skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of how in some ways online maps are far inferior to what the old road maps like the ones Rand McNally printed thirty years ago.

The Google map doesn’t have symbols to distinguish major roads from minor ones. For instance, in the US a printed map would typically have different symbols for free limited-access highway, toll limited-access highway, multilane divided but not limited-access highway, major two-lane road, minor two-lane road, local road, gravel road, and dirt road. Google has none of this; it just has lines of vaguely different width and color intensity.

So in the US I know that if the route has an Interstate highway I know what to expect. Typically a US highway is at least a major route, though you can’t count on it. If it’s a state highway, who knows. The map tells you little about the size or condition of these non-Interstate routes.

So if Google routes me down a non-Interstate route, sometimes I will look at the street view to gauge it. If it shows a big divided highway, I’m good. But sometimes it shows a two-lane road with no shoulders, multiple driveways, and hills blocking the view. Completely unacceptable for driving more than a few miles if there’s absolutely any alternative, yet Google will send you down these roads for two hundred miles if it thinks you’ll save ten minutes—-which you won’t the instant you get stuck behind some slow dump truck.

I don’t know this situation in Russia but years ago on a paper map in the US, that deadly route would have been shown as a minor road on a paper map, in it was on there at all, while the major, safer route would have been shown prominently.

I just marvel at how tech takes us forward in most ways but how the old tech had superior elements that simply don’t get replicated even decades later. (Another example is how old print maps showed rest areas and even distinguished them from simple no-restroom pull-offs. This information is not on Google at all.)
> For example, as I understand it, persons living in Scotland can drive back home drunk in rural areas as the only person they are ever likely to hurt its themselves.

What an absurd comment. Scotland has stricter drink-driving laws than England.
> used as one of the essential thinkers in the legal teaching

It is ironic that you link to an article that defines Schmitt as one of the main architects behind Nazi political theory. Then again, irony seems to be in vogue these days.

The article admittedly goes on to find some "prescience" in Schmitts thinking but the purpose of the piece is above all to reveal and attach a brown aspect to the Brexit movement, nothing else.

Wikipedia says it more clearly [0]: "Schmitt joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933. Within days, he supported the party in the burning of books by Jewish authors, rejoiced in the burning of 'un-German' and 'anti-German' material, and called for a much more extensive purge, to include works by authors influenced by Jewish ideas. In July Hermann Göring appointed him State Councillor for Prussia, and in November he became the president of the 'Union of National-Socialist Jurists'.(...) He presented his theories as an ideological foundation of the Nazi dictatorship and a justification of the Führer state concerning legal philosophy, particularly through the concept of auctoritas."

and

"In 1945, American forces captured Schmitt and, after spending more than a year in an internment camp, he returned to his home town (...) . He remained unrepentant for his role in the creation of the Nazi state, and refused every attempt at de-nazification, which barred him from academic jobs."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt
Sweden: it’s not possible to charge an owner for a crime, only the driver. It’s also not a crime to not name the driver.

If a speed camera photo is blurry or dark (like in a place with darkness most of the year) the case is as far as I know closed and no inquiry is made.

If I realize too late that I’m going to speed past a traffic cam then I usually just hold my hand up near the wind screen to cover my face and the risk of a ticket would be nearly zero.

There has been talk of making it an administrative fee rather than a crime (like parking tickets) which would make it possible to attribute to cars and not owners.
If there's a good idea hiding in urbit, someone will extract it one day into a sane and usable project. If not... we can treat it as an esoteric art project and/or ignore.
From my experience, the capabilities IDEs and unix tools offer are mostly orthogonal. Also, your arguments against consistent UX has the solution of just writing a simple wrapper around the offending tool (or using newer ones, e.g., ripgrep and fd). `tldr` also tells you the correct interface quickly.
Key para:

The web has to mature beyond advertising as a business model. For this to happen people are going to have to open their wallets, pay for the services they use, and support independent businesses. That’s how we build a web where indies can thrive - one that’s more village centre than financial centre. I think the shift is underway.

True/false?
My understanding is that TempleOS was/is regarded as a tremendous one-person achievement (although of course its author had some quite nonstandard beliefs). Whereas Urbit seems to be generally decried as fakery
So, how I understand it is that our brains have something like a seizing threshold. Which is the amount of stress they can be put under before a seizure is induced. Certain things can lower that threshold. And I think caffeine (or stimulants in general?) and lack of sleep are both things that lower it.

So it was the loud music and bright strobe light that triggered the seizure. The caffeine and the lack of sleep lowered my brains resistance to seizing.
If police departments have any kickback from fines, that’s a massive organizational mistake.
It creates crazy incentives to maximize fines instead of reducing crime.
I thought only the US had made that mistake.
>there could be more police near a group of people who commit the same number of crimes but because there are more police resources, there would be more arrests.

There are indeed many factors which would cause the arrest rate to not track the crime rate. Which is why treating the arrest rate as being equivalent to the crime rate is specious.
Reminds me a lot of reading old GameFAQs guides
For my first few years programming I never used a statement of the form if ... else ...

In late 1967, I taught myself to program. I never saw a computer during that time, but my high school owned a IBM 026 Keypunch machine used by the administration to enter data that was sent downtown to the school district that had a computer. I would use the keypunch machine to punch my program onto cards, one card per line of code. A friend of mine would pass them along to be run on the district’s computer.

The programming language that I had available was FORTRAN II. It had the arithmetic if and the goto but no modern if statement. The if looked like this:

IF (2*I - K) 25,35,55

Which meant compute the expression, if the result is negative jump to line with label 25, if result is zero jump to line of code with label 35, and if result is positive jump to line 55.

There were no Booleans, no comparison operators, and no modern control structures.

My very first attempt to program was intended to solve linear programming optimization problems using the Simplex algorithm, see [1]. The Simplex method finds optimal solutions to a multi variate linear expression, given a set of constraints expressed as inequalities on linear expressions over subsets of the free variables. I had read a slim book on the Simplex method and naively believed that it was a suitable first program. The turn around time submitting a program for me back then was about one week. Despite this ridiculous first attempt at programming, I scaled back my ambitions and wrote ten or twenty simple programs in FORTRAN without an else before going off to college to study mathematics.

It was a much simpler time to tinker with computers, I was excited to see my programs print simple tabular answers on fanfold paper.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm
As a big user of dark mode everywhere I concur. Not enough contrast between the colors and the base black is too black
> the bill goes to the car owner

Presumably this doesn't apply with a 'formal' rental arrangement?
Regarding [1], many OpenCV functions in Python support an optional dst argument, similar to how they do in the C++ API. This makes the memory management situation not completely hopeless.

In my experience, the only drawback of the Python API is the fact that it cannot utilize the multithreading module (probably does not release the GIL for long calls).
Hardware Unboxed vs Nvidia: A Masterpiece of Bad Marketing
> it’s worth adding that TP Link recently removed this local api on port 9999 from these devices. This has caused a bit of a fuss since they are quite popular for use with Home Assistant.

I have the HS100 which I use for occasional/seasonal automation (Christmas lighting etc).

I don’t like that all :(
Thanks for the ELI5, I didn’t know these details.
UK supermarkets report a surge in vegan food sales while expanding ranges
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure
But I think one of the things we see with technology and privacy is that there’s a real difference between things that you can do, but they require manual human action and are therefor costly, and things that are done effortlessly and constantly. We’ve always had license plates, but we haven’t always had a government record of where every car has travelled. We will soon, I’m sure.

And right now it’s true you can mostly walk or bike around in public without being tracked, but that’s just until we get the facial recognition really going. Then the argument will be that you were always showing your face in public and it was always possible that someone would recognize you so this is no different. But of course it will be different.

And now it’s possible, if you have a conversation in a cafe, that someone will overhear you. But if every conversation were being recorded, transcribed, and transmitted to the authorities, that wouldn’t be the same thing at all.
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I know, I just enjoyed having the opportunity to compare lava lamps to potatoes in a somewhat meaningful context.
Then I’m unsure what you mean by “noisy and weak” signal if it does not lead to a mispriced insurance product.
There are a number of frameworks that do this, another being SCIPAB:

- Situation

- Complication

- Implication

- Position

- Action

- Benefit

It's a bit heavy for my tastes but helps focus thinking.

https://www.mandel.com/why-mandel/SCIPAB-how-to-start-a-pres...
man bash

Good starting point
Its a strawman.
> In the U.K. excess speed is the 10th most common cause of accidents

That may be in part due to camera-based enforcement of the speed limits.

Also, road accidents kill quite a lot of people. If it's the 10th most common cause, that could still be enough to kill more people than many other things that we regulate.
Article in The Guardian about this:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/13/fit-for-a-ki...
I think the concern is not so much a desire for arbitrary enforcement as it is a fear of perfect enforcement at all times. I think some degree of freedom is a fundamental need of the human being, even from the rules we set for ourselves. We don't actually want all of our laws to be perfectly enforced all of the time, for a lot of reasons. For one thing, the laws themselves are unlikely to ever be perfect, even if perfect enforcement leads to more scrutiny and tweaking.
If this meant that we had reasonable speed limits in all areas based on current conditions, I might be more cool with that.

We do not.
The US has terrible infrastructure (in many parts of the US you can find a 50mph multi-lane road in a plane 4-way intersection to another similar road, where a sleeping or drunk driver might just sped through a red light and T-bone someone!).

Infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians is often bad.

There is also no zero acceptance for drunk driving. You see people drive to restaurants, have a glass of wine or two, then drive home. Unimaginable.
I don't know if its true but I think its a valid perspective and so there's likely some truth there.

People don't want to pay for content. If people pay for content and feel ripped off, they can ask for a refund. Then cheaters can pay to access the content then ask for their money back if they want to. This puts the content provider in a bad position.

If people pay for content, then they want to have that content themselves forever. In some sense, this is fair. But then they want to share that content with others. Then the other person/people don't need to pay. Now you have a problem where everyone can just get the content when one person has paid for it. This is a bad dilemma where content providers and consumers both seem to have a good case.

Since neither pay model seems to work, companies just show ads. Then people ignore ads, so the ad companies make them more attention-grabbing and intrusively targeted. So people use reader mode and ad blockers. Now no one is looking at the ads that pay for the content.

I wish I knew the answer.
I imagine that they would be on the motorways?
I bought a RadioShack scanner in 1993. I found that even though 800-900 MHz was blanked out, reflections of cellphone signals were clearly audible! Back in the early 90s, sitting in my house, I was able to listen to cell phone conversions from cars on a highway near my house. You have to remember that early cell phones were so large that people mostly used them from cars.
It's a fair price for an entire top case assembly and labor. However it's wasteful and it's definitely not fair that this is the only possible option - that is still a lot of money for some people and they should have the possibility of buying the part only and doing the repair themselves.
One caveat to keep in mind when using the binary format is that arrays of custom types are not portable across databases because the serialized array contains the OID of the custom type, which may be different on the other end.

The other thing to keep in mind is that text or CSV can be much more compact for data sets with many small integers or NULLs. On the other hand, the binary format is much more compact for timestamps and floating point numbers. In general, binary format has lower parsing overhead.
Accumulating enough points results in suspension of your licence, it's not only about insurance costs.
That is, or was, Perl's purpose, right? Process pipelines of text data but in a more structured way?
Sadly I don't think the majority of the people are willing to pay. Getting things for "free" is so ingrained into how the web is, that it's too big of a paradigm shift now.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/legislation/immigratio...

Specifically:

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1...

See language regarding “adjustment of status” and “present in violation of law.” As enforced via:

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...
It is nice. I will say that PCalc has been around for a long time, and does RPN (along with a lot of other stuff). PCalc has been a fundamental tool for me for ages.

That said, I’ve never become comfortable with RPN.
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The web was built to facilitate the exchange of knowledge. Ad-sponsored content, despite shortcomings, has so far kept textual content mostly free of charge
(talking about content that wouldn’t exist by voluntary contribution here). I fear this push for paywalls is merely going to further disadvantage poor people and people in developing countries who can’t easily hook into whatever payment scheme that is required.

No, I don’t have a great solution other than the status quo.
Governments arguably have a public safety interest in aggregating traffic data and being able to identify potential criminal suspects by vehicle. Yes, they could abuse that in some nebulous Orwellian future, but data collection and analysis isn't evil in and of itself.

Also, this is public data. Anyone sitting behind you in traffic has your license plate number, your employer and anyone you schedule appointments with can predict your behavior to a degree. Your movements were never that private to begin with.

If you want to be afraid of someone, be afraid of businesses, and what they can know based on analyzing customer data.
True, but I don't think the shift is underway.

I think in order for this to happen, there's going to have to be better payment models than $4-9 a month subscriptions.
> For this to happen people are going to have to open their wallets, pay for the services they use, and support independent businesses.

Yes but to be frank if I had to pay for everything I use I would go broke.

We're not all on SV salaries here. I have about 100€ of disposable income per month. If I put it on online things, it means I would have to stay at home (I mean pre or post pandemic times).
In 10+ years of driving in the UK, the only time I got caught speeding was in France! Oh, and once in New Zealand. I see signs for the the UK average speed cameras all over the place, but I guess they're tuned to only trigger for vehicles that are significantly exceeding the limit?
Implementing a Simple Proof Assistant and Type System (Mathematica)
They already have access to everyone’s movement patterns via mobile networks and mobile devices.
> journalistic integrity. It’s something that can be measured and validated.

How do we measure integrity?
What kind of API does/will Readng have? Bookseller integration?

I have a use case: the bibliographies (recommended reading pages) for my own books. Could I send readers to their choice of bookseller?
>> Which is why treating the arrest rate as being equivalent to the crime rate is specious

For genpop, yes, for the specific group of illegal immigrants, no - that subset of the population has far higher penalties and penalties influence behaviour.
Bugs detection before they happen
Those things often pay for themselves.

There's a so-called "superradar" at one of the most busy intersections in Warsaw. It cost ~$65k and brought ~$200k in revenue in three weeks.

It's much safer now there, but the radar is still raking in considerable revenue.
Then they have already subtracted their margin of error, which is definitely above 2km/h.

More likely they saw e.g 66km/h in a speed gun with 4km/h error, so they know you did at least 62, and can book you stating 62. But most likely you were doing 66 or even 70 then.
Unix Power Tools was a great help when I was learning shell scripting:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...
The LibraryThing API might be an approximate replacement, although I’m not sure what the major differences are: http://www.librarything.com/services/
Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System
Monkey Testing Using AI
I wonder how COVID-19 inspired mask wearing has impacted the identifying of drivers.
it was released a couple of days ago, been playing it on my quest it is good fun
"(exceeding the one-size-fits all speed limit) is evidence of bad judgement"

This is not as self-evident as you assert. Do you have anything to back up your claim?
Joey Hess' blog post about using this to save power on USB drives:

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/usb_drives_with_no_phantom_loa...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25322564
No: it's just an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app, which for me, is all I need. I have never thought of setting a reminder in a note-taking app; what does the use case for that look like?
I think it's correct to unlink likelihood of arrest with crimes committed, and plenty of studies have shown biases in that aspect as well as the effects of coercive plea bargaining that inflate crime numbers beyond actual crimes that even happen, in addition to conviction rates of those that are arrested. However, it makes little sense to say that somehow merely having a strong incentive for avoiding arrest means that one is actually able to consistently avoid arrest. In the study, which deals with violent felonies in Texas, arguably every person who is a suspect would have just as much incentive to avoid arrest, since immigration status is not a datapoint that is collected prior to arrest and one's ability to avoid arrest is also dependent on the police's abilities and the circumstances of each case, and not entirely down to the individual ability or incentive to avoid arrest. Furthermore, since immigration consequences come after the term is served if convicted, and violent felonies tend to carry terms of incarceration that are hefty and does not differ on account of immigration status, I don't think it's really all that relevant to consider incentives in avoiding arrest as a meaningful parameter to weigh the data in either direction.

I think what's more likely is that a) because of the harsh collateral consequences which includes all of the existing collateral consequences of a conviction plus removal, in communities with large numbers of immigrants without valid status, members of the community may be less likely to call the police to report crimes to begin with. The undocumented or mixed-status community's hesitation to call the police is pretty well-documented, although that is unlikely to explain the entire difference documented here; or b) there's a self-selection bias where many of those prone to commit violent felonies may not find it worthwhile to go through the trouble of crossing and attempting to establish themselves under the radar here only to get caught up in a system that's punitive and would lead to removal regardless, considering that migrants seldom move here for reasons other than work opportunities anyway. But again, because of how byzantine our legal system is and how even more kafkaesque our immigration system is, it's unlikely that those without law degrees who specialize in these areas truly have anything close to full knowledge of what the consequences truly look at, so I don't think that adequately explain the difference either. Perhaps more studies on those aspects should be conducted, although this study is more or less in line with thinktank and advocacy group-conducted research from the likes of Cato and the ACLU, whose ideologically leanings are not exactly overlapping on most issues.
Seems like the typical strategy of arbitraging a brand’s reputation by cutting quality and therefore costs, but still charging the same price.

Until information about the brand’s changes in quality pervade the market, the sellers can pocket the extra profit from lowered costs.
It sometimes feels like ad-supported online offerings are a bit like cheap fossil fuels in a way. The negative consequences across the board are obvious. This goes for the short-term, immediate nuisances it creates, but people who think about the hard questions also see the long-term negative consequences way ahead.

Unfortunately, advertising has also created an unsustainably high "standard of living", so to speak - you get so many services and applications for free these days that would realistically not exist or cost much more than you were willing to pay for them had it not been for advertising.

Personally, I don't think there's a way out of it until someone comes up with an alternative that brings the benefits of advertising without all the downsides it has, because individual consumer incentives are just not aligned. I'll gladly pay a one-time fee for some productivity app, or a small subscription for something I use almost daily. But if e.g. goodreads wanted to charge a subscription, community size would probably dwindle, and personally I'd just start keeping a spreadsheet of my books again.