skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this ad hominem. Why should the policeman not be allowed to enjoy his retirement. I would assume that he has done his job hundreds of times and has provided justice in more than the vast majority of his cases.

But yes. For a mistake in which all(!) parts of the system have completely failed, for that then the pawn is to be punished.

In a time of cancel culture, mobs on the net, cyber bullying and death threats by idiots online, I wouldn't talk to a reporter either.

At least that's how I can imagine the thought process. And there may be another aspect. I don't know, but my pop culture "education" would make me fear that I might expose myself to the risk of a lawsuit for damages if I were to admit a mistake instead of the police officer.

Because in my opinion he is not to blame. But he does bear part of the responsibility. And he should own up to it. Unquestioningly. But I know too little whether he would make himself personally vulnerable.

In this respect I would not go from the refusal to comment on the case to deny him the enjoyment of the pension.
Just throwing out there that waiting 10 years tends to make dating easier for a man regardless of whatever else you do. I remember this in the okCupid data showing that women’s match numbers start highest at 18 and go down over time.

Not that working on oneself isn’t good for so many reasons.
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I do freelance writing and edit resumes. Most of my resume work has been for folks from HN with a technical background who need someone who understands it enough to edit it down without butchering it.

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> However, a dark cloud remains: market data suggests that 70 percent of U.S. equity trading is now executed by high-frequency trading firms

Is it just me, or was this one of the scarier statements in the article?
High frequency trading does not seem to add anything, it's not a market instrument to balance anything. It's more like gambling with the odds slightly in your favor.

Oh course, I'm a laymen when it comes to high frequency trading and might totally wrong.
Often OSS is blamed for lack of documentation because people like to code, but not to write. When reading GNU documentation I often have the feeling those people must have too much time.
> Your 15 weeks bit

It's not mine, it's what the law under review says.

> I expected him to broker a compromise that looked like that.

Upholding the law under review would "look like that" no matter what. 15 weeks is what the law already says. The Court wouldn't have to rule that every state law has to use the 15 weeks deadline; indeed, I don't think it should. It would just have to rule that the 15 weeks deadline is within the power of the state's legislature to enact.
What's to say that demand needs to be met with waste heat? Couldn't a plant tap off and sell some of the steam that would otherwise be sent to the turbines?
> I don't know that arguing for beginner students to learn what is basically the early version of Haskell as their intro to computing is a compelling alternative.

See when that text was published. The author would probably argue for a slightly more modern language these days.
My entire web site is plain html, although I wrote the program that generates it.
brackets are for squares.

Peace, man!
Still they gave the impression of dragging it out. There were protests and it took a very long time for this anticlimactic ending to occur.

Basically even with doing everything properly they really took their time. Way longer than it seems it took them to check the facts initially and prosecute him.
And if you don't like getting off your ass, just spoof your GPS location.

Some dude did exactly this with tinder and got precise location. Iirc they mitigated by using grids after that, and precision is only accurate to a specific tile. However, a fixed tile size will anonymize you only as much as population density allows. If you're in a rural area, you'll likely be pinpointed.
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Finished my masters in 2021 and worked for a startup for about 6 months and then it ran out of funding. Looking for work that might last a bit longer, hopefully where I can learn how to function in a larger team and with a strong chance of a promotion.
Nope, OP wasn't even talking about "trail braking" but about poor-man's-LSD-braking.

When cornering hard, because of weight transfer, the inner wheel loses almost all traction, which makes it impossible to send any torque to it without wheel spin.
This means that you can't really accelerate out of a sharp turn with an open-diff vehicle, because an open diff always sends the same torque to both wheels, i.e. if the inner wheel spins without much resistance, that resistance equals the torque sent to the outer wheel.

A poor-man's-LSD-solution to this is applying a bit of brakes while also giving it a lot of gas. The brakes prevent the inner wheel from spinning freely and add artificial resistance, which increases the torque available at the outer wheel.

Ideally you'd only want to apply the brake on the inner wheel, which is what some cars actually do automatically as a fake-LSD solution, but applying both and wasting engine power is better than nothing.
If it's so egregious is it really that hard to find an example of the bias?

Calling the integrity of a single person operation into question, but then backing out with no evidence and even saying it might not have even been them seems a bit irresponsible.
Lean's not as odd as it might seem. California is still very much a gold rush state that's addicted to the boom-bust cycle. For newbies I like to recommend Peter Schrag's book Paradise Lost. In it he analyzes California's problems through the lens of Prop 13 and the big cultural shift California saw in the late 70s.

In broad strokes there are a bunch of things to weigh:

- California's got an incredibly powerful initiative process (e.g. Prop 13, both Prop 8s)

- Prop 13 capped one of the main sources of tax income (property tax) and made it significantly more difficult to raise taxes at both the state and local level by requiring a 2/3 majority.

- California is no stranger to issuing debt (and unlike Texas we're not antagonizing the banks that underwite the bonds), and I believe bonds only require a simple majority at the ballot box. Look at Washington state if you want to see absolute fucking lunacy with bonds.

- California is not immune to recession

- To avoid raising taxes initiatives often promise things for free by carving things out of the general fund

- As a strong proponent of public schools: California public schools are an absolute cluster fuck worthy of a few epics. Prop 98 forbids reducing the funding for K-12 schools even as revenue declines. So spending 25% of your budget on K-12 schools doesn't seem bad, but if revenue falls that dollar amount is not allowed to shrink. The two university systems are unfathomably top heavy – to everyone's detriment.

Even if you could get 2/3 of all California voters to agree to raise taxes, it's going to be earmarked for something. And that's how you get death by a thousand cuts. Use fees, special tax districts (and all of their associated overhead), etc. It's how you get random taxes to pay for unrelated things.

For instance, Schwarzenegger cut the vehicle registration fee (sounds reasonable, right?). To make up for that he doubled tuition at community colleges (note: at that point California public unis/colleges weren't allowed to charge tuition so it was simply called a "fee").
I didn't realize there was a patent underpinning Strava. I guess that brings some context to why they've managed to rule this space for so long. Sure seems like a weak-sauce patent tho.

I have had an idea kicking around for a long time to democratize segments via openstreetmap data, as it seems like a silly category of data for a single corporation to have locked up. They really rustled my jimmies when they reduced the views of leaderboards created with user submitted data.

I guess everyone has until 2031 to figure this out unless they want to have some kind of silly patent fight
In fallout New Vegas stealing spoons gives you negative karma too.

It's not our decision to make as far as I'm concerned.
> If you are a startup, you cannot create a popular app in a crowded marketplace by being scrupulous about best practices.
> Match owns almost all of the dating-app market, and they have extremely deep pockets to buy/extinguish competition with.

understood. the only practical response to the banal corporate indifference of modern markets is ultraviolence. establish a rival dating app and send ninjas to the bedrooms of match owners to threaten their lives

hn says "there's not much a small team can do about it" but they are clearly considering only a small team of technologists and a few salespeople/growth marketers. hn has drastically discounted the impact a small team of (kunai-wielding, not mid-2010s startup recruiter speak) ninjas can have
Makes me think if it is possible to escape some advertising by marking your gender as some random string
Also desktop cross platform native GUIs. Programmers always complain about this, but most users are on windows and for them the GUI is just going to be ugly. No user is going to care that it is native.
Agree. And after years of using it, I discovered osage, and after a few years more, gvpr. It gives and it gives. And yes, I'm forever fiddling with it to make it look the way i want it to, but in my heart I know the layout algorithms now better :)
On that time scale, we can just build elsewhere instead. It's a complete non-issue once we know about the risks.
Personally I like the idea of iterative development.

That means, I will code knowing beforehand my first version will be crap. Because no matter how much thought I put into it, there's always a myriad of variables that get overlooked in a first version.

And once I done it, I get to know most of those variables.

But to avoid programming an amorphous blob of bad code, I take software architecture very seriously. If I split controllers, services, repositories properly, then I know I will be sitting on tip of a solid base without worrying about not writing a perfect first version.
You're right I did face some issues too with this when one of the monitors was different but the solution was rather simple. Just had to add a Modeline in some file called 10-monitors.conf(1) and then it worked perfectly until I replaced the 4th monitor with the same configuration, then no such hack was required.

You're right it didn't work out of the box but it was very simple thing even though I'm relatively new to linux myself (relatively speaking)

(1) https://gist.github.com/r0xsh/4d1c7219ee63e4cee0c7fe1077559b...
I never claimed to know anything about the subject and I don't see how you got from what I said to "check your tone". I read the thread you linked and shared my own conclusions.

What I can say is that the explanation given is consistent with motives that make sense for the relevant parties. And I feel that was perfectly clear in the linked thread as well. And guess what, the involved parties are publicly saying things that are consistent with all this too!

I never mentioned or in any way disparaged "gamestonkers".

As to the rest of your comment: Actually understanding how this part of the financial system works is going to require a good deal more work than being the obtuse end of a discussion. And I expect you'll be disappointed with what you learn.
But there is a huge difference. When you have millions of people listening, at some point you have to realize that everything you say publicly has the potential to create big problems.
While I prefer working that way, I personally know for myself that when a deadline is coming I get more done closer to the deadline. I don’t think it’s one or the other, but a mix of both.
Outside academia you need to do a lot of data cleaning and feature engineering, and if you’re constantly changing the model as well as the data you’ll never be able to attribute changes to either.

Chances are a DBA wouldn’t consider letting you do data engineering in a live production database anyway, so this really is all academic.
If only we could transmit electricity over long distances.

You realise you're commenting on a post about Canada using Nuclear power, and all of the things you said about Australia also hold true for Canada?
> SMRs are nuclear reactors that typically produce up to 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which is enough energy to power 300,000 homes for one year.

I suppose anyone who has some knowledge re electricity knows what they're trying to say here, and for anyone who doesn't it won't make much difference, but reading a sentence like this still hurts me a little.

MW (megawatts) are a measure of power, not energy. This means the "per year" part is meaningless. Also for what it's worth, 300MW for 300k homes is 1kW/home, which is a pretty old rule of thumb for average household power use. I believe the current average in Canada (and the US) is considerably higher But that's also just the average; the peak is much higher. 300MW is the peak output for the plant, so the true number of homes it could power is lower regardless, absent storage.

None of that to say the prospect isn't exciting! And I suppose the source here is the weather network, so perhaps they're a bit outside their area of expertise.
What is the Great Tech Migration – and what does it mean for luxury real estate?
I can't help but see a lot of people using /s for a strawman
> We should be governed by secular laws.

Every law has a worldview and moral standards it assumes a priori. The point of our government's structure is to allow whatever laws people ask their representatives to pass, assuming the House and the Senate can agree and the law itself isn't unconstitutional.

There's nothing unconstitutional about laws that assume particular beliefs about what is right and wrong, even if those beliefs originate in a religious worldview. If it's what "we the people" (at least a large enough subset of us) believe, there's nothing wrong with it passing from a constitutional or jurisprudential standpoint. We all have varying beliefs; that's not going to change, but it will be reflected in our politics, unfortunately.

You and I may disagree with a particular law as immoral, but the battle over which worldview to found laws on should be fought in public debate, votes, etc. -- not by arguing that such laws are legally invalid. Only unconstitutional laws ought to be struck down as such.
> there's an effort to salvage recyclables from regular trash as well, what you do with the black/blue bins is basically helping them do their work

This is a very metropolitan thing and not the norm. Waste Management in San Francisco for example has spent a ton of money on fancy machines and people to hand sort.
Thank you, it was Westwood indeed! My memory have failed me, again.
The American right is like a dog chasing cars. They got a lucky break with trump, lots of court appointments, now they get to catch that car finally.

The justification is basically immaterial given that any judicial philosophy effectively defines its own axioms.
I'm on Windows and hated the File-Explorer for years: it always resets the view (even if you told it to use your standard view for all folders) and has terrible defaults.

I tried many alternatives, then finally found XYplorer. It is so easy to use, well structured, but when needed it is also a power house full of soo many tools you otherwise need another app for. Really loving it and many kudos to the only(?) developer from Germany who constantly improves it.
I live in the 3rd biggest food delivery market in absolute terms, with the per capita size being bigger than the top 2. Here UberEats is not a thing and one local player has the majority market share.

> the most expensive option is forcing customers to state their preference (and baked in preferences like those submitted by UberEats are small check boxes that users don't see and so restaurants often ignore)

Every significant player in the food delivery market here has their app work the exact same way: there is a clear, big checkbox for "I don't need cutlery". It's impossible to miss if you've used the app more than once, I'm sure people missed it the very first week it was introduced but now it's standard, everyone knows about it. Check the box? Restaurants don't send cutlery. Simple as that. Want to hear something even crazier? I'm pretty sure the checkbox is checked by default, so if you don't uncheck it, you don't get cutlery (not 100% sure because it may just default to whatever you chose on your last order).

This is just not a problem whatsoever. I'm sure by now it has already saved millions of pieces of plastic.
this is probably the best chance I'll get to plug this on HN:
https://github.com/mivanit/pandoc-sitegen

It's a truly dead simple static site generator that uses pandoc to turn the markdown into HTML, and mustache as the templating language. It's about 400 lines of actual code total. It doesn't include an actual server, it just converts your markdown files into HTML. It's by no means finished but I use it for my personal website.
How to play tabletop RPGs by yourself: A beginner's guide to solo roleplaying
I think it's self evident. When abortion is made illegal it's not eliminated it's just made unsafe. People resort to unsafe abortive methods which will result in more dead women along with the fetus. Banning abortion also means that when one does need an abortion for medical reasons, it's difficult or expensive to have one, which will result in fewer women seeking a lifesaving abortion. That America lacks socialized healthcare compounds the problem.

Also it means that someone other than a doctor will be deciding on whether the abortion is medically necessary, and that decision will not be made on the basis of the woman's health (because if it were, the woman and the doctor would be the only ones to make it, and the government and the supreme court would have no say whatsoever). Life and death decisions related to a woman's health that are not grounded purely in actual medicine rather than politics and religion will necessarily result in more deaths (otherwise then I think we should make lawyers and priests into doctors because they are more effective at saving lives).

> the Mississippi law under review in this case does not make abortion illegal until after 15 weeks of pregnancy (and even then there are exceptions like the health of the mother)

I don't think you understand what's happened here. The Mississippi law was written for a world where Roe is still active. This opinion eviscerates Roe. Mississippi has a "trigger law" already on the books for just this occasion, and it will place a total ban on abortion as soon as the opinion is issued. Total abortion bans are going to be a thing very soon, even in the case of rape, even in the case of incest, and yes, even in the case where the health of the woman is threatened. That is all currently on the table.
Guide to x86 Assembly (2006)
Many billions of RISC-V of CPUs have shipped, so, pedantically, that means they're already viable for including inside consumer devices. However as other replies have noted, you'll have to wait a number of years before they'll be used as the main CPU, rather than just some tiny core off on the side doing power management or whatever.
To me xiv is a horrible game and barely a mmo. Square enix hasnt done good games for a while. TWEWY is probably their only good series but they barely market it. Also their strategy of releasing everything epic game store exclusive on PC is pretty scummy.
TerseNet seems like it has some good ideas, and I had some similar ideas, too. I would do some things differently though, such as not loading even one small image automatically (everything must be loaded explicitly), not having such a small limit for text files (I think that many documents will be much longer), not using Unicode, and some other things differently too, but much of that is like what I would have wanted to make, and I could write some of my own ideas about it too, in future, maybe.
House-flipping algorithms are coming to your neighborhood
Absolutely do non-tech-savvy people care about this. It’s like a film — they may not be able to explain it, but they know a good film from a bad one.

I’m the “tech guru” for many of those who know me, and I’ve seen people of all ages struggle with mobile UIs. There’s two axes with two values, making four categories that I find problems fall into:

- Simple concept + familiar UI: User is at fault (usually a misconception). I rarely see problems in this category.

- Complex concept + familiar UI: User struggles to understand what they’re trying to achieve. A little bit of extra info helps them make sense of the situation. Very easy to help the user over the phone in this situation. Often, thanks to good UI, the user figures it out themselves.

- Simple concept + strange UI: The user knows what they want to do but can’t understand what the UI is conveying, can’t find the UI controls, can’t express what they want via the UI controls, or sometimes don’t even realise something is interact-able. Even if the user understands the concept, they often struggle to succeed after stumbling their way through the app for any length of time, and need assistance. Apple iOS’s “swipe from different corners to get notifications & control panel & home & etc” and “three fingers/hold to do textual things” are good examples of this.

- Complex concept + strange UI: Situations in this category can get so difficult & time-consuming that it’s often easy to just do what the user is asking for on their behalf, or give them a step by step process they can repeat.

The things that make a UI familiar or otherwise are subtle, like what makes a film good or bad.

UI/UX designers come up with all these “clever” ways to do things, like the breadcrumbs interface on the Notion app, but many users simply don’t figure out how to use them. And they don’t think to use an element/gesture when they seek to achieve the very things which that element/gesture achieves.
Thank you, Western and Westwood got mixed up in my head.
Even that line is ambiguous. Some babies born at 22 weeks may survive, and many may not. With additional medical advances that timetable might move back to essentially 0 weeks. Without formula, babies would still absolutely need someone's nutrients to survive until 6 months.

The point is, while the law needs it to be binary, I don't think it's the same on moral grounds.

And I've heard your last point repeated plenty, but one should keep in mind while there's a significant overlap between the religious and the ultra fiscally conservative the Venn diagram isn't just one big circle.

Plenty of studies have found that religious people donate more to charities including nonreligious causes. There's also this: "A recent Barna Group survey found that 5 percent of practicing U.S. Christians – compared to 2 percent of all U.S. adults – have adopted children"

In my experience, if I found myself without a proverbial shirt on my back, I'd either go to a very religious person's house or someone that's quite (but not ultra) wealthy.

I'm a pro-choice atheist, for what it's worth.