skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to be crushed per se, but yes... that is what is routinely done with prototypes and pilots and yes they can't be sold (and the OEM wouldn't want to sell them due to some other laws that would come into play if they did).

Pilots are the vehicles that come off the line while the line is being developed or retooled for a new model. Some of them go back to engineering for various reasons, some go to suppliers, but most of those eventually get crushed too.
The cutoff for draft wad 45 years old.
In my experience, mutation testing is an amazing tool to discover code paths not actually covered by tests, regardless of the coverage score.
It’s a check on populism. Also, changing the rule slowly seems more likely to have good outcomes than removing the rule altogether.
> I can’t speak for all member states but I do know some have a threshold and from that point you have to pay a percentage of the total amount

So, exactly the same thing with a bottom bracket marginal rate of 0%?
My Experience as Stephen Hawking's Student
As a Swede with pretty much the opposite views, your monolithic EU "we" sounds pretty offensive.

The 2008 financial crisis might have started in the US, but outcomes in European countries varied greatly depending on local policies and debt levels. It's hardly Americas fault that some European countries had taken on very high levels of government debt.

AirBnB and Uber seems pretty easy to regulate on a local level and in many places in Europe they are.
You're really anxious to have infinite amounts of spam from bridged messaging services that noone can do anything to stop?
> For now, they're competing first and foremost against local jobs.

'We keep up with mediocre local jobs' is hardly 'world leader' is it?
> But while Meta fought against Apple’s changes, it voiced support for the way Google plans to implement its privacy

> “[It is] encouraging to see this long-term, collaborative approach to privacy-protective personalized advertising from Google,” Graham Mudd, vice president of product marketing

Not the same thing, looks like. Facebook likes Google.
I'm not particularly clear.. was this article published in one of their journals? What is the relationship of "Science Insider" to these other publications?
>> socket programming felt like a huge thing to me, like unlocking the next level of programming.

This was my story as well, I wonder how many people have been through this just like us!?
Isn't that Capitalism 101 ? If employees are happy, company is happy, why does it matter ? Why should a company worry about pleasing everyone who is not necessarily part of them. If someone likes what Gitlab does, applies there and gets the salary they want, what's the issue ? If they don't like Gitlab's offer because someone else in a HCOL area may get more, you are essentially comparing with someone else. Not a good idea.
> Its reactors are getting old enough that their capacity factors have declined - in 2020 down to 62%. This isnt much ahead of the capacity factor of the best wind turbines (57%).

The situation is a bit more nuanced than that. Yes the capacity factor has reduced but not only because they are getting old:

1. Wind and solar have priority access to the grid in France. If they are producing a lot, the NPPs have no choice but to cut their power output, reducing artificially their capacity factor.
2. The NPP reached their end of planned life, meaning they had to do an extensive refit to get a life extension. This is a bit more than just regular maintenance, these are upgrades to more current security standards.
3. As you said, the older the NPP become, the more maintenance is required
Legendary XenForo is still around as well.
Current financial model for media incentivises pumping out crap instead of valuable content.
Everyone knows that. :-p
In fact, Corel finally asks for feedback for WordPerfect explicitly, so I imagine that they finally noticed what a gem they acquired.

Quattro Pro is still a mess, but WordPerfect remains to be the most amazing WYSIWYG text processor in existence.
Thoughts on Blockchain and Crypto
Asking the user sucks. All it does is train users to click yes without thinking about it because they just want to get on with their life. (See: The ubiquitous GDPR cookie prompts).

ANY "solution" that puts more burden on the user isn't.
Showing advertisements isn't "selling user data", it's showing ads. Being the company who shows the ads means keeping the targeting data for yourself, which is the opposite of selling it.
And where would you rate yourself on the political spectrum?
Apple, Google, Microsoft, constantly buy, "sponsor" or sue competitors (whatever is cheapest) in order to keep their monopoly. All innovation is killed or at best assimilated (Star Trek Borg style). It's a bit funny that we ended up with two major platforms for smartphones... Microsoft did have a good grip on the smartphone market before Apple and Google entered, but they couldn't simply buy Apple or Google in order to keep their monopoly, nor can Google buy Apple or vice versa. But they can kill anyone else that tries to innovate.
Most owner-occupants own SFZ lots. Every owner of a multi-family dwelling is a landlord.
even if they were politically sympathetic they would have to abandon their oath to the constitution and turn and fight the rest of the Marines. Also, there's a lot more to the party than just Marines. I doubt there would be as much hesitation by drone operators sitting in office buildings firing on any armed citizen in any city in Texas. Let alone AI feeding targets of opportunity to a queue where operators just click the "approve" button...

I just don't think the secession people have thought about the level of violence required to actually secede. And even then what happens next? A blockade and sanctions then the entire state slowly starves to death or submission. Maybe Texas could form an alliance with Mexico.. ok now the United States declares war on Mexico. I don't think Mexico would want that.

the whole secession story just falls apart after 10 minutes of thought.
I wanted to search for the best e-scooter on the Swedish market and instead of doing site:reddit.com I did site:flashback.org and was satisfied with the results.

Flashback.org is a standalone Swedish forum that has stuck in there for over 20 years. Warning that it can be rather NSFW.

I wish I knew of more like it off hand but I know I've seen them, a lot of niche areas often have their own traditional forum. Like indie game devs, ham radio enthusiasts and so forth.

I think there is a psychological aspect to the type of people who are not happy just discussing their interests in a facebook group. That extra step of being an independent forum tends to attract either older nerds, or those who don't find social media attractive.

Therefore I wonder if there is a market in a forum platform, Forum as a Service. If you're using a forum platform, why not just use Facebook? Ethical reasons? I dunno, just speculating.
That certainly has happened more than once in recent history, but I thought it was interesting when I learned that many mass shooters are actually committing suicide [1].

> POLITICO: You’ve written about how mass shootings are always acts of violent suicide. Do people realize this is what’s happening in mass shootings?

> Peterson: I don’t think most people realize that these are suicides, in addition to homicides. Mass shooters design these to be their final acts. When you realize this, it completely flips the idea that someone with a gun on the scene is going to deter this. If anything, that’s an incentive for these individuals. They are going in to be killed.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/27/stopping-m...
Sure. I guess the war wouldn't have happened if the North said, sure, see you later, bye. But then, again, the South wouldn't have seceded without Southern elites being frightened that the North would take away the foundation of their wealth. So, exactly what does it mean to "reject this notion"?

And what would have happened when the Confederacy demanded that the United States return escaped slaves, and the United States refused? How long before Southerners decided that the North was an existential threat?
It's an attitude I've encountered with some Californians. I wouldn't call it a common one, since most Californians seem to be aware of their dependence on their neighbors for energy and water. But as for "kicking out" California, I'm not sure any such mechanism even exists in the Constitution. While the USA might not be a proper federation of states anymore, vestigial bits of the federation still exist, particularly when it comes to representation and self determination of states.

If a civil war or rebellion did break out I don't think it'd happen along state lines. The kind of power the states now wield actually depends on the existence of the union, so I don't see them wanting to destroy that relationship.
Pootooth.
Ask HN: Is Signal.org using WhatsApp code?
Earlier today I needed to get into an Instagram account. The owner went to the login screen and clicked the "Get link to login" button and promptly received an email with the special link.

This link was copy/pasted into a Signal chat with me, and instantly another email arrived "New login to your account: WhatsApp Spider <Nearby City>".

Nearby to the sender the is. Is the prefetch showing up as WhatsApp? If so, why?
Careful, center-seeking strategies on their own tend to incentivize extremism because they systematically under-weight correct positions within the Overton window while they over-weight incorrect extreme positions designed to nudge the Overton window.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's an excellent idea to seek out both sides, but developing and applying trust heuristics is critical or the strategy is easy to exploit.

Nothing has improved my respect for traditional media as much as the evolution of my trust heuristics for alternative media.
Big-tech has solved this internally. Everything down to the linux kernel they're running in prod is versioned and has people maintaining it and interacting with upstream (if any). This is obviously a full time job for at least a person per dependency on average.
I would want to see statistical backing for this. Kindly share if you know of any reasonable models that have studied this.

—

FWIW: Chicago has high property tax rate and it does seem to correlate to relatively steady median price movements.

But that is just one example…

There are likely other factors at play in Chicago as well: number of units of supply per capita and quality of public transportation come to mind as two that might have some bearing on housing prices.
Mitsuba Renderer 3
> If you're not willing to put in the very minor time investment, then you probably don't have much to contribute to the community,

Sometimes the person wants to post a reply to help someone else,

and then a minor time investment can be a big hurdle? So the people in the forum gets less help — they get help only from people who themselves are wondering about something, and so are willing to spend the time to sign up?

I think it'd be nice with global identities that worked across all forums. And one could have many, per person. One for work, one for a hobby, another for another...
Small Changes for Big SQLite Performance Increases
> It's the reason most Linux distributions came to deeply dislike bundling libraries

Is it, though? Seems like it would be trivial for a distribution maintainer to write a script to go through the dependency trees of every package, and then automatically rebuild any that depend on the vulnerable library. I don't think discovery is the problem.

I suspect this is really a legacy of when disk space was not so cheap; dynamic linking means smaller binaries (usually). And, even today, many distros would probably prefer their users to only download a 2MB library update from them than have to download 500MB worth of updated programs. Bandwidth is still not as cheap as we'd hope.

Edit: just realized you're probably talking about software packages vendoring in their own version of a library, not about a package statically linking with a system-provided copy of the library.
Confidence in all American institutions is down.

It's funny though, if you mention the most trusted institutions are small business, the military, the police, the medical system, and religion -- a lot of elites would gasp.

And if you told them the least trusted institutions are government, news media, and big business they'd become apoplectic.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-...
Remind me of "cry of silence" (outer limit) https://youtu.be/5PU-qpdyPRE
Would never for one second consent to the government tracking the location of every car, and would vote against any candidate who suggested such a thing.
I agree. I hope unionization makes the gaming industry less toxic for workers.
Virtually all of the decline is among Republicans, which makes sense given that their leadership has focused for many years now on attacking the media as a political strategy. Add to this the fact that many Republicans believe the Trump administration's fabrications about election fraud, and that those claims are routinely (and correctly) identified as fabrications in the media, and it's not surprising at all.
idk, never heard of Constitutionaliam.

So what the mandate of Fed Gov should be and how long TTL?
Can you name a few who will pay a Senior Software Engineer the same salary in Bay Area vs say Bangalore, India ? I am curious.
That's.... All in order, no? If workers want to be able to not be abused, they need to collectively bargain. Which, adds extra steps. But necessary ones? What am I missing?
Forum platforms have either been dead for twenty years or they’ll never die.

Admittedly, the days of “everyone runs their own phpBB” are long gone (basically, Facebook killed them), but no single social network can replace structured, threaded discussion boards yet.

Which is good.
Let's leave the specific numbers aside and just assume that there's a huge gap, e.g. ~$10 to ~$30k. You still haven't explained why that "doesn't work".

Clearly it would make some truck operations uneconomical, but that's a feature. The assumption is that the cost is being paid today, but it's effectively a subsidy that society is paying for.

Even if someone's going to argue that trucking is so critical to society that the trucks can't pay their fair share of road maintenance this way of doing it still seems dumb.

If you're paying ~$30k/yr for road maintenance per truck I'm willing to bet that you could e.g. spend ~$10k/yr to retrofit the truck to be gentler on the road (e.g. just adding an extra axle), and then use the remaining money to more directly subsidize trucking.
What makes you think this idea is popular?

I don't even think the author is fully behind it, seemed more like a thought experiment as a reply to grandparent.

Regarding grandma: I don't want to kick her out of the house. But there is a real issue here: young families can't find affordable places, while old families live in places, that are too big for them because the kids left. If they rent, they also pay significantly less than the younger family, since they are on older contracts. Once new people move in, rent is raised to the new level. The older people don't want to move out, because they would have to pay more for their new, smaller place, than the old, bigger place. Meanwhile the young family also has to finance the pensions for that old family.

Noone is being evil here, but ... it sucks. And every idea to work on it is shut down as being unfair to the people who already own houses. Even building new houses is usually opposed by the people who already have houses in the area. If I never get the chance ever to own one, I don't really feel like I have to protect the interest of house owners.
> We have that already.

Roughly, yes (it's not exactly what I am describing, but pretty close); I’m saying if you are looking for a model to stop that problem elsewhere that has neither, copying Prop 13 (or even just the assessment increase limit, even if applied only to owner occupied primary residence) isn't the thing you should reach for.
This response is dripping with contempt.
I assume "heat death" most likely refers to the noisy ("high-entropy") backdrop of shitposts.
very surprised to not see the word 'reddit' mentioned once in the piece (I already count 20 mentions here in this thread).

It's huge, it's structurally probably the closest to the traditional forum experience and my suspicion is it's eaten up a lot of former communities. One inherent appeal to a platform like that is that you have one identity across all instances which is appealing for practical reasons (nobody wants to manage a dozen accounts any more), and there's interaction across forums.

That last part is pretty important I think. Forums are great for the thing they deal with but they're also very silo-ish. With people nowadays preferring to exist in a lot of different communities that's often a disadvantage.
sure they can, just tried in incognito
Those are officially q&a and not really forum sites.
You wouldn’t happen to be anti-vax, would you? Because holy cow, you sure are allowing the anti-vax, fear-promoting front page posts to proliferate these days, which only encourages loons to brigade the site and downvote any comment that counters their bullshit narrative.

Your toleration for anti-vax nuttery serves to encourage it. It’s a variation of Popper’s maxim.
Perhaps this is because I think there is a difference between a civil war and a revolt. A revolt can become a civil war, but only as soon as both sides are embraced by institutional leaders, i.e. elites.
I just add "forum" to my query and it returns results from all kinds of forum.
> I try to think UI-first

I think of the problem first. We often go straight to the solution without a clear understanding of the problem.

Sometimes, the problem does not require a UI at all. The solution is somewhere else. As I was building a UI for someone to perform a task, I realised that the task could be entirely automated. I was tackling a problem on the wrong layer.

I think that you should start by modeling the task, because the user might not need to do that task in the first place. "How a user does a task" is how we get faster horses instead of automobiles.

> When was the last time you needed a manual

I suspect that it has a lot to do with growing up using those devices. Give one of those devices to your grandma and watch them go.
A day in the life of a product tester?
Read more on thetechboy.org
You could argue the increased hype they brought to bitcoin offset any carbon offset there cars have produced
My public transit experience is mostly DC and New York. The few times I've ridden BART, cleanliness was nonexistent (fabric seats were not the best design choice!) and safety was at best questionable. Some examples from the news:

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/asian-woman-attacked-on-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/drug-users-san-fra...

https://abc7news.com/bart-robberies-teens-rob-oakland-train-...

The chance of an incident on any given day is low, but palpable. When it happens to somenone else, it happens right in your face with no physical separation. Maybe that's why many choose to drive instead, despite the higher actual risk of accident per mile. That in itself is a tragedy, but people want the perception of safety just as much as safety by-the-numbers. Hygiene and comfort matter too.
Gnome Builder 43 Alpha Released After Being Ported to GTK 4
The world is littered with dead companies that had great products.
> Of course, it would be better still if there was a standard way of setting up specific URL patterns under specific domains to automatically launch an associated desktop app if that app is installed.

The "PWA" standard for "/.well-known/apple-app-site-association" is "related_applications" [0] in the Web App Manifest standard and specifically here where "prefer_related_applications" [1] is set to true.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/relate...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/prefer...
> Please point to any proof that the future would be this way.

Please provide your own proofs that the future would not be in this way. Prior to this change, the 30% cut was mandatory. Tomorrow, it won't be only the game in town. That alone shows that the future is at least one step towards a different app economy from the status quo. That alone changes things.

> 3rd party stores exist on Android _today_, and I don't see any thing you talk about.

But it opens up the opportunity for such a thing to arise. Someone can choose to create an app discovery platform like AppGratis or Chomp, to create new app catalog perhaps more targeted and organized than the current sprawl that is the existing App Store. The point is this change allows the possibility to arise, as well as the economics to shift. At the very least, this will lead to disruption of the status quo. That will breed opportunity and innovation.

> Instead, android shows that these changes are potentially more user hostile.

How have third party app stores made things any more hostile on Android? There is literally no competing Meta user data collection ap store there.

> Developers pretend its about making things better for users when its about making more money for them.

Users need developers, as much as developers need users. Anti-developer sentiment is puzzling. If you want Apple to build everything themselves, then close the platform entirely, allow only web apps (as Jobs intended), and let Apple Sherlock the entire App Store.

> My friend, they are sitting still _now_, when supposedly GDPR was to fix all this. They are rushing to "open up" the one platform that pretends to care about user privacy

GDPR was just the start, and further regulation on both sides of the Atlantic is in progress. Do you really think of all of this was meant to attack Apple specifically? Big Tech is under the crossfires by multiple regions, multiple nations, multiple political parties.
I believe that's true of nearly every poll. People with Democratic-leaning views seem to be more willing to self-identify as Democrats than people with Republican-leaning views to self-identify as Republicans, so there are more Democrats than Republicans but independents skew towards Republicans.
I feel like the redesign has blurred some of the boundaries between subreddits as well. On old Reddit subreddits were able to heavily customize the look, which made them feel more like their own separate spaces. Post-redesign, not so much.
I tried the term "cockeyed" and got a TOS violation notice
>Recent thread with 100+ comments, "Where have all the forums gone?", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923377

I missed that first post in the dueling firehoses of life events and hackernews stories. Found a couple of forums to check out! Thanks!
Your point 4 is what is going to happen.
They don't ask about party, but I don't think that's true. I am one of those who anticipate it, and I'm definitely not of that party.

I think they'll be instrumental in starting it. I think they'll get huffy when an election doesn't go the way they want, declare it a crisis, and governors will activate the National Guard to try to enforce it.

I wouldn't say it's probable, no more than say a 10% likelihood. But a 10% likelihood of a truly awful thing is too much to ignore.
Things the media publish/say generally go on to be used as sources in Wikipedia. Mostly in the less scientific pages, and the more political/social pages. This has lead me to really sceptical of things I read on Wikipedia, given you can read something and expect it's a hard fact, but the source is seemingly just some mainstream journalist just giving their opinion. Basically, I think low media confidence also looks bad on Wikipedia.