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Fairly satisfied with HN as is. The minimal medium makes for more signal, less noise. not no noise, that's impossible. (there is no spoon)

Can list lots of things that I think would be bad. Animated GIF user avatar images. inline images. Cryptocurrency schemes and "realtime chat" systems.

ooo. almost forgot: dedicated proprietary client. screw this "open web" stuff, lets add some encryption to nntp and charge $15/mo for a reskinned newsreader app to access it with! We can compile it to webasm and run it in electron on phones!
How is it false? I’d say an LLM is like the output you’d get if you forced someone to write something with a strict time limit and without being allowed to go back and edit things or look anything up - likely to be wrong about anything that needs deep thought, but not entirely useless for simple things that are just tedious like boilerplate code
There’s a popular swimming around here that’s near a rough neighborhood. One elderly gentleman from that neighborhood guards the cars at the swimming hole. He even got himself a shirt that says “security”. You pay $2 and he makes sure nobody busts the windows out of your car.
no, Twitter = xitter, when you used to tweet now you take a xit, and retweets are throwing xit.
I read it this way, too. In fact, I found the whole thing to be an apology for the continued expansion of asking for more than is reasonable among those who refuse to learn concern for others, or worse, social cues in a given culture.

The "culture" of making truly unreasonable requests of others is, by my reading, culture-less.
Stephen King, Zadie Smith, Elena Ferrante, Michael Pollan, and others
Missouri checking in, I do not have any idea what that chart is. I selfishly love east coast/gulf hurricanes because they always mean perfect weather for us.
Disney experiences a setback in Florida and now hurricanes hit California? I think you’re on to something.
> This isn’t the first time that Kazran has run into trouble with the law, either. Back in 2010, the Federal Election Commission filed a complaint against him alleging that he illegally reimbursed employees of his Florida dealership for close to $70,000 in political donations.

I'll give you two guesses, but you're only going to need one! To save you the work, it was for Vic Buchanan's campaign.
(Not the person you were responding to.) I appreciate these types of comments, fwiw
Isn't there a generic music app?

I mean can't people just sync music to their iphone like they were doing with ipods in the past?
I've never seen any analysis of why the US was able to install stable, successful democratic governments in Japan and Germany, and generally failed to elsewhere.
Because concurrent calls are confusing and create bugs.

The point this train wreck of an example is trying to make (and failing) is that it's fine to write sequential blocking code in your request handlers. They can take as long as they want ... seconds, minutes, days .... because the handler threads are now an infinite resource as far as the JVM is concerned.
Why does "causes to be" necessarily imply intention? I don't think that's nearly as definitive as you're claiming.

> It’s not as general a term as you are implying

My point is that even if the term isn't "supposed" to be general it definitely sounds like that to a non-trivial number of people, which is why these sort of discussions crop up almost every time the term gets mentioned in comment threads on this site.
Towing companies enjoy special privileges and presumed innocent, e.g. no penalties for "towing the wrong car."
I'm aware, and have used, this practice in Oakland, CA, Los Angeles, SF, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland OR. One reason I keep a small amount of cash around - just for the vig.
Even worse, my Dad met us for brunch and overstayed his allotted time in one of these systems by 8 minutes. Would be ok if they billed him the same rate perhaps, but they "fined" him $80 for the "violation". All the while trying to look like the local police as much as possible. All these companies are scam artists.
Call your buddy at the towing company, give them $20 cash.

Criminals are quite efficient at getting things done
What's a sin? Deemed by who?

Why is prostitution unethical? (in essence; many actual implementations are indeed terrible).

I found this interview of a porn actor and a porn actress by Hugo Decrypt quite interesting [1] (in French). It seems it can be done right.

The Borgen series also has a very interesting episode about prostitution. Season 3 Episode 5 if whatever shows up with a "borgen prostitution" search is correct. It presents interesting ideas on the matter. I highly recommend it. The episode can be viewed without seeing the previous seasons / episode. It depicts a woman who chooses to do this job and likes it. She provides arguments for why it should be allowed.

As for porn users, first, it's not only men who watch it. You are supposing men-only by mentioning fathers. And I've not noticed many romantic lives destroyed by porn (I'm quite sure at least some people around me in couple watch porn and they seem fine). I even seen a movie depicting a couple using porn to spice their sex. Why not? I would not be surprise people actually did that and would see nothing wrong in it. Are you sure you are not confusing your gut with reality? Now of course additions can ruin you, and I'm sure porn addiction exists, but I don't think most porn users are at this level of addiction.

And I would definitely welcome ethical porn / more respect to everybody involved in this thing, and wished people said no to unethical porn.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BubVE25uzo
hn looks fine; not every site has to be embellished with modern design.

If you want some fresh looks, check Modern for Hacker News extension - https://www.modernhn.com/
That did not seem to be the point of the original post that I responded to.

Specifically, it seemed to imply that anything that was criminal could not be hacking.

The legal status of something, seems completely orthogonal to hacking to me.
I was hoping you weren't going to step on this landmine, the fallacy that literal might makes right.

The "inevitability of the defeated" is very provincial. Its tempting as you become a great sage and prognosticator simply because you can look at any historical event and say "this was a predictable nd inherently just outcome".

History was on the razor's edge as WW2 Germany blitzed through the defenses of most of Europe single-handedly. It was a feat enabled by fierce technical superiority, organizational superiority, even ideological superiority as the people were souped up on national identity. The autarchic form of government in play was a powerful cocktail that enabled Germany to accomplish outsize things in a very short period of time. A similar argument can be made for FDR"s America, as a lesser for would have been defeated at Pearl Harbor.

Note that I am not interested in a moral discussion of their government because that is a quick way to cut off critical thought. Obviously, I don't support the murders of any government.
I expected a comment comparing the smell to the content, but it really did smell like vomit, from the moment I opened it. I kept my other textbooks, but sold that one as soon as the semester ended. Didn't need it stinking up my bookshelf!

I'm sure it was the VOC's in the glue.
Looks like it's been edited a bit, but when I first read it I got the impression you thought it was long and overly complicated and made a simple boring point. I'm not the only one who observed this, because the comment I replied to said the same thing.
Other sibling comments have answered this one better, but I’ll just add: one TSMC fab is worth more than the entire natural resources of some countries. And those “slaves” you mention are also called an insurgency, which is very expensive to deal with.
50$ on Digital Ocean and it brings in 2-3k$ per month.
I'm selling API access to data (the servers process plenty of requests, I need to scale them up every once and then).

I've read about someone on linkedin with a 7$ VPS making 500k per year (half of that is selling data, the other half is talking to people via mail) but barely using the server, it's just to keep up a fancy dashboard.
This is misinterpreting "Bullshit Jobs" which is used to describe the pain from doing a job that the worker themselves feels doesn't need to be done.

I don't know how parking lot attendees felt about their jobs, maybe they were
I usually wound up eating them with a knife and fork but still often the best vegetarian thing I could find to eat when I was traveling.
What a perfect game.

What a great developer.
If you enjoy history of computing then I can very strongly recommend you get the audiobook of "The Innovators" https://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Walter-Isaacson-audiob...

The audiobook I found thoroughly entertaining.
Why didn't you explain it? Is this more hell?
Once worked on a project that was regularly compiled by each developer/tester on their respective company laptops. The laptops had a weird mix of "security" software that "battled" each other in the background. Took ca. 25 minutes to compile. For fun a colleague compiled it on some project server, took less than a minute. Everyone in the department was furious when they found out.
Haha, I'm not insulting you. We all have our style.

I'm more sympathizing that you're getting dragged over the coals for using AI when you're clearly not (you can't have been using it before it was invented) and it's just your style.

Apparently my style is to sound insulting when I don't intend to be.
Man, exactly.

We not only have created a complex society on all levels, but now a very difficult world to live, even the most simple events is now a pain in the ass.

From restaurants to small markets, you now pay for a robot, you don't have a human to support you.

things that were simple, became full of friction, all to collect our data.
https://remove-js.com/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2005/05/2...
In Austria.
Bill my license plate. That is the UX I want.
Heaven forbid there be an overriding structure that determines who can provide parking apps across the country.

Wait there's another activity a global mega corp can monopolize and overcomplexify.

Incentives are nonsensicle when the primary task is not providing a service, but using the service as a vehicle to explore software.

Parking apps are a solved problem. Why are we submitting that class of problem to tech abuse?

Feynman was right, even smart people get on computers and begin to 'play'. Pointlessly so, in pragmatic terms.
I wanted a data drive for my mini disks so bad back in the 90s. It just never happened and writeable CDs happened instead.
Parking apps are the work of the devil, and the devs and all the people involved in implementing them should be ashamed each and every day they go to work. And I write that from half a globe away from Seattle, in Eastern Europe, that is. At least some of the cities in here still give you the possibility of paying by SMS, for now.
Huh, I didn't know browsers are behaving this way these days. I believe I tried this several years ago and it didn't work. Or did I just read the standard? I'm not sure. Anyway, I always assumed it wouldn't work.
What? Capitalism is just fine without the artificial notion of copyright.

We can pay labourers for their time producing works. We don't need pay-per-copy.
Western countries are not run on direct democracy, because it is known to fail quicker. They're representative systems.

What you are essentially talking about is mob rule (direct democracy) which is a risk for any government, but for it to really manifest in a way that threatens the state it has to fail to balance the basic needs of the people and also become out of touch with any of their strong expectations which go beyond the basic needs.

If people have low expectations and have adapted to their environment, then it's not that much of a threat. This gets further solidified by punishing anyone that goes against the state and censoring any information that is inconvenient.

Many authoritarian governments have failed to be comprehensive in handling those aspects, but increasingly the oppression and control of people is becoming perfected.

The assumption that all people everywhere have sufficient opportunity, free communication, education and numbers to successfully push back against their government and thus it is always their fault that their government exists seems like a result of overlooking the very long study of imbalances in power between people and government. You cannot leave this to an assumption as an uncontestable law, which is precisely why the United States is setup the way it is to make sure the people have power and communication in order to check the government.
These guys also track hurricanes (by default), they also have handy satellite timelapses.
https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=21.3,-119.9,4.58z/ov...
A lot of the blue collar professions are in cahoots with organized crime (and similarly many adjacent white collar industries like real estate)

In New York it has gotten so bad that even first responders have been subverted

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/gang-members-and-others...
$2500 a month for child care! Might as well hire someone directly, or just not go to work.
100.000 soldiers in each country?
1939, when there was a tropical storm track that actually ran through Southern California, is probably a better comparator (but, both general and, because of forecasting, specific preparedness should be much better this time – the existence of a Southern California forecast office, after all, was a direct response to that storm.)

Track looks much farther inland: the 1939 storm hit Long Beach, the track for this is predicted to run over what looks like about the Imperial Valley, and up north toward (and potentially still with tropical storm winds into parts of) Nevada. Less populated areas directly in the track, but pretty much the whole width of Southern California is potentially going to get tropical storm strength winds, as well as whatever rains this brings, which are the real problem.

The flash flood risk maps are…quite extensive. [0]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/204534.s...
Some people say that the common folk now have cheap mass produced gadgets that were previously only available to the wealthy, and some rant about the enshitification (great term whose origin I need to learn more about of) of our society.

I nod along to this piece and yet I don’t want to be so cynical.
The US also came into those countries with massive reconstruction funds. Injecting tons of money buys a certain amount of loyalty, especially from anyone in those countries who did not support the previous regime or had fallen out of love with it.

We also promised them protection and trade and for some reason generally made good on that.

We didn’t do that with Iran or any of those other countries we messed with during the Cold War. In fact we seemed to not even really care much what happened after the coup. The only objective was to contain communism, so as long as whatever thing took power was not communist it was fine. It didn’t matter if they were monsters or even if they were even more anti-American than the previous regime as long as there wasn’t a hint of Soviet ideology.

We totally overreacted to communism to the point of actually building up more determined and ideologically consistent enemies.
Too soon for El Nino to be a factor.
Butyric acid is a highly unappealing compound characteristic of vomit. Cellulose acetate butyrate is used in inks and coatings and can decompose to butyric acid. Maybe how it happened
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We're all going to fall into a black hole anyway.
> Pay-for parking feels like the kind of thing that should become a utility with one, easy, well-known way to pay for parking anywhere.

The trouble is that this either requires government regulation, or for one company to effectively become a monopoly, which can lead to different abuses.
It removes the need to write async code in many cases. It is a more straightforward and efficient way to accomplish what we have already been doing for years on the JVM.

You don't need to switch frameworks

https://spring.io/blog/2022/10/11/embracing-virtual-threads
The point of these printers is to be reliable and accessible enough that you don't have to worry about that, just like you don't worry about supervising your drier.

Just like most appliances, a 3D printer will only catch fire in the case of a serious hardware malfunction or egregious user error. The point is for this to be rare enough that the risk is negligible, so all you'd worry about is your print failing.
Free walking on public sidewalks is also theft, following the same logic. Or sitting in place for a little too long.
Uhm no. A payment machine with contactless payments would be fine.

It's not hard. Even toddler rides at shopping centres have contactless now.
We built a startup.

You scan a QR code, that sends a text message. If you have a saved card, you pay in the text thread by replying 'pay now', if not you get a link to save a new card.

No apps required. Hoping that with enough adoption, it will obviate the need for experiences as bad as this.
Author knew what to try next at every single point of the story.
How smart can you really be if Golang is what's holding you back? It's a fine language, but definitely NOT a language that encourages clever abstractions and riddles - but that has nothing to do with being a smart programmer. Some would argue that smart programmers are drawn to simplicity (and accomplishing things IRL) and it's the fools who chase pie-in-the sky abstractions.
Slow down..

"Low-dose radiation from A-bombs elongated lifespan and reduced cancer mortality relative to un-irradiated individual"

Does not equal

"A-bombs are good for your health"

FYI, a small amount of DNA damage is thought to stimulate DNA repair pathways, which is protective. What's bad for you is massive amounts of damage that your body can't keep up with.
Film grain synthesis in AV1, what's being discussed here, is about preserving the appearance of grain from the input but still reaping the compression benefits of denoising. This isn't a "make movie more film-y" layer they're just slapping over a pristine source.

Now the filmmakers may have done that in the first place, depending on how the movie was made. So for say, things made by Netflix themselves I'm sure they sometimes use fake digital film grain, but that's coming in at an earlier step in the process.
Lol, this isn't a story about parking lot apps, guys! It is about how our industry (software) turn everything into shit.
Array Types in TypeScript
Anecdotal: I've been into pc's for 30 years. Each failed harddisk I had over those 3 decades was announced in advance by increased sounds, lowered performance and SMART warnings.
In all cases I was either capable of retrieving all the data before the thing died, or at least managed to recover most of it.

With SSD's, the failure was always sudden, zero warning, and resulted in 100% data loss.

My most important files live on traditional spinning hard disks and will continue to do so (and backups, of course).

Knock on wood.
Noise cameras that take pictures and send tickets, like red light cameras, are what we need.

And we need them for motorcycles too.
That goes beyond fraud though. That sounds more like a protection racket.
Native of 30+ years. The last ~5 years are absolutely an anomaly.

They've always been present, yes, especially towards the eastern side of the Cascades, but the past few years have felt like a different beast.
We "injected" incredible amounts of money into Iraq and Afghanistan.
Climate change is supposed to bring more rainfall though.
Here's Jack Northrop's view of a flying wing passenger plane. There's a longer version somewhere but I can't find it. Fitting that JetZero is teaming with Northrop Grumman/Scaled Composites on this. I wonder how the workshare divides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMTwQ9b5hvk
Failed at installing democracies elsewhere? Aside from Afghanistan where has the US done that? More often the US has installed or propped up autocrats w/ varying degrees of success
This is common all over the developing world. I always give them a little something, despite the feel of extortion it has to it. It’s marginally better than begging, and they will really watch the car, and often help with parking and leaving. Fair enough.
> If it has to be a freight or logistics/materiel/fuel aircraft for the forces before general service, so be it.

The challenge for that is economic: those use cases which are generally filled with adaptations of older generation aircraft at the moment probably don't pay back the R&D costs of the programme. Especially since a viable civil aircraft programme also involves worldwide line maintenance capability, a liquid aftermarket etc.

Blended wings are are not a novel idea, and the major airframers have produced multiple concepts, often combined with theoretically much more efficient open rotor engines. The first attempt at a blended wing passenger aircraft was actually over 100 years ago (it was years ahead of its time... and it crashed on its first flight). But there are a lot of challenges other than the passenger experience characteristics people have already mentioned: instead of a simple tube, you now have a broad internal space that needs bracing in a way which doesn't add weight or negate space advantages, and novel designs greatly increased uncertainty in an industry whose safety record relies on predictability. And there's commercial conservatism in an industry whose customer base invests billions in new airframes on the expectation of commonality with existing airframes, phased replacements over predictable replacement cycles etc, and where the second entrance to the market sector might well be the most successful....

Military use involves completely different economics, but for related reasons the anticipated greater fuel efficiency is rarely a big deal for the military. Still, if the military write blank checks, that leaves scope for prototypes that airline executives might struggle to say no to
The explanation I was looking for!
Maybe Musks' 'everything app' vision is going to work after all.
>closing down local production in favor of Chinese imports

This is Canada you're talking about. We have no idea how to do anything but destroy our own economy by offshoring.
But then they complain they had to manually type an import statement ... before going back to their opinionating on how bad IDEs are.

I find the whole notion of software engineers rejecting software applications being useful as a concept while it being the primary focus of their own profession quite fascinating.
Noisily works in a browser or they have apps
https://www.noisli.com/
Chargeback!
They'll tell you that as a human you have every right to use public space but as soon as you get inside a vehicle you turn into Hitler.
What do you think of the Stop the Spray BC movement? Sounds like they’ve been using herbicides to kill broadleaf trees which are important for fire breaks.
I pay for Windy Premium and it's worth it if only for access to the HRRR model, an absurdly high-resolution, both spatial and temporal, forecasting model for the USA. Nothing comes close for accuracy of short-term forecasts for me.
In the Netherlands and Germany at least I have never dealt with a parking lot attendant. There's just a machine you walk to, put your card/cash/whatever in, and you get a paper that you put in your car. The whole process takes 1 minute, the things have accessibility features to some degree, and if they don't work there's another one somewhere or its free.
Huh, I haven't had to pay for parking in a decade. I hate phones, and modern tech.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2023/08/smoke-and-tropical-st...

Heads up.
He's completely right, of course. It's a huge pain even in places like my state where pay lots still have pay stations and paper tickets.

That aside, I cannot be the only person shocked to be finding out through Hacker News that CathodeRayDude is a scaly.