skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, I assume names are also randomly generated. But it might be the case that they are all ASCII-only, which can be exploited.
That's how nearly everybody using English was spelling it until about two years ago. A lot of people have either not gotten the update (not tuned into political trends), or have deliberately refused it.
Why do Australians think EV chargers should be provided by government? Petrol stations aren’t.
What's hilarious to you, the word itself?
Then call it Jew hatred if antisemitism is too funny.

As for Eastern European Jews not being semites - are you certain about that? Hitler certainly thought they were semites and to this day Jews are not "White" in the eyes of white supremacists. If you're talking genetics, Eastern European Jews have a certain genetic connection to Arabic Jews and to Palestinians, so calling them semites is not far fetched.
Have EV sales actually declined in the US in 2023? Or even 2023 Q4?
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I've been trying to use org-mode as it looks very powerful once you master it, but I'm too good with vim already, so the bar is really high. I know that long-term, having a good custom configuration with Emacs and learning the Emacs keyboard shortcuts would be better than what I do now, but it's hard to assess how much effort that would actually require, and in which direction. There are so many plugins and settings that to me feel basic (and thus required), but each one of them add complexity to the learning experience.

For example I already know the Emacs keyboard shortcuts in this article. But that gets me nowhere near the proficiency I have in vim. I tried various vim compatibility layers, but then it's harder to get help about org-mode specifically (since you're using different shortcuts).
AI and satellite imagery used to create clearest map of human activity at sea
Names of places in different languages is often tricky.

Do you write Munich when referring to the city in Bavaria? Or do you bother to write München referring to the city in Bayern, following the German spelling?

Do you call that famous far east Asian country as Nihon instead of Japan?

In the language of the country I came from (which is very, very far from both Russia and Ukraine), the spelling used for Ukraine's capital is Kiev, without any specific political connotation. It is the spelling I normally end up using without giving it much of a thought.
I have taken countless Delta and UA flights. I can attest 100%, had this scenarios happened on those flights, near death certainty for those passengers. 90sec from my years of observations not doable by ANY Delta or UA flights unless maybe small 737 with maybe a third full. Their crews and the type of passengers they have guarantee death in this kind of situation. Heck even if you give them 10 mins instead of 90sec, they still will not make it all out.
I don't think you'd need to change the language, only the implementation. The easy way to go is to emit metadata along with the machine code to aid reconstruction, roughly a variant on dwarf format debug information.
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There's a classic fable (of Nasruddin Hodja tradition?) where the protagonist agrees that he'll teach the king's donkey to speak in 7 years; and when his friends warn him that he'll be executed as he will fail in this task, he responds - ah, the pay is good and many things can happen in 7 years, perhaps the king will die, perhaps I will die, likely the donkey will die, so the problem will eventually go away..
You probably want to look at sizeof( float ) and sizeof( int ). My guess is they'll be different, so do something like:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int main() {
uint32_t i = 1200053440 + 64;
float * fp = (float *) &i;
float f = *fp;

printf( "%ld %ld %ld\n", sizeof( i ), sizeof( fp ), sizeof( f ) );
printf( "%08X %d %f\n", i, i, f );

return( 0 );
}

But I'm nitpicking. Your intent was clear from the much smaller example you gave.
Absolutely. But that doesn't mean we should push everybody to ride electric bikes just because those riding in remote places are few and far between.

The feeling I get whenever these discussions come up is that there's a distinct lack of nuance, and a tendency to shove a one-size-fits-all solution down peoples' throats, even though the solution might only fit-most. I get that it's easier to reason with absolutes, and that sometimes some people may need a nudge to take the jump. But I also understand being pushed like this with no apparent concern for peoples' situations can make them close down to the argument, even if it could actually make sense for them in the end.

People complaining about range anxiety are usually told "nah man, it's just FUD!" Maybe it is just FUD even for a sizable portion of those complaining, but just dismissing their concerns out of hand doesn't seem like a good approach.

And this isn't just a bunch of people on a random discussion board. It's actual policies being enacted affecting peoples' actual lives.

Talking about France, in a few years' time my motorbike won't be allowed inside Paris (where I live). I rarely use it. I'd really love to see the proof that building and buying a new one, to replace the one that is in perfect working condition, is actually better for the environment. Especially given that the newer model which complies with the current pollution standards consumes the same amount of gas as mine (judging by the manufacturer's specs). Of course, this law is stupid because it only considers the year the vehicle was sold, but it's just one example of many why people may have a knee-jerk reaction to being forcibly pushed to adopt new things.
Is Squeak itself still an actively developed project? I hear much more about Pharo.
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It has been called Kiev since forever, that is until the media and Western states started to call it otherwise in unison after the war started. If you don't believe me you can simply check nGrams or Google search trends comparing the two. FYI it's still called a chicken kiev. We do not call every city in the world according to their native (or native and transliterated in this case) name, why is Kiev special?

>Another question if you’re to believe a Russian online, considering their massive disinformation campaigns here and there.

Right because only Russians are guilty of disinformation
1 - No idea as I've not kept up with what traditional higher education programs are teaching! Graduates keep being hireable though.

2 - Not American and I don't subscribe to the only point of higher education being to prepare you for work so yes I think it still has lots of value. The cost in the US is very high though!

3 - I want someone to show to me that they can do the job they are applying for. Having a higher education degree is potentially one part of that signal but not the only one. The company I work for right now says:
We have intentionally removed academic qualifications from all our job specs. We welcome applicants of all ages, genders, work histories and academic qualifications who can demonstrate the requirements below. Our work environment is welcoming and open. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and work hard to make sure everyone in the company has a voice.

4 - Higher education is in part self-directed so I think the advancement of online and alternative resources just makes that better and students experience richer if they take advantage of it. They're complementary basically.

5 - I did a degree directly relating to my job field (Computer Games Technology) and the best things I got from it were a community of like-minded people, lots of networking opportunities and some fun projects to inspire me. I was largely self-taught beforehand, my secondary education I tailored towards making games so found most of the academic work things I already knew peppered with interesting insights and some new stuff later on.
I'm very close to returning to the high seas for content... A personal recent anecdote. I wanted to watch Interstellar again a few days ago. Beginning of the previous month I saw it on Prime/Netflix or both (can't remember). A month later when I wanted to actually watch it it was gone from both services... I got really pissed off, but I rented it from Prime, because I wanted to watch it with my family "now".

Your app that does random thing "X" does not need a subscription. Stop. Doing. This. This rent seeking behaviour doesn't pose well for any of us.
While hashing is not encryption, any secure hashing function can be used for encryption, even when used as a black box, (by making an unpredictable PRNG with it).

Moreover, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2 contain a block cipher function used in the Davies-Meyer mode of operation.

The internal block cipher function can be extracted and used in any other mode of operation possible for block cipher functions.

Because of these possibilities, many older laws that have existed in various places, prohibiting the inclusion of encryption in software products, but allowing secure hashing functions, have been completely misguided.
The next obvious solution is to have something that works fast for non-colliding station names, but then falls back to another (slow) implementation for colliding station names.

It's very cheap to detect station name collisions - just sample ~10,000 points in the file, and hope to find at least one of each station. If you find less stations than the full run, you haven't yet seen them all, keep hunting. If you find two that collide, fall back to the slow method. Checking 0.00001% of the dataset is cheap.
My mom has a mobile flip phone that was “designed for the elderly”. Big buttons, big labels, etc. The “Volume Down” button is also giant and is on the side. It’s also strategically located so every time she picks up the phone, tightly gripped, she unknowingly turns the ringer volume all the way down. Sigh…
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How is learning performed than? By means of genetic evolution - on the level of a individual or the whole colony (queens mutations)?
It is even harder in authoritative regimes: it is very hard for them to deal with gigantic ultra high-tech R&D: comfy area, with a lot of resources, with tons of the "right" and "legit" competent engineers/scientist, positively motivated at working all together. It seems this is much harder to set up than the space/nuke industry.
I think you are making an important point: it is easy to think that the value to you of having a car with loading capacity or a dining room for parties can be calculated from the utilization alone.

Right now my car has broken down. I don't actually use it that much since I commute to work on my bicycle. But as it is broken down I realize that those "corner cases" actually occur much more frequently that I had thought. For instance, this week I've needed it twice. Next week I need to take a trip where I could either drive myself to the airport, allowing me to sleep in for another hour or so, or I can use public transport. If I use public transport I will be home much later so a social engagement I was planning to take part in has to go.

Sure, I don't use my car that often anymore since I try to ride my bike when possible. Even in winter. But that's not really how I use my car these days.

As for houses: they're a lot more complicated than I thought. You don't actually know how you are going to use a house and whether it will "work" before you move in. It took us years to figure out what a couple of the rooms would be used for. During covid the room at the top of the house, which was kind of a second living room up until then, became my wife's office. And it works great for that.
Cop are violent on average tho. For example, they have much higher domestic violence rates then general population.

It is party result of them being above the law. And partly result of training that does not teach the de-escalation at all, but focuses on taking control, being dominant at all cost.
It's a fact that the large automaker unions like UAW are not present in Tesla operations. It's also a fact that BYD has no North American operations and obviously UAW doesn't operate in China.

Do you think the presence of UAW makes a car manufacturer more or less cost efficient?
I wonder if these are still being produced or if there's just a really big stockpile somewhere - it's weird that they're still showing up so many years later.
Yes, it struck me that the article missed all comment on interesting, relevant points about the tanks, such as how they were not recovered after launch, and therefore the actual existence of this last one should have warranted comment.
I wouldn't teach Pascal any more. While the ecosystem around it is not quite dead it is not alive either. So, everything feels a bit fallen out of time. At least to me it would be demotivating to learn the Latin of computer science.

I would rather pick Python or Kotlin.
Antibiotics are just simple chemicals that kill bacteria - with the caveat that they preferably don’t also kill the patient.
This looks like a fun historical view of programming in the 70s and 80s.

The section about C, though, I'm sorry to say is littered with flaws and should be rewritten and/or proof-read by someone with more knowledge about the language. Not impressed.
If you're building a mobile app with a few noises, then it's static. You might get updates to the OS API once in a while, but there's no ongoing work. I'm fine giving you a fixed fee, as we've always done until everybody became crazy about subscriptions.
I have cycled year round too, with proper waterproofs. Unless you wear some kind of helmet with a mask, which is not usual, you still get rain in your face. Cold rain. And it rains a lot of the time here.
Knowledge of Busy Beaver numbers can (in principle only) decide any finitely refutable conjecture. But not others like Collatz' 3n+1 conjecture.
I never got the point of credit scores and outsourcing that math to a private third party.

How things work in France is much better, simpler and easier process for everyone involved. You ask a bank for a loan, and submit information about your current revenues and situation (in a couple or not, renting or not, children or not). The bank checks with Banque de France if you have outstanding loan obligations to other banks, and if they have you in their register of people that have failed to pay loans.

No third party private company has a ton of information about your life, which they make money of selling. Not everyone can just ask said third party about your personal life (e.g. landlords or employers) because it doesn't concern them.
Typo: his name is Parker Conrad, not Patrick.
It's an undefined behavior. Use an union:

union { float f; int i; } value;
value.i = intValue;
float floatValue = value.f;
I definitely did not share your experience. Still don't with modern touch screen keyboards, which I am currently forced to use. I'd love to chalk it up to having large hands, but that is not the case, as my hands are not big by any standards. I've never felt it was natural to type with one or two thumbs, but we tend to trick ourselves into thinking this is fine because, lets be honest, what's the alternative? We can't all whip out a folding keyboard every time we want to send a text on our mobile.

That said, when it comes to making a lilliputian computer/microcomputer, there are physical limitations to design if we want to keep typing with our 8 fingers as the keyboard gods intended, so I understand the resurgence of the Blackberry-esque keyboard for pocket devices. I just can't call it a comfortable way to compute.
This is the content I come here for.
What are some ways the file abstraction has been problematic for Unix?
E-ink is a real missed opportunity for smart homes. This is just a hunch but I suspect there is a niche in the smart home market for people that want their homes to be "informative" but not "smart".

An example:

A voice-enabled tablet (ala Echo Show) is intrusive and disrupts the aesthetics of the home. An e-ink display that has low/no interactivity but provides useful information blends into the home a lot better.

Unfortunately the smart-device market isn't interested and building your own seems to be difficult.

Does anybody know if there are useful libraries for displaying e-ink? It should be simple to use a low cost RPi board like a pico and connect it to an e-ink display fitted into a frame.
Billing system is not standardized in EU though. And for some ungodly reason no charging company is able to just add a card reader, oh no, you got to download an app on your phone! And there's a whole bunch of charging companies, each with their own app. You can of course use a RFID chip, but you still have to add your card details in the apps and then add your RFID chip to the app for each company. I know there's some discussions about using the UUID the car exchanges with the charger and have a centralized payment system, but last I heard it's not going smoothly as every car maker and charging company wants to control the centralized system.

As an aside, range is not a problem with new EV's with 500-600 km range as long as the charging network is good. There was a lot of talk about range anxiety in the early days when cars had 150-300 km range and charging stations were rare. These days with charging stations on every gas station, mall, ferry port, grocery store, random parking lots and what not long drives are no longer a problem as long as you plan a little bit and don't drive through hundreds of kilometers of no mans land without charging up first.
i used to browse slashdot on my amiga back in the late 90s with iBrowse. what glorious days!
How is the ev charger coverage in the US ? I thought tesla and others made it dense and reliable enough.

ICEs were unable to do long distance trip until gas stations were everywhere.
No. It was successful because of a massive business development and community building effort in addition to the product. Firefox was less compatible than IE because IE was what people built for.

Konqueror's KHTML engine was actually more feature-complete for much of the time but there was no organization backing it until Safari based early Webkit on it. And Apple didn't back KHTML so much as just base Webkit on it. Epiphany was a Webkit-based fully open browser but didn't actually get as popular as Firefox.

The whole Firefox thing was a huge success. When they turned Mozilla (the browser) into this it was a feat. And then to coordinate the complex efforts to beat IE. It was amazing stuff.

It was a really well-done job by Mozilla.
Delphi/Object Pascal was my favorite programming environment for a long time.
PL/SQL is Ada though.
I've been laid off, but my contract subsequently extended for a while. I have not been actively searching since I have the luxury of taking my time and figuring out what I want to do, but so far interest has been coming in. I've declined one offer and am in a couple of other processes. I keep hearing about the bad job market, which does concern me - should I just grab something new ASAP to secure my spot? Will I be as in-demand a few months from now? But for now, I'm focusing on opportunities that I'd be genuinely passionate about rather than casting a wide net. I guess we'll eventually see if I end up regretting it.
Or $3 (on sale) from AliExpress [1].

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I'm not from that culture particularly, but everyone needs to eat, and going to a nice restaurant can be a pain (e.g. transport) and be expensive as well. Having people into your home for a meal is a very good alignment of a lot of things at once; that's why cultures have been built on it.
And all the users have to download a 200MB web page every time they use your service...
She has zero problem saying no to Musk and has countless times before
Good point, and i'm genuinely surprised no SV VC tried to pull a Uber attack on rentals.
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This is pretty wild.
Sorry but I’m not that sorry for your bike.

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/2023-shatters-climate-reco...

This year we visited the Dolomites and the weather was insane. The place was full of old photo's of meters high snowfalls but all they got this year was a couple centimeters in early December. We need to change our habits, this pace is unsustainable

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/2023-shatters-climate-reco...
This is almost perfect for my needs (communication and location sharing in areas without phone signal.) But it's missing GPS/GNSS. I'm not sure how niche that use case is, so more broadly I wish Lilygo offered something akin to Raspberry Pi hats -- i.e. some way to add extensions.
Depends on what kind of porn. Society needs porn. If it is legit adult porn stuff, that's ok. I would prefer donating to legit porn cause than any political superpacs. You know, some societies view politicians worse off than whores. At least whores earn honest work. You have no idea what kind of unprotective act those politician exposed to (I have decades experience in this industry, it is way more dirty than Hollywood shown)...I can name a few: Feinstein, Biden, Pelosi, AOC, Mitt, etc.
The argument is often made you can get the ‘better’ product if you pay for a ‘product-as-a-service subscription. Even for simple hardware like say a washing machine. Sure you can get the cheap one, but I’ll break almost immediately after the warranty expires and it will use so much more water and energy… or you could get the efficient one that won’t break down, because the company selling those wont have to worry about their quarterly sales.
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Yeah, I don't understand why 10 years would be preferable to 100 years. 10 years indicates that the person thinks "not my problem". Be kind, make it 100 in that case.
I don't personally have a problem with ES Modules per se, but I do agree with the "I really dislike having to include every last identifier that exists in other files" part.

I'm a big fan of "global" components in Vue.js, which are "dependency injected" into all your components but in a totally transparent way. You can "just use them" in templates, with zero boilerplate. You also don't have to mock imports in unit tests, you just inject them on an as-needed basis. To me this is 100x cleaner and simpler, there's no room for accidentally running a unit test that actually tests multiple components.

The "irony" is that people avoid them because of the name, but the ones called "global" are actually definitely not global :/

React could also benefit from something like that. The `import { createComponent }` part (which is hidden but must be added by Babel plugins) is the worst part of the framework, and is an obstacle to having cross-framework components that work in React/Preact/Mithril/Inferno/etc.
This post is a bit messy. The author starts talking about ads and algorithms manipulating us before quickly saying that subscriptions are similarly harmful, except that link is not really explained. It's randomly shoehorned in.

The author likens John Deere and Netflix but quickly brushes aside the fact that digital media and physical tractors are very different things to own.

Finally, the author suggests that paid subscriptions are bad because they can restrict our access to material and steal our data. I concede the first point but not the later. Reading my news subscriptions is significantly better than reading "Google News" and other ad-driven media suggestions.

Overall I am disappointed in the quality of the argument. This person does actually have a PhD which makes me want to talk to this person in a long form conversation where they won't feel constrained by this specific medium (pun intended).