skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is easy to check in a variety of ways, including calling their API of contributors. Where would Wikipedia get the money to oay this vast army of people? And even if they did, divide the amount they raised by the number of contributors and tell me if it is a meaningful amount compared to what employees are paid in the capitalist company model.
The problem is this stuff is all done by kids. So you get teenage level maturity.
Uber isn't the most ethical company for sure but here in Brussels the taxi industry is pretty shady as well.

Getting a taxi license costs an exorbitant amount of money and it's done through all kinds of dodgy deals.

There's 1-2 companies that have a monopoly on the whole industry.

There's weird rules about which types of taxis can "serve" the airport, akin to what mobsters are responsible for collecting trash in what areas.

You'll often get "sorry the payment terminal is out of order, cash only" BS.

A study a few years ago showed the main taxi company, according to their tax documents, earned a ridiculously low amount of money per day (= obvious dodging of taxes).

They clearly refused to innovate for years. When you called their number you'd get some unintelligible voice on the other end that would give you about 10 sec to state your details before they'd clearly run out of patience.

You could only request pickups at specific addresses that would then be connected to your phone number / profile. So "pick me up on this street corner" was impossible.

The last time we called one for a ride to the airport they didn't show up at the agreed time so we got an Uber. Taxi company called us many times screaming insults down the phone, followed by an offensive email with an invitation to pay and threats of small claims courts.

In light of all that, I have zero problems with someone else moving in fast to break things.
It's pretty ironic how a large swath of the public decided it was the right thing to ban anything that's Russian, but somehow it's a no-no to be opposed to an app because it's from the PRC. Not saying that necessarily means that no one should use any Chinese apps, but those against anything Russian really ought not to come to the defense of the PRC.
Your analogy doesn’t adhere to the bounds proscribed by this new law: if the officer has a legitimate reason to believe the other person is an accomplice in the crime, then they’re involved in the “law enforcement operation” and the recording law doesn’t apply to them.

This is bad law: it takes a set of restrictions that already exist, and adds additional language to them in order to chill civic participation. The police already have a cornucopia of powers available to them; they don’t need a completely arbitrary carve-out for just the act of recording their actions.
Will they also forbid their employees using latest cancer drugs? Without animal models they will be less safe.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32045906
Well, have fun picking apart the way I structured my previous post, even though I already clarified what I meant in the reply. Hope you find someone to have an internet fight. Have a nice day.
https://model.energy/#background-and-warnings

The first 4 items are relevant here:

> Electricity systems with zero direct CO2 emissions can be built more cheaply by using additional technology options. The examples here are simply a toy model to put an upper bound on the costs for a very simple setup. Additional generation technologies which may reduce costs include using existing hydroelectric generators, biomass from sustainable resources (such as waste and agricultural/forestry residues), offshore wind, concentrating solar thermal, geothermal, ocean energy, nuclear and fossil/biomass plants with CCS. Two additional dispatchable technologies are provided under "advanced assumption settings". Additional storage technologies include redox flow batteries, compressed air energy storage, etc. Other options include allowing demand to adapt to renewable profiles (demand-side management).

> No import or export capacities with other regions are assumed, so each region must meet the baseload profile by itself. Existing and planned transmission grid connections between regions can reduce costs by up to 20% by smoothing wind over a continent-sized area (see e.g. this paper or this one).

> Including energy demand sectors other than electricity, like transport, heating and non-electric industrial demand can offer additional flexibility (e.g. load-shifting by battery electric vehicles and thermal storage for electrified heating), see e.g. this paper or this one.

> Costs here are for completely decarbonised electricity systems. Reaching lower levels of decarbonisation is much cheaper and doesn't necessarily require any storage at all. A non-zero carbon dioxide emission target and options for fossil-fuelled generators can be set under "advanced assumption settings".
> In places like Miami it even became a sanctioned alternative to bus routes that were cut.

As in... government justified cutting bus services by saying Uber was a viable alternative?
Changes to CI config for release automation are probably vetted and manually tested more than anything else in the projects I work on.
So find a screw that fits, give it them, file a ticket for them, and if they come back then look deeper.

Or just swap the drives with another laptop and send them on their way and then diagnose the other laptop later.

I worked in IT and our mission was always to get the customer working again as quickly as possible, and put as much work on us as possible.

That’s how you add value as an IT organization.
With or without service? (I have two iPhone 12s that were free with service, and a 3rd line was free)
That’s not quite it. They definitely had a time in 2020 where they would repeatedly submit links to their website over and over. I can see why they’d do that, because getting to the front page involves luck. But still, not cool.
Accreditation is meant to protect students (in the new model, customers) from scams. Would you, personally, go to a college that wasn't accredited?
In a tense situation, it’s also not always easy to judge distance. Do you think a cop who doesn’t want to be filmed is going to whip out a tape measure or just start smacking around the videographer and say they were 7’ 11” away?
It's not easy because now you can be arrested for filming the police encounter and who's gonna say you were more than 8ft away from the interaction? You, of course.

But then it's your word against the police officer's word, and (1) police are willing to lie, and (2) the words of a police officer almost always carry more weight in a court proceeding.

This doesn't actually change anything because if you're intending to interfere with a police interaction, you're going to interfere with a police interaction. That's already illegal. Nothing changes.

If you're only intending to record the interaction, you now have this stupid law to worry about. More of our rights being restricted, with people applauding it under the guise of police safety.

Also, keep in mind that police in the US already have vast protections like qualified immunity, safety and weapons training, they're armed, and they have a legal right to violence. I don't understand what sorts of protections they're desperately in need of.
Ask HN: Recovering my HN account from FOSS Materialistic app?
Hello there, HN, I need your help. I registered and only ever accessed this account using the Materialistic app from F-Droid, but don't remember my account details. The app seems to be discontinuedas there have been no updates since 2019, but still works fine. Could anyone help me? If needed, I can post some contact info of mine here, since I don't even remember which e-mail I used (pretty sure it was my old spam gmail account)

source:
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

screenshot of me signed in:
https://i.imgur.com/ZlyIyqh.jpg
Measuring digital exclusion: Why what is counted is also what counts
Once you're assuming 1) you trust your master password or encryption key to provide sufficient security to generate passwords based on the domain and 2) you have a file you're synchronizing that contains metadata for each site like passwords changes and usernames well, guess what?

Just go ahead and generate random passwords for each site, encrypt them with the master key, and store them in the metadata file! Since they're encrypted, the encrypted passwords are no longer more sensitive than the other metadata in the file and you just reinvented a normal password manager.
Moreover, scientific citations are amongst the worst candidates for sentiment analysis since authors often express no sentiment about cited papers at all, and often prefer to use dry, neutral tones when describing a paper's shortcomings.

You might need both general intelligence and a deep knowledge of the field to conclude an author noting that X discovered Y on the assumption of Z is not a neutral description but a stark emphasis of their differences, or possibly even straw-manning the original paper.
Thing is, other than mass produced unit technology like li-po and li-ion cells, there’s precious little available storage. I tried to get quotes from a company that sells liquid flow redox batteries, the sort of technology that should scale volumetrically but it’s just not feasible for anyone to deliver beyond small deployments. We can’t order X-kWh storage off the shelves with anything but lithium batteries at the moment and until we can, there will be serious questions asked by people…even enthusiastic people like myself, because I look at the daily cycle count and go “fuck off” I’m not replacing 25% of a lithium battery tech based energy storage every 3 years, grid scale facilities are designed around 25 year cycles and anything with less than a 10 year lifetime feels like flushing money down the drain on razor thin margins, both economically and environmentally once you account for the manufacturing costs of the lithium based energy storage equipment.
If you are sitting in a car next to someone being arrested it's very easy to be within 8 feet. If a person is within 3 ft without filming is everything fine? Who knows, but the act of filming doesn't seem like a reasonable differentiator between the two.
now what happens when a cop walks towards someone to get them to stop filming?

same thing that happens when you push a cop away for yelling at you 2 inches from your face: now you’re on the ground
> a modified Vickrey auction

So, fund people based on github stars. I could think of worse solutions, honestly!

Oh, something else I remembered: Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study! This is an interesting idea. Basically they tell a scientist "You've changed human history, the least we can do is give you an income for the rest of your life that has no strings attached. You can teach, or not, research, or not." It would be cool if each of FAANG had one, or they pooled together to make one, or had a virtual distributed version. "Dear Fabrice Bellard, we will be depositing 10k euros a month into your account until you die. Yours, Google."
The config file about password requirements and password cycle number could be more semi-public, it's not a secret but you'd probably not have it on github either (no reason to let people know where you have accounts at; still, it's not a secret).
wait until you read the rest of their comments lol
What's the reasoning behind picking Java for a performance critical application over something like C or C++?
From the article:

“TikTok’s growing role as a news platform has sparked fears that, in the words of Ted Cruz, an American senator, it is “a Trojan horse the Chinese Communist Party can use to influence what Americans see, hear and ultimately think”.
I strongly recommend Go. It cross compiles very easily and can embed arbitrary files. I’ve used it at work to distribute to Linux, Windows, etc. it comes with a solid REST API toolkit baked into the stdlib for simple things and great libraries for more complex flows.

For what I do at work, one of the simple apps just listens on local host and serves templated html and a rest API. Also easy to bake the server and CLI (if you want one) into a single binary. So “myapp server —foo —bar” runs the server, and “myapp” can be used as a CLI interface to the REST API until you make the UI.

All of this can be done with the stdlib, no need for 3rd party tools.
In 2004, I left the US on humanitarian missions, never came back. Glad it worked out for you too.
Sounds like a reasonable enough statement to me. If nobody is getting up close to cops while they're involved with a suspect then it won't be an issue. But we all know there a bunch of people out there who lack the sense to not keep a reasonable distance and this law will cover those instances.
If there was state level involvement couldn't they have smuggled a proper gun instead of having him make an abomination that could very well have completely failed (and missed in the first shot)? And why go after an ex soldier in that case? It doesn't seem to check out at all.
I think the URL is arbitrary and doesn't even need to be a URL. For example, you could just use "Google".
It depends on the vulnerability. as I commented elsewhere, below Critical I do not care. Critical needs to be patched NOW, breaking things if needed. Including the important presentation.
I believe that there's a specific exception to this law if the police are addressing the person filming i.e. you can film your own interaction with police within 8 feet but not someone else's. I can imagine that it would cause issues with traffic stops if the passenger starts to film the interaction.
Assuming by “third party” you mean bystanders: yes, the law only applies to them.

That’s one of many reasons why the law is absurd: the police already have (more than) adequate legal cover to deal with interference in their activities. They don’t need a law that specifically carves recording out for punishment, unless the real goal is to stifle civic participation.
Except when you were recording you weren't party to the police interaction. So you were breaking the law. Can you follow that logic?
Letsblockit: Remove low-quality content and useless nags, focus on what matters
email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com
I hope the many stories of the success of this tech aren’t lost, for example the many people who aren’t losing their bags this summer during Europes airport chaos (https://thepointsguy.com/news/bag-tracking-apple-airtag/). AirTags helped me find my own handbag once, where I left one of my beloved cameras.

Apple has been responsive to the concerns about AirTags. They can probably pull some more safety tricks out of their hat, maybe beeping once every 10 minutes if an owners device isn’t nearby? Who knows how much worse tiles were at this regardless of how lousy their network was (it wasn’t nonexistent)
I was hoping the religion part would be more of a background thing and not a core tenant of the program. No option to skip the BA in Catholic Studies.
If you're writing internal libraries or libraries that are otherwise already using proc macros, sure, but I don't otherwise agree with this advice personally. It takes me maybe a couple of extra minutes to write out the error type and associated code. In exchange, every single compilation of my library will be faster as a result.

To be clear, 'thiserror' is great and it would probably fit well inside of std. Then that extra compilation time I'm complaining about could be avoided.
TikTok is the only social media app I use anymore. I didn’t even change my default ‘user12345’ account nor have I linked anything to it. I also consume it differently than I used to do the others, by going maybe once per week or two and binge for a couple of hours. It fills me with joy and ideas just as you say.
bytedance is partially state owned, so there’s zero chance it’s not happening
Very simply, the brain is always a flurry of biochemical and bioelectric signaling, even when you're thinking of "nothing". When a person is trying to do something, they focus on the subject or activity, pathways in the brain light up and neural connections strengthened. When a person stops consciously focusing, the brain doesn't "shut down the system" so to speak. Activity triggered by the active work continues to happen, but in a less organized way. That activity is can end up making connections to ideas the conscious thought process had not even remembered existed.

That's how solving problems happens after "giving up", and this is well-documented in cognitive studies. It's called the "default mode network"[1] and it's possible to learn to activate it.

As for your example "Give up trying to cure your alcoholic and your partner decides to go to AA on their own", that's an entirely different mechanism, involving human social relations and self-interest. I don't have a good explanation, but have you ever been in a situation where someone told you to do something that you knew was good for it, but you resisted doing it? Maybe you justified your refusal as being skeptical, or just didn't like being told what to do.

1 https://www.wired.com/2014/08/shower-thoughts/
As a user of various python apps on windows I can tell that in practice it’s one of most confusing experience among all other languages. I have to purge everything python-related and reinstall it once a year.
Take control of your GitHub repos
Yes - if a graduate can demonstrate they received a good education, then the reputation of the school will grow. Many rules for accreditation (like libraries with a certain number of books) make zero sense in 2022.
Graduate only, for now.
Thanks for such a detailed response - It really helps alot.

Interesting explanation about the trade-offs between an external software document expert vs someone hired internally. And I get that completely.

Very intriguing point about the internal documentation/day to day type stuff. I will look into that as I have not come across something like that as of yet. Could you nudge me in the right direction into what should I look for on the internet if someone was interested in the type of documentation you are referring to? What I'm understanding is that its the business analyst type documentation you are referring to?

Cheers.
We got a car two weeks ago, the experience at the Acura dealership was pretty good (of course, we got presented the bullshit warranty stuff in the finance manager's room, but we were able to turn everything down for a couple of minutes and things were ok).

We also had a good time at a Toyota dealership, but any car buying with them had a $6290 markup....
I'm not sure what you are saying? The government could run public schools as well? If the government schools provide a good, quality education parents will send their kids. The problem is they are not. Even when funding is increased there isn't an increase in the quality. Also, you may or may not actually be saving tax money?

I would rather have good private schools funded by the government than crappy public schools. This may or may not be the result from this bill, but it is one possible outcome.

What is your solution to fixing the public education system?
> "No one cares about accreditation anyway."

"... U.S. jurisdictions where the use of higher education credentials from diploma mills and unaccredited schools is explicitly illegal or legally restricted include Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Many other states are also considering restrictions on unaccredited degree use in order to help prevent fraud. ..." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_the_United_St...
But the people in power like Biden/Trump will never experience it.
So the message is: If you have a relative suffering cancer... don't use Air France?
I'm amazed you've literally never had to change a password; while there are plenty of sites that have never made me change my password, I find that I usually am made to change a password every month or two.
I don't see a law enforcement carve-out. By my reading a fellow cop with a body camera getting next to another cop enforcing the law would result in their violation of this law. Wonder if you can citizen's arrest a police officer for violating this law.
No. The behavior described in the article is not "standard." When you identify a law in a big company that forbids you from doing a business practice, you stop and obey the law. There is no alternative approach, particularly in a big company.

The conduct described in the article is basically reckless win-at-any-cost nonsense that reflects Uber's very survival was forbidden by law. The politicians who prevented subordinates from enforcing the law should be called out one-by-one and made to explain themselves. The lesson from the parent comment is not the correct lesson.
Even the Constitutional Originalists are not so Literalist as to interpret press as meaning literal printing presses, nor arms as black powder muskets, nor the things subject to search and seizure as being strictly the tangibles locked in ones home. IIRC there's already stacks of precedent establishing all the forms of digital media as protected free speech.
My 2 cents:

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
FPGA count?
Elon Musk may have to complete $44bn Twitter takeover, legal experts say
> If they are doing the right thing, they should have not problem.

This sounds awfully close to the bullshit line I've gotten from cops on several different occasions that I've been stopped and questioned, "If you haven't done anything wrong, you wouldn't be nervous."

I don't know if this law is a good one or not, but people (cop or otherwise) will always be uncomfortable when there's a serious imbalance of power.
If you have two sets of companies, that who participated pre 2014, and those from 2014-2016, you can train based on the earlier ones and validate based on the later ones without peeking into the future. I haven't read enough to know that's what happened, but that's a simple way to avoid this.
There's also the fact that a CC is accredited, so not only do you get a degree, but you also get credits that can be transferred to another college.
Right but much of law is interpretation, by design or by chance, and there’s a very strong likelihood that courts will now interpret 8’ to be the safe distance as a result of this. It’s very probable that before this law, cops could have moved you, say, 25’ away when you were trying to record and gotten away with it in court, whereas now they probably wouldn’t.

But for an even less theoretical example, state laws have explicitly legalized marijuana, for instance. If you’ve been in a state before and after (I have, as have most Americans) you saw your freedoms increase (and restrictions decrease) as a result.
TikTok is technically not a Chinese company, so it wouldn't be affected by such a law. But I haven't read the law and don't know how accurate your summary of it is. Do you have a link?
good durability against earthquakes

Unreinforced masonry is pretty much the worst class of building materials in an earthquake.

Hence it is largely prohibited by modern building codes for occupied structures and severely limited when allowed.

Mud buildings aren't cake to modern construction's bread.

The old city is made of mud because mud buildings are better than nothing (except in an earthquake) and better than nothing is better than nothing.
Can you expand on what merge+no-ff means?