skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is a total misread of the comment you're responding to.

They're attempting to explain people's mindset, and you've quoted general statistics in response.

When someone has their car stolen, they do not take solace in the fact that, in aggregate, less people in America overall are getting their cars stolen. There is no comfort in this issue generally improving and that they were just unlucky.

Instead, they are responding to the widely apparent increase in police apathy towards enforcing the law against these criminals for these property crimes.

Policing criminals is not just about decreasing statistical crime. It is also about holding together the contract of society where people should not seek their own justice independently. Why? Because historically, people seeking their own justice (aka vigilantism) often do it in an unbalanced and usually cruel manner.

We trust in the state to act fairly and justly when we are wronged by another. Otherwise why should we not seek to harm those who have harmed us? This is the balance that is upset by the perception that the state is not performing its duty to enact justice on all wrongdoings, no matter how they less often they are happening.
And the splitting of the population continues
I'd suggest that if they had clear images, they would be less likely to be "unidentified" flying objects, and then identified as mundane things. Like a known object with some unexpected angle or optical illusion making it appear to do "impossible" things, or a sensor artifact or interference. Or a combination.
I tried docker (both debian version of Dockerfile), building from scratch, none of them work.
Agreed on the one way flight and immigration. Just book a separate fully refundable flight out of the country, within the required time frame (most countries it's 90 days). You pay extra for fully refundable, but you're not going to use it so it doesn't matter.

Luckily, the most skeptical country to enter as a "traveller with no plans" is the US, so if you're starting here you don't have anything to worry about. Many countries you can go through immigration without even talking to an officer these days (assuming you have proof of onward travel).
Yes, governments and elites often make terrible mistakes about monetary and fiscal policy. But it's also important to recognize that the rules of a monetary system controlled by an algorithm are not derived from incontrovertible laws of space-time, they are created by an organization of people. Those rules will have implicit assumptions about society and power that may not hold true in 10, 50, or 100 years. It may also be unable to respond to changing real-world conditions. For example, if we find that aliens are about to blow up the earth, some flexibility in the money supply may be beneficial to redirect capital to planetary defense. "The elites may make bad decisions in the future" is not a convincing argument to me, because they also may make good decisions in the future. I think it's important for society (and money) to be agile in the face of tough decisions.
Jane Goodall – Templeton Prize
The perpetual motion machines are indeed a bad metaphor.

But the question which fork will prevail a valid one. If you had stake in ETH and ETC, why would abandon one over the other? How many forks till trust evaporates?
Joke right? Cause what you suggest is straight the fsck old-school gangster.
I guess it just depends on what your app does. At my previous job we were serving several million requests/day off about 15-20 rails instances on heroku
I think it’s worth worrying about if it’ll majorly damage the entire world’s ability to function. Even the gas pipeline hack and airline computer systems issues are causing mayhem so something larger would be very detrimental to our digital society and we should plan accordingly.
Not often, but maybe when its parent company goes through a merger and the head of staff makes a public announcement saying "the freenode project will continue being part of and having access to support from the Imperial Family Companies (formerly London Trust Media Holdings (LTMH))." [1]

Since I believe freenode to be completely community-owned apart from some holding company that's supposed to host a conference, at that point I might check our WHOIS records and maybe our own policies [2] and question who I'm actually volunteering for.

[1]: https://freenode.net/news/freenode-pia-changes

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180606130945/https://freenode....
As someone who has cut themselves off from most news outside of HN, is this article actual news or is this just a website trying to stir the pot for clicks
Yeah, EVs emit a really annoying sound. You don't really notice as a driver rolling around with the windows up, but when you pull one into a garage with the windows down, you hear that "WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOWOWOWOWOOWEEEEEEERRRRR" echoing all over.
One interesting aspect of WebP support (or lack thereof) is that it doesn't work in Slack or Discord, even when those are running in a supported browser. I think things like this are inhibiting adoption of newer formats.
I think that the argument is that people who hold enough ETH could fraudulently give themselves more ETH and then take over all the ETH.

Which, yeah, I can believe that a 51% attack could destroy a proof-of-stake system even more spectacularly than it could a proof-of-work system. But I'm not sure why I should care? Spectacularly destroyed, astoundingly destroyed, stupendously destroyed. . . regardless of the adverb, it's still been destroyed.
Physics hasn't even conclusively explained the Hessdalen Lights, and those are relatively easy to research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessdalen_lights

The suggestion that "physics has already explained this" is unscientific wishful thinking when applied to more obscure phenomena with less available data.
Your developers aren't embarrassed of their own work and stick around longer :)
When I lived in Texas I didn't need a truck all the time. But when I did, it was critical.

I found that since I didn't need it most of the time the Home Depot Truck Rental for a couple of hours shifting freezers, flooring and other bulky items worked out well for me.

Saved on gas all the rest of the time.

But it really requires a Home Depot within 30 mins so not for everyone and if this had been an option, I probably would have just gone for the truck.
> Do you actually ever need to open a new editor? Why not just start whatever editor you want when you boot up, and then open files in it?

Speaking only for myself and not the GP: due to a lifelong habit of putting things away when I'm finished with them, I always close windows and quit applications when I'm done using them for my current task.

> You probably don't shut down and start up your web browser every time you want to open a new site

Not literally every time I visit a new site, but yes, I quit my browser every time I'm finished with my current browsing session, even if I might end up launching it again in 10 minutes for a different reason.
Does your car have an official towing capacity?

In America at least, its rare for a non-SUV or truck to be officially rated for towing. So when you put a trailer on your little sedan and your brakes fail going down a long hill, insurance will have your head.
Synthetic living machines: A new window on life
I'm not sure what to believe but I like to get 2 sides of a story. I found this site very interesting.
https://www.uaptheory.com/
I believe this is extracted from “The Trap.”
Ask HN: Is M1 ready for back end dev work?
Hey HN,

I am switching jobs in 3 months and want to know if M1 is usable by now.

I will be working with Go, TS, Docker, Postgres and AWS mostly.

What are your experiences?
$10k and getting a brand new truck every tax year has to be one of the greatest and most successful "carrot" tax incentives ever conceived of by a government office.
I can see many use cases:
- A woman going home late after a night out needing to walk thru a dangerous neighborhood
- Elderly Asian person who needs to withdraw money from a bank
- Urban photographer who wants to photograph abandoned buildings but is afraid of squatters/gangs
- Woman who needs to go to a heavily-protested abortion clinic
- Owner of a store that is about to get looted in a riot
- Owner of a store who needs security personnel at peak shoplifting hours
- Owner of a late night restaurant who needs security personnel at peak violent drunk people hours
I have always done it, and will continue to do it. It's absolutely essential for my mental sanity and growth as a person.

After I finish a project, I take 1-2-3 years off. During this time, I start working on personal stuff driven by personal needs and interests, and I explore stuff I wouldn't be able to otherwise. Eventually one of these projects turns into something more concrete that's useful to someone else, who then hires me for 1-2-3 years to bring it to production. And the cycle repeats.

I do think things through pretty thoroughly. Even though everything I do is driven by personal needs and interests, I always have a plan about how it could potentially serve someone else, and I always have someone concrete in mind for whom it could be useful. Although I almost never get involved with my original target, and even though what I do turns out to be useful in ways I didn't originally envision, this planning is absolutely critical. As Eisenhower said plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Even though my projects span many layers of technology and abstraction, from firmware, to programming languages and up to pure math, I always have a very clear path in my mind about how they relate in some fundamental way. The lessons I learned in my previous project are always essential for my next one.

My time is very important for me, and I couldn't envision a life spent for someone else. This way not only I can achieve approximativelly 50% personal time, but by construction, when I work for someone else, I am completely interested and totally dedicated. Everybody wins.

Btw, when I say project, I don't mean a product, I mean a project in a very abstract sense, which can either be a product (rarely), a technology (more often), or becoming some expert in some niche.
> I just don't understand why open source software can continue with the assumption that every single contributor is honest

It doesn't. They've been on the lookout since before 2003: https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ (there are other examples, this is just the earliest I know of)

> Apparently, do nothing, and assume that everyone in the world is honest, while writing self-indulgent "public letters" about it?

This sounds overly dramatic which makes discussion difficult. My answer would be that the kernel maintainers have known about this threat vector for a very long time and seem to be doing a reasonable job of repelling it.
For Google sized, obviously not. But lots and lots of production stuff will likely live quite comfortably in 400 writes per second.
Did you ever say such thing to someone who committed an error?
How would you feel if someone (your partner, your colleague, your boss) told you such thing?
Microsoft didn’t invent the operating system, they just captured the market share with network effects before somebody else did. If it wasn’t them, it would have been apple. If it wasn’t apple, somebody else would have raced into the void with dump trucks of Vic money. All things said, we could have done worse than early days Microsoft, although modern Microsoft is all about advertising and tracking
He meant subtitle when he talked of script.
About 1/3 of people who attempt suicide do so in response to an immediate trigger, and if stopped, never try again. That's why immediate intervention has such a good success rate. And that's ignoring the people who are going through a longer term but still temporary (certainly less than a year) struggle.

I think you're assuming "this is when a rational actor would commit suicide". And for some people, e.g. the terminally ill, this is true.
I think a lot of people feel that way.

Am I more likely to have a positive or negative interaction with police? I honestly don't know, and I'm white in a nice area. Crime is low and something like a burglary is extremely unlikely. I think police may be providing an unseen benefit to me by enforcing the law on others - I don't want vehicles doing 50 mph on my residential street, maybe they would without police? Or maybe they wouldn't?

I'm not taking a side on this issue, but I do empathize with those who believe they are unlikely to ever benefit from police presence, and thus don't want to pay for police.
Can you not see that they only just missed out on it? I don't think any 45 year olds are going to be miffed that they didn't get it when they were 18.
Cordyceps: Too clever for their own good
> this advice isn't really helpful for people who can't just take off for months (parents, people taking care of sick family members)

Parents can absolutely do this. Slightly more preparation is required, but much less than most people think.

> I think it's less about getting away physically, and more about getting away psychologically

Was not specified by OP. Getting away physically is by far the most effective way to get away psychologically. If it's not an option (taking care of sick family members etc), then sure - work within your constraints.
Just want to sneak in here to thank you for Tarsnap. It's the best storage service I've ever used!
> Maybe Citizen and NextDoor's adoption is made up. I don't think it is. People are responding to something. It's not racism.

Boredom, I'd venture.
Puccinia and other crop diseases have historically led to a lot more human deaths than any of those other things put together.
The cursor got extremely big (high) and it really bugs me. I don't see a way to change that (yet).

Quick screenshot for comparison:
https://imgur.com/a/o5v8iVx
It's always good to remember that we are not so different from our ancestors. For example, we are very close in time to the people who held the Salem witch trials. What would those same people have done with a high-powered tool that let them find and witch hunt anyone, anywhere on the planet with many more people involved?
I have no horse in this race, but the pros and cons of a technology that is aiming to replace an incumbent that has lasted a century across the globe with millions (billions?) of users and units produced have to be evaluated as a complete system and in many more ways than pure engineering calculations. Fuel production, distribution networks, behavioural science, town planning, etc. were of little to no interest to the scientists you deride, but need to be considered too.
I've always wanted to write my own CSS guide, because (in my experience) people are rarely focused on the right thing when they're writing CSS.

Developers (especially junior) think that if it looks right, that it is right, and they're done. But CSS is not just specifying how something looks, you are also very much specifying visual behavior, not just appearance. Content is dynamic, layouts change at different breakpoints, new elements come and go, another dev comes in and adds something later... you need to account for all of these things.

For example, a developer rotated an element using CSS transform because the library we were using only supported a horizontal layout and not a vertical one. Sure, everything looked right in isolation, but now this element doesn't play nicely with others, because transform only affects the visual position, not the offset position of the element, so all its siblings still think it's horizontal, and they're getting all jumbled together.

Or, using absolute position to, say, anchor a close button to the top right of an element. Sure, the way you did it happened to put it visually in the right spot, but it's not actually in the right spot according to the layout engine because its offset parent is not the element you're trying to anchor it to, so if other content gets put in there eventually, it will be in the wrong spot.

Or, they'll use `line-height` to add space around some copy, without thinking about how that text will now look when wrapped.

So in my opinion, any CSS tutorial worth a damn needs to hammer home that (1) just because it looks right doesn't mean it is right, (2) you can't really ever style an element in isolation, you need to think about how it interacts with its parent and sibling elements, and (3) elements actually have two different positions, one that you see, and a potentially different one for layout.

Knowing those things is key to understanding whether you've designed things "correctly" vs. something that just happens to look right in the moment.

(I've only skimmed this course so far, so I'm not sure whether it satisfies what I want. But I'm hopeful!)
I have seen reports that there were spontaneous fires all over the US midwest, during the event, all reported only locally because nobody collected those stats then.

I don't know why such an event would affect only part of one continent, unless (say) the Earth's field touched down only there and in unpopulated areas.
The linked video in the article showing how a triangle iris creates triangle ufos is brilliant, and seems obvious after you see it.

https://youtu.be/-r2oaQWmqkk

Debunking this stuff is not as exciting as believing in aliens, which is why it’s a never ending battle. But the problem is when people who can make policy get duped.

Again, we need better science education and should demand such for those we elect.
Yeah I was going to go for 16G in 2018 but then didn't find a laptop I actually liked, everything was disappointing (turns out computers just don't get faster anymore, at least not per core, and some of the higher-end stuff didn't have Linux support at all, and not only WiFi drivers or so but actually unbootable or major issues on the latest kernel), so this was kind of an in-betweener while hoping to find something nicer in 3-5 years depending on how well I'd end up liking this one.
Yes I think with the sheer financial scale of the transition to EVs and the resistance from legacy auto and big oil… we are in for an era of manipulative media pieces, agenda-driven science studies, and astroturfing the likes of which the world has never seen.

I just wish people were not so gullible.
Trust is not a binary.

You must trust contributors to your project to some extent. If you don't extend some trust, you can't have contributors. That level of trust is then adjusted off that base level based on experience.

It is perfectly reasonable to drop someone below your base level of trust if they lie to you. This doesn't necessarily mean that the base level of trust needs to be adjusted.

In this case, the review process caught all the known harmful commits (which were from anonymous emails so recieved base level trust) and thus the base line level of trust seems to be working.
Every operating system supports subscribing to file and directory changes. That is how the editor can detect there was a change in the first place.
More expensive than owning a truck.
"domestic extremism" will slowly be defined as anything outside the center left/right consensus of washington. but i guess this is what everyone is begging for so let them have it.
But if anything actually goes wrong they'll hide behind real security - the government and the police.
I'm not claiming that physics has explained this, I'm claiming physics implies that it's astronomically unlikely if not impossible for us to be visited by alien spacecraft.
This presumes that the police ever protected the poor, when the opposite is the case.
> [...]but my friend had no idea the other range was open to him.

This asymmetric information is the intention of the employer, but sadly, in most cases it goes the other way: person gets hired as an SDE 2, but earns less than some/all SDE 1's because they are terrible at negotiating, or their salary history was always below market rate and they do not know it. I'm all for companies paying commensurate salaries and having the flexibility to do so - publishing salaries ranges when posting jobs is orthogonal to that.

> i think it misses some edge cases that are not uncommon.

In your friends case, I hope/wish the law covers that scenario whereby the employer is forced to disclose the range for the upgraded when asked - so that all your friend needed to do was ask.
This. I’m surprised the incorrect suspect isn’t suing for libel/defamation.
Mostly agree with this.

The one think you didn't mention was why you want to or need to take a break. If you are coming from a stressful environment, then your solution might be different. I went through some ecotherapy to destress and recover. If you just have enough money saved up to travel and want to have a fun adventurous time, that is totally different break :)

Whatever you do, have fun at it
To ease that thought each bird that suffers only suffer for itself.
I took a leave-of-absence from work for 6 months and it was great. I recommend taking the first month or so to just reset. Collect all the garbage around you and clean up your life (i.e. "clean your room"), although don't get sucked into some big project. Sleep as long as you can sleep every day and just generally relax, clean up your diet and exercise (just a bit at first!).

Then methodically figure out what you want to do in life and use the dedicated energy you have to create the plan to accomplish those things.
Some people do, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_suffering#Anima... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_animal_suffering
Julia did that for binary dependencies for a few years, with adapters for several linux distros, homebrew, and for cross-compiled RPMs for Windows. It worked, to a degree -- less well on Windows -- but the combinatorial complexity led to many hiccups and significant maintenance effort. Each Julia package had to account for the peculiarities of each dependency across a range of dependency versions and packaging practices (linkage policies, bundling policies, naming variations, distro versions) -- and this is easier in Julia than in (C)Python because shared libraries are accessed via locally-JIT'd FFI, so there is no need to eg compile extensions for 4 different CPython ABIs (Julia also has syntactic macros which can be helpful here).

To provide a better experience for both package authors and users, as well as reducing the maintenance burden, the community has developed and migrated to a unified system called BinaryBuilder (https://binarybuilder.org) over the past 2-3 years. BinaryBuilder allows targeting all supported platforms with a single build script and also "audits" build products for common compatibility and linkage snafus (similar to some of the conda-build tooling and auditwheel). One downside of "cross-compilation everywhere" is that it's not always well-supported by upstream libraries, so the initial effort to build a library may be higher if patches need to be developed, but that effort is arguably higher-leverage than a per-distro packaging approach (eg https://twitter.com/Blosc2/status/1395425736597585920).

All that to say: "make binaries a distro packager's problem" sounds like a simplifying step, but there are some big caveats. It has been tried before, both in other languages and in Python: the fact that conda and manylinux don't use system packages was not borne out of inexperience. One additional issue is that distro packages are only available with sysadmin consent in shared unix-like environments, which can be very limiting for end-users.
I'd imagine the weight and traction control would make an EV truck great for plowing.

Their marketing team must be based in So Cal and unaware of the use case. /s
I started ranting and yelling about “who wants to get fucking rich with me?”. They were not that kind of people.
Livestream of Fagradalsfjall, Iceland volcano eruption
Personally, as someone with very little interest in 2A, I’d prefer seeing people arm themselves rather than calling on budget Pinkertons.
Why?

Isn't terrorism already well defined? What's changing here?