skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“That’s how evolution works” isn’t a good framework once rational creatures (supposedly us) are involved. If we found a species of delicious pigs in a local area and ate them all, we don’t get to rest on the “well the overall rate of extinction isn’t historically high”. When species go extinct due to loss of habitat (because we destroyed it) or invasive species (that we introduced), it’s definitely worth reflecting and trying to make smarter decisions in the future.

There probably is an argument though that asks “by preserving the current species, are we missing out on new species that would emerge from the destruction?” So I admit it’s not so simple. But Im just trying so say that because we can make choices, we can’t just say “that’s nature”
> The universe became conscious in the form of humans and asked ‘who made me?’

Or, more subtly, "who is making me?":

> Distinction: A sequence of changers can be ordered essentially or accidentally. These are called per se and per accidens sequences.

> A sequence is ordered accidentally if each changer in the sequence possesses the power to change another regardless whether any prior changer is still acting. For example: a woman may possess the power to give birth regardless whether her mother is still alive. She possesses the power of birthing in and of her own self.

> A sequence is ordered essentially if each changer in the sequence possesses the power to change another only if a preceding changer is acting concurrently upon it. For example, a clarinet does not have the power to play Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A in and of itself. It will only play if Sharon Kam is playing upon it concurrently.¹ A mover like the clarinet is called an "instrumental" mover, happily so since the clarinet is literally an instrument! In a similar wise, TOF's very own clarinet will not make music by itself. Unfortunately, it does not seem to make music even when TOF is playing it, although he has summoned ducks in this fashion.²

[…]

> 1. An instrumental changer cannot transmit a change unless a primary changer is acting concurrently upon it.

> 2. An infinite regress has no primary changer.

> 3. There cannot be an infinite regress of instrumental changers.

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

You do not keep yourself in existence, i.e., you do not prevent yourself from going *poof* into nothingness. Something "underlies" your existence and keeps you 'going'. And something underlies that, and something… But it has to stop somewhere. A bad analogy: in a sky scraper the 99th floor keeps the 100th floor in the air, and then 98th keeps the 99th, …. But at some point there needs to be bedrock.

The eventual Prime Mover is what theologians refer to as God: that which nothing else can exist without.
>Or, perhaps, judicial punishment

I don't think that's what the parent poster was advocating. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28713675

>The official carve-outs for police misbehavior are unacceptable. And, unofficially, prosecutors are strongly disincentivized to prosecute cops: they're the DAs primary witnesses in many cases.

Don't disagree with you on any of those.
With this feature enabled, can adversaries (with a bluetooth antenna) detect your phone's presence, even if it's off?

What do they see? Do they see your device name eg. "Craig's iPhone", or do they just see random alphanumeric characters?
Except like all of these services, people actual do engage more with a curated feed. I just wish there were at least an option to go chronological.
Hard in practice. What will you do when a nearby colleague invites you out for a coffee, walk, beer, etc.
It's quite common in python to manage/encapsulate a global by wrapping it in a module, so arguably a singleton is the same thing, just encapsulating in a class/class-instance instead?

but even if the prog-lang had specific support for safe(r) globals, it would still just be a global at the lower (higher?) level.
People don’t have much control over their local police force but I don’t understand how making a national police force which citizens have even less control over helps. It’s also not clear to me that instances of corruption and nepotism don’t exist at a national level.
If they aren't under a gag order, that is. If they are, you won't even know it's on.
All you really need is materials shown to have melted at temperatures well beyond what could be achieved at the time, and a sharp peak of platinum-group metals.

Then the burden is on the skeptics to explain how those got there by some other means.

If you think you got some shocked quartz, you might as well take pics. If it's not, really, that doesn't matter.

We have lots of both in coincident layers all over North America, South America, Africa, and at Abu Hureyra, demonstrating a strike coincident with the start of the Younger Dryas 1400-year freeze and 32+ genera of large American mammals suddenly gone extinct, including a cheetah, horses, camels, dire wolves, sabretooth cats, several pachyderms, a giant sloth, and a bear much bigger than the grizzly.

If we have a platinum metals peak there, and demonstrated melting of materials that need 2000+°C to melt, that is good enough for me. It is remarkably good aim to devastate two nearby sites only 10,000 years apart, but how surprising is it that disasters happened at places we were interested enough in to dig up? There could be plenty more strikes at places we don't dig up, and so haven't noticed.

The actual paper only mentions Sodom in passing. The news stories are what play it up. What bothers me some is that I have not heard of a meteor delivering a lot of NaCL anywhere else. Also there is not much detail on what is supposed to have happened at Jericho.
Great stuff! I love the "going further" links to give some good suggestions on stuff to check out next, too. Promising start! Cheers to Solène for kicking this off.
Fair enough! I misread your intent. I would be against cops being abused by the inmates (just as I would any other prisoner), though I would be in favor of cops getting increased sentences for equivalent crimes.
No, we just make it boring with linters and unit tests.
Plus, we're not building real world things anymore, like OSes, factory assembly lines or cool robots that make burgers.

Instead, we make boring websites and crappy web APIs, and if that's not boring enough, we also have to make a crappy little docker file and integrate with the local CI.

Oh, don't forget to file the release notes in Jira, and close out those little SCRUM tickets.

eh
True. My grandpa worked in the mines and a quarry to help make money in addition to the farm. I think some farmers were lucky enough to have the government pay for food (or even the destruction of food) so that they could distribute the food and drive up prices for the people who did have money.
This will probably be done at the metro level rather than the exact city.
I understood what you meant and agree. I believe many social justice obsessed individuals have become their own worst enemy as they view every unrelated topic an attack on their personal perspective.
Waymo has been doing commercial driverless ops in Chandler for 4-5 years now, so you can absolutely see videos of that. You just can't see it in SF because until this announcement no one has had the permit to do it commercially, Tesla included.
I just Googled what the book is and I don't blame you. Point is that libraries act as a network, and if you really want to check out a book, librarians tend to work with you to make it happen.
Muslims in India’s Assam in shock after deadly eviction drive
> Who is liable when someone gets hit with a self driving car?

As is usually the case with the legal system, whoever has the least amount of political/economic power. So either the safety driver or the victim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg
i don't know why you think federal law enforcement is any better
So it took 15 years to build the entire Internet from scratch but it's taking over 20 years to upgrade to a new version.
That puts it into perspective. Their best hits are Monster Hunter World (2018) and Street Fighter II (1991). So it gives this perception of a fallen giant that took 27 years to break their record.

But in between, Resident Evil is actually the best selling franchise. RE doesn't really feel like an AAA game to me, it's just sort of third best in the genre.
The greatest victory is that which is won without ever fighting
I might be wrong but I think dang does monitor his name. I have mentioned him a few times and he swings by. Maybe just coincidence. I did email him too.
Fat lot of good that will do you with your project that needs to be completed next year or your company is hosed no? And once you do the fix - which won’t require ipv6 or will use a different vendor - then you won’t be talking to them anyway.

The underlying issue is that there is a lot of momentum with v4, and hacks mostly work and work faster and easier, so most people end up going that way. So it keeps the momentum.

And v6 has some serious second system syndrome going on (aka we’ll dramatically fix all the stuff we wanted to do better last time, ignoring real world constraints), and the adoption shows. It was clearly designed to be a either or replacement (aka cleanroom, start fresh with this), but that’s not how real world upgrades tend to work. I keep wanting to use v6, but every time I do, it quickly ends up having to get turned off because of something broken somewhere in some product I have little choice in using or interacting with and v4 (even with tons of terrible NAT) still keeps chugging along.

Momentum is shifting of course - this isn’t a steady state forever thing - but man, ugh.
AFAIK a kid can get in trouble at school for using a twig as a pretend gun.

https://www.newsweek.com/boy-13-who-drew-stickman-holding-gu...

Also, coffee really is a powerful drug, just that it's not regulated.
Can states not subpoena mobile networks for people’s location histories?

Seems kind of stupid to commit tax evasion with no chance of plausible deniability. For the bottom 80% or even 90% of people it seems like the rewards are only a few thousand dollars per year. And the remaining 10% to 20% are easy for authorities to identify.
Probably an encrypted payload to be forwarded to apples ‘find my’ services
its like they want us to use crypto
``I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.''

Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922-February 7, 1990)

I think we lost the fun. Unless you have a very fun job, being a 10x dev for too long gets boring.

Being a 1x dev can be comfy and balanced, and I'll save myself for when there's a project that comes along that captures my imagination and makes me feel young again.
that's not entirely accurate. The PD in Oakland, CA has been under federal oversight for 15 or 20 years now. Due various abuses.
I agree with you that "questioning why" it generally a good thing for understanding. The issue here is one of communication, whereby the connotations of "just" may be taken differently by Asker and Responder.

A Responder could take the use of "just" as implying "obvious thing you personally missed" which derides your efforts/understanding/intellect/ego.

Whereas I see the use of "just" as saying something about the Askers mental model. The Asker knows their mental model says this is easy. The Asker knows you did not do [easy thing]. They want to know why there is a disparity.

Anecdotally, I have been hobbying away when my wife walks in - is given a brief explanation of what I am doing - says "Why don't you just [xyz]?"

She has limited information. She knows it. I know it. We both know her mental model is not like mine. But through her building it how she wants we can explore options. When she says "just" it is because her mental model says this should be easy.

And sometimes I eat humble pie because it is. Because my mental model was built from scratch from a different direction and my perspective means I didn't see [easy thing]. Not often. But often enough that I appreciate every time my wife asks.

Maybe the issue is who/how often you are asked the "just" question. Are you being bothered by too many people who don't-really-know/don't-really-care ? Then the Nth person coming up saying "why don't you just?" is another time/attention sapping interaction.
Which should be dependant on your static site generator. I feel like GitLab stays 2 years ahead of GitLab.
It’s a pretty useful concept when you consider cryptography. The idea that enumeration is mathematically infeasible for some set is the basis for many cryptographic functions.

But basically yeah it’s just an illustration of the difficulty. Obviously we’ll never have a supercomputer’s worth of computing power for every atom.
Deep learning is narrowly applicable to every domain, that's the beauty of it. It's delivering 1.1-10x efficiency improvements for a lot of common workflows, which might not seem that impressive but really adds up.

My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of 20 pages of legalese.

I have a fairly affordable Hyundai that's able to drive 80 miles on a highway without me touching the steering wheel.

I built an app that uses image recognition to automate food logging, from the surveys that we did it cut down the time to log from 15minutes a day to under 2.

I've worked on systems to monitor patients at risk of falling in a hospital setting.

My friend built Tonal, which can track your exercise form (https://www.tonal.com/)

Alphafold will be a huge deal for drug discovery.

I can keep going
So, when can I hail a Cruise vehicle?
many pet dogs get needlessly shot too
New $28K Prefab Tiny Home Is Proof That the Future Is Now
Apart from what my sibling already said, think about it. How would searching for a restaurant correlate with "popular times"? Not much really. Would be all over the place. I search for the restaurant 3 days in advance at 10 in the morning but I'll be there Saturday night at 8, just like many other people. And at 10 in the morning the restaurant was still closed.
I feel this way about HN. I open it every day, and check back far more than Facebook. Maybe we'll have a senate hearing someday about HN. :P
You still need to inject values from the environment into the page source at build time, whether you're using Javascript or not. And if you're already doing that, why add Javascript on top when all you need is an anchor?
And the flood gates…open?
OP of the post here. I am also the developer of HACK which is a HN client for iOS, MacOS and Android:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

The API for HN is absolute garbage (they admit to it being so too). It's also a read only API and doesn't support actions. My apps rely on scraping the page and then performing actions such as voting, commenting, favouriting, submitting posts etc.
A lot of consultants I know do not want to work remote because they specifically enjoy the on-the-road lifestyle. My experience with many of my consulting colleagues is that this this type of news is great because they still get to travel to client sites, but also can live (almost) wherever they want on the weekends and not be tied to a specific PwC office location.
read the article -- nothing happened to either of these officers as a result of this attack. the police in the US are insulated from consequence, largely due to political influence. shaping popular narratives leads to popular support for political change. this is the fundamental power of media.
Bluetooth tracking kinda sucks unless you’re literally apple or have beacons everywhere somehow. It really just gives proximity to a known location.

UWB and Cell tower tracking are much more accurate for the majority of real-world applications
https://hackerweb.app

It has collapsed comments by default and works well on mobile and decent on desktop.
Where can I follow along with the latest data on disconnect rates?
Guess what most private organizations actually contract last mile to the postal service, because it is not profitable to do deliver in heavily rural areas. The postal service is a public good.
Better solution is adding `word-break: break-all;`
to the `a` tag for .storylink class.
> We should take all settlements out of the local police Union

as much as I have disdain for the actions of some police unions, I'd rather legislate bad behavior directly than set precedent for charging unions for members crimes.
TL;DR; map parchment is old enough, the ink is too modern.
Plenty of dev jobs are as you describe, but not all of them!

For example, right now I'm working for a non-profit. Meaningful work, smart colleagues, and a fair bit of agency. It doesn't pay as well as a fancy tech company, but I get by.

You should also check out groups that are more niche. For example, a friend of mine is part of the Copenhagen user group for Extreme Programming. That's a method that's focused on a good developer experience. And in my experience, niche methods and languages tend to be used more at non-awful companies.

So stay away from the big, boring companies, or at least the boring parts of them. Look for small, independent groups with clear purposes and close connections to the users.
The answer is not binary
In Australian law, and I'd imagine generally in many other countries, intent is a big part of judging a wrong. But of course, it's possible to cause harm without intending to, so there are other things to consider. Common phrases are 'reckless disregard', 'willfully ignorant', 'negligent' or sometimes 'lack of consideration' (which is different to intent).

Obviously it isn't a binary situation with either intent or impact being the sole arbiter - so the baseline used in almost all situations is the 'ordinary' or 'objective' standards. These can vary depending on the environment and context, and are simply defined because they are hard to define across all scenarios.

I guess I find it surprising that a code of conduct like this should sway between intent and impact in quite so binary a fashion -- human behaviour isn't software.
The answer is not binary.
From the Hacker News guidelines, this appears Off-Topic.
Guys, do you realize there are 12 classes to define 1 frickin default button? When all you need is btn btn-primary this tailwind CSS thing seems like a bunch of nonsense to me.
Sure it's great to see a lot of ready made html components and it's tempting to just grab one and get a head start - and it might just work well for a landing page (I've used tailwind exactly for this) but for full blown applications? Using these components is just madness.
> Mistic resisted arrest, causing one of the officers to break his leg. Weird the article mentions this once and doesn't elaborate. I mean, how exactly did the officer break his leg?

I agree. This is a crucial part of the story which should be discussed…
U.S. lawmakers push for new controls on ex-spies working overseas
That Wikipedia article is almost certainly inaccurate. I would need much stronger evidence than a link to photographyisnotacrime to be convinced that not having id when walking around is even a citation, much less a misdemeanor anywhere in the US.

Much more likely someone got their wires crossed in hearing the detail of the story.
Faraday Pillow
Sounds like CHINESE PROPAGANDA
I don't get it. Is it very relaxing or something? Are people just dicking off while supposedly working?
In the world's largest* economy, is there a difference? Resource allocation is a reflection of values.

*Or one of the largest, depending on which measure you choose.
Code smells aren’t conceptually about style but indicators of potential (possibly latent) bugs. A code smell is different than a style problem (though they overlap), its a thing that warrants attention because of risk of hiding errors.
Blue Origin Is Stuck in a Toxic Past
Is that personal accounts as well? We are in process of selling our house and moving and buying a new one. That is going to be a lot of money moving from our accounts to other accounts.
Except increase in supply in chips takes 3-5 years
He's trying to be one of the pioneers of robot cars ... does he care how many people his robot cars are going to kill (drivers of them to the innocent drivers driving alongside them) in the name of progress? PUtting them on the road and learning and improving the AI is the progress needed to perfect them over Years, but its going to be deadly... unlike creating and fixing bugs on a videogame live streaming site.

Maybe he does care, but how much?

This is not to be flippant (i appreciated and used Justin.TV a ton back in the day..canceled Cable TV cause everything was there for one to watch ... 24/7 marathons of your favorite shows) but what I view of the harsh reality of putting these things on the road as Uber's self driving car already killed a pedestrian. Personally, I'm not sure I could in good conscious work for a robot car company (just was being recruited by such a company).
FSF announces JShelter browser add-on to combat threats from nonfree JavaScript
https://archive.is/Zb2fp
Well Amazon is too. It's what happens when you push bullshit "leadership principles" and turn them into the criterion for peer performance reviews. I keep getting LinkedIn requests to come back to Amazon but I'd never join that company again on principle. Bezos is hollow. Take open-source, rebrand it, and kill the original projects. Give employees door desks and tea bags, and tell them to piss in bottles. A CEO knows what's happening. He didn't just overlook the culture he created.

Please don't let this cancerous company destroy Rust:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28513130
Well over 99% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. Our turn is coming.
It is logical. Protect the elites with automation and control the masses to prevent a "Second French Revolution".
Which may be postponed but doubtfully avoided.
You will own nothing and will be happy.:)
Out of which 60-70 are unarmed.

I think there are way too many police killings, but we should get the context right
Doesn't this suggest that there used to be much less ice when the discovered artifacts were still new?
It depends on what kind of law enforcement you are dealing with. City police have a poor reputation but county sheriffs often have a more positive reputation in many areas. Federal law enforcement is a whole different can of worms. The incentive structures and relationships to the population are different, and that leads to different behaviors.

My experience in several jurisdictions matches the heuristic. Encounters with city police were always default adversarial, even when I had done nothing wrong; interactions with sheriffs were uniformly pleasant and reasonable, not adversarial, even in a couple cases where I was inadvertently breaking the law.
It is a lot bigger now. I wonder how much IPv6 growth is net new hardware vs replacing old hardware