skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India's going on a massive metro rail spree and also massively improving intercity rail. Things are significantly improving, though there will always be traffic in a city the size of Delhi or Mumbai.
Evidently by dismissing any of their concerns and calling them oversensitive snowflakes who are going to ruin America with their woke communism.
Same in situation in Germany. Polls close at 18:00 and 18:01 everybody knows the general results. It will only change by ~0.1% over the next 1-2 days and only really matters if a party is close to the 5% hurdle.
“The future’s not set. There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves.”
While this isn't acceptable, millions enjoy sharing the content of their documents every day with Google, with a document suite running on their servers.
It's worth thinking about options for e.g. snacks but yes, better to schedule a few hours in a year/month/whatever to basically plan and explore rather than just some ad-hoc 'should I be doing this?' at every instance.
Realistically the way most of us will choose is that we go with our defaults most of the time and occasionally invest some time and energy to rethink our defaults actively.

The majority will not stand in front of their wardrobe every day and confront the choice of outfit on a fundamental level each time no matter if they are a boring person or a avantgarde noise musician. Most people decide once and stay with their decisions, and revisit them every now and then when they feel it is not appropriate anymore.

Doing it that way allows us to invest more time than we would have every day into some decision and harvest the fruit of that investigation for a while. The alternative would be to spend more time each day and more importantly: live with the uncertainty if you will find something suitable each day.

Whether the outfit is a lazy black suit or the most high fashion doesn't really change the way you decide. One can think long and hard and still come up with a boring and tasteless choice after. Others might not think a lot at all and effortlessly choose interesting things. This has to do with aesthetics and is usually about time/energy that has been invested elsewhere.

The point is: choices cost energy. Choices we take every day take energy every day. Not fundamentally questioning your whole existence up to that point every day is resonable.
Never had to replace a cottered crank, thankfully - those looked primitive! Certainly a few around - always fun to revive an old rig, and single speed/fixed gears were en vogue!
Maybe. Even so, AFAICT USA and India are vastly different countries though. I wouldn’t take it for granted that India will develop in exactly the same way that USA did.
> So I buy a mini-SD card and install it in my phone.

That's probably your answer. I don't know anyone who uses a mini-SD card. The last time I bought a phone no phone I considered had an SD slot.
I rather use a dead battery that somehow helps me doing my work, even if with a couple of warts, than trying to see how random package gets compiled on platform XYZ.
Well, you can update them with a disclaimer that points out known issues.
I’d like to see us get back to using domain names for identity. An influencer celeb could have their own domain and their entire website would be “followed” to provide “updates”

All of their content could be self-hosted: videos, music, ebooks, etc. It’s a rails server, so in theory all of that stuff could be baked in.
I lived in Indian villages for several decades. I have never seen a single instance of this "village bands together and gather resources to give that one kid a university education".
Of course, people do help each other etc.,
If you can somehow intercept the data, you can correlate when someone voted with that data and possibly find out who they voted for through that
A lot of people (friends) I know on IG use it only for sharing stories.
Think of the most intrinsically complicated computer program you ever wrote (that's not owned by someone else like an employer). Then contact a patent attorney and pay them to prosecute it.
The effect isn't due to humans being an outlier, it can be seen across a range of species.

> A 2015 study, the San Diego Zoo, surveyed results from 36 different mammalian species, ranging in size from the 51-gram striped grass mouse to the 4,800-kilogram elephant, nearly 100,000 times larger. The study found no relationship between body size and cancer incidence, offering empirical support for Peto's initial observation.[8]
Nature used to be a science publication.

Now that it is a political rag, we should stop considering any of it's "science" contents to be valid science, since we now know that they are primarily interested in politics.
>we paid like 200k€ from our new house

In which country is a new house 200k Euros?
"Shit economy"?

Some places a dollar goes far, that cannot be construed as 'shit economy'. The place where a $10 USA haircut costs $0.5 need not be due to local (bad) economic situation. Similarly for food and other living essentials.
Minecraft (actually 2 people?), rollercoaster tycoon (written in assembly), the first version of the Facebook, ape (a plasmid editor), Stardew valley, onward VR(??).
What line is it on?
I genuinely don’t know. One doesn’t encounter this stuff out at the grocery store, it’s confined mostly to professional settings like working at a company or at University.

It seems obvious to me that these ideas incubate in professional settings precisely because those are settings where they can’t easily be criticized for fear of losing a job or getting cancelled, etc.
Indeed I forgot the "I've never met you but need we need to make a transaction for some reason (buying a house or a TV second hand), so let's start with SMS which will work for sure".

For anything else, using SMS is like using Notepad to write books. Many better alternatives have come through in the decades since that tech was new.
definitely one of those things that could be great.

fan out is an interesting issue, DHT/trackers seem to be something that I'd thought would be better... perhaps with a full domain for handle... maybe a new TLD and setting of expiry migration etc
I seriously think Signal missed the boat with this one. I was one of those folks who used the WA privacy policy change to attract folks around me to use Signal. It worked and they all started using Signal as well. It would have been an easy thing for Signal to prioritise Stories. That was the only thing that differentiated WA with Signal at the moment. Only thing we needed back then to make folks stick to Signal. Instead Signal was building some irrelevant cryptocurrency feature and split their own userbase in half. That feature was already going to be used by only a minority anyway.

Everybody went back to WA after FB's stunt on retracting the privacy policy. I am back to square one on who all are using Signal around me. I don't think there is going to be a better chance than what we got with WA policy change.

Signal had the funding, they had the tech and folks. The momentum, people, media and even people like Snowden, Jack and Elon Musk were with us. They chose something completely different and irrelevant to what would've helped make Signal a standard. What is the point in having this now? Majority of the users who were going to use it are already back in WA. This feature will be used only by a minority.

Another fascinating learning from the whole journey was that a lot of "loud" privacy folks use privacy through obscurity (like security through obscurity) to keep themselves private. They jump ship when their tool gets popular. And these were the loud ones during the whole discussion in Signal forum with respect to Stories. With AI advancements and big corps, we need more folks in the privacy space using private tech. If we don't accommodate non-privacy folks as well, this will be a harder fight than it has to be.
+1 for buying something with Linux preinstalled. Beside the ones mentioned there is Dell XPS and HP dev one available, so there is a choice.
Of course, India gained over 300M people in the last 15 years.
Obviously Betteridge's law, but..

Hell yes something is being lost. Many cities are finally getting something like the cycling infrastructure that cyclists have dreamt about.
Unfortunately, it’s for electric mopeds. They’re as hostile to push bikes as cars.
From the comments here maybe this isn’t obvious (yet) from a US perspective. Few seem to have got the point of the article.
You would prefer, but it's not an absolute necessity for you due to real estate prices around you.
I always found it hilarious that while significantly poorer countries can have working national ID systems, in the U.S. it’s somehow too expensive to give 10% of people any form of ID at all. Like, have you considered a tiny slice of the trillions of stimulus, or military, or whatever money printed can be dedicated to solving this problem? In fact I bet EM’s Twitter acquisition money can solve this problem five times over. But no, we have to hear this “it doesn’t work here” excuse over and over. What a joke.
Yeah, but capitalism has more mechanisms that allow the big to be disrupted by the growing small. And a way for all to rise together through trade.

And, of course, capitalism and socialism work best together.
(Context: "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a live frog to figure out how it works. The first thing you have on your hands is a dead frog.")
The kernel is forced to zero memory that is allocated with mmap. This is very expensive and it is better to use sbrk and re-use allocated memory when possible. As such, the glibc malloc uses a sliding threshold to ensure that large long-lived allocations are mmaped whereas short allocations live inside "arenas" which are basically giant doubly linked lists that can expand with sbrk.
Yes, it's in the article and also works on android.
Charging cells at different rates boosts the lifetimes of battery packs for EVs
I recently was trying this again, also searching online for people using it, and I could only find club music made with it, which made me just give up on trying further. I wish there were some YouTube channel what made nice music with sonicpi or similar.
It sure does work for me, firefox on windows too.
There are many modern thinkers who don't just think about our other senses but make their careers on studying them through rigorous (even materialistic) experiment, e.g. balance, spatial orientation, proprioception, nociception etc. The notion that there are only five senses (let alone five sense organs) is well established to be false.
In Boulder, CO (where you'll pay million+ for a starter home) I see custom titanium bikes built by local frame builders used as grocery getters, so $10,000 is not the high end here. $10,000 is what you'd see at the masters club ride if you were low rent.

The used bike market here is totally nuts - I would say you could get at least 2x the price for a well maintained Shimano 600 here. There's probably an even bigger add-on to the price because it's "vintage".
> If you haven’t seen “Alexander,” staring Collin Ferrel and Angelina Jolie, you may really enjoy it.

That’s interesting, because Alexander is the one movie I truly regret not having left during the break. I found it boring, incoherent and in parts (especially Angelina Julie’s parts) really annoying.
But to be fair, I watched it with German synchronisation. Perhaps that is to blame.
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It's an interesting question how Europe would look if all the white Americans and Australians and so on had stayed in Europe. But the answer is not obvious.
You mean hundreds of millions of chickens?

So far GMOs are practically irrelevant for feeding humans, assuming a vegan diet there is enough land to feed everyone to avoid starvation. If we assume a reasonable amount of meat consumption there is also enough land for that.

I don't know why GMO advocates throw the "but everyone will starve if you don't buy my proprietary products" slogan around as if that makes them look less manipulative. It is supposed to delude people and prevent them from thinking for themselves.
> I am not sure if it is malice on Apple's part though. They have traditionally been bad at cloud services.

With a market cap of 2.2T, I don't think they have a good excuse at this point. Traditionally bad at this point is negligence. They certainly have the money to "do the right thing", but they won't.
Pretty sure it's much harder than Chinese. The depth and abstraction of the concepts involved and the density of these concepts in these lines vastly eclipses anything in any natural language
Who’s Really at the Wheel of Tesla in China?
I find the best way to overcome this bias, and it's not mentioned in this article, is to put myself in the reverse situation: if the alternative option I'm pondering had always been the default, would I switch to the current option?
Works on my Firefox on Windows, for shift + scroll focus need to be on the element you want to scroll. Arrow keys works even better
Except 90% of solar panels don't get recycled. Only hypothetically could be. If we are going to play hypotheticals, there are viable nuclear technologies that produce almost no waste and can even harvest radioactive material from ocean water.

Add to that, with solar, you will also need a lot of lithium and whatever other noxious chemicals for all the batteries for when the sun isn't out.
I like Marten, but they broke stuff around timestamps pretty badly with the latest release. A good chunk of that is Npgsql's fault, but we lost the ability to duplicate / index on any timestamp fields, which threw performance of the system into the bin. I've been migrating the system over to EFCore slowly. Honestly, I don't think the system was a good fit for a document DB in the first place.
I wish they'd introduce old media files cleanup (on desktop and mobile).
also: what is the carbon footprint of the weekly leafy mailer that gets stuck into my mailbox multiplied by the us population?
Exactly! It makes no difference to the compiler what you call a variable, but it makes a difference to the human.

Whenever I do a pandas dataframe melt, I name the variable "melted_cheese". I could just name it something plain/boring, but life is simplybetter with melted cheese.
Perhaps I phrased it poorly. When I refer to "scanning", I mean as in making an image of a physical source, as in a digital scanner, not scanning as in processing data.

The idea is to create a publicly accessible collection of an image of every single ballot, organized by the station from which they were collected. This can then be manually cross referenced, by anybody, against the reported vote count and result.

And yes, digital only ballots would pose a major problem here and in general.
Linux is convenient.
Any software written for microcontrollers or other low-memory environments is probably not going to use mmap or, more generally, anything that dynamically manipulates memory mappings (if there even is an MMU in the first place).

That said, the specific use of a function called sbrk seems odd and maybe archaic, since it has no useful role if the heap is fixed-sized anyway. But it looks like newlib (the libc being used here) uses _sbrk as part of an abstraction that supports many different environments [1], including not just bare metal but also running as a userland program under Linux and other kernels. So maybe it makes sense.

[1] https://github.com/eblot/newlib/search?q=_sbrk&type=code
I would have hoped your average Hacker News user would run their own server, but I am often disappointed as seemingly many people don't even run their own email servers :(.

Mastadon seems particularly in need of a mechanism where you can get a hosted domain option, where you can easily just point a DNS record at some large instance and have it work as easily as email does after you point an MX at Google or Microsoft.
> 50% load factor would be incredibly low for any hash table.

Might be that I’m more used to open addressing maps? IIRC circa 50 is a pretty good starting point for open addressing unless the collision resolution is specifically designed for that (e.g. swisstable). Not to say it can’t get higher, but for some the that’s where the performance starts going down (e.g. non-bucketed cuckoo hashing).
Researchers Devise Wi-Peep Drone That Can 'See Through Walls'
Yeah, it's sad how people intentionally misrepresent and mistranslate things because they want to believe in something.

The real Rosstat statistic speak of "centralized sewage" not indoor plumbing.

I live in Italy less than 10km outside a provincial capital and I also don't have access to centralized sewage. I assume the situation in rural Russia is no different.

How is it in rural America?

Low density areas often don't build that infrastructure and leave each house to build waste water management system. Old systems are basically just a hole in the ground but modern systems (like the one I had to install, because the Italian law mandates it) are active filters of various kinds.
The road is free, what did you expect?
TempleOS

RIP Terry A. David

https://templeos.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
JNI isn't a C ABI from the point of view what is being discussed here, it is a marshaling library.

You don't do OS syscalls via JNI, rather marshal representation of Java objects for consuptiom from native languages.
> I write code since 2006, 99% of it is private

and author of Notepad++ made an open-source project used on a massive scale

(none is obligated it to work on open source, but I consider it admirable and praiseworthy, especially if someone is doing it successfully and helping many other people)

> it reflects very poorly on them

why?
If you don't care about being logged in libreddit is even better, especially for especially for image-heavy subs. https://farside.link/libreddit should get you a currently working instance.
> But 48 hours is also the time it took for an extremely hurtful and personal attack from a perfect stranger, for no apparent reason, and a host of cheerleaders to renew the attack when I blocked this person.

Without context it's impossible to evaluate your complaint. If it was an anonymous and anodyne profile as you say, what was personal about it? I'm sorry you had a bad experience but, but with so little to go on about what actually happened I can't form an opinion.

Your headline is something of a loaded question and you just created a new HN account to talk about your bad experience of creating a new Mastodon account, and announce your lack of interest in social media based on an interaction that only you know the details of. I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here.
I've read that there is a certain number of people that we're basically optimized to coexist within a societal structure, and modern civilization passed that a long time ago, and human beings in general just aren't capable of empathy on the scale of modern civilization. And I mean, it makes sense when you think about it. On some abstract level you have to know that even meagre standards of living in western society requires someone, somewhere to be suffering to provide it. $1 for a pound of bananas shipped from across the world before they even have a hint of yellow on them? That shit don't come without a cost, and our $1 sure as hell aint paying it. But we all just kind of don't think those people just to get through the day, because dwelling on the extent of suffering and horror we've wrought upon our fellow man in pursuit of whatever fresh hell the guys over at Oreo have managed to shape into the general form of a cookie would leave us a broken shell of a person and unable to show up for our next shift at the Big Mac factory.
I answer indirectly: you probably know that most "manual tagging" is hyper-efficient compared to automatic one, and you probably here polemics about YT, Meta etc algorithms who push people toward extreme positions, apparently in neutral manners like yes, some video push toward political extreme right or left, but also some young girl video push toward younger and younger and so on..

So how to discover people? Well, in Usenet that happen at a slow but effective peace: you start to choose some groups you think to be interested in, the total number of groups is not that high and names are sufficient for a mere full-text search in a hierarchy. You start participate and others members write about some other groups "you might ask there", "try here" etc. In modern terms this is Reddit subs with a bit more discoverability and less abandoned groups. Since Reddit today seems to be effective enough that skilled people add "reddit" to most google search queries to find better contents...

Then the spam problem: at Usenet eternal september time antispam was limited, nowadays simple filters suffice AND we can import another piece of neglected IT evolution: the concept of PGP/GNUPG with their chain of trust. Or some will keep rotating usernames, some will keep them for decades. Those can share public keys signing each others in a classic chain-of-trust exchanging spam data automatically from their own client. Such approach is limited, but it's still better than actual "lists" for instance. It's still a cohort of people who decide BUT such cohort is not a for-profit company.

Long-story short even with current progresses expert systems are FAR to be near the human selection quality and actually it's possible to get partitioned human selection shared spontaneously to others. This is probably slower in discovering new stuff but bring most high quality results and avoid certain derives, so in the end is better. Actual volumes of posts often named "infodemia" needs to slow down and going up in quality. Eternal september do not show the limit of Usenet but the limit of a certain tech, we can plug-in more to surpass them and keep evolving instead of keeping reinventing the wheel with company-startup-alike experiments who keep duplicating similar concept just varying a little bit.

Competitive means from Oracle/CIA "different teams one against/semi-isolated to the others" produce some results, but a classic endless evolution of Lisp/Smalltalk systems the history prove produce MUCH better evolution because do not stop diversity, but allow diversity to merge and emerge. ALL "recent" IT evolution prove that countless times. ALL "recent" scientific trends do the same.
I think people from the US who consider a PhD should really look outside the US too, as many (not all, of course) of the disadvantages don't apply globally.

For example, in Spain:

- Typical PhD duration: 4 years. It's not even possible to go beyond 5 years (there is a hard cap) and if you want to do it fast, typically 3.5 years or so is enough in most fields if you do it full time.

- Tuition is a symbolic amount (something like 100 €/year or so).

- Most students do their PhD either with a grant or a contract. So it's basically a normal job. Not a high-paying one, mind you, but a job. You typically get something in the range of 1200-1600 €/month and social security. Enough to live reasonably well (not luxuriously, but comfortably) in almost any city that is not Madrid or Barcelona (in those two you'd need to share a flat and it wouldn't be very good, but in most of the rest of the country, a typical rent is around 600 €).

- I don't have figures on drop out but I don't think it's anywhere near 50%, if I had to give a pessimistic estimate I would say 20% at most.

Of course, the bit about becoming a professor is still true (although the competition is somewhat different, less about brilliance and more about sweat... very roughly speaking, churning out more papers than your competitors even if the papers aren't that great. But there are still much fewer professor jobs than PhD candidates).
What functionality in Notepad++ triggers showing one of these quotes?