skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only possible to target services that have a central point of contact / administration. I don't want to invoke 'web 3.0' specifically, but the essentially headless decentralisation of encrypted communications services would be like trying to catch 'all the gas in the room' in your hand with a single clap, wouldn't it?

It feels like, even if they win this battle in the crypto wars, the real battleground has actually moved on anyway.

As an aside, that recent "Ghost Chat" infiltration[0][1] that apparently took down a few international crime gangs, wouldn't a Matrix / Synapse server and clients be a better option for encrypted communications than a custom phone/app?

[0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-17/afp-raids-ghost-app-f...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566948
I read the article. It frames "left-of-center" organizations as bad an inappropriate for a tech company. It criticizes Mozilla of supporting social justice causes. It questions why is Mozilla spending money on anything other than it's product.

Absolutely nothing about this reporting is unbiased. He even goes into race and looks into Action Research Collaborative about how the founder has "problems with white people".

Anyone reading this will clearly read the article as right-wing, and maybe even far right-wing biased.
Nothing like starting major governmental programs with zero metrics for success or accountability requirements to make the public feel confident in their tax dollars.
Very unlikely board is getting paid.

5 million is a rounding error in terms of spend on python programming - Facebook alone between their website and ML likely does orders of magnitude more.

Often a thankless job - for whatever reason these small budget groups attract lots of criticism.

Nothing stops anyone from using or improving python
Yes, such as: metaprogramming via macros and reader macros; arbitrary compile-time computation; removal of restrictions on mixing statements and expressions; and other arities for Python's binary operators. See http://hylang.org/hy/doc/v1.0.0/whyhy#hy-versus-python

Dynamically shadowing global variables is not built-in, but easy to write a macro for if you want it. See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/71618732
8th does resonate with the bad habit of new founders to spend their time on the visible — fundraising (unfortunately, because in SV hiring capital constitutes actual sales?) — as opposed to working on product (so that their schlep can bring some return on the equity purchase)

I’d say the 5th (esp. comparison to archies) is also relevant as well as the various instances of “exec” ie the partners

[9th on the guardian mode in nerds?]
You're welcome. There are no actual breaking changes from 0.29.0, so you're already up to date if you got that far.
Do you have info, anecdotal or otherwise, on how much you think you save per ride in total and relative amounts? That might sound like a lot, but really I'm just wondering if you can estimate "I think I save about $X dollars on a fare that would cost $Y dollars otherwise."
Why does the news call it copyright infringement in the headline when the article says "trademark or copyright infringement" and it's a trademark issue?
Wow, and you don’t do anything productive for a year and you think you wasted your life... absolutely cruel. Even if he were released today, he would need another 15 years of therapy.
I'm not sure if any of this actually saves you money. If anything, it may drive the algorithm to pair you with less than stellar drivers. In a customer retention phase, which Uber is in right now, the algorithm should aim to pair good clients with good drivers and poor clients with poor drivers, just to protect the repeat business.
You didn't mention that the administrative costs of the oversight committee were later found to be unauditable as well.
Ings, now 18, was given the DPP at Reading Crown Court in April, after pleading guilty to two robberies and two common assaults, while asking that a further four robberies, one attempted robbery and one assault occasioning actual bodily harm be taken into consideration.

Not just a couple fights.
It wasn’t a couple. It was seven.
Imagine if dict://internet was renamed to agent://source, then agentic calls to model sources could interconnect with ease. With HTTP/3, one stream could be the streaming browser and the other streams could be multi-agent sessions.
I’m not sure if the story here has any merits. But what I do know is: there needs to be more transparency.

https://youtu.be/OEXJmNj6SPk

This report shows multiple drivers all located in the same area (literally, phones next to each other), getting marginally different quotes for the same ride.

What is accounting for these differences?

Taxi industry may have been shitty, but at least the price was transparent. You pay while the meter is running. With Uber/Lyft, it’s a fucking black box.

For all we know, the algorithms learned which drivers tend to take whatever is given to them so they can opt to shave a couple of dollars.
First 10km VTVL attempt of Chinese Nebula-1 rocket shoot by drone [video]
I’d be really curious to read a write-up on the technical details of integrating their sync engine with the two different mobile platforms. For someone following the local first landscape Linear is the poster child of a great app that leverages its benefits so understanding how it fits together when going native on mobile would be a compelling read.
Sunken superyacht believed to contain safes with sensitive intelligence data
Well said.

I've seen so many indie hacker types who are allergic to talking to (would-be) customers, seeking validation exclusively from other indie hackers, who would never be customers.

Saw a tweet the other day of someone saying "to find a good business idea, first tweet about it and see if it gets love."

1) what
I'm thinking about the people I know who got booted to the kerb due to the London Olympics redevelopment.

I'm also thinking about Grenfell.
"If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?"

Because it's not helping them code better. It might be faster, but the quality in my experience is worse. Then the user is trying to verify or troubleshoot code they didn't write.

The bigger issue is garbage in, garbage out at the requirements level. The business hardly ever documents their business system before turning it into a technical system. How can we create a system to meet requirements that nobody knows and didn't have a chance to really think about while writing the code?
There are many cases where the level does not drop to ambient levels, e.g. offices in basements, low-energy houses etc.

We even saw schools where the classrooms were not able to drop to ambient levels over the whole unoccupied weekend because the ppm levels on Friday afternoon were beyond 3000ppm.

The automatic baseline calibration period of some of the NDIR CO2 sensors can actually be adjusted through the software. I believe the Aranet allows that and also we do have that feature on the AirGradient dashboard. So you can switch it to a much longer period or switch it off completely.
The data shows that violent crimes are lower today than they've been in decades. Ever recorded, technically in the US.

Crime is enormously politicized. Whichever politician is in office can be attacked with any crimes that happened in their jurisdictions. Its easy to see it in alt-right propaganda bringing up horrific stories.... from years ago. As in, they had to go back years to find a story horrific enough of a story to resonate with people. I see this pattern common in European and American conservative news.

Between the media's "If it bleeds, it leads". Private prisons ties to politicians. Companies benefiting from slave labor. Many people's personal preference for excessive punishment. The data supports one story, and more and more people feel another one is true.
“Who watches the watchers?”
I assume in most cases people use it as a way to motivate them to finish their side projects. The projects might or might not make it but I found it interesting to follow.

Of course there are outliers like those who keep sharing their MRR, ARR, etc and then down the line sell an e-book on how to replicate their "success". I have followed enough "baits" to notice the pattern and ignore.
Whoops, gotta clean my glasses.
He doesn't seem reformed...

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/18158037.prisoner-accus...
The only real effective solution to homelessness is to give homeless people houses and then extra support, other solutions (whilst having some beneficial effect) aren't sufficient.

However the concept of a homeless industrial complex has essentially been pushed and overblown by right wing think tanks with significantly worse solutions.
There’s been worse. It’s called the TSA.
> Apparently they also got rid of support for healthchecks

The did not remove support for healthchecks. They're directly mentioned in the README.

> It will immediately begin running HTTP health checks to ensure it's reachable and working and, as soon as those health checks succeed, will start routing traffic to it.

I don't know. This has vibes of doing little to no research and then shit-talking a product.
This person has a longer record than a “couple” fights. I’m not the person you replied to but I support life imprisonment unless there is certainty of there being no future victims. It could be you, or me, or our family members that suffers due to an irresponsible release of a dangerous person. And it happens all the time, unfortunately.

As an example, in Seattle there was a documentary called “Seattle is Dying” that covered the trend of crimes and repeat offenders, due to the city’s lenient restorative justice policies. A person featured in that documentary had been arrested nearly 50 times and convicted more than 35 times. But he was nevertheless released back into the streets, due to progressive restorative justice policies. He ultimately murdered his girlfriend before killing himself, inside the infamous CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone:

https://komonews.com/news/operation-crime-justice/travis-ber...
You can post an ad at your local uni ECE department and hope some grad student would have enough FPGA experience to handle a “simple” project.
Never in my life have I understood running or what makes it enjoyable. There's an entire side to the human experience just incomprehensible to me.
I had the same problem with a PDF schematic for a BTT Octopus 3d printer board (which is published on their Github repo).

Unsearchable, weird characters behind the curtain, and etc.

But I don't blame deliberate obfuscation (or any other deliberate attempt to hide information) at all.

Instead, I simply blame incompetence.

(There's a ton of shitty PDFs in the world; this is just an example that I've encountered recently.)
Uh, yeah? I think most people? Including me???

Everyone makes mistakes. If he hasn't damaged anyone beyond repair then he doesn't deserve to have his life ruined beyond repair

Its about justice, not fear

6 months is fine unless he hacked someone's arm off or something
The physical presence of Social Housing Estates is the evidence - the occupants are those that aren't otherwise able to afford housing or pay rent. As the commentator says, even the City has Housing Estates.
Yeah. It would be so much more effective to just establish key metrics (and tracking methods) up front, rather than try to unearth everything after the fact. This seems like a really common problem in government. How do you influence politicians to enforce more data driven policy making?
This is why you don't let motor vehicles operate in pedestrian areas. Move fast and break things should not be a part of public policy.
You need share holders' approval to join the board. Today's markets immediately punish a company which supports union.
So forcing your way is the only practical way to get a union board seat
There is a scooter person who rides up and down my street at around 45MPH every morning and evening. It's so fast the whole thing is over in about 3 seconds, I don't think you could safely even flag them down.

Ok, not great.

But who the heck would do this on a sidewalk? As a society we can't give people powerful tools with no training and then be surprised when they mow down other humans.

Who should be liable? The operators or manufacturers, or both?

This episode is tragically sad, and I'm certain it's not the first time.
I would much rather be harsher on violent criminals in general. If you even attempted to murder someone once, especially a stranger, I have no reason to assume you are incapable of a second attempt. And sure, I’d be fine with giving people a first pass in some situations, but we’re talking about career criminals. Do you think it’s okay to let people with violent rap sheets 50+ charges long go free because you value their “liberty”?
The problem with IPP sentences is more complex than just "the government arbitrarily locking people up indefinitely". The IPP prisoners who are still behind bars are there for a reason - in every case I'm aware of, because they keep committing violent offences while in prison.

The psychological burden of an indefinite sentence is undoubtedly an obstacle to rehabilitation, as are the wider issues of understaffing and overcrowding in the prison estate, but let's not kid ourselves. IPP sentences were created specifically to deal with prisoners who habitually reoffend on release. These are people who were on a revolving door of offending and imprisonment before their IPP sentence, and who would almost certainly be stuck in that cycle again if their IPP sentence was quashed.

IPPs are unjust and the current government will almost certainly retroactively resentence most or all IPP prisoners within this parliament, but the underlying problem is still there. We could definitely do a better job of rehabilitating this cohort, but even the best-funded and most liberal systems have had fairly meagre success in actually breaking the cycle of reoffending; the much-heralded low recidivism rates in Scandinavia are substantially a reporting artifact rather than a meaningful difference in outcomes.
The TSA is a jobs program, and one that was easily sold to a part of the electorate that typically resists jobs programs. Granted, I’d rather just cut people a cheque and skip the theatre.
Oregon and Washington are similar. Zero accountability and zero metrics.

That's on purpose. The vast majority of unsheltered homeless are now drug addicts and/or have serious mental health issues, and there's simply no way this can be fixed without harsh unpopular ("you want to hurt poors!") measures.

But hey, drug overdoses provide a glut of kidneys and occasional hearts and lungs for transplantation: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/health/drug-overdoses-organ-t...

It's a trainwreck.
As you said it won’t tell you if the air is being filtered. I think you’re better off measuring the small particle content of air if your concern is viruses, or both.
It's not blind rage. I've used them, they're over-engineered crap, like most things Java, especially the abominations made at Apache land. You can't say Make is over-engineered; lacking, maybe, but it does what it's meant to do and not much of anything else.
That's certainly part of it. But part of it is we're not really terribly good at talking about the universe even with classical intuition.

That said, model-theoretic semantics go back to, at least, William of Ockham, who developed a formalized subset of Latin (which kind of reminds me of the Google C++ style guide in a way). We're clearly not utterly incompetent in this space, but it helps to stand on the shoulders of the giants to see clearly.
Replace a car lane with two bike/scooter lanes (one slow, one fast) with hard dividers, and you eliminate this problem and make life better for most people at the same time.
I see no need for them to worry.

Any customer they'd want to have understands that it wasn't a knee-jerk action by any stretch. Rather that it's just something that (responsible) companies have to do once they realize that overarching conditions have emerged that make it simply untenable to keep doing business in certain environments -- completely irrespective of the conduct of any business or individuals in that environment.

Like when there's just too much corruption in a certain country. Or that country starts going on old-school (and very large scale) military campaigns against its neighbors.

So if anything their better customers will not only instantly understand their decision, but will hold them in incrementally higher esteem for it.
I hope they succeed beyond anyone's wildest expectations. As a species (and more narrowly as a nation) we need something to strive for. In the 60s we had that, but that was before I was born. Right now the feeling is sort of like "what's the point in even trying". As a result we can't even do the epic stuff we used to be able to do. That needs to change, if not for ourselves, then for our kids.
Why are your only posts here self promotion spam? Do we really need to play this game?
In the before times, the jobs programs were more useful, at least in theory. Can we get a new WPA that hires away the TSA agents... Even if the public works aren't great, it's better than a jobs program for people to annoy and delay the public.
If you were up front with KPIs before embarking on a project, you couldn't game them so that's going to be an uphill battle.
Ride sharing needs to be much more heavily regulated to increase transparency and discourage games like this. Especially in Uber's case, considering their history.
> But who the heck would do this on a sidewalk?

People who don't want to get run over by a car.

There's no mystery here. It's exactly the same reason people ride bikes on the sidewalk: they feel unsafe about sharing space with cars, and believe they can safely share sidewalk space with pedestrians. They're even usually correct on the second point.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/elderly...

Same here. It's the usual fear mongering
It’s not like that makes it any better. A trademark is not relevant to this either.
I personally have never been able to cycle at 45mph. I applaud you though if that seems normal to you.
Seems like there are two problems that need to be solved before then:
1) reentry and landing - seems mostly achieved, based on the "water" landing, if you were landing on mars you would need legs so the "tower catch" isn't relevant IMO
2) orbital refueling - this seems to be where the technical uncertainty is, they need to do it for the NASA HLS part of the Artemis 3 mission anyway
If they fail at 2), neither Artemis 3 or "Starships to Mars" will happen. But if they succeed, why wouldn't they send them? Then 6-9 month later they can try and land on Mars, I personally think that the Martian atmosphere is probably much more predictable than Earth's atmosphere due to the greatly lower density,so if they get there I think they'll succeed at landing too. And that way they get enough data in time to design and build the planned crewed starships in 2028

So basically one (big) technical problem to solve - if they can launch fast enough in the next two years, I think they'll solve the refueling part within 10 launches and have enough time to make, launch and refuel 5-8 ships before the transfer window to Mars
Very nice, simple and elegant. Would make a nice screensaver with a bit more movement.
No, it doesn't.

Java is a piece of crap with JVMs imposing an 8-24 byte overhead per object, which destroys caching, memory footprint, and any chance of low-level optimization. Not only is the overhead bad, it's implementation-dependent, i.e. unpredictable. That, along with lacking SIMD, imposing stupid decisions like bounds checks on all array accesses, making arrays boxed (int[] is not an array of ints, sorry), or using exceptions for control flow, which is the wrong way to use exceptions, is a just part of the big laundry list of why Java is a piece of obsolete crap that nobody serious about low-level hardware programming uses. Java SE/ME is a fucking joke, as is every book I have read about "high performance Java". People who promote Java for low-level hardware programming, real-time systems, and the like, just have absolutely no fucking idea what they're talking about and they get their garbage published only because of the low standards of publishing nowadays. They do get the "Java Champ" badge from Oracle, though. Noobs award other noobs badges, as it turns out.
Dammit I missed the ultra-bargain!

Very nicely designed site. Clearly demonstrates you can deliver great work. What a steal those first early customers got.

One suggestion: maybe add a link to a github/gitlab profile?

Some user tests for you: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/sKDvgvb7...
It's fair to feel unsafe and vulnerable on the street against cars, but when I used to ride my bike on the sidewalk in SF I kept it at walking speeds, because I don't want accidentally murdering someone to be part of my personal life story.

Going 20-25+MPH on a pedestrian sidewalk is Not A Good Idea, ever.
I do some inline skating in foot traffic areas and the speed disparity is still dangerous - motor free. I try to be incredibly polite and courteous of the pedestrian traffic because I don't want skating to be banned, but there are plenty of folks out there that just DGAF about anyone other than themselves and/or haven't even considered that someone else may have a different perspective.

The problem is that there are all sorts of different forms of transport these days (with a few levels of speed differential), but the infrastructure is primarly designed around cars. Even bicycle paths and lanes are essentially subservient, and often poorly thought-out additions, to car infrastructure.
My 2c as a local: a significant issue with any discussion of this is that people don't really have a good handle on the actual statistics of who drives in London.

It cuts across every demographic. Under 25k household income - a good 40-50% of households have a car. Housing estates - tons of cars. Well off - almost everyone.

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-a...

It mostly comes down to whether someone has a need (e.g. has children, fairly mobile in their job, has family outside of town, enjoys going on road trips etc) and actually wants to pay for it rather than anything else.

In addition to that, a bunch of stuff happened basically at the same time. We got ULEZ, we got a ton of low traffic neighbourhoods (e.g. streets where cars are not allowed at certain times of day regardless of emissions), we had COVID meaning that habits and demographics changed, we had Brexit which probably had some minor effect, etc. All of that happened within about 5 years and I don't think you can isolate any of them.

I don't really find most discussions about it interesting as a result of all of the above - it usually just ends up with someone trying to find evidence for their pre-existing position rather than anything that feels actually scientific, unfortunately.
> Anyone with information is urged to contact police.

These scooters are tracked in real time and linked with an account containing your name, credit card, and even an ID. Cross reference the active scooters with the time of the fatal incident and area/street.

LAPD truly is incompetent. I don’t doubt that it was likely a drunk tourist as well and have probably flown back to their shit hole while the LAPD is still asking the public for help.
They don't want to end homelessness because then so many activists and organizations will be out of a job. It's a perverse incentive.

The key to tackling the housing crisis is to build more housing, particularly high-density housing. And to do that, zoning laws must be deregulated and liberalized, if not outright abolished in some instances.

But of course, the activists will never agree to that because it's a market-centered reform and because they are rich NIMBYs. More housing will mean the properties they own will decrease in value. The scarce housing supply and the continued existence of the homelessness problem is great for their own wallet.