skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The 'US social safety net' has little to do with this - violent, opportunistic thugs use public transport to bring huge quantities of drugs into SF every day using BART, while terrorizing passengers largely with impunity. This may seem like hyperbole but a quick look at local news will confirm this."

The reason US society is fucked up is largely because of this kind of thinking. The US social safety net has everything to do with crime. The vast, overwhelming amount of crimes aren't committed because people are bored or are disney villains and like being evil. Crime happens primarily when people are desperate and the US is grinding innumerable people into dust right now.

"More cops/Tough On Crime" is a stupid af way to deal with crime because it is a form of reactive violence against the symptoms of a suffering society that doesn't attempt to understand the root causes.
Building micro-front ends with Webpack’s Module Federation
That's a good point, why don't Russia/NK/Iran/etc allow people to cheaply watch content owned by companies based in unfriendly (i.e. USA) countries?
Are you sure they’re not part of the group who wrote the law, only to pretend lobbying against it with, you can admit that, surface arguments which won’t rollback the idea of total control on private communications?
Former Louisville Officer to Plead Guilty to Breonna Taylor Cover-up
I can imagine somebody somewhere spent their whole days in the bathroom and management in its infinite wisdom, instead of (or in addition to) firing the dude instituted this sort of smoothbrained policy.
Until Google Delist your website from Search, HyperScaler and Mid Tier Hosting refuse to host you.
When I was a teenager (in the 90s in the UK), the police sent a guy to our school to tell us all about the new knife laws. He said that even a sharpened plastic ruler was illegal.
Kind of like how I think about things like TikTok in general, nobody would actually pay for that, they just use it because it's free.
I imagine this can be manipulated by other accounts to drive traffic. He can say something controversial and then it goes viral on the big platforms. Then he could have a watermark of his website on the clip so people know where to go to see him.
And if you live in a hot place a dark car is a bad idea.
> Linux in every other pocket

Well, for some definition of Linux. Certainly the Linux kernel, only wrapped up in Google's proprietary Play Services. Say what you want about 1990's Microsoft, but at least the privacy story was better than in the 2020's.
Why assume the whistleblowing was done for negative reasons?
I assume that storage has gotten so cheap now that storing everything forever is feasible for companies? I always knew they had to retain content for X period of time, to comply with laws about data retention for criminal investigations, but I always assumed (from reading about it 10+ years ago) that because of how much extra storage space all the "deleted" content would take up, that it wouldn't be feasible for them to do it long-term for everything. I knew that would become a moot point eventually, and I suppose that is now.
I deleted my Kiva account after there were obvious signs of a data breach.
Yeah the one thing I love to do, because hey it is the web, is open navigations in a new tab. For example when banking see my transactions in one tab while making a payment in the second. I hate sites that break that. Banks like to do that presumably for security theatre. NextJS makes it easy to mess up but once you know the trick it is ok - they should probably add a console warning for it.
(Sauce) https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/j7yfqb/oc_...
I wish lawyers would lose their license when they're obviously attacking people (or in this case companies) in bad faith. This is ridiculous, go grieve like a normal person.
Is vat actually regressive at all? The more you spend, the more you pay.

I see the wisdom of removing tax on necessities. But after that it's essentially everyone's choice what they buy.

The issue seems to be that things that only the wealthy can take advantage of are under taxed.
It kinda gets me into the stance: every member of EU parliament and EU commission should make their bank accounts fully transparent so populi can check whether they are committing some act of corruption.
Something like a simple markdown renderer has little reason to use the GPU. But a terminal emulator has absolutely no reason to use one. The bottlenecks there are system I/O and legacy API's, not the rendering performance.
Most people need cars may be true now, but it's not a law of nature. These things affect each other. The village I was raised has about 8000 inhabitants. That sounds like sparsely populated and indeed, it has no good public transport connection - the closest light rail station is 5 km and there's no bus. But within a 10 km circle, you'll find 14 towns and villages, with a combined citizenship of ~60 000 people. And within 20 km, you'll find 6 actual cites with a combined citizenship of > 500 000 people.

You could run an actual public transport network there. But outside the cities and some light rail, it doesn't really exist - there's just a few bus lines that run every hour or so. Why? Because people have cars. When they tried to set up a bus line for that 5km to the light rail (which runs every 15 minutes, until late night), nobody would take it. People took the cars because they were used to it and didn't want to rely on public transport - especially since that was explicitly branded as "trial" - why change habits? And now, that bus no longer runs and people have to take the car.

Public transport thrives of network effects, but these are hard to establish. I believe it can be done, but only if you have an actual plan and the will to pull it through. It's a marathon, not a sprint as they always say.

If you're getting into regions where public transport is really hard to provide, then you're very quickly away from "most people need cars", because these regions may be large, but very few people actually live there. Let them use cars. Go for the large chunk that should not need cars.
> life was just better in the 90s when there were few real problems in the world

They were definitely there, you just couldn't see them or they weren't happening in your country or to people you knew. But there was a period of relative peace from the end of the Cold War to 9/11, and a great deal more "consensus". This was achieved because there was nowhere for people outside the consensus to get heard.

> society as a whole is worse

To the extent that this is true - and I don't think it applies to all of today's society, many of whom are more tolerant and better informed - is it an effect of the internet on society?
> The basic right of not getting arrested for traveling in the British countryside

Not sure this was a "basic human right" in England even before COVID. See e.g. https://www.mylawyer.co.uk/trespassing-a-A76076D34460/ and https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/ . All land is owned by someone, only around 8% of it is "open access", and the right to roam has only existed for 20 years.
I can imagine the question being asked in the UK, because of this case: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-35048851
No, they say that current non-COVID excess deaths are higher than non-COVID excess deaths were during COVID. They underestimate non-COVID excess deaths during COVID because of the subtraction, which makes current excess deaths higher than average. In reality, they underestimated the average that they compare to. Hope it's clear now.
Given Google lists Nazi content and heaven knows what else, do you have any examples of people like Tate whose websites they've delisted?
The hill argument is silly, but the core of the lawsuit is a design issue with the bike.

> The suit claims that the bike’s design made it hard for the girls to control their speed as they sped downhill, specifically because of where the steering axis is placed in relation to the front wheel. As the suit lays out, the bike in question—the RadRunner—has “disc brakes in conjunction with a quick-release mechanism for detaching the front wheel.” This setup is common on a wide range of bikes, and the Steinsapirs claim that it is “a known safety hazard in the industry.” The suit goes on to argue that the quick release came loose as Steinsapir’s friend was applying the front brake, which allegedly caused the wheel to wobble and ultimately caused the crash.

I don't know if what they're saying is true, but if it is it's certainly something that's very reasonable to sue over.
Which is understandable, but I still hope they win the suit with a judgment of $1 and court costs only.
Before it went down I noticed it was sending data through a socket, rendering everything at the very end.

So basically a worse Blazor.
If the government doesn't like your criticism of their policies, can they simply sanction you to disable your free speech? Where does the line go?
I had a bout of apnea, when I was single and did not have a regular sleeptime companion to alert me to it. Tried CPAP - but it is HORRIBLE. Hearing my complaints, the therapist suggested that instead I get a dental appliance - a very simple one - custom-made, but not complex to make.

All it does is jut out your lower jaw a bit, opening up your windpipe (or whatever it is that's getting stopped up). IT WORKED GREAT! To hell with CPAP. And now that I'm married, I have a full-time Apnea Alerter (TM).
Brain cap appears to boost memory for at least 1 month
Riding bikes in winter is normal in Scandinavia. If its too cold, you're wearing the wrong clothes.

Too hot, well, people are riding bikes in India. I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one.

Too far? That's an urban design problem. Nobody is suggesting rural people change their cars for bikes, although I do know some people who are loving their ebikes for property inspection...
I've built a few bicycle frames and it's a known issue among framebuilders that you should point the opening of the front dropouts rearward a bit on disc brake forks. Disc brakes can generate serious torque.
I don't think touting no E2EE is going to get you more users. Fine, don't do it, but I'm pretty sure the people who want E2EE (myself included) are likely very convinced it's what they need and will act accordingly. And those who don't care for E2EE won't care whether you offer it or not.

Irrecoverable data loss is a real pain in the ass that needs to be dealt with but it's the only way to achieve true privacy. Knowing you can't decrypt my data whether by your own will or coerced by your government (which may or may not care about privacy now or in the future) or at the whim of a North Korean hacker, keeps my mind at ease. Why on earth would I give that up? Google has Keep, Apple has Notes, they do a pretty decent job as far as basic notes app go. Sorry if this sounds like putting you down, I'm sure you put a great deal of work into your app and you seem passionate about it and I'm sure it's great. But because the table stakes in the notes games are high, you need to go above and beyond what your competitors offer. Not just great UX, but pushing _every_ boundary in the space, including by offering privacy. I feel like in 2022, privacy is non-negotiable. Make it optional if you feel you must, or don't, but don't suggest skipping E2EE is in any way a virtue.
France has been caught spying many times. There was a huge scandal in the 90s when the French intelligence services were caught bugging American business leaders. WikiLeaks cables make the claim France is actually the “evil empire” of state-sponsored industrial espionage. France also has an enormous NSA-style spying apparatus.

https://www.france24.com/en/20130702-france-usa-spying-snowd...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/04/france-electro...

Beyond just spying, French intelligence services even blew up a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand. They don’t have a moral problem with messing with allies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warri...

Allies negotiate with each other all the time. Of course it helps them to have inside knowledge of what’s going on behind the scenes. Why do you think any country would handicap itself?
What are hydrophilic break systems? Do you mean hydraulic breaks?
Speak for yourself. I use Spotify on my TV at home. Multiple people use it.
Maybe if you compare the US to China. But compared to the EU the US is basically worse.
> it's probably more about developer time, maintenance burden, etc.

That's a large part of it, yes. The sqlite project has only 2 full-time core developers and, AFAIK, only 3 current part-timers who tend to work on more "outer rim" features like the shell app, the .Net bindings, and the new WASM/JS parts.

Richard (sqlite architect/lead) has an explicit goal of supporting sqlite through at least 2050, and sqlite has a long history of strong backwards compatibility guarantees. Every feature (e.g. new SQL-facing function) added to it may well have to be maintained until 2050 by that small group of people. Thus Richard is necessarily extremely selective about what goes in.
I've had the same experience with Edwin. When I published an article critical of Stripe that reached the front page of HN,[0] he was very helpful and set up a direct phone call for us to talk. Edwin said many times on the call that if I ever ran into a situation where I seemed to be getting the runaround from Stripe support, I could contact him to get things unstuck.

A month later, I ran into an issue where the Stripe API contradicted the API documentation. I contacted support, and support told me that it's intended behavior for the API to violate its own documentation. I emailed Edwin since that seemed like the exact scenario he volunteered to help with, and he didn't respond. I followed up a week later, and he didn't respond.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936818
This sounds more like reviving the Stasi than helping children.

I’m not going to debate a disingenuous excuse from the people who just locked us in our homes for a year seeking yet more power and control.
I was 15 (~2004) years old working at Burger King when I had my first glimpse of a broken immigration system.

I came to work one day and we were very understaffed. I asked my manager what was going on. She heard a rumor that immigration enforcement was coming to our store and they, our co-workers, were never coming back. People I was friends with, just gone forever.

I wish we could have a functioning immigration policy so hard working people wanting a better life can come here and live without fear.
Those materials are not consumable that’s what make the most difference.

For sure, there is some pollution involved in extraction of the elements, but you do it once.

Contrast that with oil where you burn it and it’s done, you start over.

Electrification start with cars, then planes, then ships unless there is major breakthrough that reduce the cost of batteries.
Since you need to get rid of a car to get the subsidy and you have to pay a substantial part of the cost of the bicycle yourself, even if you wanted to scrap a car to buy a new one you probably expect to use the electric bike at least often enough to justify paying the subsidized price for it.
There are too many "useful idiots" in government circles. Hell is paved with good intentions.
That's not what the parents are complaining about. It's when the user wants to open a regular link in a new tab using a key modifier.
The technology is used for privacy.
Commodification incentivizes regression to some mean.

(rental) houses are losing color because they have to design it in the least offensive way. Better be "acceptable" for 1000 people than "beautiful" for 10.

That mcDonalds is also a prime example. That building can be used for anything now. The old McDonald's building is specifically a McDonald's or some sort of "fun" eating establishment. If the McDonald's leaves the building, the "boring" one will be worth more/ can extract more rent.
This technology is ineffective at saving children and highly effective at ruining more lives than it could theoretically save even with perfect conditions.
Very cool!

This is interesting as well:

"NOTE: The Telelabs System will be closed from late December till the end of February to conserve electrical energy and reduce associated greenhouse emissions."
A self fulfilling prophecy.
I think people forget how fast prices declined, and how fast stuff got outdated / obsolete.

We paid something like $4k-$5k for a PC back in 1995. I think it was a 120 or 133 MHz, 16 MB ram, and 500 MB HDD. Came with Win 95. Probably 90% of its use went to Office and Excel.

3-4 years later, pretty much unusable for any kind of (then) modern application, like games. Even if you could buy a graphic card, like Voodoo or whatever, the CPU and RAM wouldn't cut it. Besides, a decent new PC would "only" cost you around half of what you paid back in 1994/1995.

When I purchased a gaming PC in early 2008, that PC could still handle modern games 10 years later! And that was a mid-level gaming PC I paid around $1k for.
You must get accused of “doxxing” a lot. Bad actors seem to believe they have a right to appear at every council meeting completely free from whatever they’ve said or done in the past.
> not enough prestige

If someone had enough money, time, etc. but not enough prestige, how would it manifest itself?
That's because it is hard to discern what is shilling and what is a real / expert opinion. Shilling happens here on HN, like it does on every social media platform / discussion forum. It doesn't help that we can't call out suspected shilling on HN as it is against the rule. But that rule makes sense because suspicion is not proof, and it would just bring down the quality of discussion here if everyone of us accuses the other of shilling :). (And as someone once pointed out to me, sometimes these shillings are not necessarily from the marketing team but from employees and shareholders here, who have a vested interest in seeing the company do well.)
"They are now used extensively by homeless for a variety of activities."

Good, everytime a homeless person uses a public bathroom it is a net savings on health, safety and environmental impact because many of those people are denied access to anywhere to go take a shit and turns out people shitting everywhere isn't a great idea.

If some of the homeless are out of control and trash the bathroom... ok fine we are talking about people in the most tumultous and vulnerable positions in our society here. Make the bathroom like portlands public bathrooms; design them so they are hard to break and you can hose them down.
Anybody know any good resources on scripting the debugger? It seems like you should be able to use some kind of concolic execution approach + fuzzing to do something like a binary search between forward and backward breakpoints to automatically find likely bug-containing regions. Or maybe union-find to partition the code into some (minimal) quite-buggy/(maximal) less-buggy sets of code regions.

Eg if you could get it to figure out the random values will probably always lie within some interval, you might be able to make it figure out “there is a path from <randint> to <if statement> to <raise segfault>”

Additionally it seems really powerful to be able to introspect a program from outside. I run into situations sometimes where I would like to be able to make a realtime statistical gui of the internal state of some 3rd party code without necessarily butchering its codebase, seems like I could just write a little python to sample the local variables from within gdb then have that serve from an http server.

Or if I want to extract some library internal scratch calculations that are private or get cleaned up at the end of some long computation, I’d much rather write 10 lines of Python to copy and paste the data I want than attempt to refactor a copy of the codebase. Learning enough about it to predict the side-effects of my modification could get quite tedious.

Not sure of the feasibility of this, or how well such an approach will work with 1000x the lines of code in the real world, however :D
More than long enough to pass an exam!
By the time it explains more it will be too late. This is a prognostication - a warning about where we're headed. It's a caution sign by a trailhead leading to a washed out bridge.
Ps. Now that I think of it, I’ll bet that if you dumped a nuke into the ocean anyplace on the ocean floor in the southern eddy, it would “mine” and bring up (via heat convention) enough iron and micronutrients to create a very significant algal bloom. Not proposing doing it. Just being creative. That’s not much worse than an underwater volcanic eruption. Or maybe just stick a pipe on a black smoker and bring all those micronutrients to the surface in a controlled way.
The SLS rocket is the worst thing to happen to NASA–but maybe also the best?
> we respond to emails

Edwin, I’ve seen dozens of claims of Stripe simply ignoring complaints to support@stripe.com, a few in this very thread.

You even fess up to dropping one personally in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32558671

This is totally par for the course for Stripe - how on earth can you say that quote in good faith?
> Why do you think this?

Because Zensursula has tried to pull off this trick before. Her party is very eager to introduce more surveillance and they like to brush off technical and ethical concerns.
> Imagine a Corvette with the brakes of a Malibu.

<thinks about every American car I've ever driven>

A Corvette with any sort of brakes would be an improvement.
Yes, it will be abused. As will the surveillance tech that I prefer as an alternative to crypto backdoors, on the grounds that (1) the crypto is far too important to permit backdoors, and (2) it won't be possible to stop boring everyday criminals from getting surveillance tech, let alone governments, and (3) crypto is knowledge that's already out of the bag, so sufficiently motivated bad guys can still have it without backdoors even if everyone else's crypto is broken.

That's why I can only see a plausible outcome involving radical reductions in penalties for basically everything.
People aren't arguing that the vote was manipulated in the UK, rather that the voters were misled, especially by the partisan media.
that would make the refund, and thus the system as a whole, regressive

to avoid this, the refund would itself need to be progressive, giving back to some more than others, which sounds like a worse version of just progressively taxing in the first place
That’s quite a reductive view to justify hurting a living being. Harm literally means “ physical injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted” and a chicken whose throat is slit is clearly harmed. Animals don’t die instantly and it’s unreasonable to say “we aren’t harming a chicane by killing them if they didn’t produce value to society.”

I’d expect humans to have more empathy and not try or reason their way into needlessly killing a creature who doesn’t want to die.
I understand the sentiment, but it's unlikely that any/most corruption happen trough bank accounts.
> Middle class kids can afford one throw.

*self funded

Once you have decent funding, the wealth of your parents shouldn’t impact you very much.
What benefit would creating a new housing provide? Very strange.
Look at the Peaceful Guitar editorial playlist on Spotify. (It’s one of the biggest and most streamed in the world.) Every artist on there that doesn’t have a Bio is a fake artist. Meaning Spotify owns the music. They populate their playlists with these artists they own and that way don’t have to make royalty payments to them. It’s very shady.