skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's something like 9 deaths resulting from hit 'n' runs by cars with obscured plates just like this one, in NYC right now.

There were roughly 200 vehicle fatalities and 200,000 collisions for all of NYC in 2018. Numbers always benefit from context.

> Do you have insight into how unsafe the streets are because of this exact conduct?

Not because of this conduct. Dangerous driving may correlate with this conduct (and honestly covered plates should probably result in the car being forfeited) but it doesn't cause collisions.

Again, if you are putting your hands on other people or their stuff, you should be prepared to explain why it was necessary for you to take that action
This is off topic, but these kinds of posts make me even more frustrated that Sam Bankman Fried who stole from me and millions of other people is not arrested, and all I got is ,,be patient he will''.
> Why not? I mean, you could ask the same question for 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, whatever.

Of course, that's why I'm asking! For some time periods there are some pretty obvious answers. A fairly routine natural disaster like a flood or blizzard could easily disrupt food access for a week. A month is probably more difficult to imagine, at least in very wealthy nations/regions. At 6 months I think it already starts to get difficult to imagine the scenario.
This such a sad partisan take. Why would the NYT want to help a disgraced person they have no need to be loyal to? It’s not because he’s a Democrat.

It’s because he’s any one that isn’t an excessive right wing mega spender (which includes very few names). That spans a lot of people in both parties. Aka centrist capitalists.
> but arresting the cyclist and not the driver is nuts! Obscuring your license plate should be treated as a serious crime

I agree that leaving the driver off the hook is nuts.
Right, you're conceptualizing echo chambers as external. I'm conceptualizing them as internal. The hardest echo chamber to tear down exists in our own heads, but they are the most rewarding to dismantle.
“Youth band culture” should be “youth gang culture”, sorry for stepping on a “false friend of the interpreter”: “gang” is “banda” in Russian.
Sounds like the NYPD have an incentives problem.
You realize how much Ukraine has to lose playing like this?
Too bad RMN is garbage these days.

Either the promo codes don't work, or they're not even promo codes at all, just a list of sales. And half the time, those sales are expired.

I just use Honey these days to automate trying all the codes. Yes, I know I'm certainly giving away my shopping habits, but I don't really care.
Sure buddy, I'll create an account on your broken website with an awful concept.
> uses investor software

> The first job search that uses investor tools

What does this mean? I don't understand what is special about this site
I was actually off. It’s skip*7
> Apple is a profit-seeking company that builds tech products.

Also having worked there they are also a bunch of people who like to build great products.

And aren't motivated by the bottom line of the company.
> That's just crazy vindictive, unless that was a company car.

From what I understand, the driver was a government employee. Flagrant violation of the law should be grounds for dismissal for any government employee.
I just think we're capable of opinions more mature than complaining about something and then expecting others to fix it for us.

This is a social problem, not a technical, financial, or legal one. Recruiting and organizing people is a fundamental skill in the modern world. The only thing stopping one from doing this is merely saying the right things to the right people.
Sure there are differences. However, you aren't showing that companies are discriminating to cause that difference. Companies shouldn't bear the burden of righting wrongs that they didn't cause, especially in cases where it's not at all certain there is even a wrong going on.

What you are missing is that if women just don't want to become programmers the drive to not discriminate means companies will be overpaying for female programmers.

And we have seen that policies aimed at reducing discrimination had a big effect in the civil rights era but then accomplish virtually nothing since. Instead, we see wilder and wilder efforts to "prove" discrimination while ignoring the marketplace is saying it's the other way around.
No, I wouldn't pay for this. I like the idea, but I don't think it actually solves the problem that it's trying to solve.

As with actual VC investing, I think the hard problem is deal flow, not identifying the best prospects among the deals that reach you. The data you provide might be useful for identifying the most promising companies on your platform. (Though I'm skeptical that it's even useful for that, since I understandably don't see actual revenue or user graphs.) But that doesn't do me much good if the best startups aren't actually using your platform.

Now, if there were some reason to believe that all the best startups were posting jobs on your site, based on past exit data or whatever, you'd have a compelling reason for me to use it. But honestly, if you could do that, you could capitalize on that ability far more effectively by starting a VC fund instead of a job board. As it stands, I'd probably be far more likely to pick a winner by just picking a top VC firm and going down the list of their portfolio companies.

Unrelated to my previous comments: I'm at a big public tech company, so I'm not sure if I'm your target audience, but I generally just ignore recruiting messages from private startups because the comp is so unlikely to be competitive. I'm sure others will feel differently, but I personally can't see myself using a startup-focused job board that doesn't have company-provided salary and equity numbers.
> When users want to reassure friends and family of their whereabouts while traveling off the grid, they can open the Find My app and share their location via satellite.

Everyone else in my family uses Android. No way to expose this information to them?
Oh, “tag” made my brain parse as HTML tags. TIL
Musk fires Twitter engineers for correcting, criticizing him on Twitter, Slack
I dont particularly care about what is reported. What I care about is being able to move my money when I need to. In this specific instance, it was a domestic transfer.

Getting locked out of your own money can cause major damage. I'm lucky that I was able to dig up another 100k. Someone else could have lost their 50k and be liable for hundreds of thousands more in liability to the seller.
So when you say free speech do you mean the kind guaranteed by the constitution?
What is a "true programmer" supposed to be?
There are good and valid reasons to ask for age and I would argue legal is one of those types of reasons.

“Comply with age-related legal obligations

However, delivering ads is not something I would be willing to accept. Drop the lines below Disney and I might consider thinking about talking with wife about approaching trial run:

“Personalize your content and experiences
“Deliver targeted advertising to you”

<< age doesn't exact ring alarm bells for me here.

Not everyone is ok with being profiled from every possible angle.
Maybe? Few would openly admit to be a bad driver to begin with so it is hard to even get anecdata on the subject. In other words, I am not sure you can determine an answer either.

What I can say is what bothers me about it. Can I turn it off? Can toggle on/off switch be disabled by an update? Can I trust that it the off button will do what it is supposed to do? If I can do those things, can I trust this feature to work as advertised? I used to not ask questions like that with cars as there was certain level of.. expectation that this machine has to work in sometimes drastically radical conditions ( especially in some parts of US ).

Cars are software now. But that is not my main beef with it. My beef is that it is built to the detriment of the end user and to strip the user of all control.
Elon wants to keep control of the company.
> But these systems are not used in real-time.

Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are already being used in real time to detect stolen vehicles and vehicles associated with crime.

> Law enforcement agencies will often pre-load a list of license plates that the ALPR system is actively looking for—such as stolen vehicles and vehicles associated with outstanding warrants. Police officers can also create their own hotlists. If the ALPR camera scans a plate on the list, the system sends an alert to the officer in the squad car (if it's a mobile reader) or the agency (if it's a fixed reader). Some hotlists include low-level misdemeanors and traffic offenses. Some agencies use these hotlists to generate revenue by stopping citation scofflaws.

https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-al...

Police response times can be quick, for example, 5-10 minutes in Saratoga, CA.

> Response times will vary depending on current circumstances and the nature of the license plate match but are generally expected to occur within 5 to 10 minutes.

https://www.saratoga.ca.us/521/Automated-License-Plate-Reade...
You're conflating two different things.

One is "what moves the price of an asset." What moves the price of an asset is supply and demand. In the case of BTC, the supply is (generally) predictable and limited (though I guess someone could reclaim one of those early big wallets that are assumed to be lost forever or something). So demand dominates the BTC price.

Note that this is completely irrespective of whether Bitcoin does or does not generate real economic value (like, the production of more goods or services that directly improve the lives of other people).

If the economy as a whole (in terms of, now, real value that is actually delivered to people's lives) is shrinking or stable, then for Bitcoin to be increasing in value, something else has to be shrinking in value. But if the economy as a whole is growing, then it is possible for some of that growth to land in Bitcoin such that everyone with Bitcoin is better off than before, and nobody is worse.
Rules for Making Money from P.T. Barnum
And yet the United States ranks highly on public corruption indices because the data is primarily "perception" rather than reality.
In the same thread, @schrep (former Meta CTO) and @domas(the MYSQL/SQL guy at Meta) are trying to educate Elon with little success.
Can we not talk about crypto on literally every post, thanks
This won’t go anywhere even if it’s 20% better than git. To replace git’s network effects, you need to be 10x better.

Nobody is trying to replace git; that’s not a stated goal. Plus git is so entrenched, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

However, few companies have more gigantic code bases than Facebook, which not that long ago, had their entire monorepo [1] in Mercurial, which had certain advantages over Git at the time.

So if there’s an organization that knows the pinpoints of version control, I’d put Facebook on that list. They’ve been working on approving version control at scale for more than 8 years.

As long as it’s git-compatible, the git true believers will have nothing to worry about.

[1]: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...
This is really sad. Artificial constraints on a medium that was supposed to democratize access to information.

I am right now in line to borrow the new DeGrasse Tyson’s book and will have to wait for almost 6 weeks for my turn. They have only 3 digital copies available and almost a hundred people waiting ahead of me.
IMHO, there is effectively no moral or ethical difference between cracking the DRM on a book you've purchased and downloading a copy of the same book from Library Genesis. And the latter is usually more convenient, in my experience.
It seems the hackers published only a part of the stolen data.

The same situation here: several people on the same card, some are in the leak and some not.
It all looks very nice and corporate with "saving RAM" or benefiting clients with low processing power but in the end solutions like this are very anti-consumer.
Medibank Hackers Continue Customer Data Leak as Company AGM Nears
Alleged Russian ransomware gang is continuing to post sensitive patient data hacked from the Medibank insurance company.
This is why I love buying eBooks from Baen.com directly.

Edit: fixed. Stupid autocorrect
I just worked there, and it made me laugh when the leaving executive got a special puff piece on the parent company's website about his "journey" - a journey that involved buying the company, missing the mark entirely about its profitability, and then failing for 2 years to do anything about it with external contractors by the truckload.

It'll probably work somewhere else though, right?
Thats a possibility. Another possibility is that, unlike Elon Musk, nobody in this thread has the slightest clue as to what is going on with Twitter in any real sense but we all pretend that we do.
> getting government regulations and human sentiment all aligned with not having ads in public spaces.

Money is speech in the US. And corporations have more of it than their advertisement recipients, which is why we see ads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo
> Europeans often write DD/MM in other contexts

Correction: Every country except the US (not counting the ones that use YYYY/DD/MM, such as Japan).
None. This is like complaining to Linus that your favorite <kernel feature> isn't supported and then getting mad when he tells you to pound sand when you can simply fork the kernel and add it yourself.
> You must get their consent.

The article cites law, like with recent court cases. Let me add the exact court case they cite:

The law only applies to secret recordings, however, so affirmative consent is not necessary when all parties are aware of the recording.
Curtatone v. Barstool Sports, Inc., 169 N.E.3d 480, 483 (Mass. 2021).

I am not trying to inform others of recording, actually, by my T-shirt sign. I trying to protect myself against the wrong law. If I was a lawmaker I would probably make all recording in public spaces legal. But if use of recording inflicts harm on you - you should be allowed to sue for damages. Probably you are already allowed anyway.

Again: a harmful use of recording without concent or notification should be punished, not the recording itself. I think.
Ready – The calendar you need to meet
Yes it’s a glaring example of fraud and dodgy deals/assets, since you seem unable to accept that the obvious fraudsters are in in fact up to no good.

Shell companies are most often used for fraud or tax evasion, there really are no good reasons to have such a complex web of companies.
Is it? https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/top_donors/2022...

and https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/summary?id=D00007369...
Shorter code, but there's a lower bound at which things get cryptic and ridiculous. You'd want to distinguish between code golf and regular code.

A common metric is cyclomatic complexity, for which lower is
usually better (but you'll find exceptions as soon as you enforce upper bounds in a large project). There are also metrics for modularity and cohesion that might be useful, tho I think it depends on the size of the codebase you're comparing.

I would say smaller executable would tend to be better too, but for short programs you might not see a ton of difference.
Variable names/comments that match the intent and semantics... Good luck automating that without replacing humans as programmers. Tho for well defined requirements maybe a language model could correlate them somewhat.
>Not because of this conduct. Dangerous driving may correlate with this conduct (and honestly covered plates should probably result in the car being forfeited) but it doesn't cause collisions.

How do you know? You are in the mind of the people that drive like this? You have reason to believe that the fact that they can avoid repercussions does not leave them feeling entitled to undertake such conduct? Must be amazing to have such wisdom.

The reality is that you are being obtuse and a bad neighbor.
You could say that.

https://twitter.com/placardabuse
That's the letterhead of the sender. Pichai is the recipient, under that is his affiliation: Alphabet.

Edit: it's funny, I learned this in high school in a "keyboarding" class that was a complete waste of my time. At the time, I was annoyed: if I'm reading a letter, it's probably written to me; if I send a letter, the recipient will know that my name is not theirs. Where's the ambiguity? All these years later, it finally comes useful. I got an internet point.
BYD to Reach 3M NEVs Production Milestone
Is there a non-DRM format + an e-reader combo that allows for bookmarks, text selection, dictionary search? Ideally I would prefer to keep my Kindle but would really love to buy and own non-DRM books.
> where I haven’t thought of a way to do it with Git.

With git one can do "everything" true, doesn't mean that I want to teach everybody first what a DAG is and how one can manipulate that using git commands, but want to have something simpler. And yeah, git became a lot better over the years, but the plumbing still shines through in many places with inconsistencies.
This demonstrates that the approach is completely pointless beyond entertainment. When a system might be hallucinating, it is only useful for creative purposes. Useless and dangerous for scientific or educational purposes.
One of my all-time favorite SciFi movies. Also one of the most timeless.

Living in London the past year as a foreigner made me think about this movie several times.
Sir Terry Pratchett often declaimed in his novels that "Million to one chances happen one times in ten".

The statistical terms used are completely wrong but the intention is clear: weird shit happens.
In most interesting cases, asking is very complicated, because you must ask all the authors, not only the owner of the github account where the project is hosted.
Hey, do you have a good way to communicate this to normies?

I haven't had any luck explaining to my wife that advertisements are basically a sort of cancerous meme designed to deliver misinformation and manipulate you into wasting your money on products that focus more on self-promotion than quality or value. I just sound like a jerk and she somehow takes it as a personal attack
Yep. It should be 11 not 14. I'm pretty sure it is because I did this often with keypad which 1 and 4 is vertically neighbored
You can find the etymology on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_text

It was a term used in printing presses for text/content that could be reused.

> "Boiler plate" originally referred to the rolled steel used to make boilers to heat water. Metal printing plates (type metal) used in hot metal typesetting of prepared text such as advertisements or syndicated columns were distributed to small, local newspapers, and became known as 'boilerplates' by analogy. One large supplier to newspapers of this kind of boilerplate was the Western Newspaper Union, which supplied "ready-to-print stories [which] contained national or international news" to papers with smaller geographic footprints, which could include advertisements pre-printed next to the conventional content.

The same can be true of boilerplate code, which in the same article is defined as

> the sections of code that have to be included in many places with little or no alteration
Wasn't trying to cherrypick, I used his date. My point is just that currency is a an effective medium of exchange, not an effective store of value.
The point is that the paperback can sit on a shelf for 100 years be readable. An ebook takes a migration plan to remain readable. Yes you can remove DRM, but libraries cannot, they have to keep paying, and they're being sued to prevent them from preserving and migrating their data.
Seems like a palatable workaround. I think you may need to enforce it once or twice to have teeth but it’s not unheard of. I heard that you can’t release GPL software on the Apple Store due to similar issues.
Electrical zaps woke up dormant neurons to help paralyzed people walk again
Surely this can't be that difficult to comprehend.

You can't grant yourself a pass to damage another person's property because of what you feel they intended to use it for, because of what you believe its value should be, because you don't like that they own or use cars, or because you have linked them to casually slaughtering countless people, the ruination of cities and destruction of society.

There are very limited circumstances in which you may take the law into your own hands. Being angry is not one of them.
That's not how federation works at all. Your identity in Fediverse is akin to an email address. You're not losing your identity when you interact with people on other servers, and Mastodon does allow you to verify yourself.

The way this works is you have to put an HTML tag on a page on a site you own, then link to that page in your Mastodon account. This verifies you as the owner of the site and your identity.
I love this more than I can explain.

The way things fit together is mesmerizing and and beyond satisfying.

In some ways this reminds me of how I picture software.
So they can be a mouth piece for the Republican Party? The problem is being beholden to either party. Which isn’t how any major paper or news agency/channel is.
Do you know if that affects movies bought through Apple’s TV app (US)? I have quite a few movies in my collection and would be really annoyed if they didn’t work in Europe.
A linux kernel is not part of a federated network and if I fork it I'm still able to interoperate with other machines running Linux.

Are forks permitted to join Lemmy's federated network, and are those that use different filters to those that the core team would want able to?
> Also how did they even lose so much in the first place?

That one's easy, they bought a bunch of tokens that turned out to be worthless. (E.g. allegedly they were buying Luna the whole way down).
this is so infuriating, i'm going to change all my details, but to what end? Optus, and Medibank have had leaks...so its a matter of time until this happens again - then what? i change my mobile number/email addresses...again?