skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article shows a graphic showing 3 scooter related deaths in 2022.
They state that 15000 scooters have been removed from the streets of Paris (presumably rentals since private is not banned) but fail to state the total number of scooters. Other useful bits of information omitted are were:

Were those deaths pedestrians or riders? (Given that the complaints were about sidewalk riding)
How many bicycles are in use in Paris and what is the death ratio there?
Are bicycle accidents less severe than scooter accidents?

I imagine that I’d rather be hit by a scooter than speared by a bicycle but maybe scooter riders are just more out of control. There is so much detail that could be covered in these sorts of articles but they always seem to disappoint.

The only interesting insight made was that the decision was most likely skewed by older voters who don’t ride.
Speak for yourself, I use proper sandboxing and it works.
Those providers have lawyers, and they themselves don't want to go anywhere near trouble. The few $1000s you might be paying them to run your Silk Road 2.0 aren't worth the millions they will spend on legal, reputation damage, etc.
Check out the discussion threads where Github solicits feedback. The latest update is a regression in pretty much every sense.

In terms of performance, pages were slow to render because Github reinvented the textbox widget. Even searching within the page was fucked because redrawing was so slow. We're talking nearly a second of lag even though this virtualization bullshit was done ostensibly "so that the page is faster to load and snappier responsively".

The UI itself is increasingly cluttered with random widgets. A symbol explorer that cannot cope with non-default branches. A news feed of github.com related news that I can't dismiss. A personalized news feed full of repositories I'm not even remotely interested in. Ads for copilot.

The whiz bang text widget failed to account for multibyte characters. Emoji and non-Latin characters weren't displayed properly, and in one of the feedback threads an end user had to explain how strings work in Javascript.

The site itself is completely broken in the version of Safari that I use. Elements get positioned off the page.

There are tons of visual distractions e.g. that symbol explorer pops up when you click on some symbols, making text selection more difficult.

Keyboard navigation doesn't work (as it's not been implemented in their custom whiz bang text widget). I saw a few complaints that the whiz bang text widget randomly adds parens and indents and becomes blurry while scrolliing (as there are occasionally mismatches between the Github custom whiz bang thing and what the browser does).

The nav bar is a mess. The initial public release even eschewed any branch navigation, so if you scrolled down you couldn't easily jump to another or tell what branch you were on. Now they only hide branch navigation some of the time, depending on which size navbar you're allowed to have at the moment. As you scroll through a page the navbar itself jumps all over the place and changes size a few times.

The hyperlinks generated from Markdown are broken in a variety of ridiculous ways, the hyperlinks from the site itself are often no longer anchor tags (breaking accessibility and common sense).

Like everything else, code search is not branch aware. Given how much Github was hyping up the new search I really hope the ability to search a non-default branch is just hidden. But given how much the Github UX team loves scattering notification badges everywhere to highlight new features, I doubt it. Searching within the page got similar treatment and is more or less incompatible with the whiz bang text widget (Firefox only seemed to find things that were on the currently visible section of the page).

I've no idea if it's related but issue search has become nearly useless (for me). If I search for a term there's an awful good chance it isn't actually used in any of the issues returned.

My favorite comment was this:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24989439/258012882...

For someone locked into a Github workflow, an alternative front end might be a nice thing to have.
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About that book: “ It would be a book-length corrective that would address and properly contextualize and source all of the errors that occur at every level in The Myth, from basic problems of terminology to broader methodological and interpretive flaws” - https://wp.nyu.edu/sjpearce/2017/03/17/paradise-lost/
Two other potentially effective punishments:

1. Removal of all crowd-sourced data from their systems. Let's see if users will want to come back if there are zero network effects. Maybe sad for the users, but I'd feel safer if data-leak==data-removal.

2. Forced modification of their trademarked logos for some period of time. This will warn people to stay away from the company and their products. (Trademarks are all about trust, so this seems fair).
One sentence in this article
is of import:

> Statistically, Speed and the team found a correlation here, but they couldn’t explain why they noticed what they did.

Correlation between smoking and mental illness has long been recognized. Without meaningful insight into causation or lack thereof, it's not clear to what extent this work contributes, and the quotes in the article suggest a desire to handwave quickly past the question on the assertion that some causative effect is present and "only" needs identifying.
Atmospheric electricity is a very interesting phenomenon. The electric potential difference from the air to the ground increases by about 100 volts per meter of height.

Perhaps this electric field is used by plants as some kind of feedback mechanism telling them how tall they are, and by disrupting that field with an antenna we are somehow tricking the plant into thinking it is taller or shorter than it really is and it responds to that by growing more vigorously.
What a boring attitude. Not everyone equates mere survival with living to the full.
Coffee City, Texas has 250 residents and 50 police officers
Seeing how there are tons of young males in big trucks driving around asserting territorial dominance, I suppose self-driving cars that are not really that good are indeed more safe, comparatively speaking
> are there any downsides or performance penalties compared to slotting directly into a PCIe slot?

Latency, for one. All signals must at least pass through two Thunderbolt/USB4 chipsets on their way to and from the GPU, and at least for anything but high profile AMD CPUs Thunderbolt is connected to the southbridge instead of northbridge (where the x16 GPU slot is).
You mean the ones that have existed for literal decades and still work to this day? Cry me a river because a single beep ruins your mood for 5 minutes, it's probably better than your house burning down.
Agree that cars in bike lanes is a problem but keeping stuff that punctures my tires during commute is a very high priority for me. Especially in spring and fall so much sharp debris accumulates that it's a major headache for me.
It would kill the ecosystem of highly paid "cloud cost optimization" consultants who do little more than flip a few switches in the AWS console.
I'm taking about a kernel module being ported from something other than Linux. With minimal changes.

Changing some entry points won't make it a derived work.
You can set the logistics request maximum amount of the item to same value as minimum amount - though then if you want to pick up some more you have to adjust so the bots won't come take them away, but for me it's much preferable to inventory being filled from tiny extra stacks.
It's astonishing how BAD basically all media reporting around science is. Anytime I see a headline about science I assume it's bullshit and investigation within to the actual science behind it, it basically always is.
Google Workspaces has not been outright killed, but Google does seem to enjoy shooting it in the leg every once in a while.
It is if they are absolutist.
A podcaster I listen to said something that stuck with me. He doesn’t care who invented the light bulb. That would’ve happened anyway.

What’s way more interesting is events that could’ve completely changed human history. Like if Julius Caesar lost in Gaul or the Persians had defeated the Greeks or the Mongols had invaded Europe.

On that list had to be what if Islam had spread throughout Europe? It very much could’ve at different points. Not just the Moors but later the Ottomans.
A Duodecade of Numberphile
Yeah. Imagine getting drafted and not being allowed to have a cigarette in the field. Outrageous.

If I’m an adult at 18, let me make adult decisions.
I've hired a few people from bootcamps, and they're really great. They're almost always mature professionals who have jumped head first into a career change, so they're invested. The camps tend to cover a lot of the "newer" parts of the language, and a few "typical products" in business, so they come in with a sense of "I've seen this pattern before".
> Espiritu is unconvinced by anecdotes about increased production, he says, because he hasn’t seen any explanation for how an antenna could physically aid a plant’s growth

Meta comment. I'm a software dev but consider myself a scientist, at least in part, and I don't like dismissals like this. It's true we need to understand the underlying mechanisms of things, that's what science is about. It is not (in my view) about this, where we say we have no plausible underlying mechanism so we shouldn't be interested. There are times when we need to take that tack such as with likely crankery[1], but the first thing you do is check it out.

It's not a scientific attitude to say "I can't see how it works so screw it"

> “Does it help it better photosynthesize? Does it help it better uptake nutrients? Does it speed up the cellular metabolism of the plant? No one seems to have that answer,”

As someone else has pointed out, it's been suspected for decades that electric fields affect healing (I remember hearing about this in the 1980s where it was provisionally found to help bone growth in broken bones). There seems to be no plausible mechanism and it may turn out to be false – but it may not. You dismiss after you've taken a look, not before.

Edit: As mentioned, this is a meta comment. It's not about plant growth, it's about the 'right' attitude.

[1] if all perpetual motion machines so far have failed then it's likely the next one isn't going to work either. There is a cost to looking into peculiar things, but a potential benefit as well.
> so that even they can't access it.

> scanning stuff on-device

What do you think they were going to do once the scanning turned up a hit? Access the photos? Well that negates the first statement.
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How susceptible to tolerance would the positive effect be? Would a long term smoker still have any benefit? Or is it like coffee, very quickly giving no benefit at all.
"small government" also means just enough government intrusion in other people's private affairs to enforce their preferred social policies.
This is indeed the source of many troubles for Spain, and it is quite shocking. There are laws against investigating were victims of civil war are buried, and other dark things like that.

At the time, any reforms had to please the Franco supporters, or a coup was feared. This is why the Constitution is ambiguous in many points: Spanish is aconfessional but with special historical weight for Catholicism, the amount of independence of different regions, etc.).

I think it is easier to understand after 2 facts:

1. The dictatorship lasted from 1939 until 1975.

2. Franco designated what would be the next King as his successor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I). Keep in mind Spain was a republic before Franco's coup and civil war. This king, instead of becoming the new dictator, was installed back with the monarchy.
Uber: Bypassing Large Diffs in SubmitQueue
This is great, like many others I've dreamed of a device like this.

What I really want is a sweeper ahead of my front wheel, though.
So if up to an individual, what do you think they would choose for their education if there were no mandates agreed upon by their government. DraftKings is a gambling titan that could offer a very profitable option.
but the electric current may improve dispersion of copper ions through the soil.
A combination of the devil you know and Stockholm Syndrome.

It was better in many ways than the dominant techniques in 2013, sure, but that's not a terribly high bar, especially when observing the React model a decade later.

React served well enough for quick starts. It proved… challenging… for ongoing maintenance and quality control in long-lived projects.
Korean internet giant Naver explores robotics, AI and autonomous driving
How you became an advanced Linux user?
For those working on the field, dealing with servers, setting personal machines, do you consider yourself an advanced user? If so, how did you achieve that level? What are the subjects you think are the most important?

If you want to, share one moment you had an aha (aka revelation) moment that changed your perception of Linux*?

* Kernel or OS specific
Are antioxidants just helping all growth across the board, including tumors? Or do they help tumors more than other tissue?

I guess there’s a chance it might be an unfortunate or misleading message here if supplements reduce the risk of getting cancer more than they increase the severity once someone has it?
* Regarding OP's example, I wonder if the problem is unclear documentation. The documentation for the geofencing might not have been clear exactly who they were restricting the software to: whether it was to people within the US or people living in the US. Without physically traveling to another country and signing up with a foreign account with a foreign address with a foreign phone account, the devs might never realize that there's an issue accessing the system.

* It's sometimes the case that geofencing is applied for major contractual or legal reasons that cannot be bypassed.

> A service might be restricted to X state because there are stupid laws that govern it. For instance, many sports betting sites are really careful about geographical checks because they don't want to run afoul of complicated state laws so they check if you're physically in X area for each action.

> A video service might be restricted to Y country because there's no way to get the rights to play some video content in Y country, so doing that is necessary to avoid running afoul of Hollywood.

* A lot of App review spam or fraudulent credit card checks come from overseas, so there might be an arguably semi-valid reason to restrict people from using a service that is useless unless you're physically there.
Companies shouldn't police uses, period. Once you buy something (regardless of specifics of purchase) you should be free to use it in any way you please, within the law.
Any chance you could post a community control scheme that's pretty close? I love factorio but haven't gotten a good intuitive control scheme set up on my deck
If we were to eat them, surely some amount might end up as soil, but digestion and respiration means that a fair amount of the pig ends up being pumped into the atmosphere from our lungs.

You can think metabolism as a sort of intricately complex burning ritual.
If a sufficiently robust integrity check is used, then an update failure is just a no-op, not a bricked (or even reduced capability) device, no?

Now, pushing a bad firmware version is another story, and impossible to prevent unless the firmware updater contains some impossibly complex static analysis tools to formally verify some set of correctness properties of the incoming update.
People have been making fake photographs for going on two centuries now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bayard
Mirror [1]

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I've been this way since the first murmurings about Angry Birds. That was the first time the concept of apps doing things other than the obvious was brought to my mind. After that, some researching shows that this behavior was the norm and not the exception. So, my phone is pretty much boring, and also helps justify why I'm not a continual device upgrader.

You and I seem to be in a very small minority though
file list doesn't work at all:

https://gothub.frontendfriendly.xyz/microsoft/vscode/tree/ma...

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src
My favorite one on the list would be Google Wave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

For some of these other ideas, I’m actually surprised Google even launched them. It’s hard to imagine most of these ideas moving the needle for Google at all. This must be the result of 20% time. I’ve heard they no longer have that?
That was jarring for me, I wasn't quite sure what the article wanted to say at first. Title "we're doing X", body "we don't do X here".
Correlation does not equal causation. Smokers aren’t all schizophrenics and not all schizophrenics are smokers.
Which of these things is "training AI"?

* an abuse detection system is trained on user behavior and data to flag bad actors for human review
* When I perform a web search the ranking function is trained all user behavior
* The email composer will suggest completions based on my own typing history
* a public chat interface to an LLM is trained on my private emails

"training AI" is an implementation detail that probably doesn't belong in a privacy policy most of the time. Would be nice if Mozilla was more explicit about the behavior they are concerned with.
That sounds really interesting, do you have more information about it?
Recently, Kentucky had similar problems with algos and tech, but with bus routes. [1] And here I was thinking it was just an American problem.

Infuriating that children and education are being used as cash cows for the corrupt and incompetent - promise efficiency for the kids and system, deliver absolute shit for everyone, except the execs who got paid. Fucking evil.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37121138
> You are reading my words through the lens of your own opinions and prejudices.

Have you considered that you just don't write very clearly?

> I could call it "campaign finance". Private campaign finance is ubiquitous.

No, it's not just about campaign finance. Of course every politician raises campaign funds, an empirical fact beyond dispute. The corrupt, unethical aspect of it is buying influence, trading campaign donations for access, favors, and votes. This is not an essential requirement of campaign finance, but it's a sadly common occurrence. I said way back at the beginning "As far as I've seen, which is a lot, he's been a paid tool of the Delaware financial industry for his entire career" and "I'm baffled that some people don't consider it corruption when politicians are owned by campaign contributors." I wasn't talking about the fact that Joe Biden has raised campaign funds; by itself, that's not interesting or worth noting. My point was that Biden has consistently, persistently served the interests of his big money donors rather than his constituents. That's corruption. Type 1 corruption, if you insist on using those terms. It doesn't personally enrich politicians, but it advances their political careers and power.

> What I said was to pose a rhetorical question: if a business person is unethical, how would you know? Because if a business person does something unethical they will generally try to conceal it.

This is ridiculous, absurdly cynical, even by my own standards of cynicism. Are you skeptical of the existence of true love too? Is everyone in your life just lying to you about everything?

I'm in business myself, and I know myself. I don't think I'm unique in the world. I've dealt with plenty of honest people. Moreover, in general, people are not particularly good at covering up their misdeeds and bad intentions. It's usually pretty obvious, if you're observant.

> The operative word was "free", not "competitive".

You still haven't stated what you mean by "free". Or "competitive", for that matter. (Have you considered that you just don't write very clearly?)

> Obviously there are competitive markets, and politics is one of them.

I wouldn't consider a duopoly to be very competitive. What do you even mean by "competitive"? Is any market except a monopoly competitive to you? Maybe we should call it "type 1" competitive...

In any case, whatever you mean by those words, I simply don't agree with this:

> Even in commerce the vast majority of industries are dominated and controlled by a very small number (often just two, sometimes one) of major players.

You can cherry-pick examples, but I see plenty of markets that aren't so dominated.
I am an electrical engineer who has to learn all those norms.

The normal eueopean "Schuko" plug is rated for 16A short term and 10A long term. Long in that context means everything above 1 hour of continous load, which should cover typical applications of water cookers.

The wall sockets are typically the same, although 16A continous variants exist and old wall sockets with bad contacts can easily heat up enough that I would avoid ever going over 10A with them if it can be avoided.
If only everyone could be as good a writer as Derek Lowe or Ed Yong.
Just today I had an idea for a funny T-shirt design, for some print on demand stuff I want to do.

I will probably never do it because it requires a parody of a trade mark — think Zeitgeist[0] if you know SF — and I’m afraid the algos would flag me as a bad guy even if it’s perfectly legal. I already got kicked off Redbubble for uploading AI-generated images, with no recourse whatsoever.

Whereas if I would just have it printed locally and sell it at fairs I’d be in the clear for sure. Until Skynet becomes brand-aware anyway.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zeitgeist+bunny+logo+sf&t=h_&iar=i...
Because people could have that same network on-promises on the other side of the VPN (I have).
Perhaps the issue is "psychological harms" which are not yet criminal, but we have an up-and-coming generation of law grads who believe they should be.
Wait tables. You don't need much experience, it can be fun, your glutes and hamstrings will thank you, and it's not bad money if you can manage to get into a good place. And it will make you cooler, as service industry types are one of the hippest slices of society. The downside is that it can suck you into a nightcrawler lifestyle.