skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much protection of their property can the average American expect from the state? Very little.

The only thing you can expect of the police will do for you if you get burglarized is a signed police report, and if you're lucky, unsolicited advice to move to a better part of town.

My wife's workplace gets stolen from fairly regularly. It's not located in one of those 'liberal' cities that allegedly don't enforce any laws.

Despite that, the police have yet to do anything about it.

The primary function of the police is not, and has never been protecting your property. The primary function of the police is protecting the upper classes from you.
Lovely article! I have a fun one to share that I noticed recently. I am 37 years old and have been doing 3D mechanical design for 15 years, including 7 years of full time CAD at the beginning. I continue to use CAD in my robot designs which I am working on almost every night. By now I am able to do a fair amount of design work in my head. I can conceptualize a new assembly with multiple parts, and focus in on specific areas to sort out how to form the shapes so that they do their job, can be assembled, and are 3D printable. It is not super high resolution but in a close-up level I can imagine any of the basic primitives you would encounter and how they mate together, and I can zoom out and imagine the part as a collection of these assemblies. It's great because I have a lot of ideas but don't want to sit at a computer all the time. I can do design work while I am on a walk or when going to sleep. And it really works!
Yes, and it was a mind fuck through and through.

I'm glad I watched it, but I have no desire to do so a second time.
Dear god don’t get me started on mobile terraria. They completely ruined the gameplay. Common sense would tell any product team to at least provide the option to switch back to the old interface (they didn’t add or take away anything that would disallow this) but NO. I started playing it because it was fun, simple and easy to learn/play, now the controls have been completely ruined for mobile.
I have a similar device and was recommended the newer and upgraded version from someone I know. Given time pressure and other priorities at the time, I took the recommendation without much further investigation.
Geography is fun. Besides the fact you can go south from Detroit to arrive at Canada, there's also [at least one] part of the US that you cannot drive to without driving through Canada first:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Point+Roberts,+WA+98281/
I love of whenever we talk about "theft", people cry "but what about wage theft".

There's a clear difference in scope, amount, consequence (...), so much that except having the same letter in the same order, it's not the same thing.

"Wage theft" means a small underpayment, which is (1) directly and immediately found, (2) can be put to a stop right after it happens by going to another job, (3) carries legal financial consequences to someone with deeper pocket, the employer (and I'm not even talking about negative press)

"Theft" in the case of the attacked trains is for much larger amounts, is apparently unstoppable and carries 0 consequences to the perpetrators - should they even be found, charged and convicted, I don't think their estate would be able to cover even a fraction of the losses.

To your favor, you didn't mention "wage theft" (yet), but here, you're doing essentially the same thing with a bunch of similar words.

FYI, all that you mention carry heavy consequences: just look at how it went for Holmes or Madoff.
The first is true to a degree if "PC laptops" includes the laptops kids use in schools: a lot of schools have switched to ChromeBooks due to price and ease of management.
Oof, you're right. I was thinking of Raku.
Maintaining compatibility in web apps is a problem thats mostly been irradiated since MS finally dropped IE. In terms of architectural decisions you are going to end up very closely tied to Googles design decisions if you want to maintain full compatibility going forward.

Theres really no winning here, FF already has to follow in Chromes footsteps because of how dominant they are in the market. They have all the decision making power on "what the web supports".
Go for a professional match-making service in your city. They will understand your needs and set you up for several dates with different women who also desire to get married.
Was. Past tense. This was definitely the case around the year 2000 (and during most of OLPC).

The Media Lab has mostly stayed constant. The rest of MIT ramped up hype, marketing, branding, form-over-substance, and occasionally, corruption. Today, the Media Lab is one of the higher-integrity parts of the Institute, not by virtue of improving, but by virtue of the rest of the Institute slipping.
Yes, the market is changing -- on all fronts for Intel. Many people talk about this being a tech problem, really its more like the logic at companies when you hold a close to monopoly position -- why invest tons of R&D dollars when you can just increment more slowly and make the same money.. So they end up with a loss of tech leadership when they easily could have had it. The biggest mistake that Intel appears to have made was their failure to bring up the new 13nm EUV processes at the same rate as TSMC -- probably they were hoping it would fail, but it did not. Now TSMC has done a couple of nodes with EUV and they have some customers that are spending tons of money right now like Apple, AMD, nvidia, qualcomm, etc and now TSMC is flush with cash and have a strong runway in front of them -- its like TSMC is already in execution mode while Intel is still trying to get things working. Intel basically thought, hey lets see how long we can milk our big cloud customers with $2000 processors and only minor improvements. Those customers realized they could hire a chip team themselves and build their own processor for the amount of money they were paying Intel each year, so they did that. So they got attacked on the enterprise side by their own customers making their own chips like Amazon and Google, the consumer side by AMD just throwing lots of cores at the problem -- and Apple dumping x86 in their laptops -- and soon to be others, and they essentially have nothing in the mobile space. So they went from being dominant 10 years ago to being 2nd place in multiple of their core businesses. Clear failure of leadership to realize they need to maintain technical supremacy otherwise they will not be able to charge the prices they want to charge. Now their competitors are shipping chips with 64 cores and Intel's plan to uber slowly release 16 cores, then 20 cores, 24 cores, etc over a 8 year period or whatever their plan was is blown up..
Ok. So in your new framework, who would be choosing which provider is used, how are the prices set, and who would be compensating the provider? No end user will agree to pay for this data. But you can't have the payer be different from the decision maker.
Yeah, that was the evolution of my thought process. Online poker is already full of bots, which will get more and more sophisticated over time and defeat bot detection hurdles -- so why not embrace it and have bot-only zones? You could have entire tournaments play out in less than a minute if all participants were software.
> tries to write to memory that it shouldn’t have

To elaborate what I mean here is maybe the program tried to write to an address not mapped to its address space etc. This happens due to bugs in the program e.g. not calculating the offset into an array properly and so forth. There are many ways to mess up when using C/C++!
I’ve been pretty deep into next js for a while. I’m excited to give Remix a try.

Very big fan of fly.io as well, they’re smart folks and I run every service I can on them.
IANAL, but I've heard that if you let the court know about situations like this, they'll often provide the necessary motivation to the responsible parties.
Sure... If $2B in profit up 46% YoY is worst performing I'll take it.
> A diagnosis of autism opens up support services that are often needed, one way or another.

In the LA area, there's a 6-month wait list to see an in-network child psychologist or neurologist that can give an autism diagnosis. Booked in November 2021, our appointment is in March 2022 and therapy classes are also wait listed. We found out-of-network providers but they are charging from $2,500 to $7,000 along with a 3-month waitlist.
You don't have much choice regarding taxes. Your choice to buy something is a totally different matter.
This is hospitalizations WITH covid, not FROM covid - a totally useless metric.
Gonna need a little more then a shady pdf without references. Where did the pdf come from and why was it redacted?
I once had a Bosch dishwasher in a condo that I purchased in the mid 2000s. The control board had a tendency to go bad every few years and flood the kitchen. I had read this was because the board was originally designed for European voltages and certain connections couldn't handle NA current over time. The first time it happened coincided with the birth of my first child. Getting back from the hospital with warped flooring was not a pleasant discovery. Bosch seems like a bit of luxury brand, although I've had some Bosch power tools that have worked out great.
Most of the time you know someone is going to die well in advance. A lot of people seem to avoid thinking about death, but I've found myself already into the acceptance phase by the time someone passes.

This was particularly true with my grandmother who slowly faded due to Alzheimer's. She was effectively gone for some time. I still got upset of course, but it was mostly when I was chatting with other family and recalling past events.
I generally agree that we've done too much to enable centralized control of communication. We're at the point where anything that isn't in-line with the approved narrative will be blocked as misleading or disinformation. Yet somehow we've not managed to achieve the desired public health outcomes. We've just fractured our society into two groups who each think the other is crazy and/or stupid.

That said... I don't see how you can call Tony Fauci a colleague of Xi Jinping. One is a public health official, the other is the head of a state. They are both in the public eye but that's really the end of similarities. They're only colleagues in the same sense that say Mary Barra (CEO of GM) and the general manager of my local Ford dealership are colleagues, which is not what I'd call a typical reading.
Isn't Bennett's big issue, for most of his political career, seizing the West Bank? He and his political party have been routinely described as far right.

We could define 'far' relatively, and say there are people further right, but I think the word stops being meaningful at that point.
Data flows from and in and out of data warehouses is very commonly known now [1]. It would be very surprising to me that FB, Google and Amazon aren't participating in that marketplace.

[0] https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-..., https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli..., https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/03/25/i-tried-to-use-the-... (more investigations have been done by WIRED as well).
I think there's a bit of distance between that motte and the initial ("standard") bailey. It isn't just the status of 'guest worker's but also the ongoing asymmetric violence, theft & active bulldozing of homes, harassment/hacking of activists' phones, military checkpoints & other core indicators of an occupied land, etc.

I heard someone point out that Israel can't help but kill children in Palestine because the median age there is 20. Like what do you even say to something like that? The conversation is just totally hosed at this point.

I think you're right though in a lot of ways - critics of Israel tend to fall into a trap of over-exaggeration which does their arguments no favors in some highly educated circles. Subtlety doesn't spread fervor though, and I don't think it's ever toppled regimes.
> But are those traits behavioral, or are they the mechanism that give rise to flexible behavior?

I don’t know what you mean here. The specific traits mentioned (building muscle past the point of attractiveness, climbing deadly mountains)? Traits in general? Something else?

> Imagine saying that linguistic components are naturally selected for in the genome. It's the wrong level. Language happens at the level of brains and societies, not genes.

It’s not the wrong level. From what we can tell, other animals are literally incapable of complex language. That’s genetic. Language traits literally have been selected for in the human genome. We have a brain that can process language and a tongue structure capable of making complex sounds that other animals can’t apparently replicate. Certainly language also has environmental/societal components. But it’s inaccurate to say that it’s not also genetic.

Unless you mean that literal languages are not genetic, in which case, sure. There’s nothing in the human genome that encodes English. There’s also nothing in the human genome that encodes the taste for yogurt, or the drive to be the fastest runner, or the Catholic wedding ceremony. And yet genetic components still certainly underly those in a meaningful way. It’s worthwhile understanding the genetic components even if they cannot explain the entire phenomenon.
That sounds like it might just be correlation. But besides that, athletic training can cause left ventricular hypertrophy but it hasn't really been associated with disease state afaik
There are plenty of mitigations you can take, until they start requiring passwords to email and other SaaS at least
> People not getting second shots is not a surprise, anyone who has a bad reaction to the first will do that.

I don't know any such person, but I know lots of people who had immune reactions to the first shot (like a localized inflammation) and who got the second shot anyway because that's nothing out of the ordinary. Including myself. In fact, most doctors will tell you outright that this is probably going to happen when you get the shot. After all, the vaccine is supposed to elicit an immune reaction. I would personally be more worried if I receive a vaccine and there is no immune reaction at all.

> you seem to be implying that the shape of the graph is expected for any such plot for any vaccine

For any vaccine with a two-shot schedule, yes. Most people will be getting the second shot after N weeks, so if you plot the incidence of anything across all people who have only received the first shot, you will have the bulk of the distribution between 0 and N weeks because receiving the second shot removes people from the statistical population.
That is auditing your access to a password. It is not auditing the use of said password at the service. Consider, social hacking to reset one of your passwords cannot be determined by inspecting your manager.

And rotation is still needed. Less likely that you're password is busted, I agree. But, you still need to rotate, if only to make sure it was never intercepted.
I think the worst part is that I can absolutely imagine a world where this is a reality. Thank you for sharing this.
Listen to more Zemfira...
you will outperform me... on almost any physical activity

Well, every activity except that one, which, if your idle question is
any indication, you appear to do furiously.
You can buy them for much less than that. They're known as 'televisions' and you can get even bigger ones than 32 inch for under $500!
Interesting! We have very recently wrote a paper on the various tree representations [1]. Maybe it is the same distinction you found on your own? I judge this based on the screenshots on your website. Public state trees are amenable to nice factorization over the hands, and indeed most implementations use it, but formally they write they use the history tree notation.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10890
Reminds me of when the IDF was criticized for not raping Palestinians: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2017/02/17/israeli-army-veter...
> Cloudflare uses a heuristic trust model where it pulls multiple trust signals from the client.

The wording "heuristic trust model [...] trust signals from the client", would not be out of place in the context of a sigint discussion.
1) You didn't open the link... now did you?

2) "sacrificing his own life" what a poetic gesture ... never thought of a terrorist bomb suiciding as such a beautiful act.
> they just need to report that the main plan did far more work than needed.

And how do they know that the chosen plan is not already optimal? How many reports do you think you'd get if every time someone encountered a "slow" query they reported it? And what fraction of those would be finally found to be caused by a bad optimizer as opposed to the user's fault like a missing index, outdated statistics, ... 1%? 0.1%? See stack overflow for a sample of that ratio. Be careful what you wish for.

If hints existed performance reports could be "default plan of x is slow, I know because when I use hints w,z then it's fast".

What should they do in the meantime while they're waiting for the pg project to acknowledge the problem, someone to propose a solution, and someone to implement a fix, just sit on their hands and twiddle their thumbs while their database server spews smoke? Hints are an escape hatch that empowers users to take over a when the optimizer veers off course. Not having any way to control the plan is like a tesla autopilot that doesn't allow the driver to take control over the car in an emergency.

Also, distrusting users to report performance issues is a weird attitude and gives a bad taste. Maybe it's true, or maybe you need to make it easier.
> Its a bit easier for Israel - if you are an outsider (99.9% of mankind) and dare criticize it anyhow, you are quickly marked either a) antisemitic or b) supporting islamic terrorism, or some mix of those. Nobody wants to touch that with 10 foot pole in woke era.

I don't know about that connection with 'wokeness'. Progressives are frequently tagged as anti-semitic for criticizing Israel.
It’s my primary browser because of battery life, tab bar and url bar being the same bar, and it’s reader mode. I’ve tried a lot of chrome extensions and don’t like any of them near as much as safari’s built in one.
You're probably right, I don't know for sure but I believe Valve has employees working on these projects too, considering their investment in SteamDeck.
I have autopilot, fsd and now fsd beta. i’ve read all the comments up till now. most of the opinions seem to come from a good place but not experience. before i say “ ask me anything” let me start out by saying, within 20 seconds of activating any of these features, you need to shake the wheel to prove you’re there. there are plenty of clues before that that indicate this is not a hands off affair, but this alone is where you know it’s not going to be a ‘set it and forget it’ . ok, ask me anything.
I think most people take at least a day to recover from the jab. I sort of felt sick after my second and third shots and i’m 100% for vaccination.

Honestly i believe that the vaccine may cause severe or long-term side-effects in extremely rare cases. The point is that these side-effects are much more common when catching covid unvaccinated (probably even in healthy young adults despite prior claims). If you do get a reaction, well you probably would’ve gotten at least as severe reaction from covid anyways.
No it’s totally fair. They ruined the game by completely changing the controls irreversibly and making it unplayable on mobile.
> I am starting to wonder at the efficacy of the tests and is it that they just can't catch Omnicron as well? Are my kids really just sick with some other random thing despite dozens of people in our social circle getting COVID?

My understanding is:

1) Existing rapid tests are not as sensitive to Omicron as previous variants.

2) Negative results on rapid tests are unreliable, especially single negatives. They're more reliable when taken in series, and the instructions for the ones tell you to take two tests, 3 days apart. However, their positive results are very reliable, so if only 75% of the positive people who take one actually test positive, you've still successfully detected 75% of those infections.

PCR tests are far better at detecting infections early.
The redactions are tagged with 5 USC 552 b 6 which reads:

>(6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;

https://www.justice.gov/oip/freedom-information-act-5-usc-55...

So presumably it was redacted to hide those email addresses.

What I don't understand is why they chose to redact the username part of the address for the fb.com emails, but chose to instead redact the host part of the address for the external recipients.

Here's one of the recipients of this email:

https://www.presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/fellows/george...
Sometimes I see street art and I'm more mixed. But 99% of the time it's just tagging and names. If you really believe graffiti is ok then I'll be happy to come over and tag your car, your laptop, your phone, your house. No complaining if you don't like what I write or its style.
"Full Self Driving" means "Part Self Driving"? What a country!
This is a lie, and you have an agenda.

The "United Arab List" is part of the current government (!) not of the parliament, but the government itself that is formed.
Representing many Arabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_List

Anyone who repeats the lie of "apartheid" is either malinformed, or has some antisemitic agenda to pro
Could you recommend a couple of books for a start?
Oh my gosh, I thought he passed away.
Ask HN: What problem can I help you with?
I'd like to offer up my expertise as a web/software developer and work through a problem of yours that I will post to my blog.
What is the recipe for the detergent, if you don't mind?
I used to have this problem, I ended up stopping using MusicBee. I found Sayonara to be a near 100% replacement. https://sayonara-player.com/
I’ve known the feeling, of pressure to grieve, since I was a teen, and from The Blindboy Podcast I have some more words around it: solemnity (by its nature performative, and maybe there’s a social benefit but I don’t feel it). I see funeral gatherings as a celebration of the life of the deceased and all the relationships they has to bring this group together. Not very Midwestern US of me. Privately I am more-able to cry and grieve, but in public maybe I’m performing? I find being around people exhausting.

My dad drank himself to death a few years ago (well, over a lifetime) and after about a year The guilt of not reaching out to him more often finally faded. I mostly actively remember the good now, while acknowledging all the trauma.

If you don’t already have a mental-health counselor (disinterested third-party, a “helper” in Fred Rogers terminology) I recommend it, at least to offload all your thoughts and feelings so you don’t trouble your family or friends who can’t handle it or would rather not (as others have noted in other discussions, some people have family and friends who will gladly listen and support—-good for them! I’m not so lucky, as much of my family is also dealing with a lot of trauma and I’d rather have professional, not-entangled advice). You’re not alone.
Theft before the actual thing is taken would require at minimum a proof of intent, and could still be problematic. So vandalism is the "easiest" charge for those caught in the act.

And gets around one potential argument from prosecutors that charges should be dropped.
In my opinion XPS is about size and to an extent performance, but not better (build) quality.
In my experience both the Latitude and Precision series have had fewer hardware issues despite being more prevalent, where only part of the explanation is that XPS-es are used more often by people who also travel more.