skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm perfectly willing to believe the parent that this driver really did tell him this. But 22 people you personally know in a single year doesn't pass a basic smell test. I lived in South Bay LA in the early 90s when there was legitimately a statistical wave of carjacking when it was first invented and crime in general was huge multiples of what it is now, and I never knew a single person it happened to personally, over my lifetime so far, let alone a single year.

I can accept professional drivers are at much greater risk compared to the average daily driver, but do rideshare drivers actually know each other? This sounds very much like a 2020s Polly Klaas situation where one or two spectacular stories actually happen and the legislature starts responding and we end up with decades of three-strikes law doing thousands of times as much harm as ever happened from girls being kidnapped out of their bedrooms.
It's true that genuine advances often seem trivial after the fact, and it can sometimes be hard to distinguish them. In this case, having one volume control multiple connected speakers is how wired stereos have worked for many decades, so while it might have been state of the art in the 1930s, Sonos wasn't involved.
>Why would Intel not take a position against Xinjiang slave concentration camps if presumably most of the supply chain does not depend on it? Would it be that much "trouble"?

Why would they? Corporations have two choices now. Bend the knee and stay in the good graces of a government that controls access to the largest consumer market in the world, or take a moral stance and win meaningless social brownie points. There's not even a decision to be made.
I think what we’re missing is information gained by understanding the letter location.

So if S is in 90% of words, well you also reveal whether or not it’s in the nth location. Whereas an incorrect guess gives you no location information.

So, you’d want to guess the word that equally splits the word pool given both the letter and letter location (or just letter in a given location).
Collective action problems are not solved through capitalism. Unfortunately, Western countries are gripped by misguided reactive individualism right now and governments are very hamstrung.
Partners is a separate issue from suppliers. The letter was to suppliers. However, partners may have indeed caused "trouble" for Intel by threatening to source chips from somewhere else.
But as far as suppliers, and chips in particular, CCP has very little leverage. Most chips are manufactured in Taiwan [0].

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/2-charts-show-how-much-the-w...
You can't write comments like this on Hacker News. You're required to assume good faith. Beyond which, the implication you're making here is asinine, given the person you're making it about.
Youtube gives me a better search results. Esp. for non-IT related searches.
We used to have to deal with bent pins and bulky screws to keep the connector in place, so compared to that the USB paradox is a nice problem to have.

What became more complicated is telling what should be plugged where, both USB and HDMI gained many optional features.
Here's the video : https://youtu.be/9SWG7RT4MrM :-)
Maybe in your area. My hospital is literally putting people in the hallways because every bed is full.
Not that I dislike home office, but that would be amazing.

I don't think there is need to differentiate vaccinated people. Time to get back making health a private issue again as people could not stop themselves using it for condemnations. No passes, no checks, just live your live life again.
A couple of people I think are worth reading are David Spielhalter (Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, Cambridge Uni) and Carl Heneghan (Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford Uni).

Example links:

https://www.cebm.net/oxford-covid-19-evidence-service/

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/n...

Not saying they should be all of your reading, just that they are worth adding to your list.
If it's verifiable then why didn't you provide the evidence?
>Most of all not for non disenfranchised companies and people.

What are you arguing here, that if you're not "disenfranchised", you're morally responsible for actions that you're compelled to do?

>There’s no NATO nation remotely holding a gun to any big companies head. In any sense of the word.

The airlines are also not pulling a trigger on a gun.
Firefox doesn't help with this though. Chromium is technically superior, thanks to all of the money Google has invested in it. Chromium is open-source and there are many popular forks (Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, ungoogled). Those forks provide a much more robust "safety net" than Firefox does. If Google starts pushing something egregious on users, I'm sure Vivaldi and Brave would jump at the opportunity to promote their forks without that problem. And have you seem the Edge ads?
Realize that in current dollars that's probably about what vinyl LPs cost when they were the primary way that people bought music.
PHP was my first love. It still is. Professionally I have moved on to other languages. But whenever I have an urge to create something for personal use, PHP is always the most productive way to get it done. With Laravel, I can even make it look polished and put it on the web.

PHP is such a joy that I am really thinking about switching back to it for my day job.
This is where people get lost:

> When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of “free speech,” not “free beer.”

Some people will interpret 'user freedom' to mean do what they want with it, and their conclusion is a very permissive license, not what the FSF meant.

It would be better to describe this freedom to the software itself rather than the user of the software, it that it cannot be contained. This is what gives long-term utility to people as a whole.
I personally liked the Eschaton stuff but he pretty firmly rebuked himself there.
I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
I figured there must be Finns somewhere up there because one of the plows is named "Sisu." It means prolonged determination in the face of adversity. [0] It's a quality that Finns value very highly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
Ask HN: How to adopt writing culture in my startup?
Hello HN, I am the CTO at a telemedicine startup and we have been building a great platform and operation model, but almost all the knowledge is in our heads so we usually need someone to explain how something work to every new employee.

We have tried multiple tools for knowledge base but the adoption inside the company is very poor.

Do you have any advice on how to promote knowledge sharing and documentation via written tools?
The blog post from the InstaDeep site:

https://www.instadeep.com/2022/01/biontech-and-instadeep-dev...
I do like dollar vars, because I know immediately when it's a variable and don't have to rely on syntax highlighting.
Weird. There were goods crossing between the Ukraine and Russia, but that didn't stop soldiers from crossing the border and occupying Crimea.

Perhaps it was the exception that proves the rule.
If you're finding Firefox to be noticeably slower than Chrome/Edge, disable extensions until you find which one is slowing it down that much. On a clean install they're very comparable in speed.
Yes, their party has communist in its name and socially they portray (Authoritarian!-)Communist ideals. But calling their economy communist is really not the whole truth.
Reading it as gun-icorn lead to extreme excitement which was crushed to find the link had nothing to do with gun unicorns...
> It is inconceivable that any such project will ever produce enough value to pay for the absurd level of capital investment and operational costs just to make them operate at all

In and of itself that may be correct, but they could provide valuable stepping stones to future systems that are much cheaper, simpler, and more efficient, which could not exist without first creating these large expensive projects.

The value isn't in the project itself, but in the legacy it creates in terms of future iterations.
This exactly. We can't give up trying to get corps to show some moral fortitude. It has happened in the past and it will happen again.
Yes, that makes sense at all. One of the problems in the US is the real estate prices.
We humans only differ meaningfully on our inputs, so you and I could have ended up there, too.
As an Italian, I have to point out that Fanpage is mainly Buzzfeed-level trash. I am surprised The Guardian is holding Fanpage in such high esteem.

I am not a leftist but I do appreciate good reporting from the whole political spectrum, including often the Guardian. Still, I wouldn't touch the steaming pile of BS that Fanpage is with a ten-foot pole!
401k owners and governments with underfunded pensions are also addicted to the opium.
>I don't recall anyone but the investor class being happy to embrace offshoring.

Maybe not quite "happy to embrace" people of a certain political persuasion were doing a heck of a lot to not get in the way of it because eliminating those jobs reduced the wealth of people who opposed them and made those people more receptive to what they were peddling.
Any facts that come from a racist or otherwise problematic source are deemed “hate facts” and must be discarded.
I'm all for stopping new variants of COVID. Why in the world do we have a treatment for COVID that intentionally creates mutations in COVID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molnupiravir ? I'm not a doctor but it seems pretty clear to me that Molnupiravir creates a great environment for new variants to arise (along with cancer, but that's another issue).
Regardless of the specifics here, I'm pleased and envious of being reminded that some people have meaningful jobs that actually make a difference.
> Have you heard of the Phoebus Cartel?

Yes I have, actually https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946432

>So it's already possible to not have to change a normal light bulb for 10 years — in fact there's currently a bulb that's been burning for 118 years.

yeah, the trade-off is that it's horribly inefficient and wastes more energy than it costs to replace.
Does Mozilla have the resources to maintain a Chromium fork?
>I agree about the fact that it is. But why do we accept that?

Diffusion of liability. It's basically the whole point of a corporation. If you break evil acts down into small unrecognizable chunks that can be turned into a job description and hired for, you're able to run what would otherwise be a detestable business to any single individual person.
Apple’s Private Relay Is Being Blocked
So it seems this is an understandable case. Google not only rank but also filter pages based on text of links pointing to them.

This has been going on for a while, at one point before Obama, searching for a "a miserable failure" got the White House as first result.

But this cannot be the entire explanation for why so many results are useless?
Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.
I don't have experience with Ruby or Clojure. While you're debugging an app, can you step to a break point, evaluate the next statement, navigate back up the call stack, change code that's already executed and try again in those languages?
I love Firefox over Chrome in almost every single aspect....except, I cannot shake the feel it still leaks memory like crazy. Open several tabs, then a couple of youtube tabs (you know how people are), eventually the machine is slow as molasses, you close 50% of the tabs (including the youtube ones) and you get back like 10% of the memory, so you need to restart the browser. That gets old, fast.
Thank you for lending me your keen eye, I'll get it fixed :)
I see that you've not used Javascript before ES6. I remember a time when the only thing worse than PHP, was Javascript.
The downside is that monkey patching the world with gevent was hard to pull off and even harder to verify. I was running a large Django installation on gunicorn+gevent for some years and I saw almost no difference in throughput or response time when I made the switch to sync workers. I was glad once I could remove all the monkey patches which really did nothing for my use case.

To this day I am not sure how anyone is getting better performance from using async over sync for something like Django. If you run 1000 sync gunicorn processes, I'm sure the OS scheduler is doing a better job in assigning them CPU time slices than what you could ever do with gevent.

There is a place for gevent/asyncio, for example if you want to fire off some http requests or DB calls in parallel but you'll have to do it manually no matter what gunicorn worker you run on.
This should be integrated to national vehicle databases. In emergency the firefighters could prepare by looking up the rescue sheet of the vehicle before they arrive.

At least in Finland you get a whole lot of information already by their license. As an optional addition for older vehicles, and requirement for new ones wouldn't be too onerous.
Despite many, many tries, I’ve never found a note taking tool that really captures the way I think, and I until I do, I’ll always welcome a new entry into the field.

Congrats on launch and good luck!
Ask HN: Why isn't there a backlash around charging for security features?
There is a very common (dark?) pattern I see employed by practically everyone in the industry, instead of charging for differentiating features, we seem to accept that it's ok to charge for security features as premium features in the pretense that these are "Enterprise Features". I am not here to name and shame but you know how it works. Role Based Access Control, SSO integration, API access to audit logs, MFA are presented as "premium enterprise features", why isn't there a bigger backlash? Why is this practice not pushed back by everyone? The startup I'm building, we are committing to provide SSO/SAML/OIDC, audit logs, advanced RBAC etc for free for everyone, we want people to pay for actual differentiating features. Am I missing something here?
They had a couple big blunders with the ugly border/expansion when clicking the address bar, and "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order".. both of these things should have never been the default (or at least we should've been given the option to select a default when they were first added, similar to what they did with the new color theme support), but besides that then I can't think of anything terrible and always happy to see new updates.

I would especially love to see deeper integration with their Multi-Account Containers add-on, e.g. allow us to tell a bookmark to open in X container, or allow us to always open X container based on URL path instead of just domain name.
Okay I put a disclaimer right on the front and we are typing up an explanation right now. Thank you for this feedback!

https://www.armbrustusa.com/pages/mask-testing
Don't be a jackass.
> mostly independent

Not exactly 'independent' if >85% of all revenues is directly from Google in which when that funding was threatened by them, Mozilla caved and let go most of its staff and rushed to get that contract renewed.

They can't live without the money from their worst competitor.

I don't even think Mozilla takes itself seriously to be 'independent' or free from Google's money which that was promised by the Mozilla CEO 14 years ago.

So that was complete lies from them, wasn't it? Everyone knows they don't care about privacy at this point.
Re: `color-scheme` CSS prop: AFAIU it can be useful pretty soon, because Chrome is experimenting with forced dark mode for web content (i.e. the equivalent of "Dark Reader" extension, but natively built in the browser).

If your website supports dark mode and you want to opt-out from browser messing things up, this property is the one you need.

https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1478847423913107456
I shared the first version of this in a Show HN last month [0]. The big update since then is that it now supports loading multiple files and doing SQL joins on them. You can see examples of that in this post.

The repo is here [1] and the README has a comparison against some of the other great tools in the space like q, octosql, and textql.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29643835

[1] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq
It’s my go to personal browser.

My admittedly anecdotal experience is that I find Firefox way more performant.
Daily Mail has better images but worse text https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2927910/You-radiati...
There's at least Windows, macOS, FreeBSD as popular and fairly used alternatives.

Also, the Linux kernel itself is just one small part of a Linux distro, which means everyone from kernel maintainers, to distro creators/maintainers, to particular app makers have some direct to indirect sway on the kernel development.
I don't know if I'm secretly being A/B tested, but Google seems to ignore - and "" terms in my queries from time to time.
I'm sure it's been said before by many, but I'd have a few extra mm of thickness to get back replaceable ram, ssd, wifi, etc.

The post yesterday about moving back to an old Thinkpad has me motivated to do something like that for my next computer. A Thinkpad chassis with an updated mainboad, screen, and battery would make me happy.
Okay I put a disclaimer and typing up a post to link to LMK what you think:
https://www.armbrustusa.com/pages/mask-testing
Because your data is teeny tiny, not performance critical, and `json.load` and `json.dump` is easy and usually less brittle then you're language's marshalling library.
I recall doing the same some 15 years ago :) I'll add a setting for increments which can be an int or Random. It won't be viable everywhere, but some will hopefully find it useful.
You asked why does it matter that coal use is drastically down, when it could be even less. I answered that it's because people don't get that this actually happened, and repeat the opposite of what is true. As proof for this, check the top comment in this thread that makes the false claim nuclear power was replaced by coal. So obviously it is important. Apparently there are enough people to not only write that Germany's coal use went up, but also to upvote it. To this you replied with a link that you did not understand, and again repeated the claim that nuclear was replaced by coal. Quote: "The removed nuclear energy is replaced with coal."

False. If the removed nuclear was replaced by coal, coal % of the produced electricity would go up. In reality nuclear % went down, was replaced by renewables, and coal % also went down, also replaced by renewables. As a result of this, carbon emissions are way down, despite the nuclear phase out. Yet another thing that people like to falsely claim.

And of course as usual, once we establish what is actually going on, the goal posts get shifted to "well it could be even better". There is nothing to avoid really, my position on that I've posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29770486.

But don't pretend you're having a rational debate. You don't check the numbers to form an opinion, you google for links to prove your point which is based on the wrong data, don't adjust your opinion when you see the data and instead shift the topic to something else. So there is nothing to discuss there.
The rationalist celebrities could look more at dynamical systems, but then they'd have to admit that systematic effects exist and that daddy Thiel et al are using them to f* everyone over forever in order to pad their already bloated wallets.
>when massive polluters, water users, plastic makers, etc can continue to create waste.

You realize most of these "massive polluters" are polluting on behalf of you? PG&E isn't emitting a gazillion tons of CO2 for fun, they're doing so to produce energy for you.
Okay I think there was a misunderstanding here.

First: When I said the dictionary was over-inclusive, I was implying that your 1b might be wrong. The definition that includes "open faced sandwiches". It's not clear whether those should count. Yes, even though "sandwich" is in the name. Like how a veggie hamburger isn't actually a hamburger. They are an alternate version of a sandwich, on par with a pizza.

Second: I wasn't clear about subs. I thought context would help, but I guess not enough. So, trying again. If you take a loaf and cut it in two, and put stuff in between, everyone will agree that's a sandwich. It's not about the kind of bread or anything. Where some people disagree is when you don't cut the loaf all the way, when you no longer have "pieces of bread" at all.

> The irony is rich

But do you disagree with what I said there about bugs?

Also you didn't answer about tacos. That's not a gotcha, I want to understand how you draw the line and how you interpret the dictionary definition. I don't want to put words in your mouth or guess, and it looks really stupid whenever I make a choose-your-own-adventure argument.
Apps Anonymous (2018)
<mockingly> And, realistically, the USA can’t enforce its constitution outside the USA. If somebody in South America, for example, were to harvest all the US tourists organs they can get their hands on, what is the USA going to do? Nuke it? </mockingly>
Patch – API for Carbon Removal
Thanks for the discovery Petros :-)

For other HN users (and future reference) the short film is titled "Room 8" by James W Griffiths [0], it won the BAFTA 2014 award for short film [1] and is based on a short script written by Oscar winning writer Geoffrey Fletcher.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_8_(film)
[1] http://awards.bafta.org/award/2014/film/british-short-film
Where are you seeing that? From your link:

“The presence of a package lock changes the installation behavior such that:

The module tree described by the package lock is reproduced. This means reproducing the structure described in the file, using the specific files referenced in "resolved" if available, falling back to normal package resolution using "version" if one isn't.

The tree is walked and any missing dependencies are installed in the usual fashion.”
Corporations are made up of a large number of cross-pressured people. It’s not even a purely economic problem for Intel - if they take a hard line on Xinjiang, how many of their Chinese staff will go to prison?
Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?
Release notes are generally very concise. They are typically followed up with a detailed blog on https://hacks.mozilla.org/
This needs a (2016) tag.
because products are sold with an easy to break functionality of the product function added to them.

If it were possible to know where all people lived with the product in the old days, and we had instant cheap teleportation of goons for breaking of products back then it would have just been the way things were done.
I think because SQLite ate that market with the JSON extension. I've also seen LMDB used in the wild.
> For example, I found myself preferring the JetBrains method with how merge conflicts are resolved as the interfaces laid side to side instead of stacked on top of each other. Not really a determining factor in the end.

The side by side by side merge conflict resolution is so good that even if JetBrains had a product that did only that, I would use it instead of any other for any conflict of significance.

One feature I wish both had is the ability to edit files locally and immediately sync changes remotely in a one way sync. We can do this with various sync utilities but it would be great if the IDE had the option to merely specify an ssh target machine/directory.
> That is exactly the problem with asyncio, the minute you want to do something a little more cpu heavy it blocks.

Isn't that by design? Sending CPU-heavy tasks to the default executor with asyncio.to_thread() works perfectly for me.

Or maybe this doesn't scale in your use-case, because of the thread count limit? (Although in that case, I don't think you'd be better off without asyncio.)