skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There really is so little concern or compensation given to innocent people who get hit by the system.

No, there is none. You can report directly to the police force which will throw your complaint out. The next step is the IOPC [1] which is made of ex-police, and it's not independent. They just clear themselves of wrong-doing, when they are evidently in the wrong.

> How long did it take you to get your items back? What sort of damage did they do?

Over a year in one case, several months in another case (car keys, phone, wallet, work clothes). If it wasn't for having another bank account, a spare car and phone (all of which they didn't know about), I would have been without an income.

To add insult, they lost the car keys and damaged the phone. When I complained, they told me to claim on the house insurance - which would have sent the premiums through the roof.

> Also curious about this if you have any more info to share. What sorts of communities did you see that with?

Tight-knit groups, such as travellers or gangs. They have no way to enter the group and they all share the same name when asked.

[1] https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/
Overly generous is by definition excessive, not everyone paid at or above market rates is worth it. Someone making 5 million a year could actually be worth the money. So, it’s not a universal failing at every company, but there’s many examples of such things happening.

Private equity is much maligned, but it has turned around some failing companies by gutting upper management then having a new IPO which worked out fine.
I mean it is an aggressive set of dark patterns deployed against people with limited time and understanding. It is constantly being adapted through auto updates to obsolete any ability to resist it they have formed. It isn't the fault of the people using this software that they can't keep up with the non-stop deception treadmill run by a team of professionals (guided by their telemetry data) whose whole occupation is to find ways to manipulate users of the software. Well, it might be their fault that they choose to put up with it I guess.
./configure && make && sudo make install
Check out overpass turbo if you haven't already:

https://overpass-turbo.eu/
It respects user choice where there’s a choice to be made. Most of your examples seems to points to things that are not included by design.
>Given that there are quite a lot of manufacturers, and many models of car, no one manufacturer or model is much more than that

You're comparing manufacturers and individual models to an entire market segment. That electric vehicle prevalence is for all makes and models. The more accurate comparison in my mind would be to V8 cars from all manufacturers, or diesel vehicles from all manufacturers.
the only problem with linux mint is that you constantly have to reinstall it because there's no update mechanism
I think parent meant ban all advertising - buses, billboards, TV, etc
Considering search engines are on the way out, it's hardly surprising.
You're just projecting your own ignorance on the process.

I constantly learn new maths or programming while working alongside LLMs. They increase and augment my experience, they don't subtract from it.

You need a developed strategy when it comes to work and research, and if you already have a good one, adding GPT as a resource only helps you.
noted!
how do you know that this a regular part of the O&M?
No competitor lobied for this. it's the users that "lobied".
Slavery is an old, detestable practice. There are more slaves worldwide today than in any other time in history. Welcome to modern civilization. Contemplate that the next time you use something made in China or another third world country. This is a common practice.

https://www.un.org/en/delegate/50-million-people-modern-slav...
https://archive.is/ZU8la
> 7,942

Huh, I would never have guessed their subscriber count was so low and good on them for being open about that, I'm one of them. I've been happy with Kagi overall and once I got over the hump of "I need to ration my searches" it got a lot better. The 1000 searches a month seems to be enough for me, I'm still in my first month but it looks like I'm averaging about 30 searches a day (desktop and mobile) and I've only rarely re-tried a search on google (I use their bang feature so I can just add a "g" to the start of my query to send it to google).

On mobile especially the lack of "search as you type" and relying on google under the hood then redirecting to Kagi is a little weird and sometimes, again on mobile, the top UI will load and then you will up to 10 seconds (!!!!) for the results to pop in. I'll put up with that for a little while more but it's frustrating for sure. The domain ranking stuff is super cool though.
I love the idea of a paid customizable search engine BUT I would never want my payment/identity tied to every search I make.
If you're using a slow charger it is limited by the charger and not the battery. Fast chargers are coming but if you're buying a vehicle now and take road trips it will be challenging in the next few years.

The CEO of Ford tried doing a road trip with the F-150 EV and struggled to charge it

https://jalopnik.com/ford-ceo-jim-farley-f-150-lightning-rea...

That F150 is great at towing but boy does it kill the range. My wife runs a riding academy and many people in our business (not us) own a large vehicle that they use to trailer horses to shows that are 50-100 miles away. (Alternately we hire somebody maybe every three years to haul us a horse from a 200 mile radius, once we thought about getting one from a little further away in Ontario.) That's going to be challenging and I think it will be a while before you see good charging infrastructure at show barns.
Those are exactly the type of people who have the power to pressure Nvidia to do the right thing.
Sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing!
The closest thing we have these days is the Ford Maverick. It's a ute! They're not very available though.
Ask HN: If a country gets on the bad side of US, what all tech it can lose?
With the recent Russia-Ukraine war got me thinking how many of these global companies are American first when appropriate time. The stakes were high this time but the boycott could be used as a tool in future for much lower stakes.

Is there a protection against it in other countries?
Will AWS, Teams, Google, PayPal, Twitter stop working? What other critical services run by American corp can be at risk?
I only do so for code files. Code goes in source/repos (Microsoft default) and code related tools go in source/tools. I have a bin folder in my home directory for miscellaneous programs, but most items on my computer get tossed into downloads
I'd be averse to protesting if flying bullets were involved too.

Here in the West we have a sense of rights and freedoms that developed only after centuries of civil wars, revolutions, bloody struggles, and endless debates and propaganda. It's now baked into the Western psyche.

But other areas aren't so lucky, and some are still in the above process.
“curl | sudo bash” ;-)
Very relevant, thank you!

I've always liked the quote from Borges, which I hope is not apocryphal, that 'The original is unfaithful to the translation.'

I'm not sure I buy his analogy that multiple drafts of a single work are like translating the initial version into subsequent ones, only in the same language. But I appreciate it as a marvelous idea!
Thanks! Any idea where to get the replacmemt sensor if I needed one. Also is it difficult to replace?
There were protests, but initially at least it was a popular idea, iirc.
> after you pay for marketing

There should be no marketing if it's mandated. These companies should not be run for profit since having insurance is required by law in many situations.
Isn't the essence of pooled-risk insurance that a vast minority of policies will represent a disproportionate number of the claims in any given time period?
My gaming PC is Windows 11 and if I didn't just turn it on to play a game then shut it off when I was done, I would at least downgrade to Windows 10 if not go full Ubuntu. Constant popups, Edge is garbage, I won't have any complaints that haven't been enumerated by people more articulate than I am. But it's shocking that in an OS you pay for, it seems like an ad-riddled iOS app put together by second-rate UX designers.

Even though 99% of the developers at Microsoft don't have anything to do with Windows, it's so bad I would never apply for a job there strictly based on the association. It's terrible.
Believe it or not, it is possible to be healthy and occasionally have an ice cream cone.
I am not sure what "non-Western culture" means in this context. The only culture I see is the culture of cruelty and sadism.
They have a suspicious lack of coup attempts in the last decade.
You can build automation with *aps to do a bit better on these metrics than commercial systems—- e.g. responding to heart rate, or as someone else pointed out, noticing an SSID from a gym.
What makes you confident that no corners were cut, that the simulation is complete, or that the world simulating us isn't larger or slower?

Physical laws might be greatly simplified, anything you can't observe might not be simulated at all until necessary, the simulation might not be real-time, and the world running the simulation might have 6-dimensional spacetime (after all we love simulating 2d worlds).
How would you handle sales of the property? Some of these are desirable beachfront properties.
Upvote for HNers in Oklahoma!
Your experience doesn't contradict theirs at all -- they're not talking about being imprisoned, found guilty, or even brought to trial.

They exit the pipeline, with hardship, before your statistics pick up.
Tinder has become totally swarmed with these kind of scammers. It’s way worse than it was a few years ago.

It’s becoming basically unusable unless you communicate with photo verified users only, but I’m sure a lot of photo verified accounts are run by these scammers too.
Could be getting ahead of the next iPhone announcement
Ask HN: Laid off for the third time in 5 years, what should I do?
Hey HN,

I was laid off last week along with 10+ of my coworkers. I took last week to completely disconnect and process the news. This week I started to reach out to my network: a friend of a friend working at LinkedIn gifted me 6 months of Premium, friends at Microsoft/1Password reached out and offered referrals, and many others reached out to offer support.

This is the third time it's happened to me since I moved to Canada and weirdly enough I'm not freaking out as I already know the drill and have a plan laid out.

What are your best pieces of advice when it comes to job hunting?
Well since your are the one proposing changes, what makes you think that a “fiscal institution” (whatever that is) would be more effective than the current market based solution. Don’t mention your feelings for extra credit.
This kid can really write. Clearly he learned more then just how to chop wood.
Another one is Lost In The Stars.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/haven-for-scams-hit-movies...
Tracking Application-Level Consistency with LiteFS
Tip to anyone who is coming up with a language: Show examples as the very first thing on your homepage. I want to see the syntax, not read a philosophical tome.

https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/Programs/24.4.txt

it's a LISP variant
> which pure "A-type" data scientists tend to prefer: R, SSPS, Matlab

I very much disagree and I would say it's the opposite. The only competitor for data-scientists is R, especially if you're doing stats-heavy analysis (opposed to an ML-heavy analysis). SSPS is in my experience used mainly by someone without a data-scientist background, e.g. psychology, similarly to matlab, where the only users I know are engineers.

I would bet that the overwhelming amount of data-scientists use python, even if it's just to set up the data-pipeline. It's just the better general programming language and data-scientist are not analysing all the time but have to get the data in shape and available first.
Joke from the 80s told by Regan.. apropos to who can protest what and where.

https://youtu.be/9qh-1_tXeuQ?si=xX64eNLts5ksfDfw
I didn't catch any explanation of why McDonalds is still using these machines if it is such an issue. I've had plenty of soft serve from other machines that tastes just the same, or better.

Also, what reasoning did McDonalds corporate have for telling franchisees not to use the device?

This must be some bizarre and long contractual agreement between McD and Taylor
Just waiting for the price hike once they have a monopoly in that niche
I wouldn't expect this to ever happen post-Citizens United.
Our universe is actually just a poorly written flaky integration test that failed to return early on error and is gonna keep running until the entire test finishes
Also, if you're buying a working second-hand phone, it's probably because the seller wants to buy a new one anyway.
The primary ones that politicians don’t like is that if they just give the homeless cash they can’t get kickbacks from anybody claiming to offer government funded services for the homeless, and they give up control. There is a billion ways to shoot yourself in the foot or allow for corruption by not doing direct cash transfers and I’ve never seen any alternative outperform direct cash transfers.

This all being said, the homeless referred to the welfare check day where I lived as “Mardi Gras” and got shitfaced on booze. Which to me is a problem which could be largely fixed by doing more frequent welfare transfers. Keep in mind though the people getting welfare are diverse, this study was concerning the recently homeless.

On the whole the homeless virtually never are negatively affected by cash anyways. If anything they benefit from each dollar more than the average person would. Even a drug addict is seldom better off poorer.
In 32 of the 50 states, you can post a surety bond instead of buying the otherwise state-mandated auto insurance.

That list includes my state. I buy auto insurance because it's more convenient (and cost-effective) than going through the bond posting process, arranging my own claims-handling and legal representation in the event of a loss, etc.

I pay $1220/yr for insurance for two cars and two drivers (and for coverage well above the state minimums and excellent customer and claims service). IMO, it would be crazy for me to turn down that deal.
Ok, so first off, you can't copyright a whole machine. Patents cover ideas, copyright covers creative expression, which legally includes software. And the specific part of the law iFixit is worried about is DMCA 1201 which covers software that is designed to prevent copying of copyrighted works.

In the specific case of Kytch, they built another machine that reads error codes off the electronics on a machine that deliberately attempts to hide the error codes from McDonalds franchisees. This doesn't modify the software on those electronics, so there isn't a copyright violation. And Taylor doesn't have a patent on usable error codes or reading them off a machine deliberately designed to obscure them. This shouldn't be covered by any reading of DMCA 1201, but they want the Copyright Office to say, "yes, this is legal" anyway.

I'm not entirely sure why you're invoking Ayn Rand in your grandparent comment.
Obviously the universe is a giant computer. We’re calculating the question to 42. There’s a whole documentary about this!
I'm so disappointed. I thought it was some kind of ActiveX executor using HTML5/WASM/some cool web technology ʕ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°ʔ
I'm not sure how bad that really is or how dependent it is on cloud services.

I recently picked up a Hololens 1 because they are pretty cheap. Cortana is not working and the Microsoft Store has slim pickings, but it does come with a recent version of the Edge browser.

(Kinda funny to browse Edge with a BT mouse, keyboard and headset but it sure beats using the clicker or trying to use hand gestures.)
Right, and how would you go about circumventing this protection? By using syscalls. So you could argue that you only used syscalls, and thus adhered to the rule.
> have you ever considered devoting your full attention to what you're reading

have you ever considered being less assumptive and judgemental? you have absolutely no insight into my reading comprehension ability, and have no idea what my process is like.

> you don't need to rely on chatgpt mangling the information into nonsense

except that doesn't happen? It only strengthens my understanding by allowing me to ask questions?

you really need to look at how you're approaching this conversation and calibrate. instead of this mess of assumptions and loaded questions, ask a real, open-minded question such as "what does your workflow look like? what are the pros/cons of this approach?"

if my system works for me, I don't need to prove it to you, however you yourself are missing out on a new style of research which will become incredibly common.
Fortunately, Linux Desktop users are no longer forced to bend over and take it from NVIDIA: they can get an AMD GPU instead and enjoy a proper kernel driver.
It could even be a sewer system if that's your obsession.
No amount methodology is going to make gold come out of a team that doesn't deeply understand the reasons for building what they're building.

I work with a small-a agile team, and the devs who "get it" just make it happen without a waterfall. The ones who don't get it get a super detailed spec to minimize the chances they'll mess it up, and still mess it up. The ones in the middle know when to reach out to ask for an out-of-cycle product clarification before building a useless pile of code.

The main difference is, do they understand why they're building what they're building? Or do they show up, punch through a bunch of tickets, go home? Really hard to fix that with process when that's not working. It starts with good hiring, building a vision together for what we're building, and communicating it repeatedly.
It would likely be required by mortgage companies because a new roof is 20-30k on the low end. Otherwise the risk of losing their investment is quite high.
Microsoft confuses me. They’ve been building up all this goodwill with frankly outstanding software and services. Then… they go and ruin it all with windows. What the heck is going on over there? Whoever leads that division probably needs to be replaced.

I’ve heard installing windows with language set to English Europe or world makes the experience a lot better. Is that true?
This is uncharitable and I urge anyone thinking this way to consider if sometimes it’s okay to champion oneself /especially/ when done to escape feelings of self doubt.

If someone were like this all of the time? Sure. But that isn’t what this is about so I find it unfair to treat it as if this is some innate character flaw.
If we are pointing out that China has more coal generation than everyone else, we should not leave out the fact that China has more solar generation capability than the rest of the world combined, and that their wind generation matches the next top 7 countries combined.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/china-wind-sol...

China is a big country with 3x the population of the USA and the world’s largest manufacturing sector, so it’s quite understandable that China has intense energy needs from multiple forms of generation.

I would say that China chooses coal because of its geographic supply, just like the USA often chooses natural gas.

Running out of oil and having a climate crisis due to excessive carbon emissions aren’t mutually exclusive events.
I have always been very careful with all of this, I'm very picky with the app I install, and I uninstall things very easily and regularly. I rarely install a new app unless I'm going to use it.

I had several phones that turned to a halt for no real good reason.

Maybe it's the fault of the phone manufacturer and how it installs android, but to me it is still somewhat the fault of Android as a system and how it's designed.

I have never used an Apple phone.
@dang, could you use this link instead?
> The owner shed his Section 230 protections when he made posts directly involved in harassment of his victims that he has a personal beef with.

That's an interesting legal theory.

> Even the EFF's article says the site is full of crime and called on the cops to prosecute. This also means they won't defend your beloved website in court.

An organization making a claim is not evidence of the claim being true.
ha one for you too then!
> a device allowing the user - the Vatican - to peer back through time

There should be a Godwin’s law like principle where anytime a conspiracy theory mentions the Vatican the conversation ends. The sheer number of paranoid/delusional/motivated conspiracy theories involving the Vatican makes my eyes roll. There are a few well documented conspiracies involving the Vatican, but they weren’t kept secret for very long because the place is so full of people with wildly different linguistic, cultural, and political influences that there’s not enough cohesion to ensure secrecy in very much.
I mean, these aren't people locked up on slave ships and hauled to a new world or something, but they are absolutely trafficked in that they are forced to do the work against their will without a way out - literally modern slavery.

This comment feels mega weird to me, like you're trying to downplay the plight of these hundreds of thousands of modern-day slaves because it doesn't meet your definition of trafficking.

I'm certainly going to trust official figures coming from the UN over someone on HN who happens to be traveling in SEA
>The changes could result in merchants paying an additional $502 million annually in fees

Considering the global reach of the two processing networks...that seems small enough to be a rounding error. Hardly surprising considering the costs of everything seem to be on the rise.
No mate, I'm not talking about pupils living in remote villages in the mountains but those living outside of big cities. They usually have a 30 minute bus/train ride to the city plus another 30 minutes is the overhead time for the trip from home to the bus/train stop and then from the destination stop to the school means about 1h in total or sometimes more is absolutely normal here for pupils to commute via public transport per journey.

Which I guess explains the country's and employer's skepticism on remote work, everyone is so used to long commuting times their whole lives, they're desensitized to it and accept it for work as being the norm as well.
Yes, it's true that North American charging infrastructure is backward and primitive. North America is still struggling to standardize on something as simple as what plug to use.
It seems like we have to do a lot of work in the US to empower the consumer, at least to catch up with Europe.
I was indeed not talking about glueing the jack, but about the rest of the phone. Not doing that will presumably lower your rating, and then adding a jack would lower it even more - and I'm guessing that would lower it beneath the water-resistant certification threshold.
I posted a thread here in 2019 for anyone curious on the technical walkthrough for setting one of these up (+ HN discussions) [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20606230
In 2023 you get to pay to be the (premium) product.
Largest protests in western history. Even in the US, where the population was pretty gaslit.

There was more opposition to that war from the start than there ever was for Vietnam.
> making the situation worse for desktop Linux users and consumers

Most desktop Linux users don't need NVIDIA even a little, because AMD's GPUs will serve them just fine. They're not doing AI.
What a cool situation we’re in where two companies own most of our payments and apparently raise fees at the same time.