skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend that has a Mercedes S580 (nice car).

They don't have spare tires. Instead, they have some kind of tire that continues to operate in a degraded mode, until they get to a dealer, who swaps out the flat for a new tire.

He blew a tire, in rural Upstate New York.

In today's lesson, we learn that upstate dealers don't stock S580 tires, and he's forced to leave his car that costs as much as some people's houses, at a podunk dealership, while a buddy gives him a ride.

Then, a week later, the dealer insists that he drive 400 miles, to pick up the car.

I believe that he did some screaming to Mercedes corporate, and got them to drive it down to Long Island.

For a flat tire.
What about Paris? I think you can find as many European as American examples, but instead of junkies it is gangs making the cities unsafe.

But from what I know the police in Paris sometimes clear away the tent cities from the streets.
DMCA takedowns are proof that law applies to big companies too. Unfortunately, they only respond to lawsuits it seems.

Victims of these scams should sue Google, Meta and any other big company knowingly participating in these kind of scams.
In the article they specify "owner occupied."
Two four (beer, though it refers to the amount of cans rather than dimensions)

26er (booze)

40 pounder (booze again)
Didn’t you see the Portland Oregon thread earlier? Oregon has done a ton to legalize drugs, muzzle the police (can’t pull people over for ghetto cars anymore as one small example), and generally reduce the amount of power that the government has over your day to day life. Ron wyden tries every day to reduce mass surveillance and similar risks for Oregonians

You do get governments willing to give up power if you elect progressive democrats or libertarians. Republicans lie hardcore about wanting to do this though. Republicans used to be the party of federalism, now they’re the party of “unitary executive theory”

Anyone with the idea that governments never give up power is so pathetically unobservant that I honestly don’t want them voting in our elections.
Lets go back to C guys
The truth about [Unix and] the C language:

https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/c.htm

#joke #hilarious
I’m not sure how well it will work but NYC is experimenting with supervised consumption centers. The goal is twofold: Reduce overdose deaths by having trained medics on hand and convince users to enroll in rehabilitation programs.
A lot of shops do this in Java. Rust and Zig are usable but nobody's going to switch.
I'd agree with that, it's just that the bookstores complain about rapidly declining business, and honestly most bookstores aren't bookstores anymore, they are arts and crafts stores with a few books. It's just that if they want to sell a larger number of books, then they need to have a larger selection, which would require them to invest in translations.

It's true that translations are costly, so instead they opt to push books they know will sell well, but the supermarkets sell those exact same books. It's just that without a large selection there's no reason to specifically go to a bookstore and so they die out.
PHM is amazing! I'd highly recommend consuming it via Audio Book though, because of reasons :)

The Red Rising series is also very good.
As someone currently adding 1qt every 1000 miles to their 2017 Tucson, I chuckled. Between their oil consumption issues, the spontaneous combustion issues, and the cost cutting immobilizer saga, I won’t buy anything from Hyundai/Kia again.
Serious question - does anyone really think of Sweeney as the underdog here and that he's fighting for the "little guy" gamer? Honestly asking to me it seems like a position to take to generate some political power but at the end of the day he's representing large corporate interests as well.
You could have said the same thing about Windows Phone—Microsoft had every reason to keep trying to win this new market, and they certainly weren't going bankrupt, but eventually they had to concede it wasn't going to happen.
I and I think many others disagree. Apple's case seems more egregious. Who are they to tell me what I can and can't do with my phone? Walled gardens may be a value add for some but it also spits in the face of first sale doctrine.
This would require selective enforcement under current laws, or defining "clear drug problem" for purposes of a new one.
You can browse the same content on Nitter without a Twitter account: https://nitter.net/HNStatus
Ada people scratching their heads....
Counterpoint: why not?
Oh. Well, now I am sad.
Apparently we aren't, so I changed it :D
> every parenthesis has its own & unique match

I think you just discovered parenthesis entanglement theory :)
Ae a gamer, it doesn’t bother me one bit where the assets are from. Just make it fun and engaging.

Edit: stolen assets bother me, legally obtained ones don’t.
I think it's less a question of the amount of social programs and more about how aggressive the police are about public drug use and assaults by the homeless. Walk around cities in southwest Florida for example (Tampa, Naples etc.) and you'll feel pretty safe.
HTML, the Programming language, right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519719
Who's side are you on?
A lot of industrial automation was built with an offline usecase in mind. Then someone invented the IIoT.
Ukraine's top mobile operator suffers biggest hacker attack
The authors arguments are weak. Both sides can claim the other side is doing the very same Bad Thing, and be correct.

Ironically, the author himself does not seem to see him self as part of the problem.

I would rather him write about class, elites, grassroots or whatever.
Me too! it is funny having done it a few times I got used to it but I would love to get rid of it.
I am seeing this post minutes after feeling fed up with all the scam ads on YT and finally reporting a bunch of them. Reading all these comments makes me feel rather deflated. Like there is no hope.
It may not be much at the moment, but the thing that I find encouraging is that there seems to be very little pushback against it; the sanity of the Rust approach is very much accepted now.
More evidence that there are a lot of baby boomers.
Integrating a wire and solenoid inside a spinning wheel also is a bit of a reliability gamble.
Would also be curious. Wondering what the state of the art is for local vector stores. i.e. the sqlite of vector stores.
Agreed.

A side note I want to add to this: copyright and other IP laws make sure a lot more money goes from Denmark to the US than from the US to Denmark. I think smaller cultural domains are loosing in a sense. European movie makers constantly need grants where Hollywood booms.
People figured out how to build buildings prior to creating building codes
> despite the fact that the ads obviously violate Google's policies

There's no contradiction here. Google's policies exist primarily in service of keeping their platforms safe for advertisers. The ads aren't placed on other ads though, so there's no reason for them to stress much about maintaining the same quality in their ads as the content being monetized.

As for targeting, they're just optimizing for CPM. If advertisers for scammy junk pay more than advertisers for things you might like to buy, then you get what you see now. There's always another mark for the scams.
> what are some recent examples of governments giving up power?

I’ll pick a negative one: antitrust. Government retreated from its enforcement duty and powers for a few decades. In the vacuum, private interests asserted themselves.
Most of the interesting work is not yet upstreamed. A particularly interesting example is the Apple Sillicon GPU driver in Asahi Linux.
Yeah, they are curated by the author(s) of the Android build that the device is running.
This article seems well meaning, but it contains factually incorrect information.

Its is also redescribing well defined concepts subjectively but presenting them objectively, and this is unfortunately a constraint that eliminates the value of the article.

Ty.
Creator here: Translations are on my radar, and I will look at how I can identify translations as well to break them out into their own subsection of this list in future years (I think there is value in that). I don't know how to do that yet :).

To the larger point, I understand what you are saying. The world is moving toward one global language, and that has pros and cons. My hope is it has more pros than cons, but we could also be losing or minimizing some very special aspects of culture/thinking that language impacts. I think about this a lot as I live in Portugal, and I am likely moving to France in 2024.

I was just reading this NY Times about this type of thing happening within French today: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/world/africa/africa-frenc...
The US military's spaceplane is about to fly again–it needs a bigger rocket
We can, if someone builds it. :)

I'm new to development, and this is what I went with. Don't know any better.
I keep seeing these comments, but in my experience hacker news has minor outages several times per year. That’s not counting massive slowdowns from big stories.
How much did china spend to end their opioid epidemic?

How much have we spent on police in this time? I think it’s worth spending a trillion to fight the war on murder, theft and rape…
Commenting bc I had the same question.

My impression of historical Python is that is an old, partially arcane language that due to D.S/AI is now popular; I would initially think it would be no better than those other interpreted. Python does these things well... mainly due to pandas/dataframes/polars.

<btw, Perl? ;) >
Interesting ... Not sure how many languages other than Pascal support local functions and allow access to (potentially multiple levels of) parent variables in this way. The normal Pascal terminology for this "array of frame pointers" is the "display", and it wouldn't normally be copied during a function/procedure entry - just updated (assuming the function being entered had local functions that accessed parent variables).
There, changed it.
The amount of written law in the US gov has grown exponentially since the 1970s.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190903_R43056_5083d3b...

The only time it slowed has been during brief gov shutdowns. As this report explains this includes plenty of non rules and administrative stuff and does count repeals but anyone who has followed Congress knows that the bulk of those bills is new spending and new rules imposed on civilians/business. It's rarely ever reducing the scale of gov.

And to repeat another post I made recently, the staffing and funding for US federal regulatory agencies has grown near exponentially since the 1970s (edit: or more accurately a consistent upward trendline)

https://regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/za...
I compared launch price across Steam and Epic for a few games a while ago both cost the same.

Why would I choose Epic and loose

- Linux support
- social features
- the workshop
- (mostly) having a single launcher

They also pulled a few games off Steam just before launch after they'd already been advertised there.
This reads like total denial. COVID was years ago. The city I’m in bounced back and was mostly normal late 2021. I also was interested in the outcome of Portland’s experiment. It has failed. The war on drugs is anti-liberty and I recognize its racist roots. But racism is no longer a big aspect of the war on drugs as of 2023. Again, denial and excuses. The war on drugs AND Portland’s experiment are BOTH failures. I welcome the next attempt at it.
Too bad the Housing Authority can't help smuggle houses over the border.
Nile Rodgers: David Bowie would have failed in today's cut-throat music industry
Yeah if it is updated chrome plugin which Google of course delayed update on.
Lead plumbing pales in comparison to the lead they consumed via cooking pans (typically a lead / copper alloy) and a lot of Roman utensils used lead. Most tap water at room temperature won't absorb lead from pipes due to the mineral content and acidity. However, cooking in a pot made from lead will definitely poison you.
I don't know man. I'm new to development, it's what I chose, probably don't know any better. Tell me what you would have chosen instead?
Last I checked still very early days with most of the work/experimentation happening in the driver space. However, it doesn't seem like its facing a lot of resistence and Torvalds seems reasonably positive about it atm.
I mean that without IP laws, a whole lot of things become a lot harder to bully smaller companies with.
actually a thing, I use it whenever a website that I am most likely never going to visit again forces me to enter an email address, then I generate a temporary email address just to receive their email, whether it's a confirmation code, download link or whatever.
Arguably that won't cause as much damage as scams. But holy bad taste
Top Zero Trust – Trolling the industry that call Zero Trust a tool
I run a small cybersec podcast called Adopting Zero Trust, which launched on the idea that there are simply too many misconceptions for an otherwise valuable strategy and concept. Figured, hey, why not troll vendors a bit by getting them with their own game and launching a fake directory of ZT solutions, and for anyone that stumbles upon it will find links to actual resources.
Allowing ads to be harmful bolsters the new protection racket. "It'd be a shame if your parents/grandparents got scammed.. Have you heard of YT Premium?"
I like hotdogs :)
We're so far through the looking glass when it comes to conservatives complaining about "woke" or "cancel culture". The words have lost all meaning except when virtue signaling about how much they hate the concepts.
Invest, then look back 5 years later.
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Speeding up our Rails CI with GitHub Actions and parallel_tests
This article outlines how we used parallel_tests and Github Actions to bring our CI times down from 25 to 10 minutes.
To be fair... I've been driving my Kia for ages now... it's got 130k miles and it is still going strong... Got nothing but love for that car. But yeah, it is a 2005 car, maybe things have changed dramatically...
Non-profits are required to take meeting minutes by law. The FTC will have information about OpenAI’s board.
You can provide art and music to the community, either by strumming your guitar aggressively at passers-by or turning up your boom box to max volume so everyone can hear your shitty music. /s
Yes, but as of the last couple months. YouTube and ad blockers have been in a constant cat and mouse game where YouTube blocks users with an AD blocker from viewing content at all, until your ad blocker updates with new rules to circumvent that blocking. Trivial for you and I maybe, but less so for someone the GP described as “elderly”
NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech
https://legiscan.com/US/legislation?status=passed

A few times this year in the US at the federal level, for starters.

One could argue that every peaceful transition of power is the current government giving up power to the next government.

Even Roe v. Wade was a “giving up” of power by the federal government to guarantee a right to abortion nationally.
Correct me if I'm wrong... But don't these types of memory attacks require local access to the machine?
I was surprised to learn NIST also has a list of safer languages, and did not expect their suggestions: https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/safer-la...
If you want to have an analogy along those lines, Apple is more like a Starbucks prohibiting coffee bean providers other than the ones it has agreements with from coming into Starbucks locations to sell their coffee beans.
And people were seeing C in CS classes because it let you write the OS, which is part of what CS degrees wanted to teach. Pascal didn't really let you do that.
This is a simple Pong-like I've written in Raylib compiled to WASM - https://wasm-stuff.netlify.app/pong

Source code is here: https://github.com/rrampage/skitter/tree/master/pong-raylib

It is fairly straightforward to get Raylib running in the browser. I used @flohofwoe's HTML shell file ( https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/master/webpage/... ).

Compilation is something like:
emcc -o target/pong.html -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 pong-raylib/pong.c lib/libraylibweb.a -I ./include -sUSE_GLFW=3 -sSINGLE_FILE -Oz --closure 1 -sFILESYSTEM=0 --shell-file pong-raylib/shell.html
>Really, the only memory unsafe languages still in use are C and C++.

Ada, Fortran, assembly?
It certainly is complicated.

And I'd love to peer in to some alternate universe that has an optimal Python interpreter (can't say "the" optimal because it's really a complicated frontier rather than a single point) that runs on our hardware and see what it looks like. Maybe even on multiple points on that frontier.

What really is the limit? I struggle to imagine what a C-speed Python interpreter could even look like, but is there some conceivable program that runs it at, say, half the speed? What even is the limit? What techniques would such a program use that would surprise us and be new and perhaps useful other places?

Or are actually pretty close to that frontier now?

To be honest, given the way optimizations tend to work, the answer probably is that we are relatively close today. They tend to have diminishing returns.

But I don't know. Is there some execution model nobody's thought of, or that has been thought of but simply hasn't had the effort invested to make it pay off, that would make huge gains? I can't prove there isn't. (In fact it's not far off junior-level computer science to prove that you can't prove it.)
You can think of the NSA as being red team / blue team.

Red team wants to hack everyone with a negative value add for America, blue team wants Americans (mostly companies) to be as safe as possible from digital attacks.

This seems one of those blue team suggestions.
Which congress trolls?

You are blaming Portland's currently fail[ed|ing] policies on federal congress members that have nothing to do with Portland?
Taking down individual scammers is almost cost free though, whereas Disney has a lot more to spend
The title is completely misleading, and the article is incoherent, for example, arguing on the one hand that attempts to discredit Orwell are not at all attacks on his work, but also claiming that his personal failings made it into the book. And then claiming the 'right wing' are the ones 'coming for' Orwell? I'm not at all on the right, but in this case I think they have a very valid point, this really does seem like a fact-warping argument.
This is precisely my experience as well. I think what's happening is that everybody wants authoritarian control, and in fact prefers it, right up until the authority makes a decision that runs counter to their needs. But by then it's too late.

It reminds me of the Newburgh Letter, suggesting that George Washington be declared king after winning the revolutionary war. It's like they missed the whole point of the exercise.
to whoever took your advice: please also add those descriptions to the by-category views (e.g. all macOS terminal tools)
Or it just could be more polarization between the haves and have nots in the economy. Fewer in the younger generations can afford housing than previous generations could at that age, so the pool of US homeowners is going to skew to the older, more financially established boomer generation who bought homes decades ago for much cheaper.
Zapbox
This is already in place. After EQ was breached, I wasn't sure who to go to, to change my Date of Birth, so it's still the same. :|

There is already a lot of truly immutable and practically immutable data that's tracked.

The other issue is the courts have dictated that you don't own your own biometrics. Phone locked with face or fingerprint? They can get a court order that allows them to force unlock it.

A pin code is considered more secure, because it can't be force bypassed, like biometrics.
Python replaced Matlab too.
I have this habit (a bad one) of doing long joke sessions with women contacts who are in some spectrum of interest in dating or friends. Alcohol and phones don't mix, but some of these contacts really enjoy these sessions. It's basically just straight improv which sometimes might go on for an hour or more. I mostly drink alone or with people who don't speak English, and are just there mostly silently hanging out. This would not otherwise be productive time for me, and I mostly don't chat when sober. I feel guilty for the women, because I'm taking up their time. But they would drop out if they didn't enjoy them. Some of them are really good improv partners, they send prompts and I keep the jokes flowing. I would talk to dudes, but there's something about the contrast of culture and gender which seems to make these work well. If the person on the other end is too much like me, then they don't flow. Often I'll wake up the next morning and crack myself over a long chat session that was hazy. Like, some of this stuff, I don't know how I come up with it. It's not necessarily the alcohol, but rather the setting puts me in a place where I'm 100% not thinking about work or anything else serious. My brain is totally free. Modern life inhibits this flow. So, now I download the chats in whatever form available, parse them, and stick them in a database app so that I can tag some of the highlights. ;)
You're right, it was an emotional reaction comment. I don't like ads, I think ads are a negative on the world, and I hate that nearly every corner of the internet is funded by them. I use Firefox because it's open source software made by a non-profit that I believe is trying to do good in the world. So, when I saw your idea to put even more ads into Firefox, I knee-jerk'd out a negative comment.

I just wish we all directly and willingly funded things that were good.
AdBlock tried gently with "acceptable ads". https://getadblock.com/en/acceptable-ads-faq/

I don't mind the antagonistic method today since I will NEVER accept the idea that an ad is acceptable. The law you propose would help weaken advertising and that would make me happy. Apple killing targeted ads also made it worst.

Sports gambling also makes the environment worst.
A Definition Update for Baseline
It sounds like this author wanted to recommend web-components but doesn't know they exist. This is exactly what web-comps solve, writing custom HTML elements that are interacted with like native ones, in native HTML.
Plenty of gamblers and alcoholics fit that description, too.
You literally didn’t answer the question though. You just rephrased the question and replaced all the content with your own prior conclusions.

That’s exactly begging the question.
It costs like $10-$15 more than PreCheck, so probably worth it if you're close to an enrollment center.
They don't even have technology or man power to ban exactly same discussion threads appearing on financial content. And by same I mean word to word... I know it is uphill battle, but how much work would it be to throw it at some moderator and have them blacklist it...
Salesforce didn't also announce that they'd hired the ex-CEO, nor did Salesforce have a $10 billion investment in the company prior to that. Salesforce also didn't get a board observer after the ex-CEO was hired back.

It's the combination of factors that are raising eyebrows, not any one of them.
And people figured out how to fly prior to the FAA. So what?