skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense on the surface that it may only affect the side of the world "facing the sun" at the time, and if reports were only local it might be hard to find any reports in more sparsely populated areas.

Anytime we look back into history to try to find an event that wasn't noticed at the time we're going to be dealing with spotty records. It's hard enough finding evidence of tsunamis, and this is much less noticeable.
Private citizens don't have qualified immunity though.
Those poor hapless cryptocurrencies, wrongfully accused of murder. I implore my fellow HN participants to please consider the feelings of cryptocurrencies before engaging in vigilante justice against them.

Seriously, maybe some of the criticism of cryptocurrencies here is over the top, but it is not even remotely comparable to what reddit has done.
I don't know, I think billions and trillions of creatures are experiencing happiness and joy too. Especially the birds and the bees in the springtime.
> Rails v5+

Rails v4+ :)

Also, you need to use a thread-based app server like puma. App servers like unicorn do one process per request rather than threading.
http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html has more details directly from the designer.
Electric or not, trucks have been getting so big in recent years it's becoming pretty absurd.
I don’t understand your question. How do people make vaccines and drugs?

By the way, I would like to point out that your ilk have killed a great many people. For decades you have cracked people over the head with the idea that cholesterol is a health outcome and that saturated fat is bad for you. It turns out that cholesterol is a heuristic and that it’s been read wrong to boot. And it turns out saturated fat isn’t just not bad for you, it’s an important part of a healthy diet.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073510972...

Dr. Shawn Baker and Dr. Paul Saladino ate nothing but red meat and saturated animal fat for two years and they had CAC scores of zero. There is testimony that someone’s CAC score went down after cutting out sugar and adding beef tallow.

Can you blame me for resenting the medical establishment?
I just checked again, and thank God, it seems the book "Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics" is in Open Access.
No book has ever can come close to the magnificent exposition of geometry and programming you'll find in it :
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4663/Turtle-GeometryThe-Co...
tl;dr: Taleb argues that there is no correlation between wealth and IQ (which the article accepts), but this article argues that this misses the explanation that this is because plenty of high-IQ people don't prioritize being wealthy. If you instead look at people who prioritize being wealthy, high-IQ people do successfully acquire more wealth because their IQ allows them too -- therefore IQ does matter for wealth.

This is fascinating and a really valuable perspective. Amusingly, it's a case of "causation doesn't imply correlation".

So to draw a further conclusion:

If everyone prioritized wealth equally, then the overall statistics would show higher IQ correlating with more wealth.

Does this actually mean that there's a greater tendency among higher-IQ people to not pursue wealth? E.g. perhaps a larger proportion of middle-IQ people prioritize wealth, while a larger proportion of higher-IQ people prioritize academia or the creative arts or just a healthier work-life balance?
I've not been following along with this topic, apparently it's been a thing for quite a while. The closing paragraph seems to sum up the point of this pretty well. I don't know enough about this topic to pick a side.

"Overall, the fallacy in Taleb’s reasoning is he assumes that everyone is put in the same box regardless of IQ or individual preferences, and outcomes are determined randomly, when that is not the case. People not only have different preferences but are also competing with each other."
I would say the trail was blazed by cities over-correcting from the war on drugs and basically making low-level crime completely unpunished or enforced.
If the "widely apparent increase in police apathy" is what's causing crime to go down, let's get more of it.

If that provokes an increase in vigilantism, then the police will have something to be less apathetic about. Arrest the vigilantes.
>My prediction is someone will go all viligante and beat/maim/kill someone, probably who is innocent. Then the app will get pulled.

That's always been their intention. Well, not to kill anyone, but to track people down. The app was originally called vigilante and Apple pulled it from the app store, so they rebranded and now we have Citizen. Maybe Apple will do it again before anything even worse happens than the recent $30k bounty on an innocent person.
Reminds me of this fantastic short novel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27238610
I wish you were right, but this is unfortunately wrong – and it's not because developers don't know CSS well enough, but rather that CSS is just plain not good enough. And ridiculous new features keep being added to it when we still don't even have some of the necessary primitives that should be there.

As an example, one of the most basic components I can think of is an accordion. You simply can't make one that works in a visually pleasing way (the way most people would expect!) in CSS because you can't animate to or from `height: auto`. The best you can do is some cop-out technique of fading out or squishing the content with `transform` and then having the content that follows it do an immediate jump up/down.

Instead, animating an accordion that actually animates the layout around it smoothly absolutely does require JavaScript, to tell CSS what non-auto values it needs to animate to and from.

And that's just the most basic component I can think of!

Another example: anchoring one element to another, when those elements don't have a parent-child relationship. Think tooltips. This requires JavaScript to measure the anchor element's position on every goddamn frame and keep the other one in sync, when the layout engine already has all the necessary information and could easily be built into CSS.
You nailed it.

There are a good number of legitimate uses and legitimate users for these vehicles (I know a lot of legitimate users), but the vast majority of the giant vehicles on the road have only 1 visible occupant and no visible cargo.

And although I am doubtless projecting, I can't help but envision a fresh hot latte in their cupholder, which the driver is on their way back from procuring.
Having touched adjacent technologies to this as well, I could not shake the feeling that text editing on the web, and WYSIWYG text editors especially, would be very well served by some sort of common understanding and agreement of output given certain inputs. As alluded to in the article, the devil really is in the details in this domain. When one knows what to look for, most rich text inputs really miss the mark in understanding intent and doing something reasonable on behalf of the users.

An interesting example is the recent trend to start interpreting selection of text + pasting of a link as "turn this text into a link using the URL in the clipboard". It just makes complete sense. When would I ever want it to be "please delete the selection, and instead paste the URL"? Probably not very often. This is just one tiny example, but there are lots and lots of those in text editing.

My gut feeling is a lot of the time this is all left to individual engineers to try to decipher the user intent; I would assume for the most part they either copy their peers or do a best effort guess.

What if there was some sort of test suite one could run instead? Like a large number of test cases built upon interactions with actual users.
Could also be used to organize a revolutionary movement to overthrow a local government.
Any experience working remote there. I imagine if you can earn a six-figure salary as a digital nomad but keep your monthly expenses to less than $1,500 you'd be able to retire within a decade.

I've seen the rat race to the top, but aside from taking some shallow pride in making a lot of money I don't really see the point.
"I got a rental car recently and they gave me a bright red pickup because it was the fastest option. I was surprised by the good vibes I got from all the other pickup drivers, lol. It's like I got inducted into a secret club for a day with a lot of waves and thumbs up."

That's interesting ...

Our ranch truck is a "work truck"[1] - basically a fleet vehicle, colored white, with an 8 foot bed.

I get no vibes at all :)

[1] Silverado 1500 with no options.
Go to an airshow and take pictures. Most of them will be awful. Taking pictures of aircraft that are miles up in the sky is not easy for an amateur photographer, even today with better cameras most people are relying on digital zoom instead of optical zoom.

Anyhow -most- of the photos taken from US Aircraft are clearly balloons, some consumer but most spying; it's a huge intelligence failure that these incidents aren't reported to the higher ups when -most- of it is clearly enemy spying. The War Zone did a few good pieces on this.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31151/area-51-veteran-...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...

As for the super high speed phenomena being observed, I have serious doubts that it is an adversary given US defense spending, so they are either secret projects or something beyond. The article (from NRO) claims the fast objects are distorted by a parallax effect but seem to ignore the radar signature showing similar speed to what is visually observed...not the speed of a bird or a balloon.

The theories in this NRO are pretty laughable to be perfectly honest in regards to some of the cases that are clearly not commercial aircraft, birds, etc as the author claims. Clearly making a joke out of what is possibly a serious national security issue in regards to enemy spying, especially. The Drive (War Zone) write ups take the issue far more seriously, and rightfully so, I'd recommend them.
This isn't surprising to me. In India a lot of state governments are sending covid pill packs to citizens which really don't do anything for covid and contain things like hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, zinc, other steroids, and other blood thinners.

even the AIMS protocol doesn't recommend against drugs and techniques that the rest of the world has rejected almost a year ago. My partner treats covid in the US and has been doing consults to patients in India. Most of their work is telling patients to ignore the pills their doctors or government has been sending, although they rarely listen.

I wouldn't be surprised if a large chunk of the covid negative or mild covid population is on steroids.
It's arguably a proto-RISC architechture (eg ADD has to be coded explicitly from CLC and one or more ADC, register file is memory locations 00-FF, etc), but it has little to do with ARM.
Does the fastcompany article title “The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs” make an undue spectacle of the designer being female? I think titles like these imply that it’s so shocking that a female inspired Jobs and/or did supercomputer design work that her name & individual identity matter less than her gender. They should just put Tamiko Thiel in the title.
I liked this line in that article:

"For example, Ford sells both the Focus, a mid-size car that gets 31 mpg on highways, and the F-150, a midsize truck that gets 25 mpg on highways."

I mean, just think about how similar those numbers are given the vehicles. Pretty wild.
This is just fuel to stir the right wing into more conspiracy theories, except this one is true: the government is closely monitoring everything they do online in order to profile them and put them on “high risk” lists so that they can potentially step in and “correct their decisions” if they get scared. Is the solution really to make their feelings of persecution worse? The USA tried that in the Middle East and it just gets dramatically worse every 5-10 years
Hyperinflation is a nasty feedback loop. News is one important control valve to keep it from going haywire.

What do you think they're going to say? Do you think they try to reassure people that there isn't a reason to fear inflation?
Most of this is perceived bullshit. As the gap between working class and affluent people widens, you have a layer of professionals with money looking for stuff to do.

Those folks have a tendency to want to separate themselves from the dirty masses. (Ie gated community) It’s what you did after you sell the family factory business in Ohio and move to Florida or wherever.

Building security theatre was accelerated driven by 9/11 paranoia and federal standards.
Cops have legal protections that let them get away with murder when nobody else would.

Some might see that as a downside when selecting who you want providing your security.

Instead of comlaining about private security forces, why not fix policing in this country so that it actually makes people feel safer?
Ark's Cathie Wood Says Bitcoin Will Still Hit $500k
Big Foot/Yeti are bears walking bipedally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vqI_jC_qcY

It looks a lot more humanoid or ape-like when the bear is far away or the resolution is grainy.
I am still looking for the equivalent of Visual Basic for making modern Web and mobile apps.

It is exciting that we might finally be getting there!
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> I doubt that will ever happen in America. America is way too organized and professional of a government to ever let things get that out of hand.

This seems written from the perspective of someone who has just come back from a six month vacation during which they had no access to news.

> I've heard that Columbia is a pretty nice place to visit these days

There is literally a country-wide revolt taking place in Colombia (correct spelling) at the moment, with some of the worst police violence the country has experienced in years.
> (And they're [Mozilla] not doing as good a job with security+privacy, really, either, compared to properly configured Chromium.)

Anecdotally, I feel that the quickly growing number of websites that complain that Firefox is an "ad blocker" with an unconfigured, out of the box default install seems to imply Mozilla is doing a great job with respect to security+privacy.

> Mozilla isn't leading the way on web standards anymore.

All the way back to the IE3-6 era, Mozilla has never been about "leading" web standards. IE3-6 lead web standards. Mozilla's role in web standard has almost always largely been about curtailing the excesses of whoever is currently leading, and keeping standards fair, safe, "quality" over quantity.

It's not Mozilla's job to keep up with ~IE6~ Chromium, it's their job to keep Google from spinning web standards out of control. To keep Chromium from being IE6 2.0. To keep Google from just defining all the standards in ways that make Google happy but maybe aren't great long term for the health/safety of the web. It's Mozilla's job to slow Chromium down, and the fact that people are complaining "Firefox isn't keeping up" with Chrome's non-standards and in general that they are losing that battle in mainstream browser usage isn't at all great for the web. (The last time something like this happened was IE6. Whether or not Chromium is the "New IE6" will take a while to play out, but we're deep into the IE6 playbook at this point and anyone not seeing parallels either doesn't remember the early years of IE6 well or has too high of an opinion of Google.)
I don't think people realize how expensive pickup trucks are. The 2021 F-150 Platinum Trim you mentioned starts at $59,110 - these are luxury vehicles.
>Trucks get shitty gas mileage and potentially cause more wear and tear on the public roads, and are definitely not good for the environment.

The Model X weighs more than a standard F-150. It technically does more damage to the roads than F-150s do.
I used to work with a guy who said "Friday is for big thoughts". I live by that now, and each week I don't do much actual work on Friday, instead opting to think about the work I did earlier in the week, and to intentionally think about what I'll do the following week.
This question (your last sentence) has been asked and answered. Basically because the window of opportunity is open now and may only be open for a short time. If we wait, we may lose the chance.
Where are the benchmarks?
Community based policing, cops on neighborhood patrols, has been on the decline for years.

Police funding is now more often used to to acquire military weapons/hardware.

"Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" is a highly recommended study of this problem.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Ameri...
All you youngsters don't remember the 90s.

Waco Siege, Oklahoma City Bomber, North Hollywood shootout, Ruby Ridge. Columbine. Gang warfare.

Before "Terrorists" were dudes from the Middle East, "Terrorism" were religious cults, anti-government forces, and bank-robbers who had huge-ass weapons. Domestic terrorism was way scarier, even as Al-Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center the 1st time in the early 90s, the other domestic events overtook our mindset.

Now that Middle-East terrorism (ISIS, Al Qaeda, etc. etc.) seem to be on the decline (knock on wood), I'm not surprised to see the pendulum swing back to domestic terrorism.
Yep, I quit my job in tech and just do whatever I want currently. I may take another regular job, I may not. I'd hardly even call what I do now "work," although I am still actively investing.
> Not sure how a ruby version manager in rust will help - the only thing that's slow with asdf-ruby is building any given version of ruby

Worth noting that there are benefits to doing a CLI in Rust other than raw processing speed:

1) Type system

2) Compared with C/C++:

2a) Safety

2b) Trivial cross-platform builds with no runtime dependencies

2c) Stellar package ecosystem to build on, including powerful CL arguments handling

3) Compared with interpreted languages

3a) No runtime dependencies

3b) Fast cold-start because it's a native binary

Of course none of these makes it the automatic winner, and several don't really apply when compared to shell scripts. But the type safety does, and another big one that comes to mind is trivial Windows support, which from a quick glance asdf doesn't seem to have.
I wonder how they perceive those that don’t partake in social media.
This is a major part of the problem in these debates. People don't measure or argue from what they can't see. We often imagine issues as scalars, when more often they are a single knob on a complex machine, most of which is invisible to even the best informed people.
> I have not looked into this aspect in detail, but expect that production could be sped up considerably if need be

This sort of ignorance is just sad.

No, there is no way "that production could be sped up considerably if need be". None.

And lead times are actually counted in years.
While the national trend is downward, the trend in San Francisco is upward, which likely colors the perceptions on this messageboard:

https://sfgov.org/scorecards//public-safety/violent-crime-ra...

The upward trend is apparent in linear statistics despite a large drop during the COVID-19 pandemic. That said, I do find it hard to believe that people being angry about crime could conceivably coincide with a decrease in the probability an individual crime is reported. Among other cities I checked, Portland also shows an increase, while NYC, Seattle, LA, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta and Boston show declines.
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queue the "if we save only 1 child, its worth it" theme music as well.
There's a new(ish) editor called Xi that's built on the rope data structure: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
The same goes for Mars then too, right?
The stats are not helped when police declines to take a report or even come out in Seattle when people steal your bikes or put tents on your front yard.
I wonder what Citizen would do if someone activated the “protect” application during a wrongful use of force incident by police?
The low-codeness is certainly impressive. Judging from the sample app though, Flutter still has a long way to go in terms of native look-and-feel (on iOS at least).
This guide doesn't have any exercises. There are a handful of "check your understanding" multiple-choice quizzes, but what's really needed are "make it look like this" interactive assignments.

For that, I strongly recommend "Flexbox Zombies" and "Grid Critters" by Mastery Games. They're good games, and excellent educational resources for learning CSS layout.

https://flexboxzombies.com/p/flexbox-zombies
https://gridcritters.com/
It is a giant red flag to hear someone talk about requests per day. A day has 86,400 seconds. If you had 3 million requests in a day, that's only 35 per second on average.

If you had 20 instances, that is under 2 requests per second per instance.

I don't know what each request does of course, but it might be worth asking if each one should really take a billion clock cycles to complete.
This is how life is in basically every Central and South American city, in my experience.

As soon as a family has some relatively small amount of wealth they will spend it on ultra-secure apartment buildings, tall walls around their house, razor-wire walls and fences, full coverage security cameras and intruder detection, etc.
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Which properties define that category?
Edit: the weak and frail, the ones with multiple comorbidities (avg 4)? The ones that are vulnerable for any virus in general?
I dont think it matters.

What matters is that people are voting with their wallets.

People need a solution to rampant crime. Take for example SA, where private security forces are widespread.

The degree of deleriction of duty by public servants has been tremendous in the last 2 years. The NYC Major recently was on the record stating that "there is no security problem in NYC" meanwhile official City hall communication channels have implemented a buddy system where city hall employees can home in groups [1]

If public servants can't provide security for people, there should not be a surprise that the private servicers would emerge.

[1]https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-city-hall-employee...
I suspect the rise of Discord, Matrix etc has done more to drain people from IRC than this kerfuffle.
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It's what happens when you defund the police instead of reforming the police.
I’m homeless in SF and have had the feeling that something like this exists for about a year. Used to be in big tech, might’ve pissed people off with my mouth. I draw diagrams of how electronic harassment sustems could be implemented on my IG. Living in public isn’t scary on its own (1,085 nights), but apps like this are.
I don't get why it is considered useful to denigrate hobbyists to score internet points.

If you regularly get paid to do something, it is your job.

Maybe you are good at your job. Maybe you are not. Maybe some people think you are and others think you aren't.

If you do something without getting paid to do it, it is likely a hobby.

Maybe you are good at your hobby. Maybe you are not. Maybe some people think you are and others think you aren't.

I get paid to create, update, and maintain software. That is my job. If I'm doing my job poorly, that does not make me a "hobbyist". It makes me someone who does his job poorly.

One of my hobbies is playing guitar. And no matter how good I get at playing, until the day someone pays me to play the guitar, I'm still a hobbyist.

There are many hobbyist guitarists whose musical skill level is equal to or greater than the skill level of professional guitarists. And while you may sometimes hear a talented hobbyist guitarist lament that some untalented guitarist became wealthy playing simple songs, it would never make sense to anyone to claim that the 3 chord playing rock star could or should be denigrated by labeling him a "hobbyist".
Companies need a mindset shift on employee health