skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure this change from country to country, but at least in my country you don't need to be "licensed" to be held liable because of the damage you do and you can be disqualified to do that job.

My point being that better software is not going to be written just because the people writing it is afraid of losing their license or being held liable, because in many circumstances that can already happen.

The problem here are not only the developers and the crappy code. Some people here put this thing in production knowing that it was faulty, or once they knew it didn't work as expected they did all they could to hide this for years, blaming others of their own mistakes.

And yes, I agree we need to be better. But it's very important to understand that many of the potential licensed software engineers that are already writing crappy software today and will continue to do so if licensed because they just don't know better.
It's an NPE.

I added more details below, But basically this is something I expect to fail when I create new data.

If this was a project at work I would find a real fix.
It's all down to how a poll accurately frames a question:

Do people like restrictions? No, nobody likes restrictions.
Do people like restrictions that save lives? Still don't 'like' them but believe sacrifice is necessary for the greater good.

Do I support people's right to protest? Yes, but...
You can't honk all night
Block major infrastructure for days
Desecrate war monuments
Flood 911 with fake calls

Etc.
> The computer would randomly wake up from hibernate and drain the battery till it was dead.

I had exactly the same thing on my XPS 15. I'd take it out of my bag, it'd be warm and the battery would be dead. Plus one day it suddenly decided it didn't have a TPM module (didn't even show up in BIOS) so BitLocker stopped working, and of late the CPU is constantly throtling and fans running at full blast because it's overheating even with next to no load (I've checked the fans for dust).
my post had nothing to do with official government actions or interventions but with the rights of citizens of different countries to sympathize with and donate money to causes outside of their own country. we allowed our cities to burn and lives to be lost to violent summer protests that were funded in part by citizens of other countries. if the general sentiment is that we should not allow this any more, that would be fine with me, but only if such actions are applied equally and unilaterally.

as far as I am aware, no lives have been lost nor businesses destroyed during the current events in Canada.
Entitlements are part of code-signing and allow access to restricted software or hardware features - they're checked at runtime before granting access.

They make zero sense when it comes to stupid policy like this though.
They do have at least one redeeming quality: smartphones are a cheap, portable gateway to the internet for millions of people worldwide who cannot possibly access it any other way.
Cars of course have used the pavement as part of the highway for years, constantly driving and blocking it, mowing down about 40 pedestrians a week on the "safety" of the pavement, just for the convenience of the driver.

The police nor council do anything about it.

> I don’t think we need a Highway Code rule to make it clear why that’s a bad idea.

While the UK is far better than the wild west of the US (pedestrians killed per million people per year. UK=5, New Jersey=22, New Mexico=47), there's still about 1 pedestrian a day killed by drivers, and 10 per day seriously injured.

20 children are killed or seriously injured every week for the "crime" of walking, almost all in towns where there is no need to be traveling more than 15mph (2 miles to get out of town or onto a major artery road, at 30mph that takes 4 minutes with no traffic lights, at 15mph that's 8 minutes)
Can I just say "phone calls" are something that dumb phones can do. GPS and live traffic data are, essentially, the same service in that they fill the same need. Restaurant reviews? Who actually needs those except maybe on a road trip? And then it really seems like a GPS-style feature.

It seems like the phone as GPS+ is use-case you identified.

I will say though, even dumb phones have web browsers, and have for a long time. You can access Yelp over the internet on a candybar from a decade ago.
My bank blocks by Android version.

I tried to put an unrooted Lineage on it, but the banking app closed on start. A lot of people in the Play store are complaining, but every answer of the developer is: "We updated it, try again."
They're generally not following the law. But they do something like turn right on red without stopping and we consider that a "mistake". Or they do stop but they have 1,000 yard stare off to their left and they hit a pedestrian legally in the crosswalk. Or they're just speeding and we consider 15 over to try to beat the light perfectly reasonable because everyone does it. Being distracted and driving a bit too fast will also be viewed as "accidental" because again it is so common.

We actually have a very high tolerance for vehicles breaking the law (but then whine endlessly about that bike we saw blowing a red light).

I'd argue that if you wind up killing anyone that you were necessarily negligent in your driving and someone killing someone else when they were actually taking due care is extraordinarily unlikely. Pedestrian deaths should really be automatic negligent homicide charges unless it can be proven that the pedestrian just ran out in the road and got hit or something through their own negligence.
LK is a system-agnostic atlas + wiki + whiteboard; we're trying not to encode system-specific stuff, at least not yet. I'd like to implement a plugin system so that we could introduce functions specifically aimed towards 5e, Pathfinder, etc. At its core though we want LK to be useful to anyone building fictional worlds.
Exactly. Ponzi schemes deliver high interest rates, paid for by later investors. Until they don't, because the invested capital is gone.

There's are too many of those in the crypto space.
Missouri prosecutor declines to file charges over ‘hacker’ allegation against
First attempt level 3.
Love the Why you built this!
They're simply seizing the means of transportation, and reminding the government that the economy is dependent on them.
>Does the author think nobody owns a desktop/laptop anymore?

The number of households where the only compute device is a mobile device is probably higher than you give it credit. I know it was for me. I'm not including "smart" devices or IoT devices. These same households may not even have an internet connection in them so that the mobile device is their only method of data consumption.
Going to add myself to the list of people Dell managed to successfully piss off. Bought a top-of-the-line XPS 15 2018 model and once the initial "wow" factor of owning a premium laptop faded away, I was bombarded with numerous issues such as:

* Lack of S3 sleep state leading to battery drains and heating up while inside my bag; modern standby was trash back then
* Piss-poor thermals leading to piss-poor performance with an Intel i9 processor
* Horrible support service with copy-paste answers and ZERO resolutions even though I had their premium support; a lot of solutions are community initiatives
* Horrendous trackpad

I've since monitored future XPS releases and found it got even worse. For example, there was a common trackpad double-clicking issue that plagued the later models. The thing that really pisses me off is tech reviewers not calling out Dell even though they faced these issues with their review/retail units. This applies even for Alienware—where's the outrage on the m51 scam?[1] The times they complain, they aren't loud enough and Dell just gets away with it.

I've told my friends and family to avoid buying Dell for the foreseeable future. I'd advise the folks here to do the same unless your company is expensing it.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22522265/dell-alienware-ar...
The equivalent of a list of bitcoin addresses would be a list of credit card numbers, which this is not. This is closer to a list of names on an exchange like coinbase than a list of wallet addresses.
> During high traffic times, this means you can literally never have a gap.

It is legal to enter an intersection (i.e. cross the white line) when your light is not red. Therefore at least one car can turn left legally per light cycle. Agree completely that this isn't good enough.
"It’s puzzling that there isn’t a stronger tradition of “user testing” for writing. Occasionally I’ll give a friend something I’ve written and implore them, “Please circle anything that makes you feel even slightly unhappy for any reason whatsoever.” Then I’ll ask them what they were thinking at each point. There are always “bugs” everywhere: Belaboring of obvious points, ambiguous phrases, unnecessary antagonistic language, tangential arguments about controversial things that don’t matter, etc."

This is called an editor. They're invaluable!
Because the majority of media in Canada is funded by the government under the guise of protecting home grown talent and such. It’s heavily subsidized and has all sorts of benefits at taxpayers largesse in order to survive the competition from the US.

Without that regulatory backing, it would be dead under a year.
Lolwhat??
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i...
> Then the battery. Oh the battery. The computer would randomly wake up from hibernate and drain the battery till it was dead.

I have a Precision laptop (absolutely top of the line business laptop that shares hardware with the XPS 15) that does this too. The only fix is to either keep it plugged in 100% of the time or perform a full system shut down any time it's going to be unplugged.

It's extremely frustrating and has basically killed any usefulness the laptop has as a portable computer.
> In the investigation of the criminal act, the police examined user logs of the bulletin board and found others also suspected of linking it. In response, they raided the house of an unemployed man and that of a 47-year-old construction worker. None of the three individuals appear to be accused of actually having written the infinite loop. Explaining her actions, the girl said that she'd run into such pranks herself and thought it would be funny if someone clicked the link.

[0]

No fun allowed I guess.

0: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/japanese-police-...
Try it on Firefox. Plenty of things don't happen on Chrome because that's all devs test. That and Safari iOS.

Which does make things less of an evil intent and more of a "if our laziness pushes our users to where we make money, that's an unfortunate side effect".
Yeah, mine is b̵l̵u̵e̵ #00aaff :)
Since some people waste energy, it’s okay to waste energy too ?
Yeah, it's weird that companies complain about app store restrictions, when browser-based services get around those restrictions completely. It's not like a website needs to go through app store approval.

But I guess companies are just that desperate for device tracking information and regularly-collected location data.
Really cool! In my young days I had fun with js alerts in certain forums. It's incredible modern browsers still suffer these problems. I have managed to freeze my computer with resource intensive js scripts that required a forced power off, but I never save the code of these bugs. With the latest Ubuntu my machine used to freeze when opening Gmail in Firefox, I started suspecting some kind of sabotage on Firefox, but never managed to find the actual cause.
It's called "leaving money on the table" and Apple hates that.
The Carter administration attempted to start a full transition to metric in the late 1970s. When Reagan took power this was killed and no one attempted to revive it, because it was turned into a nationalist thing, one of those things Republicans reflexively oppose.
> what sacrifices they would be willing to make

Hm - ok, for the sake of argument, what sort of sacrifices are you suggesting? I keep hearing politicians saying we need to do something, and it's going to be a lot, but never what it actually is.
I think that would need a lot of public buy-in, here in the UK we aimed to go fully metric in the '70s and it's still a mix to this day. Most things are officially metric but you still see a lot of informal use of imperial even among young people (height, weight etc) as well as quite a few official things like signs on roads and pints of draught beer in pubs.

Given how politically polarised the US is it'd end up as political football too I think, in the UK opposition to going fully metric sometimes manifested itself as Euroscepticism and that was back in the '00s when we didn't have nearly such aggressive culture wars.
So when you go to the bank and borrow money with either your personal credit or with your house as collateral, is the bank creating money "out of thin air"?
I like to point out that it's not that much worse in cities, it's just more apparent.

A small town with a couple of people living in vans might quietly exceed the per capita homelessness rate of a city with a giant tent city.
Archive.org can archive Twitter and IMDB but both Twitter and IMDB do not have libre/free licensing for user generated content.

Here is HNs policy [0]:

"""

Commercial Use: Unless otherwise expressly authorized herein or in the Site, you agree not to display, distribute, license, perform, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works from, modify, sell, resell, exploit, transfer or upload for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Site, use of the Site, or access to the Site. ...

"""

If HN ever folds, the most likely condition will be someone owns the copyright and will not put it under a libre/free license for the community to use, effectively burying it. In the meantime, HN offers a (perhaps small) treasure trove of information about technical issues, trends, data on how a community forms, communicates and interacts with each other that is explicitly barred from use by the general public without individual approval.

Though this would probably be met with a lot of resistance, HN is well within their right to sue all the "show HN" projects that use the HN data to display interesting trends, do data analysis or do other interesting projects with.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
If it has any effect it is much less than the regulatory bottlenecks imposed on the number of doctors.
>"Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for shutting down a border crossing that handles $350 million in trade per day.

One lane of the bridge was open and the Detroit tunnel had absolutely no blockade. This is a mild inconvenience. Protests are inconvenient to be sure. If the media you consume portrayed this as if there was no traffic at all between detroit and windsor... time for you to look to new media. I am curious where you have gotten this idea? CBC? Some other 'government accredited media'?

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2022/02/12/Detroit-...

>"Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for residents having to put up with medically unsafe volumes of horn honking all throughout the nights. Some had brought train horns and were blaring those.

Ottawa has a population of 1 million and their downtown area will always have honking. Like you know... every other downtown area of a large capital city. Calling this 'medically unsafe' is quite a stretch. Our homes are quite insulated here in Canada given the cold. The same insulation reduces road noise a lot. If you cant sleep because of road noise downtown... move because that happens year round.

>We're "calling it an insurrection" because that is a stated objective of the organizers, to overthrow the elected government of Canada. The fact that this is being encouraged and funded in large part by Americans is frankly, while unsurprising, an overtly hostile act being done to an ally.

No, that's just not in touch with reality at all. Parking large trucks on roads and having a peaceful protest is not an insurrection. There was absolutely no 'otherthrow the elected government of canada' that's a complete fantasy. They haven't once entered buildings or drawn weapons against anyone or anything.

I highly recommend you consume different media because you are not even in the ballpark here.
Dating apps cannot use alternate payment methods within their Google Play App and are subject to the same 30% fee.

In order to avoid the fee, they would have to distribute the app through an alternative store or as an APK which has just as many if not more hoops than what regulators are objecting to here, although they do get to keep the last 27% compared to the Apple situation.
It’s safari with a wig.
When changes in sentiment and macro factors meet a fixed supply there must be boom/bust cycles.
> Based on the implementation of different browsers, one entry in the origin private file system does not necessarily map to an entry in the user’s local filesystem — it can be an object stored in some database. That means a file or directory created via the File System Access API may not be easily retrieved from outside of the browser.

This is sad... based on the title, I was hoping this will be a way for webapps to provide easily exportable data. But it looks like it's not going to like this, so webapps will be same closed black-boxes as before...
You might be surprised at the number of cameras that are fake, or not actually recording. It largely depends on whether the business has insurance and if the local police actually investigate petty theft.
You saw it in the 70s because that's when there was an effort (later abandoned) to convert the US to metric.
Firefox on iOS uses the Webkit rendering engine, not the Gecko rendering engine it uses on other platforms.
I’m super excited for this!

One thought though, on the syntax. Wouldn’t it be a bit odd if suddenly this line in a README.md:

```js
const foo = 1 + 1
```

Rendered as:

`2`

? Isn’t that kind of what we’re doing here with the mermaid source tag? That tag is for showing source code, no? Feels like there should be another tag for rendering it.
> It's akin to pulling away the seat of a teacher who wants to sit down.

You dont usually go to jail for something that is immediately recoverable. (albeit embarrassing) .

Detention might be in order though. Maybe we need a computer hacker equivalent of the drunk tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_tank

As a completely aside rant, we should levee a fee to alcohol companies to fund these drunk tanks, it makes no sense for that to be taxpayer/police budget funded.
I think it was pretty easy to follow the reasoning.

Cryptocurrency companies seem too often play fast and loose with laws and regulations, and the SEC can and will fine them. In addition, whistleblowers can get handsomely rewarded. Ergo, it might soon start to look more and more attractive for a lot of employees to tell on their employers.

Even if this particular case didn't go down like that, I still think it's an interesting point that's relevant to the discussion.
Do they support a markdown Table of Contents yet?
They have https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents as a separate project. Wikipedia articles should be structured as reference descriptions as opposed to how-tos, for the sake of readability and maintainability.
There are far too many axes to weigh when switching products/providers every time a single point is handled poorly. Is it really reasonable for someone to make a choice on changing all of the things associated with their mobile phone based on whether or not dating apps are treated fairly?
So I have an app that assists play of a game called "werewolf" which is a party game usually played by at least 12 player at a time. I made that app two years ago for practicing my Flutter skill also at the time there was another app that was charging for the service so I figured why not just make one since it is not some rocket science. Since I released the app, my friends started to use it instead of other apps, and I have source code available on GitHub just as a proof to others that it was my work.

Couple of weeks ago, a not so close friend of mine came to me and said if he could add some new characters to the app, I agreed and gave him the link to my repo. What pissed me off though was that he shared some screenshots of him running the app from Android Studio on social platform saying something like "finally got it working", everybody was praising him in the comment section but I was like wtf bruh, u literally just running the app, why would you show it off like that? He also started to say to me how he cleaned up the code for me and started urging me to release the new version... I then decided that's it, I wouldn't let u touch my code no more, so I just left him hanging and went on with my life.
He's doing some very advanced stuff. Stock options get very convoluted as well, just don't do things you don't fully understand.
Sometimes I think that it might be good to ditch the smart phone in favor of a dumb phone. Then two things occur to me:

1. 90% of the ‘communicating’ I do with my phone these days is text messaging, and I almost never make voice calls anymore.

2. Dumb phones are terrible devices to use when it comes to text messaging.
Remember when Dell was only in the black on their balance sheet because of Intel payola [1]?

Is Corporate IT the real reason Dell continues to exist, or is it Intel?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/dells...
My take is that QR code scanning is basically an Apple thing because Apple has the QR reader integrated with the camera application.

Try and scan QR codes on an Android phone and you will (1) have to download a third party app, (2) might find you have to download several of them before you find one that really works. The quality of these apps (in terms of "does it scan"?) is variable, but they are all stuffed with annoying ads.

It's yet another problem w/ Android that Google and phone vendors should have tackled three years ago.

Coinbase would have gotten better results if they had a white background and a bigger code that wasn't moving around.
I like this. I've done something vaguely similar but more lightweight/ad-hoc, which is to just send an email to, eg, "every3months@followupthen.com" with the subject line "Get in touch with so-and-so".

A proper Airtable of contacts, or a tool like Monica, sounds great – just nervous that it'll fall out of date.