skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another focus on symbolic actions rather than tackling the larger issues of urban pollution...

Paris is doing far more than this to tackle urban pollution. Even at the end of this article:

"Under Hidalgo, Paris has for years raised pressure on drivers by increasing parking costs and gradually banning diesel vehicles, while expanding the bicycle lane network in the congested capital. The city has reduced the number of on-street parking spaces in order to make drivers use underground parking."

That doesn't even mention the new low-emissions zones. ("The restricted traffic zone in Paris covers the entire city center and is operational from Monday to Friday, between 8 am and 8 pm. During these hours, access to the heart of the city is limited to vehicles with specific permissions. This means that, during peak urban activity, the ZCR helps alleviate traffic congestion and reduce pollution levels, ultimately contributing to a healthier and more pedestrian-friendly urban environment in one of Europe's most iconic cities." - https://parkimeter.com/en/blog/paris-limited-traffic-zone-fr... )

At what point is it no longer symbolic?

> Drivers will choose to drive around these areas, increasing emissions by driving longer distances.

If they can drive around these areas then why would they care about the increased parking costs in those areas? Either they are going to park there or they are not.

And, many of those drivers have other transportation options; it isn't like "once a driver always a driver."
Taiwan faces a flood of disinformation from China ahead of crucial election
While it's good to have core technology as part of OS, it also makes it non-updateable separately from the OS itself, which slows the spread of developments.

like javascript in the browser...
Banish state-mutating methods from data classes
Also cheap natural gas from Texas.
I think the first and second derivative, and causes thereof, are crucial.

There are continuous improvements and price reductions to renewables and storage, brought about by scale and innovation. Those affect demand - the speed at which the flywheel ramps up. Natural gas doesn’t have anything like the same rate of change. It’s a relatively fixed technology with no ability to improve. One graph is a curve pointing upwards, the other is a straight line. The current state is not as important as the delta, and sooner or later the curve beats the straight line.

At some point it becomes economically irrational to adopt anything but the cheapest, easiest to deploy technology. The only question is how long it takes to get there, and if it’s soon enough.

Sama, 2016:

"What's you number one piece of hiring advice?"

"Hire for slope, not Y-intercept. This is actually my number one piece of life advice."

https://twitter.com/sama/status/792823320441786368?lang=en
"Russia's war against Europe"... Are you saying that Russia isn't European? Because I thought solving problems with violence was a traditional European past time.
There are a lot of people who fail to self-actualize entirely due to environmental differences. Starvation, hypothermia, robbery and petty crimes, unemployment, destruction/loss of property, social rejection, discrimination, self-doubt, and even a lack of respect is enough to prevent someone from enjoying life fully.

Accepting the hardship of reality is the only way you can realize deterministic change. Making blanket statements about "opportunity" in the US will have you immediately proven wrong no matter what you claim. Your opportunity is not the same as a Puerto Rican's which is not the same as an impoverished and sickly rural teenager in Montana. Changing your frame of reference is not any easier than it is to stop looking foreign or get a bunch of money really quickly.
I think this comment and a sister comment misread what I was intending

I’m saying that instead of the government going to intermediaries like google for their fishing expeditions, they have to go to the individual themselves and do an old fashioned actual investigation

as in, we’re agreeing
This is cool! While I love Ventoy as part of my toolbox, I might think about adding a GRUB-bootable rescue ISO as part of my Ansible system configuration, so that I don't actually have to go find my Ventoy USB drive when something goes sideways. Could be especially useful if I'm traveling with just a laptop.
>>>I agree it’s an open question, but I think it’s highly likely with lots of circumstantial evidence that life is an evolutionary emergent phenomenon where inorganic material reactions create life. We already know that’s the case in highly controlled environments.

Did I miss some big announcements? Where has anyone created life from inorganic material reactions in a highly controlled environment?

Serious question, not trolling.

Seems to me that would be an insta-Nobel.
It may make sense but I cannot support this lunacy in the United States no matter how much formal proof you throw at me until we outlaw all standardized testing in education.

This will just give ETS / the college board / whoever fodder to ask even more stupid multiple choice questions.
(No, I am not mathematically inclined and have won no Fields medals or even ever competed in one. I am just an ordinary person so this is just a personal opinion.)
I clean and lubricate my metal and plastic slide rules occasionally. A good wipe down and petroleum jelly is sufficient. Bamboo slide rules seem to be more slippery, so I just keep them clean.

You want it to move freely and without grit, but not so freely that it has a chance of slipping. When necessary, adjustment by loosening the top and bottom scales can be accomplished by using the cursor to fix alignment.
Yeah, this is what MS used to recommend, although they now say their own version YARP is better.
What Android device are you using that has a physical "charging only" port?
Yeah, as a company they pretty much dominate the NoSQL space. 1B+/year in revenue and that market is still growing at like 30ish% YoY or so.
If you get narrow car seats you can get three across in the back in almost any car. You don’t have to use the latch anchors. The seatbelts work fine.

Uber is a problem with really little kids, but you can get portable and even inflatable car seats and boosters that aren’t too bad to carry around.
1,374 days: my life with long Covid
https://archive.ph/iLnmm
LLMs are obfuscated plagiarism.
How are you going to touch the phone when there is a gun to your head and you have been told not to move an inch or you will be shot?
Semantic Patching in C with Coccinelle
MongoDB employee posting:

The login issues are unrelated to the security incident. We notified all of our customers and users concurrently resulting in a spike in login attempts. Please try again in a few minutes if you are still having trouble logging in.

Please continue to monitor our alerts page: https://www.mongodb.com/alerts
the author says they can't do anything that requires further authentication. you'd need to chain this with another attack.
> aside from requiring more skill to work with

This is an understatement. This would essentially kill off plumbing as a DIY task and be a huge boon for professional plumbers.
The media has worked flawlessly on you. Bravo.
Amazon Drive deprecation FAQ (by end of 2023)
Binance will not only help the US government monitor the money flows (the argument of our book), but plausibly act act as a regulatory super-spreader, transmitting “know your customer rules” across the ecoystem like an epidemiological contagion (the argument of an important academic article on ‘viral governance’ by Gregoire Mallard and Jin Sun).

Or, people will flood out to someone who hasn't been hit by that "contagion", because the entire point is to have unregulated money.
Generally commented out lines are defaults, right?
> but gcc will definitely elide an if check if it detects pointer dereference inside the if block

As others have stated, this is almost certainly incorrect.

> The reasoning was that if a pointer is being dereferenced, it must be non null.

The key here is "if a pointer is being dereferenced". In that case the pointer is only dereferenced if the condition evaluates to true and does nothing otherwise. The optimizer would be incorrect to turn that into an unconditional dereference.
I'm not advocating anything. I'm simply pointing out that there's plenty of land for both solar and food, and frankly that includes a decent quantity of meat. I expect the consequences would be the price of meat might go up.

Moreover, why does eating less meat make living worse? I daresay your view is not universally held.
I never used/tried MongoDB, what are the reasons people choose MongoDB over other DBs?
Found about this through the release of SDL 3: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/build-scripts/SD...
There are car key amplification attacks where people leverage the remotes in peoples homes to break into cars. In the past there have been car brands that only had so many physical key skeletons that thieves would just acquire them all. Homes often have windows that are smashable and very pickable locks.

Perfect security doesn’t exist, especially as the consumer level. I have more faith in software updates.
Yes, we've had chess engines and spellcheck for years.
I always thought Enceladus was just an icy moon, but turns out it's cooler than that.
Latency is something I notice, but having used Bluetooth since it first came out, 500+ms is either a very noisy radio environment or defective hardware. It’s freakishly outside of normal for the technology - if you were seeing 5ms, maybe 10ms, that’d be within expectations but not even 50ms.
Just got email alert
This is ironic because it means that they are either using AI to generate their blog (fine, but ironic) or that their AI detection too does not work.
At one point, this planet was covered in mushrooms!
Mongo has made huge improvements tbf, but this is funny
The guide has a section on accuracy but doesn’t talk about having punctuation outside of quotation marks. There’s a world of difference between

1. Please enter the text “foo bar.”

and

2. Please enter the text “foo bar”.

The first is normal American practice, but suggests incorrectly that the period (.) should be input.

Technical writing should be accurate - meaning all quotes should be a true representation that is not subject to style whimsy.
Also stumbled across an old column with that name looking at another front page topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666287 which links to

> a new occasional column “No Stinking Loops” by the legendary Stevan Apter

here: http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500340
Not at all what I was saying. I said it ends up being used to justify never refactoring.

You'll get a situation where there's some code and nobody knows why it's there even after investigation. Can we remove it? No of course not - do you not know about Chesterton's fence??!

There's actually a second reason why this advice is bad. It's basically victim blaming. The onus is on the person leaving a weird fence around to explain why it shouldn't be removed; not on the person finding a weird fence to have to guess a reason. You can say "well, bad people exist; you'd better assume there's a reason", but that's the same logic that leads to "bad people exist; don't wear attractive clothing".

It's actually good advice if the only thing you care about is not being raped. But people quite reasonably care about other things (like enjoying life).

Similarly Chesterton's fence is not bad advice if the only think you care about is not breaking your code. But people quite reasonably care about other things (like maintainability).

This all makes it the worst kind of advice - technically correct but unwise.
The UK disproves your point. Vast amount of todays housing stock are ex company towns, a point which is quite clear in the article.

Company towns don’t always remain company towns.
"If I give you my public key, say I post it on my web site, how can you be sure that it's really my key? Maybe my site has been hacked and I don't even know it. Or maybe someone tampers with the site content between the time it leaves my server and arrives at your browser (though TLS is supposed to address that).

We could get on a phone call and I you could read the key back to me. The problem with this approach is that keys are long. A 4096-bit RSA key, for example, encoded in hexadecimal, is 1024 characters long."

If trust the "phone" and phone numbers but not the "internet" and IP numbers, then why not just use modems to transfer the public key.

Is the assumption that it would be impossible for both the person's website and his phone to be simultaneously compromised.
Or do we not have micro nutrient deficiencies because we overeat in order to hit those needs?

Obviously there's flaws in my silly theory. I'm not a biologist or chemist, just something I think correlates in an interesting way.
Virtue signaling nonsense, crying over climate change is the new way to show how much of a goody good little genius you are.
Direct non-AMP link: https://phys.org/news/2023-12-pvc.html
AI-Powered Drive-Thru Is Actually Run Almost Entirely By Humans
It was only DETECTED on the 13th, and they suspect had been going on 'for some time'. And basically not sure if user data was touched but they suspect or haven't provided it yet buly saying'NOT'.

I want answers.
Not to be confused with the crips.
Of course, they were and are healthy company, i was just trying to say they while very healthy it was not so profitable that just by using the free cash flow MS could have grown the business to today's size, it likely required external cash infusion and therefore $26 Billion is likely not the only money MS has spent on Linkedin.

As far as M&As go, it is very successful outcome, vast majority of them fail spectacularly, RoI is not perhaps the right metric to judge a strategic acquisition.
Steinway & Sons piano company built a company town, which is now part of Astoria, NYC. I lived for a few years in a house that was for factory workers, streets west of me were bigger houses intended for management.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/...
It's pretty easy to start with. MQL is also pretty easy to understand + MongoDB kinda makes it fun.

Note: I work at MongoDB
Surely ASML would prefer that Samsung and Intel could keep up with TSMC on manufacturing the latest and greatest CPU/GPU/SoCs. So not hard to believe that they'll sell the first next gen machines to Samsung.
Worse than worthless--it requires underpaid arithmeticians!
Friendly heads up, "pseudo" is frequently misspelled "psuedo" in the readme.
Lunar Anthropocene: Are We in New Epoch of Moon's History?
Easy, flexible scheme nosql, plenty of baked in features. Has it's place, and many times when it would not be a good choice too.
With hardware tokens, yes, I use that. I was thinking that building it on a web server would be really handy with an integrated client you could use with iCloud, Windows Hello, etc.
So are you suggesting moving everyone to shared living spaces is making living worse? I daresay your view is not universally held either.

I expect the consequences be massive reduction in cost of housing.

I'm simply pointing as valid alternative solution.
https://archive.is/NZLAA
What's the update internally here? How long this been going on for? Any juice?
Fun fact: we’re deploying, on average, ~1.13GW of solar every day globally and that rate is accelerating. China installed more wind power this year than total UK generation capacity, and more solar than total US solar generation. If you’re not paying attention, this transition will rocket past you.
The precarious nature of some workers lives doesn’t seem much different is their landlord is their employer or another corporation or a private capitalist.

I also don’t see how this is more dangerous than the status quo.
You really aren't following along closely enough: all other options were failing for me.
It was an early player when everyone thought NoSQL document databases solved every problem.
> I’m not disagreeing with the premise of the fence, just pointing out that at times, even doing all of the due diligence to understand the fence isn’t enough to remove it.

I don't understand this. Implementing billing from scratch and running it in parallel to the old code is a form of doing due diligence. I.e. it is an application of Chesterton's fence. It might be an expensive application but it is one.

To me, this anecdote shows the value of documenting the why of software. I've read some time ago, to add code to systems such that, it is simple to remove it again. This discussion deepened that insight for me. This is preparing for Chesterton's fence.
I wonder, why would you want DB-managed encryption instead of just putting its storage directory in a LUKS-encrypted volume?
gprofng: The Next Generation GNU Profiling Tool
"maternal love isn't always a curse".

What an odd thing to say.
I think there are lots of worlds that don’t have dry land. I doubt they would develop advance technology - hard to build fire to melt metals. But perhaps nature will find another way?
Interesting!

In Canada being modest is quite important… unless it’s a job interview (whether explicit or implicit), in which case it’s the “one time you should really brag about what you’re good at.”
My Cowon Z2 still works very well.

And it has the capability of MP3, Ogg, and Flac playback. Oh, and it has an FM radio too. Oh, and I forgot. Video too.
Why? That could just mean our solar gave rise to life and not earth alone. Still don’t see why that increases the odds outside of our solar system
I think Allie K Miller doesn't have a CS degree either
> because the entire point is to have unregulated money.

For some vanishingly small percentage of crypto-faithful, maybe. For the vast majority, the point is to turn (regulated) fiat money into more (regulated) fiat money. Or lose it all trying.
They're working hard on solutions. AI powered drone discovery is one such method. I'm sure you've seen the vids of Ukrainian farmers making their tractors remote control, to run rollers in front to find mines.
It's not quite as bad as that. I speak no Mandarin but managed to purchase parts in the markets just by gesticulating and having part numbers (where appropriate).

A surprising number of the vendors had at least a little english - enough for commerce anyway.
People underestimate the RAPID pace wind and solar are making on phasing out fossil fuels.

Carbon emissions have barely been growing while energy consumption has been growing enormously over the last 10 years.

By 2030, carbon emissions could be substantially power. By 2050 it looks like it'll basically be a Brave New World in terms of energy.
Does it always mean that in Australia, or does it depend on how you say it? I think both usages are actually pretty common in the US, but you tell the difference based on the inflection. If you emphasize "too" and go down in pitch on "bad" then it means you're actually not that good at something, if you emphasize "bad" and go up in pitch then it means you're actually good at it. We also have alternative constructions, like "not too shabby," which carry the positive connotation regardless of how they're pronounced.
If you define your HOA as being, in almost every way, a company with the intention of maintaining it’s brand… half of America is company towns.
As Student Loan Collections Restart, Millions Are Not yet Paying
None. I didn't imply I thought they were breaking any law.

I think Apple might try to sue Beeper though.
Are you sure it was the same temperature back then?
Vast amounts of America are former company towns as well. Former being why everyone is so convinced they're a bad idea.
Caution: You will want one of the shirts linked to in the comments. Very timely, and very cool.
What is this probability based upon?
And yet so many people "can afford" £300 pcm but "couldn't afford" a yearly unexpected maintenance bill of £2000. Even though the latter is half the cost. It's inability to financially plan over more than a monthly horizon. I think it's because financial literacy is not taught. Or is it just human nature that it's harder to choose to put £200 aside every month for future possible repairs than to pay a £300 monthly bill you have no choice over.
LLMs are definitely AI within the scope of text or even "conversation" generation. Just as AlphaGo is a Go playing AI within that scope.

Obviously an AI that can have a human like text conversation has broader use than the Go playing AI.

I find it curious that in sci-fi the idea of being human-like was considered the hardest task for an AI, and the walking encyclopedia which is never wrong bit was the easy part.

Seems we did the hard part first with LLMs...
I was having a conversation with the other poster, in fact just answering their question. I am a guest, as everybody else here, just don't care much for base people.
Chainalysis monitors all public chains for law enforcement and regulators. Monero, Zcash, and other privacy focused crypto can be squeezed out under money laundering, KYC, AML laws and regulations. Interestingly, violations of law have a permanent record on an immutable blockchain. You simply need someone technical to perform data analysis and hand it over to enforcement.

TLDR there is always a throat to choke in meatspace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainalysis
The "mission" terminology is common in the NGO world and not everyone is hired as a "coder". Quite frequently these are projects to effect outcomes rather than support billets to be filled by coders. There is a wide spectrum out there, your experiences may vary..
you are right that it is not a true dumb phone. I never use the Wi-Fi and it has no data so I often forget it even exists. that's a good point about the operating system I hadn't checked into that. I was just happy to get something that worked and didn't break easily and had no 24/7 internet access.

I do think that more and more people are starting to want less intrusion by the devices in their life so I wouldn't be surprised if a true affordable dumb phone enters the market in the next few years.
I think in this context, "pointer-free" is meant to imply (spatial) locality of reference, no additional memory allocations, address-independent and presumably memory safety (but I didn't read the code and may be wrong about the last one).
> So they surveyed some people, asked for opinions and based on that wrote an article.

You do realize some of the most useful BLS and Fed data is little more than surveying some people and asking for their opinions right?

The vast majority of everything we as SW designers do is developed by surveying some users and asking opinions? What do you think user surveys and UX panels that drive so much of SW design is?

It’s a completely legitimate way to get information about something. Like all forms of data it has its benefits and its downsides.
You can already do all of this with ssh
But you have setup SMS 2FA enabled, which is convenient this time but a big security hole. You should consider disabling it once the situation comes back to normal.
Ah so the poor eating the rich and general society wide instability.