skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always some company that optimizes for the type of consumer who sorts by lowest price and chooses the item at the top of the list. This is that. These vehicles are aggressively priced.

Immobilizers were a great idea of what to skimp on. People are buying those cars based on creature comforts and price. People DGAF about immobilizers when they're buying a car. If it gets stolen next week it doesn't matter to the manufacturer, as long as they keep selling. Which they are. Hyundai Motor sales figures are very healthy and growing.
Trihalomethane levels in Irish drinking water too high, European court rules
https://archive.is/u6l2v
Short term homeless is an interesting demographic to target. I’ve seen some threads talking about being homeless, and a common thread (very anecdotal) that I see repeated is how often a small amount of money was enough to lead to an eviction. I’m curious if there might be value in targeting homeless spending in such a way to try to limit short term homelessness by preventing evictions in the first place.
There wasn't much Internet before Section 230. At that time, it was still kind of an open question.
The flipside of that is: If you want to sell your product in a nation, you must comply with the nation's rules.
We could all agree that you get forgiven for anything publicized by a blackmailer.
Except the recurrence theorem applies to subsets of the space, not just elements. Your "doesn’t apply to a volume of states" isn't really an exception, apart from technicalities about subsets of measure zero.
What are you talking about? Nothing changes for current apps, and nothing stops you from continuing with things as they are.
at large orgs the play is to bloat simple problems
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet
My 2003 3 (built in 2002) was. Think they had to replace it like 3 times.
You have to appreciate how fast fertility changes will change the face of the Earth. The change in a generation can be determined by taking their fertility rate and dividing by 2. So a fertility rate of 5 = 5/2 = 2.5 = the next generation is 250% larger. A fertility rate of 1 = 1/2 = 0.5 = the next generation is half as large.

A 'generation' is equal to a birthing window, so ~20 years. And these are exponential systems, because they keep multiplying against themselves. If you start with a population of 100 and a fertility rate of 1 then your first generation will be 50 people, then 25, then 12, then 6, then 3, then 1, then extinct. By contrast imagine for comparison if this group had a fertility rate of 4. It'd go to 200 people (4x as many), 400 (16 times as many), 800 (64x as many ignoring rounding), and so on. All in one human lifetime! Pretty insane.

It's really counter-intuitive how fast fertility changes will change the face of the Earth! And now consider demographics. If you want to predict fertility it's easy: high religiosity, low income, high conservatism, low education. And vice versa for predicting low fertility. And while people can obviously differ from their parents, it's equally obvious that most people will end up like the parents. So the group having lots of kids is also the group that's generally not too bothered by climate change. And the group not having kids is the group that is concerned about climate change. Guess who's going to win that argument in the future?

This also applies to just about everything. By not having children you're essentially conceding your opportunity to have a 'voice', even if not your own, in the future of humanity. People talk about things like wanting to transfer their consciousness into a computer, but that's nonsense. There is no "transferring" anything - you might create a chatbot in your likening, but you'll be dead all the same, and that chatbot will be along as soon as somebody gets bored of running totally_sentient_chatbot_v2.37.exe. Human immortality is a social thing - and little more than a continuation of the species. And we all get to choose whether we want to play our own little part in that, or not.
There’s a quiet part I am going to say out loud. On a global scale, population decline isn’t an issue. The problem is /where/ the population decline is happening. Most of the global birth rate is made up by countries with low GINI indexes, low education, and high religiosity. Most of the decline is in high GINI index, highly educated, secular countries.

This population shift has a seriously high risk of causing the global failure of egalitarian democracies, and pushing humanity back into a highly repressive and dangerous state.
I don't think it means much at all. Software jobs boomed in the 80s and 90s despite high interest rates. Tech tends to do well in almost every econ environment. And already, interest rate forecasts falling.
Agreed that a lot of it may be paper wealth. Farming is capital intensive. Having a successful farm often means hundreds of thousands to millions in equipment and infrastructure. Anybody with that kind of capital is absolutely not poor.
New Subway Fare Gates and Platform Barriers Fail to Impress New Yorkers
I suspect many are still here. They're just a much lower percentage of the userbase than they once were.

Anecdotally many are on Twitter, though that may have more to do with the curation of my follows than anything else.
Yes but it doesn't hurt your neck or make you sick after a few hours while also having better resolution and easier usability for basic computer interactions. Vision pro as desktop computer replacement sounds like a Rube Goldberg solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Possibly Vision Pro as laptop screen replacement sounds plausible but I still don't think the UX will be comfortable nor do I think the virtual screen will actually hold up as good for typing/reading text.

A mouse, keyboard, and proper monitor/screen work likely work better than a virtual screen without all the well known negatives that come with the latter. We'll see how it plays out though.
Seems like lots of people are thinking about this. We are rolling our own, and I spent a good chunk of today writing a new scheduler. Definitely fun to play around with.
right, but tfa was about the general case where the fancy new algorithm is log(n)^n
Still waiting for Kick 3.1 to be ported to Raspberry Pi or Nextstep 3.3/OpenStep 4.2

Kick 3.1 (Not the full size AROS)
Would you be willing to share some stories regarding particularly FB reacting to someone scraping their data? Are they very stingy? Would they bother with someone non-US based?
Are they exempt? At least one state, I believe it was Mass has a law on the book allowing work. Of course we need independent repairs (and training to do it properly) on EVs. There are a few repair garages for Teslas that seem to be people who used to work at Tesla, they fix wonky things on battery packs sometimes.
As a native English speaker (online for decades), I can confirm "WAYF" is not a universally-recognized acronym.
I'd pronounce it "waif" (which is not quite archaic, but a relatively rarely-used word).
Any timeline for supporting repositories in personal accounts? I'm willing to create an organization and move the repository, but I won't bother if it's right around the corner. macOS ARM runners are a gamechanger given the offensively high pricing GitHub offers them at.
Helvetica is more than a font, it's a state of mind
I only read the German news and there they make it sound as if it was handed over voluntarily.

Now, what voluntarily means exactly when dealing with criminals and law enforcement is probably nuanced, but they definitely didn't say it was seized.

Also, it was not the only transfer in connection with that site, only the latest and biggest, so the overall total is even higher.
I hope the mods fix that since the blog post is more important.
Publishing ethics committee warns of 'problematic pollution' of scholarly record
https://archive.is/cqKnl
> There is no reason to assume this is a matter of proteins.

Except that there's increasing evidence that specific proteins do in fact play a part in various forms of dementia.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4072215/
30 MPH is not in no way a reasonable speed for side streets in a neighborhood that you want to be walkable and child-friendly. Save 30 mph for major arterials. If neighborhood side streets have 30 mph speed limits people are just going to blow through any stopsigns the city puts in to pretend it is pedestrian friendly, and they are going to kill people when they do so.
The problem with this is that you'll never get every 3rd party service to support it. Everybody I've talked to who had a Windows Phone really liked the OS, but with so many apps missing compared to Android and iOS it was dead in the water.

PWAs could bring some improvement here, but there are also plenty of services (ie Dropbox) that are essential to people and need to be integrated into the system more than that.

The moat of 10000 other companies saying "we already maintain our app for two platforms" is basically insurmountable to new entrants.
> Luis Fernando Ramadon, a federal police specialist in Brazil who studies extractive industries, estimates that the global illegal sand trade ranges from $200 billion to $350 billion a year—more than illegal logging, gold mining and fishing combined. Buyers rarely check the provenance of sand; legal and black market sand look identical. Illegal mining rarely draws heat from law enforcement because it looks like legitimate mining—trucks, backhoes and shovels—there's no property owner lodging complaints, and officials may be profiting. For crime syndicates, it's easy money.

> The environmental impacts are substantial. Dredging rivers destroys estuaries and habitats and exacerbates flooding. Scraping coastal ecosystems churns up vegetation, soil and seabeds and disrupts marine life. In some countries, illegal mining makes up a large portion of the total activity, and its environmental impacts are often worse than those of legitimate operators, Beiser says, all to build cities on the cheap.

this sounds like a really hard problem to fix. i see there are researchers trying to estimate mining levels by counting ships[1], but even if we're able to get a heatmap of the problem, there'd need to be an enormous amount of cooperation between nations to certify sand provenance. damn.

https://eos.org/articles/satellites-spy-on-sand-mining-in-th...
The retort makes more sense if you think of it as being addressed to someone like Epic, who frankly could take Android and build it into something more competitive, which would benefit us more than just deciding Apple has won.
Although I never used either of those services, that is still a good point -- my point is completely irrelevant since the situations aren't exactly the same.
Wasn't even aware of a sub'd product. Maybe that's part of the issue.
Yes corrected that's AmigaOS.

Well I guess it depends what you use it for, Websites throw a hissy fit if there is a different date to the local machine?
Another Black Mirror episode that has come to life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up_and_Dance_(Black_Mirro...
I recently watched a documentary[0] about the social media dangers for children. It mostly centers around narratives & interviews from a variety of people young and old, and in my opinion decently avoids trite pearl-clutching over vague assumptions about 'technology' or any particular company. Among other things, I am a bit floored by how much child suicide has increased over the past decades.

[0] "Childhood 2.0" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3IJJhFy-I
Over the years, I've collected quite a few C&Ds from various projects:

- Google for creating a mention tracker I was distributing as a mac dashboard widget

- Netflix for creating a DVD barcode to Netflix queue ios app (they were trying to to antagonize their retail partners too much at the time apparently)

- Microsoft for abusing some of their early text to speech DLL's for a really crappy RSS to Audio "podcast" app (they were meant for server side telephony apps)

- LinkedIn + Salesforce for linking their data with a Chrome extension

- Hubspot for mentioning their Inbound conference and saying that my software worked with theirs

Thinking back now these are all quite old, I don't know if the companies have become more lenient or I've become more cautious.
> As a side note, isn’t it nuts that GHA operates on a principle of “installing the universe” (and apparently the universe is 86GB) and updating about every week, and it’s not total chaos? I was surprised, but it seems to work.

As someone who has authored a GitHub Action to delete like 85% of the hodge-podge stuff blasted all over in a default runner image to free up more space for a Nix store. It's "nuts" indeed.
Although I disagree with the malthusian view on the world I still think there is a more important quantitative argument against this viewpoint. A fertility rate significantly below 2 results in an exponential decline in the population with a lag. In other words, fertility rates close to 1 (as seen in japan and korea), result in a sharp population decline a few decades later that could destabilize the society. Even if I concede the anti-human argument I don’t think the environment would benefit from a destabilizing population collapse. A slow gradual fall with rates close but not quite 2 seems like a much better alternative.
Yep, I'm not a defender of DNSSEC, just not especially familiar with it. The RSA 1024 thing was surprising as an outsider!
D-trypsin synthesis enables sequencing of mirror-image proteins
https://archive.is/ATlLA
Two forces at play here:

1) There's no set "right number" of people who should be living in northern countries, no rule that says we need to replace every emigrant (or unborn person) with an immigrant. If it's too expensive to live up north, maybe just... Fewer people just live up north.

The population of Norway, right now, is higher than it's ever been in the country's history. Maybe a population decline looks more like a correction to a "right" amount?

2) To the extent that more people are needed, one can assume that the headcount shortfall from lower birth rate will be filled with skilled immigrants who like the climate and bring a competency that creates enough value to afford the cost of living.
> Aren't they basically the same systems, that also sustain them in space? Like on the ISS?

Distance Earth to ISS: 250 miles.
Distance Earth to mars: about 140 million miles

It's like camping in your own back yard vs. camping 2000 miles away from home. But sure, otherwise it's basically the same.
The main reason for the blank firing adapter is to keep the gas from escaping out the end of barrel so it can go back and cycle the bolt and load the next round.

A live fire exercise would be using live rounds, not blanks.
I just take a Kindle or buy a random analog book in Duty Free.
You have some incumbent competition already, in case you're not aware, and I'd say many of these are closer to what you're describing than text configuration files.

You would do well to learn by past and current attempts. This book should be enlightenig (and yes, Elektra is very much alive): https://www.libelektra.org/ftp/elektra/publications/raab2017...

Would also be a useful excercice to write a new configuration UI for existing configuration backend(s) (preferably something already in use by some software you're already in want of better configuration for) - even if you do end up aiming at your own standard (xkcd.com/927), it should give you some clarity on ways to approach it.
> Odds of the US adopting that system?

In general, not without a major change in the US attitude toward how businesses should be regulated and how individual rights protected to be more like Europe. I'll elaborate in a bit.

In specific areas of law the prevailing party can win attorney fees, but offhand I can't recall any areas where it is mandatory. It's up to the court to decide. Whether that is easy or hard depends on the area of law.

For example in patent law the statue says attorney fees can be awarded in exceptional cases, whereas in copyright law the statute just says it is at the discretion of the court.

The problem with making loser pays apply in general in US civil suits is that the US often relies on civil suits brought by individuals to enforce rights and regulations that in Europe would be enforced by a government agency.

Loser pays could discourage individuals from bringing such suits against larger more wealthy entities because a case is almost never completely open and shut.
> 1_000_000$

The way most publications would write that value would be $1,000,000, or just $1MM if you're nasty. Either are acceptable because they are clear and follow widely-used conventions.

As to the substance, I think the pricing changes hurts small developers who strike gold, which is bad, but I don't really care how it affects Facebook, or TikTok, or Amazon, or whomever else would hit 1MM downloads. That's a personal choice. I agree with the author that only allowing third-party browser engines in certain locales would create an undue burden on companies like Mozilla, or really anyone who wants to compete without WebKit, and seems mean-spirited in that it follows the letter of the regulation without following the spirit.
> I see where this is coming from but making platforms fully liable for user content will make it impossible to start a business that includes (semi-) public user interaction at all

So? What value have these platforms provided that justifies their existence?
Apple will no longer block apps based on content, only on malware or accessing private apis. That is the change that 3rd party app stores bring. You could now have porn apps, emulators, copyright infringement (though I assume the rights holders will come after the 3rd party store in that case) and Apple will notarize them so they can be distributed on 3rd party stores.
Servers in workplaces are often ephemeral. It's easy enough to write provisioning code that updates the system terminfo database, but it needs to be written, tested, reviewed, and deployed. Speaking of deploys, how are your Q1 OKRs shaping up?
I think in most Western countries, "low triple digits" is a good ballpark estimate for "advice" - i.e. a "holy shit this is like a month's worth of living cost" amount if you're a poor student, or completely negligible if you work in a highly paying job.

You might even get an initial consult for free. You may also be entitled to a free consultation via an insurance, including collective insurances or assistance programs offered through your employer or associations that you're a member of.
Not so effective when they guy trying it is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and has demonstrated that he has quite efficient hitmen of his own.
I can't make my own phone, I'm too busy building my steel mill.
I'd wager you could argue that it's not possible to participate in society without internet services, and that it's not possible to use internet services without divulging personal data.

It's practically impossible to avoid giving your information to a 3rd party.
Recycling PLA from 3D prints exists, without the bio part. I buy filament from a local supplier that recycles failed or unused prints into pellets, then rolls of filament.
i don't know, my experience in practice is that turning off emacs GC has resulting in no noticeable degradation and has eliminated GC pauses. so why not do it?

maybe emacs just doesn't use enough memory, relative to modern systems, for GC to be worth it.

(i do quit emacs at the end of each day, so that is a form of GC.)
Iops on GitHub runners is also terrible slow, you easily get a 5x to 10x improvement

We did the same, and set up GitHub actions runners on hetzner

Halfed the integration test time and made them more reliable.
> It is a 737 variant

In name only, and by dint of software cludges to prime the vividness of our ability to imagine that pilots needn't be separately type-rated.

...but we all know that if it weren't for MCAS (and by extension, if it weren't for Boeing's special seat at the FAA table), this wouldn't pass muster.

(but yes, I think you and I are saying the same thing.)
So kind of like getting rid of puritanical moral standards across society? There are some things people deserve to feel shame for (basically anything you intentionally do that hurts other people). Having junk between your legs is not one of those things. Ditto for 99% of the other things people get blackmailed for.
Exactly. It's much, much easier to get promoted if you brown-nose or schmooze with your boss. If anything, being the hardest working man in a team is a sure way to not get a promotion because you are too valuable as a work-horse
In the long term I think you're pretty much right, but in the short term, all these businesses that were structured around the assumption of easy massive funding rounds from low interest rates have to figure out how to operate in high interest rates again, and will likely shed a lot of employees in the process.
It is not. We have an unlimited amount of desert sand available to us, but we need the river sand for construction. Otherwise the likes of Saudi Arabia would be exporting sand instead of importing it for their sky scrapers. The same is true for the mining sand, only a portion of it is appropriate for construction.
I think what you're asking for is pretty much Librem 5. It had a team of developers (including myself) working on developing things like Phosh and polishing hardware support up. Some of that work has spilled over to PinePhones, but anything that's device specific did not. PinePhones have always relied entirely on community engagement, and I can tell you from experience that some of the issues I've been solving for L5 I would never been able to solve if I had to do it on my spare time alone. I may be biased, but my impression is that Librem 5 is commonly regarded as more mature than any of the PinePhones, and that's the only reason IMO. The community is doing great things, but I don't think it's anywhere big enough to sustain itself on its own at a reasonable pace yet (any kind of help is welcome:))

(whether you'll consider Librem 5 as already mature enough when switching from, say, Android is another matter - I personally do, but people have varying expectations and the L5 team is just a handful of people after all, which contrasts hard with what resources have been poured into Android and iOS)
I wouldn't call it "insane antisocial behavior." I have no idea what his personal life is like, but managing the Linux source code isn't socializing, it's a job. You could say he's not very professional in this job, but he isn't doing this to make friends and get along with everybody.
It is significantly more likely your direct manager notices you being afk for 4 hours in an office vs at home. not complicated
I can't share client-specific stories because that's protected by AC privilege. But I think the recipients of these letters sometimes have more potential to negotiate than they realize.
I wish there was more of this in society instead of immense passive aggression we see now days.

It's very efficient and to the point.
When I ended up in the tugboat business I was surprised to learn that there are markets for sand in both directions between Florida and The Bahamas.

We export some types of sand from Florida to The Bahamas for use in concrete construction. We import other types of sand from The Bahamas to Florida for use in aquariums.
You're on another comment in this thread quibbling about the definition of fascism. Dismiss what you want but I'm feeling ok about my initial read on this question.
They count as downloads but the count is download/per-user/per-year. Still not going to be cheap but yeah. If you have 2M users and you ship 1 update or 1,000,000 new updates in a year you just pay $0.50/user (for 1M of them, since the first 1M is "free").
> The abuse mailbox relies on e-mail forwarding to work. The mail is first processed by the pixeldrain server and then forwarded to my mailbox. If your sending e-mail server has an SPF policy which restricts forwarding your message will not arrive in my inbox.

Seems like you might have been sent an email but you've made it harder to receive those emails.