skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That does not fit together at all. The article is covering a legal decision from 2020 where one woman forced the jobcenter to cover car repair costs. So before, it was not covered. So you just did not have a childhood in the system where stuff like this was covered.

I did, but we did not experience this specific case. I lived in a small town and the Government paid for my public transport costs. They do provide a car as well if you need it for work or for educational purposes. They also pay for transport if you're sick and need to see a doctor. Of course, if you're on welfare with a car without a need for a car, they won't cover anything, which is fair.

> That's not the point. The claim above was that you can comfortable live on Bürgergeld without having to work. Which you usually can't, since it would be taken away (or at least significantly reduced) if you tried that.

I've not said this once.

> So which other social welfare systems than Bürgergeld are you aiming at here?

I'm asking again, are you even German? There are lots of other opportunities which we do provide. We pay for your Apartment with Wohngeld, even if you do work and don't earn enough. We pay for your healthcare costs. We pay for school supplies, trips and education costs for children. In my city, there are a lot of subsidised offers like free access to public pools. You have access to free TV and internet if you're on welfare. You can get a free social carer who will manage your expenses, if you yourself are not able.

I am not trying to be rude, but you're again discussing from a point of severe misinformation and you're lacking crucial knowledge about how our system works. You've been corrected multiple times in this thread for spreading misinformation, like heating costs not being covered by the government.
Interesting, thank you. Especially the point about government being a huge spender where it has reduced regular commerce.
> We can't ban billboards on Bahnhofstrasse and rest of the city just because you've seen some graffiti supporting Palestine? What?

Of all the text the op wrote that is definitely a personal and unfair interpretation and not what he written.

His point is clear: If the goal is reducing visual pollution then a state advertisement is just as polluting as a commercial one.
What's your syncthing setup?
I think there's a bit of institutional momentum here, along with the historical realization that "finding new elements" was really valuable in the past (not that these new elements would be valuable). There's also a bit of international competition.
Defaulting to degraded is a bad default. Mounting a btrfs device array degraded is extremely risky, and the device not booting means you'll actually notice and take action.
That's exactly something a marketing person would say
Donde brilla el tibio sol!
> Also it would be more efficient to do semi-targeted advertising by buying space in related places: magazines related to your product, sponsor spots in youtube videos, ads in specialty stores, etc.

Those are all still marketing. Whether they're better than billboards depends on what the product is.

> You won't have the money to buy such billboards anyways.

Billboard space is available starting at on the order of $1000/month. This is well within the reach of a small business for a one month campaign and the dynamic billboards will even sell space on an interval of 15 minutes.

The fixed billboards in the most expensive cities are all Coca Cola and McDonalds because those cost the most and that's who can afford them, but the proposal is "ban all marketing" not "ban all marketing by multinational corporations".

The latter might be a good time though.
I'm not sure about the first point. I grew up watching zombie films, playing resident evil, all those games, and have no feelings of going out and doing it to actual people.

Yes, graphics were worse when we grew up (assuming same rough age) but we still looked at them and said "Wow so realistic!" so I don't think that the issue is that people now see realistic zombie films and think, great, I'll go stab someone on the bus for disagreeing with me.

I think its more the case that people are living in dangerous neighbourhoods, so they carry a knife for protection and are amped up ready to use it and so at the first sign of confrontation, they do. What used to be a fist fight is now a knife fight. What used to be a sore head is now a dead body.

But, I do agree with the poverty link. I grew up in poverty, I saw the lifestyle, the way people act, the way they aren't raised by their parents. It's been this way for thousands of years. It'll never change.
ZFS isn't a real competitor given it's not in the kernel and has legal troubles.
> To the contrary, soviet orgs paid set awards for "rationalizing suggestions"

Yes, but very often someone did that rationalizing suggestion and the manager got the reward. Most people suggesting improvements stopped after one small improvement when treated like that, so whole idea was doomed to fail by poor execution.
Yeah, that logo was much too futuristic anyway, it was retired in 1992 and replaced with the old one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia). It probably didn't help that the old logo was associated with the Moon landings, while the most-remembered event from the run of the new logo (introduced in 1975) was the Challenger disaster...
Travel by bus in London and your opinion may change
A good one I saw was a neighborhood separated from a shopping center by a wall. If there was a gate you could walk 100 yards to stores. But because the wall you had to walk 7/10ths of a mile.
> – Banksy

Actually, Sean Tejaratchi.

It's really unfortunate that the real credit is left out in practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Tejaratchi#Crap_Hound.
> My dream is to also ban parking of cars in neighborhoods and most car traffic, cars can be parked along the edges in solar covered parking spaces.
Some individuals, particularly those with disabilities or mobility issues, may find it challenging
The climate disaster
The confusing part is that you can select to include data for Google Drive with the text:

> Files that you own that have been stored in your My drive and computers. More info

Only two levels into the help text there's mention of what is included - but no explicit mention that uploaded/shared files are excluded.

The entire (empty) folder structure is there, so it's easy to think the files are too.
Apologies if it upset you, not my intention, but the prevailing feeling (in the UK at least, and these are UK HN hours) is that Gen X were quite absent parents for the most part. They weren't as strict as TGG or Boomers, but weren't as switched on and present as Millennials.

> they didn't have this 'every life is precious' attitude

> Previous generation didn't care

Allow me to make one small change then

- Previous generation didn't care
+ Previous generation didn't care as much
Agreed, on my recent trip to Los Angeles a 45 minute car trip would often turn into a 2 hours bus trip.

And outside of Santa Monica / Venice / Hollywood / Downtown I would often not have sidewalks. It felt a bit like Spain in that regard.
I have a friend who worked somewhere with a draconian password policy (changing every 2 weeks, long length, no overlap with old passwords, etc). That company also had barcode scanners attached to most of their computers. He told me that a lot of people would have a barcode taped up under their desk and just point the scanner at the barcode to login (since most scanners just sent what they scan as keyboard input).
I really dislike ads and I use adblock & umatrix like crazy. But:

1) Ads in cities are not penis enlargement ads nor mortgage ads. They are about what services are in which location in the city,

2) It's not really about ads, but about advertising in general, meaning you don't even get to show off the logo of your company. If there's a building standing in Cracow, it can't have any logos on it. Unless the company is rich, then it may have their logos. Good thing that Cracow in general doesn't have any tall buildings (well, just one).

For me it's socialism at its finest. Forbid the poor, allow the rich. From ideological stance I prefer seeing ads, because I dislike socialism more than I dislike ads.
But but ... they're known to you because you read the user names ...
I think you're overestimating the troll proportion. Average people are now savagely radicalized.
There are long-established objections to nuclear from supposed green groups, making that understandable.

There are no similarly held opposition to trains/mass transit. Indeed, as the parent indicates, trains appear to have unanimous support from green factions.
Didn't know that! Unique and progressive approach for 1968
I had an attack on one of my websites from AWS network. Lasting for ~6 hours generating almost 100GB traffic on a ultra low-bandwidth site. Also several millions of requests.

My hoster of the frontend suspended it afterwards. Backend hosting service banned those IPs temporarily.
I concur, but, also am thinking that it might be some sort of "purist" drive, in the "eat your own dogfood" [to the utomost] kind of way, by not having a human "in the loop"? (ie. releasing inmediately post-AI action -without- human checking?. Even, an "ideological" stance?

(Granted, your point about the desirability of basics, still holds ...)
I completely understand you.

We accomplish this growth despite a lot of people not believing in global warming, despite having large corporations lobbying against renewables.

I am not sure why you are expecting the US to be a leader here.
We are trailing other countries in many areas (healthcare, child mortality...) due to our political environment that makes positive change so difficult.
One way sync to couple of servers. Unlimited history in syncthing for backups.
Hmm yes but the other things you mention are made of steel which is plentiful.

Things like uranium and plutonium require digging up a lot of earth to obtain a tiny bit and the enrichment process is very complex and laborious as well.

I wonder if this really ramps up so easily.
Automakers pushing back on new federal safety requirements
> What made you think that they used ships?

Probably because Sweden use ships and most - if not all? - nuclear plants have access to waterways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Sigyn

And I had some idea that they are used for intercontinental transportation of fuel. But maybe that is not so common?

But I am here for the discussion. I don't need to be right.
They are particularly intrusive and potentially hazardous
I agree. That's a very good point. There isn't the same level of community spirit here in the UK that there was 60-80 years ago. Things change, and I'm sure population is a significant variable in the equation, but not the only one.

If we go out to rural areas, we'll probably find more neighbourly behaviour than we will in inner cities. Poverty, population density, economic status, and more. These all play a factor.
It's not nearly as simple as that.

Look up eg a 'poison pill' for an example where you don't "either own or stock or you don't". (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_rights_plan)
> People move out to the outskirts, buy more cars and bigger cars and then... they commute daily to the city.

And then moan about traffic jams.
cops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today would be way, way different. i dunno, i dunno what you expected. i'm 1986, and am continually beside myself. about what's possible, not neccesarily what's implemented.
On the other hand someone who can do both code and design has huge advantage of knowing where to cut corners, how to use platform features effectively and thus higher chance to make robust solution. But you need to have envinroment that allows this.
The Turkish cut 6 zeros of their currency in the mid 2000s.
Europe was in a state of peace. Except for that issue in Crimea that was, checks notes, also instigated by Putin.
1. I see kids in public transit all the time, including kids around age 10 taking trams by themselves. It’s also common to see groups of kids out on bikes or in a park. It’s more independence, not less.

2. I’ve seen a full range of disabilities on transit as well. Plus, isn’t it better for the disabled if it’s easy for them to drive since the roads and parking are mostly free of able-bodied people?

3. If you’re in the countryside, you can still drive when you need to. You can park at the edge of a city and take quick efficient transit to whichever internal part of the city you’d like. Also, living somewhere inconvenient like the countryside is a choice, and that inconvenience should be considered when looking for a place to live

4. I travel for work and have never needed a car. If you do, see the answer above for those in the countryside, that applies too

We can all make cities better without being 100% binary. Cars can be the exception rather than the rule, though
Digital immune system
> He attacked those who legally contributed negatively to public spaces. No one's car is doing that

Are you kidding? Cars are well known for their negative contributions to public spaces, in the forms of (1) exhaust, and (2) noise.

This is part of why I'm baffled that the solution to electric cars not constantly generating terrible noise pollution is to mandate that they all include and operate noisemakers.
> Maybe it’d be easier if we could upload our own ‘sequential program’ to a little CPU inside the GPU that would be code making calls to the real GPU.

This is effectively what Command Lists/Buffers are in Direct3D 12 or Vulkan.
Show HN: Anyma V, a hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument
Hi HN,

We're a small team in Lille (France) who make synthesizers and MIDI controllers. We've just released a virtual plugin version of our hardware synth Anyma Phi, which offers a semi-modular environment with a focus on physical models, although there are several other kinds of synthesis. We're not pivoting to VSTs, it's just that it was a practical way of investigating several issues and helping us with the ongoing development of our upcoming Kickstarter-backed synth (Anyma Omega) and MPE controller (Loom), and a gift to thank our backers for the wait they gave to go through due to several manufacturing and production issues.

I enjoy reading music-related entries here, so I thought I'd contribute this time and I hope it will interest some. I'm here for any question or remark.
Yes, you'd need something different.

Instead of putting these two filters on different eyes, you could put them one after another in time, I guess.

Or you could put a green-blocking filter on the left side of your view (on both eyes) and a red-blocking filter on the right side of your view (on both eyes), and you would move your head around a bit to figure out green from red.

Or you could have a checker-port pattern with the two filters or so.
I'll talk about the simplest ones, just my personal opinion.

- Color.

- The organizational logic is not prominent enough, I have to be very careful to find which section is which. Color can help but UX designers should do more.

- The default chat box is too small, and it doesn't appear when you click on the channel by default.

I only participate when I need to interact with bytecodealliance, and you need to ask more people to get better feedback.
Deluxe Paint was nice and all, but I happened to have DigiPaint for the same system, and boy it had some really wild (for 1989) features, like gradient fills, gradient color blending, fully adjustable transparency painting, and texture mapped manipulation. ALL in the HAM (4096 colors) mode!
As I understand it, anyone with bitlocker irretrievably lost all their data.

Logic dictates that the more critical the data - the more likely it is gone. An informal anecdotal survey says that alot of users use bitlocker - which means a lot of data loss.

EDIT: I see that in many cases one can recover Bitlocker encrypted drives. I wonder how much real data loss there is.
Multimodal AI imaging improving cancer screening over breast densities (2023)
I don't think we can isolate any one variable.

Poverty does tend to correlate to crime, but poverty never exists in a vacuum. Population density probably has a greater bearing on crime, and poverty and population tend to go hand in hand in metropolitan areas.

If you have an area that is poor but has few people, there'll probably be less crime, as less people means it's easier to track each person socially, and thus there's more accountability.

I'm sure there are studies that show optimal 'tribe' sizes, and I know from experience how different orgs can be from small teams to large teams, so it stands to reason that the key driver is probably population density.

we have to differentiate between 'low level' crime and 'high level' crime, e.g. fraud, financial crime, all of those super-rich organised crime
My guess is that Google is trying to reduce AI spam and that your translation triggered something there.
I do not call "urban" being spread in nature... Mixing does not means being ATTACHED. I have a supermarket, a small shed covered with solar panels at less than one mile from my home but still far enough I do not hear trucks resupplying it, nor customers cars. There is a blacksmith as well, it's near the supermarket but far enough from other homes. There are some polluting factories but they are FAR enough away from all other homes. We are far more spread than a typical USA suburbs with all homes stitched aside but we still have to travel much less to live. It's definitively not urban since there is nature all around, no traffic, no transports except for rare trucks, school-buses etc easy to overtake anyways because even on mountains roads offer enough space nearly everywhere.

It's simply a spread area, where there is no need for traffic lights, tall buildings, downtown and so on, where you can both work (not only from/at home) and live. It offer the advantages of the urban model and of the rural model together and essentially none of disadvantages of both.

USA have enough ground to spread their population, so... Instead of getting the worse of "extreme" model (dense city of high rise on one side, empty areas with just nothing for many miles) you can get the best of both models, what's wrong with that?
Turns out the only thing we are doing is making more and more monopolies, there are no free markets and no choice for buyers. Your 88 brands of toothpaste are owned by two corporations. But yeah.
Pixel art paint programs are an underrated way to learn a lot about a programming language and how to apply various algorithms in that language. For the motivated learner they’re perfect as a third project once you’ve completed something like a todo list and pong. Easy to make as complicated as your ambition and skill level determine.
UUCP was definitely not "Unix only", several operating systems supported it back in the day, Lisp Machines and ITS could access UUCP over Chaosnet. Mark Plotnick wrote the service (aka deamon) for Chaosnet for Unix in 1984.
One word. Amazon.

I heard someone say Amazon did more damage to British town centres
than Hitler's bombs.
You are missing the point.

Free speech is also the freedom to change the rules. If something becomes popular in the marketplace for ideas, there is always a way of turning it into a law. The exact procedures and thresholds may vary, but the possibility always exists. Because laws and constitutions don't enforce themselves. People enforce them, and those people (or their replacements) may choose to enforce them in a different way.

You say that repealing laws should be easier than passing them. But maybe the opposite idea wins in the market. Then it will be easier to pass a new law than to repeal an existing law. Under free speech, all laws, constitutions, and rights are ultimately temporary opinions subject to the whims of the market.
True. Hungary has never hosted Olympic Games so it is obvious that we won't see this kind of sabotage there.
Indeed, and our ecologists promote train a lot. But given the timing, I can imagine the rationale of this being an attack on the olympics and not on train, simply because train is attackable and plane not.
Lol that’s the last name of one of my Polish coworkers. Super common name I imagine.
A lot of people like billboards too. That’s why Times Square is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world.

None of that has any relation to the irony of Banksy’s quote though.
I don't understand why constexpr allocated memory can't be freed at runtime. It's not so different from statically allocated memory being freed at runtime. Maybe it requires hooks into malloc so the compile time allocations can be known at the start of the run?
Wow this starts strong:

> Replacing Lisp's beautiful parentheses with dozens of special tools and languages, none powerful enough to conquer the whole software landscape, leads to fragmentation and extra effort from everyone, vendors and developers alike. The automotive field is a case in point.

This has been a struggle of mine since day one. Coming from the java world with more formats, tools, IDEs everytime people create a problem was absurd. Lisp was all absorbing.. much reuse on all metalevels.. yet sometimes I believe a bit of "organ"ism is useful.
You can do that with explicit implementations just fine e.g. haskell type classes (and their less competent sibling rust traits).

It is, if anything, better: you can abstract over multiple third party types, and you’re not stuck with the interface they defined, so if you need to switch in the future you can.
They didn't give up on it, they simply added alternative options for those that didn't like it.
They didn't distribute the bar codes, they had peoples bring their laptops to IT where the IT staff used the scanner to scan the code from the screen of a machine they themselves controlled.
> Word of mouth, to start.

If you have two customers and you need a thousand customers to cover your fixed costs, you're out of business before this has time to be effective.

> If there's no marketing, consumers in general will understand that they need to seek out products that they want and need, and will eventually find your new product.

What you're really implying is that somebody is going to set up a website or search engine for people to find products, and then marketing would be replaced entirely by SEO and payola.

> Without advertising to manipulate people into buying things they didn't need and otherwise would not want, companies that sell junk will fail.

The assumption here is that the companies selling junk aren't the incumbents. What mechanism is going to exist to help people identify what is and isn't junk that can't or doesn't exist already?
Pilot's 2024 founder salary report
I went to an engineering school, and one of the stories the old boys told was that at some point the city had built a new bridge, and tendered the destruction of the old bridge, and we'd put in the winning bid.

The scheduled day came, but only an hour or two after the scheduled time an urgent messenger came from the city: the neighbours were complaining, could they please just destroy the bridge all at once with the next explosion?

It turns out the civil engineers had been enjoying themselves in the interval, checking their modelling by seeing how many parts of the bridge they could blow off of it, while leaving the majority of the structure still standing...