skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know of any cases where anyone in America called someone "Mexican" as an insult? Could someone file a lawsuit because he was called "Mexican"? I don't think so, and i don't think USA and Turkey are comparable.

PKK and Kurds want to have their own country, that's natural, every nation wants that, and if history have taken a bit different path Turks could be in the same situation. If there was free speech in Turkey and non-racists were really the overwhelming majority, then the people who go into PKK would simply try to hold a referendum for independence (like people in Scotland), and most likely would not get the majority vote (again like Scotland), but unfortunately Turkey still has a long way to go to get there.
> "Yet an underlying concern is that pilot programs like these could alienate riders from taking public transportation entirely."

Junkies defecating in the train station discourages me a hell of a lot more than "hostile design", which for the most part is purely decorative from my perspective because my perspective is not that of somebody wishing to do precisely that which the "hostile design" is meant to encourage.

"Hostile design" is in fact defensive design, designed to protect the common people from the anti-social and frequently hostile behaviors you frequently see on public display in Californian cities. We need more of it.

(Note also that "hostile design" does not focus just on the homeless, but in fact encompasses a wide range of techniques aimed at addressing a wide range of anti-social behaviors. For instance, skate boarders can be discouraged from playing in crowded areas where they present a risk to bystanders with use of furniture and structures specifically designed to discourage skateboarders. This addresses the problem of skateboarders causing property damage or frightening bystanders without threats of force (e.g. property owners calling the police or hiring a security guard) or any other form of confrontation. Isn't that better, or at least safer, for everybody involved? Similarly, "hostile" design allows property owners to discourage the homeless without instigating a confrontation between the homeless and police officers.)
Looks like you forgot your citation, I'd like to read it if you can update.
I don't know PAKE to know if this is equivalent to it, but you can use a timestamp + hash to avoid sending anything equivalent to a password. The caveat is your system needs to have the correct time set. But otherwise it works fine.
Or maybe no? What if this isn't primarily about terrorism; instead, what if the lawmakers and government people want more and more power to themselves, by gradually getting access to more and more private conversations, step by step turning the US into sth like Russia and China? Then they would use the same arguments about terrorism, as they do now, wouldn't they.
The article is nothing more than pure virtue signaling.
DEMO (first plant that produces power) in the 2030s and first commercial plant around 2050?
What is your alternative proposal, if you were to (say) do research on the likely future of US-China trade policy, to make it concrete?
"Obviously not, it's a nonlinear relationship, but just because it's not a simple or well defined function presently doesn't mean the relationship is not there. It's absolutely the case that some things would get cheaper for you, yes. Probably not luxury goods, but a lot of your staples would - and these are things that all of us need."

I feel this is a case where an intuitive feeling for Amdahl's law might be useful. Although maybe people in these threads aren't typical HN types.
Have you tried Elite Dangerous? It leans more towards the Sci-Fi aspect but those elements can be ignored and you could just spend your time exploring the milky way like a lot of others do (even more so if you use VR), if I recall they sourced real data to build the universe and extrapolate to fill in the blanks. Sure it isn't the universe but it's still a pretty good way to explore our galaxy
I'm surprised that you think this is a solution - this won't solve anything besides making it easier for management to blame engineers because it doesn't target the people making the ultimate judgement call - the leadership.

The leadership (including the board who are proxies for stockholders) is ultimately liable - they hire, fire, set the strategy, values, and goals for the company. They reap the rewards of profits and take on some risk. That's the difference between a regular employee and an officer. When you have a business that involves public safety like car and airplane manufacturers, a large part of your business should be ensuring that everyone from the lowest level employee to the CEO is at or above industry standards for safety.
Technology will play a role in affecting a perilous recovery, it won't in the way most technologists think. We don't have time to "invent a fix", we can't bank on having fusion power magically suck carbon from the oceans and skies at the last moment. Or a sunshade to prevent the tundra from erupting in methane.

Technologists can help organize (via online tools), educate and show (via charts, graphs, simulations). This is ultimately a social and political problem that requires the full force of governments. Individual efforts are largely symbolic. Not that we shouldn't do them, but convincing your legislators to enact real reforms is where we avoid life ending catastrophe. We can have a huge impact, we just have to find the areas where we can have a 1000:1 advantage vs a 1.5:1 advantage.
You're making an argument that Tesla is going to sell cars. That's fine.

But previously you said delivery numbers don't matter because autopilot is valuable. That's what I was responding to and could not be more wrong.
I stand corrected... I was thinking of revenue.
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I know it’s just an off the cuff example, but that one seems easy to argue against -- in the double slit experiment, the particle is perceived to go through both slits, not through the middle.
The difference is that the building owner can install the hostile architectural feature immediately in order to "solve" the building owner's homeless problem--ie. make them go somewhere else.

Solving homelessness through the political system is DRASTICALLY slower.
I am not surprised some very skilled blue collar heavy engineering jobs could be very lucrative.

One example is "suddenly working to rule" just before a major delivery and getting paid back handers off the books for example. This is an example told to me by a hr/ir professional who came from Clydeside
Absolutely awful, unreadable web site, and I am unfortunately not exaggerating - an advertisement actually half-covers the small section of content that is actually even visible on my iPad, meaning even if I wanted to slog my way through the 'get as many as views as possible' page-by-page design, I couldn't even read the content.

Shameful. How did this make it up to page 1?
However, the DOT has used the approach in other areas with great success.

And I get that - in fact I live it. I'm a government contractor that works on transportation projects and it's frustrating when a particular agency doesn't want to use an innovative technique or design that has literally been successful on another project that's only a few miles away but project managers don't want to be testifying in front of their state legislatures about wasting tax payer money with a new fangled approach when the tried and true could have been used. Magazines like Engineering News-Record and ASME/ASCE journals bang the drum for concepts like "state of good repair" and ROI, but as long as the public will hang a politician or project manager out to try for an unsuccessful project (or worse, a new technique that kills someone), project managers will route around risk.

Again, I'm not saying this is why US projects are so expensive, but there is often a rational through process behind seemingly irrational decisions.

(yes, there are times where incompetency and/or corruption are also to blame, but IME it's much less often than portrayed in this thread).
So, the thing is:

Would you endorse a law that would break bones or crack skulls for fare evasion? Would you consider that just? I’m not asking whether you endorse fare evasion, just whether that punishment is proportional.

In this case, the state is effectively promulgating such a policy - without bothering to even get it through the legislature.

And that sort of thing - disproportionately punitive policies without even the superficial glance of legislation - tend to only fly when aimed at disenfranchised groups. Eg, poor.

That’s the anti-poor part of these designs. If you’re wealthy enough for a car and speed fast enough to risk killing a human being, you owe the state 200$ and all is well. If you’re poor and try to stiff the state for $2 at the BART, we’ll take a shot at cracking your skull.
I'm pretty sure you paid a tax on that gasoline or electricity used to charge a car battery.
A non sarcastic tl;dr: it’s not that fast software is better, but rather that slow software feels worse. I don’t know that anybody could disagree with the sentiment of how using something feels: everybody likes things to be snappy and responsive, like the app is getting out of the way and letting you get on with your work.
And it doesn't stop at phones. I kid you not, the main benefit of upgrading my early 2009 Mac Pro GPU was having a fully functioning Google Maps experience again.
Supposedly(?) two pennies...

Someone explained to me that the 1 penny/cent tip was the "I appreciated things, but I don't have anything at all to spare" (and I have certainly heard the subjective philosophy of "if you can't afford to tip you can't afford to eat out")... and that two pennies was the "I'm doing this out of obligation; that sucked".
you are also subscribed to and paying Vice?
Two additional datapoints - shares are used as part of the incentive structure for senior management, and can dwarf salary. Share gains are also taxed less.

It's a simple feedback loop. It gets pretty silly when you look at the share buyback plans many companies operate, huge sums are "invested" in the company's shares for a relatively small - a few million - return to individual management.
> even though it's illegal

Please cite that. Last I checked, SCOTUS was very clear that there is only one type of forbidden speech: fighting words. See [1], [2], [3], and [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.A.V._v._City_of_St._Paul

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._Phelps
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I feel that in most discourse today we all seem to suffer from lack of perspective. Lack of perspective of the past and of other places in the word. This lack of perspective results in words that meant something in the past (or mean something today in other places) to mean things that, IMO, do not carry the same weight and shouldn't be used as such.

Take the word "evil". We used evil to mean people or organizations that would purse goals such as terrorizing, torturing, killing, imprisoning. We ended up up using "evil" to mean "corporation that is going to use more private information that I want them to, for displaying ads to me".

You may argue that language constantly changes and it's organic, and you'd be right. But I'd prefer if we introduce new words than keep reducing the gravity/meaning of existing words. Because the problem then is that while we are all stuck talking about the "evils" of modern life in our stable safe country with cheap food and constant Internet access, somewhere someone reads this and thinks we are just a bunch of wussies, disconnected from reality and real struggle and problems (and they'd be right).
You’re easy to track down, even when your data has been anonymized
A documented disassembly followed by a reimplementation seems to be a viable way to get games ported to other platforms.
I’m having a lot of trouble with this article. It’s conflating a park bench with armrests or a ledge with spikes (both, I think, at least legitimate points of discussion when it comes to hostile design) with something designed to prevent people from stealing service.

BART service has a fare, gated by turnstiles. People try to steal that service by jumping over those turnstiles. So BART has modified them to make it harder to steal.

Of course the design is hostile - it’s trying to prevent theft!

Am I missing something?
Have you checked HaveIBeenPwned? for your email? If you shared a password between Hulu and Robinhood in your pre-lastpass days, you probably used it on yet another site that was hacked.
Your position, sometimes labelled Scientism, is Faith.
Neat technology, but I wonder if this is a healthy and safe use of voice assistant technology. Similar to living across the street from a stock ticker board, if you have any investment in the stocks presented, you could be constantly on edge due to persistent availability of this information.

On the other side of things, we know talking and driving is dangerous and distracting: http://www.cellphonesafety.org/vehicular/
If the goal is to stop fare evasion, BART can put agents at every gate to control passengers.

It is a much more human situation than designing urban architecture that can physically hurt people (particularly if they’re old/in a wheelchair/etc).

My favorite solution I’ve seen in Tokyo: gates that are open by default to optimize passenger throughput, but close down if you don’t present proper fare (and adequately staffed to boot).
Meta, but given frankbreetz seems be just asking a question doesn't mean they have to be downvoted for being ignorant. I don't think they mean to misinform.
As a counterpoint, Google Maps on my iPhone 3G in 2008 was not reliable at all for directions. Sure it was better than printing out MapQuest on sheets of paper, but Google Maps has gotten significantly more reliable over time.
Randomness in the map does not equal randomness in the territory, i.e. randomness may be a feature of our world-model, not the world itself.
There's a huge qualitative difference between individual local restaurants having delivery drivers working cheap and a quasi-monopolist doing the same thing.
This is really great. Please post more of these.

Do you have a blog? Or Twitter?
They've been absolutely wrecking Google Maps's performance and UX on Android since around ~1.5-2 years ago.

Switch back to version 9.42.3, or possibly a couple releases later if you need the "Favorites" and "Want to go" features in addition to just "Starred". It's pretty snappy and a breath of fresh air.
So is this novel climate change denial argument, or some old debunked idea reheated in Turku?
I would be providing an API and handling IO for the client. I'm not disallowing all IO and network access. I'm restricting it to going through my API.
> You're a software dev with 13 years experience and make $20/hour?

Assuming a consistent 40hr workweek, $16.34/hr from the annual pay posted. Which reinforces rather than contradicts your point.
Article immediately and repeatedly redirects wih JS disabled.

Alternate: https://outline.com/FrYujS
Not a regular Google user, but you could try downloading the offline map for your city. Might improve responsiveness?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+maps+download+offline+maps
I sometimes watch analysts at my firm use excel. It’s pure magic in the right hands, absolutely sublime.
I don't see how an error message stating, "html markup is not allowed in your post" will in anyway facilitate more abuse than banning when the abusive bad actors will simply take the ban as a signal of the same, create another account, and then avoid the activity. There's a balance to be struck between usability and abuse prevention, and currently Vimeo has got it wrong.
I once worked with an ortho imagery rectification program that was so wonderfully designed I described the hours long task of rectification as a "ballet for my hands"

There's something just so wonderful about elegant, fast interfaces.
This assumes that people's political affiliations don't change as they age.

Given by the amount of youth that support communism I sincerely hope you're wrong.
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> holds the HMAC credential over TLS, and have it return true/false

And if you're connecting to the original party anyway might as well not even use HMAC or any crypto at all. When "signed" data needs to be sent to the client don't send it at all, instead store the data locally under a GUID and send that GUID to the client. When client takes their GUID to another party, that other party connects to the original party and retrieves perfectly authentic data. Free bonus - faster client performance.

Best crypto is absence of crypto.
You don't think there would be homeless people with UBI? UBI might help the homeless-and-trying-not-to-be crowd, but I don't see how it would affect the homeless-because-it-a-choice-or-they're-mentally-disturbed crowd, the latter of which are generally the problem causers in SF.
I have had the "pleasure" of driving alongside and behind Cruise's vehicles on many occasions here in San Francisco. They will stop dramatically in the middle of a block (empty, no traffic, no pedestrians), edge forward, dramatically stop again, go halfway through the intersection and again...dramatically stop.

It feels to me like whoever has written their braking algorithm is using bang bang control.
Another hack I have seen is to feed the employees with unlimited chef-cooked meals and wine which they are happy to down and use that as fodder for creativity.
Quran translations. Out of the ones I have read, I recommend Rashad Khalifa's (https://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/ReadQuran.php).
Developer was mid making a No Mans sky clone then got bored. "Screw it, I'll just publish the world generator I have for a few bucks and call it a day"
I think you have completely misunderstood. I wasn't talking about "employed" and "unemployed" buckets according to some arbitrary definitions, but the people who are employed at all vs. a naive figure for the labor force. Neither of those numbers are adjustable at whim. The issue is, who are the people that comprise the difference and are they just lazy?

And the 20 million disabled people figure is not the total number of disabled people; it's the fraction that don't work multiplied by the fraction who are disabled multiplied by the workforce number. The second reference is where I got the fractions.
well-meaning people that simply don't understand economics

More like 'have surprising insights and arguments about economics that I don't wish to engage with.' I have really had it with people who know a little bit of economics lecturing everyone else, it's like listening to someone dismissing calculus because they only know about arithmetic.
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Why would you passively participate? This seems like corruption at its core - something worthy of a fight against!
Great post! I completely sympathize with your nostalgia for a shared Web, but I doubt a great many people know how to edit the appearance of pages they visit. I like that you've included your own buttons for light/dark mode and serif/sans. I enjoy customizing my apps' appearances (and it seems like more and more are offering this feature); but I also think your blog looks exceptionally clean and organized.

I don't completely hate Twitter's redesign-- it does include a night mode and different highlight colors. I feel like-- as a professional installation art designer, web designer, and an education in architecture-- I can spot the same obvious pitfalls of the re-design you call out: mainly, phat text and a bulky sidebar. However, it's clear you have a stronger-than-most design sense, and are sensitive to these issues.

I wonder how the everyday user-- the consumer that uses (and does not make or own) a platform-- feels about these features? How about someone who isn't adept at web design? Who can't read small text or icons?
Really appreciate your feedback! The price is now more clearly listed on the sign-up page, along with the free trial.
base64, too, in all four alignments.
>> If the terms become too onerous companies aren't going to go bankrupt honoring them.

Ironically, American Airlines didn't honor the contract, and did go bankrupt.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2018/12/20/tesla-sur...

To start with, this article of many articles on the subject. Plus Musk has spoken on the subject too.

Manufacturers have known for decades that over automation is a problem. The dream is to put raw resources at one end and get a finished product at the other without humans touching any of it. The closer you get to total automation the harder it gets to do it. There's a fine line that must be found.

Tesla has not shown that they have found the best manufacturing process so they should get help.

Also, it is almost never the best practice to produce a product 100% in-house. It requires too many resources and it's very hard to do it at the lowest cost especially in low quantities. They aren't producing their product 100% in-house but from what I've seen in the past they've tried to produce as much as possible in house. Like I said there's a fine line that needs to be found.
Boeing has been left to oversee themselves, resulting in serious safety issues with their planes. Both Seattle and Charleston production faculties have caustic cultures that have enabled management to cover up poorly done assembly work, its no wonder the same behaviour occurred when Boeing wrote software: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...
Randomness is not an objection to determinism. The problem is not that decisions can not be predicted, the problem is that some people think decisions don't exist. For that vision is irrelevant if they happen by chance or by rules.

The real answer is that decisions exist in a different frame of reference. Some philosophers are stuck in a model in which decisions were taken by the soul, an inmaterial entity. So if decisions are generated by physical processes, they're an ilusion.

But that's as idiotic as it can be. Our brain is a material system and of course decisions are generated by physical processes inside it. The interesting question is how much of us is malleable and how we can make our decisions to change ourselves and our own decision making process.
The side of machine learning you’re undervaluing and how to fix it
In some places, homeless and poor people get issued tickets for free rides because of their condition. In others, they put inverted guillotines because it would be unsightly to post armed guards preventing the undesirables from illegally using the service.

It isn't about fare evasion, it's about how a given society perceives its more disadvantaged members: some want to help them, others want them to just die off.
PGP is dying a horrific death with the mass electronic and internet user.

Since 1992, I’ve been in this game. It will never catch on.
It's literally half than Dropbox, which costs €10 per month (so €30 per quarter) in its Plus variant. And that's if you pay per year; monthly payment costs €12 per month.
So called hostile design in fact reduces the incidence of confrontations between police officers and trespassers. Since it reduces the incidence of confrontations, and therefore violence, I think comparing it to "cracking skulls" is unwarranted.
Material design sucks - it's like Communism - (not saying you do this) as soon as someone points out flaws in it, the argument is "that's not real material design" !