skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phone scams are at an all time high. The same for identity theft and other forms of fraud. That article avoids it but I'm sure it's on people's minds. The FTC reported Friday that more than $10 Billion was stolen via fraud in 2023 (+14% from 22).[1]

Talking about crime writ large and only selecting homelessness and murder is such a narrow view of crime that it seems almost meaningless.

So I did some digging. I found crime trends in US Cities as put together by the Council on Criminal Justice[2] in mid 2023. Motor Vehicle Theft is up over 30% and homicide is down 9%. Even that doesn't even attempt to touch fraud (ctrl+f for fraud and scam both came up empty). The initial article says only "some nonviolent crimes like car theft are up in certain cities". This seems clearly contradicted by the other article I found.

The only thing clear to me having done this particular exercise is that probably both the reporting and the polling here are inadequate and incomplete, and that the people who are most being hurt aren't going to get one lick of help.

[1]https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/...
[2]https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2023-crime-trends/
Iceland's Landmannalaugar hot spring was also a great vibe. I highly recommend it if you get a chance!
That's pretty irrelevant when there is no longer any value in your opponent. Human psychology has this horrid but effective ability to out group vasts swaths of people and do horrible things to them up to and including genocide with little negative psychological impact on the perpetrator. What kept things in line in previous wars and revolutions is the cost to you in lives of fighting (vastly lowered by drone armies) and the pontential future benefit of having the people you are fighting with as customers/subjects/slaves. What's the benefit incentivizing you to minimize loss of life for your opponent when you don't need a labor force? It's also still a true response to an irrelevant frame of thought of the op comment. Greed still isn't the problem, the problem is still the government failing to mitigate market power abuse via company breakup/regulation. The above is just the likely outcome of a hypothetical that isn't relevant.
You aren't supposed to let anyone under 12 use a VR headset.
I like how this is considered "tough". What would be tough is instituting actual data security and privacy regulations that telcos and service providers have to follow at risk of being fined out of business to be replaced by an organization that can.
I suspect it being stolen is less common than it being sold.
No, this is the "safe" way to discriminate without explicitly saying "we don't like you."

Case in point, look at Atlanta. Mandatory drug testing is still a thing, and they're averse to hiring anybody with a criminal conviction. If you really want to be nasty, you set up office far away from the nearest MARTA line. Altogether, you'll get very few minority applicants.

What discriminatory practice would you sue over? They drug test everyone, turn away all convicts, and you can't compel a company to be accessible by public transit.

So in the quote, gee, this policy being "really unpopular with those over 40" is how you drive them out. Being very intolerant of family/outside emergencies is another way.
God are they ever nice saws too. Good for you big dog.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

there are more, but this one came to mind
> Customer Sues USDA over Policy Preventing Nutritional Claims Of New Fad Diet

Should be the title but apparently the article is from the law firm who is representing the plaintiffs. Didn't know what FODMAPs were before this article and the subsequent wikipedia'ing, but it gives me Keto vibes. Something that is medically beneficial for very specific purpose and now a group of people are trying to push it to something more general.

A small excerpt from wiki that I thought was interesting:

> It should only be used for short periods and under the advice of a specialist

Pretty sure that's how everyone who will apply this concept will use it /s
A lot of it boils down to "zfs thinks the data is on disk, but is still being passed through the encryption layer, then something bad happened like a power outage or corruption at the encryption layer"
Any Tesla owner can relate to this, given the wide variety (read: no consistency, no standards) of toggle buttons the car's UI utilizes.

For one, the HVAC. One button, showing temperature, which upon touched the system will react differently to depending on how you touch it and for how long. Touch it briefly, you get a little popup. Touch it slightly longer, and (hopefully, not guaranteed though) you get a bigger panel with full HVAC controls. Touch and hold for a couple seconds, and (hopefully, not guaranteed though) you turn off the HVAC if it's on. ALL WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING AND SUPPOSED TO WATCH THE ROAD. And if your hand/eye coordination is slightly off (and hey, when you're driving, going over bumps, etc, it very likely is) if you mis-aim by even a millimeter, you may touch another button and not realize it and do something unintended.

Another disaster: Tesla's entire connect-a-Bluetooth-device UX is one of the worst mishmashes of disastrous UI design I have ever seen in a shipping product, at least the 2012-2022 Model S implementation. Just one example, a button label down at the bottom right that still says "Connect" long after the device is already connected, but meanwhile elsewhere on the opposite side of screen, up top at the left, that says "Connecting..." then indicates the connection is made. All this in a UI that you only have a split second to glance at because it's in a CAR and you very well might be DRIVING. The Tesla Bluetooth UI could fill an entire chapter of a book on UI, it is so magnificently bad. Maybe I should write it.
Vert.x has always struggled with mind share. People try it but I have yet to hear of anyone sticking with it.
Very long article to find a justification for a Stockholm syndrome.
General AI tools also work the same for all users. It's not as if the average AI company is optimizing for celebrity deepfake nudes or spambots.

I mean, there are really two categories of software:

* Free and/or open source software. In this case, I think there is no good reason to make the developer liable, unless they're promoting illegal use. No person wants to be attacked for giving away something for free. That's why the LICENSE.

* Commercial/paid software. In this case, it is reasonable to argue that companies should be liable if end users are harmed by the software. For paid software especially, disclaimers cannot be absolute.

But I do not think it is acceptable to hold developers liable for second-order effects - i.e., a user doing something illegal with the software and harming a third party - unless it was obvious to them that the user was going to do something illegal.
I did my part: refused a job because of these kind of mandatory weird tests.
It seems odd to criticize an elected representative who comments on the irresponsible behavior of corporations.
You're conflating honesty with humility.
I like home assistant. There's tons of reasons to use it. You get a lot of good enough moving parts out of the box.

MQTT is something you should set up ASAP. There are plenty of reasons to set it up: ESPresnse is a big one (can't say enough about this offering) AWTRIX is another, even if you aren't going to integrate zigbee.

MQTT becomes a cheap and easy way to add data to, and interact with home assistant. And, any device that communicates over MQTT can be controlled by you (custom code, dead easy) outside HA.
> For some reason, our railroad are privately owned rather than owned by the states or the fed

Who do you think built them? We have the world’s largest rail network for a reason.
I've said this before, but the managing director of the Norwegian Pension Fund - which currently sits at a cool $1.56 trillion, has a $657k salary. Nothing more, nothing less. The return for last year was around 25%

Some of the fund managers there make more than the managing director, but still, we're talking about a "modest" figure in the $1mm-$2mm range. That's paltry pay compared to the big bucks made in hedge funds and private equity.

The pension fund could have paid out hundreds of millions to their fund managers, and it would only have been a rounding error in the grand scheme of things...but still they manage to attract top talent.

There's this culture on Wall Street (or Connecticut, or London...) that they are the only ones that can bring big returns, because they're the right combination of correct pedigree, professional experience, network, talent, etc.

In the end, it's just good salesmanship. Tons of funds deliver mediocre returns, while making bank.
The idea's not that you're done for good when the 25min are up. You just take a break. Then you come back to it for another 25min. Maybe you do this for the entire day, maybe you do this a couple times for an entire week. Or longer, I've had projects that stretch over a couple of years, that I rarely spent more than 1-3 hours of any particular day on.

In practice I'll happily ignore the "take a 5 min break" part of the Pomodoro method but I definitely take real breaks every hour or two.
Related to this, I still think think the original version of the Hue Tap switch was clever and I'm still surprised didn't have more clones and didn't entirely survive the internal revision wars/external protocol wars: the original didn't use a disposable "button" battery and instead used mechanical energy of pushing the button to power sending the Zigbee signal. It takes more force than a regular light switch to hit it with enough physical power, but it's also kind of satisfying in the way a mechanical keyboard button can be or a big chonky "snooze button" that you kind of want to smack with some force anyway.

I've heard it said that sort of mechanical powered switch with Thread/Matter is much harder, except with these old existing ones in bridges with old Zigbee compatibility, and more's the pity. It still seems such a good idea to me, one less battery to waste/go bad at exactly the wrong time.
Litigation terrorism: the obscure tool that corporations use against green laws
> the only tried and true way to fix fertility is

It's funny that you describe fertility as something which needs to be fixed. I see it as a very fortunate thing that humanity is voluntarily choosing to stop expanding its population in a situation of global ecological overshoot.
Calgary too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15
I'm a current student at Berea, and yeah Berea has a unique history.
scott wiener has never endorsed anything that expands personal or civil liberties in any possible way. when I read his name having to do with any law my brain just automatically requires double the amount of persuasion that it'll do any social good whatsoever.
You use another company as a Merchant of Record (like Stripe) and they handle all of that for you for a larger fee. Are you setup correctly or is UAE some kind of exception?
That’s the part that drives me insane re people’s reactions to this kind of legislation.

You have people saying “our technology could end the human race, please let us continue to do whatever we want with it without oversight”.

Regardless of whether you believe them or not, the statement itself should be enough to provoke oversight.
The distance formula is unclear. Today, for example, one click was stated to be 4 blocks away, but the target was three blocks away on a direct diagonal.

https://share.cleanshot.com/DNQ9YhMM
That isn’t weird at all. A residential home is also more likely to be robbed than Fort Knox. It goes back to the required preparedness of the robbers.

Either way, I wasn’t the one who picked the example. Seth didn’t ask “should a liquor store employee be payed more than a bank teller”. Which wouldn’t be a good example either, as we’d be comparing too many different axis.
Im not sure that I like this approach. Documentation very rarely cover all 100% of nuances. There always will be "test and see" part of learning in my opinion.

For me its like you can use paper for drawing but only 10 minutes a day. Or piano but only every second Monday for few hours.
I think I would have been happier if I hadn't read that.

Nevertheless, Chile remains a beautiful country, its people, beautiful, and his poetry is no different and remains as beautiful.
My wife (engineer) taught a class called 'Math for Teachers', which was designed to teach elementary school teachers basic math. Not how to teach it, just how to do basic math themselves. A significant number should have failed that class but the administration refused to allow her to fail teachers who were failing for 'reasons'.

She quit the job.
I took a more general test at a job agency, as there was warehouse work, cleaning, assembly line and so on available.

I argued at the end that I had 100%, since 295 × 3 (or something) could not possibly be the answer given on the answer sheet, as the last digit wasn't 5.

They eventually found a calculator and found their answer sheet was wrong. Supposedly, no-one had noticed before, though now I wonder if it's possible it was a test of personality.

Probably not, as many people probably would find that question difficult on a test with questions like "Put Smith, Jones and Patel in alphabetical order".
According to the sociological data, the same happens in smaller families, but the support structure is worse, so people are worse off. Life is challenging!
Ah, here in Philadelphia, we've gotten used to the police response of "there's nothing we can do"

Officer, I have footage of the person committing assaults, we have several witnesses, including several victims, and oh look, that's him walking past.

"Oh yeah, we know about that guy. If you see something happening, call 911. Nothing I can really do."

911, meanwhile, rings out, because of staff shortages.
That is your idea, my idea here is that it is immoral to pay insane amounts of money to keep promoting inequality which in some cases, as flying jet planes, also involves having more power to dismantle the planet we all live in.
Yes. If you work for 10 years and then just consume stuff for the rest of your life without lifting a finger, stuff for which other people work all day long to produce it while at the same time probably not enjoying a quality of life anywhere near yours, that is deeply unjust and I consider it immoral to desire such a life.
I don't think there's any reason you can't just continue the task you've been working on.
> (Aside: should the guys who drive an armored car that carries millions of dollars in bonds get paid more than the guys that drive an armored car that only carries thousands of dollars in cash? Does the amount of money handled change the difficult of the work?)

Aside from the bigger point of the article, what a horrible analogy. Yes, of course handling more money makes your work more "difficult", where any reasonable definition of difficult has to incorporate the fact that bad people will do crazier things for more money than less.
> There are always exceptions to any rule

We had what we thought were the dream landlords. They kept our rent low because we kept their property in good condition and we were tenants for literally a decade. I mowed both sides of the property, too, so they wouldn't need to service it. I replaced outlets, I was on-time with rent every single month.

Then they wanted out of the business. We were harangued constantly by their real estate agent to arrange tours of the property, oftentimes without the requisite 24-hour notice by our states law. We had to allow strangers THROUGH OUR HOME routinely for a month. Then they sold the property, and the new owners increased rent by the maximum legal amount the next month, almost $400 at the time, fully intending to continue increasing it until it was at "market rate" which essentially doubled our rent over the course of the next few months.

Thankfully my parents were in a particularly great position having had a windfall from a family member passing away, and they helped us a great deal in completing our savings for a down payment several years ahead of schedule, and helping us pay off some ancillary debt to give our credit score a shot in the arm. We managed to buy a home thanks to them and I will live in a fucking cardboard box before I kiss some landlord's ring again.

Fuck em.
> some useless shit we couldn’t vote for or influence in any real way.

I have no idea if it's useless shit and I admit to learning about the Seanad 15 minutes ago from Wikipedia but it seems to me that it's supposed to be a weak technocratic advisory chamber insulated from popular will. At least it seems to make more sense than the House of Lords.
I would argue that a more robust regulatory framework around social media could have at least prevented the worst harms. For example, more robust moderation or at least requiring companies to have responsive liaisons who speak the local language for territories they operate in could have mitigated/prevented the serious harms we've seen Facebook and Whatsapp cause in multiple countries i.e. Myanmar.

This is of course assuming we'd get the kind of regulations we need, instead of useless security theater or regulations so onerous that they prevent products from developing at all. But it does seem like it would have been possible to prevent the worst of it, since many of these cases boil down to 'Facebook (or other big company) didn't care and didn't bother to try, and then bad things happened'
> Also, I do wonder if EU flies a little close to the sun with this stuff. You can't legislate that someone lose more money than they gain with access to your market.

This makes no sense. If you were right there would be no android phones sold in europe because the conditions are so bad for the manufacturer. That, however, doesn't seem to match with reality at all.
That works for you and that is great. Other things work for other people.
> I flag these articles but no one cares.

Not sure what you mean--it seems like most articles that touch on politics get flagged (as this one did). Just like with upvoters, it is impossible to know whether those who flagged it did so because of politics or because they thought the article was of poor quality.
This, I can't believe all these "money doesn't bring you happiness after a certain level" tropes keep ignoring saving and investing angle, just lazy. Or accumulating wealth for your kids.
It’s funny because I wish there was more legislation around databases. People do a piss poor job of securing and maintaining them, resulting in all kinds of theft, fraud, etc. Likewise, we for some reason allow to people to build databases of information about people that should be illegal (e.g. real time location tracking), which they then sell to people who have no business having that information.
This plays slightly into the slow climate change vs fast climate change issue. If climate changes slowly enough, this allows enough generations to build up the new traits needed for survival. Too fast, nothing lasts to evolve at all.
Agreed, Keirin (in my limited knowledge) aims to keep things pure in their particular area (making competition a level playing field). By comparison, the UCI wants to have control over a much wider part of cycling (and so want to rule over what innovations we can and can't have).
Company benefits are also a form of salary. If your company gifts you a free car, they have to tax it as such.
By that logic, do you consider it immoral to spend lottery winnings?
In my experience it's more nuanced. Some of my most unreliable devices are Zigbee (but they're also Aqara, and that may well be the real problem there). My Z-Wave devices have been pretty solid once configured, but they were also some of the most finicky to get paired up and on the network. My WiFi switches have been rock steady, not a single problem.
I find it quite disgusting how this thinkpiece is a thinly veiled advertisement to gamble on the writer’s market position.
Java EE is everything that is wrong with modern software development packaged into one framework. :) It's not something you'd use voluntarily (unless the salary is really good).
You can argue about the numbers and there is definitely the flying private jets and basically not thinking about the cost of hotels and schools, etc. echelon. But, yeah, $1m/yr probably isn't that given it's not that much out of the range of a lot of salaried senior worker bees in tech, etc. Sure, that's great comp and you can save a lot but it's not "costs don't matter" level of things.
Particle filters would be the main other one I'd reach for. The ability to represent multiple hypotheses is a big advantage they have.
I recently withdrew an application for the first time, after a recruiter connected me w Fidelity, bc their initial "interview" was a 1-way video screen that expected me to devote an hour of my time and gave me 24 hours to do that.

Normally an interview is supposed to enable you to find out more about how the company operates, but honestly that alone was pretty telling.
Django Accessibility in 2023 and Beyond
Since we're on that beat, do we really believe an apple fell on Isaac Newton's head?

Rather than merely that he saw an apple fall nearby, and wondered why it fell downwards.
Yeah I work from 6am-5pm. I do other productive things during the breaks, though.
The main thrust of his argument seems to be that developers should be able to engage in price discrimination. That's cool and all, but it seems anti-competitive to me as a customer. I don't want to pay more just because I don't have time to write each developer and beg for a discount. Remember, Amazon famously had to back down from advertising different prices to Americans in urban and rural areas due to customer backlash.

While I partially sympathize with the ostensible desire to be able to offer great customer service under the guise of refunds for unexpected downtime in SaaS apps, it's hard to see how this won't be abused by developers: Won't every app just offer App Store refunds to convert customers to 3rd party payment?

I suspect that's the actual reason these things are wanted. I completely understand that many people think 30% is too high (and maybe it is!), but it's hard to see how 0% isn't too low.

What would be his reaction if Apple enabled all these customer service options he supposedly wants, but at a cost to the developer? For example, a code for first-responders to download the app for free, but the developer still pays 20% of the store price. Or a customer refund, where Apple keeps 20% instead of 30%. After all, it's not about the money, but actually about offering great customer service. So he'd go for that, right?
> Do you think deepfake porn of celebrities should be allowed? What about deepfake porn of an unpopular student at the local high school?

Should be handled by impersonation/defamation laws. For celebrities, perhaps it may be handled by copyright. That would allow them to license their likeness under their own conditions.

> If these aren't allowed, where is the best place to prevent them, but still has minimal impact on the allowed uses?

By enforcing laws against the bad behaviors themselves and not trying to come up with convoluted regulations on tools just because of their potential to be used badly.

> At the root level of the software capable of producing them (what seems to be proposed in TFA)?

> At the distribution level (copyright-style)?

You'd just be increasing the costs of producing software and distribution means (thinking of stuff like YouTube). It's just setting up already powerful companies to become even more powerful by raising the bar on what potential competition must be ready for from the get-go.