skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When the DA refuses to prosecute a criminal and that criminal goes on to kill another person, did that DA fail to protect that victim from future harm?

Ahem, didn’t he? In France we have a regular pattern of freeing the criminals or excusing them for their behavior for various “background” reasons, and they go on committing crimes. Judges and the state are both responsible for this situation and fail to protect the citizens. If it weren’t a pattern, one could say they can’t predict the future, but, like discrimination, having a steady trend is proof of negligence.

Same for global warming. One might by mistake pollute, but once they know their consequences, it becomes intentional.
it seems like its a pragmatic question, almost an engineering question about how the legal system can work, and Im hopelessly out of my depth there
Calendar year means YTD not 1 year.
Skin Displays Will Give Wearables Their Independence
That doesn’t necessarily conflict with what GP said. There has been a massive change in housing affordability (which also reflects in rent affordability). See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=EjVw
:-) I am okay if they they spend the time they saved building out a novel website instead on building those features they have listed. But, I still think this is a direct play to get noticed by Apple for a acquihire.
You're right, it's almost a satire site. I learn about the code of conduct, licensing and team structure, but have no idea what they actually do

I eventually found a repo that had an authentication project, and presumably I would have found code in one of the other folders, but my curiosity was spent.
Interesting project.

One UI nit:

I clicked on Mathematics and the top submission at the time was: https://ninfex.com/item?id=sVfpxepq4rNQ

The search UI says: "5 days ago."

I thought it sounded odd since I missed the discussion here 5 days ago and clicked through to discover the link leads to an HN discussion from 2014.

So, that "5 days ago" refers to when it was "submitted" to Ninfex instead of any relevant time information on the actual submitted material.

Felt a bit misled, and finding relevant current information over higher ranked older material is a painpoint for me in other search products.

Happens when I am searching for information on a library and the most popular hits refer to information from years ago and the library from multiple major versions ago. Sometimes the answers are incompatible with the current state of the library and its API.

These are different issues, but they feel orthogonal.
I am quite happy with that dodged bullet, after that I found job I am working now couple years with satisfaction.
Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam
Hooooooly cow. Those on-screen hints are amazing. I've never learned tmux commands, and this reminds me of everything I liked about `nano`.

I might rebind my i3 keys to match these bindings somehow.
That sounds like "where the cable is affordable and they don't have a long-standing, heavily justified grudge against the company running it", which is a fair caveat, but doesn't seem to invalidate the parent's underlying claim.
> Except the scarcity is largely driven by increased demand due to government stimulus.

How do we know this? The economy swung heavily in favor of labor and wages have been on the rise for a while now, since before the pandemic even. The previous president was celebrating how quickly wages were growing during his tenure.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth

You can see there that wage growth from 2017-2020 was the longest sustained period of growth above 4% since 2004-2007. Given that, a solid explanation is that people are making more money now, thus spending more.

Unfortunately, y-charts doesn't go back far enough to really give a long term picture. But even looking back 5 years, the increase of the past few months is pretty much exactly the size of the gap left in march 2020. For all we know, this spike in retail spending is merely pressure being released from the huge loss in retail spending encountered last year. By October, the numbers could very well be back at that normal trend line.

The USA was in the middle of an economic bull run when it crashed right into the side of the worst pandemic most have ever seen. The momentum of that growth is still there, but the economy has been tossed around by supply chain issues, reduction in new labor, and workers migrating between industries in an already tightening labor market. We have to appreciate that the economy experiences growing pains, and that the government is not the be-all, end-all of economy growth.
Really? Silent downvotes for this?
> I live in France and I'm at loss on what a gallon is. ... probably a hidden fine for the sin of using strange units

Strange units, as opposed to strange languages.

Since language is far more important than measurement, the French should obviously abandon their entirely unnecessary national language and adopt either English, Spanish or Mandarin as a logical standardization improvement. As French will continue to perpetually decline in importance and use globally, I propose that French is a failed language and it would be wise of France to get out in front of that unstoppable trend and drop their national language sooner than later.

Overall English is clearly the best choice as a standard, as it will be adopted by more people this century than any other language as the global population swells toward 10 billion. Mandarin would be a solid second choice, however China's population will rapidly contract and the globe isn't in a hurry to adopt Mandarin given it's particularly difficult to learn.

The vast inefficiency of Europe having and intentionally maintaining three dozen major languages is of course silly. Approximately half of the people in Europe can't communicate with eachother effectively because they share no common language. It's a very backwards approach.

One might suggest that people can speak multiple languages and that that resolves the matter (it doesn't, the vast inefficiency of time, money & effort dedicated to maintaining failed non-English languages remains). However in that vein, it turns out you can utilize multiple measurement systems as well, as the US very commonly also uses the metric system where it matters to do so.

The sole reasonable counter argument, the language-is-culture argument, applies exactly the same for non scientifically critical measurement references in the US. For example using yards, or feet which are tightly bound to US culture (from media to sports to history to routine conversation).
You can't help where you're born though. Ask "accidental American" Boris Johnson for example[0]. Although he's since renounced his U.S. citizenship to spare him from U.S. taxes.

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30932891
If you have something like Kafka before you insert your events into CH, you could consider enriching the event data by connecting with your Postgres data. That way, you still retain a flat CH table which should work just fine.
There are for sure lots of bad ways to use React, and lots of bad React developers. I actually had a very poor experience with React my first project using it.

But that's true for any framework (or lack thereof.) It's definitely possible to find good React patterns too. My 2nd project with React was a great experience, and was infinitely more maintainable and reusable than the framework-free frontends I had worked on.

Sounds like you've worked in really bad React projects (and/or really good non-React projects). All I can say is that my experience has been different! Redux + Redux Toolkit (https://redux-toolkit.js.org/) helped me and my team establish React patterns that were organized, concise enough, and performant -- although we did still have to tinker and try some things out until we found the patterns that worked for us. Hope it helps!
> but nothing like the Ivies, Berkeley/Stanford, or McGill/UfT.

Wow, you are putting universities of vastly different calibers in the same bucket. McGill/UofT are pretty much large state schools, not at all in the same ballpark as Berkeley or Stanford.

For tech recruiting in Canada I found that UBC and UofT were pretty good in term of signal to noise ratio. The best one was Polytechnique in Montreal, but it's really small so recruiting season doesn't last a long time.

For med school, I have no clue. I suppose it's about choosing the best program to prepare you for the MCAT, or whatever the exam is in your country.
> Something as simple as vacinne passports would probably do it.

Let me fix it for you:

"Something as simple as restricting the freedom of movement of healthy individuals who committed no crime, in violation of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, would cause people with WRONG BELIEFS (sic!) to behave in ways that I like. Namely, I want them to give up control of their bodies for the greater social good, which is defined by their government. So long as the government agrees with me, naturally, which I expect them to do forever.

The unwashed masses are in need of some enlightened herding. The human rights are there only for times of no consequence; but these are extraordinary, revolutionary times!"

And people wonder where do totalitarian regimes recruit their support base from.
A piece of data more interesting than anything in the article are service numbers of soldiers there.

USSR spooks been for decades deducing troop numbers, and rotation schedules on NATO bases based on patterns in service numbers.

Not much changed since it seems.

Though, same was done for Russian troops in Crimea.
Today's super/hyper-cars definitely try to be beautiful and stand out visually but they're as much function as they can be. The form just follows the function. Every line prioritizes aerodynamics, every component is about weight saving and performance, every embellishment is about ventilation or downforce. The visual uniqueness is working around the function, not the other way around.

Look at a '50s car and you'll see all kinds of functionally useless fins and embellishments all around, all meant to make the car look more futuristic and "airplane like", simulating airplane's wings and engines [0].

[0] https://live.staticflickr.com/1637/25965835911_3cd002a8b8_b....
My email needs to do only a handful of things:

- let me archive things

- let me search my email

- let me do email-y things (reply, forward, reply all, etc.)

- display HTML and plain text email in a way that doesn't hurt my eyes

- get out of my way

I don't need or want advanced categorization, animated flourishes, or even folders. I use Spark as my email client because it works just fine.

Spark is toying with charging, which I think is fine. If it's not too much, I'll pay.

This Big Mail seems too feature-laden for my tastes.
Sounds like what you’re really saying is you hate New York - DC journalist - political - activist culture. Which Twitter distills.
Nice! Added above.
> In SF, when the DA refuses to prosecute a criminal and that criminal goes on to kill another person, did that DA fail to protect that victim from future harm?

Yes, of course is the answer to your question. Chesa Boudin is guilty of causing harm to a large number of people for failing to secure the livelihood of people living in SF!

That's the major reason why I left last year, I couldn't take the level of crime and apathy from police regarding criminals. Am I going to let the city's governance play Russian roulette with my life? No thanks, I'm a free citizen in a liberal democracy so I can take my life elsewhere.
>Building codes, speed limits, gun control etc

But those are all explicitly legislated, as opposed to this lawsuit which is based on a vague idea of harm. Suppose we don't have statues against speeding. Would it be fair for you to get sued for speeding but haven't harmed anyone?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much did you want to make that pun?
It's hard but possible, I find, to post and discuss controversial things. You have to be very carefull how you present the topic, and you have to put a lot more effort into the discussion than you normally might to make sure it doesn't devolve, but if you wade through and cut off the drive-by commenters that misunderstand your position because they aren't actually bothering to think critically about it,and try to try to keep the discussion it on track, you sometimes get very interesting discussions out of it.

Sometimes I end up softening or changing someone's position on something, sometimes I soften or change mine or learn a lot of new things, and I have to imagine that happens with some lurkers as well, and I'm not sure what more I could hope for, besides wishing it was easier sometimes.
Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid
It's basically "should I use sudo or not" as a prayer.
I liked your suggested mitigations. Well-designed to accommodate human motivation, and simple enough to be practical.
Today I learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-contained_self-rescue_dev... from this video.
Amazon, Google, and Big Tech Want to Eat Health Care Next
But the harm hasn't happened yet.

That's like prosecuting Tesla right now for their Autopilot before anyone has been killed because of their faulty software.
> 4K video processing ... decades and decades

Hmmm... "decades and decades" seems like a stretch for digital. ;)

Are you meaning using things like Avid Composer and similar? eg software used for hollywood films and similar

Asking because I used to spec out then put those systems together for places. They were _very_ much pushing the envelope of performance (cpu, ram, disk io), even before networked editing systems became common.
Number of smokers has reached all-time high of 1.1B, study finds
> I sometimes suspect that the interruptions, like the horrible open offices and pointless standup meetings, are put in place not because anybody even perceives them to be a benefit, but as a "muscle flex" to remind the workers who's boss, regardless of how detrimental is it to everybody, including the boss.

Microsoft had a culture of offices with a door, to allow more focus. But it's not the only thing they did differently (and the companies valuation speaks for itself).
No, I’m arguing against that mindset. The git repository is what raises the “Replaced It In Rust” argument.
You make a separate point.

My point was that the legislature is writing law which is in conflict with itself.

The quote "future generation" hasn't come from the judiciary - it is written into the law, for the judiciary to deal with the consequences.
No. The article could discuss digital nomad lifestyle from many angles that are not US-specific.
if i can find a better cross platform delivery mechanism than AIR that isn't too far away from JS, i will switch, as there are a fair number of Linux-based programmers out there. Sorry for the current inconvenience of requiring Wine. But it does run okay according to some of my users.
The legal argument with regards to climate change has to do with lives that will be realized, not that lives that won't.

For those who do live in the future, climate change will impact them. If a potential person does not exist in the future because it is aborted, it is not subject to suffering due to climate change.
This seems like a logical thing to happen when the environment in the US right now is so pro-monopoly. Companies are stacking up vertically and companies are merging. The government has little interest in doing the basic work of preventing it. It seems like there is no way to actually stop this from happening every 20 years
> I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they never get the idea to collude with each other.

To be fair, that should be (and probably is) illegal, although good luck enforcing it if they're smart enough to maintain plausible deniability.
I use ProtonMail + Thunderbird, it does require a client to handle the decryption/encryption to the servers. It was open sourced a while ago which is nice, although admittedly it'd be nice to have it just work.
Like any idea when taken to an extreme or dogmatically it causes more problems than it fixes.
Google tried something like that called Google Contributor back in 2017. You could basically just put money in an account, and instead of advertisers buying ads for whatever site you were on, it just took that same money from you and gave it to that site. Honestly a pretty elegant system, but I can kind of picture why it wouldn't have worked out.
He's said similar things more than once but I found at least one decent example. Towards the end of the video. --> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ni3j1mhU5M
You aren't culpable today. You are culpable when the people die. You can't be charged for negligence causing death if those deaths haven't happened yet.
Every rebellion looks hyperbolic from the outside, I would say.

Reddit is indexed by an outside party, not Reddit itself. Twitter is the same way. The most infamous of Facebook's data exfiltration was Cambridge Analytica, which again is an outside indexer. The accurate comparison, imo, is "we all came to this land to communicate together, but you use the platforms features to stalk people."

Advertising is more of a concession of privacy, which I can tolerate if it's iterated on.

The option you lay in front of people is "leave". So, someone of my convictions must leave once a platform becomes so popular that it attracts professional stalkers? Why is that the only acceptable option to you?
I also thoroughly enjoy Spark. I got an email from them a few weeks back with a survey about potential pricing. I'd pay a subscription to use the client, as long as it's reasonable.

But I don't want them to add more features than what they already have. It's fine as is.
Turn the argument around. Twitter isn't letting a provably false statement as remain as authentic since they've been given the proof it's false.

I fail to see how that's "waging war".
Not a useful question.

Also, trustworthy people do not ask you to trust them.

I am honest and trustworthy, and so if you gave me the pin to your debit card to go buy something for you, I would not mis-use that information.

But because I am honest, I would never ask you to trust me with your pin. If we were standing next to each other at a pos, I actively look away when you start to type so I don't even find it out by innocent accident.

Honest people take the trouble to figure out some way to get a job done without requiring you to trust them, even if you would have, even if it's less convenient for you both.

In fact, I think that one thing is probably the single biggest proof of trustworthiness.

A person or organization that I've never met before and and does not ask me to trust them, is more trustworthy than one that I've known for years and have a long history of good interactions with.
Your abortion thought experiment may be backwards: aren't we protecting the fetus from future harm by aborting it before it can comprehend or experience the multitude of harms it's bound to experience in life?

Taken to the extreme, this idea of preventing harm would compel us to have abortions. Of course, that's just not what anyone is saying anyway. Like with many legal constructs, there is an implied "within reason". For example: the U.S. constitution's first amendment and "shouting fire". You're reading way too literally into the concept of "duty of care" or "future harm".
Kudos to the 21 year old junior at university who has the extra capital to invest 2500 USD in something, and by "usually" I assume invested around the amount several times. I'm already impressed by having the amount available, never mind available for a lottery ticket (as the author of the article calls it).
It is, but to be clear it is out-moded by the fact that cljs exists now!
I guess the way I saw it was that the wealth itself begets high SAT scores (through the channel of paying for a good education, which would be invested in regardless of SAT requirements). Removing SAT requirements doesn’t help most wealthy students because they were likely going to do well on the SAT anyway, if anything it hurts them as it’s one advantage they have over others that wouldn’t be considered.
A study visa in the Netherlands is not a work visa, you also need enough cash to sustain yourself or some kind of sponsor[1].

[1]: https://ind.nl/en/Pages/income-requirements-study.aspx
Ok, I think I may have misunderstood. What is your relationship to the platform Polymer Search? I assumed it was your project, in which case that is what the Show HN should be about. But when I read the comment you added, it sounds like you just used someone else's tool, and you can't make a Show HN out of someone else's tool, since those are for sharing your own personal work (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).
Dmoz and other directories of old were (rigid?) pre-defined category based classifications of urls. I don't intend to replicate that.

Though you may be right about certain features being similar. For now, everything that anyone finds interesting is acceptable.
Yes, perhaps that explains why:

> As of yet, no software has been deployed for a client.
Yes I agree with this but do note that in your gp you stated "every single personal device", not "half of all personal devices"
Chrome got flex gap a year ago, Firefox got Paint Timing and Intl stuff a few months ago, Chrome doesn't have individual transforms yet, Firefox doesn't have private class fields yet, and Safari supported Web Speech years before either Chrome or Firefox.

I suspect you either didn't read those release notes fully or you don't fully understand what they mean.
Does it support different notification sounds for email from different senders? How about different sounds for different accounts?

I'm on iOS now, and I miss this feature of Android gmail so much. iOS gmail just has one notification sound, even for different accounts, which is really frustrating.
TDD: Getting Out of My Own Way
I had the same thought, Chomsky's not perfect but it's an interesting notion from before belt-and-road I believe. I'm sure his opinion on China has evolved significantly.