jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah there’s some articles on it, been a little while since looking at it. I’m guessing the system couldn’t tell the difference between cameras or cruisers computers. So if a city is found doing so, they can cut access but officers still can call someone to access the information over the phone. Slows things down though.

Looks like it passed in 2014.

https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStat... and https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStat...

so I guess it's illegal to collect people's info for civil red light or speed cameras... However I don't know if that's a good enough excuse to dismiss the ticket. I feel like they'd issue them regardless of what SD says, but then they risk losing computer access.

Some cities in Iowa said they'd respect South Dakota's law while other cities said they wouldn't .Sounds like Sioux City, IA was the main city they got in a battle with.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-war-iowa-finds-way-to-issu... and https://www.ksfy.com/home/headlines/South-Dakota-blocks-Siou... and https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/business-journal/2019...

People still getting tickets though, but kinda interesting SD made it harder.

Edit: I found the article! "Daugaard’s office sent Sioux City a letter on Tuesday evening saying Sioux City officers will only receive a registered owner’s name when making an electronic request for information. Officers will be able to call South Dakota dispatchers to gain address information for any criminal enforcement purpose."

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2016/01/06/daugaard-s...

But it also kinda makes me wonder how well states even log access. For example a state trooper pulled over a miami police officer at gun for speeding and leading her on a chase. So then the two departments had bad blood with each other, and even that trooper got harassing phone calls, threats, prank calls even pizzas ordered to her house. It's alleged that officers from 25 juridictions all across the state illegally accessed her info to retaliate. Wouldn't surprise me if Facebook or Google has stricter policies on viewing personal information than the states do. I heard snooping through users data at a lot of tech companies is a fireable offence. It seems like being a police officer is like joining some sort of cult if this is how they retaliate agaisnt a fellow officer for following the law.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sb-jane-watts-... and https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-cops-stalking-woman...
Google basically only needs a small team to design a completely new distributed system for some kind of database. Or only a team of ten for some autonomous driving algorithms, so their work is highly leveraged and is worth hiring the best in the world for. Enterprise coding is nowhere near as leverageable.
I think parent agrees with you—I think he's saying that the treatment would have no effects on anyone other than the person receiving it, so it doesn't present an ethical challenge.
> it’s a standards complaint browser.

What does that even mean? What standards it complies with? Is there a compliance test suite or report somewhere? Because there definitely are bunch of standards it does not comply with.
The Major League Soccer minimum salary is currently set to 60k/year. The average software dev salary in the US is over 100k/year.
Yes! The whole Kobo iPhone OS team will be there!

http://kobobooks.com/tablets
I have long felt this way as well.

Unfortunately, there is a very vocal minority of gamers who scream this idea down. These are the people from which the "game-playing loser" stereotype comes from - the people that really do spend nearly every waking moment churning through long game after long game.

They flood forums and Amazon reviews, screaming at how a fantastic 6-hour game was a "rip off".

I think there are a lot of adults who lead productive lives and would love to be able to play games that are finishable in a normal person's available free time. But they're not nearly as visible.
someone already mentioned the NP bit, but I also don't think its that disappointing [or surprising]. There's plenty difficult problems outside of NP complete that a quantum computer could conceivably be quite handy at. e.g. shor's algorithm for factoring an integer into primes. or grover's search. or a universal quantum simulator (as mentioned)
And I’m frustrated every day that several years after he started at Apple, BeOS still does a much better job w/r/t user-extensible metadata than OS X does.
I would experiment with different approaches, including something very simple:
"Can you develop a great advertising app? We've created a marketplace for that. Let me know if you're interested in working with us."

The website might need revision (the "Dear Awesome Developers" post certainly does). You might ask HN about that.
That's not entirely true.

3D graphics on PCs was slow until cheap GPUs became commonplace.

The new ATCA-based systems are a big step forward in making what was traditionally a function run on NEBS-compliant PCs using hacked up Squid proxies into something that would be more suitable in the edge network of a CableCo headend.
While I'd love to use the internet less, it has become clear to me, over the years, that it's an essential tool in pursuing relationship with people in their twenties. For better or worse, a lot of the social experience has been outsourced to the virtual networks: from organizing parties to sharing ideas to a friend to having fun together (nowadays done with online games), we seem to be less and less able to verbally formalize the things our ancestors were naturally good at (you'd call this "social intelligence").

It's not even that it's relevant to use it, it's just that people forget about you if you don't. Loneliness is a real huge problem among the youth -- without the internet it'd be unbearable.
I am also a recent switcher to Youtube Music and love the recommendations. Also not having podcasts I don't want pushed at me is so nice.
> I don't disagree but the idea of equating software development with some sort of artistry also allows the existence of the 10x programmer as, you know, a more gifted artists. [...] The most horrendous application I ever worked on was a java servlet app where the original developers didn't understand thread safety.

The knowledge of thread safety is not an inborn thing nor issue of talent. It is literally issue of knowledge that you can acquire if you previously did not had it.

And companies can get away with bad code for quite a long.
I keep hearing that you can specify the only fields that you need, but to be honest that isn't a problem we have. I have only taken a cursory glance, but adding a schema in at the request level, which then needs translated to a Mongo query just seems to be adding complexity rather than removing it. And URL's are going to be ugly if you are using GET requests, one of the things I am pushing for with a REST API. (Currently our API is not RESTful and most requests go over POSTs, giving less information when debugging).
Actually the light bulb that was supposed to be on to signal that the beam was on had burned out that very day.
The author of Mango posted a benchmark on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mld1ob/the_fas...

load save
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// image: 1165 x 859 (1943 KB) 24bpp
libpng: 19.2 ms 494.7 ms
wuffs: 14.9 ms 0.0 ms
mango: 10.0 ms 84.7 ms

// image: 312 x 442 (43 KB) 32bpp
libpng: 2.9 ms 18.3 ms
wuffs: 0.4 ms 0.0 ms
mango: 0.1 ms 7.3 ms

// image: 160 x 120 (13 KB) 8bpp
libpng: 0.7 ms 9.5 ms
wuffs: 0.1 ms 0.0 ms
mango: 0.1 ms 3.2 ms

// image: 90 x 112 (23 KB) 24bpp
libpng: 0.9 ms 3.9 ms
wuffs: 0.5 ms 0.0 ms
mango: 0.2 ms 1.3 ms
Fourier coefficients need a zeroth element too.
I reminds me on the no dig gardening of Charles Dowding. He try to keep the soil healthy with the intensive use of compost.
So he, as he said, doesn't need any fertilizer, has no nutrients-washed-out-by-rain problems, a load of less hard work and can make a living out of is market garden.
The fungi and bacteria in the compost and the non disturbed soil seem to be the key for that all. Nice to have a proof of that.
Flatter and heterogeneous hierarchies and more equal distribution of power. Corruption requires hierarchy, and may well be that hierarchy requires corruption.
True that. I wonder why there is so much fuss about programming languages as such and not much about the ecosystem. Especially in web development backend. In my anecdotal observation, we spend most of the time in glue code and exploring documentation for various services/libraries. Thats why middleware tools like Data and Application Integration solutions sell like hot cakes in enterprises.
No, all they require is being just as trustworthy as the other browsers and operating systems, even if that level is zero. Tor is an extra inconvenience and calls extra attention to you and therefore requires a credible claim of providing extra security to make up for the downside.
We're talking about individuals versus nation states. You're handwaving.
Regardless of the source of the information, it's up to you to decide it's worth. Just because something works a certain way for someone else is not an indicator that it will work that way for you.

I think there's value for people putting ideas out there, even if it's just a theory.
must? I would be surprised if there were. For any protocol, a machine already on the network could 100% mimic the secure gateway. That would make it impossible for you to know which machine to trust, just like with BOOTP and DHCP.
a person's motivations need to be considered

But how can we know a person's actual motivations? Those are internal to the individual, we can't see them. Heck, in many ways the individual himself doesn't really understand his own motivations.

Trying to consider motivations is thus completely fruitless. We only have the history of a person's actions, and to a lesser extent, the history of his statements, to guide us.
Having schools conforming to educational standards may be important, but there is a difference between even a country-wide system that proposes (and tests, etc) educational standards, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, government's involvement in education. These two may be completely independent. Indeed, the former (standards) may exist without the latter (government-controlled education).

And, please, avoid ad hominem attacks.
I think you've got race on the brain and are missing the point.

You can't externally label and measure groups of people -- by race, by income, by percentage of immigrants -- as part of an effort to improve education outcomes.

This is management by statistical measurement, and it's fraught with problems, the basic one is that it confuses measurement with meaning, correlation with causation.

Externally-defined statistical measurements are attractive, as they claim to give understanding. But in reality they provide very murky value at best.
costco still uses ibm as/400
You do have that privilege. Why do you think you don't?
Yes you are right, it won’t mean free beds in hotels. But will mean greater chance of those desperate to return home being able to. They have a fighting chance now of getting a MIQ slot.
I've been looking for something like this for a while and haven't found one or had the time to develop it myself. Engineers out there take note. The business case for such a device is contingent on people actually utilizing these retired EV packs though, which may become harder to source as the manufacturers get better about reacquiring them for recycling.
Not saying she was wrong, but getting help for systemic issues has never ever helped much. There's very little you can do but ignore assholes, or learn how to tear them a new one (you need to become damaged first). Anything in between only backfire and drag you down.

That workplace environment was already dystopia. Realizing it sooner is preferable. There are every option before leaving too. But you rarely win with such people, so you only do it because it's the right thing to do.

Don't ask what you should do. Do.
There could be segments of the packet that are sending null data that can be leveraged.
I've noticed that people only speak highly of COBOL, as a technology, when Grace Murray Hopper's name occurs nearby.

That's all that I need to know about COBOL.
For me the block for a long time for monads was understanding how they made IO possible.

That is, the basic ideas for things like a Maybe or similar were obvious and intuitive to me, and everyone software dev for long has done such things, even if they never think about what parts they could refactor out into something reusable.

But the leap from that to how it makes IO possible without side effects I just did not grok. It really only clicked reading something or other that described (admitting it was lying a little bit) the IO monad as something that threaded the state of the world through the program; that is, that world state becomes both an (invisible) input and output for functions, and so effects on it are fully encapsulated by the param(s) and return type of the function.
interesting to read all these from the engineer's perspective. from the manager's side of the table things are quite different. If an employee comes to me and asks for a raise then I begin the process to replace them. We give reasonable raises, we pay fair market value and an engineer might make a little more elsewhere but they'll be giving back their RSUs and the opportunity to work on really cool stuff. If, however, they want something else then good luck to them, people are all different and it's a free country, but asking for raises means they aren't happy so they will leave anyway, either way, I begin looking.

when someone joins, unless they are at vp level they really don't have much negotiating opportunity, we make a decent offer and they either take it or leave it. we very seldom adjust the offer.
Because the Result and Maybe types in the examples are functors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor_(functional_programmin...
I get the argument the author is making. React is a Javascript framework, but Gatsby is a React framework. So you have a situation where you have a framework for a framework.

Having worked with both, React isn't just an "opinionated way of writing JS", it uses Javascript under the hood but there's a ton it does uniquely, that is there is no JS equivalent, this is a thing that only React has (hooks, context, etc).
While I'll never "Show HN". Criticism can be delivered without it needing to feel like the gauntlet of pain
Protection against account skimming should happen on the customer's iPhone (it should only send data allowing a single transaction of a certain size) not the merchant's iPhone. If the customer's iPhone doesn't have that protection it's pretty easy for the merchant to hide a skimmer in their iPhone case / POS system / gas pump.
Sounds nice. I'm a bit further in (N4) and in an older conversion, and it's not even a tiny bit quiet.
All-or-nothing abstractions can make for chaos and confusion. Incremental abstractions seem a safer bet even if the longer-term result is not as good as the One Big Tool approach. Automate or simplify one aspect at a time. Look for the most common points of repetition and difficulties and work on those first.
Why do you say it's shit ?
> Is it that if you’re a public figure or tax funded then your actions should be open to public scrutiny?

Yes, always. Governments are given extraordinary powers by the people. Transparency is necessary to ensure these powers aren't being abused. Otherwise it's easy for corruption to set in.
I never learned Fourier analysis of boolean functions... but this result smells like an uncertainty principle.
Why is it shit and what system is better?
Cause then it will be more profitable to make 199k than 201k. Cut-offs are just a bad idea. If you want to phase it out with income you can just deduct it from taxes. It's easier and cheaper.
Mine too, it is hilarious that they present this gratuitous data sharing as "this is normal/we are the victims as much as you are"
> Is this the future of retail trading?

Nope, this has happened many times throughout history. It doesn’t really persist for many reasons, one of the primary being how many people get burned on the dump phase of the pump and dump. The people that bought GME at $300 are not likely to return for more sick gains.
Some self promotion, I'm tackling this problem with my side project: www.faqt.co
I think the US gov has become too addicted, structurally and incentive-wise, to this hack which lets them spend more each year than they take in organically through taxes/fees/etc.

I can not realistically picture them ever paying the debt off or going back to a zero deficit. I bet the most likely endgame will be some kind of future war against The Bad Guys (which they'll make sure to do sufficient propaganda demonization against for the low-brow general public) and then they could use that situation to justify "retiring" (not honoring) the debt. There is historical precedent. And while there are many good and honest human beings working throughout the US gov it would be a naive mistake to think the most important decisions are made by "good" people. History suggests the opposite. In (almost) all countries. Throughout history. And again, ignore words. Any words that come out of a politician's mouth just ignore. Only weigh actions, results and tangibles. Looking at those, the weight of evidence suggests they'll never eliminate the yearly deficit or debt. Just keep increasing it until some huge "oopsie!" reset excuse is found. The kind that will likely involve much loss of blood by the working/labor/non-wealthy classes, world-wide

That's the historical record, reinforced many times over millenia.
I just tried to sign in, just to check for you, and got an error message:

Something is technically wrong.

Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.
I think that gasnet neural networks that took into account the locally inhibitive? impact of nitrous oxide are far superior to traditional ANN. But I just read that recently, so maybe misunderstood that.
Which, still, doesn't tell us anything. Injury occurrs when you consistently increase your weekly mileage by a considerable margin. Why would you expect injury if you have been running more or less the same every week for years?
The gullibility of children, usefully instilled into us by natural selection.

The fear of death, usefully instilled into us by natural selection.

Human minds have no experience of not existing, and tend to find the concept difficult to comprehend. We desire answers, but unfortunately the human condition is to prefer wrong answers over no answer.
The things that keep parents poor also prevent them from helping educate their children. I spend more time looking at those that overcame poverty. We often see cases where it was parental pressure on the children to do well in school, and placed a value on educational achievement. In many cases, the ego of a parent who did not do well in school leads them to devalue educational achievement in order to feel better about themselves...
This is the email I recieved from those guys yesterday. Two tips: make it shorter(three lines?); dont use random font color/formatting style.

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Have you taken a look at LastPass? It's great - centralized web storage with clients/plug-ins on every major browser/OS/smartphone.

There was a Security Now episode about it this summer [http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-256.htm], and it got the Steve Gibson seal of approval.
This is awesome! I've tried a lot of free jquery tooltip plugins but they never quite fit the bill and I do not have time or motivation to build one myself! Can't you like give HNers some discount on the licences?
wait till you see the java this stuff compiles into
Though, I have to wonder if it is actually that hard to change a culture of corruption as the critics on this page say it is. I'm not Brazilian, I'm Indian. At one point India had the same culture of corruption that Brazil does today. Yet, thanks to the efforts of a few far-seeing government officials (e.g. Manmohan Singh) a significant amount of corruption has been eradicated. Sure, there's a lot left, but the trend has shifted decisively in the right direction.

I'm wondering if the same thing could work in Brazil. A leader that decides to pursue anti-corruption almost to the exclusion of other duties could do a lot if the people are sick of having to deal with the extra hassle that corruption imposes on everyday life. The question is, are the Brazilian people ready?
<quote>The disappearance of a 'reactionary class' evidently means: the coming to a social order in which that is not one of the classes. The disappearance of a 'dynasty' doesn't mean murder of the ruling family. The disappearance of 'nations' (Nationen) and 'peoples' (Voelker) is the same: not the destruction of individuals, but the formation of some wider social unity, in which those distinctions of Volk don't arise. It is like the disappearance of the Confederacy.</quote>

The only way to make people really disappear is to kill them or throw them into a gulag. Why would a ruler go on supporting people that he wants to see disappear? Marx and Engels spent their lives undermining individual rights ("you have the right to be left alone, as long as you don't steal from, kill or defraud other people"), which is the only thing that would have kept these genocides from occuring.

I don't believe that this was some unforseeable connection. The bloody language in Engels' writing makes more sense in this context.

Historical context does matter, but if you do it to the point where you can't even judge anything in history as good or bad for people, you're just following the current academic fad rather than thinking sensibly. This is especially important when the ideas you're judging are still present in the world around you, and when some aspect of history is still not properly understood in most people's minds, as is the case with the history of Communism.
FWIW, Post publisher Donald Graham certainly likes Facebook; he's been on their board of directors...