skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inexcusable. Yet no considerable action will be taken against this corporation nor the corrupted, lobbied politicians that enabled this will ever be held accountable, let alone be cornered to resign from whatever seat they occupy. It's not a good indication for the future how the EU seems to be one giant toybox for fraudulent activities such as these, with all the recent scandals.. there seems to be very little interest in even just keeping a façade of legitimacy.
This isn't surprising to me. Most old voters don't want to die broke on the street, and most younger people don't want to see their grandparents die broke on the street, either.

As someone currently on the line between young and old, I get that.
The fact that the AC power grid is synchronous is very unlike any water/gas system:

> "In a synchronous grid, all the generators naturally lock together electrically and run at the same frequency, and stay very nearly in phase with each other...Small deviations from the nominal system frequency are very important in regulating individual generators and assessing the equilibrium of the grid as a whole. When the grid is heavily loaded, the frequency slows, and governors adjust their generators so that more power is output (droop speed control). When the grid is lightly loaded the grid frequency runs above the nominal frequency, and this is taken as an indication by Automatic Generation Control systems across the network that generators should reduce their output."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid#Fre...

Cascading power grid failures might be another good example:

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aan3184
Recent conversation from 1-2 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32030229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32025858
Kitchen confidential? Substack is rapidly becoming the Experts Exchange of feature writing. Perhaps it’ll go to the same graveyard as EE did when StackOverflow killed it.
Biden being shown as a puppet in this context is certainly something.

Admittedly, Guardian is the only news site I check ever (last 5 or so years anyway), and even I am impressed that they went with a straight arrow.
Good job.

// Weird seeing downvotes for my reply without any comments/input. Just goes to show - ignorance is bliss.
This article reveals European political influencing. What about in the USA?

It's guaranteed that we'll only remember Uber as a technical success, just like we remember Microsoft as a technical success.
Or their competitors who played by the rules.
I like this, but it violates one of my norms, haha.

Stories can last for a while, but long-lived feature branches have to be kept in sync with the main branch, otherwise they develop nasty merge conflicts and you are not deploying continuously.

I think the better solution is for your versioning and your issue tracker to be integrated: we still expect every developer to merge to mainline one or twice a day[1], keeping merge conflicts shallow... But they should mention what issue they are working on in the commit, and the integration dumps that information into the tracker automatically.

[1] This is not hard to make safe, though it makes a lot of devs skittish at first. See Three-Flow for a non-CD version, https://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2017/04/09/a-different-bra... as a stepping stone. One key thing is that code review needs to become much lighter than it is at many organizations, “I don't care how you did it as long as it can be turned off with a feature toggle and does not break prod or introduce security vulnerabilities when I merge it: those key things are what I am looking for.”
This sounds good; a citizen can now refer to The Law(tm) and keep filming any police encounter with the general population from a distance of 8ft.

I enjoy yelling about abuse of power as much as the next guy, but from the looks of it, this law empowers the citizenry.
> Still a million times better than what it replaced.

Uber didn't replace taxi. taxi was dying on it's own. Uber actually kept the bad designs of taxi going but they monopolized the Medallions.

"what it replaced" was the ongoing outcry to minimally decent public transit. Some of the international offshoots of the Occupy movement actually had this as their central theme.
> Same reason we wait until Real Analysis to teach delta-epsilon limits while the engineers are off taking PDEs.

This is very country dependent, we were taught delta-epsilon limits in high school. Maybe not with the same depth, I don't know.
I've never seen flashing brake lights, but indicators flash on very hard braking. It first showed up on the first-gen Citroën C5, and was copied by everyone else after that. On the C5, it was part of the "emergency brake assist", which would basically work out that if you were doing an emergency stop, you really wanted to throw out the anchors and dump all the hydraulic pressure into the brakes.
I expect I could game that system pretty effectively.
Updating textbooks to reflect what we know about a specific historical period is absolutely a good thing.

I learnt Latin through this course; the books are great, but they definitely take a very sanitised view of things. Updating the books as described makes them more accurate and therefore more useful.
This is a good intro, while it mentions `thiserror`, I personally can’t recommend this enough. For anyone building a library, the ability to wrap underlying errors and generate a From implementation quickly for them (converts from source error to target) is it’s super power. It also takes a simple error string to create the Display implementation. It does all of this and generates code and types that are consistent with the std library.

It’s good to understand the error mechanics, but don’t wast time writing custom errors, just use `thiserror`.
> Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne

They can't be very smart, Joe Biden is the least corrupt president ever and has committed to total transparency: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-briefing-idUSKB...
The down votes you’re getting here just really highlights how out of touch many developers (HN users) are from the reality of IT. All of your points are spot on, and anyone disagreeing with them simply doesn’t have enough experience to have a valid opinion.

IT Operations lives and dies by all the “5 minute real quick” tasks. The fact is that many requests fall into that category, but there can be 100s of those per day. The only way to manage that is by forcing people to open tickets, and then handle them according to priority.
What happens when there is a circular path. Do all ants follow it until they die?
>I say they should let her go in the HOV lane.

I think if this ends the debate on whether a fetus is a life or not, then so be it.

But I suspect many pregnant women will still want the right to be selective of when to treat it as a separate life and when not to...
>Leave the in-person schooling for kids and parents that really have no other option.

Every single study shows in-person learning outperforms virtual, and it's not close.

IN fact, that's one of the main causes of the drop in school performance from COVID - virtual learning for children is shit.
Tldr: solar engineering by blocking sun at L1 with big bubbles.

This doesn’t reverse anything. It slows warming, but doesn’t de-acidify the oceans or decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere.

Solar engineering is a radical, risky Hail Mary that should only be considered as a stopgap emergency measure provided emissions are being managed. Without that the problem is not solved and if the mitigation (sulfur, bubbles, whatever) is removed the snap back will be extreme.

We need to stop putting CO2 and methane in the air and start removing what’s there, period
If at all possible have the house paid for before retiring. Trying to balance income vs. expenses with a mortgage is a hard go.
There are some particularly bad things here like

> Warned that doing so risked putting Uber drivers at risk of attacks from “extreme right thugs” who had infiltrated the taxi protests and were “spoiling for a fight”, Kalanick appeared to urge his team to press ahead regardless. “I think it’s worth it,” he said. “Violence guarantee[s] success. And these guys must be resisted, no? Agreed that right place and time must be thought out.”

However, this is how all "unicorn" startups operate. Break the law until they get caught and pay a small fine. Uber will get away with this and people will continue to use Uber.
> Passwords should be regularly rotated

Disagree. I'd even call required rotation a smell.

Requiring rotation leads to people coming up with passwords more frequently, meaning they'll likely choose weaker passwords. On top of that, regular rotation isn't necessary for passwords generated independently by a password manager.

The issue here is that there's no way to deal with revocation / password changes if a service is compromised.
Apple's Business website is blocking Firefox
Should have taken the artifact. Magic items are always better
My point is that the precedent has already been set, and a company that essentially allowed people to transact freely (away from the taxi cartel and regulatory capture) isn't the straw that's going to break the camels back.
Hasn't Apple said that itags are not meant to track stolen items? That falls outside of the intended use case. So both options are similar in that sense.
OpenID is a standard. Openid.net is one provider not the only provider. You are free to use another provider.
This reads like a list put together by a well-meaning college freshman.
Is it so when you start recording them barking at your car window they can arrest you for recording less than 8 feet away?

Because that would be insidious.
I found a huge box of scrap Eurocard boards with 68000s, Z180s, and 63C09s at work last week.
Walk-up service desks are absolutely normal in Big Tech.
“Not survive”, ready? Clearly that’s hyperbolic or wrong.

How is the presence of these kinds of articles any kind of argument or input into thinking about the matter?
Reducing light to the planet will degrade plant growth. This seems like a non starter.
Insurance is compulsory just to drive a car, passenger safety is resolved with the right checks. Both of which a trivial licensing issues.

The point, certainly in France since Macron is prominently mentioned, is that traditional taxis are a heavily restrictive corporation. Number of licenses is very limited and they fetch 100k+ euros because drivers can sell their on when they leave the business. Traditionally they obviously only accept cash, fares are expensive, they charge extra by weight for luggage in the boot, phone booking only, etc.

None of this is in the interests of consumers and Macron wanted to open up the industry.

Like it or not, I think Uber provided the long overdue "kick in the butt" that the taxi industry needed in many countries.
Fed's concern is only the part of inflation that

1) it can change, and

2) is self sustaining.

Only that part of inflation that goes trough wages is self sustaining for a long term. If wages don't increase, demand decreases when people can't afford to pay.
It has a few drawbacks but also some advantages (namely that is way more convenient than a traditional PM and also doesn't actually store any passwords)
Police kill way too many people.

Whether there's a racial motivation or basis behind that cannot usually be determined by selectively watching videos. And scholarly sources have published studies that show the answer is complicated:

see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z
and https://www.manhattan-institute.org/verbruggen-fatal-police-...

for two different takes on ths.
> Most utilities are switching customers to smart meters that allow remote disconnection of electricity.

I learned about this 3-6 months ago when PG&E erroneously remotely disconnected a large number of people in the Bay Area, including my apartment. I walked outside my unit and the entire building had power except for me -- the maintenance team was mystified and said the meter specific to my apartment reported it had been remotely killed.

It was impossible to figure out what had happened, and after many hours of vague outage status messages, I was finally able to reach the billing department who said they had been fixing this issue all day, and they remotely reactivated my meter as I was still on the phone with them (they had a whole disclaimer about turning it on remotely too).

I got a vague letter and $100 statement credit a month later that admitted an issue accidentally cut off a lot of meters, but no further details on how or why. Very strange experience and made me question the whole smart meter thing.
In Futurama they used Benders shiny metal ass as a jet (with other robots) to move earths orbit out a little bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_of_the_Hot
IMO there's a big difference between breaking the law to optimize some otherwise-legitimate activity and starting an entire business on something that (at least at the time) was illegal in most countries.
That idea is so silly and simplistic I have a hard time believing people at MIT came up with it, let alone spread the word on the web.

We haven't been on the moon a second time yet and you want us to believe that we are capable of deploying a mega-structure the size of Brazil in space?

Just because you can do napkin calculations of something does not make it relevant.
No, it is fine in the sense of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_network#Applications. But it doesn’t allow FTL communication, in case you heard someone claim that.
A key point here is that Uber didn't just disrupt taxi cartels, it also undermined public transport services. In places like Miami it even became a sanctioned alternative to bus routes that were cut. To me this is the true long term damage of their VC-funded predatory pricing model.
It's not so much a bait-and-switch; the subtitle says none of them are about music. But you're right, it's a show-off list that tells more about his influences as a critic and writer than anything that "Changed How I Hear Music" — and it's not even flaunting anything very impressive. But I suppose it's hard to write an article every few days without running out of true things to say.
Social Media: The unsustainably worst method for fostering business opportunity
It is though. There's now 2 corrupt systems lobbying in different directions. We can now have them play against each other.

When corruption is enshrined by the law itself what other way do you have to fight it except to have the corrupt play off against each other.

The taxi industry existed for centuries (perhaps longer) in the cartel form. It's amazing progress to see that their power is no longer absolute.
I use the android LiChess app to play my dad, works wonderfully.
It’s really people looking for excuses to NOT do the right thing. In order for us to consume less, we need to lower our population. Not a hard math problem. We need to cut world population by at least 1/2.
Right, so the problem is people don't have money because obviously people would save if they could. Giving them money would allow them to do that. This is exactly what the proposal is intended to resolve, so it doesn't make any sense that you'd argue against it unless you have some other idea of how to get people money so that they can save it.
Is a designer that bases their designs on numbers, not aesthetics or user experience, really designers?

Usability studies have so many confounding variables that it's not even funny. It's not hard to pick studies to support anything. As if that wasn't enough, they're highly contextual and inevitably used in a completely different context.

None of the well known great designers of the past century relied on A/B studies to do what they did. Granted, they likely delivered a lot of duds too, but at least those designs could be identified as bad.

Designs with statistics behind them can never be bad because the numbers haven't changed, and the numbers was what motivated the change in the first place.
Yeah this is the truth. My old company once lost several mil because of sketchy employee doing something they shouldn't. We now have severe controls which makes the problem less likely to happen, but the hidden costs means it costs several mil every year - but much harder to measure.
That’s a pretty ugly watch if you ask me.
"Always will be"? That seems excessively pessimistic. Why do you think that?
I think he fully expected to buy Twitter and was working toward that goal which required him to sell TSLA shares. If there's some kind of side benefit that he now gets to keep that money now that the deal has fallen through, I have no problem with that personally as a TSLA shareholder as I'd prefer he spend that money on something like SpaceX. Making my stock value go down while helping SpaceX is a great thing.
In the pipes analogy, pressure corresponds to potential energy (voltage). Low voltage conditions does not necessarily trigger frequency stability issues.

Grid synchronization is a different issue to the electrical-hydraulic analogy (which, by the way, was the one that Maxwell used and its pretty useful). Grid synchronization comes from the fact that electrical quantities in the network (current, voltage) are alternating periodic. Generators, which are usually mechanical, oscillate and induce such periodic signals. The system must remain synchronized. But this has nothing to do with the network being electrical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy
and what if this optimism doesn't lead to a scaled solution by the time we're dead / dying

sounds pretty cool though. a techno solution just in time for every threat
The government can run postal services and has done that for centuries, I don't see why they couldn't run this as well. As soon as a reasonable matching algorithm matching driver and passenger is open to the public everyone could easily deploy this wherever they want. Governments aren't good at innovating, but they are great at keeping stable systems running.
> Basically every US company operating in the EU is breaking GDPR post-Privacy Shield right now: it's illegal to transfer data of EU residents to US data centers.

This is not true and the devil is in the details. It's illegal to transfer "personal data" of EU residents. The definition of personal data under the GDPR is what US companies would consider PII or personally identifiable information and not all companies collect PII. In fact, I would argue most companies go out of there way to not store PII.
Neither of the things described in the parent comment have to do with ego, they have everything to do with career opportunities and outcomes.

The ability to have your research funded is a practical and existential problem for scientists. And I find it quite natural having issues with someone being able to achieve better outcomes through marketing and fame rather than through the quality of their work.

It's something I find aggravating with Google, OpenAI, and cie in the field of machine learning for example. The amount of marketing they benefit from, before their papers are even published, is unfair and anti-meritocratic. I don't want to have to do SEO to be able to stand on even ground with these people.

(And that's not to say Sagan wasn't a good scientist, or that his work communicating science wasn't useful.)
until the police starts charging at you and now you're under 8ft.
The Spotify model was huge in Sweden. Everybody talked about it it seemed.

I remember a joke about companies in the early 2000’s would say they used Java to encourage competitors to have development problems because “Java sucks, haha”.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the “Spotify model” has had adverse effects on the Swedish IT sector at large.
Isn’t it strictly better if no groups from the old system got worse, but some groups that transferred got better.
I'm not sure! I would imagine it's planned though, scaling to that size seems important for a database product. I'm not on the D1 or R2 teams so I'm not intimately familiar with their products.
In the article it explains the law excludes things where you are involved in the police action, including vehicle stops. This is for uninvolved folks that are recording.
> Search engines are intrinsically but not monetarily valuable to users. Search engines are monetarily, but not intrinsically, valuable to advertisers.

I”d like to offer a different view, one that thousands of subscribers at Kagi search can hopefully stand behind too. (Kagi founder here)

Searching has a monetary value and a cost, the only question is whether the user is paying for it or a third party is paying for the user (a cringy thought when you think about it).

This question is answered by the very business model of the search engine, which determines who its customer is. It can either be its users (like in the case of Kagi and mwmbl) or advertisers (like most other search engine).

Although it is really hard to break through the habit of getting search for "free", we are at least happy to be able to offer this choice to the consumer today. I am expecting to see many more paid search engines in the future.
Neurogrid – The Board (2016)
> You've presented a scenario that's false in it's premise: either your data is safe or it isn't.

Do you work in cybersecurity? have you done security assessment - the real, technicals ones before?

I did. I coded (a tiny, tiny) part of the Linux kernel. My teams break systems for a living.

If you have actually done security assessments than you know, of course, that there is no way to assess whether a vulnerability is low or high before shit hits the fan. When MS says "critical", then I say "critical" as well. I am not going to plat smart ass and then realize that in the shitty cathedral of systems businesses build there is THE configuration that allows for an exploit.

Anything lower than critical - I do not care/ This can be done later. Bit is it is critical, it will be applied immediately, breaking systems and important presentations of the C-whatever. If the business has something against me then feel free to escalate to my management and tell them that they do want their data to be insecure. Because this is what they do want. Some tried - their systems are patched as the others.

Everyone today is a doctor, football coach an,d recently cybersecurty expert. Yes, maybe your IT team sucks, but others just want to do their fucking dmn, work.
> I’ve spoken to various taxi drivers, including current and former Uber drivers, and none of them liked working for Uber. They merely felt trapped.

I live in the U.S. I speak to almost all of my rideshare drivers about how they feel about their work. Literally none of them have expressed the feeling that they're trapped. (And not one has said that he would prefer driving a taxi.) They do make criticisms, more of Uber than of Lyft. But the main sentiments that they express are appreciation of scheduling flexibility and of not having a boss.
Completely it's own from scratch. It's a very simple, relative to full Linux or other OS, kernel/hypervisor. It's built to load what it calls the Dom0 system, which it gives a communication channel to to start up other virtual systems that it calls DomU. This in theory lets you use any OS as the Dom0 for initializing everything (Linux, *BSD, even Windows I think) as long as there's some kind of support for that communications channel to tell the Xen kernel to start up another system.

https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overvi...
no, the default is that it's legal to film within 8 ft of police.

All laws are inherently restrictive.
I don't think "they broke the law" has the same weight it used to. The American justice system has been so entirely captured by capital that such an accusation merely tells me that one of Uber's enemies spent real money on a PR firm.

Plus, the laws they broke are ones that almost no-one except taxi companies (and perhaps city tax officials) care about.
> The elevation of the room where the rack is installed must be below 9,842 feet (3,000 meters).

Why?