skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Going 60 in a 50 zone, which many people do, isn't going to result in many more fatalities,

If it is technically preventable without impeding the lawful usage, why is it assumed that the killing or maiming of even one extra person is okay?

> That kind of driver is just going to go for used cars if new cars won't let you drive as you wish

Perhaps, but isn't being surrounded by vehicles driving at the legal speed going to slow them down? And if that doesn't slow them down, then aren't the police likely to have more resources to deal with them?

(each death on UK roads is estimated to cost over £2 million pounds https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ras60-av... , I'd imagine the figures are similar for most Western countries - that's a lot of resources freed)

> the lawmaker exerting that level of control over their cars, because it's 1984-y.

And having our roads festooned with cameras and number plate readers while still suffering the deaths and injuries is not a worse vision of dystopia?

> because otherwise you end up creating a draconian state, which is way worse than any possible outcome created by people misusing their agency. Trying to enforce speed limits this hard is way over that line.

I know what Top Gear and the rest of the industry with the largest advertising budget on the planet might like us to think. But speeding is not a human right. It's not much like freedom of speech; is it? So just how would preventing law-abiding citizens from being killed or maimed by illegal driving bring about a "draconian state"?

When science and technology make it preventable, why should it be acceptable to allow our loved ones to continue to be killed and maimed just so that some people can continue to break the law and drive dangerously?
What are you not doing when you do these things.

Disclaimer: the "I" will be present a lot in this post because I prefer to write about what works for me, and let the reader figure out if it works for them or not, instead of telling them what to do. The below shield me against a lot of distractions/addictions, and give me time to pursue other distractions and addictions : )

I don't have social applications installed on my phone: no Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, etc. I don't have notifications except for things I use for work.

I need something to call, be called, read a book, take a picture of a whiteboard, check a link.

I have a long, long, password in my phone and I need a very good reason to unlock it. I don't unlock with fingerprint/face id/pattern. I don't want unlocking to be convenient.

Media: I don't really consume the news unless I want to be informed on a specific issue. There are many people following the news, and the most important events find their way.

I can count the number of shows I've watched. I only watch shows if screen-writer/director/actor/director of photography/music was done by X, Y, or Z, and I maintain a mental graph for "recommendation" to allow discovery "I like X's work. They worked with W. I'll check that out". It's incredibly effective as it turns out people tend to work with a relatively small number of people and it buffers me against low quality stuff, especially the trending one. It makes for funny experiences: I was watching a recent movie with a friend and said "This sounds and feels and looks like a Woody Allen movie" and it turns out it was directed and written by Woody Allen.

Content: I avoid technical content that says "Don't do this" or "Do this". Examples: "Use microservices" or "Go serverless for maximum scalability" without the presence of mind to mention the context: size of the company, codebase maturity, skillset of the team, specialized roles, etc. I also avoid content written by people who've done too much "architecting", or who are so high in the abstraction layer that the next step is "Think it and it will code itself" pattern to emerge, or otherwise people with a pedantic voice. It has done wonders shielding me/us from hype.
I think monads are especially useful when the whole eco-system is build around it.

Using promises with callback APIs gets ugly quickly.

Using results with exception APIs also isnt much fun.

Rust shines here because it's the default way.
There may be a lot of embedded systems affected though! Most embedded C uses 32 bit integers, especially for the Real Time Clock peripherals!
I've been using Dialyzer and it works well enough most of the time. Maybe the Elm compiler spoiled me, but when Dialyzer tells me "this pattern will never match" and not offer me tools to fix it, it's very frustrating. I'm not sure if it's possible, but it would be nice to have an action to autocomplete missing patterns like in Elm / Rust.

That said, I'll take a look at Gleam. Thank you
U.S. Company Faces Backlash After Belarus Uses Tech to Block Internet
That's certainly one possible opinion. Let's stay on topic though.
My question is not accusatory, though I did frame it quite specifically, so maybe it feels confining. But, in reading your response I’m not sure what question you’re answering. I didn’t ask why people don’t behave differently. I asked the question that comes before it. Why is it hard to think about the meaning of your actions?

In a way, your response does answer it: you said people see that their actions won’t be effective unless they are a coordinated with other’s on a scale that can make a difference. I think that’s the same as saying: your actions are meaningless in themselves. What an interesting idea. But I’m sure you don’t feel that way about everything.

A better analog than people sending the Federal Reserve more money than they owe to the IRS would be voting: does your vote not matter unless it is the decisive one? Which vote is decisive? Is the meaningfulness of a vote or of voting found only in its effectiveness?

But that’s still not a good enough analog. The points that you and other commenters have made all point to the need for collective, coordinated action. I won’t dispute that; but if we’re talking about effectiveness and not meaningfulness (or, again, do you think they’re the same thing?) then the dynamic of collective action is fundamentally a social dynamic: people are neither provoked by nor affirmed by what they see the people around them doing. If you made visible, ethical choices (as I’m sure you do) you find that a friend or colleague is starting to make similar choices. The visibility encourages others. Maybe the very same arguments about the futility of action make it all the more critical.

I should be explicit about one other thing. I may be wrong, but my assumption in asking my question about how thinking about the meaning of your actions is hard is that that thoughtfulness is what will change your behavior.
"Social studies" refers to a variety of different social science and humanities subjects taught in public education. The term comes from US lawmakers around 1900.

"Social sciences" are generally considered the "science of society," and the term comes from philosophers in the mid-1800's.
Software Development as a Core Competency
`watch -n 1 date +%s`

Wish I knew when 1234567890 happened, I was too dumb back then.
If they really were 'on par' then you won't have issues with your satellites.
I wonder what this would look like for adults. I'm imagining a pedal assisted electric mini bus.
Well, the Fediverse made a start and it is only at the beginning of its evolution. Not billions of users, no, but ever more interconnected apps with features similar to the big platform (but void of algorithmic feeds, ads and many of the dark patterns)
It’s sad that clickbait titles are almost always given to these articles, resulting in people focusing on the sensationalist topic rather than the actual topic.

I think at one point in the past, HN allowed titles to be rewritten to reflect the actual content, vs. having to strictly stick to the original title.

While it was a bit controversial, as it left some trust to the OP, and sometimes resulted in debate, I do miss that it didn’t give clickbait titles the satisfaction of sensationalism, at least here.

I often wish we were still allowed to do that.
Nikola sinks another 18% as Citron Research calls it a 'total fraud'
Doubtful that individual action will be enough. It didn't stop littering or racism. There must be collective action.
That doesn't meet any definition of gambling I'm aware of. It's equivalent to having a daily sale on a set of products.
So what about all the other gaming apps on the iOS store? Literally thousands of them are specifically designed to get (trick) kids to spend money on them. Apple is more than happy to enable In-App purchases for them and then promotes them heavily through its own advertising on the app store. How is Apple not part of the problem in this whole system?
That may be the case, but I don't know how it can beat Go's ability to build executables for any platform, or Python's ubiquity.
Food industry opposed regulation aimed at tackling public health issues
The end of your message is so much worse than whatever you imagine young people to be doing. "Good luck", really? Condescending much?

Also you're pretty damn wrong about those young people: they're way more active than you think. But you seem to be quite aware that it's going to be terrible in a few decades yet you're happy simply making small changes and seeing "what happens over the course of many decades". Wilful ignorance much?

The cognitive dissonance in your words is strong, and instead of actually looking inwards you're content thinking that the people who are barely out of their teenage years should bear the blame for being born with a smartphone in their pockets (thanks to which generations again?).

I sure am glad that they aren't learning from your attitude as they work towards being in a position to be directors or politicians or CEOs. You or I might not be there to see the worst of it, but I'd take their attitude over yours any day of the week.

edit to the person pointing out the word "decades": I replied to a message on their own terms. I'm fully aware that things are unravelling right now, but I don't even need to shift the point and start another debate in order to prove them logically wrong.
I made such a drive. I just took a stock 7200 rpm drive and added a 90Hz buzzer.
Every tech / SaaS product will eventually be reinvented internally at Netflix. Or vice versa.

Without being facetious: I would love to see some Of their cost/benefit analyses.
What were you hoping to gain by typing this out?
Pharma wages stealth war on drug price watchdog
And I don't have time to hire you. You wouldn't hire a visual artist without seeing their portfolio. I don't hire a software developer until I they can quickly write a program that compiles read and follow a spec, name variables well, take feedback and ask relevant questions. To not test candidates for these skills would be recklessly negligent for my employer.
Open data for mapping wildfires, smoke, and air quality
You use the words "illusion" and "being free", so I feel comfortable putting the issue into terms where those words also have similar connotations:

I commit a crime if I buy heroin instead of acknowledging my issues and getting therapy, and that's absolutely a problem I need to curb. I'm not even really happier with it, but I don't find enough support, better education about myself and the world, to get better. I'd be happier without, but I don't know that yet and I'm strictly convinced I can't live without it!

But if I'm the guy who moves a literal ton of heroin across the border, and I have 5-10 orders of magnitude more money than the other schmuck, AND I use a mere fraction of my benefits to lobby all around and get PR firms to make other people turn away from addressing their issues and more towards my product.. well, how to put it.. I'm a tiny bit responsible, you know?

Thinking that this is just an illusion is magic thinking: sure, everyone could magically address their problems today and the crime rates would drop! Suicides would drop! How wonderful.

But how about we look at the actual world and offer insights/education/support to that first person, while making sure we keep the other one heavily in check or prevent harmful activity much more actively?

That's better education for the former and stricter regulations of all sorts for the latter. We all have a role to play in this. This article simply talks about the pushers who rightfully deserve to be exposed, that's all.

Let's please stop entertaining false dichotomies. It's not all on the voter to magically be wiser, and it's not all on the big company to stop trying to do what it's built to do (drive profits). It's on both.
> only 20000 are produced per year.

They start selling it this year. How such a number could bring anything to the discussion ? We don't know if it will be 0 next year (if it's failure) or 200000 (if it's a success).
This article is unconvincing.

From the article: Compared to the first snippet, this one is harder to debug. It seems so because 1.) You don't know that callMe will throw an error or not. 2.) If it throws an exception you will not know what is the type of the exception. The more modular your code is, the harder it is to debug exceptions.

This is only a problem with unchecked exceptions as seen in TypeScript and C#. Checked exceptions are the solution.

The problem with error code return is tediousness:

int foo() {
int result = bar();
if (result == ERROR_CODE)
return result;
int result2 = baz();
if (result2 == ERROR_CODE)
return result2;
int result3 = bazz();
if (result3 == ERROR_CODE)
return result3;
}

Compare to the same code written in a language that supports checked exceptions:

int foo() throws SomeException {
int result = bar();
int result2 = baz();
int result3 = bazz();
}

In the first version the logic is interspersed with error handling, which makes the logic hard to see.

How do people using Go and other languages that don't have exceptions solve this reduced readability problem?
An oilman's constituents are his shareholders, so this is really an issue for Congress.

If businesses are not required to account for externalities (such as environmental impact) then they generally will not do so.
Fastmail? Protonmail? Others? It's not as though the only options are gmail and running your own mail server. They aren't free, but neither is your time to run a mail server and gmail is only gratis, not libre.
There are many alternatives for distributed tracing like Lightstep, Jaeger and so on but the ambitious level of integration with log searching (like ELK) and payload tracking is like an integrated in-house Splunk. Great idea and great to see the energy and enthusiasm put into making debugging tools better! One dream feature for a tool like this: code execution counts showing which version of the code and even which lines were executed - in aggregate is useful but ideally for each trace.

Unfortunately, the tradeoff of value gained saving debugging time against cost of infrastructure and development is hard to manage. The storage costs are very easy to measure so it is tempting to go after them rather than the more intangible benefits that rely on a counterfactual of how hard things would be to debug without it.
Lua is smaller, more consistent, and much more flexible with integration since it just C.

Debugging is built into the language in a simple way.

_G gets a table of all global variables

debug.getlocal allows you get any and all variables at each stack frame at that point including name, value and type.

You can even use debug.sethook to have a callback after every function, line, or instruction.

On top of all that you have LuaJIT which not only runs ridiculously fast, but can deal with dynamically loaded files incredibly fast. It even has a direct foreign function interface and allows you to use shared libraries directly without writing any more C or recompiling them.
Whole EU, per directive 2014/92/EU

> 44) Consumers should be guaranteed access to a range of basic payment services. Services linked to payment accounts with basic features should include the facility to place funds and withdraw cash. Consumers should be able to undertake essential payment transactions such as receiving income or benefits, paying bills or taxes and purchasing goods and services, including via direct debit, credit transfer and the use of a payment card. Such services should allow the purchase of goods and services online and should give consumers the opportunity to initiate payment orders via the credit institution’s online facility, where available. However, a payment account with basic features should not be restricted to online usage as this would create an obstacle for consumers without internet access.
Physicists who disproved ‘fifth power’ win $3M ‘Breakthrough’ prize
And you're missing the fact that what the current generations in power are doing is not sustainable in the sense that regardless of what young generations do right now, they DEFINITELY won't be having the lifestyle that we're having today.

It doesn't matter what their kids end up blaming on them afterwards, we won't be there to see it. The defeatist attitudes about the now are cop-outs though, because WE are living in the now.
The main issue I've found with youtube-dl is that "best" quality doesn't actually download the best video + audio in all cases, and might take a manual override. Not sure if youtube-dlc fixes this.
Perhaps the detector can detect if air isn't circulating around it anymore, no idea.
The office I work in is open plan, which I would imagine is the case for the significant proportion of individual that do their work in an office. There are constant interuptions and it's way too loud. In order to focus, I have to shut off the background noise with headphones, and even they don't deter most people from interupting my flow. As my customer base is wide spread, I'm in vidoe calls anyway. This means that it really doesn't matter where I work. I do miss some of my collegues, I do miss some of the interactions and technical discussions that go on, as much as a little bit of the banter. Slack/Teams can be very impersonal and nuance is totally lost with text based media. With that said, I'm definately more productive at home. I can definately get more done and I definately do not miss the commute. I see much more of my kids and my wife, which to me at least, is the most important thing. Work-life harmony seems to me to be easier to atain if the choice of working from home is available.
That’s great!

What is it that you do for a Living now? Did you stumble onto it or made a gradual transition away from coding?
You can cut down a ton of your carbon emissions by not supporting the fashion industry, only buying used clothing or making your own, or at the least buying only a very small number of pieces of clothing that have extremely long lifespan.

You can modify your diet to avoid the incredible carbon production created by meat (even if just reducing number of times a week you eat red meat).

You can buy less useless shit on Amazon that you don't really _need_ just vaguely want.

There's a lot you _can_ do. But you're right that it's not enough to solve the problem alone.
Its one cow covid away from beeing out of buisness.. meat seems like a very fragile investment
That doesn't imply that everything Apple does is good, it states that in this case Apple is doing good.
Interesting idea but likely in violation of the GitHub Actions ToS [0].

> Actions should not be used for:

[...]

> any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are used.

At the very least, I recommend you highlight the Actions ToS to your users lest they miss this restriction.

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-additio...
This is a terrific policy.

I think irrespective of how good the App Store policies are, every user should be given the right to load non-App Store apps if they so choose. It's totally fine if it's buried 10-levels deep in settings. It's fine if they cannot do it easily by just clicking a random link due to security considerations. It's a good idea to make it hard to do by accident, and I expect if Apple wanted to they could create an awesome UX that preserves safety & security while respecting device owner sovereignty of what can go onto their device.

Might seem like a trivial thing, but it would have made all the difference for the civil liberties protests in HK when their app got banned from the App Store.
It’s got to start somewhere. Punch the biggest bullies in the yard down and everyone of their comrades will get the point and generally fall in line. Or you’ve got smaller fries to then make examples of on your own time. If you start at the bottom and work your way up the bigger players will just benefit from lack of competition and not see a need for change. The whataboutism is really an argument against change at all than it is a question of tactics.
Well, they have managed to generate a class-action lawsuit, although it's more over the zero-calorie claim:

https://dev.theclassactionguide.com/News/3029/I_Can%E2%80%99...
Indeed, I'm quite fond of the smart fortwo car. And it's amazingly easy to park, given that small footprint (and it'll fit where most other cars won't).
All dates describing pattern:

code:

#!/bin/bash

for t in $(seq 0 100000000 $((2* * 31))); do date -u -d @$t +'%s -> %c'; done

output:

0 -> Do 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC

100000000 -> Sa 03 Mär 1973 09:46:40 UTC

200000000 -> Mo 03 Mai 1976 19:33:20 UTC

300000000 -> Do 05 Jul 1979 05:20:00 UTC

400000000 -> Sa 04 Sep 1982 15:06:40 UTC

500000000 -> Di 05 Nov 1985 00:53:20 UTC

600000000 -> Do 05 Jan 1989 10:40:00 UTC

700000000 -> Sa 07 Mär 1992 20:26:40 UTC

800000000 -> Di 09 Mai 1995 06:13:20 UTC

900000000 -> Do 09 Jul 1998 16:00:00 UTC

1000000000 -> So 09 Sep 2001 01:46:40 UTC

1100000000 -> Di 09 Nov 2004 11:33:20 UTC

1200000000 -> Do 10 Jan 2008 21:20:00 UTC

1300000000 -> So 13 Mär 2011 07:06:40 UTC

1400000000 -> Di 13 Mai 2014 16:53:20 UTC

1500000000 -> Fr 14 Jul 2017 02:40:00 UTC

1600000000 -> So 13 Sep 2020 12:26:40 UTC

1700000000 -> Di 14 Nov 2023 22:13:20 UTC

1800000000 -> Fr 15 Jan 2027 08:00:00 UTC

1900000000 -> So 17 Mär 2030 17:46:40 UTC

2000000000 -> Mi 18 Mai 2033 03:33:20 UTC

2100000000 -> Fr 18 Jul 2036 13:20:00 UTC

--------------------------------------------------------------

overflow of currently used datatype for timer happening at:

code:

#!/bin/bash
date -u -d @2147483648 +'%s -> %c'

output:

2147483648 -> Di 19 Jan 2038 03:14:08 UTC

info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

--------------------------------------------------------------

other interesting date:

pi day:

date -u -d @3141592653 +'%s -> %c'

3141592653 -> So 21 Jul 2069 00:37:33 UTC (100th birthday for moonlanding mission on pi-day/sec)
Depending where you live, catastrophic climate change has already happened...
Not everyone buys that narrative.
>Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix

I'm sorry, but that show was really, really dumb and unrealistic and I couldn't sit through it.

3 engineers (notably: cringey white dudes) are never following one single user and controlling his interactions like that and it did more harm than good by pretending it works that way.

This implies someone is directly accountable, showing up to work every day and fucking with people's attention regularly, when in reality, it's soulless machines programmed to do this while the engineers are several degrees away from inflicting harm like this.

That's what makes it so dangerous -- not that tech companies have unlimited money to build situation rooms dedicated to following single users around.
If you don't have a separate room, it's hard to see how much difference it can make. I've worked from home since 2008 with a one-year break immediately before COVID-19, and I'm glad to be back, but the separate room was essential for me.
Kate Moss depicted as Medusa on behalf of Vercacci by an artist who died of AIDS doesn't explain anything about jellyfish. The explicit misogony and vague homophobia, however, say something about Nautilus, its editorial standards, and purpose.