skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add my anecdote here. The framing at the beginning of this article is very interesting, and brought up my own relationship with my cousins.

>Despite being related by blood and commonly in the same generation, cousins can end up with completely different upbringings, class backgrounds, values, and interests. And yet, they share something rare and invaluable: They know what it’s like to be part of the same particular family.

This especially crystallized my thoughts. My aunt had 5 kids, and their family experienced a major traumatic event when I was too young to understand. They were all older than me, and the ripple effects of that event are still occurring ~ 40 years later. They all indeed had a completely different upbringing and class background than I. For a stretch of time into my adulthood it was hard to be around them, and we drifted apart, with apathy filling the space. We would avoid or ignore invitations and justify it by not wanting to experience the generally chaotic and haphazard experience of being in their company.

Largely by the efforts of one persistent sibling, we finally attended one family event with low expectations. I left that gathering with a completely revised perspective, and a heaping pile of shame. We hit it off right away, as if no time had passed, with the deep rooted familiarity of growing up together, with the same patriarchal/matriarchal role models and propagated personality characteristics. My thoughts while leaving that night were "these are my people". They implicitly understand. Their roughness is endearing, with absolutely no pretension whatsoever. Being older than me, they knew my recently deceased father for longer than I had, and it was very therapeutic to talk about him with people who knew him so deeply.

Now I'll actually read the rest of the article.
A tiny note: they found the geofences over a year ago, a month ago was when they went public.
To summarise from what Dragon Sector published:

- After one of the trains was "restarted" with the unlock code, some of the trains that went to manufacturer for various reasons returned with software that had the unlock code patched out

- Some trains that have locked up outside of Maintenance halls and which were sent to NEWAG returned with added GPS geofencing for the lockup logic and changed time period (previously the lockup engaged if train didn't run for 10 days)

- More cases to be presented at 37c3
Actually, even if you understand the last item literally, it is impressive enough to gain reputation. Why did you put it as the last item, thinking it was nothing special?
How much more evil do you want Google to get before it’s problematic that they control the portal through which most people interact with the web (both browser/engine and search)? And why not use Firefox (or Safari/WebKit) already?
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From what I've read there are basically no effective treatments for coughing. Dextromethorphan and guafenesin are equally useless. Or at least no better than staying hydrated.
Is Smalltalk’s message passing really all that different from methods from other OOP languages? Seems like quite an arbitrary distinction to me.
Keep in mind it also has to navigate its way around what’s under London which is a lot more complex than most places, considering it’s full of tunnels, Victorian sewers and mass burial pits.

Less issues if there’s little down there to begin with. Although personally I don’t see why America can’t just build a train like a normal country.
https://archive.is/tqBs2
> The reality is that cars are freedom and still superior from a continence and comfort standpoint.

If you have them when other people don't, yes. The problem is that by the time this is no longer true, you likely have a large sunk cost fallacy and political leaders firmly committed to the model and will struggle to realize that all of the time in traffic, countless deaths, and lowered quality of life for everyone around are in fact not actually inevitable.
The Israeli army is making a huge of effort to reduce harm to civilians. Including notifying in advance before striking buildings and giving proper time for evacuation of civilians from Northern Gaza. In many cases, Hamas forces Gazan people to stay in the danger zone despite IDFs warnings for people to die in their holy war. It is super hard to act morally when your enemy is using their own people as human shields
I don’t think it is related to design decisions necessarily — I think it is more related to coding to the most common case when there are many more edge cases exposed when you scale the number of users.

I mostly witness hurried scenarios in software contracting where each contractor tries to do the bare minimum to meet the definition of demoable. They then leave the project and mark it as another success.
But Tolkien doesn't have a copyright on the concept of fantasy races... he has a copyright on the fantasy races he wrote about. And even then, only in their specifics, not their generalities. That's the entire point of copyright. No one can copyright love stories, they can only copyright their love story.
The people investigating this claim that much of this is undocumented. I don't speak Polish nor have access to any of the primary documentation for the train.

We may see more info next week as they are scheduled to present at the 37th CCC. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/infos/index.html

Q3k is active here, https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=q3k
As a data person, I read it as: you don't always have anecdotes. So your data needs to account for blind spots and have enough granularity to see the issues.

And focus more on negative metrics / finding and addressing anomalies instead of vanity metrics and showing "up and to the right" charts to leadership.
IMO "15 common Django architectural mistakes" is a less useful focus for these types of posts. Architecture can't be taught by listing quick tips. Or at least not only by listing quick tips.

The unfortunate reality is that in many (most?) cases when inexperienced engineers face these challenges, it's too late to follow quick tips... their company's Django app has been set up 10 years prior, and now they have dozens upon dozens of layers of abstraction in the codebase.

Teaching how to think about architecture, how to evaluate options and how to make decisions is a more reliable and applicable skill.
I'd also raise the issue if liability, for when that advertisement is a scam or a vehicle for malware Javascript or buffer-overflowing media.

If I have some kind of legal obligation to permit their system to do stuff on my computer, then surely they must have have some level of liability for what that stuff does or enables.
Bangladesh’s decline in fertility rate is due to deliberate population control efforts over the last 70 years. (That was my dad’s career. We came to the US because he was working on a USAID population control program in Bangladesh.)

You can see this clearly by looking over at Pakistan, which has almost double the fertility rate despite being at a similar level of economic development. If it was dictated by economics rather than culture and policy, you wouldn’t see that.
Ya, it's mainly a US problem. And it should be the domain of antitrust regulation. But, American regulators probably won't get around to it in the foreseeable future, so a little needling is good.
But this is starting from a conclusion that government bureaus are more effective at alleviating human suffering than market competition. That they're faster, and more effective, and so on.

That's simply not true, and we have the entire experience of the eastern bloc that's conclusively proven it's not true.

You're simply pretending organisations like the FDA are something they're not, and that they're nothing but good, and all ills must be blamed on private actors. That's picking your conclusion first based on an emotional need to have a warm cozy paternalistic fantasy of a protector government.

Whereas in reality it's the opposite. The rapid innovation of the private sector, driven by consumers who want their suffering alleviated in the fastest and most effective way, is the suffering alleviator. And the slow, obstructive, and competition-free corrupted public sector, the FDA, is the one causing drug innovation costs to be sky high, thereby causing excess deaths and suffering that the private sector would otherwise have been preventing.

You're siding with the baddy and blaming the goodies for his wrongdoing.
It’s subjective. The interviewer(s) opinion is what matters. Not your skills or even the questions. Just what their perception of your responses was, and whether they individually like that or not.

That’s why interviews are so frustrating, there is no “one right way”.

My only tip is try to find the next job while still employed because that circus show can be very stressful if you don’t have a job.
Lol, I do. I didn't much explain it, but it didn't really do anything besides make my writing harder to read :)
Why do you assume "properly licensed" drivers will be better? My driving test in the United States was a joke. Many are the same. Nothing about it prepared me to be a good driver (which I am not). To me, the phrase "properly licensed" means nothing more than I hold a small card in my wallet that say I am allowed to drive this car. It says nothing about my skill level.
This so well polished!! The README is great. Not much to say besides it really shows how scoping a project down can lead to success.
Tom Standage's ten trends to watch in 2024
It would be very easy for link aggregators and search engines categorize sites as ad-supported or not: load the page in a browser (which these sites often already do) with an ad blocker extension and see if it identifies anything. But my guess is they're not interested in doing this, since it rules out a lot of valuable pages. For example, HN is ad-supported.
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Imagine if your radio wouldn't let you turn the volume back up for the next song set if you happened to turn the volume down during an ad break.
> It reads like some businesses had to increase wages to retain employees but this doesn't seem to be causative as these employees were asking for higher wages because of the increased cost of living, not the other way around.

This is backwards. No business increases wages because employees ask for it. Employees always ask for higher wages. Wages go up when you can't find workers for lower wages.
I use Sendgrid <https://sendgrid.com> with an inbound parse webhook which delivers the emails via LMTP to the inboxes and Dovecot <https://dovecot.org> for reading. If you're sending less than 100 emails/day it's free. It's rock-solid and I've been using it for years without any issues at all. I can highly recommend it. Once you've set it up for one domain, adding more is trivial.
They do, approved extensions. But for example dark mode can be added to chrome, but not to ff.
Yes. The third ingredient -- a decongestant like real sudafed -- is common too. Some people only need one or two of these drugs; others need all three at the same time.
I am a terrible driver -- so easily distracted. Almost zero men I have met in my life are willing to admit the same. (However, some women in my life do.) As a result, I try to avoid driving as much as possible and use mass transit.
Click menu. Click sign in. Sign in. Browse. Click menu. Click username. Click sign out. How is that hidden?
> It’s obvious Apple wouldn’t let them use their servers for free.

People keep repeating this line .... but would Apple have allowed them to pay f or iMessage ? How much ? Would then Google be able to pay to access iMessage ?

I see no price or condition where Apple would have let anyone touch their walled garden. Free or not has never been an element of the conversation.
At least one of the trains had its DSU (Dokumentacja Systemu Utrzymania - Maintenance System Manual) linked online (it's specific to that one train). It should be enough to perform full maintenance.

Nowhere in it any of the "lockouts" are documented.
Sam Bankman doesn’t strike me as a hard working student though his upbringing could have the expectation to outdo his parents, both of them professors in Ivi League schools if I remember correctly. The appetite for risk may be a byproduct of that though…
Do you know Israel was trying to strike peace deals with the Palestinians multiple times and faced stagnation and rejection from their leadership? Also, the only reason Hamas exists is Israel completely pulled out from the Gaza Strip in 2007 letting it be self governed like an independent state. So no, it doesn’t matter what happened 56 years ago. Things have changed, there were many, many opportunities to change course and nothing justifies the horrific vicious terror attack of October 7th.
I support merit based DEI. What worries me is that for "diversity" candidates, the hiring bar is usually set low (at least in my company). And nobody is brave enough to talk about the consequences of these decisions. Have lost lucrative projects due to poor delivery, team mates having to do additional work to cover for the lapses, overall team performance pulled down leading to variable compensation impact, etc.

One other observation. Some of these "diversity" candidates seem to have found a way to leverage this DEI 'movement' to advance their careers (at the risk of generalizing, but I'm only talking about extreme cases here). They put in a maybe 2 years of mediocre work, while spending an inordinate time on LinkedIn on relentless self-promotion to build up their profile for their next DEI entry point into another tech company on the DEI virtue signalling bandwagon.
That is almost all traffic from your city
Okay, let's settle on "unequal" if evil is too on the nose.

Michael Wood asserts that during the 16th century, it was almost impossible for the indigenous peoples to be considered human beings in their own right, and that the conquistadors brought with them the baggage of "centuries of Ethnocentrism, and Christian monotheism, which espoused one truth, one time and version of reality."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_colonialism
> 1m is worldwide right?

This statement is at such odds from reality it actually makes me curious. You are off by a factor of 20x. Do you think that you are knowledgeable about the events of the pandemic? How did you get your news about it?

Its made all the more puzzling by the fact that your own source has the correct figures.
I was in Miami some time ago, around Wynwood. Never really saw anyone walking around, and if we wanted to go anywhere then it basically required ordering an Uber.

The difficult part was getting a sense of direction because there aren't really any obvious landmarks to look out for when wandering through wide-scale suburban sprawl. It's like the availability of GPS has just allowed this kind of sprawl to become even more labyrinthine because nobody needs to bother with street names or directions any more.
Every single person could switch and it wouldn't make enough of a dent to change anything -that, and also change to what? Firefox? Who's one of the the largest sponsors of Firefox -if not the largest- again?
it's happened on my friend's laptop and other non-macs laptops too
This is interesting. Never thought about how confusing it would be when banks start playing musical chairs with your mortgage.

I do agree that a soft landing is still a recession. But the more people that realize that, the less soft the landing might be.
In systems design quality attributes are non-functional requirements that are used for the evaluation of the system itself rather than the intended behavior of the feature being implemented. E.g. system extensibility, scalability are quality attributes.
It's pretty hard to do online ads without tracking because of how easy fraud is online. With newspaper, TV, and radio we put a bunch of effort into measuring the size of the audience, but those methods are far easier to subvert online.

If I tell you jefftk.com has 10k daily active users so you should pay me $500 to put a banner on the top of my site, should you believe me?
I have absolutely no scientific basis for this, so take my take with a giant grain of salt, but I would be afraid it desensitizes people to violence or just traumatizes them, especially if they're kids. There's a reason you don't show the new Evil Dead movie with a zombie using a cheese grates people's eyes to children.
The year of the linux desktop is near, it's next year! Again!
This feels a bit like NIH syndrome to me. Maintaining your own authentication solution is not trivial, especially for small/one-person operation.

Edit: Re-reading, I guess this is specifically targeted at Okta, who have had their share of problems.
Nobody should be driving in near-whiteout conditions, human or AI.
I didn't watch the entire 28 minute video, but I did watch the first part and the creator has a misconception that you share. It's key to understand that the Hyperloop concept uses low pressure (around 100 Pa), not a vacuum.
If they accept only one positional argument, and do not allow flags after it, yeah that definitely seems weird.

Many of these are flag-position-agnostic though, and for that the -- is a very long-time standard pattern for either "end of this command, forward the rest to the wrapped command" or a list of files (to make a file named --help unambiguous).

Many. Definitely not all. CLI interfaces are even more varied than GUIs in many ways.
The main problem would be solved by using a Gmail account, right?
Harvard Finds More Instances of 'Duplicative Language' in President's Work
^

...my fingers are fat and 99% of my posts are from a cell phone. I should proof read more but I'm a lazy piece of shit who shits out shit opinions in between compilations/cicd tests, as my comment history can attest to.

I should probably be a better netizen, along with many other aspects I should improve on (of
which man, I'm trying to improve a bunch, I freely admit I as a human need some work)

(Also lol my phone initially auto corrected or more likely my fingers originally typed fat ->far)
Yes.

One problem with that is that good microphones are expensive, likewise, but less so, good speakers.

One of the wonders about modern electronic music is the low prices of digital audio processing (i.e. computers) equipment.

That and the general geek points for making something sound like an acoustic instrument.
The problem with XSLT wasn't that it was a programming language, the problem was that it was awful. Don't throw the declarative document transformation language baby out with the XSLT bathwater.
https://archive.is/2023.12.21-174538/https://www.nytimes.com...
See third cousin
> If tomorrow Google turns next-level evil in terms of privacy / steering the web, Microsoft will have forked Chromium within a week

Or, Microsoft will be happy with this "next-level evil."
Hosting a static cheap is cheap. And even something powered by a CMS can be hosted on a cheap droplet. No one really expects you to share contents like video and music for free (and even that can be done cheaply if you’re only loking at a few TB of monthly bandwith). So yeah, someone should pay for it, but the internet itself isn’t free and everyone is paying for it.
We aspies have no respect for lies, so we can not be allowed into court rooms (cult rooms?)
A hot electric coil IS true garbage, it's inefficient and slow (I have one of these at home). When we say electric here, we mean induction.

Personally I'm a fan of cooking with gas. The inability to lift and move the pan on induction I don't like, and the glass tops they come with I find far too delicate for my liking.
Unfortunately, 30+ years on he's never managed to explain to more than a handful of people what it was that he did have in mind.
Geocities had ads for most of its life. It also ended up dead because it wasn't profitable anyways. Not the best example.

Providers didn't offer free space, you paid for it with your subscription, and you would lose if you changed provider.
Child subsidies are a great help for parents, but they don't seem that successful at getting people to have kids in the first place.

Apparently, married people are having kids at roughly the same rate as they did decades ago. However, fewer people are getting married and far fewer kids are being born outside of wedlock.

These are not necessarily negative developments, at least at the individual level, but they do point towards a significant change in human culture and society: increasingly, only people with a strong intrinsic drive to have kids will do so.

I don't think that we can predict the effect of this trend a few generations from now.
> Playing piano really is a big mental challenge for me, as I try pieces just short of concert level. I believe that it helps keep me sharp.

My grandmother lived to be 99, and she was sharp right up til the end. She was a violinist, first chair in a couple orchestras. She practiced every day well into her 90s, and also thought it kept her sharp.

That, and "working her puzzles," which were word puzzles. She was the best I ever saw at cryptograms, and loved crosswords and even simple word searches.

She was born in 1918, and she lived long enough to send me 20 years worth of emails.

See you around, old timer.
That’s called being an investor, and yes, your odds of success increase exponentially :)
What mars colony. We're not even within striking distance of a manned trip. Whatever we do after that is so far out I don't think anyone can responsibly assert what it will require.
> imsg is used by roughly half of Americans, more than half in Europe

Is it really used by more than half in Europe? Obviously anecdotal, but I have never encountered it. Almost everyone is on WhatsApp/Telegram/FB messenger or some other non-SMS based app.
Even the non-profit ones are really expensive. E.g. Jewish Living in SF has ~$15K/month for long term skilled nursing care. It's a very good one but has a long waiting list.

Assisted living and nursing home are just very expensive. The prices around the Bay Area ranges from $5K/month to $20K/month.
My question: Who wrote this software? Software engineers with 0 moral and ethical qualms or with an extreme incentive to get rich?
I think this works great sometimes, but I've been in plenty of situations where "I messed up" leads to being railroaded into the "boilerplate tech support" discussion tree. "Did you try doing X", "Did you confirm that Y is Z", "Make sure your VPN is working, try installing a new config", and finally "That's strange, double check all your parameters, there may be a typo in there somewhere"
Just a reminder, Musk came up with the hyperloop as a gimmick as an alternative to rail, and he had no plans to seriously work on it. Just another idea from the idea man (if it isn't clear, this is meant to be derogatory).
Car industry in Birmingham, coal industry up North...
It's not just that it cuts into sales of the original, it's that the author should maintain control of their work. If I write a book, a movie adaptation doesn't cut into the sales of the original. If anything, it'd probably increase them. But it's my story so I should be able to control who gets to make the movie adaptation. Otherwise I can write a book and anyone can immediately turn around and make it into a movie, owing me nothing. Heck, a third person could come and make a sequel to the movie, paying nothing to me or the first filmmaker. I think the only exception to this is the statutory licensing for music rights. Not the sound recordings, mind you. But that composition rights. Anyone can cover Taylor Swift (like Ryan Adams) so long as they pay her the compulsory license fee.