skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone pointed out below, the entire purpose of license plates is to easily track and identify cars. There's no reason to require the outward display of a license plate otherwise. In fact, there's already a more accurate and up to date piece of information that isn't required to be displayed: your registration card.

I'd never seriously thought about this until reading this story, probably because they've been ubiquitous for decades and as a little kid I loved seeing the different state versions, but I'm surprised that I've never come across a serious discussion about the privacy implications and whether or not it's Constitutional (if it's been addressed, would love a pointer to the case). It doesn't seem like a huge logical leap from the idea of digital anonymity.
> iOS developer at a major bank here in Canada.

Is it the one that forced me to upgrade their app to a version that didn’t support scheduled payments anymore?
It's fun how fashions change - for over a decade I listened to people decry how "unintuitive" and "cryptic" blender's interface and approach was (and I do realize that blender's interface has changed over the years, but not that much) and praised tools like Inkscape for following the "user friendly" approach and straightforward paradigms.

(I have spent quite a long time using both and appreciate each's merits)
I've been on both sides. Sometimes you definitely care. If I have a small pile of resumes for a fairly specific job, I'll give each of them a lot of consideration and nobody will get tossed just because they have no degree. But if you hand me a stack of 300 resumes of [presumably] largely qualified individuals, I'm going to pick some reasons to make the stack more manageable. Some people definitely use degree status for that purpose.
Isn’t this the normal, expected, and preferred method for a drug to fail? The alternative failure mode is: drug gets to market, later on is found to have horrible side effects and harms a lot of people. See e.g. Vioxx.
The middle east has done pretty well for themselves fiscally speaking, it is still not very politically stable, but they have a lot of money now from significant energy generation.

If we could place a huge solar farm in the Sahara and find a way to transport this energy worldwide, I think it would be great for them. They wouldn't have to transport directly, they could create some sort of fuel that could easily be transported all over the world.

There are hundreds of ways forward to a sustainable future and the technology already exists, and the political landscape is getting better every day. People aren't just going to give up, they are going to keep complaining until something is done. The majority of the world seems to know what is going on and they are upset about it. They aren't going to calm done until we are on the right path.
I had a gigabit fiber-to-the-home connection in an area inside of Denver city limits (more than 3 years ago by the way) that is not shown on your linked map, so your data source for this is not accurate.
Or just go to JustWatch and let it tell you what your stream / rent / buy options are.
Some highlights:

- The most popular category is “Productivity” accounting for ~40k extensions and 676M installs

- Google itself authors 155 extensions accounting for ~133M installs

- A single publisher has accumulated ~72M installs across 618 published extensions
Agreed - I wish FoCo could attract more tech companies - it is a great city with highly educated people (esp with CSU here). But for now your best bet is remote work if you want to get paid a salary equal to the COL of FoCo (which is almost the same as Denver/Boulder). Sadly due to lack of competition in tech, the few tech companies here pay well below market because they can. You can literally move to Boulder/Den and get a 30-40% pay increase...
It's not "sketchy". Their DMCA page explains it and they respond to DMCAs with validity.

Now Youtube and their in-house pseudo DMCA is sketchy.
I live in the middle of Capitol Hill and would love to ditch comcast, so I went to check this out. Good news, I qualify for "high speed" internet of up to 7Mbps!
Often is subjective, but he does contradict himself a number of times greater than 0. http://www.trumpcriticizestrump.com/
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If California regulation de facto prohibits out-of-state cars from being sold or operating inside of it the rules may run afoul of the interstate commerce clause.

At least in the history book I used there is a direct parallel: a precedent setting case had to do with regulations about tractor trailer wheel mudflap sizes. States would set different conflicting values so that they could restrict the traffic through them (or force a waste of time before coming in).

There may also be another argument based on how states must, in general, respect each other's licenses (marriage, driver, etc; but interestingly not concealed carry, something I suspect will be tested again soon).
People would just make the purchase out-of-state.

They're already doing this to avoid steep sales taxes on cars. Some people even keep their vehicle registered out-of-state to avoid registration fees as well.
The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal
Developer's Social Anti-Patterns
Prof. Sabine Hossenfelder has an interesting blog post on LIGO [1] and a related HN thread [2].

[1] https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/09/whats-up-with-ligo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881986
Even if you're a fan, you gotta admit, dude talks in circles. It's not a hit piece to point out an obvious and well documented behaviour.
Before He Spammed You, This Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox
> A big chunk of an ISP is labor costs

Explicitly the reason for automating things, esp. since network connections don't require a ton of labor once provisioned.

Orchestration engines help to do the former (Ansible, Salt, Puppet, whatever), and they usually tie into monitoring systems like Nagios, ScienceLogic, or SolarWinds, and can trip, and then launch, remediation efforts automatically.
I like that the internet archive exists, but I don't like how they implement their opt-out policy. Sites can opt-out at any time, which I suppose is the correct thing to allow, but once they opt out then everything the Archive has gathered up to that point also goes away, which seems wrong.
Contract Killing (In Modern C++)
Electricity is power, and Sisi knows this. His predecessor lost support during a few hot summer months of rolling power-cuts. It was rumored that those power cuts were the product of sabotage by electricity ministry managers. But since Sisi came to power he payed Siemens a small fortune to import power stations and stabilize electricity production.
They mentioned that it should only be used for very large objects (say, 10k), so if you're seeing ~10k, hard-coded objects throughout your code, you should probably fire someone. If it's in just a few places, there should be a comment describing it (e.g. "large object constructed from DB query, use JSON to make page load faster").
Disclaimer: I'm not related with them in any form and there is a lot of time since my last visit, so I could be wrong.

Loro parque is known to host and reproduce a lot of endangered species of parrots and help it to recover from extinction with private money. As private zoo it has a very good reputation of taking lots of troubles to keep the animals as happy as they can.

They had an escape bat incident some years ago, solved, and there was the history of the killer whale Morgan with several animalist organisations figthing to avoid the park rescuing a deaf and starving dutch killer whale. It seems that some people would prefer the young lost whale dead than in captivity, for ideological reasons. Eventually Loro parque won all trials and collect all legal permits to keep an animal that would not survive a year in the ocean but is still alive and well and even has a calf in 2018. They even had to feed the calf with a bottle.

https://www.loroparque.com/morgan/

I'm not aware of anything really dark or wrong with them. Looks like a good modern zoo; In fact it is classified routinely as one of the bests zoos in Europe if I remember correctly.

What do you feel was wrong with them?
The sites you mentioned aren't the ones where most of the folks lurk around. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are.
This seems like the worst of both worlds option.

I think there is value in a higher level interaction sometimes instead of texting, but videochat seems to be the far superior option?

"I abruptly asked one morning to stop messaging me about story ideas on our office’s chat platform, Slack. Instead, I said, let’s talk the ideas out over the phone."

Maybe people remember things a lot better than I do, but text based logs are super helpful. I also think writing often is a better medium to go over thoughts in a coherent way (I find people that disagree with this usually have trouble typing which makes it a lot harder).
Came here to see if I was going crazy or if others had also heard of this before.

Is this about new findings? Or just a regurgitated set of findings to get into the press? The article isn't clear as far as I can see.
A lot of self taught programmers have gaps in knowledge especially when it comes to synchronization, how threading works, basic data structure and operation complexity on them. Whenever it's required they say "it's not required for web development". Of course I don't say this for all but many of them have this problem. Bootcamps don't help.
I somehow did both. I spent a fortune on art school to be a painter, only to change course in my late 20's and teach myself how to code. So I don't have a (tech) degree to my name, but with all the associated debt. lol.

However, I have luckily had the same experience as you. It's never held me back.
> The real-world impact of this open issue is really small as it is limited to cases where DML happens before DDL has fully finished

So... database migrations.
This guy, Massey needs a reality check.
Chiming in to say I agree with the sibling (dead) comment (not sure why it ended up dead).

Djikstra's words (and the article's) are clearly correct, but hardly revolutionary or contrary to modern belief today.

The real question is: why, despite a prevailing belief in modern software software engineering that red diffs are beautiful and cathartic things to be celebrated, and that the great spectre of technical debt is something to be excised, why do complex overengineered systems still prevail despite all this?
I think one of the oddest things is getting text about people who have passed away. In the past this seemed to be something so sacred you did it in personal, or at the worst, with a phone call. In the past few years I've gotten text about old roommates and liver failure or suicides and I'm guilty of forwarding on the information in the same medium.

I just kinda accept it, but maybe I shouldn't ...
great url
Yeah, I also think there will be any recession anytime soon. Maybe in five to six years...
Extremely lame article...

I remember back 10 years ago either google or the internet archive had a temporary search engine that went through the wayback machine... and a lot of interesting things were found. It was through this IIRC that it was discovered that Obama filled out a questionnaire in 1996 saying he supported same-sex marriage when that was not his public position at the time. I've always wondered why that search engine went away and who currently has access to do such searches.
Show HN: Make beats on your Mac trackpad
FTA: "another of Boeing’s bewildering failures" he refers to the MCAS implementation as "throwing the airplane wildly out of trim" and "No one I spoke to from Boeing, Airbus or the N.T.S.B. could explain the reasoning here."

You are trying to hold pilots accountable in some vague sense, so what of holding Boeing and the FAA accountable in a non-vague sense? How is the actual delivered form of MCAS reasonable? How do you expect, given available factual flight data from both flights, MCAS induced mistrim to be avoided? Do you agree that it must be avoided at the low altitudes both of these flights were at, because it's not possible to recover from mistrim at low altitude?

If this were just about pilot training and certification, why are these airplanes grounded around the world? You really think the problem is just with a handful of "3rd world" pilots? Do you even realize that the Ethiopian Airlines pilot was one of their most experienced, and this experience as a fighter pilot is demonstrated in his recovery attempts shown in the flight data?

I mean, it's almost like some people don't know what they're talking about, yet call their nonsensical prattle "the truth" because they enjoy trying to aggravate thinking people, quite possibly the only actual skill they have.
Thankfully most other developed country’s healthcare system doesn’t penalise individuals quite so significantly as the broken system you Americans keep voting for.

I’m not saying the UK or other European counties have the perfect healthcare systems either but at least we aren’t tied to a job we don’t like because losing our company’s health scheme is too scary to consider.
My twin brother was born by caesarean. He gets asthma attacks from allergies that I don’t have. I’ve wondered for a while what effect a faecal transplant could have...
It's interesting to see job boards becoming so diversified. Are there ones for women in dev, PoC in dev, and LGBQT in dev? What about disabled people? What about over-middle aged people? (...there probably are, I didn't search)
This is not something to "remember". If you don't know this, you don't understand it.
I wonder how long it'll take these sites to require Captcha for basic access.
If we're bringing dictionaries into this, the OED explicitly labels that definition as obsolete outside a few specific usages (e.g. "every man", "half man, half beast", "man or beast").

Now if you were speaking in 1597 you'd be correct.

The non-obsolete version is "An adult male human being, and senses principally based on this".
How registering to vote makes your personal data available
Exactly what I mentioned in my other comment in the thread.
I hate that these kinds of Orwellian phrases "Welcoming X to the Y Family" have now become idiomatic of corporate English. Ugh, no. There is no "family" involved here, not by any stretch of the word.
Further elaboration: a financial award is a great way to tempt an innovator out of their risk adverseness: it says, you can quit your job or whatever and not risk much if your innovation is valuable.

The ideal startup person is someone who already has the idea and knows its good but doesn't want to take the risk without some kind of reward to justify it.

But if the rewards get big enough, you get reward seekers without any fundamental idea who are just going to sit around trying to come up with them until they find one someone is going to bite on.

These two populations of people are totally different and only one of them actually cares about the product or making the world a better place.
Diesel particulate emissions are a proven killer with a direct, immediate risk to human health. Even low-sulfur fuel and DEF doesn't really solve the problem. I would prefer to see CARB phase in a gradual ban on almost all diesel engines. We can meet transportation needs (including cargo) with a mix of gasoline, natural gas, and battery electric vehicles.

(There are a few limited cases such as medium sized marine engines where diesel is the only safe and practical option.)
I think it can be both, plus communication: communication to n00bs, to yourself in the future if you're really tired, etc.
Modeling a read-write version of Texel: asynchronous consensus without rounds
Netflix Plans to Pay Bonuses to Filmmakers When Movies Succeed
You will also get gig bi-directional with the city - afaik comcast is only offering 20-30Mbit uploads for their gig service.

But yeah surprise! City announces city internet service and comcast slashes gig from $200-300 a year ago down to $70-90 lol
I thought the same. Our OB/GYN, doula, hospital staff and birthing classes all covered this as if it were factual and provided some ways to overcome it should you go through a c-section.

Still good to see studies around this get passed around. You never know if you'll have to go through an emergency caesarean and being prepared is best.
The word for "fun" exists in both German and English, but is missing from many other languages.

Many social constructs don't translate well. The word "freunde" is much, much stronger than "friends", for example. "We're all friends here" doesn't really work in German, at least not in the same situations. Similarly, English doesn't really have a term for "Wohnunggemeinschaft."

Puns often don't translate, which breaks translating many of the jokes in Shakespeare, for example. Going from German to English, the Rammstein song "Du has(s)t much" doesn't translate due to the puns, as does much of the writing by Yoko Tawada.

Gender ambiguous things don't always translate either. The gender neutral pronoun "they" translates to "sie" in German, which is the same as the pronoun "she" but with different verb conjugations. "Trans man" or "transwoman" are usually translated in German the same as "man" or "woman". Nuance on racial issues also doesn't always translate smoothly between the two languages.

I am sure there are many, many more.
Rarely does someone mean:

int *const foo;

It's mostly useless to declare a variable that cannot be assigned. But very often people write

const int **foo;

When they intended

const int * const *foo;
That was in the second to last quote I had, but really the whole thing was quotable, what a mess of a company.
You really want to work yourself into a frenzy about minor inconveniences, huh? You’re so hyperbolic here that you sound like you’re basically making stuff up.

> You buy one thing out of the ordinary (like a $3000 downpayment for a motorcycle) and immediately get 5 texts, 10 emails, and 2 phone calls. YO did you do that?

First, dropping 3 grand at a motorcycle dealership is extremely out of the ordinary for most people. Second, my money says you got exactly one text, one email, and either one or zero calls. It makes perfect sense that they’d want to do the fraud check here. It also makes sense that they’d use multiple means of contact to reach you quickly.

As for the girlfriend blacklisting story, I don’t know if you’ve just horribly mangled this story or what. It doesn’t make sense. If you deposit a check, there is no potential fraudulent withdrawal from your account. Also, a bank cannot randomly close your accounts and “blacklist” you. They are holding your money. Stealing money from your depositors is generally frowned upon from a regulatory standpoint.
More or less. That's exactly why we're seeing a resurgence of big gas engines for medium trucks. Diesel has become less competitive for a lot of use cases due to increased emissions related maintenance (whereas they basically didn't have any emissions system 15yr ago).
To be fair, if a “parent corporation” is a thing, then logically it has children and can be a corporate family.
That’s the idea behind Federal vs. State government. The States are suppose to be able to regulate how they see fit as long as it meets the federal minimum. So yes, I think the same would apply to this scenario.
No. What I call "working similarly" is the following:

- I type "fili.cc" in my Firefox on Android

- I don't like anything currently in suggestions, so I tap on the search box, type in "Avengers", and press Search

- I tap the first result, as it is the movie I'm looking for

- On the move page, I tap on one of the players listed

- A video box loads, I press its Play button, then Full Screen button, and watch the movie

It's literally one tap more than Netflix; since this is a site curating pirated streaming sources, I have to pick one of the "players" (each representing a movie source with a bundled JS player).

fili.cc is one of many of such sites; different people I know have their own favorites.
It's debatable whether there is a legal need. I prefer 2FA and that should be it. If you are trying to stalk me, I am willing to cancel.
Could Ultra-Low Interest Rates Be Contractionary?
Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life
I have a degree, but this is such an over-generalized comment. Many degree-owners have those same gaps you talked about, and some self-taught devs do not. I can't comment on Bootcamps, mainly because there seems to be a huge range in quality of graduates from those.
I don't know about California, but in Washington state when you register a car that was previously registered in another state, you have to provide proof that you paid sales tax on it, and you have to pay a use tax if you can't do that. Presumably CA would just apply an identical use tax to cars purchased in any state without their standard.

Now, sure, some people could dodge the system, but they don't really matter: the point is to make it inconvenient enough for automakers that they only produce vehicles meeting the CA standard.
My younger brothers are identical twins, one born vaginally and the other 20 min later via C-section. I've always said they'd be good data for these type of studies.

Anecdotally, they don't really have big differences regarding allergies or autoimmune disorders. Although growing up I always complained one stunk up the bathroom worse than the other.
> edit I guess I've been shadow banned for wrong think in here, can't respond to comments.

Keeping your post visible while disabling replies is the exact opposite of what shadow banning is.
Which is why the first thing is to go to the police and have them investigate. It's not a private company's job to do this.
something like
let map = {{ x:7, y:13 }};

where the double-brackets promise you're only going to do JSONish stuff in there
Wall Street banks look to sell more research to companies
How did you approach them, what did you ask to help with? Not saying you did this, but there's a big difference between "hey folks, how can I help?" compared to "I noticed your page load times are ridiculous, I can get you to a place that isn't awful".
Wouldn't it be up to X side to submit links to IA? Also if a site opt-out and their historical data is wiped, that isn't IA's bias, it's the site choosing to opt-out.
This would never fly but my suggestion is to change to a new form of the GPL that says mostly the same things except there is a list of organisations (FAANG, Oracle, MS, various governments) and they cannot use it unless they pay a fairly significant fee and list some large fines for avoiding this. I'm aware that these companies make contributions to OSS, it's just not nearly enough and they are the cause of many of our needs for OSS.
It doesn’t go away, it’s just not public. This is to comply with copyright law. It’s still safely stored on disk.
> who currently has access to do such searches.

my guess is intelligence agencies do
Oh, so that’s what happened. This started last week for me and it is far from a “masthead”. It takes up 80% of my home screen on my LG WebOS TV. It’s more equivalent to the whole upper fold of the first page of a news paper being a giant advertisement. When I see a brand in that “masthead” it definitely creates a negative association for me.
You're doing it wrong. See my counterpoint elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008979.
How much does this matter if automakers are putting out electric cars and trucks that are more reliable than their gasoline cousins? People will buy the vehicle that provides the best value, won't they?