skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and that's arguably absurd. It creates dozens of people and dozens of cars all in each other's way. It's complete and utter chaos I've not experienced in any other country.
> The court can impose a fine of daily rates between 30 and 3,000 francs, or roughly $35 to $3,500, in cases like these, but settled on fining the lawyer 50 daily rates of 1,970 CHF.

How is the number of days determined - is it fixed by type of offense?
I appreciate what you’re saying but the author literally named the software they were comparing. WSL was specifically mentioned, by name, in some examples.

That’s not subjective opinion of mine because it’s literally printed like that on their site (you can read it for yourself too. It’s the same site for everyone)
I don't even think it needs to be hard to figure out. Fines could, and should, be set to something like "basis points [hundredths of one percent] of your gross income on last year's tax return", which the government already knows. A speeding ticket could then be set to e.g. 20 bp = [last year's gross income] * .002.
Malnutrition is not the same thing.

Drug addicts and alcoholics often are malnourished - not because food is withheld from them, but because they are more interested in drugs and alcohol than food. The same goes for seriously ill people.
Simple solution: figure out which episode they were on and play the next episode even louder.

Also it's a fantastic show.
You know the White House isn't personally building these charging stations, yes? The money is available and awarded to state entities that have to approve and bid out contracts, which come with their own set of local legislation that slow down the process. The Biden administration claims the process will advance faster now that states are enacting their own legislation and rules regarding charging stations. And you can guess that some states, operating on partisan lines, might not want to do anything that benefits the Biden administration--why care about their constituents' interest in the future when you can deny the opposition a win now?
Swiss has had fines directly proportional to the income for decades, and as someone that lived there, I fully agree with them.

Otherwise most rich people will only consider them a mere inconvenience, like in most countries.
Hoxha wasn't even alive in 1991.
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Do you think a fine of less than $100k would cause a billionaire to change their behavior in any way?
$116K is far less than the potential damage to life and property that can be caused by a car crash.
Comments that I leave for myself help remind future-me why I did something that otherwise looks confusing.
In the old drives of 5" HDDs the head stepper motor shaft was external, and if a drive got stuck a slight twist of the stepper shaft would unstick the heads after which the drive would spin up (well, as long as it didn't rip heads off the HDA so it was always a calculated risk).

Happened to me when I got a call out to a large UK outfit who'd have an extended power cut and knew recovery was going to be fun. First stop was a particularly critical PC which had exactly this problem, so open the case, touch the HDD just right and off it went - happy with that, and to the next item.

Anyway, the recovery operation went well, and this particular incident came floating back by way of a hushed comment from a manager a few years later about this tech who'd come in to help with the recovery, and who'd "...laid his hands on the PC, and it came back to life!" :)
When Self-Driving Cars Don't Actually Drive Themselves
That's it. Google now automatically distrusts my HE tunnel. No idea why.
I would most certainly be willing to leave electron for a python GUI framework just for the memory savings alone; I don't think the speed is the only issue. Plus, python can be fast enough if you just use it a a glue for libraries that are written more efficently. Don't get me wrong, I dislike python a lot, but, it's not electron/js.

Electron has the niceties that it does with being able to render so much via browser universalism, but, having that much of it around when your app doesn't need all of it is the problem with it fundamentally.

The best time I've had writing GUIs personally has actually been in SDL via wrapper languages like common lisp, but, I like being able to roll my own systems. It definitely takes more setup for the results I want for reasonable production apps that need less weird edge cases in their UIs
I'm not who you're asking, but I do the same

Re: busy, no because I only enable debug logging when I need it

Re: loops, I wrote a deduplicating logger, so if there are 200 identical messages from within a loop I see:

{event: "thing happened"}

{event: "thing happened",
duplicates: 100,
since: "2024-09-11T01:05:00Z",
reason: "count reached"}

That is, supposing that it's set to saturate at 100 events and they all happen fast enough that it doesn't reset the count. In this case it'll log another batch of 100 on the 201st event.

I think it's important to log the first one immediately, just in case you want to alert on that message. It wouldn't do to wait for the other 99 before raising the alarm.

I wrap my loggers in deduplicators only when I'm about to hand them off to a loop. Otherwise it's the normal ones.
The government already knows your gross income from your tax return. No new information is being disclosed here.
Because cars aren't allowed to idle at the terminal. They wait in a queue in the parking lot until they are matched, and then come pick you up. Yes this means you have to wait a couple minutes extra, but airports enforce this rule for a reason.
And the US Navy recipe.

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/CookBook/cookbook-3...
https://archive.ph/m9p3e
“Conversation codes” speaks to me (heh)
I’d be happy if people would actually get fined for tailgating around here. Even €35 would do.
Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA
Perhaps instead shooting off individual keypresses with some random chaff packets, it would be wiser to have constant interval, constant low data rate, (say 8 KBps) data rate trickling packets through and let the other side throw away pick out the needles from the haystack of no ops. Good luck finding a side-channel in that.
I also lived in Switzerland for a couple of years, learn to abide by the rules, no problem.
That's my microwave, I don't remember which brand right now but it was just one of the cheapest at Mediamarkt. It has one mechanical dial for time and one dial for power. It works fine.

I've never had a problem finding such models. My previous microwave is similar and was also one of the cheapest I could find then. It's about 10 years old now, and now sits at work because we didn't need two of them at home. It's next to an older one at work that is also similar and is probably around 15 years now.
Which is fine. The problem is the imbalance of information and therefore bargaining power between workers and employers. With this information salary negotiation is like playing poker with your cards open so only thing it does is depress wages.

That's not a problem for the public sector because both sides can see it and there is no real negotiation (you still save time/money by not having to go thought the interview process to figure out your potential compensation).
Be that as it may, this isn't what I'd call a "tutorial," in the sense that you'd better already have a strong command of the subject matter or you won't get much out of it.
It’s almost as if opposition to free markets is based on ideology, not evidence.

Which is clearly impossible on a platform like HN, which values interesting facts above boring, religious ideology … right?
Yah - income is clearly the first way to do this, but you'd want to integrate assets at some point (many wealthy people do not have traditionally high incomes). That's the tricky part.
Because it's just as much to pay more money and get the employees you want.

When you don't know what the market is paying, you're liable to lowball offers and refuse to raise them, and not get the employees you want.

If you know market rates, you can provide reasonable first offers, or have a more accurate idea of how high you should go.
The law does apply equally.

The law is: your fine amount is based on your daily income.

This law is applied equally.
He wrote 92 of the 110 episodes of the whole series (and all of 3&4). Practically unheard of or repeated as far as I know.
Given that Uber isn't charging (and by extension isn't earning anything) on the time drivers spend to get to the pick up point, I doubt that they don't have any economic interest in doing something better than the status quo.

I think this really is an artifact of the taxi medallion system which regulates private car transportation differently depending on the way you hail it, for largely historical reasons. (Taxis that you can just flag down used to be much more profitable, to the point where a license for that used to go for more than a million USD in NYC.)
And will this make the IA go down on all fours, then die from the influx of new requests?
Why Scrum Is Stressing You Out
Is there any research that traffic fines change _anyone's_ behavior if they're a terrible driver, regardless of income?
That's very low for a GSA role.

Are you state or local government?

Base salary for most GSA SWE roles tend to be around $70-140k base (GS-7 to GS-15).

I don't think I've ever met a sub-GS-7 SWE outside of those working on a military base directly or via a non-trad veteran hiring program.
'Audio earrings' Kamala Harris didn't wear during the debate barely even exist
ChatGPT Export Browser Bookmarklet: Export Entire Conversations to Markdown
Check out this feature from Firefox then: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1783015
Apparently can be turned on with the following:

cookiebanners.service.mode = 1
cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing = 1
cookiebanners.ui.desktop.enabled = true
That's not the point. The point is fast links 10-100 GbE.
wait... this might be possible to do...
Try with...salmonella.ai
Can they just apply as many daily rates as they want? Where does the 50 come from?
It's easy, many lawyers are already charging by hour/day. Otherwise take annual income and divide by number of days worked.
If publishers don’t sell libraries paper books, and control digital licensing, libraries are no longer libraries: they are affiliate marketing for publishers funded with taxpayer dollars. Publishers then control distribution, whereas libraries do with paper books and first sale doctrine.

With copyright where it is at, we will have to decide which is more important: libraries, or publisher profits and copyright rent seeking. Otherwise, bits will get shipped out of the US to more favorable jurisdictions, and those in the know will know how to get them. The situation will suck until enough cohort turnover occurs that copyright reform can occur in Congress. This could take years, or decades even, depending on how long it takes for existing congressional reps to age out and younger reps to take their place.

An archive preserves culture for the future, a library shares it freely with the present. They are both important. Writers should still be paid, but the argument is over control. Why should publishers and copyright creators have this much control?
I think there's a crucial difference here.

If we want to prohibit an activity, having a fine that's the same in dollars is not great because of the whole inconvenience-fee thing. If the purpose of the fine is punishment and deterrence it is ineffective.

If we want to have less of an activity but reach a quantity where there's a equilibrium between the social costs and social benefits for the activity, then that's really a tax. And it should be uniform and not vary based on income.

Which is tailgating?
I would argue if the goal is justice then the fine is basically a tort on the externality imposed. At some point society imposes an injustice if the fine exceeds the externality imposed by tailgating, even if it's a pittance to the rich person.

That is, for justice rather than just retribution, I think the real nominal cost of tailgating is probably not closely linked to wealth or income of the offender
Nawh, I already have one.
Compare that to 1922 when population was much lower.
Or just don't break the law.

Thousands of people die in car related situations. Most of them are preventable if people would just drive they are told in drivers ed. Don't tailgate is a big on as it means when (not if!) someone makes a mistake there is enough time and space to take evasive action. Many other safety laws exist that people think nothing of violating.
CDNs can be easier to configure, you can more easily put your CDNs colocated into POPs if it's simpler to segregate them, and you have more options for geo-aware routing and name resolution.

Also in the case of HTTP/1 browsers will limit the number of simultaneous connections by host or domain name, and this was a technique for doubling those parallel connections. With the rise of HTTP/2 this is becoming moot, and I'm not sure of the exact rules of modern browsers to know if this is still true anyway.
Jeez why do people think I'm against the union? This is a forum for asking questions and understanding the world. I truly didn't mean to discourage unionization, I was curious about the thinking behind joining the union. It's sad that even on a tech forum people assume things about each other's political opnions instead of discussing.

TLDR: I'm not telling anyone what to do.
This is a GUI build system, Python + Qt. A number of good apps uses this pair, Fman apparently simplifies the creation of apps of this kind.

Pretty certainly it's lighter weight than Electron, but not exactly featherweight.

The key proposition is packaging for distribution:

> PyInstaller for packaging, NSIS for Windows installers, .dmg files on macOS, .deb files on Ubuntu.
> I'd be fine with sublinear scaling but straightline increasing a fine ad infinitum is ridiculous.

What is actually properly ridiculous is that some people get enough money that a linear fine seems ridiculous. Income distribution is completely out of whack.
The idea of having the fine scale based on how quickly people re-offend is also really interesting! I feel like I worry about...situations where people are pressed into breaking that law out of circumstances and then are extra-harshly punished by the mounting fines? Maybe you combine it with some kind of income-based ceiling or a loss in driving privileges (has its own problems ofc but it is a public danger for someone to always be breaking the law - even if they feel they have no choice).
Hertz Bankruptcy Was Too Good for Shareholders
The reaction here has been interesting. As someone with a heavier social-science and politics background than most HNers, I started reading the introduction before there were any comments here and went “oh my god, of course this is a thing, why did it never occur to me both that this would/is happen/happening, and to put it in these terms“, and my mind started chasing down the mechanisms by which it must work. Bombshell is a word that came to mind as soon as it dawned on me what the paper’s getting at.

Then I came back to this thread and had a similar experience to when I checked on the Internet’s reaction to The Last Jedi after I got out of the theater, and was surprised to find that my experience of it as the only almost-actually-good SW film since the original trilogy was, um, not what most others had taken away.
can someone explain to me, isn't it the kernel's responsibility to preempt the CPU-heavy userspace thread (noisy neighbour in our case) after fixed slice of time anyway?
Terrible example since equality would mean they both get N day sentence as I'm advocating keeping the fee fixed regardless of circumstances. Here is how the example would actually work:

A 20 year old probably has 60 years left. Spending a year in prison for a 20 year old is only 1/60th his expected life span. But for a 50 year old it would be 1/30th his life span. So perhaps the young person should get a harsher penalty.

You see why this is wrong?
Which is... exactly what the software industry has seen over the past 30 years?
> If you have no money you should be able to break the law more cheaply?

Yes, the total value of the fine is less for someone with no money, but has the same impact the same because it is the same portion of their overall income.

Just like "if you have no money, you should be able to live in country more cheaply by paying less in taxes".
> When people say that libertarians are just right-wingers kidding themselves

I thought libertarians are right-wingers kidding with us /s

> I don't think it's in a "libertarian ethos" to do wildly unethical and immoral things on a large scale

I personally conflate libertarianism with wanting all regulations removed and whining about Big-Government, and then crying to Big-Government to bail you out when you crashed the economy with less-than-informed gambling.

> If that actually is libertarian ethos, then it sucks.

Astute observation!
The point is that it achieves, proportionally, the same rule for different people.
> airports enforce this rule for a reason.

What is that reason, and why are things handled so differently for taxis?
Tailgating is ridiculous and can kill people. I experience that every day where I live and it’s a psychological nightmare. I say we should fine them and remove their license, it’s the only thing those morons understand.
Isn't being dismissed because of something like that and being able to prove it is a bit like winning a lottery?
Oh! Yeah, that's a great idea :)
This can be problematic in software engineering and real engineering roles.

I've worked at shops where they overpaid people but hired folks who didn't have CS degrees so they didn't understand time-space tradeoffs, algorithms, data structures, or how anything worked under the hood... they were just there to collect paychecks, lacked curiosity and pride for the craft, and went home.
Yes I was interested to see how different the simulation would be.
You're in a lot more danger of GI infection from fresh produce as in the Chipotle condiments than you are from highly processed, standardized, frozen & reheated fast food.
I never claimed the Internet isn't useful. I just think people don't recognize how vulnerable computers are to attack. Search this very incomplete list for "bank": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches
No shot AI isn't going to be able to fill those gaps. Five years ago I was worried about it, but not really anymore.
Sorry, I probably got confused by too much sarcasm in this thread.
If you are stuck with git, try git-branchless. At least it makes rebasing your patch stack easier (git sync && git submit).
it is interested in both
I think it's just that industrialization, the computer, and the Internet were such massive juice that even if you have a brilliant mind it doesn't matter because the guy with that tool can take anything you think of and make it better. Each of these is a step up so huge that no mind can match it. So you have to match the tool first before the minds start mattering.
That would be the case in systems where the fines go to the local police force. I don’t know the prevalence, but in the countries where I’ve lived, the fines go to the central government, so local cops don’t have this (completely perverse, as you say) incentive.

I would argue that fixing that is important, even without income-based fines. Particularly if you have things like civil forfeiture (which also needs some fixing and really sounds like something that belongs in a banana republic).
I didn't agree with anything you said.

Heads of state/government are elected.
It's a fine surprise that I just ordered the book independently and then discovered the podcast and found the book being discussed on HN all in the same day. Pretty nice coincidence.
Thanks for that recommendation, really good app. In today’s app landscape it’s almost unbelievable that it’s so polished and free and without ads / signup links / always-on location sharing etc.

It’s not even easy to find. Few months ago I wanted a simple audio spectrogram app, downloaded some which wanted dubious in-app purchases, or had ads. I hadn’t come across it earlier, but Phyfox does what I wanted better and for free.
If they drove properly, that wouldn’t be a problem.
I don't know but when they are in your system I suspect you can never ever be in an MRI machine again, safely.
Aren't "many advocates" only seeking to make penalties for unsafe behavior felt? Wealthy people can and do routinely scoff at -- for them -- trivial costs, abusing their wealth until someone ends up injured or killed, and then employ a team of lawyers to skate on that as well.

I bet the f*cker stops now.
It's an American oddity where (crooked) local police departments fund themselves off fine revenue. Most countries centralise fine revenue with the state or federal government to remove such incentives.

They also don't have the government sanctioned theft through the ridiculous notion of civil forfeiture...
SBF and Elizabeth Holmes would like a word.

And hopefully everyone else "successful" having the morals of a greedy chimpanzee follows the same fate as those swindlers. Whatever happened to doing good by people and society (or at least pretending to)?
Mm. On paper, I am in poverty, earn less than €20,000 a year, and am up to my eyeballs in unsecured debt.

The reality is somewhat different.