skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst I've heard of along these lines currently in practice is predictive policing [0]:

First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts.

Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime.

They swarm homes in the middle of the night, waking families and embarrassing people in front of their neighbors. They write tickets for missing mailbox numbers and overgrown grass, saddling residents with court dates and fines. They come again and again, making arrests for any reason they can.

One former deputy described the directive like this: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.”

It seems that police departments are happy to buy tools for stuff like this, and private companies are happy to make a buck. But are these systems vetted by anyone on behalf of the public? Some like sting rays and breathalyzers have been hidden behind non-disclosure agreements, kept out of open court, etc.

Other than the above I've also heard of computer systems in NJ advising judges whether a suspect is a risk of not appearing in court (as they are reforming the bail system). I wondered if the criteria is published, how it reviewed and modified, etc.

I'm just concerned about the increasing influence of hidden algorithms on our society, and very concerned in general that the government is going to hook all of its databases together and do more of this, a la Chinese social scores, etc.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200907/12212945257/flori...
Agree. Lived in an apartment building in Chicago. Never knew anyone's name but the doorman. I could count on one hand the number of times I encountered a neighbor in the hall. It was like living in a hotel.
Next time it doesn't work for you, please file a report with Win+F (Feedback hub) and we can take a look at what's failing underneath.
That is a good point in favor of batteries over nuclear. If we made fossil fueled power plants illegal, the external costs of nuclear waste should be considered.

As long as fossil fuels are used however the risk of runaway climate change is a much bigger issue than nuclear waste. The risk of runaway nuclear waste is unlikely.
Location location location. Some people might prefer to live in a shoebox 5 min walking distance from work and play, over owning their residence.
This can all be true but unless you combine it with the fact that median household income in the USA is only around $60k, you lose the full impact of what is actually a deeply and immersively political description.
There is a teensy explanation on the about page: https://sokyokuban.com/#about

I'm sure the authors would also be more than happy to answer that question.
When the black death killed swathes of Europe's peasants, the survivors were able to demand much better working conditions from their overlords. But I guess that is only going to happen with a declining population if there are enough jobs that robots and AI can't do.
> Nuclear power takes 20-50 years to come online- it’s too late to rely on it and burn fossil fuels in the mean time. That ship sailed long ago.

South Korea builds nuclear plants in less than 5 years on average.

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s...
I think about buying stocks of solar tech company soon. they all made huge jumps this year - at least jinko, first, canadian. like more than tripling prices. so, I'm worried about the market being a bit too hyped up. anybody with an opinion on that matter?
> Following this line, most people are financial idiots, which means they are responsible for their poverty?

Your whole comment is conflating poor financial planning with actual poverty.

If you break people into: those legitimately without enough resources to get by, those who would have enough if they knew how to manage money, and those who have enough whether or not they can manage money; I would wager that the people with enough money but terrible planning skills would be the plurality, whether or not they were the outright majority.

Once you slip into the "I can afford this because I can make the monthly payments" line of thinking, you are pretty much by definition living at the cusp of your means. That's where most people are, whether or not it's a good idea for them to be.
Innovation is all about making life easier :) Once could say what is the point of protein powder or soylent - can't you just eat food?

No long term side effects. I'm happy to share a few studies done (1 by Coca-Cola a year ago) if you'd like.

Price is highish, but I hope to get it down with scale. When you compare it to other products though it isn't that bad. A starbucks coffee is $4 and an RXbar is $2? I'd say you get a lot more utility out of this.

I personally don't like the tart taste of Greek yogurt. Regardless, Greek yogurt as it stands won't solve my sweet tooth.
There are more than 1 billion cars on earth. Cubesats are smaller than a car and can be distributed in an additional dimension (altitude). I think there is little risk of oversaturation currently.
Then they can give the source code out to anyone...
Buy simply comparing your bill with how much you generate is not very useful. You have to know when you used that power, and whether or not the sun was shining at that time of the day.

You need to know if your local utility will even pay you for the power you generate that you don't use.

If you are out of the house for most of the day, you probably don't use much power then. When you get home at night you turn all your devices on and start cooking and cleaning.
I’m asking for ownership to be disrupted. It’s insane we all have our own and they have such low utilisation.

They are almost always stationary parked somewhere when privately owned.
> Squarespace has no backup/restore capability

At all? Even if you contact support because you accidentally deleted a lot of stuff?
The only hope is political organization. You can say it's peanuts, but it's also above the median household income. Sit back and think about that: what you consider peanuts (and you may well not be wrong) is more than the median household income in this country. If you are not outraged by this, then sure, there's no hope :)
I think this is a really good comment. Are you implying that the concept of integer is a consequence of the abstraction of an apple, an abstraction which is entirely human? I really like this point of view.
It's just an email client, acting on the delta chat emails (and moving them to a delta.chat IMAP folder).
It works transparently with a fallback that the receiver can still just reply in a normal email client.

It's how the whole messaging drama. Should be resolved and it's using decentralized infrastructure that is already there and reliable.
Ah, like another left-pad situation?
The causes behind the relationship likely differ at each end of the income distribution. Below $50k, marginal increases in wealth drive utility primarily through improved material comfort. Above $250k, it becomes more and more about status as the driver of improved utility (e.g. status attenuates chronic stress).

However, I believe part of the relationship below $50k is also status-related, in addition to the material comfort explanation. The people most opposed to the minimum wage are those earning just above it, presumably because it would decrease the status differential between them and the people earning less, which negatively impacts their genetic fitness.

I'd also hypthesize that the correlation above $250k is stronger for men than women, due to status being the likely driver.
Remember the song,

Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same…

That's what it was complaining about: a neighborhood where people could make it their own.
What kind of house in Europe? I’d guess most non-apartment family homes in Europe are row houses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house
Much denser than a stereotypical US suburb.
I love how people always take on of a few examples and point out to that. You would think such bad arguments are above this forum.

Also, that is not something that Elon or his companies would do so it doesn't really speak to my point.
Email is a wheel that needs reinventing. It's fundamentally difficult/impossible to secure.
I wouldn't call it racism because this behavior isn't unique to japan... it's unique to humanity. It will happen everywhere where you look and drastically different from anything the local population has ever seen before.

Only certain places have a unique culture where such treatment is deliberately frowned upon culturally. We are from the west so equality seems normal but it is not the default. If you decide to live in Asia, expect the default, it's not actually racist; it's normal.

Generally you just don't like being treated as a foreigner. But that's actually what you are. Don't expect to travel to another place and have them treat you as a local.
Always do server-side validation
With JavaScript frameworks becoming more and more powerful, a lot of business logic is now done on the client side. This, however, can pose some security problems and here are three commonly found mistakes where server-side validation is omitted and parts of the web app are vulnerable because of this. We will be looking on role escalation, confidential information access, and more.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Nationalistic flamewar is particularly not where we want to go here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting I was just looking at the Chez Scheme backends and didn't remember seeing aarch64, just 32 bit arm. And then I found this

https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/issues/545

Racket-Chez is different from Cisco-Chez by > 600 commits. I wonder what the plan is to normalize them or will be Racket-Chez be our new house.

https://github.com/racket/ChezScheme
> Great, leaking the user's email address which, more often than not, contains their real name is so much better. /s

So, how good is your spam filter for SMS/calls? /s

Personally, I rather give my mailaddress than my phone number. I can set up a new address rather quick. I cannot switch my phone number that effortless.
>"Common Lisp is a battle-worn language designed for practical programming. It is full of ugly warts and compatibility hacks -- quite the opposite of Scheme's elegant minimalism. But it is also much more featureful when taken for itself.

Common Lisp has bred a relatively large ecosystem of portable libraries. You can usually switch implementations at any time, even after application deployment, without too much trouble. Overall, Common Lisp is much more uniform than Scheme, and more radical language experiments, if done at all, are usually embedded as a portable library rather than defining a whole new language dialect. Because of this, language extensions tend to be more conservative, but also more combinable (and often optional)."

[...]

"Summing up,

Scheme is a more elegantly designed language.

It is primarily a functional language with some dynamic features. Its implementations represent various incompatible dialects with distinctive features. Common Lisp is a fully-fledged, highly dynamic, multi-paradigm language with various ugly but pragmatic features, whose implementations are largely compatible with one another. Scheme dialects tend to be more static and less interactive than Common Lisp; Common Lisp implementations tend to be heavier and trickier to install."

Discuss...
> No one is asking for ownership to be disrupted

I'm asking for it right now. And have been for some time.
If you have lived there for a few years you can look at your bills from years past and be close enough. You will never be more than close enough anyway
Back in the 50s the beats hung out in North Beach because it was cheap. In the 60s and 70s the hippies all had old victorians out in the Haight Ashbury because it was cheap. San Francisco wasn't some obscure fly-over country place, it was a cool place to be.

Where is cool + cheap now?
Agree with everything you said, and wha'ts left unsaid (uygours, the aging issue, the abandonned youths in central China, and many others). But this:

> because unfortunately all central planning is poor by its very nature

Is untrue for a very specific subset of issue: nation-wide infrastructure. W/o central planning, not nuclear plants, no French/Japanese/Italian/Chinese trains. Electricity: the bigger you network is, the easier it is to pilot said network. Central planning is a tool, like the free market is a tool. Hardcore Liberals and Communists will both disagree with me, but it is 2021, i think we're past Marx and can recognize Adam Smith was not always right (even if he was on point on a lot of thing).

You can also have a central-planning thingy along a river that multiple community use to better allocate a really needed ressource that is called water. Not nation central planning, but something in between.
We had an incident, and it was great
Nationalistic flamewar is not ok here, regardless of whether another comment started it. It just leads to hell, so please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
sounds amazing and i really want what you’re describing

i dont want to buy a new car (new as in replacing my current car,im ok with used cars) because theyre overpriced, but i dont want to lease either due to what i consider bullshit costs, plus lock-in. as a result, ive had the same car since 2009, despite easily being able to afford something new. but fuck that, id rather put that money towards investing
But unused capacity in nuclear overspeeds the turbines, you can't allow that to happen -- generation and frequency are both controlled by the same steam valve. Unused capacity in solar just sits there basking in the sun. The frequency is controlled by software in an inverter.

To make solar demand-responsive, you just build more of it. It's really that simple.
There is no problem saying “hi” in a chat. This is an example of a completely imagined general social problem, generated from the social anxiety of one guy.

It’s like TDD: somebody finds a way they like to work and then elevates that to a moral imperative for all.

Feel free to say “hi” to me in Slack. I take it to mean that you would like to have a conversation, when I am free. If you don’t want me to ping you in that way, then I will adapt to you. Just don’t claim your protocol is objectively better. It’s not.
If you have ever lent tools to anyone you will quickly realize why this kind of utopian sharing doesn't work. Most people have terrible standards for caring for or maintaining things even if they are their own things, much less someone else's. Thus the stigma against lending or borrowing tools in the trades.
I mean, I agree, but isn't it a moot point? Isn't part of the reason you get all your contributors to sign CLAs so that you can put whatever license on your product you need to close a deal?
You can't co-lease with a flexible number of other users based on utilization.
The difference is that for truncating, I can work within Unicode to deal with the situation. I can accept the possibility of mutilated letters, I can convert to NFC, I can truncate on word-boundaries, I have choice.

If I have an byte-array, I can do none of these things short of implementing a good chunk of Unicode. If I truncate, I risk ending up with an invalid UTF-8 string. End of story.
Before echo chat
This CalPoly presentation takes an ecological view and suggests that constellations of several hundred or more could be too many, if poorly managed. I would hope that we could manage orders of magnitude more safely with planning/control software and good thinking. http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~workshop/archive/2016/Spring/Da...
All we would need to do is rename the GPL to something else. That’s it. It really is that dumb. Just don’t tell anyone it’s a renamed GPL and maybe rearrange some wording.

We abandoned GPL for the BSL for this reason. The GPL is in many ways better but there are a ton of companies that won’t touch it or anything that comes near it... though they tend to grandfather in Linux.
And just goods in general, but a lot of jobs with it as a lot of retail markups were from retail inefficiencies.

Now you’re increasingly < 10 miles from a Walmart and Amazon will deliver nearly everywhere.

15 years ago, a lot of this was still accessible, but you’d have to plan your Walmart trip or trudge through eBay or umpteen online retailers to cut out the b&m markups.
I suppose it would depend on what one takes “open source project” to actually mean. You’d have to reject contributions from your community if they weren’t interested in giving them back upstream in a way compatible with your commercial license, and you’d probably be forever open to claims you violated some individual’s GPL contribution of a feature you may or may not have seen if something similar makes its way into your commercial project.

There are obviously lots of open source projects that find a way to navigate this world via dual licensing, and I’m neither a lawyer nor an expert on the subject, but those projects don’t really fit my own personal definition of “open” (as I derive it from the Unix philosophy instead of the GNU is Not Unix philosophy).
That's a very weird equivalence. I really can't see how living in a boarding house is anything like co-living?

A boarding house is generally someone's primary residence where the owner lets out one or two spare bedrooms to lodgers and often provides them with meals and the like. They were mainly used by the transient, single and/or poor. Boarding houses hardly exist any more in the west. The classic boarding house owner was a widow back in the day when employment opportunities for elderly women were fairly bleak.

Co-living has grown in the last decade in many wealthy western cities and provides accommodation which is somewhere between staying in a motel and renting a studio apartment. It's generally more expensive than renting a studio - because of the flexibility - and typically targets visiting professional workers or wealthy students.
Fidonet boards exchanged messages overnight so the propagation delay was much longer. Also, the topology was different. I don't think the idea of each user publishing a public stream of messages that others subscribe to was a thing back then? Instead you would post messages in forums.
Wow, what an argument. Solar panels don’t last forever and have to be maintained and replace effectively forever making the cost infinite too by that argument.
Usually, a satellite that launches from a country has to abide by that country's regulations.

As a requirement for getting regulatory approval to launch your satellite, I think you have to submit a debris management plan, which can include raising a geostationary satellite to a graveyard orbit after EOL (GEO is really far from earth, it would take a lot of fuel to de-orbit them), or lower a low-earth orbit to an altitude at which it would decay in a few weeks or years.

Generally, I think these small satellites are quite cheap both to launch and manufacture, do not have a great lifespan, and certainly not have lots of fuel. So they are most likely intended for LEO, and a low one with that, where atmospheric drag is small, but could bring a satellite down in a few (~5-7) years. Hopefully smaller than the rate at which the operator renews them.

Picking LEO has many benefits: lower latency, higher bandwidth, smaller antennas, higher resolution for pictures, with a few drawbacks: more earth shadow, faster ground velocity, smaller coverage for earth sensors.
Well... I absolutely am looking for a car subscription. Volvo created something close to what I’m looking for.

https://www.volvocars.com/us/care-by-volvo/

I just want it for an electric car.
If the economics are impossible, how is it that France currently runs 70% of its grid on nuclear and has electricity costs substantially lower than the EU average?
I'm always confused by statements like this. A Toyota runs 25+ years pretty reliably, they have a reputation for being well made.

Tesla has large fitting problems with panel gaps, not closing doors, leaky or even loose roofs, bad paint, etc.

How do people trust Tesla to make cars that work even remotely as long as a Toyota? I don't want to own a car that I cannot resell after 10 years because it's worn down too much.

I'm not advocating for ICE here, I'm talking about the chassis part of the car.
A lot of people wrongly assume that if you license the product under GNU GPL, you must publish source code on the internet. Many active proponents of free (as in freedom) software had very tense quarrells with me when I explained them that it's not exactly mandatory.
For housing there is usually more to the equation than just inflation vs salary.

When my parents got their first house in the 80s, I think the interest was just shy of 20%

If I buy a house today, I can literally get 0%* interest on the loan.

20% interest over 30 years means you have paid almost 6 times the value of the loan with your last payment.

So if they could afford the house at 20% interest, they can afford it at 5 times the price with near zero interest.

This has been one of the main factors for pushing house prices way faster than salary growth. The monthly payment can grow (somewhat) with salary while the sticker price on the house can grow much, much faster.

* Don't live in the US, but house prices in the EU are just as crazy as anywhere
Beach bum lifestyle seems appealing, except if you want kids. I'm guessing you don't?
Wow, what a blast from the past. Playing Empire was a favorite obsession in my undergrad years (Batak was my preferred country name back in the day.) I loved the explore and expand part of the game, building countries and setting up a productive economic engine. The fighting? Not so much. I was a tasty little hors d'oeuvre for someone better at conquest in the later stages of the game. The luckiest someone like that could get would be to have me on their border to set up a well run, but ineptly defended country.

Good times.
I dont think panel manufacturers will make much money, there is too much competition from the big Chinese corps. Maybe the rewiring of the grid helps electrical component companies like Schneider but that isn't cheap either. It might end up the big power users get most of the benefit.
ATC isn't only about managing traffic. Each region's government has their own rules and they can choose to enforce new rules at anytime (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaTv1vAC3W8). How would you enforce a 9/11 like shutdown in a decentralized system? Or if the Internet goes down?

The closest thing to that are collision avoidance systems that instruct pilots to go up/down by talking to one another and agreeing on a plan for a particular situation.
Sure. What part?

SPACs are basically stocks in search of a company. People put their resources together, and then eventually the guy who runs the SPAC finds a great company to invest in, and uses the SPAC to buy it.

Nowadays, some companies are using SPACs to go public instead of using an IPO. In some ways it's like the work-from-home version of an IPO; the investors are already subscribed, and the stock is already public.

So far, we have seen small companies get acquired by SPACs. However, there are many private and established companies out there. The article asks whether any of those much larger companies are going to become SPAC targets.