skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of "funding" and "resources stretched thin" comments here, but I am surprised that no one has mentioned the role of the local district attorney (+judge) in this. In my opinion, his role is comparably important of a factor in the current situation. And among people living here, the involvement of our district attorney has definitely been been mentioned as a significant factor during discussion on the topic.

Tl;dr on it is that the DA refuses to prosecute a lot of crimes that should be, and the judge lets out a giant amount of violent offenders on bail (as well as heavy majority of people who are in for a non-violent offense, like stealing a car or brandishing a stolen firearm, not even talking about robberies). Yes, even for those who had history of not showing up to court hearings. It basically started being discussed as a revolving door system. Which is why cops don't bother much with "minor" crimes like robberies anymore. Why waste such needed resources, if the person will just be released the day after anyway, at least with more hardcore crimes there will be a chance that something will come out of it maybe.

Case in point, here are two lengthy articles from two major local publications, Seattle Times[0] and King5[1], discussing the issue. A lot of good information there, but I quoted a couple specific examples that were pretty illustrative.

> In a 2019 domestic violence case, a Seattle man was charged with assaulting his girlfriend. Police said he was punishing her for leaving their apartment and leaving behind their crying infant. The NCBF paid $2,000 to bail him out of jail. Three weeks later he was charged with a new crime: allegedly returning to his girlfriend’s house and killing the baby.

> [...] the defendant, 50-year-old Michael Sedejo, was originally charged with assaulting and robbing a 65-year-old man in Seattle’s City Hall Park on April 13, 2021. The King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office asked the court to set bail at $20,000. The prosecutor argued the bail was necessary “based on the likelihood that the defendant may commit a violent offense…The state is concerned about the safety of the community if the defendant is released from custody.” The judge lowered the bail to $5,000, and public records show the NCBF paid it in cash. Two months later, Sedejo was charged with murdering Bradley Arabie in City Hall Park with a pocketknife.

This became such an issue, the recently elected prosecutor was literally running on a campaign that promises she will actually do the prosecution[2].

0. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/hard-o...

1. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-charity-gro...

2. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattles-...
Why would you debug by hand when you can use a computer? Meant in favor of print of course.

Thinking as I write it probably means it's the print statement that should be improved for debugging if anything. Imagine a debugger that collect them, with the memory / variables and stuff. Could also be turned into break points. Alternatively, could a newly developed terminal be coupled with a debugger like that?
The internet has successfully changed my mind! A very rare event. No need to appeal to bad faith. I simply received an engineering education which taught me that a great deal of energy is lost along the way to delivering electricity to houses, so that, for the purposes of generating heat, it's usually best to simply generate the heat via the primary route. I also grew up in the Northern Midwest & had to pay electric bills of $800 / month for rentals heated via electric baseboards.

http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-...

However -- thanks to the free further education I have received here, I now understand the argument for electric stoves (gas stoves less efficient due to heat loss around the sides of the pot and also unhealthy due to combustion in a living space).

Going a step further, do you think that heating houses (e.g. furnaces) as well should be exclusively done via electricity?

I am aware that these laws are for urban areas in California (which don't require much heating). But, I am curious to what extent the argument for greater efficiency & health holds up for the heating of houses and for colder geographic areas, considering that quantity of heat required is much higher, and also that the furnaces are vented much more aggressively.
Looking at the language, almost all of them allow you to run benchmarks since it's phrased as "you may not publish benchmark results"; it doesn't forbid to actually run them. Never mind that MS-SQL, Oracle, etc. are not SaaS vendors of course.

To be honest, if a cloud vendor has technical problems with someone running a few benchmarks then that would make me very wary of said cloud vendor. What's the difference between a "benchmark" and "using all resources I paid for" anyway?
Charlie cannot get a 10$ IOU from Alice, he can only get it from Bob. If Alice wants to give a 10$ IOU to Charlie, she will have to give it to Bob and ask him to give an equivalent IOU to Charlie.

If something happens to Bob, too bad. Both Alice's and Bob's IOUs are void because Bob can neither pay up nor demand payment. Both Alice and Charlie are sad because they knew Bob, and their ability to trade was more valuable than the current balance.
> Compensation is still on the lower end, like $90k-120k/year

Is this working for the government directly or as some sort of subcontractor? For the former that’s actually surprisingly a lot.
Nobody's Going to Steal Your Idea (2015)
Replying to

> Firefox is only Chrome-based on iOS.

So I'm talking only about iOS. When I said it's Safari-based, I meant Webkit based, but I thought Firefox/Chrome actually pull parts of Safari on iOS. Quick research says that's wrong and they just use Webkit. Not an iOS dev, so someone can point out better sources for the 100% correct terminology.
This is very cool.

Until web bundles are supported in all browsers, this is a great way to share/run a folder of files as a website directly from your phone.

Thank you for this.
The police have to be put in their place. It’s a low skilled job— get rid of the union, make bodycams mandatory and heavily background check prospective candidates.
Show HN: iOS App to track your Python Training/Evaluation/Backend tasks
That's a good explanation, thanks. So it's basically McDonald's but with more "substantial" food suited to sit in with families.

That makes sense to me. Almost no matter where I traveled in the world, I sometimes wanted to just get some food in me and move on, say because I was transitioning through a place or simply did not have the energy for more. As a then single guy, McDonald's was always a good option for that: You know what you get and it's quick and easy.
For such a horribly critical piece, the author doesn't seem to understand the bare minimum about the medical profession.

> Doctors become unwilling to take any risk out of fear of losing their license.

Perhaps because mistakes are paid in human lives?
Yay gatekeeping!

And look at all these idiots using the word "computer" to mean an electronic computation device! They must be super ignorant to not realize the word was already taken to mean human beings who perform computations as their job!

I would like to be more rational in my thoughts and decisions. I would like it if others were as well. I find that reading articles by so-called "rationalists", and reading debate around them, seems to help me do that. Not surprising, since that is their exact stated goal as well.

As far as what "rational" means:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rational

1. Capable of reasoning.

2. Logically sound; not contradictory or otherwise absurd.

3. Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.

4-7. [Math, chemistry, and physics stuff]

Hmm, nothing about social hierarchy or about how you're not allowed to use that word if you're not a 17th century French philosopher. What the hell are you on about, and why are you so concerned about gatekeeping this word?
I think the idea is that the author of the post we're talking about doesn't consider the idea that they may be internally biased in a way that affects their ability to be rational. From my perspective, it looks like they started from the belief that ivermectin is an generally effective treatment for COVID and that "the data" (that is, a properly weighted and filtered version of the publication record) demonstrates that.

To me that shows a lot of overconfidence. Even as I make statements saying that ivermectin isn't a generally effective treatment for COVID, I fully accept that it's possible my reasoning and interpretation of the evidence could be faulty and that some future study could somehow demonstrate a slam-dunk benefit even for countries with no level of parasitic infections, like the US. If that happened (seems very unlikely, but not impossible) I would change my statement (as would the mainstream medical establishment). The author of the above article doesn't really show that level of epistemic humility.
- https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/based.cooking
- https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
I'd throw Denny's, IHOP, and Applebees into the same category.
If you read the article this post actually links that article and explains that it was written to address it...
- elixir for real-time updates

- react.js and protomaps.js for front-end app

- python for a variety of geospatial service
There should be an amendment to the email protocol that routes emails to inboxes if they were paid for by some user-configurable amount. Cryptocurrency would be ideal for this unironically because its basically an open protocol (yeah I know the hacker news crowd hates cryptocurrency but whatever.)
The Stamen toner map may work well for you: http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/14/37.8024/-122.2645 Also checkout their watercolor rendering... probably my favorite basemap that I never get to use.

If you do use QGIS, you can get the Quick Map Services plugin that will connect you with these Stamen basemaps as well (and tons of other basemaps, a must-have plugin).
Better suited in what way? I've written HTTP APIs in all of the above - plus Python and PHP - and choose Rust for new ones 99% of the time.

Just recently I had a need for a fairly simple webapp. Whipped up the back end in Rust in, like, an hour; only had to bolt on a couple tests for the single complex bit of business logic, because I have a high degree of confidence that the compiler has me covered for everything else.

Now it sits there quietly using 4.9 MiB of physical memory and 1.5 millicores on two of my servers, primarily serving a k8s healthcheck every couple seconds.
I had this exact same problem when making the switch from VS Code to VSCodium this past week. It would be nice if the same extensions matched.
The us seems to like geriatric leadership. Canada, on the other hand, seems to prefer people in their 40’s or 50’s. Different strokes, eh? If the youth get involved, they can start to effect change.
*Hires team of synchronized skywriters to draw SHA-256 hash above crush's location*
I don't understand why this is in the homepage. Maybe I just don't get it because I never used 4chan.
Hmm why will this (basic Python functionality) break in 12.3?
I’m always really wary about stuff like this. Is IBM hiring mainframe guys who complete their courses? It seems very cursory just glancing at it, and while I bet I’d definitely feel more comfortable in a mainframe environment, I have my doubts it’s going to get me to speed enough to jump into real world production stuff.
Thanks. As mentioned elsewhere, I did not know that aspect of "roadside restaurants". It makes sense as a "pit stop" kind of thing with families, and seems to fill a similar role to the big gas station+restaurant combinations you find along the Autobahn for example.

Another aspect is that if in Europe you've been driving for 8 hours, you may well have crossed a country border (or multiple), and everything is very different anyway. McDonald's again being your best bet if you want anything really predictable in that case (and you can even order without speaking the language usually).
Very cool you are using protomaps.js! I recently found their blog and really like the ideas in there: https://protomaps.com/blog
Bay Area’s Buffalo Bill’s Brewery, revived pumpkin ale, shutters after 40 years
I can’t imagine many professionals would wildly appreciate changing their core tool from underneath them, regardless of whether the tool is actually better.

If I wanted to stir the pot with a grenade, I’d say it’s like asking Vim users whether they should all move to VS Code.
Could this article comparing DeWitt Clauses be considered benchmarking?
>Carnival cruise ships alone produce 10x more pollution than all vehicles in Europe combined[1].

1. I get the joke you're trying to make, but realistically speaking the fact that the company is in the "fun" industry, doesn't mean the company itself is being run "for fun".

2. that's at least somewhat misleading because the pollutants mentioned are pollutants that tend to be aggressively curtailed for land vehicles (because of their negative effects on local air quality), but are far less of an issue on the open sea

3. I get excusing the consumer if the good/service in question is essential and there's no pollution free alternative, but it seems weird to pin the blame on Carnival when consumers are making entirely discretionary purchases that are known to have negative environmental impacts.
Unless you want to be cost-effective and have the expertise, then bare-metal is the way to go. As things seem right now, companies are gonna get a lot better at being cost-effective and cloud services are not.
That's really cool! Ahrefs also has a huge investment in OCaml, in case anyone else thinks that is cool.
Anecdotal I guess but I’ve visited 15-20 countries across Europe and Asia in the last ~10 years and the supermarkets were largely not great relative to your average American Kroger.
> because any code outside of async doing I/O is not good to use inside of async

This is (somewhat) similar in all programming languages and it is called coloured function problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8984648
Complex scheduling. I'm yet to see a product that would allow me to enter multiple constraints/availability or related resources and it would automatically calculate the best options for everyone involved.
This is huge. H1Bs are going to be left in no man’s land because of this.
it doesn't need to be so damn hard! we're big believers that basic mapping needs can be much much easier with great software.

today you can import KML, KMZ, GPX, JSON & GeoJSON, and export in GeoJSON. we're expanding this to more formats in the near future.

felt is best for folks who don't have deeper GIS backgrounds or programming backgrounds. it's easy to jump in and focus on your project without them!

API will be coming down the road!
They transition, you still don’t have them at the same time afaik.
Or benchmarketing?
You just did it again, for a second time. All the benefits you describe in the specific models come from Canadian manufacturing, which gives it a higher reliability rating than its US produced counterparts.

> You don't think Ford, or GM, or whoever, makes reliable models for the same reason you'd never consider buying a house anywhere other than a good school district. It's a self-reinforcing expectation foisted upon you by the kind of people you surround yourself with.

Completely wrong and incorrect. I’ve owned and driven Ford. They were not reliable and one model I had was officially recalled 17 times, but had numerous outstanding issues that were never recalled for those problems. Toyota and Honda owners don’t have these kind of concerns.

I will freely admit that Canada makes more reliable Fords (and GM) than the US, and the reliability indices reflect that fact. Back in the day, I knew many people who would only buy Fords and GMs made in Canada for this reason.
You misunderstood. It has effectively Level 3 autonomy on highways under 40MPH, "regular old" Level 2 otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-J3JydpPA
Per the article, it's $10 per foot² of space leased. So I am guessing that to lease the whole place it would therefore be 7500ft² * $10-per-ft²-per-year / 12 months-per-year = $6250/month .
> unless you're part of a group the authors deem evil/immoral/unethical.

What parts of the license mention that?
Just the other day I ran into this video of a recent C64 demo. It just blew my mind (5:02 is my favorite part). THere were demos at the time I played on the C64, but this is just pushing the limits so far, it is pure art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q56-23D7omY
To be fair, tesla's goals is kinda a moving target. How's that auto driving and the truck coming along?
Just to be clear, you want to make TACC + lane-keep illegal? Because that's what the comment is taking about.
I don't have time to go over the thread - conservative seems dodgy. I'll have to take your word for it. As for your main point, much to my surprise, you're right although I don't understand how, it doesn't match what I've read of it. No matter, you're right.
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters Online
Banned from where?
Coinbase is anything but shady.
It doesn't really seem like it's worth caring about the costs of the charging of iphones:

https://blogs.oracle.com/utilities/post/how-much-does-it-cos...

https://www.knowyourmobile.com/user-guides/iphone-battery-si...

Even if their charging became half as efficient, it would still be a rounding error compared to the rest of our energy usage.
Being banned in China, the largest video game market.
Do love some Matt Levine
May I remind you that the swiss people voted and rejected "guaranteed longer holidays" and also only just recently rejected guaranteed parental leave for fathers in the canton of Zurich. I don't have a lot of confidence in the swiss people when it comes to such things.
Also American style lobbying and advertising definitely exists in Switzerland.
Going to the Howard Johnson's (in Oshkosh, Wisconsin) in the late 60's was a big treat for my family. Their fried clams were exotic fare.
Global internet.
What if Switzerland is just the first domino?
I'm not trying to say that at all. What I'm saying is that we're at an awkward time now, where this sort of quick AI-assisted breaking is especially dangerous because fallible humans are most of the rest of the drivers on the road. In an all FSD world, this wouldn't really be a problem.

You're putting a lot of words in my mouth and assuming I'm against working on AI driving because one person might ever die. All I'm trying to point out is that it's pretty worrying to have a system that could cause a highway-speed accident because of a well-known and decently common bug. I'd be equally worried if it came up that some other decently selling model of car would randomly have the ABS system engage.

I wrote my OP here because the parent poster was casually talking about "not really break checking people" as if that's just normal behavior that's a part of R&D, instead of an AI accidentally emulating dangerous aggressive driving patterns that FSD is supposed to do away with. I'm not trying to ban FSD research or anything. I want this improved! It's just scary when people excuse dangerous behaviors by FSD systems because it's otherwise safer.

The other issue is that more data and greater transparency are both not things Tesla seems to have any interest in providing anyone, so while this may get fixed, it's not really pushing the industry forward all that much if no one other than Tesla is going to benefit. There's plenty of mentions in this thread of this sort of issue happening on other cars and adaptive cruise control systems that could benefit from an improvement for the betterment of all drivers, but instead "not breakchecking people" is going to be a unexplained feature improvement in some FSD patch probably.
At what point in life will money stop mattering compared to other aspects? What is your opinion on it? :)

Currently, I believe it's always good to have that extra cash lying around!
Best of luck.

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm a cynic here.

Ideas are cheap.

If you have a good idea, and not even access to $100k in debt, then that's a decent proxy that you either don't believe enough to take the debt yourself or that you maybe aren't qualified to run the business.

Especially when you consider a huge majority of successful businesses are founded by more than one person...
is this a showhn? if the author is listening, the input forms for the P and temp values probably shouldn't have integer steps
This is not the usual notion of zero-knowledge.
Functors and modules are nice but do not have the convenience of traits and type classes. The problem with functors and modules is that you have to manually instantiate the right functors and modules when you want to use some operation. Type classes and traits build the right instantiations for you based on the types.

I want to write `toString (1,true)` not `ToStringPair(ToStringInt)(ToStringBool).toString (1,true)`.
Would it be worth mentioning here that you work for Esri?

disclaimer: i'm the co-founder at felt.
How many items are we talking about on an average invoice?
Interesting. It looks like a nice way to grant direct access to a database for small applications that need authorization (for e.g., internal tools) without abstracting it away, e.g., over a CRUD Rest API.
And some of us simply refuse to. I'd rather drive the 10 miles into town to pick up my dinner than give GrubHub money that I'd prefer to see going to the restaurant.

Frankly, unless I'm drunk, stoned, or sick, I can't see ever using a non-store delivery service.
Sometimes I'll just log damn near everything with with debug! from rust's log crate so if I need to debug I can just change the log level and I don't need to remove it later (except for sensitive data).
Maybe the browser or an extension leaking the URL of the file, which could ultimately get indexed in a search engine.
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Simply switching to induction would be a big win. That and keeping the lid on while cooking.
I do use print yes!
Accidents tend to happen when multiple things "go wrong". If a car accident happened every time some single thing was imperfect - well, car accidents would be more common than safe journeys. It's the confluence of multiple imperfections that result in car accidents (usually) - e.g. Driver 1 steps suddenly on the brakes AND Driver 2 is fiddling with the radio AND it's raining - or whatever, and you get a car accident.

So, yeah, maybe Driver 2 should be able to pass the brake check, but that doesn't mean it is good or safe or desirable for Driver 1 to be randomly brake checking people. Having a car that randomly brakes is like having a driver who randomly applies the brakes - you shouldn't do that, it's bad, and unsafe.