skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> had many, many more peaceful transfers of power

Only because 3 general secretaries kicked the bucket within 12 months of each others — it was a complete black swan event for the system. And the 4th one was the anomalous ascend of Gorbaczev, and the Elczin.

The later two were described as in one book I read as: "the constituent parts of factions in power were so preoccupied with fighting for the throne, that they never noticed how two grey suit career bureaucrats seized it just by following the formal procedure"

KGB, MVD, the army were self-convinced that Gorbaczev will never have enough power to act independently, and that at most he will be "a talking head on TV," while they do the real business from behind, and remove him in a few years time.

And Elczin was assumed to be "a complete nobody," and thus ignored altogether.

These people never believed in power of an individual ability, and brilliance. Their concept of power was the one which only comes with a lifelong pursuit of favours, connections, and coercive influence.
What it's like on Virgin's adults-only cruise ship
> It’s the worse case not average that’s the issue so you normally need to look at the coldest and hottest days not September

Indeed, which is why I wrote “The worst peak being at around 80GW during the winter [...]”.
> faux-insightful SEO'd content as a way to build an audience to sell snake oil to

This cracked me up good lol. Btw, another big problem is people writing "blogs" as if they were experts without having expertise e.g. machine learning medium articles making wild unsubstantiated. It's so misleading, especially because ML is already not particularly rigorous due to black box models.
I haven't heard of the class action for Cryptsy, did someone track down Vern from his (reported) bugout safe house in China?
Anyone have a guess about when iOS will support web push notifications? One shouldn't really have to spin up a native app just get this single feature that all other browsers support on every other platform.
Perhaps we need a ruby <-> python transpiler so you can secretly program in ruby on python projects.
> Meanwhile, my flagship android phone from 2018, the Samsung Galaxy S9, is stuck on the last version of Android.

That's inexcusable, and this attitude carried over to security updates is a big reason some corporates left Samsung and went to Apple -- e.g. the A5, a midrange phone comparable with the iPhone SE, lost access to updates when the device was perfectly usable.

Samsung must've felt the feedback, because this year they announced a formal policy on security updates -- too late for the S9, but customers from S10 onwards ought to benefit[1]. They've been a lot better with Android updates on newer phones too -- Project Treble probably played a role.

> Galaxy devices will now receive regular security updates for a minimum of four years after the initial phone release. By extending support for security updates delivered on a monthly, quarterly or biannual basis

[1] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-takes-galaxy-securit...
Slightly off from post. The best book recommendation I got is from one of the following ways, dedicated recommendation service or app never worked for me:

- told by friend

- someone I admire read book and commented on it

- I'm working on some problem, during that exploration i came across books.

- random people mentioning book on platform like HN on a topic/post of my interest.
That was using socketed DIL chips, 8MB on the motherboard and another 8MB on an expansion card. I had to insert the chips individually into the sockets. I had mis-remembered the disks, it used ESDI not SCSI.
"Tend to seek" is too strong of wording, but "seek part time employment at a significantly higher rate" is on target.

E.g., the most recent source I can find is a 2019 survey:

> Women physicians were significantly more likely to report not working full-time than men physicians (40 of 177 [22.6%] vs 6 of 167 [3.6%]; odds ratio [OR], 7.83; 95% CI, 3.22-19.04)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
We X'ers got our slacking in early.
>Things are "illegal" when they're in the law book,

Probably oughtta get the Kazakhstani Disney police right on it.
The increase is in the first paragraph of the article.
One word. Bangladesh.
It's actually not complex at all.
Biden’s Total Financial Surveillance
Awesome idea and nice looking UI! I will definitely visit when I am looking for new books to read.

One thing that I've noticed is that when I select another book, the scrollbar in the comment section doesn't automatically scroll up.
The problem with this is that everyone sees themselves as the underdog.
I’m pretty sure you’ve misunderstood. The implication here is that the FBI has “stolen” more assets than burglars have.
Exactly. I am done with android. I will get a linux phone instead if there is a decent model and just get an ipad for mobile app needs.
Well, assuming the intel on poisonings and assassination attempts are true. Then again, the CIA certainly isn't afraid of a little ol' assassination.

Election interference -- nobody engages in more election interference around the world than the U.S. Far beyond the scope of anything Russia has done.

Crimea -- they held a vote where like 95+ percent of residents voted to join Russia. So what's the problem?
fat32 only supports 4G files

and isn't used (or can't be used) on some types of media
Yeah, whyties always get refund from police. After showing their race ID and prooving their aryan purity!
Amazon’s big fall hardware event is set for September 28th
News articles that want to dismiss renewables seem to often call it that.

You’re right, of course. I’m not a chemist and it shows.
The organized gangs of wall greens don't carry guns and threaten to shoot people for noncompliance.
Mao was sidelined after the great leap forward and had to instigate the cultural revolution to take back the driver's seat. I was under the impression Stalin never faced any real threat of losing power?
"The "justification" for it is: a criminal can amass vast sums of money, then use it to buy so many top lawyers that he or she is untouchable"

So, logically follows that the ruling class is above the law?
Lem is best known for Solaris, of which there are two film adaptations. imho the book is better than both films, and the first film is better than the second.
Nope - the 12 lasted better than the 11
I also would not trust eye witness identification in many cases. Especially from a seven year old.
I'll bite and submit mine. Las year, during lockdown, I read the Rolling Stone 100 greatest metal albums list. As I was stuck at home most of the time and had nothing better to do I decided to listen to all 100 albums and write my thoughts on each one. I originally posted them to Facebook, but as Facebook is a crap environment to write longer form content I wrote each one into a text note and pasted it to Facebook when I had finished writing it. When I had finished I thought it would be good to put them into a blog so it would be easier to revisit them later if I wanted to.

https://www.pandelon.co.uk/blog
“Emergence” in Complex Systems
Quarterly and biannual are still a joke. It's not like Google is keeping all patches and releases them at once without notifying vendors. Nokia was a little known a few years ago for releasing security patches before Google did for their Pixel models. Sadly, this has changed.
It's simple and effective until a part of the rube goldberg machine breaks...
This really varies a lot with where you live. I'm almost an hour out of philly, very solidly middle-class office-y medical/pharma area and yeah, the sushi place I go to (not a chain, local place) just lays out the stuff on the counter for pickup, and you just look at the attached receipt since you actually what _you_ ordered. This would of course be ludicrous to do in some parts of the city itself.
So the person doesn't inhale deeply and hold their breath beforehand, and submerges with empty lungs? That seems, well, not ideal.
What does the article say? :)
The way mug shots are handled goes back to this shitty attitude that police have regarding citizens' rights. Any time they are legally forced to do something, they try to make it as humiliating as possible as an additional punishment.

Any sane government would find a way to both protect the identity of the accused while also ensuring the the appropriate family members can get access to this information if necessary.

While we're at it, the way normal people get arrested is fucking horrible too. It's not like in the movies where they lightly cuff your hands together. The police have specifically designed their handcuff procedures to be as painful as possible and to make it look like you're resisting, when in fact, you're just responding to pain and trying to maintain balance.
NASA Reviews Private Space Station Proposals
Creating Designer Babies Isn’t Just Unethical. It’s a Crushing Liability
(got it)
This is my experience in Australia too. Outside of the big cities, the coffee is almost undrinkable, Starbucks would be welcome. The coffee in Sydney and Melbourne was good but a city having good coffee is unremarkable
Is there anything in this pile of complexity that might turn around my impression that civil forfeiture exists in flagrant disregard for the American values expressed in the 4th and 5th Amendments?

Or is this argument the intellectual equivalent of when my kid says "You doooon't understaaaaaaaand!"
I would much rather live in most 3rd world countries than the USA.
One takeaway from this article, is that even though Elon Musk is widely admired as an inventor on this forum, perhaps his greater genius is in the financial engineering of his companies. It's no accident that he has almost gone broke funding ventures in several high-risk industries (space, solar, EVs) and still figured out a way to finance his bets. He is a master of raising money, doing PR for his ventures, and inspiring engineers to work for him for paychecks that are vastly under the market in cash (leveraging his stellar PR to substitute equity for cash at an astronomical forward valuation even in the early days).
It is usually better to chose when to risk breaking stuff then having some auto updater running.
Are you sure?

The phrasing "such as" in "such as through use of the Timescale Data Definition Interfaces" looks to me like it can be interpreted as saying "Including but not limited to"
How do they review the data if your iCloud photos are E2E encrypted?
Show HN: Safari Web Extension that redirects AMP
Hi HN!

I’ve created a Safari Web Extension that redirects AMP pages to their canonical version, effectively disabling AMP in Safari.

It started as a project for myself but over the last few months has improved from only supporting Google search results to supporting all AMP pages. Thanks to feedback from beta testers I’ve added special support for some websites, such as Google News, Yahoo! JAPAN, and Yandex. Before working on Overamped I wasn’t even aware of Yandex Turbo, Yandex’s equivalent of AMP!

I’d love any feedback around what I feel are my weakest areas: marketing and design. I’m happy enough with the website and App Store page for release but feel there’s a lot I could do to improve them.
Same. I'm a little disappointed it's not.
Yeah. I'm in Austin, which probably means my local data gets more attention than most

They do have a mechanism for filing corrections from within the app, which I've used a couple times and it seems to actually result in fixes, which is great

Hopefully they give more priority to a wider set of areas in the future
Although viewable on mobile, this app is best viewed on larger screens! :)
Just to clarify the relevant thing is whether Google owns the copyright to Chromium source, and it does for a huge part. It can license that code however it wants, including open source, or no license at all.

Chrome/Chromium also uses a ton of open source libraries for which Google does NOT hold the copyright, but all of them, per their license, can be linked with closed source code and distributed (i.e. they are not GPL/copyleft).
Because that's how they manufacture probable cause. If they can manufacture probable cause, they can search the car for things that are valuable enough to justify the paperwork.
Over what time period? I think I’m America you can get a 30 year fixed rate mortgage. In Canada, 5 years is the most you can get even if the amortization period is 25-30 years.
> "In April 1959, the “brilliant and professional” Canadians, who made up a third of the Space Task Group, arrived at the Langley Research Center in Virginia to begin their new careers. [...] One of those brilliant engineers was a man from Kamloops, B.C. named Jim Chamberlin."

Not sure where they got the "third" figure. That sounds a little over the top. And it neglects that a lot of them were also American Citizens to begin with.

What's interesting is that it wasn't really a brain drain: Canada decided to stop it's domestic airplane program and all these engineers were pretty much out of a job.

Same thing is happening today to the Canadian aerospace sector with the CSeries saga. Trudeau immediately bowed down to Trump when tariffs were imposed, despite later being thrown out in courts. All he did was to basically threaten to not buy Boeing fighter jets and instead get f35 from Lockheed (which he was contractually obligated to anyways). No support for the industry, nothing. And that was for a flagship prestige technological project.

I still don't understand why he reacted so submissively to Trump. Having the CSeries sold to Airbus at a huge discount was foolish: The plane already had a profitable amount of orders. Now Europeans are reaping the benefits.
Yes absolutely. Personal food delivery is a scourge. Perhaps we should be policing "no one-off personal meal delivery".
Was this custom code that you wrote to do this? Or is this something that we can find out there in the world? I have been working on this off and on for a few years now and I have just not been able to come up with a reliable way to pull this off.

Great work all around!
> "Was aborted by the driver" is the key thing

Was it though? Look closely, and maybe replay it a few times (I just did, another response to a different comment of mine had made this point so I looked). The car seems to have recovered itself, and the driver grabbed it a second later after it was already correcting.

That it decided it needed to turn all of a sudden us perplexing, and something that should be looked into, but it also went back to a straight path a moment later, either because of pedestrians too close or because of some other reason.

> nobody is arguing this error was so bad it could have killed civilians even if the driver was responsible.

"drove directly through where the people were going to be" most definitely implies that to my eyes. People die for exactly that reason all the time. Maybe I'm confused as to what you're trying to communicate.
REAMDE was crap, IMO, and I'm a Stephenson fan.

And the problem with Stephenson is that's rarely succint so a bad book from him turns into a huge loss of time.
It's Los Angeles baby.
The article we’re all commenting on is really good evidence. But here’s more:

> A 1993 investigation by The Orlando Sentinel revealed that nine of every 10 motorists who were stopped and stripped of their cash by police in Volusia County, Florida, were either black or Hispanic, and three out of four were never charged with a crime. In Philadelphia, where nearly 300 houses are seized annually, African Americans make up 44% of the population but 63% of house seizures and 71% of cash forfeitures unaccompanied by a conviction. Forfeiture is also most likely to affect economically disadvantaged communities: One study found that areas with high income inequality were targeted for civil forfeiture operations, likely because these police departments have limited funding and are inclined to use forfeiture to secure needed revenue.

source: https://www.splcenter.org/20171030/civil-asset-forfeiture-un...
This, exactly, is why I switched to iPhones. The only way Android devices are cheaper is if you run them into the ground and don't upgrade until you must. Invariably they go on 50% off sale within a year for the flagship models, which tanks their resale value. Combined with the utter lack of support more than the first couple years of ownership.

I can upgrade my iPhone every 2 or 3 years and spend a lot less overall. My wallet was always open when I tried to stay current with Android flagships.
So as a percentage it would be quite a bit lower.
Eu can't have "nice" things. Eu has a long track on spending billions without any results: like the project to make an IaaS rivaling Amazon. The search engine to counter Google, the cpu to counter Intel and so on.

Meanwhile, the EU carmakers stepped in and successfully lobbied to have older (to very old) generation chips factories built. So it's a shift of taxer payer money to help carmakers in their short term goals.
Could always run MacOs in a VM assuming your hardware specs were up to snuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnpEOo3GJA
It gets even scarier. I don’t want to get political, but our current President, Joe Biden, was the driving force behind our civil forfeiture laws as they exist today. So any push for reform certainly won’t be coming from the executive branch.

https://fee.org/articles/how-a-young-joe-biden-became-the-ar...
Totally unrelated, but this part of the readme says

Yandex N.V. is the largest
internet company in Europe
and employs over 14,000 people

I’m quite sure there are larger “internet companies” in the EU such as Booking, Zalando, etc.
Yes. The idea feels very nice but the implementation is unbearable. I want to imitate that without having to install a browser extension which is ridiculously slow and requires access to all the pages you visit. I would tolerate it if it would stay off until I actively invoke it when and where I want (mostly local disk/host documents) and if I could be sure it doesn't spy on me. So I am passively looking for an alternative. So far LaTeX was the only alternative I've found that can do that but it is otherwise too complex to use (I managed to achieve the effect but failed to build a book of specific structure I needed in reasonable time). Now I'm curious if Ruby can fill this gap between MarkDown/HTML+CSS and LaTeX.
People don't have time for all that, nor should they.
Well, that puts an end to that story about how Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed due to men's wickedness.

I've always believed the Bible to be just a collection of stories edited for morality.
Why is this here? Submitted by a 7-minute-old account no less.
This comparison is pointless. 100% stolen in burglaries is crime. We don't know the percentage for CAF. What if it is 99.9% justified?
> it's not much harder than transferring money to a different bank/investment account.

Yes, along with all the KYC requirements that coinbase require, just like my investment account does. Meanwhile the bar for services like Pateron, paypal, shopify, etc is one click and done.
I’m going to upgrade. If they roll it I’m going to sell the phone.
If it was inflation + 5%, I'd be fine with that - but a flat 5% limit only works so long as inflation stays low.
It's a really interesting project. And I am sure it's really hard.

I was curious how many times some common textbooks were mentioned but didn't find them via the search, which could be user error. But to give a specific example. None of the books in this comment thread were found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19893447

Comment text like this:
"CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (4th Edition)" by Weste and Harris

should've been caught, right?
But the best book about Stalin is from his secretary Boris Bašanov, who deflected as soon as he saw Stalin's insanity. Not in English, but the Google translation is good. The CIA and the Nazis knew about this book. The Nazis ignored it and this lost the eastern front.
Sorry, I think I conflated "public" with "low-income" housing in reading the comment. They're clearly different, though often uttered together.
If you can cultivate your customer base to only sell this service to folks who want to pay for it. On a timed basis, generally. All the upside without the headache of dealing with angry people you don't have a business relationship with.

Folks who want to purchase a service are generally grateful of getting whatever they're paying for. They realize that's not always the case.
I also highly recommend. Some further recommendations is to find the use that best fits your interest (dirt, courses, relaxation, commuting, tourism), and make excuses to ride.

I recently moved to a Zero, and despite the concerns of my peers for missing out on the pure riding experience, its really re-ignited my joy.
I used Win 98 SE for a few years, but I subsequently switched to Windows 2000 which was far more stable. I used the same installation (installing updates and service packs via Windows update) from around 2002 through 2010 until a lightning strike took out the system board and the computer could not make it past the BIOS POST check.
The Monacelli guy comes across pretty badly

If it were a contest for 'making a bad impression', the guy who spoke after him literally went on a five minute rant advocating nazism.
Even in the first film there is only one brief scene that hints at the backstory that is a major part of the book.
Definitely helps to be in a major metro area. Even then, while I think Portland has pretty good detail, it was noticeably improved when I drove through the Bay Area last weekend. When that level of detail is available everywhere (in the US, at least), Google may have something to worry about.
Even with up to date prescriptions, I find I can’t really read most print magazines and books anymore. My eyes can’t take it. I’ve tried everything, and have just given up — the type is too small and the contrast too low. I can read on screens and my kindle. I’m only middle aged, but reading has become challenging.
Yes. Battery-cage poultry farms are about as humane as most outsourced call centers. It's not uncommon to have support desks trying to deal with 500+ requests a day with just a single handful of agents. The agents have KPIs, the outsourcing company that they work for has brutal and rigorously enforced contractual SLAs to the first-party company that they are providing service to.

It's a very dark and depressing sector to build software for.
Here are all the reels: https://youtu.be/I_t_fbOmvYg

Motor Cycling Elementary Control

Motor Cycling Maintenance

Motor Cycling Cross-Country Technique
That's the "civil" in civil asset forfeiture. It isn't a criminal legal action, it takes place in a civil court. Essentially the government is suing you, which has a variety of implications. First is the reduced standard: instead of "beyond a reasonable doubt", we have "more likely than not". You also don't have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford legal counsel you have to represent yourself, no public defender will be made available for you.

Another surprising fact: immigration courts are civil courts, so the same facts as above apply to them. There's been multiple cases where undocumented minors (including those as young as 3) have been forced to represent themselves in court.
Why do iOS upgrades past one major version always slow down my devices so much though. It's been such a disappointing waste of system resources.

Personally this is why I tried out Android and have so far stuck with it, (splitting my devices up between two OSes but whatever). So far my Androids get 2 years of bi-monthly security updates and at least 2 major Android releases by manufacturer policy, which is all I've needed, and they don't effectively render my device useless (so far, fingers crossed).
While I agree with you in principle, I'd like to point out that it's a falasy to believe one specialty is more difficult than another (I'm and anesthesiologist).
I don't think you can. We don't have enough information to be certain yet, we can just try to estimate the least inconsistent hypothesis.