skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Murder is not a useful measurement of overall crime, considering how disparately (both geographically and demographically) murder is spread through a city.

Like I said, if you're not interacting with a gang in a given city, you are substantially less likely to be murdered.
If you choose "mytopic" as a topic, yes. If you choose "eximius-1", probably not. If you are paranoid, you can choose "ZfxdjfdkAFHFJKL" and then you have an "auth token".

That said, auth is on the list of things to add. It'll be optional and I will try to make it simple. There's a ticket for it here [1]

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/19
>"An economic contraction, or what Gaia theorist James Lovelock calls a “sustainable retreat,”

Yeah I would expect someone making this argument to quote a "Gaia theorist"..

To force the majority of humans to self limit (i.e. voluntarily limit their own quality of life) requires an authoritarian government to force people to behave unnaturally en masse.

It may be the only solution, but it seems far from conclusive that that is the case right now. Also it seems counterproductive and extremely short sighted to make the blanket statement that the problem is impossible to solve with technology when so many problems throughout history have been solved by technology.
Yesterday's article links to this github page too and includes a screen shot of the related repos (possibly because they don't expect them to survive). Plus it's linked several times in the HN discussion.
I think it is totally bizarre that so many people seem not to acknowledge the possibility that people can be depressed because their life sucks. It has to be chemical imbalance or nothing.

I think our society doesnt just manufacture depressed people, i think its mostly rotten at its core and being depressed is a pretty reasonable reaction.

Im currently trying to figure out how to buy out of it and its another level of depressing to see that even with my ridiculous salary which i save 60% of after taxes, i cant keep up with inflation enough to buy a standard of living that would have been middle class 50 years ago.

Well its depressing and i reserve my right to feel depressed about it.

But back to the main, it is the most bizarre of premises to me that people could not be sad about their life because they dislike their life, only because of some purely chemical lottery draw.
1 or 2 short gigs is bad luck. A resume filled with short gigs indicates that the person probably has issues. I don't need to take a chance on hiring this person where there are dozens upon dozens of qualified candidates with better grades of resume.

Sorry, but this is reality. The next job you get, I suggest you tough it out for 3 or 4 years or more to show that those short gigs aren't the norm.
I think the effects of housing pricing increases have been studied:

https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2021/mar/...
Technology is the problem, so how can it be the solution, amirite? Except — there are so many other cases where improved technology fixes technological externalities.

The caveat is that technology alone can't be expected to solve social-political-cultural issues
You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you willfully ignore the whole meaning of the metaphor: it is impossible to lift oneself up by tugging on one's own bootstraps.
What you propose is additional weight that does require going to court, basically additional incentive to settle if it is reasonably perceived the other party will take the case to court.

But there are already additional costs the insurance company would bear if it went to court, which is why they will mostly settle if there is any substantial evidence (like a police report) and even a shadow of a threat of legal action, including—but not limited to—an insurance company on the other side. Neither that nor any additional weight you give the police report that requires going to court alters the calculus at all when the liable party (whether or not they have an insurance company as their agent) is certain you won't take that step.
Couple of links to check
https://github.com/GroovinChip/macos_ui
https://github.com/leanflutter/awesome-flutter-desktop
I was a developer for IBM in Rochester, MN 20 years ago, and an intern at Cray Research in Chippewa Falls WI before that. I have to say all the engineers were impressive, knowledgeable, and humble at the same time. Software engineering was looked on as profession, and not a lifestyle or a path to a quick buck, and it showed. I guess I don't know if that's how it was everywhere 20 years ago, or if that was the mid-west culture. But I sure do miss it.
techie - you missed something.. SF has the highest ratio of ethnic chinese to overall population, in the USA. SF is for "the rich" and "the chinese" and they BOTH have insular coping mechanisms. Most other ethnic groups in the entire world are also there, of course, but often move away when they can (like my own infant grandmother and her family btw). side note - one of my actual relatives was Mayor of San Francisco, long ago.
This is what happens when people try and make value judgements about policy decisions based on what team is doing them rather than from ideological principals.

The only consistent people these days seems to be the true extremists who are so far from either party's official platform that they can call it how they see it.
SIM cards are the key to the surveillance state so of course they would make it part of the phone. Good luck trying to buy unregistered SIM cards to use that are not in some way tied to an ID or bank account transaction.
Philly cost of living is fantastic. The local job opportunities don't pay as well as DC or Boston or NYC or SF. But you can just work remotely for a big company and get a reasonable wage. Not being a parent I don't know about the school system.
It does suck that in OP's case they caught the wrong end of this. But again, that's why you carry your own insurance with your own coverage. You're not just paying for the literal indemnification of auto damages, you're paying for the cost of litigating and proving facts in court in various hypothetical scenarios. As the other poster said, cops don't determine fault. You have to go court for that.

As somewhat of an aside, since I think a lot of people don't realize this: Most of the time attempting to allocate blame in auto accidents is a massive waste of resources and time. Insurance companies usually just settle with each other before even getting to court unless the claim involves big $. Even if you were 0% at fault, your insurance company is still incurring some cost to process the claim. Their assessment of your risk is still going up (as it should). They're still going to up your premium. The whole fault concept is just not helpful to the actual functioning of the industry, most of the time. In some states they just got rid of fault altogether, for exactly this reason.

> And its not “cheap” to not get comprehensive insurance. Its a calculated risk.

Yeah, a risk that in this case, did not pay off. So why is this guy whining all over this thread that he got "scammed" when he knew it was a risk?
Thanks for sharing. Date math is my kryptonite.
Our fiat based economy is play to earn with the government that backs your favorite currency as overseer that can “ban” or penalize you. You’re required to participate to gain access to exchangeable currency. And the platform you’re using (your government and their economy) takes a cut in the form of taxes - and inflation when they’re printing money.

You get to choose to team with others in companies or other organizations, or go it alone which is much tougher.

Like Axie, if you choose to work for someone you’re using their subplatform, like Axie is a subplatform within crypto. And the organization you’re part of has rules and quite a lot of power over your future as long as you’re participating.

In a real world org you can choose to exit and liquidate any equity that you’re allowed to turn into cash. Same with Axie assets that you sell in exchange for something else - maybe a cryptocurrency.

As with Axie, there are many bullshit jobs in the real world that exist for silly reasons and can easily be automated away.

I think these bullshit jobs are bugs in real world economies and virtual economies. Sometimes they’re intentional bugs that benefit the owners or controllers of a platform or economy.

I’d caution one about conflating these anomalies with NFTs or crypto as a whole. Blockchain primitives have the potential to free the proletariat from exploitation by large corporate platforms. Creatives, for example, can own and profit from their art for centuries without an intermediary like Spotify, record companies, film studios or publishers keeping the lions share of the return. It has the potential to disintermediate banks, which is a huge deal, which you’ll know if you’ve ever worked for an investment bank or even walked through any major financial district.

Bullshit jobs abound. But these primitives Axie is playing with are not the cause. They have the potential to free us all.
If you try and screenshot or use something like OBS on Windows you just get a black box on top of the media content. Is that not the case using that solution?
No, I am not. People are paying for the medical resources they use. Nice try though (I would learn more about social policy, the point of social policy is that it is for everyone, not people who agree to a medical procedure, not people who have political views you agree with...this is why the US doesn't have a welfare state, because people believe money will go to people "who aren't like them").
Dogfooding is a good idea in general, but it seems like a horrible idea for Doordash specifically:

- In car-oriented areas, it's very unlikely that a standard car insurance policy would permit commercial use like this. If employees end up in a crash, and it is discovered that they were performing a delivery their claim may be denied. This seems like a compliance and liability nightmare.

- In urban areas where bikes are preferred, employees may or may not have one, but it's very possible they won't have one that is appropriate for delivery. Also, woe on Doordash when the first $500k+ TC SWE gets doored and puts in a worker's comp claim.

The actual deliverers are contractors, so it is reasonable to expect them to provide their own equipment: a car with proper commercial insurance, or a bike that can be locked outside safely. That's part of being a contractor. It is not reasonable whatsoever to expect FTEs to use their own equipment to perform job duties.

The only company that I can think of forced dogfooding of the "provider" side being worse at (besides obvious jokes like MindGeek) is Airbnb.

But that's not all: it doesn't accurately simulate the contractor experience at all! There's no pressure! They have no incentive to actually ride fast (and, from my experience from encountering delivery riders as an NYC cyclist, in the wrong direction, at night, with no lights...) since there's no actual correlation between my delivery performance and my TC. It's just SWEs cosplaying as delivery people for a day.
What's stopping someone from writing a program that iterates through all of the different ntfy topics with spam messages?

e.g. curl -d "Visit my site spammer.com for your chance to win $100" ntfy.sh/{phil_alerts,controversial,topic3,topic4, etc...}
>> Armed gangs of 60-80 are now systematically looting malls and shopping districts.

Is that true?
Did anything ever come of it? The interview has some wild claims.
Maybe on the business side, but I've seen lots of undesirable grinding from engineers from all sorts of places, and wanting to prove they have hustle (ie. they are hard workers) is often at the root of it.
One of my friends is a CTO. In some ways he was my first boss too (it depends what counts as a real job). He actually moved from programming to management, because for him writing code wasn't something he was passionate about and he felt his skills were more appropriate in managing tech (I'm sure the money helps too). But though I haven't worked for his present outfit, I'm sure I'd find that where it seemed appropriate he's still writing toy SML or Python code that shows what he wants, knowing the finished system will likely be written in another language entirely. Not doing that seems as crazy as if you had an exec with good German, addressing your German-speaking team, via a translator just because that's how their predecessors who didn't speak German did it. He can write code and that's the natural way to express how the code should work.
They seem to occasionally seek the company of other tardigrades, and hug.

It could be purely mechanistic stimulus response behavior, but I'd like to think they're experiencing some sort of life, and that it's mostly a good one.

That second YouTube video is great!
Apple uses Widevine for Apple TV content not Fairplay, maybe ever since they licensed Apple TV on non-Apple televisions?
Imagine how much of a threat to the current security and encryption model it would be if a remote desktop server was running quietly in the secure enclave. You likely would never be able to know it is running. What good is end to end messaging if you can be watched using the app?
Microsoft, Salesforce Battle to Revitalize Customer Service
I for one thank our piracy overlords who endlessly work to make every form of content (optionally) freely available in high quality.

I pay for plenty of subscription services that finally figured out how to make content as easy and accessible as piracy but there will forever exist legitimate gaps where “just pay for it” is simply insufficient (geo being #1, silly copyright owners #2, etc etc).

The other article mentions this dump is a result of a Discord dispute and we randos seem to be the winners. And who knows it might inspire others to get into the scene.
Even before these tools doesn't really seem to affect the pirates. The rips on pirate sites (not that I've watched them!) are pretty flawless and they're out very quickly after the initial release to the streaming site.
Redline is simpler as it’s apparently accessing one sqlite database on the file system. Compromising a good password manager requires accessing its memory or recording the screen, and it can only obtain data while the manager is unlocked by the user, and even then only a minimal amount of data is made available or visible. In other words, the reason comes down to the cost and time to develop more complex malware, for a smaller number of targets.
I agree. On the note of shortcuts, I see one in how we label any obligation outside of debt as “abuse”. That it’s inherently evil for someone else to expect something in return after doing something for them.

A lot of people on the internet use that moral confusion to whitewash their ingratitude. Framing their obligator as morally reprehensible or psychologically unfit, by recalling other peoples sob stories, in order to reduce their own personal recompense. It’s like leveraging the legitimate tragedy of a few for the convenience of the many.

And I’m saying this as someone who sponged off my parents for years and didn’t pay them a dime on rent.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
#ifdef Get_a_hearing_aid

(Stolen from the Bad C Pun Contest, C/C++ User's Journal, 1992. I still remember it.)
In the new update, group admins can prevent forwarding and screenshotting. Unless the devices are "rooted"
What are you suggesting? The Bay Area is not conservative, and that is a conservative motto, so I'm left sufficiently confused.
> The public policy motivation for liability insurance is to protect the lawsuit route.

A friend of mine had the same experience from the other side. She ran into some guy's car, apologised for her mistake and told him not to worry because she was fully covered. The first sign that something wasn't right was when a summons to appear at the magistrate's court appeared in the letter box.

She asked the insurance company what was going on and they said "just send the paper work to us and don't worry, we'll take care of it".

Then she got a knock on the door from a pair of court-appointed officers who were there to discuss her financial situation and assist her in arranging a payment plan to pay off her fine. Her insurance company had not sent a representative to the trial, so the magistrate found in favour of the only party that had turned up.

After some screaming on the phone, the insurance company paid the full amount of the judgement.

Any judge worth his salt will understand the global implications (courts clogged with litigants, inability of poor people to use cars) if insurance companies stonewall when their client is at fault, whatever the odd lot who comment in HN think. The judge should hit the other party.

Bear in mind that this is a matter of public interest and romwell has not signed an NDA. S/He should name that insurance company!
Make a list of issues affecting education: teachers can't afford to live in the city where they work, underfunding, etc.

Is the issue you linked in the top 3? Top 5? I suspect top 5 or 10 issues will be about money.
ESPN Has $400M in College Football Playoff Ads at Risk from Covid
Also performance. I have moderately high-end hardware, and Netflix's windows app stutters drawing subtitles.

Using MPC-HC with LAV splitters/decoders is flawless, even with low-end hardware.

And Smooth Video Project is an excellent alternative to $1000+ "smart" TV frame interpolation.

And even with a gigabit symmetric connection, every streaming service's CDN struggles and gives me a low bitrate every few minutes.
Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
> It was an interesting system, I don't know what their monetization looks like now.

It works more or less the same, but now with an expanded F2P option that provides access to only early ships / skills (and some other limits). The PLEX is now used to pay for an account to have full access to the game for a month.
If a product takes 2-4 iterations to reach maturity, and a candidate is only involved in one of those iterations, they haven't participated in the complete multi-year product cycle from skateboard to scooter to bicycle to motorcycle to car, to borrow a popular metaphor.

If a roadmap goes out 3-5 years and a candidate only executes on one or two of those years, the candidate hasn't gained experience with which parts of a roadmap stay committed and which ones change in response to new information/priorities.

Most of this does not apply to a hot startup where the founders are still coding every day, but those aren't the only senior engineering opportunities.

My meta-experience is that the kinds of things I'm talking about tend to be most highly prized by companies that have been around longer than a startup, and now have problems to solve technically and organizationally that can most effectively be solved by people who have stayed in one company longer than one-two years.

Such companies aren't usually as exciting as pre-IPO startups, so absolutely no side-eye from me if anyone reading this is thinking "You can take that job and shove it, I'm busy inventing the future on a two-pizza team in a six-pizza startup."
Do it and you shall find out :-)

I have pretty rigorous rate limiting based on IP address [1]. If you have lots of IP addresses at your disposal, I may have a problem. So far it's been fine.

[1] https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#limitations
A trinket used in trading maybe? They’re way too close to he a coincidence.
Yeah, that's exactly it. I know I've certainly spent spare brain cycles considering it, and there seem to be a number of startups trying to create cheaper title insurance, but it's not clear to me how to really solve the issue. Basically it's a human behavior and record keeping problem. You have to have perfect records, and you hope some estranged cousin doesn't magically popup with a deed someday claiming to own your house. So, you fork over $1000 just in case.

I'm actually in a transaction right now where the title history is weird and questionable. Will the insurance be a factor? Probably not, ironically, but it's exactly the kind of scenario for which this kind of thing exists.
30k-year-old Neanderthal DNA recovered from archeological sediments
There is no protected media path on Linux. It always works there.
My money is on compromised hardware, someone has bought the stealer logs and tried to scrape the whole lot at once.

If you got it, assume you have malware and all your passwords you have entered have been captured.
When I was a kid my teacher told me trees convert co2 to oxygen. If I had to suck co2 out of the atmosphere I would plant more trees and stop choping/burning down existing ones. It is cheap, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing, but I guess this isn't tecky enough for today's world. Maybe if we add a wifi module on trees it would fix it.
The actual city of Philly is generally a mess, similar to what is described above.

SEPTA is meh. Every few years they strike and you're stranded. Short, direct trips are OK. It's a long complicated process for certain trips. Payment can be different for each type. High speed line - put bills in the money feeder, subway - tokens, regional line - buy a ticket, etc.

Schools... most are junk. It's basically a moot point though. If you have money and a family you live in the suburbs where the schools are better, not the actual city. Philly is the poorest county in the state and one of the poorest cities in the nation. Meanwhile, Bucks, Chester, and Delaware counties are very affluent.

Housing is expensive relative to pay opportunities in the area. You can find cheaper housing, but it's probably not a safe neighborhood. We are in a tech desert. It seems most jobs in the area are at or slight below the national average for pay. Living expenses are a bit above average, I think.
Surprisingly, yes. The OsmAnd app developers created a program called OSM BTC that pays OSM contributors for their contributions in Bitcoin on a monthly basis, with the funds coming from 50% of the proceeds of the app's OsmAnd Live subscriptions:

- Program: https://osmbtc.org

- Announcement: https://osmand.net/blog/osm-live
Alfred on macOS had a similar functionality at one point with Alfred Remote. I don’t know if they still do

Update: yes, still exists
As an outsider and recent transplant, this tracks. Earlier this morning I was busy getting spammed on the Bay Area subreddit where redditor after redditor assumed I must have financial problems because I can't buy a house here. That is, in fact, not the case.
There were several incidents of stupidity which, but for luck, would have ended me. My dad told me later that if God didn't look out for little boys, none of them would grow up.
Without being glib, differing services from the same company may have differing AUP's. Transit and Access are very different businesses with different customer expectations.
That doesn't seem reasonable. Whoever is liable should pay, there shouldn't be a little game where you can avoid paying because it will cost the other guy too much.

Imagine if murder cases were only prosecuted if the family had funds to investigate, and they only got refunded if the murder were proven.
GNUMake allows for custom, non-tab leader characters.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2131213/can-you-make-val...
I agree with you ideologically but challenge this statement:

> [that] gameplay should never have been in the game

How many millions of hours of 'pointless' content are uploaded weekly that people watch? No one is forced to play this game, or to pay for it. Why should it not exist? If game developers create something that people play, is that not a success from their perspective?

This quickly becomes a philosophical conversation. As others mentioned, how much of life is the boring, grind-y parts? How many of us on HN find clever ways to circumvent, augment, automate the grind? Is it immoral to create profitable, addictive systems of human engagement? Does 'good' game design have a quantifiable definition?