skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New construction apartments in NYC are horrid places to call a home. They’ve shrunk the average unit size by 100-200 sq/ft (10-20 sq/m), switched to “luxury vinyl plank” flooring, use PTAC HVAC units (the type that you would find at a motel), have paper thin walls between adjacent units, and to top it all off are shoddily constructed due to the rampant use of non-union labor which is working under unreasonable timelines to build out the apartments so the developer can start making money ASAP.

The Long Island City neighborhood is ground zero for this. Studios going for $3k a month that are no bigger than a dorm room.

And then there’s the noise pollution. The proliferation of delivery apps has caused an explosion in the number of gas powered scooters on the streets. Many of the delivery scooter riders enjoy “souping up” their rides by removing/modifying the mufflers and driving as recklessly as possible. Due to the giant holes in the walls left by the PTAC units you can hear them wizzing by every few minutes from 2PM to 11PM.

And then there’s the “fart cars”, dirt bikes, and ATV gangs, but those have already been addressed by others.
> Namely, since coins are incredibly deflationary

Not all. Some have more reasonable emissions like one per second forever, the simplest possible disinflationary emission, that minimizes wealth concentration.
Must've been a script they got by email from someone.
This is solvable: when the recipient client accepts the senders notification, they return a nonce. Later, when they look up the message in the sender's inbox, they reject the message if the sender can't include the nonce.

On the other hand, disk space is so cheap this doesn't help very much.
This treatise only focuses on one point of view from two studies, and asks if killer robots are OK.

But there are plenty of other philosophies and ethical/logical paths one can take.

In particular the article doesn’t touch upon nonviolent resistance, which one can argue is more ethical than self defense. I also don’t agree that you can reduce war to a series of individuals protecting their right not to be killed and therefore war at scale is justified in a general sense. I do appreciate the mention of information asymmetry for conscription as a flaw in ethical standing by those who would wage war, but this is obvious since that’s how pretty much every war has ever been started.

Machines designed to kill people don’t have any ethical escape route. They are by definition evil constructs. The creation and use of an evil construct is not justified in any ethical argument.
1: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Origin_of_the_term

2: Roads are also for bicyclists, motorcyclists, and even pedestrians. It's true though that car drivers often think that roads are a car only domain and behave aggressively towards the other mentioned groups
https://HighScalability.com is excellent
High Scalability has some good articles around this.

http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/
Could be anywhere from North Africa.

The possibility that the person is from the Levant from among a family who decided to spell their name in a Francophone way cannot be eliminated.
I've bumped into this in a job listing a few weeks ago from https://litnerd.com/.

https://www.figma.com/file/6rFlomXiaKyE4pVQ9O7Qod/engineerin...
Especially as I've never heard from a self hosted Jira instance being down for a week. You just restore the last backup and there you go. Quite simple if it's only one system you have to restore, not millions.

To me that shows again that self hosting often beats cloud services. Yes, the vendor knows more about their own product, but delivering services at scale is so much more complex than a small on-prem instance that on prem usually shows higher resiliance. I had the same experience with self hosted Gitlab and Mattermost (as a Slack alternative).
Quite interesting to see how our experiences differentiate as I never got the chance to really understand what I was doing or what is going on but maybe that depends on our different approaches when switching distros
To add to your point: it doesn’t bother me so much that the AI system doesn’t share these priorities. What I worry about is that the companies designing them are not incentivized to.
Musk turns down a seat on Twitter’s board and so open to pursue hostile takeover
> You many need to register a company

Shouldn't you do that anyway to protect yourself?
How do you count "criminal activity"? Shoplifiting isn't as big a score as kidnapping and eating a neighbor. How long must someone be a habitual shoplifter to bring their score up to the level of someone cannibalized one person?
> Any idea why Kalorama is shaped the way it is? Looking it up on google maps, it looks like two triangles connected by a street, which seems odd for a neighborhood.

I can point out dozens of such intersections in my NYC neighborhood where streets cross at angles not 90 degrees.
It sounds to me that the US Congress is the only body that can ban these atrocities nationwide. Is this true?

> Use of no-knock warrants has increased substantially over time. By one estimate, there were 1,500 annually in the early 1980s whereas by 2010 there were 60,000–70,000 no-knock or quick-knock raids conducted by local police annually, the majority of which were looking for marijuana.

> Currently, Florida, Oregon, Tennessee, and Virginia ban no-knock warrants; however, state-level bans do not affect federal law enforcement. Thirteen states have laws explicitly permitting no-knock warrants, and the remaining states issue them based on a judge's discretion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant
Somebody already found and disassembled the drone back in 2018. [1]

[1] https://informnapalm.org/en/russian-drone-orlan-10-consists-...
This is the sunk cost fallacy. Just because you spent a long time on configuring it, it doesn't mean it's worth staying.

You should only consider the current situation, and plan for the future.
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And a guy with the flag running in front of the vehicle.
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It's a common law country (except for Quebec, apparently) with a heritage very similar to the US. Economically & militarily it's perpetually coupled to the US. Canada isn't much different except that central government has a stronger role.
The author reports on cults, but doesn’t draw many specific parallels with Bitcoin in this article. She omits any insight into what qualifies a group as a cult, and how those characteristics apply to this particular one.

She also seems to equate the broader group with its most enthusiastic members. By the same token (heh), you might as well call Star Wars a cult after attending one convention. Which, to be fair…
> suspending the one car is actually a rather elegant solution

If the software in a commercial aircraft were to be found defective, would we really be OK if only the individual aircraft in which the fault manifested itself gets grounded (assuming that aircraft isn't itself already on the ground in thousands of pieces spread all over a hillside...)

Surely the FAA (or international equivalents) would issue an airworthiness directive which would apply to every single example of that specific type of aircraft?
Yep. A big road near us (2-3 lanes in each direction; also a major route into a large city) recently dropped from an 80km/h limit to 60km/h - and I understand the reason is noise pollution for nearby residents.
>Most holders of coin-wealth didn't earn it, they are taking it from the fools currently buying-in.

How does that differ from the more obviously valid versions of rewarding early birds?
I enjoyed this movie. But, if I'm honest, I don't know that it lived up to the high ratings it is getting (for example, on Rotten Tomatoes) in my opinion.

I don't want to spoil anything. (So maybe this comment is pointless). It's a crazy movie that has huge potential. But it doesn't quite live up to its potential.
https://runninginproduction.com is a podcast about software architecture examples.
Somewhat 'technical': For anyone interested in health and longevity, I recommend Peter Attia's Newsletter and his Podcast. He gets really technical, but is still comprehensible for people without a medical degree.

https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/

I think nearly all health related changes I made in my life, I made based on his content.
Azure DevOps is a dead end since Microsoft bought GitHub. You can look at ADO’s release notes. The quantity of work released has slowed right down.

I mean the output of one three-week sprint (that’s their cadence) was “we are turning some stuff off.”

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/...
Ask HN: How to best design a hierarchy of user accounts, orgs and products
Im currently exploring the design of an account and role based permissions system.

Im trying to look for and find standard patterns (if any) for structuring user accounts, organisations, sub organisations and products.

It would need to handle:
1. Role based permissions
2. Roll up billing

My initial thoughts are:
1. A user account is unique but can be a member of 1 or more organisations.
2. An organisation could have one or more sub organisations.
3. An organisation (or sub organisation) would be subscribed to one or more products
4. A the product level, the user would have role based permissions to provide access to certain features.

How would you best design something like this from a rule / hierarchy perspective?

Would you apply role based permissions at every level for the user?
http://highscalability.com/

Looks like it hasn’t been updated for a while though.
I also preferentially bookmark the comment thread rather than the article if I want to keep it for reference.
The author does solicit donations via cashapp in multiple posts. Also links to an Amazon birthday wish list which is pretty bizarre...
Joining the board required accepting a 15% cap on shares. If he doesn't join he can buy as many shares as he wants and control the company.
Using all features isn't uncommon for large companies with very heterogen team structures. And there aren't many alternatives that allow companies to tailor the software as well as Jira.
Ask HN: Best practices for editing remote code locally?
Working on a remote codebase from a local computer accessible via ssh, what’s the best/easiest way to write, edit and test code?
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Sidenote is doors are really soft in US. Over here armored doors are a thing and they would basically need explosives or just demolish the reinforced concrete wall. Or just call the lockpickinglawyer
As for point 2.

Okay, but now cars do exist. Do you think it's reasonable for cars capable of traveling 40mph should be stuck behind pedestrians at walking speed? Our modern transportation infrastructure exists for a reason, and that reason is speed/effeciency. Most areas with heavy pedestrian traffic have sidewalks. If I'm going 60mph down the highway then the presumption that I should be subjected to pedestrians casually strolling across is absurd.
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Waymo's marketing would imply they think the whole fleet should be suspended in this case. They call their system the driver, and seem to anthropomorphise it.

But more practically: what could a self-driving car do to get it's licence suspended? Afaik That's a pretty rare punishment outside of two cases: drunk driving or street racing.
For the most part yes. I think the boss is critical in showing recognition but we as colleagues also learn where each other's strengths are through ourself but also our boss. That is something that I think helps us as a team immensely.
Sure, I know that, but does a driverless car? All it can see is blue lights right behind it, which could mean "stop right now or we'll shoot you" or "get a move on to the next passing point you can find" depending on context (probably conveyed by the gesticulating of the driver and maybe a loudspeaker).
Well, you could try to sell it off before that happens. This genuinely seems better for everyone, even if the buyer has to turn around and start charging or putting ads up or whatever, the users get a better experience than an unannounced switch-off. You don’t have to lie about the numbers or try to get a three comma buy out, and you’ll still get some amount of money for your time.

I just googled “sell my side project” and found a few marketplaces for that sort of thing. Might be worth checking out.
I've lived in NYC for some years, I don't think people are as rude or aggressive as the stereotype goes. If anything, it's "friendlier" in the sense of it being easier/more normal to just talk to random people.

It is expensive AF though, so yeah, depending on how one defines "middle class", living here could be really suboptimal.
How does a fixed minting rate prevent inflation? Production is elastic and typically grows over time, which is why the Fed is constantly adjusting the dials on money creation (both directly and indirectly.)
As soon as Mendelian randomization studies arrived at the scene, the correlational evidence for benefits of moderate alcohol consumption started to fall. Now we have even better Mendelian randomization, and even more evidence.

I don't know how he feels about alcohol, but I still suspect that somewhere, Judea Pearl is being smug right now.
Green jobs and a radioactive cleanup: Healing northern Estonia
https://techstacks.io/stacks/
> If you blew up our entire AWS account save our backups we could be nominally back online within an hour or two and fully within 6.

Do you regularly exercise this, or is it just a plan?
Which we could falsify, if we could identify minorities who don't have this problem because they're generally wealthy, and recognizable groups of white people who do have this problem because they're dirt poor.

But how could we possibly do such a thing? Here, in the United States?

Guess we'll never know if the racist part is true or not!
The x25519ell2 package, maintainer's rant
Mechanics need to be able to turn them off when they work on them or they’ll get blinded. Every car I’ve driven in the last 10 years seems to have an auto mode though.

I’d be surprised if the Chevy’s these are based on don’t have an auto mode. It could be that a fuse blew here.
> I dont think anyone has ever yet explained how this is meant to function as a currency.

Because it can't. Even assuming everyone is on board with blockchains, removing the ability of the central bank to increase the monetary supply during recessions makes every downturn 10x worse.

(as unpopular as it may be with inflation this high right now)
What made you think that?

Just curious, last time I happened to read anything from Thoughtworks was quite a long time ago.
Sega indicates NFTs could be used to realize “SuperGame” ambitions
Maybe not hyper-focused, but I joined CodeProject's Daily Insider newsletter in like 2005 freshman year of high school and despite considering a few times over the years opting out, it's been a consistent source of interesting links and news I hadn't heard yet.

Plus it has a slight Microsoft-technology bent, which breaks me out of my Linux/web programming bubble sometimes.

https://www.codeproject.com/feature/insider/
Landmines are autonomous killing robots; start one up and it'll kill of its own accord.
I read mostly only the comments except the:
"why not that other irrelevant thing", "I remember this irrelevant anecdote", "Rust ftw"

For science postings I read the artcle, half of wikipedia and then humbly read the comments.
> Everyone on "BLIND" says AWS is absolute hell, unless you luck out on team/manager.

Blind self-selects for people unhappy with their jobs. So, I'm not sure Blind is a good source for any job information.
An absolutist wouldn't have an issue with a teenager posting public flight data about his jet. Given his maturity level, it wouldn't surprise me if the entire stock purchase started as an attempt to shut down @elonmuskjet.
> Other than some very high-profile companies (like Netflix, github) ... it's hard for me to find easily digestible (20-60 mins) examples

So I think this doesn't meet your requirements, but I like Tech Dummies Narendra L's YouTube videos [0].
He introduces big tech companies' systems in 30-60min videos and it's not difficult to understand.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkQkbY7JNJuBoTemzQfjy...
Media has an impact in the world we live in even without our participation
https://archive.ph/NP7FB
I'm in a weird place doing federal policy work that straddles a bunch of areas (tech, critical minerals, and defense mostly) but I like a few 1) The Global Lithium Podcast, 2) PetroNerds, 3) CQ Roll Call, 4) Breaking Points, 5) Conversations with Tyler
US driving test standards are still a joke compared to overseas.
I've seen some which are self-adjusting too; so in a quiet environment they only make their "angry crow noise" quietly, but on a busy site it'll be a bit louder. Clever stuff.
Still better than writing everything by hand.
Why should a currency reward anyone?

A currency is a way of "liquifying productivity" -- what we have with crypto is a few people turning up early, claiming a stake, and waiting ~10yr until they can exit with a fleet of tesla, houses, etc. because theyve convinced people to accept their tokens as cash.

That's about as anti-productivity as you can possibly imagine. It's a transfer of production (eg., cars) to the unproductive. Holding bitcoin in order to spend it is asking the productive economy to subsidise you.

(1) It is a scam; and (2) as a currency, it's madness.
Yes. Bitcoin is the cult that has already unveiled itself as the scam and it has failed and everyone knows that is a scam that obviously cannot be used as a currency, P2P payments or using it to send money in a short space of time. (and nope the Lightning Network is not Bitcoin).

I would not go far to dismiss all of them.
Well, then I'd bet that rich people commit many times more offenses, but that medium-to-low income people would have many times more offenses that can actually be found by searching their homes, or even proven at all.
It sounds to me like they lost some sort of master reference table that maps customers to services, instances, data, and so on. Which would mean a lot of manual examination to recreate the map. And would give you that situation where maybe the first thirds of restores is somewhat "fast" because it's the bigger customers with more data/logs/activity, and so easier to identify. But now they've hit the long tail.

They may also be gated by limitations in-between customers and the backups. Like backups going through a transit VPC, for example. You don't see the bandwidth limitation when you're sending incrementals all day, but try and do full, parallel, multiple customer restores through it, and ... (and perhaps they are afraid of making too many changes on top of the current chaos to fix something like that)
I generally am in agreement. However there's a complication in my mind.

My dad was a police officer and I grew up around police. It's there's one thing to know about police, it is that they are human, and subject to all the emotions, inconsistencies, and foibles as other humans.

However, they are given an extraordinary amount of power, with very little accountability. Think about what it would take for a regular person (maybe even you) to lose their job. Yet here is an example of an officer, behaving very aggressively, against department policy, causing a major accident and injuring a pregnant woman.

As far as I can tell, he still has his job (although he was "disciplined", and the lawsuit was picked up by the taxpayers).

https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-arkansas-legal-settlemen...
You see this at all different levels of complexity.

I'm on the board of a very small non-profit and periodically I see someone come in with grand plans for updating the website and other infrastructure. And you pretty much know that, given free rein, they'll come up with something that will be way beyond what the person coming in after them will be in a position to maintain.
> But it's been 20 years with Debian and it's like a relationship I almost feel afraid to leave.

I was shipping Debian 1.2 CDs by the hundreds in the nineties!

I'm using Debian or derivaties/forks everywhere (desktop / laptop / server / Raspberry Pi (raspbian).

> It's been a rodeo ride. I loathe systemd and the whole "mother knows best" Poettering schism.

A few months ago I switched my main desktop to "Devuan" (a Debian fork without systemd) and I do really dig it.

I'm still running Debian on servers, on the laptop, on the other desktop, etc.

But honestly: Devuan, for my use case on my dev machine, is really just Debian without the Poettering stuff and it works fine. YMMV.
> 2. You don't think that roads should be a car only domain? What do you think roads are for?

For example for my messanger on my horse so he doesn't get stuck in the mutt on it's voyage to the next city.
... or maybe my zenturie to support my legion?

What makes you think (or suggest) that roads where invented for cars?
2014 is a geological era ago.
I like Spring Boot. In literally one day I built from scratch an app to expose a REST API, schedule a job, publish and consume to/from Kafka, do CRUD from/to CassandraDB without writing CQL. It's `the` RAD framework, without being a RAD.
Maybe there are framework that do just the same with the same effort and capabilities, Spring has the advantage to support and be supported by basically everything.
Yes, it has a lot of black magic, but I learned a lot reading its code when I had to.
Ah...here in the U.S., the consequences for law enforcement agents who gun down innocent homeowners, who were only exercising their rights...those consequences are generally rather mild. Federal agents gunning down each other would have far worse career consequences for the agent who made the "kick in the door" decision.
What a mess of incompatibility ssl has become, and all to provide questionable amounts of privacy and security along with a monopoly on eavesdropping to those who have the means.
This has a pretty good discussion how to store hierarchical data:

https://tdan.com/modeling-hierarchies/5400

Also,

you would need a user_org table for user org relation.

probably a subscription table and permission table between product and org(subscriptions) and prod and user(permissions)

you might also look at a graph database
We put up with them in the US because we have to & we don't get a choice. You'll notice that DHS & all of its component parts aren't part of the political process. Politicians never discuss their elimination. They are accepted as a intrinsic of the federal government. Removing TSA is like suggesting we don't need Congress.
There's one revealing way a bitcoin-economy could release money, right? Ask all the major holders of coins.

Hmm... wait a minute, a small few holders of coins... can behave like a CENTRAL BANK ... ?!

I wonder what those few major holders think about crypto... ah yes, that it will free us all...
I agree that a lot (though not all) of the issues people want to pin on race are really just about class, but would you deny that there is at least a correlation between race and class?

Or that law enforcement has a bad racism problem? To be clear, I don't think most cops are racist or bad (in our current culturo-political moment, I probably err on the more pro-cop side), but it's certainly a problem that hasn't been given any real thought or attention by most police departments.
Harder Drives: Hard drives we didn’t want or need
Ask HN: Do you still monitor your SSL certificate validity?
In light of SSLPing's shutdown (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30985514), I'm wondering:

Do many people still monitor their SSL certificates for expiry/validity, given certificate providers like AWS ACM handle refreshing certificates automatically?

(I run the 200th uptime monitoring service, and SSL validity checking doesn't seem to be a particularly high priority for my users, hence the question)