skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't the so-called "lawyer lips" (seriously) solve the front wheel detachment problem years ago? The point of a QR is to be able to pop the lever and out comes the wheel. But for liability reasons front fork dropouts now have extra protrusions that force you to unscrew the QR nut by several turns before you can, in fact, get the wheel out.

Apparently not because newer disk-brake bikes now have thru-axles where the wheel can't pop out at all unless the axle is physically removed from the side.

It would appear that having a heavy, powerful e-bike would benefit from having the best possible braking/wheel retention system available. But still, whatever happened to responsible use? If a 10 year old gets hold of the car keys and goes for a joyride, sue the car maker?
My brother who has young kids did the thing where you can make a combined playlist with me. He has indeed kids music littered all over in the shared playlist but moreover he also listened to a 100 track audio book on Spotify (which was not a great experience since it was published as an album and did not have bookmark support). The algorithm thought: oh he must REALLY like that album because he keeps on playing tracks from it, and so chapters from this book were also in our combined playlist
I would argue that it does matter because the will of the masses is an extraordinarily powerful force and provoking them by ousting someone universally loved like Khan (heck I am a huge Khan fan and wish we had politicians like that in the USA!) can cause huge societal waves.

But I do agree with you, having the pleasure to know some upper class Pakistanis, that the military is the basis of the government.
How long until the bureaucrats start saying "These unregulated foreign VPNs are a danger to our private data / economy / national security / children"?

I mean, if a jurisdiction is making people's phones spy on them, then it's not much of a stretch to also make those phones not connect to unapproved VPNs, or even to prevent them installing unapproved apps (despite the recent win of the EU supporting sideloading on mobile OSes).
Cash for Clunkers wasn’t a bad program. It wasn’t amazing or anything-you could design something else to have far greater impact, but it was still a positive.
The USA have tried, it doesn't work. People still wait hours and hours in the ER. They just have to pay thousands for the privilege.
> Any and all government bashing

They're doing incredibly badly despite friendly press support, are leaderless after the misconduct got too much even for the Tory party, and are facing some really serious problems this winter if energy prices match projections. In the meantime they waste time on culture war nonsense. They're not being bashed enough.
"Unless you are iq or similar" => it's actually quite accessible if you dive into it. This Pouët thread is a nice starting point: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1. Also: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7931&page=1
Except SMS isn't being replaced, the new protocols work along side SMS.
That's like saying WhatsApp is replacing iMessage.

RCS Only has advantages over regular SMS.
It should be noted that in a Tesla, changing the Driver Profile (stores settings like seat and mirror positions) also changes the logged in Spotify account.
Isn't that 10% stat potentially hiding issues of co-pay, deductibles, network range, and actual level of coverage?
Since this is HN where pedantry rules, I'd like to point out that half of bikes being stolen every 6 months is actually a 75% annual theft rate, not 100%.

But I do agree, this is way higher than basically anywhere in the world except a few metros which are crime hotspots.
You're totally right on that.
IBM's PowerPC chips were high performance workstation chips, which means you're going to get performance and heat. In a desktop computer, you can add robust cooling, in an ultra-portable laptop, you cannot.

Apple abandoned PPC after it became obvious that laptops were going to become more popular than desktops, and the G5 cheese grater Mac Pro required liquid cooling for the dual CPU chip versions.

Apple moved from Intel to ARM for the exact same reason. Intel no longer cares about pursuing high performance with a low power draw. They have returned to the Pentium 4 strategy of performance via clock speed and power increases.
I wonder how much of the traditional music and theatre businesses has been money laundering. One could put out a record (which presumably has a nice margin on it) and pay folks a small amount of money to buy many many many copies of the records with cash, turning the dirty funds into clean ones. Likewise with a theatre production and ticket sales. Seems like any business with significant cash inputs would be vulnerable to this.

And of course it would make it very difficult for legitimate businesses to survive: they would lack the implicit subsidy that the illegitimate businesses get.
> so I had to settle with getting it with Windows (and 32GB RAM) and setting up the dual-boot myself

I've noticed many laptops that come with a Windows installation often have a separate recovery partition (about 4-5gb in size, which is about the size of a Windows ISO) that is used to 'factory reset' the device.

If you have one, you should be able to safely clear the Windows partition, reformat it, and install Linux. When the time to resell the thing comes, you simply reinstall the OG system from this recovery image and get the OS in 'mint' (yet heavily outdated) condition.

No bloatware lost! :)
The Dataphor stuff was all open sourced I believe. But it's in a C#/MS ecosystem, and tied into their overall application builder tool etc. Not really a standlone product.

There's other "D" type projects. Rel is one. Don't have URL handy but it's fairly easy to find. They publish their grammar and example code.

None of these tools have ever matured or become popular. I have theories why, we could discuss forever.

I think the issue has more to do with two things: a) most people don't understand the relational model fully, so they have no idea what they're missing b) new databases (and existing) simply cannot afford to rock the boat here because they need customers. And in terms of the architecture of the DB system, the SQL parser is one of the lower effort items (when compared to query planner, optimization, storage impl and storage optimization, replication, etc.) So why invest there for little value? Customers aren't asking for it.

The company I'm contracting for right now has some interest in working in this space.

Date & Darwin did good work with "The Third Manifesto" but it went almost completely ignored, and the tone and target of it may have been off. Frustratingly we went through a phase where SQL went out of style and then back into style ("NewSQL") and so there may have been a window missed there where alternative query languages (but still based on the relational model) could have risen. But instead "NoSQL" was too interested in jettisoning the relational model along with SQL (mostly I would argue because they don't understand it).

There has been some recent rise in Datalog implementations in the Clojure community. That is interesting, though not strictly as an alternative to SQL.
Where will those flagged users go? The point of FAANG is that they are monopolies.
As if by magic... https://mobile.twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1562004612172...
As an Australian living in Norway, i was amazed by how much color the buildings have here.
What companies seemingly have such wlb?
> With E2EE, all the server can do is hand you encrypted blobs.

Encrypted search is a thing. You need to know in advance what kind of queries you want to do against your DB, but there are off-the-shelf solutions for encrypted search which do not involve homomorphic encryption. Here's an overview: https://www.cossacklabs.com/blog/secure-search-over-encrypte...
Site is down but it seems like server side rendering which is pretty terrible. There are better solutions for Java developers such as teavm one which Codename One built the web UI support. It supports both web assembly and plain JS. The latter has the advantage of smaller size.

Transpiles Java threads into async/await calls. Pretty cool stuff.
> It is rather disconcerting how a platform that is apparently rather integral to the discourse of today is in the hands of a single private company.

Unpopular opinion: I think it's awesome that a private company has created a platform like Twitter. It's kind of like comparing a private amusement park with a public park: one has roller coasters, water slides and an arcade... the other has a swingset and a nice field of dried up grass.

> the fact that it's at the whims of a private company

How is this worse than at the whims of the crown?

> there is an environment that is ripe for the encroachment of digital rights

I love that were even talking about having digital rights.
Vienna is in Austria, not Germany
> Yes — the nominal amount spent is a different fraction of their income for different income brackets, leading to a regressive tax.

I am not understanding this. Why would we care what the percentage of tax paid is as a proportion of income? Poorer people have already been helped by reducing sales tax rates for the amount of spend needed to ascertain a certain quality of life. If they choose to spend more, and a higher income person chooses to spend less, why would society care that the lower income person pays more as a percentage of their income?
Nope. Resale value is way too forward thinking for a corporation these days, it's all about short term profit. McD's has been chasing modern fashion and trying to distance themselves from your childhood's nascent obesity crisis, with salads on the menu and apple slices instead of fries in happy meals. Hence you get this "McCafe" look so they can camouflage themselves next to the Starbucks next door.

That said, the article is good at highlighting a huge cultural trend. Resale value might be only partially a driver of it. A lot of my monochromatic purchases will never be resold to anyone.
I took a DB implementation class my senior year of college (I still giggle at our team name: "YourSQL"). I wrote our parsers. First was the DDL, and I wrote the lexer and parser by hand (this is all in C). It's not necessarily a hard task, but dealing with where the hell that segfault is coming from takes a lot more time. I convinced the professor (after a short essay) to let us use lex and yacc since even PostgreSQL uses them. Made the job so much easier to write and modify.

I often see people saying parser generators are a waste of time for various reasons. There are a good few cases I'd agree in:

- Performance is critical

- You want lots of power for error reporting

- You really want to learn about recursive descent parsers by writing on by hand

Personally, the least interesting part of a compiler after the first time is lexing and parsing for me. Code gen, type checking, optimization, etc are all the real meat and potatoes for me, and I find parser generators to be a great time saver.

In general, I see generated code becoming less common (could just be me), which I don't think is a bad thing. I see a lot less CFG parsing tools these days too, aside from parser combinators. Could just be me not paying attention, but it's in interesting way we've progressed.

If I was working on a new language - hobby or professional - I'd start with parsing tools and swap them out when it became worthwhile.
> I'd run flake8 too but the maintainer is weirdly opposed to supporting pyproject.toml for config.

I haven't used it in anger yet, but FlakeHeaven (https://github.com/flakeheaven/flakeheaven) looks like a nice fork that includes pyproject.toml support.
Well then we got neither. That was a once in a generation vote, holding out for a better option was a very bad idea.
People who mostly watch TV, compared to those who use computers, probably have lower IQ and could already be undergoing cognitive decline. One could do a study where the treatment group is told to avoid watching TV in favor of more mentally stimulating activities and see if it makes a difference.
Potential ‘first plant’ that could be grown on Mars
I do abstract paintings for fun. To be honest, they’re not that good but they are fun. Anyway, what I’ve notice though is that people tend to respond strongest to the brightest colors often with an exuberance that feels a bit like they are missing something in their lives.
JavaScript runs everywhere, so should your servers
The alarm here is because the EU is proposing mandating it, that’s not happened yet in the US.
Is Wyoming better in that respect?
Oh my god, not at all. The Greens, are more ideologically driven than any other party and not in a good way(and that ideology does not line up with their campaign promises at all). They have been the single most destructive force in German politics and they have not kept a single campaign promise. This is the supposed "Green" party that campaigned on anti-war and not sending weapons to war zones and closing coal that has been actively lobbying on reopening coal plants and has been the most vocal in its request to send weapons to Ukraine.

If Greens were in favour of anything they campaigned on it would be the perfect political party, but it's not.

It's actually the FDP and AfD that has been most actively against these things. The AfD has been labelled far right and racist conveniently ignoring all the massively racist statement and actions by past CDU/CSU and SPD leadership.
Right, as the most communication is not used for illegal activities...
Of all of the outcomes of decisions made in the service of making more money, banning virulent bigots training other people to hate and abuse women isn't one of the bad ones.
> I think that Twitter is very much the tail that wags the dog.

Twitter has a lot of journalist users so, yes, it does tend to move the whole dog.
> Doesn't the system eat itself in the end?

Well, it does not as long as the (predictable?) self-censorship sets in. After some time users know not to post pics of vegetable soup if those pics tend to get misclassified.
Yeah I think it's a wider design movement - everything's transitioning towards more neutral / no strong colors / accents vibe. Interiors, architecture, logos, fonts, furniture, what not.

Dunno if there's a name for this movement beyond "contemporary" design. It's not exactly minimalism I don't think.

Eventually there will be a reaction and something new will come up.
For what it's worth, here's one of the Australian C64 commercials of the era, clearly featuring the C64C. The original C64 breadbins were also very common in Australia:

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

The guy in that ad (John Laws) was a very famous talkback radio personality at the time - nowadays he'd probably be likened to a Fox News personality like Tucker Carlson. He was featured on the packaging art for the Australian C64 Family Pack, as seen near the end of the commercial. He was known to begin every episode of his radio show with the phrase "Hello World".

Note that Commodore bundled the Family Pack with a random book (mostly pictures?) about Australia. For some inexplicable reason there are an awful lot of secondhand copies of that Presenting Australia book available on eBay to this day.

Never seen one of these Slimline C64 Replacement Cases before. Intriguing!
Not wanting to defend Twitter, but I'm pretty sure the situation is very similar across a whole lot of companies, even those that make security their main business, i.e. FireEye.

Because investing in IT security usually has no apparent profit incentives, so most companies leadership will consider it something of very little importance funding wise.

Particularly in the current climate where even minor hacks, and simple ransomware infections, are regularly made out as some kind of "act of God"/allegedly done by some super advanced "state actor", to create the narrative how it just wasn't preventable with the resources of a private company.

Which outsources all the responsibility to ominous intangible parties based on wonky, and often politically motivated, attribution, while holding nobody responsible for running outdate software in exploitable combinations, thus creating the problem in the very first place.
Now someone please compile a real JRE into WASM and do it right, so I can revive applets with a simple embed. There are loads of old applets that have huge historic and technical value which are becoming harder and harder to use.

Example: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/rocket/ienzl.html
In mostly nuclear-powered France it makes sense - both from an environmental and energy security standpoint to replace a large vehicle relying on imported fuels with one that has a 1.5kg li-ion battery.
Yep, I was living in a hot desert when I bought my current vehicle. Finding a few papers on heat reflectivity based on color quickly solidified my choice of boring white as correct. Silver was a close second in the list, everything else excluding glitter additives was horrible.

Side note, if you think of engines as cpus, youll understand my fascination with high quality radiator/radiator fan improvements over stock.
By the CNN piece it seems like twitter hired a community figure - which is a common mistake that leads to bad performance evaluation. Public figures are trained on being public figures, they not necessarily are the best folks to build a security organization. OTOH there seems to be some frustration from both sides regarding performance and if it gets public our hackerman will have a rough time being exposed. I don't think that was a good idea (reporting to SEC would work better IMO).
As always, it very much depends. We just went to the emergency room and experienced less than 30 minutes of wait time.
Now think about the implications with respect to Twitter DMs that show up in criminal investigations.

For instance, consider the Twitter DMs exchanged by Donald Trump, Jr and WikiLeaks. In that particular case, the communication was acknowledged by the party in question, but imagine the two possibilities thousands of employees being able to act on the part of users opens up:

1. Twitter employees could fabricate a criminal conspiracy by creating messages between multiple Twitter accounts.

2. A criminal conspiracy can now use the "Wasn't me, must have been some random Twitter employees" defense.
A new library and an idea to help make any existing JS framework truly platform agnostic
I am so bored of people repeating the "but... trains will never work for rancher joe out in North Dakota! The US is too big for mass transit and trains".

Yes there are very empty places in the US, turns out though that the vast majority of people don't live in those places. The dense places in the US are dense and massive like anywhere else in the world, and if suburban sprawl makes them somewhat more spread out that is just pointing out how bad the status quo is with city planning/mass transit.

Also.. ok so the distance between two cities is vast... a highspeed train is far more efficient at transporting people (at absurdly higher volumes) over a distance than aircraft are. If it is a popular route between cities I dont see how distance negates this inherent advantage. Yes, if we we talking hugeeee distances that means a massive infrastructure investment but there would still be a major advantage in the end?
This was my thought as well. The first graph in the article is of the color of objects, not all images. I wonder how it would compare if it were to include screenshots and whatnot.
This web page highlights the problem with modern web sites.

Tried to read this article, but the absolute predominance of ads and the screen constantly shifting caused me to give up. How has this sort of web page become remotely acceptable to readers?
And then you miss. You're 50 and broke. Back to square 1.
This site highjacks the browser's back button.
There already is their own youtube. Gab hasn't taken over. Parler hasn't taken over. Truth hasn't taken over. Banning extreme bigots from major content generation platforms hasn't actually led to the terrible outcomes people predict.
HTTP2 and HTTP3 themselves are relatively recent and widely used. They also happen to work on top of TCP and UDP rather than supplanting them.

ACME protocol is fairly recent and widely used.

WebSocket protocol is barely over one decade old.

DNSSEC is a little over a decade and a half old.

NVMe over Ethernet is barely half a decade old and still gaining support.

400GBASE-LR4-6 is from last year. People are still working on terabit/second Ethernet.

There are loads of protocols on top of the HTTP family. DNS over HTTP is a protocol. SOAP, JSON-RPC, and REST are protocols. IPFS is a protocol.

To say there's no innovation in protocols when it's literally happening all the way up and down the stack is just silly and shortsighted.
depends where you live, but if the infrastructure around you is decent, an e-cargo-bike can do 99% of what a car can do, and you can use short-term rentals for the rest
I guess one lesson is that for a lot people what seems like "risking everything" isn't really risking everything at all, you will in fact probably still be fine (and not homeless rough sleeping) even if you "lose".

This isn't the way the advice was framed, and I think you are right that it should be -- but the reframed advice can still be good -- I don't know about for startups, I think most startups are BS, and the comparison of someone "risking everything" to survive (a refugee) to an entrepeneur is frankly kind of offensive....

But for life anyway. Take a sober look at what you will really be losing if you lose. Is it in fact mostly about your self-image, and not about your material safety? Is it more inconvenience (even supreme inconvenience) than existential threat? Then take the risk for something you really want, for sure.

Those who actually risk everything, like, their lives (say, refugees in boats) do so because the alternative is existentially intolerable. The comparison to entrepeneurs is just... not actually ok. The better advice for those not facing existential threats to their humanity is probably more like... you aren't actually risking everything, you are nothing like these people, you'll be ok either way, so go for it. Which is actually pretty different than OP, yeah...
> > the argument that without the motor the girls wouldn’t have been able to climb the hill and therefore the bike is bad is a terrible argument

> I think it is a good argument. There is a difference between powered and unpowered vehicles.

I don't know about the hill in question, but when I was young (possibly 12), the neighborhood kids and I would climb hills on bicycles to ride down fast. If we couldn't make it then we would push the bicycles up the rest of the hill, after seeing who could make it the farthest. Electric bicycles would have helped us up the hills but the lack of them certainly didn't stop us even on the biggest hills, whether they be on road or off. So I don't think it's a great argument either, because I see no reason why the girls wouldn't have done the same thing if it were a regular bicycle.
Not a lot of companies get infiltrated by foreign agents or assets. Access to Twitter, in particular, can help unmasking anonymous sources, sensitive DMs, dissidents - and their locations.

And, oh yeah - there is no "conspiracy".
Homomorphic search is a thing, new "web3" stuff shouldn't even store on a server, servers become app hosters and routers basically.
I like to think that a few weeks with your head in the trenches of SQL and you come out a competent SQL developer on the other side.

I don't mind writing a query, or even a complex query at all. Sometimes it can be draining if you need to nest more queries than you'd like rather than have some joins, but I personally think SQL is a fine language.

Could just be Stockholm Syndrome.
JPro can also target WebAssembly.