skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all emails sent to/from any Seattle owned email address in 2017, please provide the following information:

1. From address
2. To address
3. bcc addresses
4. cc addresses
5. Time
6. Date

Is this really a reasonable request that the government is expected to answer? Doesn't this expose a bunch of private information about government employees and the people they interact with? I understand this post (and apparently the law) takes this as completely normal thing, but it seems really weird to me.

Some examples:

* exact times people are getting in/out the office (eg. the time in the morning when a person first answers an email from their boss)

* full information about holidays taken by all employees (eg. days/weeks during which no emails are sent)

* friendships or relationships (eg. any communication between employees that doesn't follow from the hierarchy or from team delineations)

* information from criminal investigations (eg. an investigator sending an email to the parking fine department probably means one of the cases they're working on is related to parking fines)

This all seems a huge privacy leak? Should this stuff even be called "metadata" if so much can be derived from it?
The biggest problem with SQL is that it was designed for humans, for writing by hand, not for programmatic access. So it suffers the same problems as shell commands do.
A game changer for building robust distributed systems
EPFL researchers have developed a new distributed algorithm that, for the first time, solves one of the key performance and reliability problems affecting most of the currently-deployed consensus protocols.
Show HN: HNWidgets – Hacker News Widget for iOS
As an avid HN user I wanted to have a simple widget showing me the top links shared on here, I also wanted to experiment for the first time with WidgetKit, this is what I came up with.

HNWidgets is open source and offers a simple widget in three different sizes (medium, large, extra-large). You can choose between different HN lists to fetch links from and how frequently the widget should refresh its content.

It's currently being rolled out on the App Store so the link in the README might still not work for some people.

Hope you find it useful!
Nobody will want to take public transit if the option of quick and efficient private transport becomes a reality.

You can be taken exactly where you need to go in much more comfortable conditions with much less risk of running into anti-social behavior.

That's why Uber has a market even in cities like NYC or DC.
I don't know why something like this gets trotted out in every self driving thread as if it's some sort of clever point. One thing being dangerous does not automatically make the shiny new alternative safer. General purpose self driving literally doesn't exist yet, and when it does it might be even less safe than human driving. Assuming that it will definitely be safer because of some highly constrained testing doesn't track, regardless of how interesting the tech is or how much money investors hope to make from it.
> They manage to avoid collisions by driving extremely conservatively, but the way they traverse, say, a left turn against traffic is absurd. They slow everyone down, including emergency vehicles and public transit
[...]
They don't work in the rain, they can't handle construction, they block garages and driveways.

You've just described the average Subaru driver in the Seattle area. How is this notably different? Should they be banned from the roads as well?
It's like the nicotine business. It turns out all businesses that dabble in addiction end up wanting to monitor and control kids from a young age.
freedom is not "everyone has a car". freedom is no one has to have a car to get where they need to go and do what needs done. for example, my favorite bar in my city is like .75 miles away. I would love to walk there, but functionally you can't because the two roads you need to take to get there are dangerous with limited or no sidewalks and extremely dangerous intersections (one is a blind corner where the cars are regularly doing 60 off of an expressway). if I could walk there (or even better, if I could bike there!) then I would be much much much freer to move about my home.

I don't hate cars! I just don't want to have to jump in a car to go somewhere I could easily walk
Imagine a distant future where there're so many crimes and so few judges you're cryofrozen awaiting trial.

If you were repeatedly flash frozen and flash unthawed to be asked questions about yourself, with the same memories upon thawing as when frozen, for those moments you weren't frozen would you be "remotely conscious"?

I think you'd think you think, don't you think?
This is really interesting! I use github actions almost entirely so I wonder if it'd be possible to integrate it with that CI system.

Taking a step back, if you want to see this become more widely useable I'd suggest finding ways to integrate to existing workflows.
Ah, good source to check, thanks.
Yeah, if someone would pronounce "Gdańsk" with silent "G" then that would be true. But someone fluent in Polish would pronounce "G-dańsk" with clear "gh".
On my computer it is much slower now. It was always slow on large mailboxes but now it is almost unusable and I am thinking about downgrading or switching. Any recommendations?
I had an epiphany about self driving recently late at night on the streets of San Francisco. It was a somewhat deserted part of town, and the roads were empty. There was a lone Cruise car chugging along and constantly stopping at red lights. The signals were so badly optimized that the car would be the only one waiting at a completely empty intersection for minutes at a time, only to be stopped again at the next one, and the one after that. A single mile of empty road must have taken this car 15+ minutes to traverse. All the top engineering, sensors and ML algorithms in the world and the car was still at the mercy of a basic city planning failure.

We have been conditioned to think of autonomous driving as the answer to the traffic nightmares in every city, but tech will never ever be able to solve a social problem (just like how building a wider road will never ease congestion). Had even a fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been poured into self driving so far been spent towards, say, improving sidewalk quality, making traffic lights smarter, putting sensors along roads, coming up with a standard communication protocol for these sensors, building out public transit, improving urban planning etc. over the last 15 years, we would all be living better lives today. But a VC would rather set that money on fire to have a small chance at a 100x return.
kmail and mutt are nice.
Show HN: Lasso. A Chrome extension for saving money at the grocery store
Hey HN. Built this for my Mom as a toy but decided to muster up the courage to put it out there publicly to see what the world thinks.

It is basic browser automation but with a focus on a particular niche; digital coupon stores you can load onto your phone number for use at checkout.

Hope it is useful. Please share any and all feedback. I have a few ideas on monetization but it is currently donation only. Also have an advanced evolution of the product that I have built but not ready to release yet. Submitted to /r/Entrepreneur as well but wanted to get feedback from my fellow hackers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/17fjcrk/went_...
I’ve been using iOS since 2007 (first iPod touch), in three different languages, and have never had anything similar. Do you have an example of words it autocorrects wrongly for you?
First time I’ve seen an email cleaner that doesn't ask for my oauth tokens and can't access my data, so decided to give it a go. Took a while to export my inbox from Gmail to use in the tool, but maybe that's expected, given the indecent size of my inbox. In the end I've freed 8gb and deleted 80k emails.
I don't disagree with your overall point, but I think it's important to keep in mind that these companies often want more regulation— especially regulation that they're already compliant with. Of course EASA compliant airlines don't want to open things up to airlines that can operate more cheaply. Whether or not that's solely a consideration of safety is less clear.

Age 67 is another example where unions do not want more competition. I imagine a hypothetical relaxation of CPL regs would be similarly opposed by airlines and unions alike as they certainly wouldn't welcome the resultant competition. Desire for regulation can have many motivations.
I see them multiple times per day in the Alamo Square/Divisadero neighborhood in SF.
Do I smell a round 2 for a Windows Phone?

Imagine a new Windows Phone....that runs Android apps.
Well this certainly fits in with the standard for discourse around accessibility, which is mostly a bunch of people inventing a person in their head who will have an issue with something someone else made and attacking the creator/developer/designer for not considering it. Meanwhile the first guy gets to pat himself on the back for being a good person.

"a11y might be confusing to people with autism" -- autistic people are extremely represented in tech. Of all the things autistic people struggle with, it's not technical jargon within their own industry.
hehe, I LOVE the flex of driving a Prius. It's such a perfect utility vehicle, and almost nothing is sadder to me that someone driving a fancy car thinking they're awesome because of that. It's so hard to imagine thinking you have social status because of your car. Yes I'm aware this is most of the world, but its so funny to me.
>I have to say it's miles better

In what ways?
I personally don't blame the fastfood worker for giving me a Big Mac.
Steve Case got his big AOL payday two-and-a-half decades ago already, and his investment portfolio doesn't have a dog in the social-media arena (AFAIK), so he has no (serious) conflict-of-interest, and his motive is not to prevent tech growing (which would be unachievable, and even if it wasn't he wouldn't personally gain from that).

He's actually a reasonably altruistic tech m/billionaire like Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak, Tony Hsieh (RIP), Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape), Mark Cuban, Esther Dyson, Heidi Roizen.
Is Environmentalism Killing the American Dream?
“we need to be pro-innovation and pro-progress”
Yup, 128 bit bundles with 3 instructions each, and ways to indicate that different bundles could execute in parallel.
No, I don't want people to trust my anecdata. I want people to trust the considerable body of peer reviewed science that show the opposite to the drivel the parent poster was spouting.
Just don't commit any crimes. Or be suspected of one.
Disclaimer: I acknowledge that this is a whataboutism argument.

Why not use the phone to detect physical and verbal abuse? The microphone is always on for most users, we have algos that can detect the sound of an adult yelling, a child crying, and the percussive sound of a human hitting another human. If 2/3 of those sounds are detected, why not forward that to NCMEC for further review? It doesn't have to be "1 yell, 1 cry, break down the door", it could be a pattern detector that logs the times, the severity, and the mode. If it hears objects being thrown, people yelling, kids crying, why isn't that sufficient to call authorities? How come "think of the children" suddenly doesn't work anymore?

I'm being 50% facetious here because obviously that's a huge privacy issue. But the same logic for CSAM scanning still applies nonetheless. Why only address 1/3 of abuse and ignore verbal/emotional, and physical? Those kids need justice too.
Go ahead and name some.

I assume you're imagining embedded realtime applications rather than server or desktop OS's; civilian aerospace has no business case to develop their own when Green Hills, VxWorks, Wind River, et al. are right there.
I’m pretty sure that “bad passwords” hurt in the 23AndMe case. IIRC the story is they have a service that finds your “dna relatives,” and some people had bad passwords, which meant that attackers could get into their accounts, and also discover information about anyone who’d been matched to them via this “dna relatives” service.

Maybe this sort of “dna relative” service shouldn’t exist, because anyone who opts into it is implicitly putting faith in the password safety of everybody they’ve been matched with. But, I dunno, at least I don’t see this as explicitly evil on 23AndMe’s part.
I had 1500 visitors from Hacker News, than none
This is my html walkable online-Website.
I cannot pay anymore.
I am ejected.
I live in Hamburg, Brahmsallee 41.
I do not know if I ever helped anyone, but it might be the case.
I'm really glad TB exists and is still developed. I try it once a year every year because I use Firefox, and TB is cross platform.

Honestly, I can't say it fits my needs more than Mac mail.app or the web client when on a windows computer (mailbox.org). I guess what I'm saying is that I have never used Outlook so I've never needed an open source replacement for it.
No. Experienced professional human drivers, driving without time pressure.
What if you replace the word corporation with "small business" ? do you still feel the same way?

There's a significant body of case law establishing that the first amendment constrains government control of corporate speech. the Citizens United case is only the most recent high profile example and arguably the most controversial. Generally, jurists on both the liberal and conservative ends of the spectrum agree that corporate speech is protected in the same way that individual speech is.
It should be tagged like "56k killer" like the good old days!
EA - Effective Altruists
Outperform mediocre humans means AI cars replace something shitty with something less shitty.

That means the net danger of traffic as a whole goes down.

Setting an unreasonably high bar - like "drive with perfect record" - will simply prevent that happening, and we're stuck with humans. Perfection is a north star, not an attainable goal. As long as we get net positive, the world is a tiny bit better. And then you make it a tiny bit better again. And again.

Why do you think the bar for AI should be higher than "better than what we have"?
I will admit to being a bit hyperbolic there. Compared to normal ARM licensing, it's way less.

Meanwhile I recall start of RISC-V hype being, among other things, Western Digital dropping a ton of investment money into it just to escape ARM license costs.
- There's a cancel subscription button in Settings

- It rolls over surpluses, it doesn't rollover deficits. This is documented and an intentional design decision to get people to "cover" the money. You can roll over negatives in "Ready to Assign" and in Credit Card balances, if absolutely necessary.

- I don't know what you mean about multiple physical accounts with transfer requirements.

- Without knowing what "certain postings" are, I assume you're referring to the fact that Payee association is only based on the text in the transfer and no other signals

- It can split postings, I'm not sure what you mean. You can have a transaction that is subdivided as two transfers to two accounts. You have to use the category split button.

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I do agree that there are some things it's missing, but the only one I've found interrupts my flow is the lack of flexibility in goal setting (some times of goals can only recur monthly).
its been unflagged now but its at position 61. which is basically dead. i think it came back at pos 34 (still not front page which it was on) with Tell HN: added to the title, but a minute later went to 61 (third page).
> Most people can travel by foot, bike, scooter, bus, train, trolley, etc... to get their daily errands done.

In the Top 10 US cities that have the density to support this, sure. Head out to the Top 100s and this reality falls apart very quickly. There's no economic incentive for businesses to be so well distributed through a dense urban core. There's differential zoning and mixed use that form the backbone of those cities economies.

The idea that we can just total re-engineer our cities and our social lives all across the country to solve a traffic problem that is not at all distributed the same way is insane to me.

Most deaths happen at night. Most deaths involve alcohol or drugs. Other common factors are speed, youth, and bad roadway configuration. A tree in the wrong place is lethal. Bad guardrail installations are lethal.

There is so much more to do than to put everyone on a bus and pretend that 15 minute cities are going to work.
> If there was some sure fire guaranteed method we would do it tomorrow, no later the cost.

That's obviously not true. Here is a simple solution: sterilize as much of humanity as possible. Preferable via an airborne mutagen or something like that. Boom no children to be abused anymore in the span of a few generations.
The DMV makes it perfectly clear.

> After coming to a complete stop, it then attempted to do a “pullover maneuver while the pedestrian was underneath the vehicle.”
Nice data set.

> Debt secured by residential property was about unchanged between 2019 and 2022. About 42 percent of families in both 2019 and 2022 had debt secured by their primary residence, and the median amount of this debt decreased by less than 1 percent to $155,600 in 2022.

Man, everything is skewed by all the old folks that bought their houses decades ago.
in their bio:

> Help me get to 1000 karma and I’ll stop posting forever.

Maybe we should give them that last 50 karma.
I get asked weekly for an ad-bait app that my kids find though an ad-bait app that they previously had approved. Fun fact: once you’ve approved an App on Apple’s App Store, you can’t unapproved it. Hit the wrong button, too bad. Game switched from purchase to free-to-play and full of ads. Too bad.

The only option is to uninstall the app and then block App Store altogether, at which point they can’t update anything.
How about you Americans stop bending over for monopolies that make you worry about such trivial things in 2023?
Where does it say 30% less power?
Not that surprising. What is surprising is that they are discovering this after leaving Twitter, which indicates their analytics is failing.
Pro-vaxxx team-sport zealots like this guy only inflame vaccine hesitancy in otherwise reasonable people.

Stop scaring people off with your othering, jerkface attitude.

History will be the judge as to whether you are right about a particular vaccine. They're not all the same in terms of efficacy nor safety, OBVIOUSLY.
I use a doorway as a mode switch.

I have a spare bedroom that is setup as my home office. While I do not work from home daily, I do often do work after-hours, and assist from home now and then.

When I walk into this room, I'm mentally at the office. When I exit it, I'm home again.

YMMV.
It’s almost like they don’t want you to know what it looks like.
Considering high taxes, high cost of living average dev salary in London is pretty depressing. There are exceptions of course...
Yeah, the "normal" search is for the desperate.

Quick search is where it's at. Keeps the view sane and you select which fields to search (subject, recipients, body), the downside is that you have to know which folder to look in, which can also be an upside to narrow it down (I know that's also possible in the search UI but this is easier)
You missed one - don't buy a modern car.

‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37443644
Is this actually happening? Palestinians are no longer a people? To the point of being erased from the internet? Really? A human somewhere is moving this lever. Someone is actually trying to erase a whole group of people. Incredible.

If you are reading this: I hope you feel conscious responsibility for what you are doing. You are doing something wrong!
Sci-Fi to Reality: Creating Tomorrow's World Today
For some time now, I've been thinking about this idea of how in the present, we are building the sci-fi tech we saw as kids
They still haven't fixed the 15 year old bug allowing you to open a compose window in a new tab.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449299
OpenResty vs. Lua 5.4: A Benchmark
Ya, and since a Panini is a pressed sandwich, you'd think the PR people would immediately remove that since it's comparable to what the car did to the woman's leg.
I'm not gonna lie, I got a good laugh out of your comment.
Copyright doesn't provide an income floor to creative workers. Unions do.
How does the price of these compare to Uber/Lyft?
For code review, the top one works for me.

In a code review, the code on the right is where the focus is: is that correct?

If that change is merged, the right side version is what the code will be; the left side becomes a historic artifact indicating what the code was.

I glance on the left to understand what is changing: are some aspects changing that are not intended, and such.

There arise situations when a diff is total garbage, because code has moved around while being changed and whatnot. Sometimes unrelated code is diffed together. In the split diff you can still see the new code how it should be, but it's hard to track the changes.

In git, you can influence the diff algorithm to get a different diff, e.g. "git diff --diff-algorithm=minimal", documented as "spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is produced.". This might be similar to GNU diff's --minimal option.
Big question. :)

Of course, people have written books, books and books on this, so to cover it in a HN comment would be difficult. I'd also much prefer people read the documents and form their own opinions (either direction, but just to be well informed). I don't want to get into it too much, so what I'll say a few brief things: Nobody can tell what the other timeline would have looked like, had the 1969 report been adopted and the law changed to reflect it, I'm not sure I believe Natives would have been provided with the same level of social services. It's important not to be myopic, the recommendations in the report were vast, and in one hand I understand the intentions, but what was asked to give up was a lot, and I also agree that it very much feels like a way for the government to abscond on colonization era issues that needed to be resolved (and still are being resolved). As I alluded to at the end of my comment, I don't believe in assimilation.

In defending the report, Trudeau said: "We can't recognize aboriginal rights because no society can be built on historical 'might-have-beens.'"
DI, at least in Java is a way to avoid rolling your own custom code to add dinamicity to the language. As you point out, JS, TS and Python are dynamic enough to not need those.
Sounds like he was fucking with people who work for Seattle and then acting indignant and affronted when he gleaned even the slightest bit of irritation or frustration in response.
Their behavior reminded me of Uber's behavior..frat bro ... do anything... killing it, etc mantra yet people's lives are at stake here.

I've been writing my distaste for Cruise for the past few month or so here, because of this. Of course getting downvoted by those with skin in the game but c'mon you can't act like how Travis Kalanick did...you are pushing technology onto the streets that can kill people! As well Waymo (Google who im no fan of) has been working on their robot car tech since 2007 ... Cruise no way for that long.

There were reports they are pushing their tech onto many city streets. Sorry to say and hopefully other cities/states follow CA's lead!
That is actually an interesting question. We track how many accidents the automated cars cause, but I'm not sure how many accidents they prevent are tracked.
This is an op-ed by Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify which he chose to publish in the Daily Mail.
Absolutely no way those pictures are real. That would be a massive jump in contrast and saturation from current tech.
> will face consequences.

Probably a bonus will happen to them.