skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An elderly asian person is more likely to die crossing the road to a bank than be robbed at a bank.

I don't think you've been keeping up with the news of the wave of attacks targeting Asian elders. Many of them have been beaten and robbed on the way to run errands.

in the case of a looting, chances are the store owner would rather you go home and have insurance pay for the damages, than deal with the legal headache of their hired gun potentially killing someone in their store.

You're way overestimating the number of small business owners who have sufficient insurance to cover a looting event, and way underestimating the extent to which small business owners are willing to protect their store (e.g. Roof Koreans)

Keep in mind when D.C. police who were defending the capitol building faced a mob, they allowed them to breach the building

That actually demonstrates the value provided by an app offering on-demand private security. When cops failed to stop the insurrectionists, they faced minimal negative consequences. On the other hand, if your hired private security fails to stop looters, they can expect a negative review from you on the app which in turn threatens their career on the app.

The owner of the bar is paying their bouncers under the table already

I said late night restaurants, not bars. When was the last time you've seen a bouncer at a late night restaurant?

I agree that some of the cases I brought up are a bit far fetched. That being said, here's a great use case that I'm sure we can both agree on for on-demand security:

- Domestic violence prevention. In cases where a spouse feels threatened but does not have enough evidence for the cops to get involved, on-demand private security is the best option.

A tragedy like the Adam Matos case would have been prevented had the victim used on-demand private security. The victim was threatened by Matos, her ex, and she called the cops, who didn't/couldn't do anything, which resulted in her and her family being killed by said ex within 24 hours.
This is a pretty dishonest way to present this IMO.

I've been traveling for the last 10 years and my American Passport never got in my way, and in exceptionally few cases would anything have been any easier with the passport from the #1 country on the list. Yes a few times I had to fill out some extra paperwork.

America has a VERY STRONG passport. This is a bimodal distribution where most of the passports in each of the groups are equivalent to each other and the US is in group A.
How is this different than saying “if a company wants to make bad environmental decisions, that’s their prerogative”? Sometimes the government needs to get involved to prevent short-sighted behavior.
Over in Midwest USA, it always meant, usually (but not always) adversarially, “so you can ponder THAT all night, and no matter how much you think about it, will change neither the facts nor the conclusion.”

The only local color I have to add is that it was also somewhat normal to hear “put that in your peace pipe and smoke it” and also “so you can shove that in your peace pipe, and smoke it,” both being references to the custom among some Native North American nations to share a “peace pipe” as a kind of diplomatic gesture, but turned on its head.

This had the effect of me always believing and perceiving it as (usually) especially sarcastic, but largely deriving from the exact meaning that it originates from, even if the cultural reasons were obfuscated.
I’m a techie and I don’t want to worry about malware, spyware, extensive software configuration, etc. on my microwave, my car, or my phone. I’ve got plenty of computing devices for that!
Not just minimizing contact with predators, also minimizes resource competition with other species of cicadas.
It’s great isn’t it. I can’t wait to pick out which name to call my burbclave. Going to get a full gargoyle gear set.
Why do you think the F-150 Lightning will be cheaper to repair than the Cybertruck?
Bah! All I need is some perl and a CGI script to sail her by. Kidding, with the current web development churn I sometimes miss the simplicity of php.
Okay, well sorry I was being snarky, so let me try to be a bit more serious.

You are proposing that we teach millions-billions of people a new way to write, rather than teach a few hundred thousand at most how to write computer programs that accommodate existing ways of writing.

Like maybe you underestimate how genuinely ridiculously hard of a problem it is to get billions of people to do anything! It would take literal decades of work by multiple governments and unimaginable amounts of money! Getting 10 people to agree on a favorite programming language is hard enough. Teaching a city full of kids a new way to multiply numbers takes 1000s of hours of prep, planning, syllabus development etc. by teachers. Just imagine how much harder this is.

Certainly I can see how nice it would be if the whole world used the same date format, same language, same metric system etc.

But from a practical point of view, making systems to accommodate the way people do things is 1000s of times cheaper and easier than getting them all to change.
Yea, but then it become a religion. It has all the features except for redemption.

"John McWhorter: The Neoracists": https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neorac...

"The New Religion Of Anti-Racism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHUu9sAGKo

"Wokeness: old religion in a new bottle": https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/14/wokeness-old-religi...
Just a note that normalization is not the same as diacritic insensitivity. Normalization is the process by which strings that are semantically equivalent (by some standard), yet have different underlying byte sequences, are transformed to have the same underlying byte sequence. For instance, replacing “e, combining acute accent” with “e with acute accent”.
you are hooked on some serious propaganda. Lets be clear, if the US stopped producing producing food and instead bought it from other countries, it would be the biggest disaster in human history.
It essentially is a binding for tensorflow if I understand it right.
People paying for getting really intrusively surveiled?
That's correct. Notice, however, that I mentioned the actual crimes first, and added "jail time" as an afterthought. There are plenty of criminals who commit real crimes and don't get jail time, or even much punishment. See e.g. Brock Turner, Shane M. Piche, Zoe Reardon, George Zimmerman, Isaac Turnbaugh, etc.
What I think is worrying is the fact that we can't answer the question: "are we at war?" reliably. It's quite possible we are. And we don't know we are. What can be the consequences?

We do know that 'disinformation' runs rampant on the internet and it's becoming increasingly hard and exhausting to find the facts. There are fact-checkers but increasingly they are becoming biased and need to be fact-checked by new fact-checkers. Deepfakes are getting better and better and very soon any video can be fake without it being detectable.

Half of the populating already doesn't trust the media, and the media themselves are thriving by clicks (and thus feed fear and anger). I'm worried where this is leading.
The Lightning isn't supposed to be going until 2022 either, and Ford is having supply chain issues with chips, which this truck probably needs more than any car they've ever made, so we'll see which ships first.
As somebody who loves PHP, some PHP mockery is deserved. The standard function naming and argument ordering is inconsistent and stupid. It throws errors written in Hebrew. There were fundamental decisions made that harmed web security for years. Unicode wasn’t in PHP for a long time. Getting decent performance and/or scaling was/is a major challenge. The comparison tables are questionable at best. Etc.

The language is bad, but... you can still write great code in a bad language. And you don’t need a good language, or even good code to build a great website. Facebook has made more money with questionable PHP code than any site built with elegant pearl webscripts that I know of. Wikipedia is PHP. So was Digg (RIP). Your users don’t give a darn how good your language or code is so long as it usually works.

So tl;dr, PHP sucks, but I love PHP.
That doesn't follow; maybe the oldest 10% of people are 90% of donations.
Your argument only works if people are forced to use iPhones or if you can show that reasonable people expect to have functionality on their iPhones that doesn’t exist. But on the contrary, I suspect a lot of people choose iPhones specifically because of the perceived curation of the App Store and lack of malware, spyware, etc.
> the user will get apps that are poorly designed, chew battery, and don’t conform to the UX standards that Apple has set (eg: accessibility) and exploit undocumented APIs which change from iOS version to version

This is already true with the App Store today.
Reciprocity: When the situation is still the same when reversed.

Also known as 'fairness'.

If a situation is not 'fair', go elsewhere. Apple is not the only game in town.
Back in the day perhaps, but not today. PHP has come a really long way.
They already can do it better on Android!
Wasn't there a post or (most probably) a comment recently (within a month or so) with an iceberg chart? It looked very much like this site, but I can't find the right subject. Someone even commented that one of the best links in the chart was to a fictional story on the site itself. For the life of me I can't recall what the subject of the iceberg was, except that I think it was technology related, but I did spend several hours digging through all the links.
Havent's measured by myself but I'd expect performance noticeable improvement for GraphQL apps that use Absinthe, since significant time is spent on parsing, validating and serializing data around resolvers.

See this thread in elixirforum https://elixirforum.com/t/absinthe-graphql-performance-issue...
Even if the production could be sped up, the transport of the things involves complex logistics to get them where they are needed because of the weight. You can get a taste of that by searching for transformer heavy transport by ABB or something like that on youtube. Actually you can partially 'reverse engineer' the state of the grid by doing that :-) At least in Europe, or Germany. The involved parties, be it manufacturers, or logistic companies, or rail nerds have put it all on youtube.

Anyways, just transport from factory to destination usually takes weeks. Even if only a few 100 kilometers.
> they'd have to figure out how to tell apart those who work on being suggestive for money and that who just enjoy being suggestive in life

I don't think they'd bother trying to tell them apart. The issue Twitch wants to police here isn't the willingness or coercion, it's the suggestiveness behaviour entirely.
What do you mean? Hell does break lose. The malware situation on PCs might be better than it was 15 years ago, but it’s still ubiquitous. Removing malware from PCs is still an entire industry and career path.
They also don’t make standalone apps.
> This is a ridiculous mischaracterization of what Jonathan Blow was talking about.

I watched the full presentation and agree with almost everything he said, but I can't find a part matching the conflict between "Simple text editor Vs. Complicated character encoding scheme / rendering / formatting". How would JB make a text editor that works with any kind of character?
You’re making a category error. A car’s ecosystem is the road system. Roads don’t let you anywhere, there has to be a road there. Sometimes a paid one.
Ah, found it in search. It was this one:

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme

https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
Yep, that's where I got my inspiration (and some CSS) from, and I also link to it in the footer on my site: https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/ :)
I’ve watched these big tech cases wind their way through the courts since US v Microsoft. I’ve learned, if there is a lot of money at stake, individual judges and decisions matter little because it will get dragged out for years. These big companies even have workarounds to the negative consequences of final decisions.
> am, however, against the idea of companies being forced to design products around being easily repairable. If a company wants to make a super thin device with basically no easy way to take it apart, that's their prerogative. If a company wants to solder on components to the device like RAM or the storage or the cpu or gpu, that's their prerogative.

Totally agree. But they should be publicly labeled as extreme polluters whose devices aren't repairable and who design devices that way intentionally.

They should be free to do it, and then free to be denounced for it.

>The government doesn't need to be involved in this respect.

The environmental aspect of unrepairable devices should probably be regulated like any other industry who makes the decisions to pollute because they want to.
Storming the Congress
I haven’t used PHP in years, but Laravel was such a fun and productive framework to work in. It really has a way of making you feel like a “code artisan”, something I typically only hear coming from Rails developers. In contrast, every Node app I’ve worked on has felt somewhat amateur, even if the code was high quality.
Thanks for making my point that the standard for officers is now people who are too scared to put the public before themselves... which is pretty much all of us. The opposite of a thin blue line.

> Like the stuff in those videos is not easy, I'm not trying to pretend I could do it, or most people could.

I'm not a police officer because I'm not brave enough. I'd fear for my life, and I shoot. So instead of putting myself in a profession that should ideally require more of me, I don't.

Not rocket science.
> but to not lose it.

But for who? You keep saying "from their clients", but I don't think you understand how the VC model works or care to explain what you mean by "protect".

Here's an example:

The California State Teacher's Retirement System, or CalSTRS (called an LP) committed money into Shashta Ventures. Shasta ventures then invested in several Series A and Series B startups (presumably "disruptive innovation"). Sashta then profits from selling those companies and takes a part of that profit for themselves and gives another part to CalSTRS.

So. No, they're not "protecting it from their clients". VCs clients are their LPs and their goal is purely to profit from M&A/IPO activity and return that for themselves and their LPs.

There isn't any dirty little secret about the industry - its that simple.
As the article points out, there are (or were) many ISPs, and the FCC managed to finagle that fact into "there is actual competition" even though most markets were only served by one, or perhaps two. The country ended up such that actually trying to enter a market where one of the big telecoms is dominant essentially can't happen, but the FCC continues to pretend that competition is possible and the markets are free.
I agree that pride _can_ be a liability. The idiom “pride comes before the fall” itself doesn’t imply that pride is _always_ bad, but rather that it has the potential to be bad.

I think pride has all kinds of positive and negative features in the modern world. When I take pride in my work, I think about it more carefully and try and deliver a higher quality work. “Pride” and “Craftsmanship” seem very linked to me. That pride helps me deliver high quality work, which keeps clients around and earns referrals, which keeps me paid and food on the table.

When I don’t take pride in the work I do, the standards and quality can slip. I’m much happier if I can deliver work to a client that I can stand behind and be proud of. I think that’s in many ways an asset.

I certainly don’t disagree with you, though, that there are many scenarios where pride , hubris, and ego end up being problematic.
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It was??? It always will be.
"It's a negotiation, where candidates with unique skills can negotiate"

Every snowflake is special and unique too, but nobody cares when they are shovelling their driveways. Stop spreading incredulous fantasies, companies that hire 3000 JS-React mashing "agile' dev have salary ranges, HR has them, and you can find out about them once you are hired. They just don't want to publish them upfront.

Maybe if we are talking top leadership positions this argument has credence, but for most of us they aren't bending over backwards and putting together unique compensation packages.
The ones that post wider ranges will still benefit from the power imbalance.

Many people looking for jobs don't have the means to be choosy, and many companies aren't looking for the best of the best, they just need people.
Almost as good if not on par with the JVM ;)
Most people think im nuts but i sleep really well on a futon
> I don't think HN readers understand exactly how harsh tech reviewers come down on devices that aren't as thin as possible.

I don't think it's reviewers being harsh in their judgements independently so much as most press of that kind has a symbiotic relationship with manufacturers. They need new products with new USPs, however trivial, to feature to justify their existence. More product updates mean more marketing, a faster purchase cycle, more decisions for consumers to make and therefore more interest in reviews.
Articles to avoid on the web: Articles that can't wrap properly when you have an LCD screen larger than the hand of a toddler.
I still want to know what the decentralization plan is
Yes! So much this. I usually wish they'd just give me markdown or similar and only convert after I'm done. Slack is a prominent offender there.
They can rewrite curl (http(s) only) in Python using requests library.
I was unaware. Thank you for the correction! Do you have any further reading on this topic?
This is simply not true. I don't know where you guys are reading this stuff.

> VCs are thus disincentivized from disrupting those companies, even if it makes a good return for the new company.

How do you think Uber, AirBnb, etc. were all funded?
Why would design changes that improve visiblity to avoid killing pedestrians end up killing more highway drivers?
OMG this is so convenient! Just fall in love with this behavior. It'll be even better with autocomplete ;)
Very interesting, thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnabel_car#/media/File:CPOX8...
In spirit, I agree with you. I should be able to choose. My concern is, would average folks know about the trade-offs at the time of purchase?
What? Of course infection induces immunity in case of covid, about on par with mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...

You don't have similar immunity efficacy studies for actual covid as hou have for vaccines, because infecting people on purpose would be unethical.

Note that your wording "coin flip" isn't right for Sinovac, either. 50 % efficacy is not huge but it is still beneficial on population level.
I guess you are lacking some context.

Back in the day, you could:

* Be bold enough to use Linux or FreeBSD and use CGI or Perl as the only free version

* Use ASP but pay license fees for Windows NT, ISS and SQL Server

* Use ColdFusion which was kind of trendy but was pretty expensive.

When PHP arrived it was so refreshing. I used to make my stuff in Apache+PHP, MySQL and Linux and it was magical what you could do with very few lines of code.

The worse part was to manually get the sources of the dependencies one by one, hit ./configure and make, so you can compile a php module for Apache

In those days Microsoft was pretty strong, everything used to be closed source and payed and that's why for people who understand what it was back then, this does not sound like the splashy announcements of today.

That's why every time you see Linus, Stallman or any person that was active in the open source movement, you should pay a beer to them. The world of technology owe a lot to them, specially the underdogs.
Sounds like you need a meta journey.
How is the infrastructure the product? If I buy a cable modem and plug it into the wall but don't cough up money to Comcast/XFinity, I get nothing, same as if I plug my coffee pot into an electrical outlet but don't pay the electric company for service.
Post mortems are shame-theater. Real life has a version of TLDR, and it goes roughly like this: ‘sorry, we are going to try this again with a new set of people’.

It’s rough. No need to be dramatic and have school plays every Friday. Move on.

Pick the new direction and people, and give a few of the older group a chance to stay on in a fitting role. Let those who can’t handle it move on. Don’t waste time, as we can all be elsewhere.
This is the point that people keep missing. The most common argument is “just let people install whatever software they want and if they install something bad that’s their fault.” But the point is that, if Apple does allow sideloading apps, customer satisfaction with iPhones will almost certainly go down. Can you argue that those new unsatisfied customers are to blame? Sure. But Apple probably actually cares about how satisfied their customers are with their products.
The focus here is on the environment. However, plastic is linked to many health issues as well.
If you don't die from an injury or disease, humans lived about as long as they do today. It's under 5 year old mortality, childbirth and disease and injury that made us die more on average which reduced our life expectancy.

This means that our actual durability and lifespan hasn't improved that much, just our ability to fix and avoid previously fatal injuries.

If humans weren't genetically encoded to die from old age, vs just plain wear and tear like you would with a car, you would statistically see a small amount of humans who lived until 300 today. Just like how there are thousand year old well preserved physical objects today.
After decades of IT work, I don’t trust users either, but I especially not competent users. If I were designing a device to store financial data and passwords, I would explicitly block them from hacking it without wiping it first; if they want to root it, they can backup and restore their data, and when-not-if their disabling of security protections results in theft and loss, that’s their problem and not mine.
Because of the layer of indirection, and potential for missed out innovation. Yes, nonrepairable devices are worse for the environment, but we had early poorly-repairable ultrabooks that helped create a market space for later more-repairable ultrabooks.

I think most people just want to ban the worst anti-repair actions, like trying to disable the device in the event of repair attempts or preventing the use of otherwise compatible 3rd-party hardware with key signatures or proprietary authentication mechanisms.
> No Autopilot. This is a big sell for many EV users. As far as I know Ford is no where close to having a viable competitor.

Autopilot (as in ADAS Level 3) is and always will be vaporware on existing Teslas. Meanwhile my 2016 Civic has the same type of ADAS Level 2 driver assist. It's not quite as fancy as Tesla's version but it's 90% of what I need. I think for 90% of buyers, anything that does ADAS level 2 is fine.
The canadian government is big into the business of making these kind of "declarations" these days, so our PM can demonstrate to everyone how progressive he is.

Although I don't think Mother Jones is a legitimate news source, so would be careful about taking anything in the article at face value.
The issue is about app developers who don't get to choose the phone that users have.
> More often than not a problem that looks simple and has insane complexity once you dig a bit deeper is based on some faulty assumptions.

Okay, I'll bite.

What are the faulty assumptions that cause text editing widgets to be so complicated?