
I think the OP meant that Israel doesn't officially recognize Hamas rule over Gaza (because Hamas is a terrorist organization, and it also doesn't recognize Israel). But Hamas de facto rules over Gaza, and as a result they have (slightly) moderated their behavior.

It's true that Israel does not consider Gaza to be Israeli territory, nor does it want to annex Gaza. And it hasn't actually occupied Gaza since Ariel Sharon as PM ordered the IDF to unilaterally withdraw, although Israel and Egypt do maintain a shared blockade of Gaza.
Don't overthink it; That is the point of a "Hobby" !

Do whatever catches your fancy at a particular point in time; depth/breadth don't matter. Don't make it into a "chore".

The point is to enjoy the process and striving towards a goal of your own choosing.
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Anthony just released his annotated DX-7 ROM listing, aided by Ken's work:

https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx7_rom_disassembly
Interesting, doesn't that penalize cheaper cars? I mean let's face it not everyone can afford a 50k Volvo or Tesla. And those systems are still very premium. Gonna take 10 years for it to trickle down.
More practically, if the browser developers make more efficient browsers, what typically ends up happening is that the web developers make more inefficient websites that consume the additional resources available. It's Parkinson's law. We need both efficient web browsers and efficient websites.

All guilt and responsibility is individual, as individual humans are the only ones with subjectivity and agency. Assigning blame to groups and "others" is extremely counterproductive. You either do what you can or you don't.

We can sit around trying to find scapegoats and and point fingers for a hundred years, and it's not going to do any difference. The consumers can blame the the producers, the producers can blame the consumers. The voters can blame the politicians and the politicians can blame the voters. The right can blame the left and the left can blame the right. Men can blame women and women can blame men. Cats can blame dogs and dogs can blame cats.

The reason it all sounds true is that every single one the accusations are true. Why yes, the producers are to blame, so are the consumers, the politicians, the voters. We are all to blame, we're all culpable for our decisions as individual humans. Each and every one of us all have responsibility.
It's still public, but now it is behind a login, and people can see who has looked at their tax info.
So the whole kernel should be beholden to you as the minimum viable target then? I hope you realize how self centered that outlook is.
it's a flying tank, not a fighter. it shouldn't even belong in the air force. ground troops love it, it should fly for the army with AF doing what AF usually does, which is flying fast, high and stealthy if possible.
Egyptian fintech Sympl raises $6M for its ‘save now, pay later’ service
I've also encountered this kind of apathy in other devs. I don't have a good answer what to do about it though.
Isn't that the JetBrains default dark scheme?
While tangential, when I last visited South Korea, only local mapping companies were able to offer maps of the country.

Apple / Google maps were so bare, even the proverbial crickets were missing from the maps.

When looked from my desk, Seoul's map is as detailed as any other big city now, I wonder whether it was geofenced or something. I installed a suite of apps made by local software houses to be able to navigate the city.
Another astigmatism person here. I cannot get on with dark colour schemes at all. Every so often I give it a go, in my IDE or desktop theme, and then quickly switch it back. It's not that it's too dark per se, but it feels like the text is just 'floating about' with no real anchor to the page, which is a bit of an issue when you are trying to code or write documentation.
What's the difference between this and the Darcula theme included in Jetbrains products?
The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2
I love the A-10, but it is really only useful in places like Afghanistan where you have air superiority, combined arms, artillery, mobile infantry, and the enemy is farm boys with AK-47s.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't think we should discontinue it, because man we do a lot of oppression of teenagers with AK-47s in the last 50 years. Really the US Military should have an "occupation and oppression" service branch if they were honest, with the counter insurgency, A-10s, helicopters, urban warfare infantry, snipers, drones, etc. It could be equipment that is 10 years old, or simply very cheap versions of more expensive stuff used by the branches that presumably exist to fight a peer state.

This post was brought to you in the spirit of "the war nerd".

But they'd never be that honest.
"Reality is what you can't change" (Bazon Brock, Philosopher)
Perfectly spot on. It's not about being malicious/apathetic but rather the things you mention above.
There was a guy in march 2020 trying to contact Gates directly with this idea - engineering less dangerous coronavirus and purposefully infecting everyone to push covid19 to the margins. I think he even posted here asking for help.
Perfect description. I also see this happening in newly formed political parties over here in Europe, political parties that were marketing themselves at the beginning as "anti-system" (i.e. different compared to the old, established political parties) and such.

Initially they were attracting quite a diverse bunch, which is good imo, as political parties should represent swathes of the population as large as possible, but as the time progressed and as the disillusions started to show up their ranks got thinner and the only people left were the "more fanatical" ones, as you well put it. Unfortunately doing politics with "fanatical" people is very unproductive and border-line dangerous for the fabric of society.

Not sure if there's a way out of situations like these.
> So you mean the current administration then?

All of them since the 80s at least (except for Trump, but he's not representative of the class "US leaders").

> And china seems to be focused on free global trade as well. Trade embargos are more known for the US.

What do embargos have to do with anything? Chinese leaders might be OK with free global trade, given the kinds of controls they have on domestic market access, they aren't really committed to "free trade" like the US has been.
Sorry, didn't mean to strawman your setup :)

Yeah, when I do use light themes, I mute them similarly. And I have the brightness on my screens turned down a bit, and the blue channel trimmed down a smidge.

All the lights in my house are at 2200K, so I definitely have a preference towards warmer light.

My theory is that it's like cilantro (some people think it tastes like soap) or like pineapple on pizza (which is objectively wrong, about this there can be no debate). I just can't stand bright light.

I'm sure a sizeable chunk of dark theme users do just like to pretend they're administering The Matrix or something. But not all of us :)
More like "there is no change that will satisfy these users".
The survivability onion:
https://i.redd.it/33lz51812ko31.jpg

Gun anti-air(AA) is basically useless against jets at this point (they fly too high and fast). For missiles, you can't really evade them if you're in their kill zone (they can accelerate way faster and turn way tighter than a human can survive). Your hope to survive a missile is to either not be "seen" in the first place (whether that's radar, or at somewhat less far distances IR), or to be far enough away that you can run away from the missile until it runs out of energy (aka don't be in it's kill zone and have enough speed/energy to flee. Speed is energy is life in air combat, turning hasn't really mattered since the 60s and dogfighting is a meme since turning kills your energy which makes you even more susceptible to missiles).

Ground based AA has big problems with actually seeing planes from far enough away at this point due to the horizon, and the ability of planes to shoot anti-radar and/or loitering munitions from over the horizon against ground based AA. Plane based AA is obviously better due to being higher so the horizon is pushed further out, and not having to be immobile (think cruise missile saturation attack against a ground based AA site), but if you have inferior planes or munitions (eg. Russia vs US/NATO), then investing more heavily into ground based AA makes sense as you'd never be able to reliably have air superiority to protect your ground troops if you relied on plane based AA.

Stealth (low observability is a better term) plays a huge role at essentially reducing a radar's effective range (iirc estimates I've seen are that the F-35's stealth reduces the S400's effective range from ~140km against regular jets to ~35km against an F-35).

This has all ignored the datalink/networking going on between all these different systems to eg. extend radar coverage, or how afaik SAMs are usually run in "passive mode" and are constantly relocating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition#Initial_rol... is a good primer on how planes vs ground based AA can actually be planes with "cheap" missiles hunting SAMs). Also, in a peer/near peer conflict A-10s wouldn't be used even after achieving air superiority and destroying all the SAM sites, because they're too vulnerable to even cheap manpads or gun AA and can only be flown in areas with 0 anti air threat (which is why the airforce wants to drop them and get Super Tucanos that can do the same job of dropping a laser guided bomb at ~1/10 the flight cost).
I don’t see why anyone’s obligated to support Really Old Thing just because some people don’t want any change.
Somebody should tell this person about GNU Make.
This one looks really great!
It's semi-public.

Previously, up until 2010-ish?, newspapers etc. could ask for the public tax records from the government and make them searchable.

Now that's not possible, but they are free to list the 10-50-100 richest people in each municipality, the sports people earning the most, the business mean with the highest wealth or lowest tax etc.

Everyone can still look up individuals, though, but they have to log in to a government portal to do it, _and_ the individual being looked up will be notified about it, and who did it.
That’s mostly it from experience. There is so much unproductive churn these days it’s unreal. And that comes from the tech we use and the processes around it which are just a giant cargo cult.

Work out what you can salvage from it, salvage it, and walk for a smaller or at least different company. That’s all I can suggest.

One thing I have learned is that if you’re not happy, don’t keep doing it. It’s not worth it.
The Pro version actually happened much later after the theme was created. Google probably chooses Dracula because it's the more popular choice.
Nope. We have free software everywhere, except phones, heavy manufacturing systems (where a 3d control can and will be downgraded to reduced-precision on one axis in software just because you are in the wrong country, or disabled if GPS doesn't work), legally valid government interaction (I am disallowed by the contract to use my government-issued S/MIME certificate with anything else except CryptoPro), and many other places.
Yes. There are lots of specific technical requirements from the FCC on this. First, even if the phone is locked, calls to 911 have to work. If there's no SIM card, calls to 911 have to work. For 911 calls, the phone's transmitter goes to full power and the receive side will attempt to connect even if the signal is too weak. If you're subscribed to one carrier and they're down, the phone has to try other carriers in range. If no talk channel is available, the cell site has to free one up, kicking off a non-emergency call if necessary. If the billing system is down in the cellular system, the call has to go through anyway. For newer technologies, VOIP has to support 911, with location info.

"Oh, we decided to divert all calls to Teams first" is just not going to fly.
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> Those who want an address in the middle of the city shouldn't expect to pay the same as those who are prepared to travel to the middle of the city. I don't think that building more housing units in the middle of the city is going to solve the problem of expensive housing in the middle of the city. The middle of the city is always going to be expensive.

Indeed. Proponents seem to argue that most of that high rent paid by tenants will be captured by taxes and redistributed.

Proponents goal is to make "similar" improvements provide the same net profit across the country, even if the rent for it is $800 in Detroit and $4000 in Manhattan. The taxes would be $300 in Detroit and $3500 in Manhattan. Therefore a developer looking for $500/mo profit could just as easily build in Detroit as in Manhattan.

After the demand for housing was satisfied by supply rents would fall, and LVT would fall as well, such that landlords continue making $500/mo profit on each of those identical units.

At least, that seems to be the ideal situation presented by proponents as I understand it.
If you look at a graph https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/#g... its just a repeat of last year, the numbers are almost 1:1 the same.