skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's find some common sense here... This is one of those open ended laws that's designed to allow authorities to take action if a problem arises based on good judgement but most of the time you can ignore it it.

Give me a man and I will find the crime.

This is the kind of law-ness that allows racism and authoritarianism.
> if I want to sell my house it has less value if my neighbors are filthy

Cry me a river about your house value. If you want to invest then invest in people. Homes should not be your investment vehicle. Homes should be homes.

If you have a filthy neighbor then you should help them to not be filthy. Unfortunately laws can have real costs that some people can't afford.

Does your neighbor have a garbage dump on their property? Perhaps you should offer to take their garbage to the dump. Perhaps you should offer to pay for their garbage service. Perhaps you should offer to help them store their collectibles somewhere that won't destroy them from the elements. Perhaps you should try to understand your neighbor instead of decrying your precious lost home value.
World of tanks used Flash-based tech for game UIs as well.

PS At least that was the case 9-10 years ago when I was involved.
It's the dumbest technology to try to buy illegal stuff now. Most coins have touched an exchange and everything you do is public. Once deanonymized, it's the opposite of private.

Monero & Zcash are exceptions and the only parts of crypto I'm bullish about (including some new upcoming chains like Ironfish & Aleo). I think private p2p cash has a lot of value. BTC & ETH are the opposite of private.
Good interviewee questions: What's your ratio of technical writers to software engineers? Are their salaries equivalent?

At the best companies that I've worked for, the ration was in the 1-10 to 1-5 range, and the salaries were close.
Not from the south but spent a bit of time there. I agree, one would have to put heat venting on the roof and air conditioning. Maybe swamp coolers. Not cheap for sure. Sacramento also gets really hot during the summer, though it's a dry heat.

Some of my favorite foods that I should not be eating are from the South.
That seems like a maximally uncharitable way of interpreting what I thought was a pretty uncontroversial point. The point was that when deploying software for use, best practice says "don't run it as root", and not "assume all software has root access". Do you really disagree? Because the grandparent poster definitely seems to, and I think that's pretty clearly wrong.
Yeah, that option is on my mind too!
GitLab team member here.

Thanks for the feedback.

I created a merge request to update our documentation based on your comment and linked to the comment in the MR description: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/107599
No. It’s not that simple. Yes there is a legacy of cultural practices to contend with, but it isn’t this all encompassing reality you imagine.

Consider that levels of affection afforded to men (or harshness they are expected to endure) vary significantly across cultures and very much between subcultures in a modern nation like the US. It’s trivial to find groups of people who are very positive about affection vs people who are very traditional within a few miles of each other.

These groups speak very differently about their ideas of masculinity (since you introduced that example) and will make different arguments about what is right. Those arguments absolutely do inform group members and newcomers alike about what is considered acceptable.

Language is of course not everything - people do learn through mimicry, but you might be surprised how easy it is to use language to get someone to try something they didn’t think was for them. Advertisers do this all the time.

I don’t really see how someone can sit there with a straight face and say language doesn’t matter because of patriarchy.

Also patriarchy doesn’t ‘see’ anything because patriarchy isn’t a person and doesn’t have eyes. Patriarchy is an academic term for a set of ideas, not a mystical being.
I worked at a Dominos Pizza as one of my first jobs. Back then, they still used real pizza ovens not the conveyor blow-dryers they use now. They ran at about 650 degrees F IIRC. We used screens directly on the bottom of the oven, which was cordierite.

It took some skill to bake pizza consistently in those, and also not get burned. That is why they were replaced by the conveyor ovens, which any idiot can use but which also produce an inferior pie.
Not Dying words. Merely the same thing he said every day when put in his cage.
Died in his sleep.
While true that most personal impact is tiny vs industry/the whole world we still just shouldn't be ok with dumping waste thoughtlessly?

In the end a lot of stuff is still caused by 8 billion insignificancies..

And imo also this straw (strawman) argument has been exaggerated. Yes, it is also a tiny and mostly insignificant bit, but where was it blamed to be the root cause of the plastic problem? It is another tiny simple thing one can just avoid without much personal luxury impact, so where is the problem? Trying to draw that into ridicule like this not much better, imo.
I'm sure you can appreciate that both imperfect causal inference from statistics and the belief that one is somehow "special" (or exempt from accident and disaster if one simply "puts in the effort") are pervasive forms of human folly that cause a lot of human misery.
That's how I feel about HyperCard. Some apps were so ahead of their time that when they were axed, nothing comparable replaced them.

I believe that this is due to a tragedy of the commons in the software industry. We're all so creative, with so many dreams, but spend the majority of our lives working 40 hour weeks to outcompete each other and make rent. Then when someone wins the internet lottery, they succumb to their ego and do a bunch of stuff in business to hoard even more wealth, rather than working to reform the system which keeps so many others down.

I would very much like to write a programming language, a blogging tool, a web framework, a game, a game development tool, etc etc etc. But I never will. Most of the people reading this never will either.

So I endure. I meditate, I practice stoicism, I go to the gym. But I had to let my dreams die for my own self-preservation because opportunity cost grew to consume my entire psyche. I simply can't think about all of the other things I could be doing while I have to work. And all I do is work.

There doesn't seem to be much help coming in terms of UBI or having N people split a 40 hour workweek or forming artist communes for makers. Sure, we hear the occasional stories. But it's like we're all waiting around for a billionaire to liberate us, rather than creating a scalable cooperative system to sustain all of us right now today.

What I'm saying is that until we look beyond the technical challenges and see that the problem is subjugation, we'll never get free of the lackluster tools, because we'll never have time to make better ones.
> improved performance

Huh, that's surprising but probably good. My initial reaction on reading that you were replacing your own thing with VSC was something like "aw, now it'll be too slow to use". Hope you're right:)
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Seems like matrix would be a better solution for that kind of thing.
Show HN: DfsWord – a puzzle that turns words into graphs
I accidentally invented dfsWord while developing a force-directed graph layout algorithm to turn relationships among data into an easy-to-understand picture.

As a quick way to generate test data, I started using words: each letter became a node, and consecutive letter pairs became edges. This worked particularly well because I could always easily verify whether the system had accurately represented the relationships between the letters by tracing the correct spelling of the word through the diagram.

The words have many different shapes. For example, "Antarctica" looks like a kind of tiny Sierpinski triangle. "Utilitarian" like a rocketship from the 1950s. "Llama" is a straight line, but can also spell out the word "mammal".

I often wound up showing these "word graphs" to people to explain what I was trying to do. Inevitably, I'd be in the middle a sentence and the person would interrupt: "Hey, can we put in my name and see what comes out?"

Finally, after a chemist friend enthusiastically noted "Wow, 'Austria' looks sort of like benzene," I decided that maybe there was more to the word diagrams than just their value as test data.

Since people -- including non-chemists -- enjoyed trying to work out the word from the network of letters in the diagram, I thought it would make a good game. I added a clue, and voila, dfsWord was born.

Right now the site allows you to view and solve puzzles, submit new ones, and just try things out in the "Playground." I'll be running new daily puzzles for at least a month or so, and hope to have a basic newsletter set up soon that will send out that days puzzle. I'd love to hear HN's thoughts, suggestions, and any puzzles you care to share.
"I'm getting rats because of your garbage dump" is a completely different case than "ninnies such as myself are using an eyesore that's none of their business to try to fleece me for my equity."

Artificial human created abstract excuses to save a buck are not real externalities, they're problems people create for themselves and therefore nobody else's problem.
I’m already dying when reading image boards. People are generating amazing quality memes in real time, soon it will be video.
Haha, Deutsche bank is in there [0]! Rookie numbers though, only 18 billion in fines.

[0]: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/deutsche-b...
That's true. It's also an entirely different tragedy of the commons. If nobody has children, we are going to be screwed when our generation is too old to work.
Docker isn’t billed as a security solution but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t come with some good defaults. You get some namespace/cgroup/seccomp/etc defaults OOTB which is still probably an improvement over what the organization currently has.
I've seen a handful of threads and articles in the last year or so about knowledge graphs, but I still don't understand what they're used for.

I understand the idea, I think, but I don't know what problems they actually solve. When would I want to consider building a knowledge graph, or using an existing one in a project?
My grandfather and his dad were both mechanics in California. It's another sign of America's war against tradespeople, personal economic agency, freedom to tinker, and manual labor.

In a related phenomenon, lawmakers don't have qualms with hiring undocumented persons to work for them, their supporters taking out advertisements of wages in foreign newspapers to encourage undocumented migration, or ICE ostensibly "enforcing" documented migration while avoiding enclaves of undocumented persons if they happen to work for large organizations (major meat packers and other large agribusinesses) who pay the correct indirect bribes to the right politicians. Public racist recriminations of people who are victims of Monroe doctrine, American neocolonialism, and America-led climate change seeking a better place for themselves to not starve, or be kidnapped or murdered.. but to certain groups of ignorance and hate, a wall is "needed" to "keep them out."
what was orchestrated exactly? I am not a fan of big corps in general, but if they're offering an effective solution to sudden global crisis I will give credit where credit is due.
Someone's CV in .docx would be readable at least and, most of the time with intact formatting (especially if the author didn't use spaces as indentation), even if opened in some {libre,star,open}office or whatever, heck, on modern Windows you can open .docx in Wordpad, ie you don't even need MS Office on Windows to open .docx.

But I don't even know what is the Pages[0] format, extension, what apps can open it on Windows.[1]

[0] like really, I never in my life needed this.

[1] yes, you just can open it in 7z, but the similar can be done with .docx too.
I agree, "shade tree mechanics" often do disregard environmental considerations. But, they tend to pretty much disregard all laws and regulations, when they're inconvenient for them. Hence the shortcuts to "save time."

The question is: what ought to be done about this? I don't think a blanket ban on other than "minor car repairs" is it, but I also don't think the type of person you're talking about here is going to be too fazed by fines and inspectors.
>What does it mean to own property? Does that meaning depend on a democratic majority? If so, then you don't have private property.

Property rights are not absolute--just like free speech is not absolute.

You have to pay your property taxes and, as discussed on this thread, there's zoning which may restrict commercial activity in a residential area. There are doubtless other bylaws in a given place related to noise, smells, etc. The government can take a property by eminent domain as well.

It's about being reasonable. And what's reasonable on a 10 or 100 acre rural farm is different from what is reasonable in an upscale suburban community with houses on 1/4 acre.
Mastodon has quite good moderation tools, so you probably just can use those.
a reason for having specialized courts in specific domains of law instead of laymans in the 18th century enlightenment inspired (outdated) system we have. Also checks and balances on judges, one of the most unaccountable caste there is
Funnily enough that was actually the original goal of Flash - back when it was called SmartSketch. The idea was to have a vector drawing tool for pen tablets. But it sold absolutely horribly.

Jonathan Gay pivoted it to animation shortly thereafter and rebranded it as FutureSplash, and then got bought out by Macromedia.
Well, only if there is a "Bebauungsplan" (a plan that describes the requirements of buildings and surroundings, up to the type of trees for example). If there is not, and where we built there isn't, no such limits exist. Beyond your states general laws covering buildings and such.
Pretty good rundown of one of the largest pharma fines: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...

For extra bonus points I think they did miss the part where J&J specifically targeted minorities in their advertising for these products that they knew caused cancer.
Maybe the article is highlighting the fact that scientific papers are more accessible to the general public than handbooks: You can easily find academic papers on Arxiv or Google Scholar, newspapers cite them, etc. While handbooks don't get much publicity.
What part of the law does this violate, explicitly?
Pizza gets a bad rap healthwise, but when it's made at home it can be perfectly healthy.

I make flatbread and use that as the pizza crust. Then everybody in the family gets to put their choice of toppings on. It's a bit of a circus as you can only bake one pizza at a time in our 24" oven, but circuses are fun.

The advantage of the flatbread is all you really have to do is get the toppings hot and cheese melted, as the crust is already cooked. Pizza purists won't like that, but it works very well. You can keep the sugar and salt content reasonable, and making a decent sauce is really simple.
Could be the green tea is made with slightly lower temperature water so less likely to leach chemicals off of the liner
Dark side of the moon: Motorcycle deaths linked to full moons (2017)
I do not have any of direct evidence of anything, I'm just a guy with a brain. This is one of many in a long series of "coincidences" that when put together starts to become nonsensical.

Look at where we started.

Pfizer gets fined more beacuse they are a bigger company and have more surface area, the law is complex and everyone is breaking it all the time so action against them doesn't mean they did anything wrong. In and of itself fine, that may be true.

Then those same people will later say, the IRS went after that Mexican restaurant instead of Pfizer beacuse they are so big, and run such a tight ship that it would almost impossible to find any wrong doing.

The tax code is very complex, so is drug regulation. Is the idea that Pfizer is hyper competent in tax law but incompetent when it comes to the core business? That doesn't hold water for me.
That’s a valuable distinction you are pointing out. I agree 100% in theory. For example, on certain municipal websites in New York City where I live, credit cards are not natively accepted for transactions, but a link is provided to an authorized private company who charges a non-trivial commission. This is problematic.

On the other hand though, I returned yesterday from a business trip to Israel, where taxes fund a highly functional and adequate healthcare system, but many well-to-do tech workers also pay for private health insurance which allows your family members to be seen almost immediately by a specialist when needed. I would be okay with this system in the United States as a compromise to supersede the dysfunctional system we have now.
> I cannot collaborate unless I get my hands back on ...( Apple id which is even more complicated) it stops being a collaborative software.

getting an Apple id doesn't require apple hardware and most of the tools are available via icloud.com. if an apple id prevents something from being a collaborative tool then google docs, Microsoft 365, Slack, et al are not collaborative tools.
> You don't need these laws

I don't want to go around proposing a HOA-style contract with every single person in earshot / downwind every time I move, and hope we can come to terms I can afford.

> it's easier to force people to abide by rules that you can't get them to voluntarily agree too

The issue is that some people's concept of "ownership" means "I can do whatever I want on this property, even if it imposes a high cost on others". You can pick your scenario, from "My home, my 3am drum practice" to "My home, my burning of this pile of nuclear waste". There's no magic way of assessing the "true" costs to me by your actions next door, so we need these laws.

If you live on more space near less people, then you need less of these laws, maybe none!

I understand (and agree) that for every "My neighbors yard is a literal cow pond" there's some Karen who is mortified at the shade of off-white I painted my house. There are also unlimited historical cases of the government misusing these laws to keep poor/minorities out. The reality is there are a lot of selfish assholes out there, and so laws help give you a little recourse when one moves in next door.

I don't feel unreasonable saying I want to sleep from 11pm-7am, and be able to sell my house some day with a value based solely on the greater market and what I do to it, not the crazy guy down the street.

That said, I live in a very dense city. I'm not moving to rural Alabama and expecting to impose that on anybody 2 miles away.
Which Lifeline phones started in 1985 under Regan.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...

But it's easy to blame Obama.
It’d be interesting to see the intersection of AI-generated text+code and Ink. ChatGPT could go beyond writing short stories, and produce larger-scale works of interactive fiction.
most of the time it takes significantly more time to faff around taking off shoes/belts, taking laptops/liquids out of bags than it does to get through the ID check section.

Though as more advanced scanners come in this might lose value, at many airports now everything stays in your bag anyway, shoes stay on and you go through the whole body scan (which takes 5 seconds). It was amazing how quick it was going through las vegas
> Hiring is hard enough. You want to know something you can't possibly know, so you have to use very imperfect, approximate signals. I don't know why you'd want to kneecap yourself on purpose like this. You might as well just roll dice and hire when 7 comes up.

You have to use the signals you have.

And if the signal someone has sent for certain professional roles is "I don't understand appropriate formats to send documents in" then that is the signal you got.

Depends on the job of course.
another win for the ratings agencies...
Before the real internet came and killed the forums, the weird bearded guy would lurk on the forums. He's the guy who makes you answer general questions like,

"Why would you want to do that?"

"What's this for?"

"Did you try searching before asking such a stupid question?"
> Plenty of warehouses and repair shops for rent in non-residential zones for $30/sq ft/year

That's quite expensive compared to the cost already being paid for a home!
Exactly, fungibility is a problem, not a feature. If the law were not fungible and the police were obligated to charge any violations, and the DA was obligated to prosecute any charges, then the law becomes a nuisance to everyone and we'd see a lot more citizen involvement in reducing that nuisance by more strictly limiting state power.

Reducing that nuisance by making the law fungible instead means those in power people get to be selective and make exceptions for friendlies while oppressing their opponents.
> Congratulations! You've just created a HOA.

I'm pretty sure that's the above commenter's point. You don't need the county to implement some blanket law (that, in my experience as a former Sacramento County resident with family still there, is very inconsistently enforced). If you want to be an insufferable prick who micromanages your neighbors' properties because you're too patently greedy to accept an entirely-hypothetical and negligible drop in your house's value (thanks, by the way, for your contribution to Sacramento's housing crisis! We all appreciate being priced out of homeownership by wannabe investors!), then do what other greedy insufferable pricks in that situation do and form an HOA.
"...and never again pay for a service that would be dirt cheap, if it weren't run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons!"

Hack the planet!
I forgot the name of the principal, but there's a rule of thumb that a thing's future life expectancy is related to how long they've already been around. So in general if some new text editor emerges, I give it a reasonable chance of being dead in 6 months. VSC is old enough to probably be around for a while now. And I fully expect emacs and vi/m to outlive me:)
In Emscripten that uses a pthread implementation layer built on top of Web Workers + a shared wasm Memory. Basically memory is shared, and you have atomic instructions, and each thread of execution gets its own Web Worker.

That has some limitations, but for the most part it works just like you would expect pthreads to.
Like my sibling described there are weird quirks. The bigger problem is that this isn't a well documented and supported path. And if you wanted to spend time fiddling with my IDE you wouldn't be using Jetbrains.
DMs do not have e2e encryption. Don’t use it for non-public things.
Our banking system nearly collapsed in 2008. Lots of people got hurt. Financialization of the US economy is a larger, delayed version of what happened to General Electric.
Maplibre-rs supports now basic text rendering and raster tiles
GitHub: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-rs
Demo: https://webgl.demo.maplibre-rs.maplibre.org/
Ciro (YC S22) hiring a founding back end engineer to build an SMB search engine
Thanks! I found out today about curfew laws and some of the concerns about them [1] in the US; had never heard of them previously since I came here as an adult.

It seems like an issue affecting a fairly large section of the population (15-17 year olds and their parents) that the Supreme Court has never examined.

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[1] https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1206/curfews