skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you ask Apple they did. It's basically what the iPad Pro is. Apple certainly views the iPad as a general computing device.

Apple doesn't give you full access to your device, but they are also adding a lot of strings attached on Macs, with their notarisation, immutable OS partitions etc.

Sure, you can still turn it off on Mac but it's basically an all-or-nothing, so you have to turn of all protections just to change one little thing. And you lose functionality, like the ability to run iOS apps: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/if-you-disable-sip-all-...

Unfortunately the vendor deciding what you can and cannot do on your computing device is basically the "new model" which they managed to sneak onto us because there was very little opposition to it when iOS was introduced. It also enabled the app store rent seeking of course which was the main point.
> In 1982, Idaho was the first State to pass such a law, commonly known as the “Idaho Stop Law.” The law
allows bicyclists to yield at stop signs and proceed when safe, rather than come to a complete stop. After Idaho
adopted the law, bicyclist injuries from traffic crashes declined by 14.5% the following year (Meggs, 2010). In
2017, Delaware adopted a similar, limited stop-as-yield law, known
as the "Delaware Yield.” Traffic crashes involving bicyclists at stop
sign intersections fell by 23% in the 30 months after the law’s
passage, compared to the previous 30 months.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2023-03/Bicyclis...
I think for some people it has the effect you describe, for others it made it important to get as many “friends” as possible to maximise the number of likes they get on each post, as though that actually means something.
Maybe where you live? It isn’t as common here in Seattle, although as I said it is definitely becoming less rare.
> You should never identify with it or sympathize with it, but if you approach it as a parasite hoping to extract as much value from you as it can, it offers a pretty great personal opportunity.

I like you. This is my general perspective, however I try to be a greedy symbiote.
Sounds fun but (for me) not worth clicking past a tracker popup with several hundred default-accept "legitimate interest" trackers with only the option to "object", not "reject" them as is shown for the "partners". Definitely not the sort of site I'm going to share my location with. (Not sure if it asks for location sharing but with a set of trackers like that I expect it does as it will be a significant source of revenue for them.)
Lol all that matters is how much money is being made, they don't really give a shit about wrecking developer trust as long as google remains the money printing behemoth it is.
Nope, just broke for no apparent reason after working perfectly fine for years and continues to work on the desktop. By this point in time, I've been cynical of Google for longer than I was a fan, but every nail that strikes at the heart of the Google that was cool still hurts to see.
Author here, I am not a webdev, and I have no idea how to fix that. Do you have any suggestions?
> No, only some Americans vacation there. It's not like 80% of Americans all travel to European cities every year. In my observation, many Americans prefer to go to various US cities and rent cars, or to go to beach resorts, or spend their time on cruise ships drinking all day long.

Of course it's not everyone, but it's more than just those that go to Europe. There are walkable pockets in America, and people go to them. Cruise ships are really mini walkable cities. Many beachy resort towns have a walkable commercial district. Disney is a giant walkable area, complete with a transit system.

I don't know all the history of Japan, of course, but I assume there some chicken-egg situation. If there is better transit, it'll encourage people to choose greater density (presuming it's legal to build). I would love the existing cities we have to (1) encourage dense, walkable buildings (eg. dense, w/ activated sidewalks) and (2) proactively build transit to suburban towns, to provide alternative transit options for commutes.

When I visited Japan, I noticed that beyond the typical subways of Tokyo, there are lots of regional trains that get to smaller cities outside of the megalopolis. I think that could be a great first step that America is equipped to do today. We have commuter rail in our biggest cities (eg. NYC), but we could continue to build that out to more places, to normalize using trains.

> If you want to live in Japan and have tech skills, there's plenty of companies hiring here.

Maybe I should learn Japanese first :) But a tempting proposition.
I've lived in San Francisco for over 4 years. I cycle, walk, drive, and take public transport. If I were about to cross at an intersection with a stop sign, the sight of an approaching car would create more fear and caution in me, than would the sight of an approaching bicycle.

> California drivers do often fail to come to a technical stop at intersections, but they first slow to a near-zero speed that very nearly accomplishes the same purpose.

It very nearly accomplishes the same purpose only from the point of view of other drivers. When a driver in SF approaches an intersection, they're looking out for other cars, working out whether they'll be able to slow down and continue, or they'll need to stop. If they don't see another car that will have priority, they won't stop. So:

- they may not see the pedestrian that's just reached the intersection, and/or

- the pedestrian that's just reached the intersection won't know whether the car is going to stop, so they won't attempt to cross

When I drive, I'm sometimes frustrated when I stop at an intersection, wait for a pedestrian to start crossing, and they're slow to get started. Then I remember it's the behavior of drivers that has conditioned pedestrians to yield even when they have right of way.
Sure, have fewer stops. But even if you separate the routes, cyclists will eventually have to stop somewhere (even for other cyclists), and they won’t want to.
Secondhand EVs Are Starting to Look Like a Bargain
https://archive.ph/k32Ta
Go to https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/provision/vs and choose North America > Washington DC > Washington DC 2. Click "Change image" and choose "IBM Z, LinuxONE", then pick Ubuntu. I get $0.09/hour for 1 vCPU/4GB RAM with storage extra.

For fun, then try picking z/OS instead of Linux and see what that software license costs ($/hour). Take a guess first how much you think it'll be and then see if you're right.
I’m happy that in the Netherlands it’s ALWAYS the car driver’s responsibility (she always pays).
Cycling is dangerous when mixed with cars, for sure. But blazing through at an intersection full of cars which are expecting you to stop is even more dangerous. Stop sign rules exist for a reason (to slow vehicles down enough that everyone can see and negotiate everyone else) and it's safer for all if you obey them. This is an example of the rationalization I alluded to earlier. Cyclists lie to themselves.

Next you will be telling me that changing lanes without signaling or looking, swerving through traffic, ignoring stop signs on bike paths, riding while looking at one's phone, riding the wrong way, riding without a helmet, or at night without lights (all of which I observe all the time from cyclists) are evolved safety behaviors.

This is not to excuse drivers, who do lazy and selfish things all the time, like looking at their phones. The root cause is the same--human nature. It just so happens that the incentives are worse when cycling.
> Once the "suits" take over, things get boring for us techies.

To be fair, "suits" are a sign of success and growth. Once your company is large enough to be just a single team, and starts requiring too much time to keep track of all things happening and what each employee thinks and does, managing becomes a dedicated job and delegating management requires dedicated managers.

Also, I think that point of view is through rose-colored glasses. One circle of hell is comprised of being managed by an awkward antisocial techie.
WTF is this title, flagged
Is "poison in the keurig " a euphemism for spreading bad morale?
Texas firm allegedly behind fake Biden robocall that told people not to vote
My perspective is primarily mainland where I lived for 9 years, and primarily interacting with mainlander coworkers (eg from Fujian, talking politics was ok).
I'm not pro-autonomous vehicles. Under the hypothesis that they worked well enough that they proliferated widely and people came to rely on them, they would be the most enshittifiable service ever.

Also I ride a bicycle everywhere, I don't own a car. I've had many crashes while cycling, a handful of which involved another moving vehicle.

Speed is a good predictor of how much harm a moving vehicle can cause to a cyclist or pedestrian, and given that the Waymo was turning left off a 4-way stop, it couldn't have been going that fast, and even if it was, the waymo stopped soon enough to avoid doing serious damage. Maybe the cyclist veered into the Waymo, we don't know. Maybe we'll get video and then we can really pick it apart.

There is a battle going on right now between the Governor of California and SF city council over the city's inability to regulate the existence of autonomous vehicles on their streets after the fast proliferation of Cruise's AVs led to all kinds of traffic snarls and general irritation amongst the public.

Cruise has been operating in SF since 2019 and has had many incidents more severe than the one we're discussing now, but they got little attention because it wasn't so political then. Nowdays SF is looking for any excuse they can find to get AVs out of their city.

In legal terms I doubt the city will find what they need with this incident. With regards to public sentiment, the headline "Waymo hits cyclist in SF" is about as much as most people will read, and the details of the crash don't matter.
For server applications, the trends of virtualization and microservices mean that having "machine" dedicated to running a single application is a very common scenario, and also for server VMs running a bunch of apps it is not obvious that having a partition per application is an issue, it would be trivial for the VM initialization scripts to automagically configure a dedicated partition for each DB.

Having a OS+filesystem running a virtual OS+filesystem running a database has all kinds of redundant caching, and we could systematically skip a layer here.
Agreed. One thing that a lot of people miss when attempting to comply with WCAG contrast guidelines is that disabled controls are specifically exempt.

With good reason, IMO — too much contrast and it’s not clear that an element is disabled.
Looking at my Ricochet modem: mesh networks are so cool, but…
I bet they'll combine this, their new VR treadmill thing, and their parks into a VR Epic Games experience
Someone needs to turn this into an xscreensaver hack that (optionally?) round-trips the mp4 through YouTube.

Does stack overflow support RSS (to feed it requests for youtube videos)?
Maybe? At the AST level, it can might be complicated I guess, but not really. At runtime JIT though… yeah sure. The various expressions of the same AST are bountiful.

But I would love to run an analysis on every npm module published, and find the same AST subexpressions, functions, etc. Do the same thing: remove the identifiers and hash the AST parts. Even go back and see how people named the same function in different ways!
Questionnaire – Wendell Berry (1971)
As predicted,at least 40 years ago. Probably more.

Edward Jay Epstein wrote two books on the diamond trade in 1982/3 which presaged this story.
> If both you and your competitor bank can come back 90 days later to withdraw fraudulent funds, you can advertise that your deposits are available immediately while theirs aren't. What is the risk to you? You can just pull the money back.

The risk is insufficient funds in the account to cover the deficit

> There is no technological roadblock from verifying within seconds that a) a bank account exists with the given account and routing number; b) it is associated with the name on the check being deposited; c) it has available funds to cover the balance of the check. As it stands the banks give you the money as soon as its deposited (or very shortly thereafter), but that's no risk to them. They can come back and get it whenever should they need to.

You missed "d) was printed by a forger with otherwise valid information"
That can absolutely work... if you are confined into a single machine. (In fact, that's roughly how cloud instances work.) I see no way to generalize that into a distributed system. In my previous job I worked on a game server engine which solves a very limited version of this problem via virtual actors and it was still way too hard.
Jon is here on the site if you didn't know.

Tsoding is really entertaining. Not classically trained but very smart and amusing.
Flawless sounds a lot like https://temporal.io/ .

I'm wondering if it has the same scalability concerns - sticking everything in Postgres is fine at small-ish scale, but what happens when you outgrow Postgres, either because you have higher availability requirements (can't handle primary DB restarts) or because of the sheer volume of the workload?
Until you screw yourself with vendor lock in on a proprietary language.

It's at least a pile of goo that you can take to other providers or host yourself.
> “The big barrier is a higher capital cost. If you think about New Zealand and a just transition, the reality is if the majority of Kiwis buy a car that’s worth around $7000, they’re not going to be buying electric for a very long time unless we can create that secondhand market.”

This is the kernel of the problem. Make an EV you can sell for $7K (and still has 250 km of range), and Bob's your uncle. Battery swapping seems to be one way to do this.
Your complaints about modern Autodesk seem inappropriate in someone's memorial thread given that Walker appears to have nothing to do with the valid points your raised, and likely was against them.

Walker resigned from Autodesk in 1994, and stepped down as chair years before then.

A quick read of his 2003 "The Digital Imprimatur" at https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ tells me he didn't like these changes either.

For one, around 2000 he thought "the emergence of viable international OpenSource alternatives to commercial software seemed to guarantee that control over computers and Internet was beyond the reach of any government or software vendor—any attempt to mandate restrictions in commercial software would only make OpenSource alternatives more compelling and accelerate their general adoption."
Bullet points starting with bolded text, longer, objective, soulless sentences devoided of "I".
> simply redirecting while avoiding a negative response is one of those things that only works in a cultural context where it's expected... to me, it would be pretty confusing

It was confusing to me as well. But I am left wondering, is the directness of software frustrating people who culturally prefer indirect communication. I haven't seen anyone weigh in on that yet.
Fascinating. I wonder what the cultural difference is that caused us to go in different directions on that?
I hope those who take care of John's affairs will find a way to preserve fourmilab.ch (although the Wayback Machine is already doing the job, too) – although the site's still up, I worry that some direct debit will fail...
Oh yes, a lot. Our work environment is incredibly restricted so I can't easily connect to my home stuff. I have everything behind VPN which is blocked on the company network, I have no admin rights to do anything etc. I also require yubikeys (openPGP mode) to log into pretty much everything at home and the toolchain for this also can't be installed on my work stuff. SSH is also blocked, etc.

So, what I do when I have something I need to mess with at home, is plug in my personal phone into the work dock. It has a completely independent 5G connection so I can do whatever I want, without needing to circumvent company protections, and without even using the company network at all.

In DeX I mostly use outlook, webbrowser and Termux (which is amazing) for SSH using OpenPGP (using OKCAgent and OpenKeyChain to talk to the Yubikey). The office apps are also nice and very dex-enabled (they have a UI much more like a desktop than like a tablet in DeX mode) but I rarely use them. Same with Chrome etc, it has a full tab bar etc. Unfortunately firefox is not quite there yet, it's pretty sucky in DeX.

I use element for all my chats (using matrix bridges to whatsapp etc) and that works OK in DeX. It also lacks a good "desktop-style" interface unfortunately.

But overall it's pretty ok, it's definitely workable. There's a few annoying quirks but they're all pretty easy to work around. One of the issues is that the screen on the phone is often activated for no reason (leading me to worry about burn-in), but force-killing the apps in phone mode and then opening in DeX mostly fixes that. I wish Samsung would go all the way and really streamline this, but right now they're in a phase where DeX is basically neglected. Every few years they have a big marketing boost and they polish it up again but now they're in neglect mode :) Nevertheless it works ok though.

PS: One major usecase I've seen people use is also to use remote desktop in fullscreen which solves a lot of its quirks obviously but it's not quite as standalone as I'd like.

TL;DR: Great feature for when you need it and have a suitable dock nearby (or hotel TV and bluetooth keyboard/mouse), not something I'd use as a daily driver at this point.
I'm still trying to figure out why they chose "fapping"
The call to learn – Clifford Stoll [video]
No. Zelle is widely used as is Cash App. Which is more popular varies with your location, your age, your socio-economic status.

I'm surprised you consider Stripe widely used among small, part-time sellers.

But if I were buying something to be mailed I would insist on either credit card payment or Paypal.
All of this studiously ignores the fact that occupied homes provide exactly the same tax revenue, the same property value, support the same budgets as those vacant homes. Yes, increased wear and tear comes with occupation. But you pretzel yourself to act like the people in the homes contribute nothing to the local economy to subsidize and account for this increased wear and tear.
Uptime sniper link is broken
“Molecule is extremely durable” and “molecule does not accumulate in the body” are inherently at odds; the design space in which those properties arise lends itself naturally to insidious poisons.
Pull Requests – Expressjs/Express
> People are applying a stronger point here where changing the original data is hard evidence of foul play and sufficient to completely discount any changes.

Manipulating field measurements is already frowned upon in all applications. There is no point. Things like data provenance is a serious issue, which is directly targeted by peer reviews and investigations on scientific malpractice. Even performance benchmarks highly favor standardized test and data sets.

Being objective matters. Once you start messing with original measurements, you place yourself in a position where you need to answer questions on whether you're just adapting data to fit your belief instead of the other way around.
Most programs are written in a context where hiring someone is not an option.
This is an interesting area because there's a lot of room for debate about what a good "vibe" is. Is being really positive all the time the right vibe? In many/most office environments, it is considered to be the right vibe. In a small startup where you're trying to validate PMF, it's not necessarily the best vibe IMO.
No, the regulators (who are indirectly appointed through the public) are allowing them to use govt-built roads to test their products. They don't have a direct obligation to you or any other citizen.

I'd like them to release the video, but just be clear what you want, and best not to act like it is required of them.
> good programmers are almost always good writers in their native language

This doesn't just apply to software engineers!
Arguably harmful information is also arguably not harmful. Bias is a given for any work, why is that a problem to you? If there’s misinformation in the book - I’m all ears. Is it pervasive?
It's being taken care of.
I theorize it's still way better than the biased "fact checkers" from institutions.

How many more millions of viewers were lied to re: COVID vaccine safety when the doctors and scientists were outright silenced and replaced with one-sided propaganda?

And so many other topics.

At least now people can continually fact check and expose the bias to a greater degree.
> If they don't see another car that will have priority, they won't stop.

There's a difference between stop and slow down. There are some people who barely slow down and that's totally illegal and blatantly bad. It's also a minority of the time. Most people do significantly slow if not stop at intersections, regardless if there's another car with the right of way or not.

This is a big mischaracterization. That said, I do see cyclists blowing through stop signs ALL THE TIME, often totally dangerously with other cars (including me) at the intersection with them.
> Toyota has seen and survived a few such revolutions.

That sounds really interesting, I'd love to learn more. What such revolutions has Toyota survived?
I'm torn because on the one hand, having a large gap after only 1.5 years of employment is a bit of a red flag. On the other hand, you do want to stand out. So let's put the first one aside for a moment. If I were looking at your CV I'd want to find something, anything interesting. A cool side project, your work in some community, something that makes me want to talk to you. If you have a GitHub, I would like to see something that catches my eye. What I don't want to see are a bunch of forked repos with minimal contributions in it or todo list apps. If you can show that you worked in more than one language to a substantial degree, that's also a plus because it shows you can learn. Also, maybe landing a conference talk would help.

When it comes to the interview part, I sadly often meet people who don't understand the fundamentals. Like if someone is asked to write a web app and doesn't understand HTTP. Specifically, things like not every request needing to have a content-length header. I'd love to see that you know what a race condition is and how to avoid it when writing code. Same for security, know your vulnerabilities and what coding methods to use to avoid them.

I know this is a lot to ask for. However, I wouldn't go and learn another JS stack, they come and go and I trust that if you have your basics in order, you'll learn a tech stack or even programming language in no time.

But then again, that's just me and I have a tendency to not hire juniors due to the small team sizes I work in and the relatively large overhead a junior tends to represent. In other words, I don't have a lot of experience hiring juniors. Another thing, you may want to try and apply above junior level, even if you'll get lots of rejections, if you're good you may land something that way.
Pakistan shuts down internet on election day
Netblocks also reports outages: https://www.dawn.com/live/elections-2024#1812175.
Sure, you are right about infinite non-interactive CSS animations. And it's true there are simple checkbox:checked or whatever:active hacks for interactivity without JS. But for "click to (re)restart animation" there is no better cross-browser way I am aware of than toggling on some trigger attribute and toggling it off on animation end event, hence the JS.
Jup for sure. To be honest I didn’t intend for this to get posted yet. Just wanted to show it to the Zed team because they expressed interest.
The web is mostly we care for your privacy form modals concealing the buy me a coffee link buttons.
You don't use ChatGPT to do your grammar.. there's more than just hypetool