skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Road safety statistics goes totally against your statement. There's a clear corelation between speed and accidents. You can claim that the person who are dangerous are the one driving slowly to stay in control, but the reality is that the real dangers is people thinking they are pilots and not understanding that a road is a shared infrastructure, not a private race track.

I started driving when it was the same really bad mentality of people having to make place to the one who wants to go fast. And it wasn't great at all, safety records show it.

When i started to understand that the best thing to do when I had such a "pilot" behind me was to slow down until the situation could be less dangerous, I just found myself in way less dangerous situations.

So no, you can be the best driver of the world, 50 km/h in a city is already way too dangerous for pedestrian, with a high death rate in case of accident. The unconfortable slow driver you hate ? Maybe not as dangerous as you are... Actually maybe making road safer.

You want to drive "fast"? Think about the safety of other people it involves.
And Epic has been found guilty since then of illegally convincing minors to spend money in Fortnite.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191008/08591443147/epic-...
Are you sure about that? I heard Jose say that they did aim for it to be general purpose during a talk at ElixirConf last week.
That's fine, but then you have no need for instagram at all, since it it 100% unnecessary, so the ads won't nother you either.
The US banking system will never fail to underwhelm I guess.
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I really hope Internet Archive (or someone similar) is furiously downloading all the videos and comments it can.
The PGE guide for net metering actually makes a point that it wouldn’t be economical to run a generator and make money off net metering, but I did the math and it’s actually a decent amount cheaper to do so.
50cc moped and scooter hacking and ricing is no longer fashionable.

I see a lot more of suits-on-a-tmax and deliveroo-like drivers these days. Oh, and quite a few of those loud-right-out-of-the-box cars and motorcycles.
It is extremely unlikely. Go to google maps, somewhere near perm and zoom to a level where you can see individual buildings. Then try scrolling east to Vladivostok, and notice how long it will take and how many trees are there.
Nope

Companies like Facebook not only show you content, they use algos to show you more of certain content. They provide an editorial choice over what content you should see.

Sure Apple could ban Facebook, but I know you’re just making a stupid argument for sport, not that you actually believe that makes sense and that they should.
For most people, the standout change here will be the addition of `config/runtime.exs`, which is SUPER exciting!

Before, runtime configuration was only available in “releases”, which is Elixir’s packaged tarball for deployments. All other configuration was compile time only. However, running your app locally in a development environment through `mix` would technically compile the app, so even though you didn’t have runtime config, it “felt” like runtime.

Because of this special feature of releases which had their own (and the only) runtime config, you often had to duplicate your config in the runtime config file and the regular compile time config file (for outside releases).

Now, with this new addition, there’s one unified place where ALL runtime config is defined, and which supports runtime config in ALL the different ways you run your app.

To me, this is a huge UX improvement for Elixir devs!
Sort of, while prices converge to a slowly moving average, some people are indeed paying a bit more and other s bit less. Maybe people who end up getting properties with meth alarms will be the ones paying a bit more. With time, if having meth detectors is an effective way to keep out tenants who will devalue the property in some way, it will be incorporated and the tenants will be paying the price of it.
Is "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" a bad brand for margarine? Imagine it getting flagged by the butter police.
re: the marxism questions

Several reasons.

1. Unemployment is at 8.5%, and was double digits until recently. Wingcuck ideologies are more popular when the economy is poor.

2. The US is going through another red scare right now. Lots of evidence for this between BLM protestors, the rise of "antifa", and (finally) a right-wing reaction to institutional left-wing post-modernism and critical theory (e.g. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-wants-white-privileg...)

3. In the early part of COVID, when there were policies put into place by the feds to prevent people from being kicked out, there were viral campaigns for people to do "rent strikes" and refuse to pay any of their rent. Such forms of economic organization are Marxist and were successful for some of the participants. This feeds into my 2nd point.

4. Trump has strong reasons for drumming up his image as the law and order candidate. He's likely instructed the spooks and glowies within the intelligence agencies to do something similar to Operation Mockingbird for manipulating public opinion to be in his favor. Maybe the intelligence agencies are doing it on their own initiative. Right-wing journalism about "google engineers who are antifa members" is shocking good at swinging undecided voters who care about law and order.

Also, I think even most Capitalists concede that landlords are shitty (unless they are a landlord) - but they don't advocate for expropriation or putting them against the wall...
You mean the story where she said send message and it did just that? Yeah accidents happen but this isn’t some nefarious amazon is spying on you story. This could happen on any smart phone and isn’t unique to smart speakers or amazon.

> voice data is stored remotely

No, it only sends your requests to the server after the wake word is said (so that it can process it). You can test this your self by monitoring your network traffic. It is demonstrable.
That's a completely false comparison. just because you want something doesn't mean (a) you need it or (b) the stuff being advertised suits your need.

When you want something, it just means someone else already advertised it to you.

Advertising is merely a tool. The value of products is what matters.
>but the team hires the executive assistant.

Some manager up the hierarchy hires the executive assistant, the team simply has input into the process. I suspect the input into the firing will quickly go down to 0 if the person who actually has firing power likes the EA. If the team has direct firing power then you're going to get some lovely politics going on between everyone like giving choice work to half the team all the time to keep them on your side.

>but a president commands at the sufferance of their people.

Technically, they only need 50% of the people at best.

edit: And since the EA isn't actually accountable for productivity (how can they be, they can't fire the "unproductive" team members after all) they can play even more political games since they're less in the line of fire for backlash.
There's absolutely no evidence that he is "full of shit" in that link. There's a reasonable question about what exactly that one exchange refers to, but that is one small part of the total set of claims.

But even if one assumes that this is "routine" and that it "just" refers to adding information, it's shocking - it reveals a lack of audit trail of changes.

The key part of this claim - that the alleged victim didn't sign the statements - has been known since the case originally broke, and basically means that there is no justifiable basis for trusting the statement, even before the exchange about modifications raises the concern about provenance and audit trail.

But add on the exchange, and whether or not the police officers involved did anything wrong, it means the content of these statements can not be trusted because they could have modified them.
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This is the most depressing, dystopian desire.

Taxes are necessary to fund shared infrastructure and services. They're not supposed to overtly punish success or prevent people from earning a high salary.

There's an argument that high earners can (and possibly should) pay a higher share of taxes because they have the most ability to do so, but you seem to be just advocating taxing away people's earnings out of a jealous desire to not see anyone have more than you.
And in the US, that lawsuit went nowhere and they never stopped bundling IE.

MS was sued for a number of things including forcing OEMs to pay a license fee for each PC sold whether or not it was shipped with Windows and not allowing third parties to ship alternative browsers.
What Strawman? That is the logical conclusion from the premises you set up. If you can’t defend it, maybe it is time to rethink your position?
I might be wrong about this, but it’s my impression that Facebook tries really hard to track everything possible, not just what you’re doing on FB/IG/WA, using those silly like/share buttons people embed everywhere, and other technologies. Considering their vehement arguments against this change in iOS, I’d guess they think those off-platform streams of information are quite important. And I can see why - a user might not use Facebook for hobbies or interests, and tracking them around the web would give a much better view of someone. It’s quite sleazy.
Only pre 2000 systems? I'd love to live in your dream world.

Last I looked, plenty of fixes were trickling into the kernel in 2014. I wonder how many of those made the long backport to stable.

Let alone all those 2.6 kernels (and older!) in the wild. And all your 32-bit devices are probably gonna have a bad time.
If that is true a vaccine wouldn’t help either so the answers are either the infinite quarantine or going back to normal life.
Is Dropbox's sync engine a minor product? The entire reason why Firefox has gotten much faster over the past few years? Linkerd? What about Amazon's Firecracker, powering Lambda and Fargate?
I doubt that anyone at Facebook cares about small businesses beyond making money off them, but they do have a point here. Instagram & Facebook are at the center of a lot of small businesses/side hustles. Those depend pretty heavily on advertising to generate sales or to monetize their posts.

I'm dubious that all this tracking really is that effective for ads. But linking a purchase to an ad is undeniably important. If you can't do that then the current system breaks down. Hard to know if what replaces it will be better or worse.
How would a vaccine help if reinfections are possible?
This article is not correct.

Does Apple track user information? Yes, they just don't sell those data to adverisers but keep those information for themeselves and use it as advantage to sell their services and devices.

The number of Facebook users doesn't mean anything because Facebook and Instagram are free services, there are a lot of inactive accounts and bot accounts. In order to publish their apps to app store they have to get approval from Apple and Google. So Apple is still the ultimate gatekeeper.
Apple new guidelines now allow game streaming but Microsoft isn't happy about it
This is probably an aside, but due to the lockdown, I've been doing hardware development at my house. It's mostly great, but it means that I receive a lot of packages.

And the packaging, oh the packaging. I'm inundated with packing material. Let's say I order 10 different parts. Each part was made by a manufacturer and packaged in a little plastic bag. (If there are sub-parts such as attachments, screws, etc., they are in a sub-bag).

Each of those bags is placed inside another bag, often a thick zip-loc, with a sticky label indicating the part number and sales order number plus other desiderata.

A short (1 meter) USB cable was coiled up and secured with not one but two twist-ties, sub-bagged, and bagged. There were molded plastic caps on the ends.

All of those bags are in a big bag, tied at the top. That goes in a box with packing material filling half the box. I end up knee deep in trash by the time I've unpacked an order. I keep a few of the nicer boxes, but everything else goes into the recycling bin.

/rant
> And it never occurred to you that maybe the whole concept of lack of public transportation was at fault?

This is an extremely good point.

The city where I live, Milan (Italy) has truly exceptional public transport, accessed via a single cheap monthly pass (39€/month, includes all subways, trams and buses).

It's so good that my gf got her driving license at 27 and she didn't even had to do it, she got it "just in case", and to occasionally use the car sharing services available in the city.

Her mother has a driving license but never drives, and despite this has been going to work and has been doing her things without a car for the last 32 years (!!!)
Yeah, let's distribute the blame into a billion tiny pieces so nobody has to feel bad.

I mean sure, BP dumped 210 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf of mexico, but it's the people using plastic straws who are the real problem here.
No. A Fiat Punto is a ton.
I quite like the Mayan counting system, so I made a little module that does the conversion and makes SVG's, this[1] is the only thing I've used it for so far, though.

[1]https://wolfram74.github.io/ArabIntToMayaInt/countdown.html
but Gruber's post is certainly implying as much.

> That’s exactly what Apple is doing — giving users awareness over what is going on, and control over it.
I've been programming almost three decades, and I agree that the soft parts takes most of my time, almost all time honestly. But when I DO know exactly what todo then my colleagues are faster with a combo of Python and C, compared to just C. We can actually drop numbers for that. On the flip side you are probably right in the sense that this has more to do how we work than what language we use. I'm sure Rust would be fine, or if we had some C++ code base we were familiar with.
How do you discover new interests?

Why do people selling cycling junk deserve to be privileged over people selling galaxy nightights?
DDG is 70 million. https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

Bing is smaller than DDG in some countries
Letting Cuba off the hook would require politicians to admit they are wrong and have been for decades. In contrast, keeping the sanctions up does not cost the government much and companies have long factored in the sanctions/compliance as cost of doing business, so there is no pressure on politics from that side.
Globalization Is Making the World More Equal
Yes, `:Commands` does that. Not sure if it’s documented in more detail somewhere else, but it’s listed here (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim/blob/master/README.md#co...).
I'm in the UK, usually things turn off and on automatically based on the time of year and some temperature readings.

Pretty awful at times and it leads to tenants not caring about other aspects. For instance my 1400w pc/server hybrid has 2 months uptime, why should i care?
That's pretty cool!

I'd actually like to stream from my Mac or a phone to an Alexa Echo Dot. Bluetooth usually works, but not always, and not needing the devices to be in close proximity would be a bonus.
I believe gp was referring to places where sex is already forbidden by a property owner such as classrooms and offices, where if someone walks in on you having sex, you're the weird one because you shouldn't be having sex there, someone could walk in on you, there's no expectation of privacy. It's their property and they're paying you to be there temporarily to provide a service.

> landlords (even university campuses) have no business meddling in 'unwanted consensual activities'

Agreed, and I think GP would as well. Dorms are different. That's your domicile, the relationship with a university is that of a landlord/tenant. You're paying for a place to sleep and live. There's an expectation of privacy. If you walk into someone's dorm while they're having sex, why the hell are you barging into someone's room?

That being said seeing a sex detector hanging from the ceiling would make me sad.
The crazy thing is there has only been 1.6 billion seconds since 1970. There have been more babies since 1970 than there have been seconds. Which is crazy.

Back then, Earth's population was on 3.7 billion. Now it's 7.8 billion. That means that (ignoring deaths) 2.5 babies have been born for each unix second. Or roughly 1 baby every 400 milliseconds.
Personally, I find basically everything about Instagram bad. The only reason I use it is because a lot of my friends share their pictures there.

Their app is full of bugs, at least on my regular Android phone, dark mode always messes up, ghost notifications, random crashes, etc.

The platform is full of bots. My profile is set to private, so everybody who wants to follow me needs to request first. On some days, I get requests from 10+ profiles trying to sell porn. And that's without following any big influencers, just friends.

The bots also invade basically every public comment section, trying to sell porn or NSFW snapchat. I don't get why they are successful, but I assume they are, given the scale they operate.

Their TikTok clone feature that basically completely spams my discover/search tab is full of content taken from TikTok or barely dressed girls trying to push their OnlyFans. Maybe that was the plan, I find it just annoying.

And now to their ads, easily one of the most annoying parts. Given how much data Facebook/Instagram is collecting, you'd assume they'd somehow manage to show interesting and relevant advertisings. At least for me and some friends I talked to, that is absolutely not the case. While it feels like every third post is an ad, there is nothing relevant at all. Basically all ads I get on instagram are trying to sell me 100k passive income online courses, cheap Chinese drop shipping products, knockoff products or trading apps (something I was never remotely interested in either).
62% of Nigerian Prince Emails Come the United States
Not really. It’s not super uncommon for an early sales lead to handle basic demand gen.
Welcome to London baby.

Draw whatever line you like just be prepared to sleep in the park.
I gotta wonder - how in the world can you ever get enough failed SSH login attempts to noticeably affect system performance?

I usually have several cloud servers running with a normally secured SSHD running. There's some failed login attempts yeah. I've never seen even 1% CPU usage from them. I doubt even posting my server address on every hacking forum I could find and daring them to try and hack me would result in getting enough failed SSH login attempts to blip my CPU usage. I have no idea how that could even happen, aside from somebody intentionally targeting your server with a really weird attack for whatever reason.
This is true, generally speaking if the fee is invisible then people don't care.

I could see developers simply adding a 2nd line item "Apple Fee 30%" and gross up the price by that amount. Then let Apple answer the questions why there is a 30% fee added in their products, but not others (if that's the case).
Quit your nationalistic jerking. They didn’t say pay in cash, they said private landlords don’t have online web portal payments set up.

> Most people pay their rent via standing order, or for the few people who haven't automated their payments, via direct wire transfer.

This is true per my time in the US as well. When I was in the US though every apartment I lived in had an online portal and I set up direct wire with my private landlord.
How about his work with Glen Weyl? (teaches economics at Princeton, they wrote a paper together on quadratic funding)
You're assuming a specific kind of deployment. Google does more than servers. Currently, the big known projects are:

1. in ChromeOS, via crosvm (they collaborate with rust-vmm with Amazon, who originally forked crosvm for Firecracker)

2. in Fuchsia, whose employees also have helped significantly with the language and implementation on company time

3. Smaller projects, like sponsoring some font tooling work

Additionally, the Chrome team has a branch with Rust code in it and they're evaluating it currently. We'll see.
Last time I checked, in France, you need to pass a exam to demonstrate you know the laws and codes, then get a permit for the vehicle class you need.

The first one is rarely voided.
Didn’t it fail because they used non targeted ads? But those aren’t as effective, so no one used them.
I question the words "sucked in." Influenced is more appropriate.

Before VisiCalc was invented by Frankston and Bricklin, nobody wanted it. Many people had the problem it solved, but nobody knew it existed, so they didn't go looking to buy it.

Advertising and public relations (see PG's essay "the Submarine") influenced people to buy it. A lot of those folks were people whose businesses improved after buying it, which is why "spreadsheets" went on to become one of the most important product categories of its age.

I think the difference between "influenced" and "manipulated" has to do with informed consent. An ad, clearly marked as such, influences. Advertorials masquerading as independent opinion, paying influencers to use a product to generate faux social proof, manipulating social media algorithms to make it appear as if a preponderance of people you know share a particular viewpoint...

That's all manipulation because the recipient is either completely unaware of what is going on, or dark patterns are used to make it difficult for them to discover what is going on.

But using keywords to target people and then giving them an ad that is clearly labeled as an ad? I think that's just influence.
This is a minor variation of the "spammers fallacy" of believing 1% is the smallest number.

What it it's 0.1%? Or 0.00001%?
Almost like a bunch of folks worked together to make this happen, but only a relatively small number worldwide know who they are.
Unix didn't kill itself?
Stopped reading after the exception / result stuff. You can have both, both are useful, learn yourself some Swift maybe.
I'll repost this[0] from 2012, talking about work from ~1998.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4771264
So why is embedding and linking multiple tweets from a variety of sources fine when announcing Dame Diana Rigg's death but unacceptable in this story?
You're weirdly obliquely referring to political ads. Those are ads.
I love this. It reminds me a lot of the work I did in Prism to port what I learned using Haskell in TypeScript: https://dev.to/vncz/forewords-and-domain-model-1p13

Reading the article, I do have some suggestion:

1. Never use isLeft or isRight; they break the composability of the monad instance — use `fold` instead, as late as possible

2. Do not use Enum in TypeScript — they have a runtime representation in JavaScript that's likely messing up a lot of things. Use string unions to accomplish the same result
And the strings from this list have to be matched indiscriminately against everything? Names of account holders, text in the reference field of a transaction (if such a thing exists in the US), whatever?
I always thought that was due to Oscar Wilde but he gets credit for anything witty by default.
It’s rather hard to directly collect such accident data, but plenty of studies have looked into the effect.

Anyway, overall safety of a given road is a separate factor. Germany has approximately 650,000 km of roads and only 12,996 kilometres (2016) where part of the Autobahn. So while per mile the Autobahn is safer than the older parts of the German road network, speed is hardly the only factor involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Germany#Roads

They have very high standards for what constitutes a no speed limit zone and such roads are safe enough to offset the added dangers of such speeds.