skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, maybe it's annoying, but so what? Everyone has to do annoying shit for work.

Have you ever interacted with American cops? They are on average completely useless, either unwilling or unable to follow their job description. Some of it isn't even any individual officer's fault (training is a joke, no performance standards, dysfunctional culture). But the end result is that they don't make up a high-quality set of civil servants, even by the not-very-high standards of American civil servants.
Man fined record S$1.16m for illegally subletting homes on Airbnb in Singapore
Yes.

https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA

The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History - by Veritasium
Yeah, that's my biggest gripe with Unraid. Give me a way to write my own Dockerfile without having to SSH into the server! As an OSS maintainer of a project that supports custom builds with plugins, this is basically necessary for some users to use our project.
Well, there is this ecosystem of orange plastic cats in France: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-have-garfield-...
I was detained by the LASD and asked to speak with a lawyer >20 times. They just kept coming back and trying different lines of questioning. They don't care about the law or your rights. It's all a big joke to them.
... who could have been working on Diablo 4.
That's great advice. I am going to create a dummy account so that it clarifies the tools main features.
This thing flagrantly copies macOS' user interface. I'd be wary of getting a letter.
I feel bad for those who were misled. Some of them ended up paying up to 25% more than they expected.

>>> “Despite thousands of consumers complaining to Airbnb about the way prices were displayed, Airbnb didn’t amend its booking platform until after the ACCC raised the issue.”

This quote seems to indicate that Airbnb only started to care after threats from the ACCC.
I'm still patiently waiting for a bulk scooter sale "event" (be it sell-off or impounding) so I can grab one to make a personal scooter:

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/07/liberating-birds-for-a-cheap...
qualified immunity
I don't consider manual memory management great for beginning programmers and I don't even like doing it when I'm not a beginner programmer.
This story is bizarre and a complete nightmare, but there are just too many unexplained elements of the story for me to pass judgment yet:

1. The word "bail" doesn't occur in the story anywhere. Even if he were to be extradited, he would have to be offered bail, especially after he waived extradition. Why was no bail offered?

2. Being informed of charges against you is one of our most basic constitutional rights. Why didn't this happen?

2. Now, I'm not saying that some horrible local bureaucracy couldn't have put this man through this, but if that's the case, why is his lawyer only suing AA? There are like a million civil rights violations in this story as it is told - it's difficult for me to understand why a lawyer wouldn't go after those responsible for those violations.

Again, I'm in no way saying I don't believe what happened to this man, but I would like to understand more of the missing details in this story.
Ford famously went 1,2,3 at the 1966 Le Mans. In 1967 they'd also take first place from Ferrari. Here's a great historical film on that race:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH0R4MDDgns

(Ford also took first in '68 and '69.)

The 2016 documentary The 24-Hour War is pretty good watching too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pd-TNOjHGo
Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework
Maybe if you could outsource the handing to a low-wage country, while still having the handees be either Gen-Z Americans or other VC-backed companies.
The 'one format' thing is actually somewhat of a problem. Users may want to be sure they're staying loseless when doing an operation and with most modern formats one can't ensure that.

Yes, lossy PNG can be done, but in such a way that there's no way to apply that transformation without being very aware - but there's no similar standard to ensure this with modern formats, this is left to the mercy of software.
Would be good for things to be better!
They are saying that the police should not have taken the action they took based solely on the unconfirmed identification provided by AA, which is correct.
You can also just not setup touchid or faceid and it’ll use device password/passcode
Hanging single quotation marks? You mean the ‘prime’ symbol? This comes up a lot in math to generate more variables that need a similar name—that’s why it ends up in Haskell and related languages. It’s not something weird.

Granted the ASCII tick/apostrophe is neither the proper symbol for primes nor quotation marks (should be curly), but programmers are reluctant towards Unicode.
Even the least cynical among us understands that a government agency is not just going to abolish itself, even if it were for the best, right?
I am sorry, people in Syria. We can't condemn the use of heavy weapons against civilians, because... checking notes... NATO members used heavy weapons against civilians in 1999.
> Despite the discrepancies in their appearances, American Airlines identified Lowe as the shoplifter seen in the surveillance footage

I’m a little confused here. Just sending that … someone had to decide that they were the same person and pass that on to an attorney right?

And then at the hearing did he ask any questions/ for a lawyer?

Not blaming the guy, just wondering about how this played out.
could someone explain why you say linux gui and multimedia are a shitshow!

GUI heavy application like chrome, firefox or openoffice run on all districts without any hiccup!

what am i missing ?
Teslas seem to have a reputation of being locked down and requiring first party repairs. As an example, Tesla charges extremely high fees for its repair documentation to shops.

Considering how many Teslas have been shipped, a postmarket community forming around the vehicles seems likely. I just don't know how successful it will be when the manufacturer is so hostile toward third party repairs and tinkering overall.

I don't doubt they are reliable cars, though. So are Apple computers and phones.
What this man went through is horrible, the kind of living nightmare that most people in polite society never experience or even see.

Now consider: there are hundreds (if not thousands) of people just like him, going through the exact same thing, right now. Their only differences: the overwhelming majority are poor and brown, and not all survive[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder
Archived version: https://archive.ph/dmlE8
> because it fits what the world was already designed around

There is this quote from Edward Bernays that I like

> “The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.”- Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda
"Drugs being illegal has relegated them to parties, which I think is the wrong way to look at mind altering chemicals."

This a million times. We could build, "safe places" where people could productively use things like LSD and this activity could contribute to a body of active research. This might be a, "net loss" for society but you know what's even worse? Teenagers having a foundational spiritual experience sullied by being arrested or by being in the company of unsympathetic others. This ends up contributing to crime statistics (which is useful for the establishment, isn't it?) but does little in the way of furthering our understanding of the brain or cultural pharmacology; what to say of spirituality or freedom.

It's also so bloody wasteful. Such a goddamned waste of magic and potential. The psychedelic brats with their dad's credit cards and the anal retentive aggressor lizards trying to steal my prostate energy.

Hand's off!
Probably not until he made it to Texas.
Interesting to compare 12 years later for each of these. The web exploded to take on this use case and more. It still doesn’t make sense to pay for a pizza with bitcoin
For me the real selling point of Haskell is that it's vastly more powerful and ergonomic for solving certain kinds of problems, in ways other functional languages don't necessarily share. First-class currying, typeclasses, HKTs, do-notation and other features in that vein give Haskell code a level of effortless composability whose equal I haven't seen anywhere else, and the way pattern matching is built into every part of the language makes other languages' versions of it feel clumsy and primitive.

Back when I was fluent in it, I wouldn't reach for Haskell for functional purity or lazy evaluation---I'd reach for it because I wanted the richness and flexibility of its type system and pattern matching for building and manipulating a tricky data model, or because I was doing something involving tree-like linked structures and/or that lent itself well to recursion. Parsers are the obvious example, but they are a very narrow view of what Haskell excels at.

(In short, I'd reach for it for reasons that are basically impossible to explain to somebody who doesn't already know what I'm talking about.)

I can't be so effusive about Rust. It's a really great language with a thoughtful and restrained design, powerful and practical and flexible, but I would actually say the opposite re: filling gaps: Rust feels like more of an iterative improvement in the space occupied by C/C++/Go/etc., while Haskell is transcendently good for those classes of problem where it excels.

---

Today I'm more or less fluent in Rust after a few hours' warm-up, but it would take me days or weeks to warm up my Haskell. Why? Mostly because I've largely stopped programming for fun, and I use nothing like Haskell at work. Throw in the quality of Rust's tooling and the largely effortless reproducibility of its builds (great for warming up a 6+ month old project), and it's just a far more practical choice for the little hobby programming I do. Hence my earlier comment. But I still contend that Haskell has vast untapped potential, locked away behind an intractable adoption barrier. It's less that it has nothing new or useful to offer us, and more that we are unwilling to pay the price of admission.
Turkish inflation hits 23-year high of 73.5%
I'd say its just a gnome theme or something. It's not that deep.
Chevron CEO says there may never be another oil refinery built in the U.S.
Re 3: What you really need is Caddy [0] with this dynamic DNS module: https://github.com/mholt/caddy-dynamicdns

Caddy has state-of-the-art certificate automation and TLS support, and with that module, it automatically updates DNS records if users have non-static IPs. It'll also serve certs for localhost domains (use *.localhost IMO).

[0]: https://caddyserver.com (I'm the author, for disclosure)
That’s a very interesting idea! But note that EndBASIC runs on the desktop just fine compiled to native code; no WASM involved. And it will not become an Electron app :P
Pedantic, but I believe QR is a type of 2D barcode, but your comment implies the contrary. Am I wrong?
But that energy also serves way more people than before. Chinas energy use went up a lot, but their standard of living also went up a lot and is now comparable to cold war USA/Europe. You can't leave that out.
QOI is kinda overrated, especially given the existence of fpng(e) and fjxl which operate within the limitation of existing formats and generally outperform QOI. QOI is a great demonstration that better prediction can make up for less efficient coding, but not much beyond that.
Whats wrong with asking nicely?
Sure but, no one cares but everybody knows. This made other legislations like GDPR possible.
For those saying that he should have sued the state because the police were at fault too for accepting AA's info at face value, he probably is focusing on the quickest way to settlement - a private company would settle quicker than the state and the payout could be pretty decent. Though it would be just to have the police face consequences too for their wrongdoing, can't blame him for going after the financial aspect and trying to put this behind him as quickly as possible.
Sure, I have to deal with password requirements when they're a thing. But for things under my control, like my encrypted drives, I do super long lower case letters as per my example.
Apple Music has betrayed its most loyal listeners
I had some professional deformation during my 20s; I started to just remember all code I read and wrote and ever written, but forget mostly anything else. I started training my memory by learning languages and doing memory exercises; it is working. And fun. But it does take up a lot of time.
> There are so many points where humans could have intervened and stemmed the damage, but didn't.

There are so many points where humans intervened and ensured the damage was inflicted!
There's a wikipedia page for that if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_d...
Why can't they just include a visible warning in the software if it is not up to date? Many applications already do that. (I get it might take a little while to get the changes downstream).
This looks really neat. I played around with it a bit and it's very intuitive to use.

If I could make a single request, it would be to be able to have white background. As someone with heavy astigmatism, using the site as is is very difficult, and I can only look at the screen for a few seconds at a time without my vision getting blurry.

I know I can use the color command to change it in the repl, but the editor still uses black background.
My audio workflow is basically command line / self-hosted:

- beets [1] for music tagging

- m4b-tool [2] and tone [3] for audio books merging and tagging (Note: I'm the author of these)

- iTunes and an iPod Nano 7g and iPod classic 2009 to listen "offline" (although audiobookshelf supports offline downloads)

- self-hosted navidrome [4] + substreamer[5] for music and audiobookshelf [6] for audio books on my android / ios devices

Everything with docker containers without further dependencies. I must say, that this works pretty good so far and I never missed something really bad on id3v2.3 or mp4/m4b native tags.

[1]: https://beets.io/

[2]: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool/

[3]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone

[4]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

[5]: https://substreamerapp.com/

[6]: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/
But why do you think the lack of GC is a showstopper for using the language for learning purposes? Or am I misunderstanding your comment?
Meanwhile, people mostly use a couple devices with high energy efficiency that are used for basically everything, instead of twenty lower quality devices...
Honestly, at this point in the U.S. maybe we should all have a lawyer on retainer and their phone number memorized and take no such situations lightly.

Also, start actually punishing such mistakes. Detective(s), judge, police, and American Airlines (everyone involved) should be severely punished for once. And for God's sake, stop assuming someone that hasn't gone through a trial is guilty -- what is this...

And for God's sake -- I know some other sibling commenter posted it too, but honestly just in case anybody misses it: Don't talk to the police. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE -- his situation could have been worse unfortunately.
83% of Americans describe economy as “poor” or “not so good” for them
International exchange rates are affected by enough factors that it has little correlation to inflation. Notably, see the ruble:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=RUB&view=1Y

Russia is having significant domestic inflation (at about 18% currently), yet the ruble is currently the worlds best performing currency and stronger than it's been in years relative to the dollar.
Changing my career path: from Bioinformatics to Data Science
During the pandemic, I realized that academic research wasn't for me (I'm about to finish my Ph.D.), and I started specializing in data science and machine learning.

I just moved to San Diego but can't get a job until I receive my green card, and I feel I am becoming unproductive. I have never had too much free time, and I don't know how to deal with it?

Any advice to continue with the career change?
After I get my work authorization, should I apply for internships or entry-level jobs?

Thanks
It’s not clear to me that AA said the guy was the perpetrator.

“ sent police a single passenger’s information”

That almost reads like they sent the wrong data and someone interpreted it as IDing him as the perpetrator.

I wonder who decided it was an ID.

I don’t have a problem with AA paying here but there is a lot to this story that just raises new questions.
How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls (2016)
Clearly you have not heard of habeas corpus.
I think some of it is that it really doesn't matter anymore. There was a time when every tweak mattered, when every little detail could impact the way the machine worked... but that's not true, for most people, anymore. Sure, they'll still call out the big things that might matter - this phone ships with our new super AI chip, this tablet adds extra low-power cores to prolong battery, this box has the latest video codecs in hardware - but really, you could take the CPU out of my last phone and drop it into my current phone and I wouldn't notice. Heck, if not for binary compatibility, you could take the CPU out of my last phone and drop it into my current laptop and I'd barely notice.
Giving him a "payday" alone isn't really justice. Whoever is responsible should spend 17 days in jail. Of course, that will never happen, but it's what should happen if the goal is to prevent "mistakes" like this happening again and again. Same goes for the victims who were "mistakenly" reported (and arrested) as car thieves by rental agencies not that long ago. Money isn't justice.
Residential usage is about 1/5th of total consumption in the US

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/
Related: Airbnb and apparently Booking.com are billing Australian customers from overseas, causing customers to incur a bank service charge. This isn't revealed to the customer in any way.

Don't know how this is legal, but the ACCC needs to jump all over it either way.

This happened to me a while back and I went ape on Twitter and got the charges refunded by Airbnb. But that's not how it should work.
Reminds me of the Ousmane Bah v. Apple situation
Yes, European Imperium dark forces keep supporting anti-democracy here: they are on politically involved post-commie juries side, trying to prevent juries from being just third power of democracy; they tried to create illegal immigrants camps here; they constantly abuse union treaties like prohibiting polish drives equality; cretive treaties laws interpretations ? LOL; pushing minorities over-alle privilages and not based on actual reality pseudo-science like gender ? They do constantly. But where to moved "equality parades" from Berlin ? Obviously socialistic systemic method "resolved" minorities public shows in Berlin by terrorist attack threats... "No LGBT spheres" ? Faked and published by actual pro-LGBT zealot - but that's not a problem for fake-democratic EU owners to be another "reason" to punish Poland :>

Etc, etc.
There are rolling distros, with weaker guarantees about whether anything still works from day to day. IMHO Bottles should fork one and make a distro, because they have strong opinions about ownership of update decisions.
Can Researchers Show That Threat Assessment Stops Mass Shootings?
The ACCC wouldn't allege "Airbnb engaged in further misleading or deceptive conduct by telling many of them that it had displayed prices in US dollars because the user had selected this currency, when this was often not the case" without good evidence.

I also never encountered this during all of my bookings over the timeframe mentioned (2018-2021) making me think that I had a selection of AUD in the Preferred Currency settings https://www.airbnb.com.au/account-settings/preferences

So I must assume that a default selection of USD or (no default) setting was the one affecting these customers. Strange that Airbnb, with their widely regarded bleeding user experience, still chose to render $ amounts without the default? "USD" qualifier.

Was this really deliberate? Seems likely given their attention to details like this.
Archived: https://archive.ph/1Als9
> This is an unnecessarily pessimistic take on jobs.

Welcome to the reality a whole lot of people 40-and-under are facing:

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...

Half of unemployed Americans are pessimistic about their outlook:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/02/10/unemployed-...

Class mobility is falling, and has been for over a decade:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/06...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-t...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-...

The US has some of the highest economic inequality in the world, and it's growing, with the top 10% of the population holding 70% of the wealth. The bottom 50% of the country hold less than 2.5% of the country's wealth:

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-inequality-debate

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/weal...

> Of course showing value still works. People advance and move up the ladder still.

Look around you; when is the last time any of your coworkers rose up through the ranks recently? Every time I hear someone talk about starting out in an entry-level position and working their way up through the ranks, it's someone substantially older than me, who "worked their way up" a decade or two ago. I've seen multiple discussions here and on reddit talking about how in the 90's and 2000's you could talk your way into a job (that day is long since gone), work your ass off, and get rewarded for it. Those days are long gone for all but top talent.

For a lot of jobs, there is no ladder. And if there is a ladder, it's probably a short one, and one that only goes a specific route.

Showing value to rise through the ranks only matters when someone is looking to promote within. Apple, Google, Facebook, etc all segregate their workers into castes, and you cannot cross caste lines.

Even within the lowest caste, there's still rarely opportunity for advancement. Amazon for example loves to sell a lie that the offer education benefits (after a long period of employment) and opportunities for advancement to their warehouse workers...but the reality is that they rarely to never advance people, and internal documents show they plan on if not outright encourage people to burn out and leave after a year or so.

This was in fact exactly why Amazon ended up with a union in its Staten Island warehouse. One of the guys who started the union did so because he was promised opportunity, worked his ass off, and saw supervisor positions get handed to fresh hires, and when he tried to apply to them, was told to buzz off.

Companies churn their low-value employees on purpose. They even outsource the employment to an employment contractor so that someone else has to deal with all the paperwork and training.

> Besides, what do you suggest? Just give up?

I wasn't aware I had to come up with a solution in order to point out the problem?