skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Canada has some of the harshest (and most ridiculous) covid measures in the world

> And we have some of the lowest death rates in the world. Should we just condemn the vulnerable people to death because freedom is more important?

Should we continue to allow children to die from suicide in favour of the mandates? (ex. https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/milas-story )

I think you'll find that most people understand there is a balance to be maintained; nobody wants to see kids die, either because of the virus, or because of the response to it.

> Can you give examples of these "ridiculous" covid measures?

You mentioned the chief one yourself -- people are threatened with losing their livelihood if they don't comply; the ability to work are travel are guaranteed in the charter of rights and freedoms (and the only surviving signatory of that document is suing the government). Many people have been coerced into receiving the vaccines who did not want them.

The measures are not proportionate with the severity of the disease. Everyone was willing to do two weeks to break the curve, but no one signed up for two years of it.

There's no question that China has been insane with their response to Covid.

> > bimbo prime minister that has no interest in civil discourse about what measures the federal government should be able to impose on people and is only interested in securing his own power

> Why should he negotiate with people whose demands include the removal of a democratically elected government (from a few months ago I might add)? You can't shut down cities and blockade roads just because the party representing your interests lost but I guess we haven't learned from Jan 6.

Mr. Trudeau is the prime minister of the entire country, not just the people who voted Liberal. It is his duty to consider what the people have to say. A competent politician would've address people's concerns before they resorted to civil disobedience. Mr. Trudeau says everything is on the table to solve this problem -- everything, that is, except listening to the electorate.

The truckers are not interested in politics. They're not all represented by one party. Indeed, they have the most support from the farthest right and farthest left parties (ie. PPC and Green parties), neither of which have any power.

How many people need to support a position for it to be worth hearing? Do we not make efforts to protect people with extreme minority positions?

> If the federal mandate (i.e. getting tested after the crossing border) is unconstitutional, the supreme court is down the road. But let's suppose this mandate is dropped, how can these unvaccinated truckers enter Canada when they need to be vaccinated to enter the US first?

There are a number of lawsuits in progress from months ago (ex. https://www.mounties4freedom.com). It is surprising how long they take to be heard. It is true that some of the mandates come from the provinces, and some from the USA. The prime minister can address the mandates he has control over and that would help significantly towards defusing the situation.
Which is which, though?

I mainly wanted to do a dB comparison so there's a reference to how this 'torture' compares to other, normal experiences. If they had made this point of fact explicit in the article, then maybe they would have went on to explain how the particular sound profile of the wind turbines was somehow worse (hopefully with evidence!) than it seems at first blush.

Since they didn't, it's pretty clear to me that the writer or editor has either woeful research practices, deficient intellect, or a private interest. My money is on the last one: lots of wealthy, well-connected people own holiday homes that lose value when people build turbines near them.
Right when I was looking forward to selling my new masterpiece "Mona Lisa with 1 pixel changed".
Cloud gaming notably absent from the list of predictions here. Will, at some point, gaming support on Linux reach a level where it's cheap and cost-effective to use as the host operating system for gaming instances?
Discord has (very fast) search and I've had a ton of success searching for a problem and finding answers. YMMV I guess.
Most of the examples would be relatively simple Perl or AWK one-liners. The appeal of this tool seems mostly to be that you can use Python, which isn't one-line friendly out of the box.
Still trying to find a place to do curling. I watched bbc they have mini-curling (only little rock) but no sweeping. Just for fun. Good game of “chess”. Wonder how it compares with bowling green.
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Shared living spaces require more coordination with neighbors, either directly or through an HOA. I don't like coordination, so shared spaces are not my preference. Having to run important repairs through a consensus process makes things take longer and become more expensive.

If you can't coordinate with your neighbors directly, and resort to the courts, you're likely to end up in the same place when you can't coordinate with your neighbors as HOA. Although, sometimes, having established procedures can smooth things over.

Single family detached homes without an HOA may not scale (probably doesn't), as you say in another comment, but that doesn't mean we only think we don't like the options that would scale. I haven't lived in a condo, or in an HOA, because I have had choices and I'm not going to pick a choice I've got enough information to determine I'll dislike.
I am going to buy 100 acres and close myself off from the world. Bye bye! You can keep your dense living.
Not really. Because it wasn't a hard limit. Even after the Bible records that God said this, it records people living to 450, 175, 120 years and so on. After God said, the span gradually reduced to well below 120. So, a case could be made that it wasn't a hard limit.
while these seem to be widespread in the churches in United states.
Is it always less risky? What happens when the price of apartments triples or quadruples over the years but your income stagnates or even goes down? You’d better have rent control, which is generally a bad economic policy overall, and you’d better love your apartment because you will be stuck there. When I lived in SF, many of my older neighbors were in this situation.

If you own and can afford your fixed-rate mortgage, you are much less likely to be in this situation, or worse, homeless.
Maybe I misunderstood your claim, but there is:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Tr...

Which seems to be what you need to send 'headers' after a chunked response.
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr039xnco-8
Because a simple, integrated part of the pocket product just turned into a dependency on a large, complex, fragile ecosystem.

Instead of improving and investing in the pocket product, firefox instead chooses to leverage it to promote their other stuff, at the expense of making pocket's user experience worse.
> Can't see why a condo inherently should appreciate less than a house? If there is demand there is demand.

Probably depends on city maturity. In most North American cities, there is plenty of room for more condos. In your case, it is not possible to build more condos either.
What is particular about IE7? According to https://caniuse.com/eventsource, SSE is unsupported through IE11.
This is what looking at that fruit's flesh reminds me of. In the Caribbean it's called Sugar Apple. There is a tree outside my bedroom window at my parents house. As a teen during the fruit's season I would get tired of the Carib Grackles singing up a storm(if you could even call that cacophony singing) first thing in the morning eating the ripened fruit.

There is also similar one that we call Custard Apple. Different islands may have different names for these fruits.
In Seattle there are a ton for town homes being built, split lot and connected, most without any hoa. When they need work I bet you’ll see a lot of neighbors suing neighbors to fix and replace shared elements. I would never move into shared living space that didn’t have some sort of hoa to manage any the shared space.
The types of homes purchased by people who casually have wine and escargot, and don’t think twice when blogging about it.
When a company with a huge user base (Mozilla) acquires a company with a much smaller user base (Pocket), they're probably not doing it to cross-sell the smaller user base.

I thought Mozilla was going to be investing in Pocket and giving them the resources to grow, as well as sending them Mozilla's users — a fraction of whom would become premium Pocket subscribers.

But as far as I can tell, there haven't been any notable new features in the last 5 years. In fact, some stuff like the web app have gotten noticeably worse. I used to use Pocket almost daily, but now I use it maybe once every couple months.
This is an economic problem, not a technical one. From the article:

> “Linux is a small market already and if you subdivide it by blessed kernel versions then it’s even smaller.” It may not be worth Epic’s while to put in the work on security for what will be a comparatively tiny audience, at least at first.

For many products, there's not currently an economic incentive to support Linux because the development cost, support cost, and opportunity cost outweigh the potential revenue. I'm sympathetic to this because it's something I face with my own product. In many cases, the Linux market currently isn't large enough to justify the cost, but I hope that changes in the future.
It's true that condos as a class don't appreciate but if you buy one in the right gentrifying area they can be a fantastic deal. Some condos in Austin Texas have increased 400% in price in the past 5-6 years. Particularly in zips 78741 and 78704.
> <strong>loop1</strong>: do i = 1, 10

Those "strong" tags are, obviously, a mistake in the webpage html code, and not part of Fortran syntax.
> So if we get a single human who, without dispute as the oldest woman has some controversy as to the validity of her age, lives past the age of 120 will that be proof the bible is untrue and all it’s writings are false?

No, it will prove that Biblical literalism is false, but that's a novel minority doctrine in Christianity that is already disproven by (among other things) the two conflicting creation sequences in Genesis.
lucky guess i'd say
It is beautiful for sure. Knowing that long after we all pass, when society and technology is unimaginable, that this little seed will still know what to do with a little bit of water...

Yet being able to witness the passage of time outside of the scale of time provokes a mini existential crisis for me.

The Youtube channel says they will post another video when the first fruit is born in 2026. It’s kind of like watching babies growing up. You know that in five years, they will still be a baby, but 5 years to us adults could mean a new job, the death of someone, a completely different life philosophy.
Well, the chapter prior to that one describes humans living for hundreds of years, so I don't think someone living past 120 will really introduce any more theological problems.
I find this much better than PG's previous essay, "write simply"[1], even if I don't agree with all of it (e.g. see jasode's comment[2]).

Meanwhile, at work I've been trying to encourage the habit of writing a 2-4 page "memo" when conveying critical decisions. It's proving difficult to root out the impulsive habit of "let's put together a shoddy slide deck with broken thoughts, and hurry through it on a call".

When we're all remote, whether you like it or not, people will judge you by your words. And when you're not writing code, most of what you do is writing: design documents, proposals for budget, Git commit messages, feature requests, usage guides, investigative reports, synthesizing complex discussion threads into useful summaries, technical presentations, email, and synchronous chat. Not least of all, robust writing skills allow you to "defend" your arguments with nuance and concede with grace.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26427773

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30314144
> then rename it to overwrite the existing file ... This makes me think that probably my initial file tests weren't waiting for fsync, but the rename forces the application to wait. I'm not sure.

I can answer this one.

This is conflating atomicity (atomic rename) with durability (fsync; whether data is guaranteed to be on disk and will survive power failure). These are two orthogonal things.

When you use sqlite with default settings, it will give you both atomicity and durability.

If you want to get both in a file system like btrfs, you need to (1) fsync the written file, (2) do the atomic rename, (3) fsync the directory that contains the renamed file.

Some file systems, like ext4, do automatic fsyncs "every couple seconds", but that is of course not something to rely on when benchmarking.
I don't know, maybe: `touch /mnt/sqlite/.vacuum` could be setup to vacuum?
Supposedly it can!

https://www.inverse.com/science/what-will-planets-will-look-...
I've never heard the term "gold open access", but I know plenty of "open access" journals that charge a fee to authors.
Yes, right this minute the most recent three messages in my Gmail inbox are extremely obvious spam with titles like "YourCVSrewards HavejustArrived" and one is full of white-on-white text, which I thought was an easy giveaway for their detection systems.
> condos don't see similar appreciation

It depends on where the condo is. My condo in Boston has increased in value 2.5 times in the 20 years I've owned it. My friend's home in a wealthy suburb of Boston increased by 40% in almost the same amount of time. That's taking into account the last two years of the pandemic where we saw housing price increases slow or stop in the city while suburban prices rose much more quickly. Before that, the difference in appreciation was even greater.

My parents condo in Manhattan, which they bought 45 years ago, has probably appreciated close to two orders of magnitude.
I recently moved out of the city too, and everything in the article resonates with me. It's just that people that move into the city usually do it to get a better job. If you have been born there, yea, it probably feels like what the author said, you don't even realize.
Renting is very risky, and also more expensive than a condo that loses value.

The US has almost no tenant protections except for a few urban areas that passed municipal laws. I would prefer to rent if it provided almost as much protection as homeowning, and if it weren't so financially disincentivized in the US.

IMHO we need to eliminate the capital gains exemptions for homes, and also add on local capital gains taxes in addition to federal, to disincentivize real estate speculation.
The language fades into background in my experience. There are some gotchas (like overuse of Dynamic) but on the whole, tooling works really well, and can get stuff done.
Why Be Productive?
But it's also a self-sustaining cycle. Actually developing Applications with GTK is relatively straight-forward. I think UI development but esp. cross platform UI development also suffered a lot from fragmentation with both frameworks and languages. So chances finding good documentation for a chosen combination are low.

(And yes, using WPF or QT is ridiculously difficult despite having full-featured IDEs)
The majority of the miles I’ve earned have been through my employer flying me places, not my credit cards. I would guess a good portion of flights come from those who fly frequently and therefore have miles to fly on their own with.
BTC providing demand for renewables stimulates the development of renewables. Any massive investment like in renewables carries a risk, and the higher the demand the lesser the risk for the investment on the supply side.
Prosecutor won’t charge reporter who uncovered database flaw
Just need strong regulation. All house builders want to make lots of small apartments, as that often gives a higher price per square meter of flooring. But the local government should aim for it being a mix.
Not many people seem to know that the power grid issue wasn't to do with the power grid...

I think Texas will do well with crypto from what I understand.

http://adam.curry.com/art/1613521813_mxdUgmnT.html
All of those web features exist since Motif days and layout managers.
My family moved to the rural South when I was 11.

I was never accepted, my mom finally was after about 20 years. Part of it for me was that I think a bit differently and want different things than most other folks. But a bigger part was that this little Bible Belt town really was intolerant of that, far less so than the urban areas I've lived since then. They simply were more authoritarian and insecure in reaction to someone that didn't want they wanted.

Yes, there are good folk in rural areas; in my experience, they're about the same proportion as of good folk in urban areas. And I see no difference in competence; some difference in what people are competent at, sure. (Me, I still spend a lot of time making things, and I'm going to be rebuilding a run-down house this year that I'll probably have to hire someone to help with, but otherwise am doing myself.)

I'm really, truly sick of the urban vs. rural culture war garbage. Romanticize whatever you like, that's the nature of how humans relate to their communities. But here's a hint: if that requires shitting on other ways of life, you're being defensive and insecure.
Depends on the indexing needs, right? Something like IFF should be fine if you need a sequence of images to store that you don’t need to actually query for individually.
Around the corner? There seems to be nothing about this in any browser. [0] That would put this what, five years out before it could be used in straightforward fashion? Please be practical.

[0] https://caniuse.com/?search=webtransport
I’m tired of the linux distributions calling themselves different operating systems. Yes, Linux is just a kernel, but the experience you get is largely similar. Unlike, say, running Haiku.
Nope, no spam in Inbox
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My recommendation to you would be to not read ancient sources. Secular sources are not any more rigorous.
It isn't. The firefox account features things like sharing your bookmarks/history/etc between devices easily. You don't need to use it to use firefox.
> At NodeBB, we ended up relying on websockets for almost everything, which was a mistake.

Would you please elaborate on the challenges/disadvantages you've encountered in comparison to REST/HTTP?
In fact, the profits of high frequency trading can be seen as rewards for filling the market with liquidity, so it's not strictly an exploit.
Why not hook into fstrim for that?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24572370
I'm genuinely curious when the fat lady will stop singing in regards to Bitcoin. I sort-of understand the allure of ETH and its derivatives ("programmable money" does bring something new to the table), but BTC is supposed to be a "value store" yet is down 30% from November; or it's supposed to be a "currency" but you can't use it as one; or it's supposed to be "decentralized" but mining is monopolized by a handful of mining pools. If it looks like a speculative financial instrument and it quacks like a speculative financial instrument, it's probably a speculative financial instrument.

Maybe I'm just not smart enough to understand BTC.
Not surprising that Texas Republicans are fully behind wasting as much energy as possible. They talk about renewables but most of the Texas mining will be powered by burning natural gas.
Old-age poverty is indeed a policy problem, but housing policy isn't really the way to address it. (Meanwhile you look at places like the Villages in Florida, where you are required to own a car because nothing is within walking distance, no social club, no grocery story, no physician, there's going to be a huge amount of pain in the future.)
Would be great to add option for more services, e.g. yr.no, and maybe custom ones for local weather. Another interesting idea would be gathering prediction data and comparing to actual (historical) data later, that should find most precise weather forecast service.
I really doubt it, discord's draw is that while it makes it much easier, you don't need a brain to log in.

They're riding on the network effect that they won with zero-friction user adoption, startup capital and a client that was okay at the beginning. Now the client is pretty darn good, they're basically AOL Instant Messenger now, except people actually want to pay.

As an aside: Hopefully their security team is phenominal, they are gonna need it. Personally, I'm extremely distrustful of Discord's future CIA (infosec term) of their service.

Why do I think Matrix isn't going to win after a client polish round or twelve? Well, its a little bit weird to say iPhone users who will have to wrap their head around one or two concepts about bridging and so forth, as opposed to Discord who has an API and a business unit dedicated to interoperating it with other services. Why would Facebook link to Matrix bridges when theres no money at all?

Why has slack not achieved this? the onboarding flow wasn't/isn't as easy and it is definitely targeted to business or institutional use would be my guess. Casual users like blinking tiny gifs of :kappa: and the gamers are already there.
Indeed, here in Germany there is at least one Delphi conference, and additionally it tends to share some slots in .NET conferences.
Still, extremely few in the claimed range, even after October.
I think the GP just means that the tail of the age bell curve seems (surprisingly) short to them.

The implication being that when doing statistics with a large number of data points, you often see several outliers that are way outside the curve. In the case of age, the tail of the curve falls to 0 very quickly.
That may be the anxiety that causes their behavior, but it’s an anxiety borne out of their own preconceptions. You don’t have to do anything in particular to set them off: mere passive existence is enough.

At least, in my experience.
Something like a Kinect and commercial TOBII eye tracker could do it easily
Presumably that doesn't apply if your cells are continuously reproducing creating new copies of DNA. In some sense your DNA comes from your parents and extending back through those lineages has lasted vastly longer than 512 years.
So, how to fully disable it via `about:config` now?
Scale is a social/political problem. A multibillion corporations can buy infinitely more bandwidth than a common man, regardless of the underlying technology.

This isn't a critique of capitalism, or at least not only. I happen to live in a country where the government is abusing its power to spam the public with its propaganda.
In Hinduism the age a person lives to changes in each Yuga or cycle before it all starts again

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_Cycle
I've got one under a year old. It was fantastic to watch the red sprout (I got 2 sprouts, a twin tree from one seed) and the black leaves grow, the thing doubled in size daily for a couple of weeks. The black leaves double daily until they start to turn green.

I'm under a year in with this thing and I was wondering how it would start branching out, if leaves would become branches or what. Seeing the budding at the top at the end was pretty cool. Now I know what to expect.
Using organs as dog food also stimulates the organ donation market. Still, maybe it's best to use our current stock wisely.