skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article elides over the specifics of the victim in question, or the Substack medium that had dove into his personal life, but it keeps the prime focus on the dangers of (meta)data collection being used to doxx individuals. I say that it succeeds on that front, while leaving the sordid details for those other articles to cover. The importance is the issue, of which this incident is but a case study.
Mobileye tests self-driving cars in New York City
He believes that the biggest impediment to black people in the modern day is other black people.

> Marion Barry abuses the D.C. mayor's office and snorts crack on video and `movement' blacks march in the streets to get him acquitted.

> Who will wake up the poor blacks in our cities to the fact that they've become their own worst enemies, slaughtering each other in numbers the Klan could only dream of, yearly racking up casualty figures reminiscent of a medium-sized war?

Is he asking any black people what should be done? Not in this essay. He's laying all blame at the feet of black people. He doesn't mention any issues caused by non-black people.

Also, he's asserting that some anti-racism initiatives are threats.

> `Afro-centrists' agitate for their own (segregated) schools and curricula that would consciously try to write the white man out of the black child's version of history.

(Increasing black representation is writing the "white man" out of history?)

> Who will speak the hard truth: that, against this hideous backdrop, continued attempts at the moral blackmail of innocent whites with reminders of past racism will only drive them into the arms of hatemongers like David "Sieg-Heil" Duke and his scummy gang of knock-off Nazis?

(The worst racism is calling something racist?)

If this essay was supposed to convince me he doesn't hold some racist views, it backfired miserably. His vision of "non-racism" appears to be conscious ignorance, where the biggest racist threat is people saying something is racist.
I'm going to be super pedantic here because your phrasing confused me and I wanted to be clear:

It's not that 8% of the remaining 18% is commercial/industrial; it's that 8% of the total (not part of the 82% agricultural) is commercial.

In other words:

* 44% of non-agricultural use (8% of the total, within the 18% non-ag) is commercial/industrial,

* 33% of non-agricultural use (6% of the total, within the 18% non-ag) is outdoor residential, and

* 22% of non-agricultural use (4% of the total, within the 18% non-ag) is indoor residential

^Data are on page 4/16 of the linked PDF
Any use that doesn't sit well with whoever wrote EULA.
Turning Plastic Waste into Protein Shakes: Research Wins $1.2M Prize
Looks like the email has a typo in "vehicle"
Yes - everyone seems to forget that S-100 CP/M business machines had been around since 1976. It wasn't a huge market, but it definitely wasn't negligible. And there were some home users, although most preferred Apple.

So IBM didn't invent the PC. IBM invented mass marketing for its own brand of PC. And also - after a while - IBM started the constant upgrade treadmill.

S-100 was more backward looking. You could get 8086 and 68000 cards for S100, but it was really a Z80 ecosystem. There was no clean upgrade path with backward compatibility. This was a showstopper for most businesses, which needed access to old data and software.

IBM screwed themselves by hugely overcharging for PS/2, and Compaq stole their lunch. As soon as other clones appeared IBM were out.
I've never taught programming, but i find your last point hard to believe. Programming is human-made, and it was created to be understood and used by humans -- in contrast to say, math or science where things just are. Maybe you can claim that only a small subset of people can get great at programming, but i think that the vast majority of people can manage to learn the basics given enough time.
Uber/Lyft was such an important factor in my daily equation during my 20s (2010's). I remember those black car rides for $8. Haven't opened the Uber/Lyft apps in about 2 years. I can imagine using it again for business travel when it's not linked to my personal credit card though.
Windows 9x had driver and stability issues but you could always kill an application if it stopped responding.
Linux today is similar to OS/2 - the OS keeps working but UI is unresponsive so if you have another computer you can ssh in but if you don't you may have to reboot.
I know that sometimes you can switch to terminal using keyboard and try to kill the application from there but that is not as easy as CTRL+ALT+DEL + Task Manager and killing the application.
Of course, there are times you don't have the keyboard attcahed (tablets) and then frozen UI is equivalent to the crashed OS.
And just to add - these days MS has made Windows much less resilient as misbehaving applications can freeze the UI to the point where CTRL+ALT+DEL and Task Manager do not respond any more so I guess OS/2 has won in the end - two of three most used Desktop OSes emulate the bad UI behavior.
Ask HN: What is the mobile vs. desktop distribution for visitors of Hacker News?
And to face the consequences for that speech, such as the lawsuit that is the subject of this article.

I think there are real societal costs to encouraging the removal of anonymity, especially using less than ethical methods and more especially when it causes real harm to people. In this case it was perhaps just losing a job, but often it results in significant risks of real physical harm.
So handy for pirating software at PCCUG meetings.
> and my sister-in-law noticed that he had a nice pair (I'm being serious, they were very large)

I think this qualifies as the sentence I have least expected to read on this site in my many years of enjoying Hacker News
The police could intercept 90% of the drugs and the price of the remaining 10% would go so high that the smugglers would keep making billions.
The police has a thankless never ending job until society's attitude changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

Just something that might interest you on the topic of organization.
"First, the Commission urges the public to submit complaints and provide other information to aid
in greater enforcement of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and its implementing regulations.
While current law does not provide for civil penalties or redress, the Commission will consider
filing suit against violators of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act to seek appropriate injunctive
relief."

"Second, the Commission will scrutinize repair restrictions for violations of the antitrust laws. For
example, certain repair restrictions may constitute tying arrangements or monopolistic
practices—such as refusals to deal, exclusive dealing, or exclusionary design—that violate the
Sherman Act.8 Violations of the Sherman Act also violate the prohibition on unfair methods of
competition codified in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. "

We've had these laws on the books for a long time. I'm not confident that they're going to be effectively applied, unless the FTC has significantly increased in size and capability recently.
That’s what they’ve replaced TextWrangler with, but if you look at the feature comparison page, the free tier seems to do so much more than TextWrangler did that it feels less accurate to call it that — I was never a TextWrangler user, though, so I’m not qualified to say from experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XMFEUNut18

Watch this and tell me they're not about to run out of greater fools.
No natural process chips off flakes right next to one another, all along the edge, or both edges, or both sides of an edge, of a stone. Anytime you find a stone like that, it's an artifact.

A rock with just one chip generally needs evidence of a habitation or other activity to identify it.

There is a site in southern England where somebody found a whole pile of chips, and fitted them all together showing the missing space left over had been a spear point.
> I really wish you could just designate a group of resources as unimportant, set a billing limit, and let Amazon nuke everything / delete your files / whatever, if you go over the limit.

That's exactly how it should work. It would even be useful if I could designate my development / testing account as unimportant by default so everything can be nuked to limit spending.

I think it's the kind of thing that will only be solved by regulation. The government needs to institute the concept of capped overages for cloud providers where if I set my budget to $100 / month they aren't allowed to send me a 100x bill for $10k.

Here's the 9 year old request for the same thing on Azure.

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/170030-signup-and-billing/...

I politely asked @AzureSupport (on Twitter) if they could have someone provide an update, but they didn't deliver on their promise to follow up :-(
>I mean houses shouldn’t be available to rent.

Congrats, you win the award for the wierdest opinion I have read this month on the internet. Here is your chance to blow my mind with your arguments.
IBM also hindered the roll out of
Well, to be fair, Google is in a unique position to shape opinions and manufacture outrage over their right to ham-fistedly thumb their nose at Oracle's software licenses. Google has hundreds of patents, and they have some applications for patent which are total nonsense (like the heart hand gesture... seriously). I don't think any party involved has a credible moral objection to intellectual property rights. I think they do have different friends D.C.
> It's not salary per se but those that benefit by renting out units or those for whom this has saved them money I've found typically get so defensive about AirBnB to the point of calling detractors NIMBYists and the like.

Isn't the other side of the argument also concerned with housing prices and money?

> To be clear, I don't have a problem with people renting out rooms or an ADU on their property.

What do you see as the differences between airbnb and this? The line between the two seems a little blurry to me and it seems odd to me that someone could be completely fine with one but completely against the other.
Cleaning a 1bdr. apt, is about 80-100 in NYC. Hotels have dedicated staff, that makes it economically cheap/feasible. AirBnb cleaning makes sense if you stay for a whole week, or more, and that fee gets amortized, otherwise, for short term stays, Airbnb is not cost effective.
A binary search tree with string keys is just a compressed version of a binary tree with bit keys, which greatly reduces the number of nodes.

E.g. this has three nodes:

dog
/ \
ant fly

But:

ant -> 61 6E 74 -> 011000010110111001110100
dog -> 64 6f 67 -> 011001000110111101100111
fly -> 66 6C 79 -> 011001100110110001111001

Thus

R
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0
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1
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0
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/ \
,---' `-------.
/ \
/ \
0 1
/ / \
/ ,-------' `---.
/ / \
0 0 1
\ / /
1 0 0
/ / /
0 0 0
\ \ \
1 1 1
\ \ \
1 1 1
/ / /
0 0 0
\ \ \
1 1 1
\ \ \
1 1 1
\ \ /
1 1 0
/ \ /
0 1 0
/ / /
0 0 0
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1 1 1
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1 1 0
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0 1 0
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(ant) (dog) (fly)

:)
Hmm, you're right. So there's one thing I didn't mention and that is that my income was abnormally high that year because I was bought out of the company I resigned from. Pushing me into the 50% tax rate territory. This might have made the deductibles that much more significant. I would have to look up the exact numbers to know for sure.
You can try Armodafinil instead of modafinil, it cause less anxiety.
Also not popular but apparently effective, amantadine is an interesting dopaminergic.
100-Qubit Quantum Computing System Unveiled
It isn't "because... reasons", it's because of specific reasons. Those reasons are actually right there in your comment: Blue Origin and Virgin don't strike me at all as "advancing space exploration". Like the comment you replied to said: we already knew how to do the stuff they've done, a long time ago. Spacex on the other hand is progressing the state of the art.
A single American earning 100k gross would only pay about 13k in taxes. Less if you’re maxing 401(k). In America taxes are quite low until you’re in the top brackets.
What a nice surprise to see MoviePy on the HN front page!

I was tinkering with moviepy over the weekend to add subtitles
to my standup comedy routine. I used a hand edited simple ".srt" file. It was easy and fun to implement.

Here is the finished result,
https://fb.watch/v/17oesJhB3/
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix, which has 4 quadrants with intersections of urgent and important.
I think that all this boils down to a rather simple dilemma for modern cloud-native infrastructural platforms [in terms of developer experience, i.e., external APIs etc., not internal architecture; and this is not even limited to this class of systems - it is general concept for all software systems]: a) universal, highly configurable & complex (K8s) OR b) highly opinionated and [relatively] simple (e.g., Nomad/Waypoint, Heroku, Apollo, CapRover, Dokku, Porter, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Digital Ocean's App Platform, Fly, Render). Obviously, there exists a middle-ground category as well: relatively simple, but still opinionated and moderately (???) or highly (e.g., OpenShift) configurable platforms. Thus, the optimal choice depends on relevant team's or organization's priorities with respect to those attributes (configurability, complexity, level & scope of opinionation) as well as level of organizational standardization for IT environments, economic factors, vendor lock-in considerations and, perhaps, something else that I forgot to mention).
Surely you understand it doesn't sound very convincing that you've drawn the line at just the point where it doesn't affect you and no farther.

Crime is lower in places where more people own their homes, communities are tighter, streets are cleaner. All these externalities of crime, community, and hygiene are apparently not a problem when you're a factor.

EDIT: Whoops, alex_smart below has pointed out that I am suffering from the context-loss-disorder that is common on HN. It is true, renting is a positive-sum thing and good for many.

I'd reply, alex_smart, but the downvotes have limited my ability to do so.
I think your expectations are out of alignment with what's happening. I know software engineers who graduated with CS degrees from schools like MIT, Urbana Champaigne, and Stanford who took Operating System classes but could not realistically "hack into the OS". If those programs aren't consistently imparting that knowledge to students without an explicit interest, I don't see how others can be expected to...
As much as I love Panic and their software, BBEdit's LSP support is considerably more solid and its text editing engine is just a lot more powerful. There are still some advantages Nova has and it's certainly prettier, but after about a year of using Nova -- I started with the betas! -- it still feels nerfed compared to both BBEdit and Visual Studio Code (which I'd argue is its more natural competitor).
Neither Bezos or Branson achieved orbital velocities, which is the minimum bar for doing useful things related to space. It really is just a carnival ride - it's not about who's in it, its that they didn't actually achieve anything: what they built has no utility except as a dick-measuring contest.

Orbit is a little bit of upwards velocity and a whole lot of sideways velocity. They only did the much simpler former.

These sub orbital flights are just barely over the line into what can be called space travel, and do nothing useful except letting them brag that 'they went to space'
As far as I can tell this article isn't making an argument against utility or usefulness merely pointing out that the price of BTC has been artificially manipulated (which seems obvious).
I am running Nightly, actually, mostly in the hopes that the most important issues get fixed sooner. It doesn't seem like that's happening. I might end up going back to stable pretty soon.

I should also mention that Chrome on Android has none of the issues I described earlier. Wouldn't it make sense that even someone like me that desperately wants a reason to stand with Mozilla ends up giving into temptation and uses Brave half the time?

I hope that Mozilla can learn from its mistakes and stay competitive, given that the alternative is an Android browser monoculture. They're one of the few organizations with the resources to implement the increasingly encroaching burden of new web specifications, and I don't think a community-supported fork of Firefox or FfA will survive without some kind of miracle (see Waterfox and its need to eventually implement Web Components or fall out of relevance). The partial WebExtension support on mobile alone is one thing that gives me hope FfA will continue to see support for the near future.
Mongo hasn't used the MMAP storage engine for a long time. In fact it looks like it has even been removed now:

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/storage-engines/

Wired Tiger, the default storage engine is LSM Trees with BTrees for indexes.
Now Salesforce officially owns Slack
I suppose drones could be a backup plan if the authorities ever manage to get a grip on shipping.
It costs >$100k (potentially much more) per overhaul of a turbine engine. That's a lot more than it costs to overhaul a reciprocating engine (probably 10x more).

I agree that they are more reliable though (part of why most helicopters use them, since loss of the engine is much more serious problem than in planes)
No billionaire's focus can even come close to matching a nation at war. In less than 25 years, governments went from realizing nukes were possible to creating an arsenal large enough to destroy civilization (1).

I think the great challenge of our generation will be a way to come together with such single minded focus to tackle problems without trying to exterminate each other.

(1) https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/atomic-bomb-hist...
Red tape is definitely an issue, but freight costs to Nepal are also extremely high. It's a landlocked country with very poor transportation networks. Air courier (eg DHL) to Kathmandu is in the range of $5/kg, and if the final destination is in a village it needs to be hand-carried there. So accessing cheap stuff from abroad is much harder than we might think coming from developed countries. There is no such thing as slapping on a FedEx label right to the final destination.
> What do you see as the differences between airbnb and this?

Not OP, but I share a similar view. If you're renting out a room of an ADU, you're still occupying the property and using it as housing yourself. The whole difference is that the sole use of the property is not taking it off the long term rental/buying market. With spare rooms/ADUs, that's not the purpose of the property, whereas with renting out a whole house it is.
I'm really hoping that at some point a "conscientious" airbnb competitor would appear.

Maybe something implementing a few basic (naive?) rules:

1. A property cannot be listed for more than 120 days a year.'

2. One cannot list more than 2 properties.

So limiting to people that aren't actually making a business out of bnb's.
> You can live out there with little water impact. it's doing farming in some of the drier parts of the US that seems wasteful when we know water is an issue there.

Ok then they'll use it up and the problem will solve itself.

I don't agree that you can live there and have the infrastructure to support jobs, food etc. with "very little impact"
Exactly. I decided never to use MongoDB after that. I was already gravitating back to relational DBs anyway.

MongoDB was nice for fast iteration on new projects, i.e. no alter table scripts required, but in the end it wasn't really an improvement. The data in the DB became hard to manage since different records in a collection could have different fields, due to no consistency or enforcement. Mongoose helped some with that, but then the schema just lived in the application layer instead of the DB. I also found myself needing to do multiple queries to do "joins" across multiple collections, so it ending up being less efficient. There was also the default setting of write and forget, i.e. to not wait for a confirmation that the data actually was written. Who writes a database like that? Performance focused but not data focused. Anyway, I liked the idea of having JS on the client / server (Node.js) / DB, but after some time I came back to relational DBs.
I understand the hate for AirBnB but when I didn’t have money it was really the only affordable way to travel. I don’t think I would’ve been able to afford my best vacations without it.
JuiceVM: Smallest RISC-V virtual machine that can run the Linux kernel mainline
Why Now?
I always wonder about a 3rd group. Those without mental illness or terminal illness who just want to die. Or is the assumption that someone who wants to die but isn’t terminally ill must be mentally ill?
Your statements just illustrate an off-hand lack of exposure/knowledge is all.

The mini-14 is patterned off of an actual full-auto military service rifle (with no pistol grip, fwiw), the M14, to sell to the civilian market. This is different than the AR, which was sold to civilians years before the military adopted a similarly patterned service rifle. So if we're talking about the evils of modeling rifles after full-auto military versions, your mini-14 is carrying more moral baggage than the AR. I think the M14 is still in service or was until very recently in the ME, again as a select fire weapon with no pistol grip.

So for small arms, I think the pistol grip matters far less than you're portraying it to in your comments. While valuable for control in a crew-served full auto, it really has two more "pedestrian" advantages in an individual rifle. It allows the receiver to transfer force in a more direct line to the shooter's shoulder and avoid/minimize the structurally weak point of the "dip" in the traditional stock's neck between the receiver and the butt. This makes the rifle far more durable and not coincidentally, cheaper to fashion. It also minimizes physical contact with the rifle along the bore axis which is valuable for aimed shots. You can basically fire the rifle with only the finger on the trigger and a little bit of thumb if that, with no danger of exerting downward or lateral pressure on the stock. Precision rifles in .300 WIN MAG, 338L and higher also use a pistol grip and it's not there because it helps them "spray and pray".

Does it help someone with a semi-auto rifle have more control than not when firing rapidly at moving targets (whether civilians, military people, or ducks)? I don't think someone who's trying to rapid fire with a semi-auto is going to notice one way or another, honestly. Guns designed specifically for off-the-cuff instinctive shooting of multiple moving targets in succession notably have never adopted the pistol grip (think field, double trap, and skeet shotguns).

You move from talking about the advantage of the pistol grip to just asking if semi-autos broadly "enable novices to easily kill large numbers of civilians". Not sure why it matters whether the targets are civilians or not for this purely functional question aside from the obvious appeal to emotion. Semi-autos do allow more rapid fire than other breech or muzzle loader designs, though I've seen people fire lever actions faster than you or I could fire a semi-auto but they definitely aren't novices. Kind of comes back to the question, though - if all semi-autos do this, why single out the AR patterned rifle? You brought up the comparison to the mini-14 suggesting there was something about the AR that enabled novices that wasn't present in your mini. I'm just telling you that that's not the case. To say the pistol grip matters all that much on either of these rifles is a hard speculative argument to make convincingly.