skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides homicides, I take all crime rates with a heaping grain of salt, although it's probably fair to consider them to generally be a significant undercount.

It does not seem entirely intuitive to me that mass incarceration would drive down crime rates in the long run. Prisons are themselves maladaptive institutions that are harmful to most inmates and indeed are certainly hardening people who could otherwise have been steered in a more productive direction. There is also the fact that taking people out of their families and communities has terrible downstream effects that get passed on to the next generation, causing the cycle to continue.

Also, you say we don't arrest people for no reason, but there are a lot of people in prison who did not commit the crimes they were convicted of. Probably not a majority but I'll bet it's a non negligible minority. How would you feel about a society that locked you up in brutal conditions for something you didn't even do? What about people locked up for drug possession with the same people locked up for violent crimes? Does that make any sense?

Personally I think we are at an inflection point. What we have been doing in the US is not working. The illusion that we can maintain increasing levels of inequality by just locking up more and more people is fading fast. This problem can't be solved long term with more incarceration. I am not convinced that the people you've characterized as the "criminal class" are inherently so. It's also dehumanizing to describe them in this way. Many, if not most, are reacting to difficult situations bordering on the impossible. That's not to be pollyanna and pretend that there aren't some very dangerous people locked up. This is a very difficult problem.

We obviously aren't going to just empty our prisons tomorrow. But we should all be thinking about what kind of society we want to live in and how we might make progress towards that vision. In many ways, even wealthy America is already beginning to feel like a luxury penal colony. The existence of the brutal penal colonies distracts us from that fact.

I want safer cities and communities than what we presently have, but I don't believe that our current incarceration system is effectively getting us there, even if it looks somewhat effective compared to Argentina. Even then though, I ask at what cost? Do "criminals" not matter at all? I think they do, even if they have committed crimes.

If you actually believe that there is a large class of people who are inherently worse than others, you should really think through what the implications might be.
>At this point, it is a pyramid scheme the same way US dollar is a pyramid scheme

Yeah the dollar is a pyramid scheme. It has the same construction flaws as Bitcoin. You can withdraw it from the markets and just hoard it which causes deflation. The central bank then allows commercial banks to increase the money supply instead of increasing the circulation velocity. The problem with newly created money: it can be hoarded too, resulting in an infinite doom loop.
> GitHub is also owned by Microsoft.

GitHub was bought by Microsoft in 2018.

Recently Microsoft announced they were killing off GitHub Atom.

Being able to use the latest release of a dead project is no big reassurance.

This might be an anecdotal case, but it is indeed real world proof that a project being backed by a company the likes of Microsoft does increase the odds of being killed off.
>TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece of content

Why have YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels failed to implement this? It is the main reason the TikTok algorithm learns so fast and is so much better that their algorithms. The other important reason is that the "Not interested" action is seamless and TikTok actually learns from it.
you can do none of these things on other platforms that we interact with daily. doesn't seem to deter us.
What's the point in writing about software which I can't download and install and Try button leads to some e-mail spam?

Satisfied Vivaldi user
Is this some sort of hack towards a co-op? I couldn't find anything about it on their website
Yeah, it was also a custom version, somehow people keep thinking they used LLVM bitcode straight out of the box.
Does it solves the issues with virtual dom ? It's a pain to manage.

The readme mentions iframes but not that.
1) I love the energy of taking a risk disclosure at more than face value (they are clearly speculating and write that because it is free to do so and it covers their asses, not because the SEC “forced” them).

Show me the precedent where bankruptcy courts considered depositors as general creditors, since you are so sure that’s what will happen.

2) Will you please please please read the balance sheet.

As a favor to me?

In it you will see that of Coinbase’s $105bn in liabilities, $101bn of it is owed to depositors. That is offset by $101bn of depositor assets.

So even in your worst case scenario, depositors get what, a <4% haircut?

I’d love to see the number of FTX depositors who’d take that deal rn…

EDIT: Maybe this will help. What’s special about Coinbase isn’t the fact that deposits are a line item on their balance sheet (FTX did the same), it’s that Coinbase actually keeps the assets.

So whereas FTX not only lost solvency in its core business, it also lost solvency in deposits, Coinbase can only lose solvency on its core business, which is minuscule relative to the scale of deposits.
I'm not saying I think the maintainers have any obligation to do things for me (I tried to make that clear in the original comment). What I was really trying to say is that I don't think this model would apply well to most projects, as the GP was saying.

To take an exaggerated example, if I tried to use this model with any of my small OSS side projects, the only result would be that no one would contribute. This model means that the development of the project is going to be almost entirely driven by:

a) The original maintainers of the project (who will rightfully get bored of maintaining it at some point), and

b) The handful of companies that have financial interest in a certain bug/feature.

Again, that's probably fine for projects like Fody, but certainly not all of OSS.
Sure, because everyone ships static linked binaries.
Copyright becomes especially important and valuable in these circumstances. Remember, original works is how your variation suggestion engine is trained. With remaining incentives taken away there is no more new stuff to train on, networks get trained on own output, the snake eats own tail.
What do you mean by idempotent? Clicking undo two times and going back only one step sounds confusing.
> For a moment I was mesmerised by its features, how it behaved, and the quirkiness of it. Maybe it was because it was the new and shiny toy I wanted to play with. Regardless, the way in which I want to use a web browser doesn't quite fit with Arc.

I had the same thing - at first you enjoy and admire it, but after a while it becomes uncomfortable and I went back to Safari - and it was like putting on my most comfortable shoes
They are entitled for attention, yes. And if they respond to code review and ready to address comments, they will likely get it merged (depends on the project and the PR, obviously).

The requirement to be a member of a collective is a filter. For popular projects it will likely do more good than bad. For niche projects, it might be worse than no filter.
How much time for generating an image on the latest & greatest iPhone? (Android user here)
It wasn't so good for drum and bass, there's so much bass already that it used to turn the bass sound into a mushy mess, if you ask me.
If it was a true OSS project, first it would not clearly benefit a single near-monopoly by using my code (as in, that wouldn't be its purpose), and second I'm sure its contributors would be well placed to understand the issue and from the start bake in a reliable, transparent mechanism for opting out.

As is, it's EEE applied to open source-- Microsoft's ultimate play against the ethic that brought us Linux among other things. When your brainchild gets gobbled up faster than you can blink, pushed to people who never learn about your existence, and a megacorp that you are ethically opposed to profits from the process, the need for self-actualization is no longer addressed. The fundamental incentive that pushes us to publish in the open, to have other humans acknowledge you and your work and feel pride in it, is being eliminated.
As others said just block unwanted sections through uBlock element picker.

Personally I don't like aggregators, they don't know my preferences, it's just faster to have look at bunch of websites and choose what I wanna read than see small selection of mostly unwanted content in aggregator. I remember GNews should have something like I'm not interested button and no matter how many hundreds times I used it I still kept getting stories on such topic.
I got a Quest to try out VR, connected it to the internet and took it off to let updates install, and instantly felt sick as soon as it was off. It lasted all day and I've never put it back on. It was super cool for the 3 minutes I spent connecting to wifi.
This was because operators wanted the cash flow. SMS was a goldmine. So naturally they tried to get in on the MMS.

The operators were also really bad in producing any kind of services that customers wanted. The WAP era was full of applications that nobody used, like "get a poem for a lady". I think they cost per use. Really short sighted. But operators didn't have the kind of thinking or resources required.

In Europe we already had free data plans earlier and people used web pages and sent email etc. For USA that mostly came with the iphone. Applications, a software company doing it, with the app store and ecosystem with developers free to do what they wanted was a much better model.
> Attributes are better suited for that. #pragma has always just been a grandfathered in hack.

I'm not so sure attributes are better. They have political traction, but that does not mean better. All major compilers use pragmas effectively to implement custom compiler flags. See for instance how Visual C++ uses pragmas extensively to toggle specific compiler warnings, not to mention the infamous #pragma once
Since we're talking about beginners (dare I say, newbies), I think adding this flag would just make them use it all the time. Perhaps just for this command we should only allow --force-remote, so that they have to (1) type it out explicitly and (2) think about what exactly they're doing.
> Late night television ... experienced similar changes around that time too.

It's unwatchable now. It used to be kind of OK when Trump was in office, but once he got kicked out they continued with the same formula, so I just tuned out.
Which is why in the Java world (including Android), and .NET, now we use JIT caches as well, so that this data isn't lost between runs.
I’m here just to say how much I love Playwright :)

Best features for me:

- Auto-waiting - it is a BRILLIANT feature!

- Shared authentication;

- Supported browsers list;

- API testing;

- Tests generator (with recognition of data-test-id attributes);

- Flaky tests detection;

- Flexible config for recording failed tests;

- Ease of installation and updates;

- Great performance.

Thank you, Playwright team!
Alwaleed bin Talal has bought a stake in Twitter in 2011:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-alwaleed-idUSTRE7...
On my iPad mini 5th generation with A12 the download is fast and fine. But with standard settings it first warns “Device capability warning” and then indeed crashes every time.
Is there a way to solve this?
A12 chip should work, no?
Empirically I would say this affects only a small minority of people. Maybe 5-10% at most. It's a barrier to certain types of adoption but not nearly the showstopper you are making out I think.
It’s because once trump said it, everyone who hates him had to take the opposite position, even though he was right.
The European Correspondent
This was literally Japanese Twitter users noticing that the trending page no longer featured political news, though.
Hmmm. I'm interested in the GitHub ToS, which (if I understand correctly) basically says that GitHub and it's affiliates (MS) can use anything you post on GitHub to improve their service.

What if I build an AGPL licenced service, using GitHub to coordinate development. According to the ToS MS could offer a version my service because I posted the code on GitHub, and they are using it to improve their service to me. According to my AGPL licence, they would need to share their source.

So which takes precedence. The licence or the ToS?
When was that change? Do you feel it os still all about politics?

I’ve been on reddit since 2008, and I don’t really recognize that.
Ask HN: What’s the biggest problem you are facing at your company/job?
In short, I’m looking for an interesting problem to tackle.

Examples could be around:

- Find ways to cut costs
- Solve an organizational/process issue
- Make something more efficient

Can be a one-off or ongoing thing.
Share your idea here and provide your contact information, and technical people here will respond.
Another Twainism: "A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle!"
I like their wrist controller, would love to use that for typing instead of the awkward touchscreen i m using now. If it has a lot of utility, people would use it.

Frankly, it is the only wristwatch i need
The beginning of covid is 2.5 years ago. I don't see how you can today say that he lied.
For Python, I’d prefer a generator over appending. Less imperative style-wise and faster too I think.
> The evidence says otherwise. “Even if someone loses weight, they will always need fewer calories and need to exercise more,” says Skinner. “So we’re putting people through something we know will probably not be successful anyway. Who knows what we’re doing to their metabolisms.”

There has been evidence of previously morbidly obese people having a severe metabolic impact, where they need to consume around 500 kcal less a day than someone with their body composition who had not been morbidly obese. This is observed to be independent of appetite - it is not uncommon for people who have lost large amounts of weight to constantly have to eat smaller portions while closely monitoring their intake (count calories) to keep weight off long-term.

The last I read about this (three years ago?), there were investigations into how techniques like intermittent fasting might impact this.

This is IMHO a general problem with the weight loss industry and weight loss oversimplicications like 'calories in, calories out' - we aren't simple furnaces, and there are endocrinological factors that are very important that such simplifications have caused us to ignore.

The most obvious evidence I can point to here is around bariatric surgery for morbidly obese patients. There are many temporary and permanent solutions (e.g. folds, inserting balloons, etc), but generally only the permanent removal of stomach tissue has been shown to have permanent weight loss impact. This has led to additional study on the impact that the hormone ghrelin, produced by the stomach tissue itself, has on appetite, energy storage, insulin sensitivity, etc.
It's almost as if "productivity" is subjective.

I've met plenty of devs who are better at relieving technical debt than fulfilling business requirements.

Who is measuring the productivity?
> And of course we have the recent example of a certain chief Twit firing engineers based on LoC.

Is there any evidence of this claim that isn't yellow press and random gossip on Twitter?
I’ve spent most of my career as a developer with a specialty in testing, and my gut always says mock as little as possible.

Basically never mock local code that runs in-process, unless it’s to capture side-effects (eg loggers, and in that case dep inject), use a real database (in-memory or test-specific), and only mock stuff that’s a real, has-latency 3rd party service — but if possible, dependency inject it instead
This kind of news always makes me wonder, what kind of world would we live in if all propaganda was turned off for 4 weeks.

We may find out some day if a bad enough solar flare hits the Earth and fries enough electronic equipment.
The End's sound system is the best I've ever experienced, I'd love to know how they set it up.
That logic (your last paragraph) essentially assumes that people only care for selfish reasons. Plenty of people contribute for the sake of giving back to the project (by e.g. taking the time to write a high-quality bug report or PR).
> we have a lower class subsisting on a low barely livable wage >> because that's how they prefer to exist << while the rest of us work...

Citation required.

Show evidence a population exists, anything close to as large as you're intimating ("lower class" as you called it), that actually wants a "low barely livable wage"?
Do you watch all or popular, or just your subscribed feeds? I like browsing things when not logged on, and reddit certainly turned very political in the all/popular feeds you see by default. Before then they were mostly full of funny pictures, jokes and random rants about life.
Plenty of studies look at renewables through rose colored glasses and are funded by groups with ideological agendas and financial conflicts of interest. This study is quite sober compared to them.

The study projects out the costs of going 100% renewable in Minnesota as the current plan calls for, so the assumption of 3x penetration is appropriate. I also don't see the basis for your claim that it triples/quadruples costs.

>>by fossil fuel interest

Which fossil fuel interests?

The study says that Minnesota could achieve the 100% zero carbon goal without unduly burdering the state's residents if it depends on hydroelectric and nuclear, neither of which is fossil fuel.
24k on GitHub, 32k on HN. You must be good at getting internet points
Tech Isn't Special Anymore
Thoughts on BigTech and Startups
They undoubtedly have the most friendly business model, but as some commenters noted, it isn't a drop-in replacement and Adobe's workflow is still (sadly) unmatched.

However there's another problem: Adobe is still the industry standard. Employers are looking for Adobe on resumes, they provide employees with Adobe products and they expect a certain compatibility between their employees (i.e. Alice and Bob can work on the same files).

Learning the Affinity suite might actually hurt your career as long as this is the case. As a career decision it is still a better move to put your time into Adobe.

And I really dislike Adobe.
To be honest, I don't see any real sources for this beyond anti-woke types who comment on japanese culture from America. None of the japanese people I follow (who aren't anime types really) are remarking on this at all. All the Musk and twitter drama seems disconnected for them.

As another sample, I'm in Singapore, and the trends last night were about the American election, nothing seemed to be that different than before Musk took over.
I think the part of this that's weird to me, is that non-paying users are able to open issues or pull requests at all. Something about it feels very passive aggressive.

Why not just have the public facing project be a fork of a private, access protected project where bug tracking and PRs are handled, that only patrons can access?

For some reason, saying "only patrons can access our development repo" seems perfectly reasonable, but saying "we'll close your bug report if you don't pay us" feels a bit grumpy.
Yeah that qualification helps a lot.
That would not be problem, if those new billions added were people/children from responsible countries/parents, which can take care of own people and enviroment (they can't do neither of those). The problem ain't number, but iresponsible people.
Thx for saying it!
I have turned my camera on only once in a year and a half...Plus a few trips to the office.

Working voice-only has been fantastic.

I can enjoy my life as a nudist and nobody has to know.
> He knew in 2015, that if Facebook didn't have a platform it controlled, it would suffer down the line.

People say this but Amazon is doing just fine in the retail
space.

In fact for Facebook and Amazon, their biggest follies are trying to own the platform (Metaverse and Fire Phone).

We have seen that owning a platform doesn’t mean owning everything and yet, perfectly good businesses waste a ton of time and money assuming that is the case.
I don't know what you are taking about. I hate cryptocurrencirs because they perpetuate the current fiat currency system that originated from the gold standard. The reason why Bitcoin has this massive amount of volatility has to do with the way it is constructed. Just like with conventional fiat currency there is no way to pay off debts with Bitcoin because the additional demand for Bitcoin will increase the value of Bitcoin denominated debt.

The news we constantly hear is
"Hackernews 10/Dec/2022 Changpeng on brink of second bailout for cryptoexchanges."

It is like Bitcoin is supposed to send a hyperexaggerated message about our current money system and how unsustainable it is.

The answer is already obvious you have negative rates or not. The positive interest side of the loanable funds model is the side where new debt is taken on, the negative interest side of the loanable funds model is where debt is being paid off. We want to be on the negative side now because we have too much debt.
agree. There's a tipping point in utility and then things flip very rapidly. We don't have to reach frameless spectacle level, anything that gets in range will get us to the point where it will suddenly flip.
Are you really saying that creators shouldn’t be able to publish their own content on their own infrastructure?
It should be common practice to force management to put out a fire every now and then rather than dictate from afar. Shouldn't be a problem right?
For most exchanges there are not many assets worth liquidating. The code and infra is standard, exchange A does not gain much from having exchange B's code. There are generally no special client relations you want to inherit. The offices are probably rented if not remote. The branding is valuable but adversarial to your own.

Essentially an exchange can be summed up as total crypto assets minus total crypto liabilities. If that number is negative then the exchange is just gone, no point in buyout.

The exception is binance which is basically AWS for crypto exchanges. https://cloud.binance.com/
I haven't been able to get any good results with Stable Diffusion (via DiffusionBee on my M1 MacBook Air), but I've seen really good images of other AI generators like Midjourney.
Literally millions of people do that.
Just say neutrinos.
My solution: use mercurial.

Works with git repos (w/hg-git extension).
Designed for humans.
Sanity provoking.
Gets out of your way, as a good SCM tool should.