skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I owned a pickup in the city. I absolutely hate moving. I do, however, love free beer and pizza.

...I helped a lot of friends move.
This article keeps getting flagged, so I figured I should leave a comment as the OP (full disclosure: I work for MIT Press, who published the book from which the article is excerpted):

I should have recognized that this may be too contentious a topic for this forum (or any open online forum), but I urge you give it a read. I learned a lot from it. It offers important historical context and is a good reminder that science is always political. The piece is a deep dive that draws on years of academic research; it's not an opinion essay, but a rigorous study of Israeli population cartography, under the direction of renowned statistician and geographer Roberto Bachi.
Security is absolutely necessary in down towns. In LA, it is out of control. You can't even go inside a 711 without being harassed until they hired guards.
I checked it out - but I think most developers would be more comfortable writing Dart code to develop Flutter code. I can see that something like FlutterFlow is useful if you need snippets to e.g. get a stylized layout with little effort.

Kind of like a quick way of getting the look you want, and then pasting it back into Android Studio. Even then I'd change and improve the code - I see that the styles are a bit "hard coded" with a variety of fonts I have never seen the need to use.

The UI is a bit laggy on Safari.
The 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz [1] looks like it'll be much smaller than the current crop of trucks (though still larger than the compact trucks of 20 years ago).

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36125131/2022-hyundai-san...
I know you're joking, but...

Isn't rusting metal just metal that's trying to return to its natural form?
Well, the headline may be wrong due to this very caveat:

> Well, if you have an electrical loop whose size is measured in miles, or (better) hundreds of miles, you can pick up enough current to matter. The telegraph stations were like that.

There's new research coming out in a few months on this question -- how such an event may take out transoceanic Internet connectivity:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sangeetha_a_j/status/138930329505...
Google launches fully managed cloud ML platform Vertex AI
> With the supercharger network, you know in advance if the station is having any issues (including simply being full).

We've had a couple of cases recently where this wasn't the case. Supercharger was recording availability as if it was working, but in reality people were plugging in and getting failures. Rare, of course, but it can happen.

Also, that trip plan seems to just be ABRP bugs. Better to stop at the EA in Hood River, OR than the one they have by default.
People should be able to choose dates according to any criteria and "market" themselves likewise, but it is unseemly for the Federal government to manipulate the mating market to promote covid vaccination. You can say the dating apps are making changes voluntarily, but all companies face Federal regulation and taxation, and a "suggestion" from the President is not an ordinary suggestion.
I'm currently reading The Sovereign Individual (1999), which predicted that the State would start to lose it's monopoly on the use of force in the Information Age. I wonder if that's what we're seeing happen here. It's a bit disturbing to think that we may be going from having a state that (in theory) offers protection to all of it's citizens to only the privileged being able to hire private security, which is virtually unaccountable to the law, at their own expense. I'm hoping that this Citizen app is just one organization that's crossing the line that is soon to be shut down, but I worry that it represents a larger trend.
It depends. Safety... well that's different.

But there are many physical products that can only be used by people without certain disabilities. For instance, cameras, mirrors, light bulbs and paintings require you to be sighted to get any utility from them. Headphones require you to be able to hear. Those might be extreme examples, but there are a huge number of things that you basically get zero utility out of if you don't have typical abilities in relevant areas. Should I not be allowed to sell a bicycle if I can't figure out a way to make it work for people who don't have 4 functioning limbs?

Most web sites can be made accessible simply by making them work normally and reasonably... it's generally the browser's job (and various other things like screenreaders) to make them accessible, assuming the web developer isn't doing something particularly weirdly. Isn't it?

It seems highly inefficient use of resources to have each site have to do a lot of work to support accessibility, especially if the sites are doing basic things like presenting documents. But if I make a web based paint program or charting app, what am I supposed to do for people who don't have sight? Does that even make sense?
I am also a fan of devolution, but it has significant limitations when it comes to policing. Police need more than just local accountability.

There is a fundemental need to trust that non-locals will be treated fairly alongside locals. A lack of fair treatment is already a problem for outsiders and out-groups in this country.

Policing devolution can happen, but it has to be structured in a way to maintain accountability. The concern is that as private security moves into policing, this creates incentives to make our existing policing problems worse.
There's a pretty entertaining (though stomach churning) documentary called "Orozco el embalsamador"about an embalmer working in Columbia.

https://imdb.com/title/tt0982908/
Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic vs. Apple’s culminating testimony
If the combination Uber/Lyft moonlighters are any indication, you'd just make the officer's phone buzz in their pocket.
Maybe for you. Different explanations work for different people.
If only someone would come out with an electric truck...
This is a horrifying equivalence. A "neighborhood watch" is at best a surveillance and reporting organization. It's literally right there in the name. "Neighborhood watches" don't go around making armed attempts to intervene in crime, and to the extent they do (c.f. the killing of Ahmaud Arbery) it's exactly as disastrous as the dystopia we're discussing with respect to "security forces", and for the same reasons.
Do you think your case is a typical case? How much does experience count? How much did you need to educate yourself to reach this level? Were there any major stumbles or obstacles? I am encouraged by your story, but am also weary that it only sounds reasonable because all the harrowing details were left out.
> Where do birds go to die? Or are they just eaten right away by their prey? Stray cats? Hawks?

I can distinctly remember seeing a pigeon nose dive mid flight at ~25m height right in front of me. It... just fell.

Still one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. To top it all, a stray cat caught it in literally less than a second after hitting the ground. Not sure if that was nature or someone shot the poor thing with an air gun or something.
Coco’s Choice: A Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist’s Road Back from Hell
Anyone else notice the site linked has the most crazy racist wigged out psychos on the comments/forums? Yikes.
I would consider Flutter apps that have been compiled to ARM and runs on an iPhone natively (basically just using a canvas to draw pixels on) is very fast. However Flutter web is not very fast, but it's getting there.
You're assigning morality to a nervous system which is inherently absurd. Corn doesn't feel fear, it doesn't lament or suffer it just grows. We don't question the morality of capillary action in plants why should we assign morality to animal systems? Won't someone think of the blood salinity of all living things? Is there not a divine optimal amount of salt in all creatures?

Similarly we are foolish to concern ourselves with the quantity of serotonin or histamine in any given creature.

Humans are generally social, we developed to be concerned with our community rather than our individual survival and it has served us well. We developed systems to extend that concern to future generations, and sometimes we disguised them as deities. Now in our ever blooming quest to socialize we are assimilating more species into the fold, but at a point we should stop and ask if our moral tools are overstepping.
And that's what this "security" force would solve.
“Put that in your pipe and smoke it”
Would be good to see them talk with GameStop. Local leagues, physical presence, tiered compos, could add right up.

Mix in Netflix funding some cool indie efforts, maybe expand on, or even fond a new niche / genre?
Wouldn't dehydration hit before starvation?

In any case, congratulations on your continued survival!
> Except that hydrogen production requires energy

and battery charging doesn't require energy?

> as well as the shipping of hydrogen

It's not very complicated to produce hydrogen where it's needed since there is usually both water and energy everywhere
Kind of weird how industrial designers have more influence in computing than hardware/software engineers.
To be clear, I don't blame the federal government for break up that dangerous cult. But I think they deliberately went about it in a way they knew would result in a lot of violence. The siege had already been underway for weeks when those reports of abuse reached Janet Reno; the reports of abuse precipitated the final assault, not the siege itself. The siege started with arrest warrants for weapons charges.
Yes, you generally always run into something that the company building your low code tools will need to cater for or fix for you somehow. It gives you so much grief that you might as well write and own your tools.
Then you need a lot of people that listen to those 12B hours of audio, and multiple listeners agree for each chunk of audio that what is spoken corresponds to the transcript.
The Siemens US2 VersiCharge is a pretty popular consumer charger that's designed to be weatherproof. I have one in my garage, but I've seen them installed in parking lots for commercial use, too.
I drive my rear wheel drive Camaro year round in Minnesota.

The best vehicle I’ve ever driven in the snow was a tiny 2001 Mercury Cougar. Snow tires make a world of difference.
We do not care to solve it as a general problem. The city employs NYPD for that, at least in theory.

We, people who live on this block, want them gone from this block.
There is only one interpretation for defund, and anyone saying otherwise is gaslighting or using Motte and Bailey. President Obama wisely told progressives to stop saying it.

Also, "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
And they do! Phone contracts, electric bills, shipping fees. Everyone gets their cut when they deliver a service to the user. After I get Twitter from the App Store, the service is delivered. The App Store isn't doing anything other than providing free OTA updates which they could charge for if they want (not my fault they don't). Why should Twitter continue paying the App Store once the service is delivered? Would anyone pay FedEx every time they use an appliance shipped by FedEx, just because FedEx brought it to their house years ago? This is the same ask the App Store has whenever a developer wants to collect payment from users.

And you can't even collect the payments yourself, even if you wanted to. And you can't tell users why payments are more expensive (not even through email or any web pages reachable through the app - Hey got kicked out for this). AND AND - this is truly outrageous mafia-like behavior - you can't sell your services for less outside of the App Store. That's right, if your monthly photo backup service is $9.99/mo on the App Store, you have to sell it for $9.99 on your web site, even if you want to sell it for $6.99/mo. And if you do sell it for $6.99 in your app, you have to accept the fact that 30% of your profits are just pissed away even before taxes.

An entire subset of online businesses aren't even financially possible because the 30% Apple cut and forced pricing model would eat up profit margins that would be healthy otherwise. I would happily sell a service for $9.99 in app and $6.99 on web, and give the user a choice, but of course I can't, because the App Store is a racket.
I downloaded the (unofficial) Common Voice app [1] and it provides a link to some guidelines [2], which also aren't official but look sensible and seem like the best there is at the moment.

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.commonvoice.saverio/

[2] https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discussion-of-new-guidelines...
Fair enough, I think it's safe to say that CSS has a skew towards the cascade and I guess I misunderstood your original meaning there.
“It doesn’t seem to me you feel any pressure or competition” Judge says to Cook
So are you in essence stating that because metropolitan people do not understand the needs of rural life that they deserve for their votes to continue to be worth less? Even despite rural people not understanding metropolitan life to the same degree?
The idea of property being defended by an individual is the myth. The reality was that, on the frontier, property was defended by the community. It wasn't just you, standing there with your musket, fending off the hordes of "injuns" and "rustlers" all by your lonesome. It was you and your posse.

I think the vigilantism implicitly endorsed by Citizen is entirely typical of the historical American attitude towards how one should defend their property. Moreover, it speaks to the breakdown of law and order in California that an app that organizes a modernized form of "frontier justus" can find enough traction to get off the ground.
Not only that, but their arbitrary safety rules get really annoying. "No you can't hook that onto the bumper hitch, even though its rated for 4500lbs. The rules say you need a receiver." The receiver is still rated for 4500lbs but that's okay.

But then they are happy to slap a receiver onto any passenger car that is not rated to tow at all and let you load up as much as you want into one of their box trailers.
If the airlines were in charge of the F150, they would squeeze in 3 rows of seats
> This reminds me of how Steve Jobs would talk about the need for liberal arts influence in technology.

I mean, in this case, you really just need engineering (in the traditional sense) influence. Engineering as a discipline covers considering this sort of thing.
Then they'll scramble to find anything they can to slander the person, such as a parking ticket
No mention of TruffleRuby?
> Surely you can understand how “hunt this guy down for $30k” is _very_ different from “please call us with tips or information you know for a cash reward”?

I really don’t see the functional difference.

I don’t think they were calling for people to apprehend or take justice into their own hands.

The words and tone are different, but the request for action is the same.
Oh my goodness. It's wonderful. This needs to be part of browsers by default! The only suggestion I have so far is it'd be pretty nice for it to be a tab in the dev tools, potentially with element highlighting as I hover over the nodes.
How is this paranoia? The ratcheting up of software sophistication does not necessarily add value to the average buyer. What it does do is add cost to repairs for both complex systems/parts and labor. This added complexity and cost make it prohibitive for the average owner to fix or even diagnose problems as the auto industry evolves. This isn't about being paranoid its about being economically conscious of the cost imposed by sophistication.
no worries. you just need to sign up for the vigilante error insurance app. if you're wrongly chased, a counter vigilante force shows up.

if they murder you, they sue on your behalf and direct proceeds to the beneficiary of your choice.

my bet is that if this thing takes off, crime will actually increase as it normalizes it.
The worst is dreaming and using emacs in the dream. I get around the code so fast because at this point it feels like an extension of my own mind, but in a dream state my brain can't make the code on the screen make anywhere close to as much sense and it doesn't react fast enough when I kill a line or jump around looking for a new block of code.

Also, just reading the text itself is alien. Because it's colourful and code-looking, but my mind can't quite get the monospacing right. So outside the direct bit of code I'm looking at, the code gets kinda blurry or wobbly.
Confidently making conventional statements about truly unknown phenomena is the easiest way to seem smart, if you aren't. Lots of psychological barriers are preventing people from examining this topic with an open mind (on both sides of the debate, mind you -- ufology can become borderline religious if you stray too far).

Fundamentally, it's an annoying topic because it's currently unprovable. If there were really aliens here for as long as consistent phenomena have been observed (at least since the 1940's, but possibly for most of human history), then the ball would be in their court. It doesn't take a lot of creativity to assume that such an advanced civilization would have the capability to keep a low profile if desired, even if they had a significant amount of activity on our planet. And if the types of organizations (militaries of rival superpowers) that could collect interesting data did so, could they and would they really disperse it on a wide scale against the wishes of "the phenomenon?"

The interesting ones are the close encounters. Someone in this thread might scoff at testimony describing unmistakably unidentifiable phenomena that lacks compelling video evidence, while simultaneously reposting "I believe victims" on Twitter. Pick one. Do you think credible witness testimony is admissible, or do you not? Millenia of justice systems are built on this concept. Even "hard evidence" all comes down to trusting the people in the chain of custody, since things can be doctored so easily nowadays. Want to claim crazy or spontaneous mass hallucination? Prove it. Show the mechanism in the brain. Reproduce in a lab. Put a name to the disease. The burden of proof is on you to describe why our justice systems are built on a complete farce.

I personally have sane family members, who, in a group, circa 1970, had a close encounter in broad daylight so unmistakable there is no way it could have been anything but an intelligently controlled flying object with incomprehensible capabilities. And shamefully, being a rational and proud engineer, I did not believe them until the last few years when really interesting data started coming out on the phenomenon and I did a deep dive.

Do I know what these objects are? No. But I'm pretty confident the guys I knew who went on to work in defense couldn't come up with objects being described given 100 years, let alone with the technology available decades ago. Most of the DoD is running on 10-25 year old Windows machines.
Already happening in Seattle you just have to live in Durkan's hood: https://laurelhurstcc.com/security/
> First released under the name Vigilante in 2016

Oh, I see.
Logo is truly a delightful little functional language. I've written a few implementations over the years- this one is built in Forth, drawing from Apple ][ logo: http://johnearnest.github.io/Mako.js/?rom=Loko

And another written in Java, as part of a more elaborate edutainment adventure game I still have in an unfinished state: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/MLogo
If I claimed that it was raining in San Francisco right now, do I need to provide a weather report, or would you be able to find it yourself?
I put the quote about speeding up production etc from the parent article in quotes and then commented on it. I also posted a link to this paper

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-19-98.pdf

my point wasn't about 'speeding up prduction' it was about previous political efforts to legislate to have transformers offline ready to replace blown ones, GIC resistors and most importantly early warning tech to detect incoming solar flares and take transformers offline to protect them.
Seems like it was far more that way in the pre-modern world.... even a few decades ago.
I'm much less concerned with them planting evidence on me than I am with them shooting a friend or family member who is experiencing a mental health crisis.
Has been the case in the mayor's hood for years: https://laurelhurstcc.com/security/
26 billion of those are chickens?
Taking “5 why’s” to a whole new level!
This is my thought as well, Stripe is so creators can withdraw their earnings once Twitter has collected them through IAP. You can't use a Stripe checkout in app unless you sell physical products.
> People need a solution to rampant crime. Take for example SA, where private security forces are widespread.

Has that solved crime in SA?
If anyone knows what the magic words are to finding this kind of thorough report nowadays, please share!
Depends on the "SUV" you're referring to. Full size SUVs like the Suburban can tow heavy loads, have lots more storage capacity, have actual 4wd (snow), and generally have a powertrain that's going to outlast a minivan.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for a different sort of conversation here. Note these guidelines:

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Judge Grills Tim Cook on App Store Policies
I think you are misunderstanding the situation. Given code like:

if (!p) {
use(*p);
}

(given no previous knowledge about p) no compiler will remove the "if (!p)" part.

What people are complaining about is the opposite case:

use(*p);

/* The compiler reasons that if p == NULL, the program would have crashed by now,
so if we got here, p != NULL must hold. */

if (!p) { // the compiler can remove this branch
report_error();
}
This is sort of weirdly spun. In fact in Seattle we saw exactly what happens when a bunch of local yahoos decide to try to police themselves. How exactly do you think this is going to turn out differently than the CHAZ/CHOP fiasco, except in the clothing choices of the security people?
Yes! Snow Crash is exactly what came to my mind when I read this article.
The problem with police today is that there is no single problem with them. They are near-useless for solving crime. They are useless for preventing it. They are bad at dealing with situations that don't require a thug with a gun. Sometimes, they can't follow the law, while trying to enforce it. Other times, they enforce something that is not the law. Sometimes, they ignore dangerous, illegal behaviour. Sometimes, they employ incredibly excessive force to deal with not-dangerous, maybe-illegal behaviour. When they screw up, regardless of how badly they screwed up, it's nearly impossible to hold them accountable for it.

Yes, you can cherry-pick one of those problems, and claim that uber-for-mob-justice will solve it. Will it make any of these other problems worse? Better? Worse for people who can't pay, better for people who can?

I don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good, but I am not particularly impressed by this.
And it finances consumption of products/events that are subject to VAT, sold by companies who pay taxes and employ people, who paid taxes who won’t be a cost for the country if they lose their job …

Yes it’s debt. But its way cheaper than it sounds once the taxes go back and it’s an investment into society and employment.
It is only mandated to connect after a severe crash. It does not have to be always on.
Kind of awesome that Apple hasn't pulled an app that is literally used for committing violence against innocent people but anything pornographic gets banned pretty fast.