skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyday men and women, which I take to mean middle class, aren't a threat or power base in modern Russia.

They don't have voting power.

They don't have demonstration power.

They don't have access to broadcast their free speech via mass media.

Short of outright rioting, there's little they can do that matters to the Russian government.

Which means than in a trade-off between {what the people want} and {what those with power want}, the people are going to be ignored.

> (and even has no problem with them exporting that wealth abroad)

"...discuss reintroducing some capital controls to help prop up the struggling rouble."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/16/putin-meeti...
> Because they're also actively lobbying to kill any local co-op formation. Successfully in many states.

How exactly do they do that?
I still have PTSD from dealing with HIPAA and SOX stuff. Don’t run your own credit card processing if at all possible.
I can't find it right now, and no idea if it'd work on older things but there's some 3rd party app for Windows that will put a full screen game/app into a stretchable windowed mode.
So, pray tell, where did you go that you deem free of toxic press? It surely isn't anywhere in Europe or the US. Certainly, couldn't be China, South Korea or Japan. Definitely not Australia.
I'm not arguing either way but you can often only say "this isn't affected by any patents that we know of".

Many are so obscure, generic and bloody-obvious that they avoid basic searches. You don't hear about them until the troll comes for their take.
I hear you about the profiles and multi-account containers. The containers are bundled now I think, but I never got them to work correctly. Once I started using a container it tended to want to put everything in it. It just wasn't user friendly. Maybe it's gotten better though.
If "stop foreign-born people from being able to procreate" was on the ballot, which way would you vote?
Are there any known apps that have been built with this yet?
They have the examples, but the one app they have listed in the showcase isn't available.
My pet theory on this is developers never test it and QA rarely do either. Both groups are logging in/out constantly and if that checkbox doesn't work it's easy to fob off as "maybe I didn't check it?" or "my account switching broke it but that's a special case".

Every time I have to login again to a website that I told to remember me or "trust this computer" I get frustrated and then immediately think "Ehh, I understand how this happens". In a time when a password manager is nearly a requirement it's not the end of the world but it still bugs me since I really don't think most of my sessions have any need to expire unless I explicitly log out (or void all my remote sessions).
Interesting that 100% of the instances I've seen are Cruise. Has anyone actually seen a Waymo vehicle in a significant collision?
William James makes a similar distinction about asking "what something is" in Varieties of Religious Experience.

> First, what is the nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now that it is once here? The answer to the one question is given in an existential judgment or proposition. The answer to the other is a proposition of value, what the Germans call a Werthurtheil, or what we may, if we like, denominate a spiritual judgment. Neither judgment can be deduced immediately from the other. They proceed from diverse intellectual preoccupations, and the mind combines them only by making them first separately, and then adding them together.
You maybe not. But having lived in very rural areas you quickly realize that your neighbors are your safety net far more than the authorities and that in a pinch you all need to be able to rely on each other. A good book isn't going to get your car out of a ditch or help locate your kid or pet when it has gone missing.
Who do you think was proping up those zombie conglomerates?
Learn how to use a debugger. It sounds like the code base you’re working on a small enough that print statements are fine, but that won’t always be the case.

Imagine you’re working on a bug that’s extremely hard to reproduce (say, a race condition), takes a lot of time to reproduce (maybe at the bottom of a long running function), or is somewhere you can’t easily access (a remote device). Your print statement shows that $foo is -1, which doesn’t make sense. Better check what $bar is. So you now have to rerun the program, only to see $bar prints “???????” because for some reason it’s bytes but you’re printing it as UTF8. So now you have to modify and rerun your program to print out the hex values to figure out if there’s any meaning to them.

Congrats, you spent an hour getting three pieces of information.

If you just set a breakpoint, you can go for lunch and come back to a paused program where you can check the state, display information and data structures in whatever way you’d like, and proceed one step at a time to see what happens at each line of your code.
Why is it always Cruise in these incidents? From afar, it seems that Waymo is generally safer & more methodical in their rollout while Cruise keeps announcing new cities before they've quite solved things. I get that they need to be bold if they're going to try to compete, but is it worth injuring people and creating negative press for the industry? ...Ultimately I'd love to see multiple players in this market, but I feel like Cruise has jumped the gun a bit here, and I am afraid there will be wider backlash.
This isn’t like the game of Go where processing power eventually wins. Driving in a major city, based on intuition, social cues, and the ability to drop a plan and make a new one, is the definition of too complicated for a computer. We could have public transportation, but we just can’t imagine a world where someone doesn’t privately own a thing someone else rents.
I might just be tired, but it seems like this article is poorly written. Which contention is tied to the alleged front group? Is Coca-Cola trying to get us to believe that aspartame is dangerous, or are they trying to get us to believe it's not dangerous?

It's not immediately obvious to me that Coca Cola would benefit from either argument. Don't they sell a crapload of aspartame?
Sounds like it’s been a bad week. Tuesday a Cruise car drove into wet cement and got stuck.

https://www.businessinsider.com/driverless-cruise-car-stuck-...
Oh lol. For some reason I thought it was snark. Well played!
That's a five times speedup. I wouldn't expect a typical 'compiled' language to run five times faster than JavaScript on the kind of code you find in a compiler.
> It doesn't traverse parent directories, it doesn't have good overwrite/merge logic, multiline support, or variable expansion

Sounds good to me. If I need more one day I’ll use dotenv, but having basic support in the stdlib is great
While security and usability are in some sense opposite poles of a continuum, it’s not strictly a matter of tradeoffs. It’s easy to imagine a decision that considerably decreases the usability of a system without appreciably increasing its security or even decreasing it.
Being Established not meaning specifically wealth, I like that
> One passenger (…) was treated and has non-severe injuries.

Injury attorneys will make those injuries cost couple millions.
Yes sure, but since .env.local and .env.prod are so widespread one could make a small filter to also include these types of files, no?
I couldn’t agree more. Security is almost always user hostile (speaking from a UX perspective). I am NOT advocating that we remove security for obvious reasons (a hacked app is also user hostile). HOWEVER - if we can just acknowledge that security is antithetical to an easy to use, user friendly app then we can make appropriate decisions moving forward.

One of my favorite sayings is “if you are not careful, you are going to secure yourself right out of business”. Ease of use is a real thing, and if you don’t figure out a way to make a secure app that is also very easy to use, someone else will and your pleas of “but it is not secure” are going to fall on deaf ears.

Honestly, baseline security is part of “essential complexity” https://ferd.ca/complexity-has-to-live-somewhere.html. Essential complexity can’t be removed, but it CAN be moved around. Right now we are talking about the essential complexity of managing security through managing a user’s session length. The advocated solution is to make sessions short so that they expire quickly. This seems to remove all “accidental complexity” so that we are only dealing with the essential complexity. But this is misleading. There is still complexity in juggling those short sessions. As a designer you think this solution is simple, but what you have done is moved that essential complexity over to your users. THEY must now manage the impact of short sessions. The complexity does not go away, you just moved it to your users, hence it is user hostile.

The trick then, if making the best product is important to you, is to figure out a way of letting users have long sessions but managing it on your side. This seems to argue that you are making your system more complex by adding accidental complexity (which is generally a bad thing). But really what you are doing is moving some essential complexity away from your users onto you. You lower their burden. This is how you make competitive applications.
I find discriminated unions work ok for similar use cases.
yes it can run things that don't use much of the API surface (just using libc? probably fine)

however try running a game from the Windows 95/98 days and you've got a maybe 50/50 chance of it working

e.g. they changed the return code from BitBlt from 95/98 -> XP, they used to return the number of scanlines but switched it to a boolean

same with the heap management functions, directory traversal functions, etc
It is not sad. Detecting emergency vehicles should be part of the operating protocol. It's an essential feature for AVs... Tech companies are asking us, everyday consumers, to trust our lives with these machines
I mean, study some history… with the emperor they still fared much better than before. Which is why they loved the emperor.

But I understand that the anglosaxon history might be a bit biased and edited.
Learning async Rust with entirely too many web servers
> London is an expensive city, you’ll need several million pounds for a decent family home

Just not true. I grew up in a 4 bed house in a zone 4 area where such houses still go for under a million, especially if you're willing to do a bit of work.

It's a perfectly nice area, good schools, parks and trees, 30min train to central, what more could a normal family want?
I'm not eating bacon for my health! I eat bacon because it's extraordinarily delicious, and because Saint Peter!

Best invention today: shelf-stable boxes of bacon
>This is a technical use of the word "collides".

>... and was struck by the fire truck.

That's literally two things colliding, this isn't a "Well, OK, 'teeeeechnically', sure," situation at all.

>It is sad that automated cars are being asked to detect emergency vehicles at all.

>A system that signals the location of any actively flashing vehicles to all nearby automated cars is technically achievable.

Flashing lights mean different things depending on the light, the vehicle, and the situation - a construction vehicle with orange flashing lights is different from a police cruiser hauling ass up behind you, for instance. Drivers are responsible for discerning these differences, what makes automated cars different?
AI is becoming more and more human every day!
Though, honestly, at least these driverless cars are backed by billion dollar companies, and can pay for the damages. I've seen plenty of less than savory people in junky cars nearly hit emergency vehicles, and they would've never had insurance to cover the damages.
I'm not sure race or affluence has anything to do with it so much as how the place you're living is designed. There needs to be a reason for people to walk - like going to some shops, the train, nice parks, etc. When you have that then people see each other often and recognize each other and say hi and stop and chat for a few minutes. And some of those relationships grow as you find out you have certain shared interests (kids, hobbies, etc) and someone gets the courage to invite the others over for a BBQ with some others and it's nice. And it becomes contagious as people begin to blend and the next thing you know the entire block you live on, most everyone knows most everyone else.

But if you live in a place where there's nothing walkable and walking isn't even encouraged (no sidewalks, etc) then people don't really leave their back yards. Everyone is isolated. And to be sure this is what a good deal of people want. But if you want community and getting to know each other then you need to live in a place that encourages walking around.
Awh :')
The reason why we continue to use those is that they are easy to load in bash (source the file), can be hidden away in the env in production, don't have inheritance, and aren't yaml.

I feel you on the typing, but the format could accomodate such a tool. Code away! :)
Interesting. I've worked with vendors (Including VMWare/Carbon Black) that told me they couldn't override the global list. Maybe the product is evolving to address these (past?) flaws
Is it... American Express? It's the only site that will log me out _while trying to pay my bill_. And forget trying to use American Express Travel.

I have written in to complain, but have only gotten "It's for security reasons" hand waving in reply.
> . So presumably it did not detect the truck.

Additionnally, the truck driver did not detect that the cruise car was failing to yeld.

Having the lights on and priority over traffic light doesn't mean emergency drivers have and can run the traffic lights without due care.
I don't have a good single source on this but the main thing is inconsistency and variability. A growing season drought followed by a couple of unseasonable monsoons can be a wetter-than-average year by the numbers. That sort of thing.
There are two things that make this annoying:

* most people are pre-building their packages. That means you can’t really modify anything at run time. It also means it can be extremely tedious to test changes and wait for the build process.

* there’s a string of places you have to properly “expose” ENV variables to a layer deeper down. This includes some build condos to make sure you’re not exposing sensitive BE configs. It can be challenging debugging the intermediate steps.
"Loners are probably much more likely to die of say, having a heart attack and not receiving help promptly."

On the other hand, loners won't get a heart attack caused by other people ..
The faster-cpython folks seem to be working towards a JIT (https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/tree/main/3.13) and both pyston and cinder have JITs. So I don't think anyone has ruled one out.
Does the built-in "compatibility mode" not work? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-older-apps-...
How are trap streets “the trick” if they are not copyrightable or enforceable under US law? Like the Supreme Court has specifically considered and dismissed this “one clever trick to keep people from copying lists of facts” because to allow it would completely undermine the idea of facts and figures not being copyrightable.

> Trap streets are not copyrightable under the federal law of the United States. In Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co. (1992),[3][4] a United States federal court found that copyright traps are not themselves protectable by copyright. There, the court stated: "[t]o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean that no one could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of reproducing a false fact and thereby violating a copyright ... If such were the law, information could never be reproduced or widely disseminated." (Id. at 733)

And yes the EU has the concept of “database rights” but notionally there is still supposed to be a creative step required in the selection or arrangement of records. So just a raw copy of the numbers in a telephone directory is theoretically not copyrightable, but a telephone book might be because of the creative/transformational step. It’s possible this might be such a low bar that it’s impossible to fail to clear, but, at least on paper you can’t copyright mere facts and figures either.

But either way it’s generally true that simple facts and figures are not protected and trap streets are a discredited and clumsy attempt to work around this.
If the attackers control user machine they will have as much information as the user anyway.
I have been following the industry from a distance; construction is accelerating but the prices are still well beyond economical for the scale required for grid stability. And projects are still relatively tiny (<10 GW).

Based on the latest projects such as this one in Australia [0], building a grid-scale system will result in energy prices increasing by many multiples. Of course it will get cheaper, but I don't see it being cheap enough that it won't have massive impact on costs (I hope I'm wrong btw).

[0] https://reneweconomy.com.au/engie-and-macquarie-to-fund-150m...
Charm: We make the command line glamorous
I'm not an expert, but I'd be surprised if concrete is at all earthquake resistant without rebar.
Probably have to sign liability waivers before getting into one of those, no?
"In our new house, there is no community gathering space and we leave in a culdesac at the end of a road. The result is we don’t get to know our neighbors. "

Some people like people ..
I would strongly encourage anyone who regularly consumes Coke to switch to black coffee or tea for a month and take notes on how they feel.
Suppose aspartame is actually toxic. Wouldn’t that have population-level effects by now? It’s been in beverages for decades.
"best" by what definition?

1. Do you want to download all of your transactions? You have to download one file for each month!

2. Good luck trying to apply your rewards money (which is annoyingly called Apple Cash) to your statement balance. Dark patterns everywhere trying to get you to spend that when you use the card. (even worse than Amazon in this regard)

How does a $2T company screw up so badly and then get such great press?
DxWnd (https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/) comes to mind.
If you're remembering your passwords then you are probably using insecure passwords or are re-using passwords across multiple services.
That's not great, but crashing into a fire truck has the potential to injure other people who need firefighters.

Maybe it's time to pump the breaks on self driving cars.
And they were randomly getting stuck around the concert.
He's going to end up in a US prison for most of his life, he's not going to be doing any traveling. And what's this about cruise missiles?
The flip side of this is that -if you’re rather unlucky- being so codependent on the community can get ugly, quite fast; especially in such a remote environment. All it takes is one crazy neighbor to start turn the village against you for no particularly compelling reason.
No they're not stop making things up. Most Japanese people and families cannot afford to travel. Wages in japan have not risen since the 90s and have actually gone down with inflation.

https://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/Changes_Wage-Workers_Sal...
The Cart Narc and His Camera
Last time I had to deal with emails, I've used https://mjml.io/ and was very happy with it. You can version the templates, compile them as part of your build pipeline and it seems to do produce very _adequate_ HTML full of tables that looks good on all clients that we tested.
Some stuff works fine. See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1692552661374005450
> It is sad that automated cars are being asked to detect emergency vehicles at all.

No it's not. Emergency vehicles have priority. Every other driver is licensed to use the road system if they defer to the right of way of emergency vehicles. That is a privilege that can be revoked.

> A system that signals the location of any actively flashing vehicles to all nearby automated cars is technically achievable.

And costly. Instead of putting the cost burden on public institutions and emergency services, perhaps this should be incumbent upon the driverless car corporations. Additionally, these systems will fail and the driverless cars will need to detect these vehicles though additional means.

> It should have been one of the first steps in the development of any of this technology.

This is a hard problem. There are so many things that require solving.

> Unfortunately it requires careful coordination between many different entities so it hasn't happened.

And money. Lots of money.
It’d be useful to have actual booleans and nuns.

Strings are fine for keys and verbatim configs, but suck for flags/toggles/options.
May not cover this scenario, but lots of emergency vehicles don't use sirens at night. The thought is, the bright flashing lights is plenty - and if the road isn't busy, why wake all the neighborhoods up on a routine service call.
I dunno if Torvalds gets in there before St. Ignucius.

That said, somewhat obsessed with answering that lol
The WHO issued two statements against aspartame, then a third saying it was safe. The third paragraph of the article states

That contradiction stems from beverage industry corruption of the review process by consultants tied to an alleged Coca-Cola front group, the public health advocacy group US Right-To-Know said in a recent report.
I'd be fascinated to see a graph based approach to programming language features, but I'm not sure they're decomposable and independent enough to make it feasible.

Start by listing out programming language qualities that are good/bad/intolerable for each of those other interaction categories, then work that backwards into a set of required features for a desired language.

E.g. X makes writing a Y compiler optimization impossible
If you call eating less meat and more plants “starving”.
Making a Safe Bet
Couldnt agree more, well said
maybe it's time to add ears to driverless cars? It could have heard the siren and stop until it went away.
> established vs gentrified might be a better distinction. established doesn’t always mean affluent, but it does have a different sort of wealth.

long term residents vs. new blood. different motivations and world view, and playing different games.

i'm in a well off 'burb next to a university, no one talks. lots of community leagues, posters about clubs, etc. but none of the neighbors interact. lots of renters, med students, et al, and they'll be gone in 3 years.

previous neighborhood was a poorer downtown apartment neighborhood owned by old italian ladies. they didn't do management companies or automated rent transfers, they made a point to come around every month, both to collect, but also to check in. they genuinely cared about knowing people, and wanted us to talk to each other -- helped prevent things like break-ins and accidental fires, etc.