skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there are legitimate cases where sedation is reasonably the best available solution. The problem is - who draws the line? There was a case the other day where a university professor was tackled to the ground, her head hitting the cement, and forcefully handcuffed because she had tapped a police officer on the shoulder asking him to stop what he was doing to a student. She was booked for assaulting a police officer, which is clearly a "combative" thing to do. Do you think the officer who tackled her down and then climbed on top of her should also have the authority to inject her with a sedative at his discretion? Do you think that, in an environment where simply not following directions promptly to the full satisfaction of the arresting officer can result in being tased or even shot, law enforcement also needs to be able to sedate people whenever they find it appropriate?
I think this situation also demonstrates how it isn't so simple as just getting it to people who might need / use this stuff.

I did a big remodel recently, I had a bunch of perfectly good hardware, an entire kitchen of appliances, cabinets, etc, and such items.

People told me all about "oh someone might use that", and I'd ask if they would use it, everyone said "no, not me". The local re-use non profits all had big lists of things they don't want, because nobody actually wants them.
Signal can leave metadata (phone numbers) behind whereas talking in person doesn't usually unless some comms were used to suggest it, security footage, or cell phone pings were to allude it. I'm wondering if evidence of a conversation occurring can be used in a legal context as circumstantial evidence or to suggest suspicion or intrigue.
I recall having to add that dummy 'never' branch in the past, but I haven't had to do that in newer projects on recent versions of Typescript.
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That's why we're all here, aren't we?

To discover things we haven't heard of. That's why it's Hacker News, not Hacker Common Knowledge.
> but how often do you see comments bemoaning the use of web stacks and pining for native apps

On HN, all the time, but it's not something that regular users notice or care about. It's not that native apps can't be on some level superior, but most people can't tell the difference and frankly, most native apps I've had to use are just as bad on all performance metrics as Slack and company.

What people are really complaining about is that most apps are made as quickly and cheaply as possible, and those lazy apps are disproportionately web apps because web is cheap and easy.
Ugh. Really? Those "simulated water isn't wet"(when applied to cognition) "arguments" were punched so many times it even hurts to look at them.
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I think it's just lazy corporate employees didn't know what else to do with large volumes of excess inventory.
You don't have to use their apps. I never understood this argument. Why would you even want to use the apps of companies that you don't trust?
We have expert systems, theorem provers and planners but OP probably didn't mean this.
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It's a needlessly esoteric, bad guide. The first three steps can be simplified into "Obtain an installation media.", and the fourth step of updating your BIOS has nothing to do with Windows specifically.

Creating a local account is basic sense (no, not common sense; we aren't common people), and not connecting to the internet during install is recommended but not a hard requirement.

Installing drivers while avoiding their bloatware is, again, basic sense.

Disabling "Microsoft Consumer Experience" does nothing as far as I've experienced (and it shouldn't, the setting is only effective on Windows 11 Enterprise and Education); I never modify that setting myself.

On the other hand, I turn off Automatic Updates (automatic Windows Update) and Microsoft Store's ability to automatically download and update programs via the Group Policies. This is probably what you want if Disney+ keeps bothering you.

This all said, if you're getting pestered by third-party crapware you are probably using Windows 11 Home. Just pay up for a Professional license and save your time and nerves. The cheaper price of Home licenses is offset by third-party crapware.
I know a guy who knows a guy, and he says that guy takes medical waste and basically dumps it into the sewer. I don’t know if that’s a euphemism for a river or burying it in the landfill. But basically his business is to have others pass the buck on regulated disposal to him, who then just dumps it. I’m sure this type of thing is fairly common.
Anarchism does not exclude division of labour.

That tidbit is very interesting
My favourite (ab)use of `make` is as a batch runner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602

This (ab)use of `make` runs multiple times a day, every day, and works perfectly every time.

The inspiration of this was an (ab)use of `make` as a way to paralellize Linux system startup: https://web.archive.org/web/20110606144530/http://www.ibm.co...
Destroying evidence is already illegal, so it’s a consistent standard rather than a double standard.

Essentially removing the question of whether someone should have considered something as potential evidence before destroying it.
There are a lot of things that remind me that the government doesn't work for the people, and tax time is just another one of those times.

Getting taxes automated is a solved problem. There is only one reason this status quo persisted for so many years. it's just to bad that we must bend the knee before the real americans, Intuit's lobbyists.

I'm glad the IRS is showing signs of wriggling free of such influence, but it is unfortunately to late a fix for yet another unforgiveable position for me.

The US government has shown me its priorities again and again throughout my life, and it's not the people. There is no rehabilitating this image in my eyes.

Hopefully I can be proven wrong, and the next generation can grow up far less cynical of our elected representatives.
"escape" sounds like Windows is a prison, it is not.
> And I guess I think of it more as data than as code.

What about OpenSCAD? I haven't looked into tscircuit very much and I barely remember any of the vhdl I did in college, and maybe it's more useful/relevant to make parameterized 2d/3d shapes rather than parameterized circuit components, but I have always been more comfortable with typey-compiley rather than pointy-clicky.
Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic? I laughed out loud multiple times. Kudos to the author for making such a depressing topic so hysterical.
I mean a lot of internet places have been destroyed by vandalism and upkeep costs, what were seeing us just survivorship bias and survival of the fittest.
Oh my gosh that is totally charming! The clock i repurposed for ours has a bit too much of a "this belongs in an office" vibe. Fun to see how different the same idea ends up. I had the same concern about kid-proofing, but I took the route of putting mine on the wifi and using NTP instead of an RTC. (Because it knows the date, it plays different patterns on holidays and on his birthday.)
>By Associated Press

>two U.S. military officials told The Associated Press

It's syndicated AP article, which ivankolev meant in his first comment.
> They don’t cut down the trees, they trim them.

They cut down any trees within a certain number of feet of the power lines. This is done when the power lines are installed. Then they come back and periodically trim any trees that grow laterally into that area.

> Transmission lines tend to be in difficult to reach, undeveloped areas.

Not unlike agricultural land.

Also not really true. Transmission lines tend to be near population centers, in order to supply power to them. There are more transmission lines per square mile in, say, New Jersey than there are in Montana.

> They’re often not owned by the power company but rather used with easements.

Enough of them are owned by the power company that we certainly haven't used them all yet.

> The power company might not be a generation company either.

In which case they could become one, or lease the land to one, which is free money to the power company but still a low price to the buyer because of the limited number of competing uses.

> Building the hookup for thin lines of solar panels might not be cost effective either.

Unclear what the layout has to do with anything. It's obviously possible to transfer an arbitrarily large amount of electricity in a straight line. If trying to minimize the number of inverters, panels could be wired in series to raise the DC voltage to whatever is appropriate to reach the distance to the inverter.
lol so this guys takeaway is “capitalism bad”. even though capitalism is what got him his cushy google job to start with
Did not need that earworm, thanks.
Handles are different for efficiency. Just be glad they weren't able to get rid of the side mirrors for the same reason.
I was wondering about the same thing as GP. I live in a European capital (one of the smaller ones), and I basically don't ever see anything like this. If there's any signs in other languages then they're almost always in English. (We don't get much immigration from English-speaking countries.)
The adapter is often either in the large undertrunk which some people don't even notice, or in the small well on the left corner of the trunk.
Reminded me of Grimrock too, but if you also like this I'd recommend a game called Barony. Great multiplayer RPG romp that has a lot of depth and secrets to discover. Also procedurally generated.
This is a human organization problem that could be mostly solved by technical means. For example, a way to notify big nonprofits that give things to the homeless and ask them to come to a specific location at a certain time to get whatever they want.
Why am I working on this problem?
why did you decide they prevailed during those events? There usually was some ruling class(kings, feudals) who were fine while poor were dying in wars and famines regardless they are young or not.
How is opening up the Apple ecosystem a race to the bottom? Aren't they going to continue to produce their amazing products and apps? Are you implying that if they do open it up, they won't be as dominant?

I don't understand how "opening up a walled garden" would ever result in a worse product. If anything, they'll have to compete and become even better.
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The version I remember is "Never email what you can say on the phone, never say on the phone what you can say in person".
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The on air package is so cool! I was a bit surprised to see it written in Go, but it explains the Mac/Linux portability. I just got a spare esp32 a couple days ago and thought it would take a while to find a good use for it, but I think this is it.

Is the esp board connected to a relay which toggles a regular 110V sign? I’m conflicted about running the board on a higher amperage 5V power supply and using a 5V LED matrix for indicating on-air status or just getting some off the shelf 110V type thing to toggle on or off. The matrix sounds more fun, for sure.

Edit: and thank you for sharing your work on this!
Here's a thread where dang banned pi-e-sigma account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39707328
I think the re-use people were likely honest when they said nobody wanted that stuff. I don't think there's a magic technical solution.

I suspect too that the needy and poor are really the last people with the room and time to stash away a bunch of things they're not using but maybe one day someone will show up and install them... and hopefully they still work.
That's an even tinier slice of a very tiny pie. You're talking about maybe 0.5 to 1% of Americans who were born near the US/Mexico border who speak Spanish better than English.

According to the U.S. Census Data, only 18 million, or 5% of Americans even live along the U.S./Mexico border. Of that 18 million, 9 million or 2.5% identify as Hispanic. Of that 2.5%, about 70% identify Spanish as their native language.

I can't find how many among the 2.5% who identify as Hispanic were born in the U.S., but even if we assume they all are, this is basically a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.
Hmm I have a Mac for work and it doesn't have any Apple ID associated...
Hard mode Rust provides the trickyness of separating memory handling from the (pure) code logic https://matklad.github.io/2022/10/06/hard-mode-rust.html which makes batching inputs unnecessary hard.

The other main tradeoff is that explicit lifetime annotations make (big) refactorings or explorative coding harder, unless one uses a lot copies or shared pointers (unacceptable for Kernel code).

However, I am not familiar how those two tradeoffs ought to be solved in Kernel.
I would expect that Rust would do rarely changing high level abstractions expected to never change fundamentally in design and/or being limited in scope.
> Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic?

Yes, tragicomic.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tragicomic
My hypothesis is that it’ll happen to both iOS and Android once iOS has been forced to allow third party app stores in most major markets.

Why? Because historically, iOS has been the more profitable platform for mobile developers by a large margin. The payoff for building and maintaining an alternative app store for Android only is questionable, but improves significantly if the store can exist on iOS too.
> but I now think native applications on smartphones was a mistake.

That seems a bit like rose-colored glasses. PWAs only really became viable in the past couple years (especially on iPhones when push notifications only were made available to PWAs in the last year), and even if you ignore Apple dragging it's feet, it's hard for me to imagine another scenario where all the hardware-based APIs (e.g. access to camera, media streaming, various sensors, in addition to push) didn't come out in native apps first before they were made available in the browser.
These people want to steer away projects from being involved in the military but these people are also always at war with whoever that does not agree with whatever they currently think.
> Corporations are not people

Corporations are people, my friend - Mitt Romney.
Yep. Needless to say I have a few regrets after haphazardly losing USB sticks from back in those days.
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_Destroying_ evidence is illegal, yes.

_Not creating more incriminatory evidence_ is not illegal.
Meanwhile, in every city everywhere, we bury mountains and mountains full of arbitrary garbage. This stuff is not buried and a lot ended up burning. At least it's sorted! And arguably burning it could be better than burying it.
Seems like the sfchronicle[0] (linked in the second sentence) is the source.

[0]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/car-burglars-sna...
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> I have owned an EV... it costs more both to buy and to fuel

How is this possible (the cost of charging vs purchasing fuel for an ICE vehicle)?
That’s just conspiracy nonsense, why would they bother with EVs and not just ban gas cars altogether then?
Yes, but technology lets us have ephemeral conversations, which are meant to replicate the temporariness of verbal conversations. That's what the "disappearing" messages of Signal are. And that's what the FTC claim is about.

It's okay for text intended to be permanent to be held to the standard of permanent text.

But creating an expectation that text that is fundamentally intended to be ephemeral should be treated as permanent text does not sound reasonable.
Modern day bread and games.
> For various reasons, it has been decided that a person's income should be a portion of those revenues. In order to ensure that people are paying their dues, the government needs to collect some information. Are there other ways the government could get revenues? Sure, but all of them are going to be problematic in some form or other.

No, just a singular reason: Prohibition.
Just one point to address the "long tailpipe" myth: EVs have fewer emissions even if they are powered by a coal power plant, because the drive train is so much more efficient.

Mine takes six seconds to charge — three seconds to plug in, and three seconds to unplug — and costs far less than gas (depends on your area and local rates, I guess). I haven't been to a gas station in five years. Pretty happy with that.
This would be a great advertisement for Signal. Even US can't retrieve its messages.

I know other apps can do it but other apps aren't being tested publicly in a high profile case like this.
The door hinge has a spring that will self close if it’s not opened too far. I mounted the actuator so it pushes the door open just behind that point. That turned out to be simplest solution.
This is a shame that they are losing their jobs. But I can not be surprised at all. Flutter (and Dart) really just never seemed to have a reason to exist, and have not caught any traction.
The weird thing to me is that we have those places everywhere and don't think twice about it. The only difference is that we cover the garbage with dirt. They are called "landfills" but they are really just mountains of garbage.
Or I don't think computing freedom has to be completely abandoned to protect someone's grandma.

Put tight controls in place. You can make it extremely difficult to bypass. You could have a recovery mode like Android and bury the setting in there. I think that makes it sufficiently hard that you don't have to worry about a grandma being tricked into rebooting her phone while holding down a specific button combination and then navigating through a bunch of arcane menus without touch controls to enable side loading. But its enough that someone that is technically inclined and who wants that control over their device can have it.
I have a garage and I made a conscious decision to buy an ICE car over a BEV, even though I could afford it.

Last time I ran the numbers is was 8 to 10 years before I hit break for an ICE vs an equivalent EV (in feature set that I cared about) given my driving habits and operating costs for either. And there's some electrical work that needs to be done to properly support charging a BEV without juggling what's drawing power when all the time. Upgrades to happen either way but they'd have to be rushed if I had bought a BEV, vs taking the time over the next few years.

So at least to for my situation it makes more sense to stick to ICE for now. If the BEV evangelists are right and battery prices drop down to the point where the purchase price of a BEV is the same as an ICE, then it makes more sense to wait. Buy ICE now, get everything in place, evaluate everything again in a few years.
Not creating records can be illegal.

Creating unnecessary and incriminating records comes down to your own incompetence.
The average American has never been materially wealthier. Even the poorest Americans that are housed have a fridge, a TV, a cell phone, many have a car (or two) and a majority of Americans own their own home/condo.
You drive 800km without taking a break? With a family?

Last time I took my Taycan for a long drive (6 hours in -15C) we took a break half way, and it charged so much faster than expected - so I had to exit the restaurant and go and move it.

It’s the best family car I've ever had, much better than all the BMWs but yeah, it is expensive although the running costs are low.
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The mechanics is quite different here. I believe Grimrock is "I move, you move" movement mechanics, and in this, the enemies moved in real time. Subtle but completely different gameplay as a result.
And not only can you, but you should, if you're concerned about the ask.

If they have a strong aversion to putting it down in writing, then that's a red flag you shouldn't do it.
What does it mean to “experience continous time”?

How do you know that F1 drivers experience it?
I must admit since TTS really improved, like you, I started to convert and listen to good / long blog articles and I like it! Especially when on a ride or at work.
I’ve replaced my Make usage mostly with taskfile.dev and/or Warp workflows/notebooks
I never said I would work for a place like that again. Just trying to explain why he may feel frustrated.
PWAs can also just disappear if devs get tired of running them or become incapable of maintaining them. In similar situations with native local-first apps, the binary will at least remain on your phone and continue to work for several years, offering better a better opportunity to find and transition to alternatives.

Native apps can also be archived for use with emulators at some point down the road, as we’re now seeing with efforts to emulate iOS 2/3 and some of the earliest iOS apps. Had those apps been PWAs they’d all be gone for good outside of the tiny handful where the dev decided to open source them.
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Ask HN: Do you identify your race and gender in a job application?
I'm currently going through an extensive job search and I noticed that companies ask race and gender identity questions quite often. So far I've always answered them openly and honestly, but I'm starting to have doubts if this is a right strategy and I should rather tick that "prefer not to answer" option.

I suspect that either approach can go wrong in its own way. If I identify my race and gender, it might go against the company's quota (assuming it exists). If I decline to answer, it may be perceived as if the candidate is not quite open and therefore may reduce trust.

I'll appreciate your perspective on this.
Interesting! Is that because you don't have large immigrant populations, or is it more cultural where it's seen as important for newcomers to assimilate to the local culture?

In the US & Canada, of course, the vast majority of the population is descended from people who immigrated here. It would make sense for it to be more normalized here for public spaces to cater to those who don't yet speak the local language.
Wouldn't that be more reason for having less time tho?
If having spent some time in IT support has taught me anything at all, it’s that “reading basic instructions and following them” is not among the talents of a huge portion of people.

Even the people I work with as team mates often call me and do a screen share for a problem and most of the time the answer is “dude, you’re just machine gunning the buttons before I can even read them. Lets just slow down for a second here”.
Preserve documents, yes.

But there is no responsibility to create new potentially incriminating evidence against themselves. Just because you are under investigation does not mean all your communication henceforth needs to be recorded.
Power users like to think so. But it's, at best, a very doubtful statement.