skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also unusability problems on Chrome Android 10.
> Some sort of gang warfare was going down. People chasing after each other, throwing bottles and fighting.

This sounds like a drunken brawl more than a gang fight.
Actually some companies do. You want Linux since the software you are writing typically leverages a Linux environment, but the company doesn't want to support Linux so gives you a Mac machine instead. Its a poor substitute for the real thing IMO on a number of fronts at least for me. While it still works some of the time I would prefer a different environment and enjoy things like better Docker performance, avoid compile time differences between ARM and x64, odd differences in Terminal command behavior, etc, etc.
It's a bit weird but I have such a nostalgic connection to this very specific BeOS ability.

As a teenager I had heard about BeOS and I tried it out. I must have gotten it from a magazine's CD.

And by mistake, clicking around, I opened all of my mp3 collection's files at the same time. Each of the mp3s opened in their own little player window - and they all started playing at the same time, without the UI starting to lag at all.

It gave me an appreciation of what a computer can do
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An impressive downward spiral.
SCNR.
Was that local campus giving out Internet access for free? Were you using Fidonet for email or MCI? What was the popular IRC client of the pre-Web era? Was Usenet also free then or did you have to dial into a paid provider's shell account for access?
They had a moratorium on parking tickets in Sydney during 2020 for a similar reason. They didn't want to discourage people from visiting businesses in the city if they had to, since it was already a ghost town.
In germany there is minimal payment infra, but civil dressed cops will make you pay randomly a heavy fine if they catch you.
> they're also not unsolved problems in other areas

There aren't a lot of areas like SF - nice weather cities with support in place. In such areas, this is not a solved problem (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, SF, ...). Basically everything in this entire thread can be said for Seattle or Vancouver just with reduced scale.
Security fixes should be totally separate from UI and functionality chhanges. We need more software with long-term-supported stable releases.

Functionality and UI changes breed fear of updates which lessens security.
Belgium implemented partial free public transport for the elder. It mostly works, but there were some perverse incentives.

Specifically, some elder people are so bored they climb on the coastal tramway early in the morning, then go up and down and up and down the line for the whole day. There were problems with some elder people starting fights because someone else took 'their' seat, even in an almost empty tram.

One thing they did as mitigation was force everybody off the tram at the end of the line, which causes much moaning up to this day.
I wrote something similar in JavaScript. You need something like:

function as_and_bs()
{
return parse_text("aaaaabbbaaaabb",
make_grammar(
parse_text("root : (\"a\" SEQ \"b\" SEQ)SEQ OPT", iparse_grammar)))
}

The code can be found at https://github.com/FransFaase/ParserWorkshop/
I like this a good bit, close to the original but with some nice additional features.
HN automatically strips some click-baity words from titles on first submission; OP would have to notice then go back and add them in. This is usually a good thing.
Australian Govt is looking at mandatory reporting for cybercrime incidents
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I prefer cooperative ownership. It’s a nice mix of public sector and private sector benefits, keeping the competition without extracting as much of the profit as possible for investors.

For things like waterworks, internet, power and trains I never really understood the privatisation. I mean, I sort of understand I on paper. Public procurement is supposed to keep things great and cheap because there is some competition as different companies can bid to win the temporary monopoly every X years. The result is almost always both poorer quality and often also higher expenses in the Danish public sector however. A good example is how we privatised elderly care, which made a ton of small businesses flourish, but because it’s a required care it also caused a looooot of extra cost when these small companies went bankrupt, which happened to be extremely often. You could have 5 companies going bankrupt on a Friday, but that doesn’t mean the elderly citizens they take care of no longer needed medicine, so the public sector would need to find immediate replacements until a new regular company could be contracted. Getting people “right now” is extremely expensive.

Anyway, public transportation in Europe is already extremely public, even if there are private companies involved, it’s still the government paying them to operate and not the other way around. So ticket price is really just a matter of deciding what you want it to be.

Making it feee will cost the government very little in terms of tickets. It’s biggest loss might actually be from lower fuel taxes because people drive less.
> The real fix is for it to be required by law that any research that was funded by government grants must be published with open access.

It basically is already. In the US, if you produce a peer-reviewed paper resulting from federal funding you must provide "Public Access". Each agency has their own way of implementing it. For example, a publication funded by NIH must be uploaded to pubmed.

https://publicaccess.nih.gov/
I'm also holding out
> I would like there to be a funding scheme for most public services similar to the UK student loan system. Where you pay out of your own pocket, ultimately, but only as a fraction of your income and above a certain very livable minimum, and only for the services that you personally use.

If you do that you disincentivise the rich (who tend to also be the powerful) from using those services, and encourage a two-tier system. The British public commits to the NHS or museums because rich and poor alike can use them without fear of one day being charged; furthermore the benefits are shared by everyone even if they aren't direct users (and this is especially true for public transit, which frees up space for others, and increases the labour supply in the cities, pushing down the prices of everything). Funding from general taxation that's paid by everyone is far better than charging individual users (the flip side is that benefits should not be means-tested, for the same reasons).
TBH, Paris’s metro is a national shame. It stinks everywhere, it’s dirty, it’s inaccessible, it’s barely decorated…

I don’t understand how we can tolerate this in the most touristic country of the world. I’ve never seen a network that bad, be it in other France cities or abroad.
When I was a student and literally only had 5 pounds I got on the London Tube and slept there for a few hours as it was super cold outside. It only happened once and it was my fault for being in that situation but that is an example.

On the other hand now I give homeless ppl money for hostels. It was an interesting experience in hindsight.
> eliminate all non-native predators

Does this include Māori too or only pakeha?
"People will pay, just indirectly."

Exactly, but indirect payment doesn't add friction. It depends on what you want to achieve, but limitless use of public transport isn't all good. For example, in many cities public transport operates at full capacity, at least in some hours. If free unlimited use results in even more passengers, it depends on where these additional passengers are coming from. If most of them were previously driving a car, you are reducing the number of cars. But if most didn't travel at all before, you may actually increase the number of cars, because some people won't like the crowds and switch to using cars.
In the town I live (Nice, FR) the drivers don't enforce fares. You can completely bypass them and they won't look twice at you.

However, there are "control" squads, basically a large group of +6 feet guys in uniform that will randomly hop on tramways, trains, buses and do ticket checks.
What do the courts mean by "in the presence?" Although they have not had occasion to elaborate much, they have said that the crime must have been "apparent to the
senses," but that this requirement should be interpreted "liberally." Thus, it will be satisfied if the citizen was aware of circumstances from which he could reasonably infer that a crime was occurring in his presence

- https://le.alcoda.org/publications/files/CITIZENSARREST.pdf

I think this would qualify as committing the crime "in the presence" of the above commenter. Running away is part of the theft and that was done in the presence of the commenter.
I hope this is a step forward for Firefox and I expect that there will be some genuine wins in here, but I really hope this is not yet another redesign for a desktop app that tries to make it look like a mobile app by removing features and adding gratuitous amounts of whitespace. The word "streamlined" is usually the harbinger of such regressions.

Desktop is not Mobile and their interfaces should not be the same. Windows 8 showed us what a disaster that was, but every company since seems to have to learn this lesson themselves. (Looking at you spotify)
That seems to be an exceptionally mis-managed case - for instance London’s Oyster card cost approximately 10% of that about 10 years earlier.

Depreciated over 10 years, that system was responsible for c2% of costs and presumably had some benefits, so although it’s definitely a crazy waste of money it might not be a huge cost-driver.

I suspect there are much more costs than the system for fare collection more generally though to your wider point, such as inspectors, workers assisting people at the ticketing gates, longer bus stop turnaround time as people clock into the system etc
While I agree with your point, in the particlar case of Paris, France, this kind of argument might not be particularly persuasive.

There are already laws in place for the employers to pay at least half of the monthly / yearly card of their employees (of course, this is considered income and taxed as such) [0]. As these cars allow unlimited journeys over the whole network (with two exceptions, one is a local train at Orly airport and the second I can't remember), it could be argued that transit is already fairly cheap for most "cheaper workers".

Of course, this also applies to "expensive workers" (a software engineer friend of mine has his transit paid to 100%). There's also reductions for the elderly and a bunch of other categories.

In the end, aside from tourists and occasional users, I think a good chunk of the population already has some kind of subscription, so the cost of maintenance argument might make more sense.

I can't find the source, but I remember reading in a local paper that ticket sales were around 1/3 of the Paris' transit authority income. I don't remember whether the cost of the ticket systems was discussed.

This was in the context of the regional elections (which more or less control the TA) that are happening right now, with one candidate wanting to push for free transit.

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[0] https://www.urssaf.fr/portail/home/employeur/calculer-les-co...
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I had thought that it was discontinued years ago, but apparently they only started phasing it out in 2016 and finally shut it down in 2019. [1]

[1] https://www.cmswire.com/information-management/google-search...
A lot of public transit riders have unmetered usage due to monthly passes. It doesn’t seem to be a problem. Although that is still a class of people who can cough up $75 or whatever for the pass.
Back in GNOME 2, epiphany was the best browser ever because the UI simply followed the GNOME UI guidelines.
That is analogous to the argument favouring UBI as a replacement for usage-restricted (food stamps, scholarships, etc.) and means-tested benefits. Leaving aside the debate on whether the universality of UBI is sustainable or not, the simplicity of just giving X amount of money to each individual, no questions asked, saves a huge amount of inefficient bureaucratic overhead.
And latencies add up when chaining hardware: 1ms for the effect pedal, 1ms for the amp, 1ms for the audio interface, etc..
One (or a couple of) cities don't represent the whole country, naturally.

These were probably either recent migrants ("refugees" for lack of a better term) or Roma camps (which are not today's problem). They could as well just be homeless, sure (depends on the park, location, etc). Mostly, they are the result of progressive policies gone unchecked as well.

But are these in the same quantity/concentration and causing as much trouble and being as aggressive as the ones in SF?
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Is there a Godwin's law for Firefox yet?
Yes. The economic downturn definitely was another major cause. There was increased crime even in the suburbs. However, that crime was mostly car break-ins, catalytic converter thefts, garage break-ins, package thefts. Violent crime doesn’t seem to have increased much unlike in SF and apparently other big cities.
In an ideal world, absolutely, I agree.

We're not there though.

And there are an number of bug categories (phishing, social engineering, etc.) which intersect on UI/UX.
It would be entirely reasonable for the cops to file a report, but I would not make the assumption that they did.

Reasons cops file reports include:

An intention to investigate the crime

The victim requests a report for an insurance claim

In this case they know it’s a hard crime to investigate. Based on the articles I’ve read, it seems thieves in SF often use stolen cars, so even the plates may not be that helpful. Moreover we have serious crimes like attempted murder and illegal gun possession in SF going un-prosecuted, so the cops cannot assume an arrest could lead to anything at all.

Additionally filing a report with little hope for an arrest makes the precincts numbers look bad. Those numbers will get reported in neighborhood association meetings, and those association people (I’m one of them) can be a real pain in the ass to the politicians (i.e. the boss’s boss’s boss).

It’s just not a good incentive structure and if we were going to do a clean redesign IMO the politicians and cops should have as little control over the official statistics as possible.
> R dropped from 8th place in January 2018 to become the 20th most popular language... At its peak in January 2018, R had a popularity rating of about 2.6%. But today it’s down to 0.8%, according to the TIOBE index.

https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/15/is-python-strangling-r-t...
Putting the Pocket stuff aside I've been using this on the Dev edition for a few weeks now.

I quite like it. It feels snappy and looks clean. Good work FF team.
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https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html
Then why can't I have separate security updates? I'm fed up with some fashion people breaking my software usability all the time, just because some hot new way to arrange tabs has to be tried out.
I don't think we should have submissions for individual orgs or project moving away from Freenode. Way too many, and doesn't really add anything interesting.
We've been using Flask, Bootstrap, and vanilla JavaScript for years now. We also do TypeScript because our product offers a Jupyter notebook experience with super-powers, however. [collaborative editing, scheduled long-running notebooks, automatic experiment tracking, deployment, monitoring, etc].
I always feel this deep repulsion towards society. At first there was a time when people were free, they could grow what they wanted and live how they wanted nobody gave a damn because you cannot tell me what to do with my life.

Then, as a society, you herd the population into cities where they can't grow their food, put the poor into forced service of the rich or they can't feed themselves or live. The poor lower class beings have the moral burden of working else they are some sort of lowly scumbag. The rich, they don't have this constraint - they are morally obligated to just live their lives.

The thinking that, "but hey! that guy is just going to sit in his chair and not do anything" - Well, that's exactly what people that have lots of money do right now. They just live their lives, they sit in their nice chairs for as long as they want - nobody blinks an eyelid. The moment you think a poor person is not working you start to think he is scum.

Look, its a game that makes things better for everyone and it has its upsides, agreed. The thing is - society does not need to be like it is right now. Between money and institutions people are literally put in a cage with no real escape hatch. The inability to escape all this "money-govt-society" is the problem.

Say a tiger wanted to claim an area and feed itself and be self sufficient he could do it. Now, we like to think we're better than animals. Are we really? all of us? Say you as a person with zero money decided to just build your house using things you find around that area that you don't own and try to live off the land. You cant do that, someones going to come knocking saying you're on someone elses property. That tiger out there is more free than the person. Problem is, there is no escape hatch where you say, screw civilization I want to be free - I don't want what it has to offer, I live on this land here. Only if you have sufficient amount of money are you actually free to live as you want. Otherwise you better stay in your economic-class and feed the monster of society..
The full text is available here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7915550/

It's always good to remember just how crazy complicated and unusual HIV is, with its self-rewrite immune escape functionality.

The mRNA vaccine for covid-19 was very lucky, not only because coronaviruses are not the devilishly clever co-evolving with the host's immune system HIV type of things, but also because the spike protein was already "solved" ahead of the pandemic. By that i mean we knew how to create a version of the spike protein that doesn't require the full envelope to fold properly. The mRNA sequence was ready in January 2020, the rest was just manufacturing, testing and distribution.

The HIV vaccine will be most likely much more complicated, as the authors point out in the last chapter.

PS. Sometimes I wish I was a research doctor instead of a computer scientist, but I guess the grass is always greener :)
It's not paranoia since people who engage dangerous acts are also danger to society, just like drunk driving or the corona deniers. Just because the group were talking about is gay men doesn't mean the same doesn't apply. I've yet to met a gay men who disagrees and vast majority of them think it's problematic.
No? Like there is enough surface area to work on multiple unrelated parts of Firefox at the same time.

Also, Rust team is most definitely not killed, Servo is, which frankly, made perfect sense. Developing one browser engine is hard enough as is, let alone two.
This is also increasing in LA as well, stories of how bad Venice Beach is now. Though not sure how SD is faring.

The entire west coast can probably be written off in terms of having the same problems of homelessness and inequality, just to differing degrees. It's far from an SF-only issue.
This reminds me of a clever hack I learned for finding bottlenecks when using a debugger or in cases where you're able to get a backtrace from a running program.

If you run the program and then just randomly trigger the debugger with CTRL-C.. the probability is that you're likely to have landed on a slow code path because that's where the program is spending most of its time.
Germany has the same. I once had to pay a 80 euro fine because the driver opened just the middle door at the bus stop as he had nearly skipped the stop, and I hopped in without thinking, and the ticket controlled who stopped me (as I was going to the front to get a ticket) argued that I had to enter from the front door if I didn't already have a ticket. Still infuriates me when I think about it.

This is just an anecdote, of course. I don't actually disagree with you.
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For the most part, they don't. Virtually all sever systems are populated by rats. Watch any manhole during a hot summer's day from afar, and you won't have to wait long to see a rat.

Some factors like average flow speed and more slippery pipes, toilet cleaning chemicals, but also changes in how sewers are used (e.g. no longer for food waste disposal) have lowered rat population sizes - and Hanoi being a tropical city probably had some effects as well.
The "Evil Bit" RFC is one of the famous April Fools jokes produced back when the standards body retained an excellent sense of subtle humor.

I think it's safe to assume anyone that referencing it is doing so for comedic purposes.
It's not free. There's a reason why France has such high taxes. They changed from a model where people pay per fare to everyone has to pay and it's done via taxation.

This model may make a lot of sense, but I'd hope we could skip the kinder garden level headlines.
It takes a lot to convince UI designers to admit they made a mistake. Just look at any redesign ever.
Right. There might be saturation at peak times, but the rest of the time; just make the system free. It might even improve the peak time situations, reducing the need for more expensive investments to improve them.
How is it relevant to parent being wrong?
There's plenty effort improving those aspects. Including by employees in companies making money on PG support. But there's plenty hard problems - there are in other areas too, but work on those often started much earlier. These days the result of complexity around replication leads users to RDS et al, which reduces income for the various PG companies, it doesn't increase it.
> What do the courts mean by "in the presence?"

Even the most liberal definition doesn’t include the arrestor being only aware of the crime after the arrest (even the looser felony citizen arrest rules require both knowledge of the offense and reasonable belief that the arrestee committed it, as well as, as in the misdemeanor case, actual guilt.)
I don’t think testing it in compact mode is the idea.
Not peer reviewed
I found out recently from my dad that one of his business associates/friend is on the list for a liver transplant due to liver cirrhosis. When my dad found out he couldn't believe that a person for who he swears never drank more than 2 glasses of wine at a dinner, was apparently high functioning alcoholic. The man in question seems to have fooled a lot of people and he certainly was high functioning as he managed to operate 2 business while having a wide range of friends without anyone noticing (he seemed fit for his age as well). Apparently it's the hard liquor in small doses that he "used" and that eventually got to him...