skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In either case, a SIGPIPE can be sent asynchronously.

My expectation (and I think this is an accurate expecation) is that a) read does not cause a SIGPIPE, read on a widowed pipe returns a zero count read as indication of EOF. b) write on a widowed pipe raises SIGPIPE before the write returns. c) write to a pipe that is valid will not raise SIGPIPE if the pipe is widowed without being read from.

Yes, you could get a SIGPIPE from anywhere at anytime, but unless someone is having fun on your system with random kills, you won't actually get one except immediately after a write to a pipe. With a timer based asynchronous write, this changes to potentially happening any time.

This could be fine if it was well documented and expected, but it would be a mess to add it into the libcs at this point. Probably a mess to add it to basic output buffering in most languages.
You seem to be confused about how US medical insurance companies operate. First, the majority of terminal patients are on government Medicare or Medicaid health plans. Second, commercial insurers have their profits capped by a minimum 85% medical loss ratio so they have no direct financial incentive to restrict care or push plan members towards assisted suicide. Rather the opposite.
I’m curious which are the well known projects or products that have ported or converted away from Go. Anyone have a shortlist?
Never say never, but yes, agreed. And that shortage depending on how it’s calculated may be more pronounced if we look at where people plan to live in the future. Central Ohio where I live is on track to gain in population while the state as a whole loses population. A house in a rural county doesn’t necessarily count/help, even if it’s included in official “here are many houses we have” statistics.

Home builders, especially with a risk-free 4% return today, do not have any incentive to build “cheap” or “affordable” housing, and as material prices continue to increase because there are 330 million people in America who also want those resources, new builds will have to continue to increase in price and perhaps decrease in quality, depending on how much oil goes into the construction of the house. Home builders, absent clear evidence of industry collusion will simply increase their profitability and will not build ‘starter homes” or “affordable housing”.

We can address the issue in a few ways, for example removing artificially limiting zoning practices, generally speaking, or perhaps the elected government can just pay for cheaper housing, or we can craft good legislation.

But on its own I don’t see a good catalyst right now that will cause home prices to “correct”* without a treatment worse than the disease (economic depression or global war or something else that is otherwise catastrophic).

* The term “correction” is popular but misused. The current price of an asset is always correct. When an asset decreases in price, that decrease is no more correct than a corresponding increase in price.
Pure opinion, but I feel like the UK has a strong cultural bias towards doing things the way they’ve always been done, which can make us a bit resistant to new technologies and ways of doing things.
I don't know where the parent is located, but in the US at least none of this matters. It doesn't matter if it's a bit perfect copy. It matters that you don't have the copyright in the first place.
Prices from 1950 is relatively useless because they don’t count the effect of women entering the workforce in the 1970s and 80s. Once women were working en masse in the 1980s house prices spiked because there was now 2 incomes that could be used to pay for the house. This inflation is seen in the data but you can’t see it from this map.

The higher house prices get the more desperate people are to use every cent to buy a house. That’s why things like mortgage tax deduction is useless because that money immediately gets factored into increasing the amount of mortgage you can get and spikes the house prices.

It’s fascinating and sad because we are at the stage now where hedge funds are driving up the prices of single family homes so that millennials and gen z become renters for the rest of their lives.
It's actually really slick for making CRUD apps - the pricing is just horrible.
> One would be Karaul.

this one was close to 200km south from test site, like I said, everything inside and out of the polygon was moved. Semipalatinsk was something like 150km east. It was and is zero-populated area.

> It was partially evacuated but a group of locals was designated as group of Guinea pigs for testing.

At 200km distance test WHAT EXACTLY? You are repeating stories which were and are pure garbage
South Sudan 2015
I’m reminded of “I was a teenage edgelord” https://medium.com/@srhbutts/i-m-sarah-nyberg-and-i-was-a-te...
And S, the statistical data language that was the ancestor of S-PLUS and R.
Look at Aspen, CO - the indigent commute in from far away because they are priced out and disposable.
Yeah but I think of you've got a GPU you should probably think about using vllm. Last I tried using llama.cpp (which granted was several months ago) the ux was atrocious -- vllm basically gives you an openai api with no fuss. That's saying something as generally speaking I loathe Python.
Sadiq Khan is a frustrator/saboteour who sets the tone. His is occupying occupying real estate that could be used by someone to preserve and grow British culture instead of hating it and destroying it.
The problem with consumerism is a function of money and capitalism, in a perfect world where everything is made 100% free and fair and with no environmental impact the consumption behavior would be the same (or even worse).

Would we still consider it a problem then?

In Star Trek there is no money and you can replicate whatever you need/want.

Is that utopia or are we still doing something wrong?
The average person on AI:

"Forty-three percent had used one for work" … "The numbers are slightly different for the under-16s. Fifty-four percent said they had used a GenAI tool, with more than half (53 percent) of those saying they had used it for schoolwork."
Yeah, I encountered those as well in my data gathering. I threw them out from the training set, but I kept them for possible future experimentation.
Are you serious? Jeffrey Sachs is not just some guy... I think he's about as qualified in geopolitics as anyone can be.
And the jobs? The amenities that make areas highly desirable require workers who can actually commute to them.

It's a game of chicken. The people who live in these areas and expect to be served without complaint either acquiesce to density and lower property values, or risk (occasionally fiery) demonstrations against the unfair and unworkable situation. Their goal is to keep the game running, so that everyone else doesn't decide on one or the other end state. Essentially, "Highly desirable areas that are too expensive for low/middle-income workers," is a transition state.
Not every safety item is necessarily an extra expense due to inefficiency. The simplest example would be electrical wire. 2 lead, paper insulated aluminum wire is less expensive than 3 lead PVC insulated romex, regardless of manufacturing efficiency. There's not a lot of modern AL electrical wire for price comparison, but Home Depot lists a 1000ft spool of #2 AWG USE-2 AL wire from Southwire for $0.80 / foot. The same spool from the same manufacturer in CU is $2.32 / foot. So while not a perfect comparison, if you imagine going from a 1950's 2 wire AL situation to a 2024 3 wire CU situation, you're talking a baseline price increase of over 4x with modern efficiency. And that's before you consider that modern building codes also require many more outlets and circuits than they used to. My home, built in the 70's has 3 circuits in the kitchen. 1 counter top, 1 fridge, 1 range. IIRC the modern building code is 1 circuit for every hard wired appliance, 1 for the fridge, 2 accessory circuits and a circuit for the room walls in general. If you assume a modern house with a fridge, range, dishwasher and over the range microwave/hood combo, that's 7 circuits minimum for the kitchen. So in addition to the 4x increase in wiring costs for the existing circuits, you also have a 2x increase in the number of circuits for just that room let alone outlet spacing requirements in other rooms and the like.
Good catch. Thankfully the full version are not subscription on macOS.
I’m honestly surprised at how small the drop is, because it feels like I no longer know anyone who’s using it. Haven’t heard a conversation with involving something someone read there in forever. Hear about reddit all the time.
100%. I myself am waiting for less fringe "network states" to appear so I can join one.
> The official TensorFlow-to-TFJS model converter doesn't work on Python 3.12. This doesn't seem to really be documented, and the error messages thrown when you try to use it on Python 3.12 are non-obvious. I tried an older version of Python (3.10) on a hunch, using PyEnv, and it worked like a charm.

Amazing. And then people wonder why "just use python 2" is still a thing.
LOC is a bad measure of literally anything. It's not related to productivity, efficiency, bug count, readability, etc. What it's most related to is the choice of language and libraries. For me, shunning big contributions just for being big just stifles my drive to contribute. If the solution does what it's supposed to, is valid, efficient and there's no obvious unnecessary duplication of codethen who cares if it's big. All valid contributions push the project forward.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this “one weird trick”, as someone whose culture is known for cooking with lots of spices. Oil has a tendency to soak up capsaicin, and its even harder to wash off the skin than just…not oiling your hands. We just wash our hands after handling chilies. Never had a problem
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're meaning. The issue in your example is the output buffering of a, not the input buffering of cat. You'd need `stdbuf -o0 ./a | cat` there.
Sure, I agree.

Gred's post however strongly implies that the only outcome worth considering is death. That might be true for them, but I'm not sure if that applies broadly.

Speaking from experience, losing your house to a fire is traumatic, expensive, and you lose things that can't be replaced. Even when there are no deaths.
Can you upload a few of these samples somewhere?
I agree with your point that being choosier leading to longer singlehood seems self-evident. But, what’s interesting is the study’s attempt to quantify this. It found that choosiness not only affects the likelihood of being single but also interacts with other factors like self-perceived attractiveness and confidence. While it may feel tautological, the empirical framing adds depth to what might otherwise remain an intuitive assumption.
Mine didn't. My contactless key needs to be nearby when starting the car. The shifter is independent and does not need the key.
Regardless I would have carefully taken these down and put them in a box on the day I moved in. And then called them (or better, written to them) and given them a reasonable amount of time (maybe a couple months) to collect their property, making it clear that I would dispose of it after that time expired.
Makes you wonder how much of that added productivity from women workers was sucked up by the wealthy increasing the disparity.
Great points, great comment. An additional measure to solve for this would be by making remote work a protected labor right (assuming it does not overly burden the employer and such), so workers can move where the housing is, or the housing is cheap. But we'd rather let old, status seeking folks at the top of the corporate ladder "show workers who is in charge" and maintain control while workers get extracted from for higher than necessary rent or mortgage payments near an office (where housing is in demand but very slow for additional supply to come online, if it ever does at all).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037589 ("HN: Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds")

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/nov/why-do-wf... ("Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis: Nearly half of people working from home — who moved to a different state — moved because of housing.")

People argue about paperclip maximizers that don't exist yet while being unaware of the one they live their lives in today.
There should be no tax on selling a primary residence if and only if you buy another primary residence. Otherwise tax it like capital gains or higher. Make it economically unfeasible for people to own more than one house. I’m generally a capitalist but i’m okay with this because the housing situation is ridiculous.

Hedge funds and other corporations should be disallowed from purchasing single family homes. Period.
At some point you need to stop asking people on the internet and start asking a good copyright lawyer in your jurisdiction.
My grandmother, who I visited today, is a 93yo COPD patient.

She can't breathe. She can't use the bathroom without help. She can't hardly move. She's hooked up to a nasal cannula 100% of the time. Albuterol breathing exercises 4x a day means she can't sleep more than six hours at a time because if she skips one, even on O2, she experiences suffocation.

She coughs so badly that she has constant rib/spine fractures so she's on and off narcotic painkillers that only make life bearable in doses enough to turn her brain into mush.

She wants to die. She's done. She won life. She's the last lady standing. Every single friend from her youth is gone. It's over.

I've already told her that when I get into my 60s I am going to stockpile a cache of painkillers and when the time comes go out on my own terms. There is an exact and precise 0.0% chance that my family is going to cry out in the hallway for days/weeks while I shit/piss myself in bed and slowly drown to death as my organs fail.

But it's too late for my grandmother because she waited until she was under the watchful eye of the skilled nursing facility nightmare.

In my idealized world, there is no violence, no accidents, and all diseases have been cured except for the inevitable and unstoppable phenomenon of heart failure and 100% of ALL deaths are medically-assisted suicide, decided on by the individual once they reach the point where your heart can no longer support independent living but before you get to the Morphine downward spiral.

I am a volunteer FF/EMT so I've seen my fair share of end of life patients in the last 25 years and apparently I am the only responsible adult in my family so I've handled the hospice phase for every member of my family for the last 20 years.

It is incomprehensible to me that anyone who has any exposure to death whatsoever does not fully support a person's right to determine the time and manner of their death-- even if it comes with problems.

The only reasons I can come up with for not supporting it are: a financial stake in prolonged expensive end-of-life care, the belief that the patients are too stupid to determine their fate, and/or trying to impose their personal religious beliefs on the masses.
Because it's a dumpster fire of shrill partisan US politics.

I'm following only SF/hn flavoured tech crowd on there - the thinking being that it'll be about tech. An intentional attempt to buy into a bubble if you will. That used to work well.

Since musk take-over and the current election cycle even that is intolerable. Tech gang no longer tweet about kubernetes etc, instead it's about immigrant, Joe Rogan and whatever has Marc Andreessen's knickers in a twist today.
Stable, Fast, Automatic Learning Algorithm for Predictive Coding Networks [pdf]
More points:

Basically everything is soaked in flame retardant: your insulation, your wiring, your furniture, your appliances.

Heater technology is way safer now. Central heat is a lot more prevalent, and space heaters are a lot less likely to start a fire.

I'd also add to your wiring point: electrical appliances are way safer and way less hot.

A counter-argument though is the prevalence of lithium-ion batteries. I do wonder if a spike in fires is coming--though I would've expected it by now.
> Every friend I have who doesn’t own a house and bought an EV ended up returning it...

Yeah, if you don't have a private parking spot, charging is a deal breaker.

I wouldn't be surprised if apartment blocks with shared parking lots/garages eventually add charging.

But yes, this requires more infrastructure.

And won't be solved for street parking anytime soon.
The Corvil devices used by Pico have IME largely been replaced by Arista 7130 Metamux platforms at the capture “edge”
Do you have examples of "just use python 2" still being a thing in 2024?
ngl, the prose around the hello world example at the start really turned me off to this $35 resource.
Ransomware attack on Blue Yonder disrupts retailers ahead of holidays
This is all well and good but as someone who just went through a renovation, the cost of labor and materials is astronomical. Yes the land is expensive too but it’s not like it was free to get construction crews out either.

So while it is a financial asset, the cost is still tied to the cost of physically constructing the thing.
Signal to HQ "I'm being robbed" or something like this, I would guess.

Around here, such a button in this place would be for the 20 000 lumen extralights. Typically for cars with xenon headlights, like this Opel, the extralights are powered via a relay that takes control signal from a can-bus adapter that extracts the high beam signal, via a manual switch like this.
Vastly more than hundreds. For instance I have an HP-65 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-65), a programmable pocket calculator from 1974. It's collectable, but not rare. It is built with similar objectives: low power numerical applications. Of course it has substantially less memory, buit then it was substantially cheaper!
Canada is letting people request suicide for non terminal and non physical disabilities (e.g. autism)

Whilst I am genuinely supportive of the legislation, I have a disability myself and am cautious about what it might lead to.
The Revised SI of physical units (2019), Max Planck (1900), and 'Planck scale'
Hopefully everyone is getting away from X
New York fines GEICO and Travelers $11.3M in data breach cases
There were no thumbnails because no one wrote the necessary infrastructure before some one actually did. One person did most of the work and there were no other problems than actually writing code.
Sadly I don’t think it will happen.

In previous crises people could depend being educated by mostly responsible media . Today both mainstream and social are entertainment first don’t care for truth or their role in educating the society .

It is more likely they will be taught to blame some boogeymen who have nothing to do with the problem rather address the real one .
The thing is, first of all I’m hardly a handyman, I wouldn’t have known where to start. Second, I was dealing with moving to a new place, which can be very stressful (to add to that, my girlfriend was 6 months pregnant and my dad had passed away unexpectedly less than 2 months earlier). And third, I wanted the alarm, just with me in the contract and with the access to the cameras, not the previous owner.

I simply covered them. The threat was just me running out of patience.
I agree that pragmatism probably isn't much help in resolving these kinds of ethical and political questions. It might be helpful in terms of focusing the discussion when arguments get excessively metaphysical or abstract, but if people disagree on the practical ends that should be sought or the best means of attaining them, then I don't think pragmatism can settle that.
Not really a computer though - they didn't exist in the USA at the time. If I remember correctly it was a series of IBM calculating devices chained together.
The research done at Bell Labs is the foundation of the information age, however, Bell Labs sowed the seeds that made the post-divestiture AT&T a doomed enterprise from the start - there is a reason they only lasted ~20 years from divestiture 'til they were bought by one of their former children, SBC.

AT&T provided for most of its history, the best quality telephone service in the world, at a comparable price to anyone else, anywhere.

There were structural issues with the AT&T monopoly however, for example cross subsidization - the true cost of services was often hidden because they would use optional services (like toll calling) to subsidize basic access, and business lines would cross subsidize residential service.

The level that AT&T fought foreign connections (aka, bring your own phone), probably hastened their demise, in the end, the very technologies that AT&T introduced would turn long distance from a high margin, to low margin business - the brass at AT&T had to know that, but they still pinned the future of their manufacturing business on that - a manufacturing business that had never had to work in a competitive environment, yet was now expected to - because of this and other factors divestiture was doomed to failure.

I'm a believer in utilities being a natural monopoly, but AT&T was an example of effective regulatory capture, it did not, and does not have to be this way, however it was.
How to make the ingress controller "panic" and nuke your K8s cluster
I mean at some point ... the average visitor is dumber than the AI and your now just blocking dumb people
In what way is the EU doing “less good” in transgender stuff? Genuinely interested
Exactly that: you've got a limited number of lots and a limited number of units that can be on those lots, so max the value of those units. With the lot supply and zoning, that equals replacing whatever might already be there with a giant McMansion. This drives up housing prices while also deleting the middle out of the market.
I can confirm this.

I had packet loss on my server. They asked me several times to reboot my server into rescue mode and leave it there for 10+ hours until their senior technician could look into it at an unspecified time of day.

After a month of doing this 3-4 times, they finally admitted that their switch is overprovisioned and there was no ETA. This problem happened in 2 locations.

Also had a problem with the failover ip failing to move. Again they told me to reboot into rescue mode and leave it like that for hours. No fix.

I've left OVH entirely after being a customer of theirs for over 10 years.
If the semantics are exactly the same as clojure, can you give me a specific example of what value is lost? Surely the semantics must be different for there to be a loss of tangible expressivity of the language?
Then you have to deal with:

- .Net devs (they are almost as annoying as us Java/Kotlin devs)

- a language and ecosystem that consistently sacrifice backwards compatibility (contrary to us who have features sacrificed for backwards compatibility at every single step)

- you have to live without the JVM ecosystem (on this I have no self deprecating comment, C# is a better language, but the ecosystem, from libraries to build system to IDEs is something I always miss when I work in .Net.)
Improved USB4 Debugging Support with Linux 6.13