skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Approval voting is hard. My voting preferences pretty much match ranked-choice model, but approval requires reducing that to just two levels, so setting the bar is either arbitrary, or requires much information about decisions of other people.
> ... so basically everything

And still Toyota outsold them for decades.

I worked for VAG during the Dieselgate-scandal, and I'm reading Ewing's book outlining the whole ordeal and it's been a sobering review of those years.

Personally, I'd like to see this happen especially since the Russian invasion has shown how catastrophic this model is, but the truth is VW in France is still fining them for their involvement in Dieselgate [0], which his one of their biggest Markets in Europe and they still sell Turbo Diesels.

I have a Golf that burns LPG, and I bought it for environmental reasons after owning a Prius in the US. But after a long time in the Auto Industry I'm just so jaded that I'm trying to live a life without a car entirely, it's one of the reasons I moved back to Europe where it was possible.

0: https://www.largus.fr/actualite-automobile/dieselgate-recour...
Responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer
This is an awful idea in practice. For example, an update to my Anova precision cooker required I logged in with a Facebook account to continue using it.
At the time, it's very hard for Google to predict how bad things could be. Ads business tends to get hit very hard when the overall market is in a bad shape, no matter how great the search engine is.
Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos
EROFS has been merged into Linux[1] and is open source: it's not like using it will require hardware made by Huawei or for Android 13 to send data back to Huawei.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROFS#cite_note-6
> In both cases, the police response was hindered by the shooter wearing body armor that could not be penetrated by the police officers' pistols. The body armor is completely legal to purchase with no checks whatsoever.

So, you're making my point for me: it's already too late to curtail the supply of these things in the Market, legal or otherwise, what is needed is to address the overwhelming obvious fact that these people need mental health help.

It's easy to point at Laws and say they're not doing enough, and that is a slippery slope, but even when we do attempt to legislate morality it never ends well since Life is messy and things outside the modeling always occur.

I'm an advocate for stronger checks in the system, but that doesn't necessarily yield the desired result we are all looking for which is a decrease in gun related crimes by what are clearly mentally disturbed people.

The same thing happened in the Boulder King Soopers shooting shortly after I left which is the same thing that happened almost 21 years before in Columbine: they can be procured legally but fall into the wrong hands all the same.

Hell, there is a joke in Germany that if you want a gun all you have to do is sneak into Swiss persons home since there are so many guns there, too.

My point is you cannot legislate morality, all you an do is educate your populace and ensure that people who need help have access to it as long-term that pays off more than any Law ever could.
Hey HN! I just launched VideoMentions Search, a free tool that allows you to search YouTube to find videos that contain specific spoken words.

Here's how to quickly try it out -

Let's say you want to find every video on The Verge's YouTube channel within the last several months in which "MacBook Pro" is mentioned. Here's a pre-populated search to accomplish that:

https://videomentions.com/search?channelUrl=https%253A%252F%...

If you follow that ^ link, then click the button to perform the search, you'll see all matching videos, with every single mention of "MacBook Pro" highlighted.

My favorite part is that all the highlighted matches are timestamped. So you can click on any of them to jump to that exact moment in the video when that keyword was said!

VideoMentions Search is great for these scenarios:

- You want to find all videos within a YouTube channel that mention your brand, your product, or the topics you care about.

- You remember watching a video where a certain topic was discussed, and now you're trying to remember which video it was to rewatch it.

- You run your own YouTube channel and want to quickly find the exact moments in your videos where you cover certain topics, so you can link others to that content.

I have wanted a way to search YouTube based on spoken words for a while. I couldn't find a tool that provides that capability though, so I built it!

I hope you find VideoMentions Search useful! I'd love to hear any feedback you have on it. Please let me know!
Thanks! I'll stop using captive.apple.com now that I know about this!
I think that's roughly what the flash storage modules on Apple's new Mac Studio are.
Ask HN: Why is there no enterprise grade open-source zoom alternative?
We have a client who are looking to replace zoom in their org. They like to self-host everything, and are wary of using outside services. We help them run their own email, and over the years we have helped them set up GitLab and Mattermost, etc which they are happy enough with.

We've set up a Jitsi installation but our stakeholders are wary about the limits on number of participants -- they can't really do department meetings or let alone an all-hands type of meeting with ~1000 people on the call. Also, some parts of their org are invested in the zoom usage/meeting stats too, and so that is another piece we'd have to figure out. We've also had mixed results testing with team members far away on rough connections, where audio/video was workable in zoom but sometimes unworkable with our internal setup.

Has anyone scaled up to 1000 and beyond with any open source solution? Any stories of success or failure? Are there other options to consider than Jitsi? Why is there no one crushing it like GitLab or Mattermost in this space?
I believe quite strongly in what the parent said so I'm confused when you state that it would work in only specific circumstances but I'm open to it.

What specific circumstances do you mean?
URL Shorteners have always been a big topic on the Hacker News. It seems like every week someone creates a new link shortener service or they post an article on why to use or not to use link shorteners.

With companies like Google, Git, and others deprecating their link shortener services, you may think why do we still need URL shorteners in 2022? From the sheer number of short URLs on the internet from major services like T.LY, it appears for the time being that URL shorteners will be around for years to come.

So do they still serve a purpose? What are your thoughts?
Removing the ellipses from the title makes it seem like they are revealing the robots now, as opposed to the bet, meaning their goal for robots, which is where they're at with this.
In the US election system for most of the states right now, there is only 2 logical scenarios

Direct voting (popular votes)

State based (like the senate)

The current electoral college is an arbitrary blend of the two where it’s somewhat proportional (states EC count is roughly related to their population*) but also all states get 1 base vote, plus one per senator— resulting in states like Wyoming having 3 votes despite their tiny population, making each Wyoming citizens vote objectively more impactful than the states with populations above the median

Except this isn’t even true— because it doesn’t matter. Since it’s winner takes all, swing states are all that matters to presidential campaigns. If you’re in a small state that is also dominated by one party, your outsized vote still does not matter

The only effect of the electoral college is to overemphasize swing state’s votes.
I assume that most ISPs push out updates automatically unless the hardware is user provided (and thus user supported)? I've been through several rounds of "we're sending you a new router" with UK ISPs where you're aggressively reminded to switch.
Looks like fun!

Reminds me Terminal Quest:

https://github.com/KanoComputing/terminal-quest
Thank you – I'm desperate to even just isolate access to a single space, to replicate what I currently have on S3, so I can multi-tenant my clients' media storage on the Spaces platform.
Tesla owners less likely to crash their EV than their other cars
The government office responsible for education based on feedback from schools, whose administrators read articles similar to this one (some points from these other well-known articles were recited word by word, basically).
If you are doing ANYTHING on the internet you do not have privacy. If this is news to you then the internet isn't as private as you thought.
You can just use a service to take care of the estate, you are not obliged to do that at all.
Agreed.

The VAX 9000 range tried to become mainframes, and the effort to make them bankrupted DEC.

But there are non-IBM mainframes. They do run under emulation on x86, but they are still real. Unisys Clearpath, for instance.
A good example is the Reform Party, the most prominent party in the 90's and more successful than the Green Party or Libertarians in many ways (the Reform Party actually won a Governor's seat, and got more presidential votes than the other two ever did). They had a pretty public melting down in the late 90's and now are a non-entity.

The Greens and Libertarians have been a mess whenever I've worked with them at the local level. One problem that I've seen, both at a local and national level, is that they keep trying to run as many candidates in as many races as possible, and almost all of these end up being vanity candidates with no interest in winning. We had Green Party candidates here in major races who didn't even bother putting up a website. This just entrenches the idea in people's minds that these parties aren't serious, and are only worthwhile as protest votes.

You want to know the most successful third party at the moment in the U.S.? The Vermont Progressive Party. They only operate in Vermont, yet hold more state level offices in Vermont than Greens and Libertarians _combined_ do in the entirety of the United States. Also more independent state level elected officials. We have two independent senators at the moment. Other people from outside the two parties have had much more success than almost all of the third parties. Again, the Vermont Progressive Party is an exception, but it's only active in Vermont. The Working Families Party in New York would count as another exception, though that's a bit more complex given New York's fusion voting.
For me, the real distraction is “hot questions” sidebar on Stack Exchange. I’d look up a programming question and end up sidetracked by math problems, Star Trek trivia, travel questions, world building prompts… I had to add a custom rule in uBlock Origin to block them.
Encryption doesn't have the fanatical support from the populace that guns do (in countries where those are allowed and are a big part of their culture).
They are most likely "Kailh Choc V2". They are clones of "Cherry MX Low Profile" on the outside but not interchangeable due to a different pinout.

Some tech news sites have claimed that Kailh makes these.
Kailh manufactures also the "Logitech GL" (Kailh Choc) and "Logitech GX" (Kailh's Cherry MX-clone).
Cherry MXLP is not available in other than linear, and TTC's proper clone is not available in tactile.

<https://www.kailhswitch.com/mechanical-keyboard-switches/key...>
This is why the ISP routers and modems have all introduced remote updates from the ISP, sometimes going further with extra telemetry[0]. Not a great situation for those with the technical knowledge, but I don't think we can expect people to upgrade their router FW on their own.

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/mqfy9a/just_got_our_ne...
"I suppose this only applies to single sprocket bike."
There are other ways next to protection against loss.

SWG for example had all items being player-made in addition to slowly loosing durability and breaking eventually. That means, instead of finding loot you can then use indefinitely, you were dependent on economy supply chains. SWG also made you dependent on player services - like doctors, entertainers and such.

I think there could easily be many casual friendly playstyles, like farming, harvesting, herding, entertaining, being mayor in a player city, etc. - in addition to more combat oriented play. Players should be able to choose one style or the other, or mix and match to their liking. And every such playstyle should both need and provide "stuff" from/to other playstyles on a regular basis.
Yikes, is that really the case? No wonder the 128GB drive on my 2013 MacBook air wore out to 60% of its original performance...
I don’t necessarily disagree; but how exactly does that differ from the current state, regardless of where one falls on the ideological and political spectrum. The only ones to whom that does not apply are the aristocracy with the money and favor to bequeath.
Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28427259)

Did Proton redeemed this somehow?
We never figured it out. But when the program would run for a long time the RAM would fill up and the game would slow to a snail’s pace. We turned to this restart solution in desperation.
Anyone who is convinced that we really could quickly transition to a carbon-free energy future should consider the v4/v6 transition.

V6 has conquered big chunks of networking (mobile telephony) but deploying a v6 on the wider, public internet remains pointless.
There are still places that don't auto-redirect to https for some reason. Maybe a temporary misconfiguration. I just ran into http://www.mbsonline.gov.au today and was surprised it didn't redirect and has broken https, even though that org really shouldn't do that.
The hiring rate is at an all-time high, so yes. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=POYy
https://github.com/axoletl/not-br

ill put this here to exist
Incorrect. Pay it off in full. They will report that to the credit folks and it will be removed.
If I _really_ cared, I'd never post publicly at all. Just trying to not be obvious who I am in real life. Every night when I plug in my phone and go to bed, I always say "good night NSA" because I assume I'm always being tracked :)
Already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515

395 points, 240 comments
From occasionally repairing modern bicycles the way the chain is falling off "regularly" doesn't click with me: If one spoke is bent so much (more like a serious wheel wobble) that - at some point - it touches a "damaged" chain link; this is quite a spectacular failure.
I have to assume back then those bicycles were built quite differently that something like that could happen in such a predicatble fashion. Or along the way some information was lost and something different added in that anectode.

Curious to see other versions I have quickly traced back the ancetode to a Nature article "Are mathematician logical" (1987) by Ian Stewart[0]; the version/wording unfortunately here is quite the same.

[0]https://doi.org/10.1038/325386a0 (via paywall --> sci-hub)
Even so, you really made the argument for ebikes. With the e-bike, you’d get there at a normal pace, carry cargo, wear ordinary clothing, and not need a diet change.
> The idea that this obligation is some kind of way to repay for what the parents did for the children is completely absurd and idiotic. It does nothing for your parents.

Thank you for saying this. I can't believe the points people are making here. Your parents are already dead at this point. Of course it does nothing for them. Taking care of them while they're still alive does something for them, but once they're dead nothing can ever affect them again.
Ask HN: What software is good for drawing isometric graphic for landing page?
More specifically i saw many product's landing page and many infographic illustrate with isometric (2.5D) graphic. For example
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/211880357456710193/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/216313588344211633/

I am curious any dedicated tools that is more convenient for drawing that?
I always take one of these questionnaire that tells you which party you agree with most. The top spots is only 50-55% overlap. And that's in a country with many parties.
US revolutionary era propaganda such as Common Sense aside, the UK's parliamentary system was effectively a modern democracy before the US even existed, so if anything parliamentary systems are older and more tested.

Just because the US has accomplished things in other areas doesn't mean its political system is automatically good.

Additionally, the US political system strongly encourages appeals to vocal minorities based on the way primaries interact with the two party system, so to blame this on vocal groups and say it's not the fault of the political system is backwards.
It does, but that payment takes several days to clear and messes up your bank's analytics. I use a modern bank that gives me a real-time overview of my spending and categories it, but this all goes out the window if all your spending is on a credit card and the only thing your bank sees is a single payment (to your credit card provider) once a month.
Why not replace a diploma with a Net Worth or Income requirement. Someone with a 2.0 GPA, but has at least $10,000 in savings is clearly more fiscally responsible than someone who has a 4.0 GPA but is in debt. Something similar is already the law for accredited investors.
I had vinyl siding installed and some wood trim painted on the exterior of my house in 1985. The leftover oil-based paint is stored in my crawl space, which has no direct heat or air conditioning. I used some of the paint in 2021 to touch-up the wood trim and then put the can back in the crawl space.
What does this stat mean? Are Teslas just better handling and safer cars, or is this just a stat that indicates that people with more money tend to be more cautious drivers?
“A lot of people” are returning their Teslas due to no messaging and game support? Unlikely.
Also Swift, and various functional languages too, although "exists in a separate block of memory" is basically the default there.
Great timing for those blockchain startups who held all their cash in crypto and are now feeling the pain.
As of Saturday: HAD two very dominant major parties.

Australia just had Federal elections, and the count is still in progress, but there is a chance we will end up with a "hung parliament" with neither (ex) major party having a majority. 16 seats of 151 appear to have gone to minor parties or independents. Forming government should be an easy negotiation, to the extent that the new Prime Minister has already been declared, as the new government will need support from only 1 or 2 independents. In this instance a hung parliament would be an excellent outcome in that the government would be stable due to the small number of independents needed to form government, and debate would have to occur in the parliament and not behind closed doors in a party room.

The general view is that this change in voting patterns will be long term, as the majors' votes have been declining for years and it has just reached the tipping point. 10 independents elected is a record.

In my opinion the Australian electoral system gets several things right:

* Compulsory voting. You have to turn up to the booth and receive a ballot paper, but it's then up to you what you do with it. Most people use it to vote but some use it to draw a pretty picture or tell the counters what they really think of the government. The real power of compulsory voting is that it virtually eliminates disenfranchisement as those who are not marked as receiving their ballot are handed a small ($20) fine. This creates a paper trail and a disenfranchised voter can refuse to pay the fine, turn up to court and as part of their argument against the fine tell the judge how they were disenfranchised.

* An independent commission (aec.gov.au) that sets voting boundaries and runs the election on a national basis.

* Preferential/RCV voting makes it more likely (than FPTP) that the result reflects the will of the majority and is harder to game. Whilst RCV might not be perfect, it's better than FPTP.

Things it gets wrong:

1) Lack of disclosure of political funding sources

2) This has lead to corruption, whereby the major parties put the interests of themselves and donors above the country, with rampant pork barrelling and looking after "mates".

#2 is a big reason why the major parties are losing votes, and the new government comes with the promise of an anti-corruption commission "with teeth", and a bunch of independents who plan on holding the government to this promise. Amazingly in this instance the system seems to have self-corrected.

With any luck, #2 being fixed will reduce the opportunities to put the interests of parties and donors above the country and lead to #1 also being fixed in the not too distant future.
Still runs spyware baseband and backdoored CPU's.
The 2nd Amendment protects gun ownership, and amending the Constitution to change it does not have enough support to happen.

The Texas gunman was only stopped when shot dead by police. If some school principals and teachers were armed, school shooters would be stopped earlier, and some would refrain from attacking, knowing that would be immediately be shot. Mass murderers often choose soft targets, and hardening those targets entails more people carrying guns.
Can we also sunset animated GIFs, while we’re at it?
A16Z 2022 State of Crypto Report
Thank you for the feedback, really appreciated it. We would add more fun quizzes definitely.
If they removed the 435-member limit on the House and instead had the originally-recommended proportion of voters to reps we'd end up with 5k reps or something like that. A state's electoral college votes is the sum of its house representation + 2 (senators). So this would also make the electoral college somewhat more representative, as larger population states gain more EC votes.
There are certainly worse positions to be in, and I believe you'll be fine if you stay persistent. As much as it may seem here on HN and other dev socials, dubbing yourself as a 'software developer' doesn't guarantee that you write your own ticket from the get-go. Stay persistent, go through the application process for everything that seems remotely interesting, and negotiate from there. Good luck - once it happens, everything changes and soon you'll be looking for a more senior role where you can demand a bit more.
There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up on these same forums[0] but I don't think they get why https is an important thing to turn on, even in 2022.

Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying that the site is insecure. I can't imagine that's a terribly good first impression, even though, again, Spine is one of the best animation packages out there.

[0] - http://esotericsoftware.com/forum/HTTPS-for-EsotericSoftware...
I read a great article that I can’t find right more showing why e-bikes are a boon for accessibility in national parks. We don’t want to close off the natural world to only those in peak physical shape.
Which would be a lot easier to catch by bounds checks in the language / data types used / sanitizers / fuzzers / static analysis than cases like this where you can have two implementations seemingly successfully parse the data but disagree on the result.