skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t most of rails performing blocking operations. And as such, the numbers you stated above don’t hold true.

The better graph to look at is the “Blocking Benchmark”, which shows all backends performing (equally) poorly.
Good question. How many hackers send me malware via email? Every day. How many hackers send me a thumb drive? Zero.

The thing is, thumb drives cost money, and mailing things cost money. Mass hack attacks rely on not costing the attacker any money.
That will probably not happen.

The mentality is extremely different, you do at home what you can, to the maximum.
Don’t compare leaking someone’s email with disappearing their whole life savings.
> I’m pretty sure this is the kind of attitude that causes rural folks to be so skeptical of climate change

I didn't mention rural truck drivers and made no comment that could reasonably be interpreted as such. If you have to deal with corrugated dirt roads and hauling materials etc on a daily basis then it's perfectly understandable you won't exactly be driving a hatchback.

> I mean, it sounds like your real reservation about trucks is not that they emit carbon, but that they are hogging up space and inconveniencing you, which is not a very persuasive argument.

Or, numerous city and urban commuting giant truck drivers is an effective image of the ridiculous excess they represent in the vast majority of their uses whereas carbon is a less visible but extremely negative externality from that excess.

/s But yes, those that point out this are the real problem.
So maybe it should be limited to certain industries, like low skilled laborers and not white collar office jobs
Flyway seems like a startup offering a hosted service, so it might be a strange comparison. But if you are familiar with it and care to submit a PR, I'd accept it!
Wouldn't just buying a truck for the company be cheaper than a whole employee?
> assumption that every single contributor is honest.

There is no such assumption and it has been well known for a long time that such an assumption would be harmful.

> if all it takes is a couple grad students and an assistant prof to get them in

There were 0 malicious commits that made it through the review process (since the paper was incompetent as well as unethical.)

You seem to be missing some basic facts here. Filling in those gap would help you partipate more productively in the conversation.
Then UTF-8 should not be operated on directly. When reading from a file etc., first decode the input into an internal string format that has straight-forward linear access to each gc boundary.
I'd like to see some actual data rather than some handy-wavy bullet points speculating on what maybe could be the case.
Why care about any of this? Someone is trying very hard to push a narrative, why? Best to just ignore this noise.
Religion requires penance, and there's no penance in a non-believer buying a quality product that they like based solely on its merit per value.

If someone's not buying their EV out of a sense of guilt (for the original sin that is exhaling CO2), then how are they supposed to exploit that guilt into other forms of behavioral modification?
Nobody works entirely by themselves. They always rely on a village, family, spouse, etc.
Can those things be had cheaper, while being guaranteed interoperable and directly integrated into a trusted hardware security enclave without any further integration headaches?
There's a sort of never ending hysteria (I've heard it for decades) about brain-brain supposedly caused by taxes, administration, « backwards French culture » and basically any other liberal fever dream stuff you can pin on a country.

But in reality French people more or less emigrate the least in Europe.
Could be worse, Ticketmaster would probably add a $15 fee on top of the $5 ticket. Then, buy them all out themselves, and sell them back at highly inflated prices.
Yeah...this advice isn't really helpful for people who can't just take off for months (parents, people taking care of sick family members, etc.).

I think it's less about getting away physically, and more about getting away psychologically. Traveling is one way to do that, but there are also many ways to do that without skipping town.
I'll note that the SVG image on that page has a specifically empty <title /> tag. Not a missing one, but one that is intentionally empty.

This is the way accessibility alt text should be provided with an SVG and highlights that even the simplest things are easier said than done.
What are you arguing happened instead? That they closed still-profitable stores just to send a message?
But what about when entire municipal police forces are privatized?
The problem is, this is all marketing, and pricing it lower than Tesla is just a head-turner for the press, not the average citizens that actually buy these things. The base model F150 the low-end of the Lighting line compares to is only $28,940. That's $10,000 less than the electric model. Most consumers are not going to be buying a base model and dealers rarely carry them on their lots. So, the realistic starting point for these is most likely going to be around $50k. Slap on top of that the $10k to $20k dealers are currently getting above MSRP and this will be out of reach for most people.
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Trump supporters love lotteries apparently
Here we go, they flood the news channels to distract people from the actually relevant stuff which we are not supposed to see.
The threat by invisible enemies is a clever meme, hopefully more people are going to understand that.
> Having lived next to a boat launching area, I can tell you an average inexperienced driver is pretty likely to make an expensive mistake with a trailer.

As a kid we would sit down at our neighborhood landing in the summer and watch boat launches for entertainment. I saw at least 2 cars get submerged, people run into each other, many many fist fights. Prior to allowing me to pull our trailer, my dad made me back up (with trailer attached) in circles and figure 8s in a parking lot and then in and out of the driveway many times. Showing up to busy landing on summer holiday is NOT the time to learn how to back down a trailer.
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Someone always suggests this, or something along these lines... but there's no evidence that people are actually distracted by this to the exclusion of all other concerns. It's a minor story for the vast majority of people.
I don't think CSS has any particular preference, which is why there's so many different ways to approach these problems. But I do agree, I don't think I've ever worked on a BEM codebase that didn't end up messy, and the disciplined approach almost always means making tons of small naming/organization decisions as you code, which is tiring and difficult to maintain.

People scoff at CSS-in-JS and atomic approaches like Tailwind (although Tailwind seems to get a lot of support around these parts now!), but I've really come to see the value in side-stepping these issues entirely.
I think you are resting your argument on the assumption that a large lithium battery pack is a damaging thing then. I would then ask if there is any evidence behind this assumption.
Thank you! What a breath of fresh air this essay is.

Accessibility is ability to access, regardless of method, configuration, and skill.

Telling the user their browser, device, or configuration is not good enough, in a situation where you could have bent over backwards a little bit and made it work for them, is hobbyism, I agree completely.

If a device is able to connect to your site and request the page, you should be able to accomodate it, regardless of age, configuration, CLOCK SETTING, and so on.

ANY BROWSER is not a pipe dream, but an attainable reality, and just plain nice and polite.

I've been able to almost single-handedly achieve support for all major browsers since Netscape 2.x, so I don't think it's beyond someone like Google to achieve the same. It makes me feel embarrassed for everyone involved when google.com search results are broken in a browser less than 10 years old.
Netflix reportedly considering an expansion into the video games industry
> Though how sure were you that it was Chrysler that sent you that USB stick?

For the same reason you never get malware USB sticks in the mail to stick into your computer. It costs money.
Getting the best price from a car dealer isn't that hard, you just have to be prepared.
1. Decide on the vehicle you want.
2. Research the options and shop around for pricing.
3. Find the bank with the best auto rates and get pre-approved.
4. Visit a dealer and make them an offer.
5. If the dealer balks then just leave.
6. Visit another dealer and make them the offer.
7. Leave this dealer too.
8. Tell each dealer that the other offered you a better price.
9. Repeat, using other dealers if needed, until you get the price you want or the best you can find.
10. Take the best deal, use your own financing, don't take any dealer options or add-ons.
Citizen is a dystopian app. It's like the worst elements of the boston bombing reddit fiasco packaged into a for profit application. The CEO offered a $30k bounty for a random homeless person just a few days ago:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447446/citizen-app-inte...
Pinkerton, rebranded.
Was gonna say I feel like I've seen this posted on HN a few times now
But in that case the government paid a single company for protection. In the private market there will be competition for security services.
Imagine thieves calling different private forces to confront "fake" security guards. Like that guy who asked construction workers from craiglist to meet with him next to the bank, but now with guns involved.
Overseas where?
No, getting away physically definitely has an impact that can’t be achieved without physically leaving.
HN loves to sneer at reddit, but reddit (and HN) is just a microcosm of humanity. If you want to see groupthink/mobs on here, enter any thread about the benefits or drawbacks of cryptocurrencies.
This seems like the most important context. Citizen is quite explicitly a vigilante app that promotes vigilantism. The CEO seems to have only pivoted long enough for market traction and still wants to return to the original goal.

This quote could not be any clearer:

> “This is a great transition of Citizen back to active safety. We are not a news company. We are safety and we make this sort of heinous crime impossible to escape from. That needs to be our mindset.”

If this company/CEO isn't stopped, I fear it's only a matter of time before someone (or many someones) gets hurt. Most likely because they "fit the description".
Yeah, but it's not like the drivetrain of an F150 is light. A fully dressed Coyote V8, 10R80, driveshaft, differentials, subframes, exhaust, gas tank (with fuel), radiator & supports, fuel lines, etc, etc add up. So the batteries weight 1800 lbs, but your also removing like 1400lbs of stuff. It's pretty likely that the Lightning will weight in at barely more than a hybrid F150, and the lower range F150s, when introduced, will probably weight the same as the ICE versions.

A little appreciated fact is that a Model 3 and a Mustang have the exact same weight ranges: the SR RWD Model 3 weights about what a ecoboost Mustang does, and a GT500 Mustang is actually about 200lbs heavier than a Model 3 AWD LR Performance.
Most pickup trucks are not going to be cheaper than the A3. A3's are not especially expensive if you factor out maintenance costs, and pickup trucks are inordinately expensive due to high demand in the US, plus dealers refusing to carry very many of the cheapest trim models for sales (unless doing a bulk deal for work fleet sales). Yes, in theory, an F-150 starts at 28K MSRP vs 32k for an A3...but good luck finding a new F-150 for 28k out the door.

That said, as a former A4 owner, towing 1000+kg with an A3 seems like a death wish to me.
You're being down voted for this comment, and perhaps you could have worded it differently, but the core of your message seems completely reasonable:

If you don't want to do something, you ask somebody else, if you both agree to the terms and costs you have a deal.

The world can be, how should I put this, difficult a place.

The contracted party might agree to not mention you. Something like: hey, I live across the street, would you mind letting me know if you're going to have music late at night because I'll just stay at my partner's place that evening, here's my number. No sweat, have a good night, here's a complimentary six pack.

It doesn't take a lot of imagination to assume the best possible reading of a comment like yours.

Have a lovely day.
dam! thats great. thank you
For people who find this terrifying and asking how can anything like this exist in a civil society, maybe start with their list of VC investors [0]? Sequoia Capital is ranked very prominently among them.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/citizen-d7ce/company...
It depends what you mean by safety net. Certainly most folks on HN have the safety net of being able to return to work fairly easily whenever they might choose to, including finding remote work.

If you mean "individual healthcare in the US is expensive", I absolutely agree. Assuming you are otherwise healthy, catastrophic health insurance might be worth looking into (I have never tried it myself). Another option would be to travel internationally, because travel insurance (or even the cost of private care) in most other countries is going to be much cheaper than a domestic health plan.
You forget that the value of crypto is not the technology, but the social network behind it. You can of course fork anything, but that doesn't mean because you have the same tech, you have the same value.
The "tic tac" Nimitz incident (not a video) was confirmed by radar, most of other military sightings were too. This would disprove the visual effect explanation as set forth in the article. Military experts have studied these and said these objects exceed our understanding of physics. There is only one explanation: an extraterrestrial origin.
When I lived in the UK I mostly did contract work and would regularly take a few months off between contracts. I usually found I'd start to get bored after about 3 months and look for work again. Exception to this was when I went travelling and took about eight months off.

Having now worked full time for almost a decade after moving to the US, I decided to take some time off earlier this year. Bit more complex with COBRA continuation health insurance in the US. It's been almost four months so far and I am not missing work at all yet. Figured I'll probably look for something new after the summer.

So long as you can afford it, only downside I can see to taking an extended break now that things are reopening again in the US is that international travel seems likely to remain limited for a while.
A good article, which shows that even plain text editing (without any formatty) is already way more complex than a layperson may appreciate.

For the developer, there are some gems to be discovered when writing a text editor; recall that using regular expressions coverted to finite state machines saw the light as part of editing, and I remember being given a very cool paper (from the 1960s!) by my undergrad compiler construction professor that proposed an efficient algorithm for testing whether a string containing a line of text can possibly be a substring of any valid Pascal program (it was a piece of theory invented while and for a syntax-aware Pascal editor, possibly from IBM but not sure). Another thing is data structures: I learned of ropes, an alternative to strings for representing text (optimized for fast editing) in the context of text editing: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/spe.4380251203
I have yet to discover a more-than-default-repository setup that is straightforward when using artifactory.
Yes, I recall a comedian saying that about driving on the highway, people who drive slower than him are idiots, and people who drive faster than him are nuts.
> There seems to be a cult of proof of stake haters with basically no deep knowledge of the consensus mechanism who bash it with increasingly inane arguments.

It’s not hard to see why: it’s an existential treat to Bitcoin that’s becoming more plausible every day. If PoS is proven to work at scale (e.g. with Eth2), it’s over, the energy usage of PoW will be unjustifiable. Disclaimer: I own a bit of BTC and ETH (50/50).
Check out the book "The most dangerous superstition" by Larken Rose. You should be able to find a PDF version online for free.
The irony in this is that the imaging for subaru outbacks is "the car of choice for gays and lesbians." It's not just pickups that have associations with them.
I wonder if it's possible to arbitrage this
Do you work on your own accord then and do not need to subject yourself to a boss?
We're not talking about buying a 50 year old corvette now vs when it was new, we're talking about buying a new corvette now vs a new corvette 50 years ago.

And it doesn't matter if a car enthusiast doesn't care about safety features, if the manufacturer is required to put them in, and they cost money to add, then they affect the price all the same.

Also I used to drive a corvette. It's actually a remarkably practical car for its category - not insanely expensive, low maintenance costs, and good lifetime. It's hardly a super-car intended for a small niche audience (though admittedly not a workhorse).
Ok, and if your neighbor tells your security dude to get lost, what happens then?

(Assume everyone involved is armed)
OP specifically said "everywhere". There are surely places where crime is rising. And in all likelihood, the causes will vary with the location, and so must the solutions.

I do believe that it's quite likely that people are angry "everywhere". And much of that has to do with people focusing on being mad about places where the do not live -- not because they're angry on their behalf but because they've been seeking out things to be mad about.
> Though the healthcare reform feels conspicuously absent from the current agenda.

That leaves free daycare and some unspecified improvement to ‘schools’. I’m sure they are part of the platform and I’m sure they are trying to allocate money to some unspecified implementation, but those are pretty muted and low on the list it seems.
Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that I really have no clue what you're suggesting here as a potential external benefit. The external costs are well documented, but I don't understand what you are trying to say is the unaccounted for benefit.

If you think that those things are more valuable than what fossil fuels charge you right now, shouldn't you call up your utility and offer to pay more?

What sense of "value" are you using here? I like to live, so I find food to be a great thing, so perhaps in one sense the value of food is infinite, but in a much more useful sens of value I pay something that it much closer to the cost to provide it than how much I would theoretically pay if my choice were to go without.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/opinion/economy-inflation...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/opinion/us-inflation-stim...

Krugman has been writing and tweeting about it for the last year. You should be aware of that if you read him.

Even the libertarian Cato Institute surrendered a year ago:
https://www.cato.org/blog/return-inflation-mongers

> where it does not belong

Except that we had a near decade of hysterics from the right after 2008 about bailout and money supply and hyperinflation just-around-the-corner and a decade of Krugman ranting about them. “It” belongs everywhere and has for decades now.

I realize many “libertarians” are frustrated now that Republicans went full metal Keynesian when their guy was in power during Covid. But expecting Krugman of all people to be unbiased non-partisan is bizarre.

What drives lbertarians crazy is that Krugman was right all along. He and Paul McCulley called Greenspans bubble, called the hysteria after 2008 what it was and he’s probably right now (if you actually read him, you would know that he has inflation concerns).
Prions are dangerous but unlike fungi they remain rare. Mercifully.
Everyone deserves a good sneer now and then but I come to HN because people generally look closer / think about second order effects and so on.

Reddit generally not at all.
On the other hand he can actually take off and go wherever he wants thanks to his American passport.
Well, you could buy an aftermarket stereo with Bluetooth then. Something that's not integrated in any way with the rest of the car other than power.
There is still so much open space to build cities, but everyone seems to want to live in the existing ones.
Not sure about others, but DeepSpeech also distributes a "lite" model that's much smaller and suitable for mobile devices. Not sure how its accuracy compares to the full model though.
Or for an example that caused a lot more havoc comparatively: WebSQL.
There's no reason to trust Apple. Numerous reasons to be on guard about any assumption relating to this company. From fading and variable service, quality of deliverables, security oversights, repair relationships and one sided contracts, use of vendors and stewardship of user data in China, ethical and legal positions with respect to taxation, privacy and due process there is absolutely no reason to trust Apple or their products. From the use of my phone and laptop taking weeks to repair and being unavailable to compromising messaging and data on the device or in the cloud. Apple and its products create a centralized area of exposure where their incentives and position are increasingly one-sided. Federal oversight is lacking and appropriate competition is as well.
> This is exactly how gangs and mob enforcement happens. Organization of people whom are more than willing to create their own physical enforcement outside of the restrictions of the law go out and "protect" for money. And then organize to become both the perpetrator and the defender.

When the law decides it is not interested in protecting the citizens you bet this is going to happen.

My block has been invaded by the drug dealers as of last summer. Not 1. Not 2. But between a dozen and two dozen at a time. They are selling drugs openly on a street so brazen that the people who live here have to walk through the drug deals being done on a sidewalk to get to their apartments. Apartments with rents ranging from $1900 to $6000 a month. Cops don't do anything because the city management frowns upon it. We had five shootings over the past 12 months. If there was a way for us to pay for our own thugs to ensure the drug dealers moved to a different block $200-$500/mo per apartment I'm absolutely sure everyone who lives around here would sign up for it.
Try reading the paper. They address that.
It’s just awful product in terms of UX (devx).

That’s partially the reason why people misusing it.
Sorry, wasn't meaning to be rude but the title of the post implied there was some insights being shared. Instead, it was telling us that SQLite has WAL mode, and that it should be used.

There was nothing there that actually talked about issues or lessons from working with it.

What did that post tell us about that this one doesn't: https://sqlite.org/wal.html

Edit: instead of drive-by downvotes, what about giving me a counter example that shows that the article is worthy of being on the front page of HN?
You pulled the text straight out of my mind...

Eventually I had to turn to self-directed unpaid development in order to do work I wasn't ashamed of.
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