skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This largely isn't true. The most effective way to shield yourself from crime is to just be a corporation. It's trivial to kill hundreds, even thousands, if the accountability is spread out against enough people.

Famously Bayer Pharmaceuticals knowingly sold HIV infected products in Africa. How many people got HIV? And how many then passed it on, and then how many of those passed it on? I don't know. I'm guessing the amount of people who died of AIDS is pretty much impossible to quantify. Nobody went to jail. Of course, this is an obvious example. It's not so obvious when you consider the role companies like McDonald's have played in people's deaths.

We even have separate terms for corporations, like fraud. Fraud is really just stealing. If I commit some type of fraud and get 10 million dollars, sure I might be fined. Might. If I steal 10 million dollars as an individual, then I go to prison.

The only time this doesn't happen is if, and only if, there's an individual within a corporation acting alone or calling the shots. This is trivial to avoid. The game of corporate America is really just accountability management. I mean, who do you jail if you don't even know who did it?

Ultimately though, the problem with corporations have direct influences over elections is that they inherently have different incentives than individuals. What's best for our citizens and what's best for Corp X rarely align. In fact, for many industries they're directly contrary! Tobacco thrives off of making people sick and addicted, and sure, that one is obvious. What about automobile manufacturers? Isn't it in their interest to have the most shit public infrastructure possible? And... doesn't that effect poorer Americans the most?

Or what about oil? Isn't it in their interest to make the air and water as poisonous as possible, because they can cut costs that way? And what about fast food? Isn't it in their interest to makes the ingredients and health of their food as difficult to understand as possible? And on and on and on.

Individuals would never advocate any of that, not in a million years. So, the speech isn't the same. IMO, you just can't compare them like that, because the incentives are way different. The majority of companies directly benefit from screwing you over in a plethora of ways. Why should those opinions matter? What good does that do for you or me?
smut, obviously
The CRA only covers physical spaces (places of "public accommodation"). Not services (like Reddit).
The services exist but they're not cheap and, as I discovered at one point, internationally you can run afoul of various customs vagaries. But my trip by ship earlier this year, dropping off my bag in NY after customs and having it shipped home was well worth the $250 or whatever it cost.
> Moves like this that destroy your community will eventually usher in a replacement.

yes!

bitkeeper tried licensing shenanigans and lost to git.

smalltalk did licensing shenanigans and lost to Java.

Qt almost died and motivated Gnome.

In software, inacceptable licensing gives birth to your worst competitor.

/s
We got around 3m with seven guys, so yeah, and we don't even have on-call rotation / schedule, even though emergencies do happen from time to time. They think 1:1000 ratio is too big as well? That's crazy.
Sure, but with other forms of media, the publisher is liable as well about bonkers content with certain exceptions.

This is what most of Section 230 fight is about. Some people, myself included, would say "No, Facebook is selecting content that doesn't involve user choice, they are drifting into publisher territory and thus should not be 100% immune to liability."

EDIT: I forgot, Section 230 has also been used by Online Ad Publishers to hide their lack of moderation with scam ads.
If you want to play almost any possible game, yeah, you need a PC. (I have one. And a Steam Deck. I kinda half-regret taking up gaming as a hobby any time I touch either of those, but not quite enough to ditch them)

If you’re flexible on what you play, it might be fine for gaming. Like someone with a Switch might be like “eh, sure I’d like to play the new Assassins Creed, but not enough to get a PlayStation—my kids want the Switch, and I don’t want two consoles, so I’ll just find stuff to play on here instead.” I think that’s the market-segment they’re talking to when they write ad or marketing copy about Mac gaming capabilities.
small nit: many daily driver apps in China are partially Flutter. But TikTok is not at the present
Floats only have a finite precision.
If you wanted to modify some plugins and host the source in GitHub, for example, you were essentially writing your own plugins that modify other plugins to be able to do that.
early production models of any tesla are generally garbage quality, remember the constant issues with S/X panel gaps, model 3 panel gaps, home depot plastic in the model y, etc.
The power of Erlang.
Woah, nice! You're much further ahead than I am. Good luck!
So you have a gripe about sci-fi for not being realistic about asteroid fields, but the ability to fly a space craft with the agility of a fighter jet on Earth is okay? I love the arbitrary nature every single sci-fi person has in their application of suspension of disbelief. There's a lot of times I end up thinking, "oh I didn't think about that" after someone mentions a hang up they have, and there's other times where I'm laughing at the ridiculous nature while someone else thought it was much more acceptable.
You are selling the underlying technologies(Kafka/Clickhouse).

I'm interested in your project can do for me, my project(s), team/company. There is a reason that most of the internet still uses PHP and old technologies. Because they focused not on the latest tech but on solving problems for others.

The project looks cool, but tell us the usecases.
Yup. A 400M net worth should be enough to hire multiple hardened caretakers. Or maybe, just maybe, professional psychiatric assistance? Seems like someone's in denial of their mother's condition.
As with all things, there are probably many interdependent reasons for this drop, but the one for my use is that weed is just too strong these days.

When I was 16 in the 90s, weed was mild, bags were filled with seeds, and worst case you'd get some dry mouth and maybe lightheaded after passing a couple joints around or hitting a gravity bong in your friend's parent's sink. Now you take a couple hits of some joint that turns out is 25%+ THC and dipped in kief and you're taking a cold shower wondering if you're a waste of life (you're not). It's just not fun, and the people I know that love weed are likely addicted and hiding from their feelings.

As an adult my favorite weed experiences have been hanging with locals in Jamaica smoking some regular outdoors sitting on the beach trying to understand the patois. The opposite of walking into an LED flooded store in Manhattan or whatever that store that thinks they're the Apple store is in LA that gives me migraines. I feel like the industry got into an arms race and forgot that weed is to relax amongst friends, not get blasted into oblivion.
personally, I'm more happy that 1000 hp is cheaper than ever before with the model s plaid
Digital stupidity is rife, spreading like a common cold, leaving children everywhere immunocompromised, adults ethically stunted, and technologists waving their conceits like handkerchiefs at a soccer game.

Don't eat rotten fruit. Go read a fuckdamn math text instead, with a nice cup of tea or coffee and a view of the local vegetation in the background. Then take a walk and count your fingers and toes.
Streamline collaboration with new chat and channel experience in Microsoft Teams
wait for similar WordPress drama if google owns 'flutter' trademark.
Yes, but usually it is pretty bad for the learning experience, if the teacher stumbles and needs time for himself to figure things out. It can work out to become a deep lesson, if the student is highly motivated and the teacher good at explaining his thought processes - otherwise the student will stand aside and get bored and loose interest, as the problem is way beyond his level to understand.
This might be bad if the point of owning a newspaper was to make money.
The point is only that the accelerometer is measuring force. If you put your phone on a centrifuge long enough so that it reads a constant force going into it, you would be able to make a situation in deep space where it reads 9.8m/s in what feels like a constant direction to any human. Right? How would the accelerometer be able to detect that?
Bezos is 100% checked out guys. Have you seen him recently? He's a non-entity [1]. He's living his best life

There is no chance he had his finger on the trigger here. He probably hasn't even noticed this controversy. I'm not saying it's beyond him to do so — I'm not vouching for his ethics — but he literally is not involved in running any aspect of his financial web. He barely even checks in on his pet projects like Blue Origin anymore.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/technology/jeff-bezos-was...
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Are people to find this comforting?
What a bizarre comparison, WhatsApp engineers didn't have to review code for millions of users.
Also, there is an existing messaging and collaboration tool called Flock: https://www.flock.com/
https://CodePeer.com - An AI-assisted code review platform that manages the lifecycle of a PR. We make sure everyone knows whose turn it is, we show you only what needs to be reviewed, and all historical edits and comments are intelligently presented. We say “AI-assisted” because it’s a human-first approach to design - that said, you can use AI to do everything from making simple code suggestions to executing the entire review for you.
Of course. But it's hypocritical to then pretend like they care about the environment when they manifestly don't.
Other anecdotal apps: Google Analytics mobile app. BetRivers online sportsbook (one of the largest in the US).
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Yeah, I only know because I was the emergency contact for a close friend who overdosed. When picking him up I asked the nurse about a cheap place to eat afterwards and she warned me to stay away from the closest fast food joints lest he find a way to relapse immediately.
"recursion seems really clever, if you live in a universe with an infinite stack."

Recursion seems really clever if you live in a universe with clever coworkers maintaining your code a few years from now.
The GB/T is for charging and not in car connections. Tesla already has an arguably better connector NACS or J3400 now.

As for China having the most electric cars on the planet. I don't feel that makes them the experts. China tends to steal / copy technology from other countries and has little innovation them self from my view point. They have the most EV's from heavy government subsidies. Tons of cars in graveyards over there.
> I was involved early in a few rideshare app concepts before Uber came to market and it was surprisingly complicated.

Can you explain some of the difficult parts? I'd think it would be fairly straight-forward. Is the technical challenge of market making the hard part? or getting enough users on the app to actually make a market?
> Tell that to Elon Musk. He seems to unable or unwilling to stop a certain type of fake female bot spam on X that has extremely simple to spot and unique patterns.

It probably drives engagement, so there's no need to interfere. Perhaps it should be encouraged even..
Their commitment to absolutely god awful designs really makes it exceptionally easy for me to avoid buying any of their products, with iMacs being chief among them.

It's baffling to me people tolerate (or even like!) those massive disgusting chins for example. Sure is a big world out there.
Modified Erlang. Genuine one didn't scale.
Even though they didn't say, that was my assumption. Why would they bother, otherwise? And that's not wrong.
FlutterShurk says 3 apps on my phone use Flutter.
Device Info (a different app) reports that's 0.2% of all my apps...
Oh, probably nothing.

Again, I'm absolutely like you and I'm with you. I don't much do podcasts either, but in a way this is why I worded it like this. It struck me as a fun party trick to ignore, but it really seems to GRAB a lot of other people.
> Wow, it’s almost like they are a publicly traded company with a legal obligation to do so!

This is an amazingly common misconception about fiduciary responsibility to share holders. Nowhere in the law does it state that they must seek profit and shareholder value at all costs, above all other concerns, regardless of the impact. Companies are absolutely allowed to do things that are not 100% aligned with self interest. Many companies routinely do such things like charitable giving, excellent customer service, expensive processes that make the product more recyclable or repairable, etc.
There are so many doctors on Youtube just spouting shit that it's hard for me to separate the bullshit from the legitimate.
There is a risk, however small, that your bonds won't be paid back leading to a large loss.
Great question. The answer is nothing. There is no force making the moon follow a circular path. The moon "thinks" it's moving in a Newtonian, inertial "straight line." Because the spacetime around the earth and moon is curved, the moon moves in a straight line through that curved space.

Caution: The circular path we see the moon follow is not the curvature of spacetime itself. Rather it's a zero-force iso-line along that 4D spacetime. This is also called a geodesic.
Honestly don't even know if this reply is ironic anyways due to the username.
As far as I know Telegram has around the same number of engineers even today, handling around the same size userbase.
I will quote one of the nested comments which really hit the mark imo:

"""I think the definition of "ruin your life" is different now than it was in the 80s. Stakes are higher for kids now, and one little mistake can put you on the road to the have-nots instead of the haves.

Back when I was in high school, you could make mistakes and still end up successful. You could get a few B's in your grades, you could decide not to do so many sports and extracurriculars, you could get detention, you could even get in light trouble with the police for horsing around--and still make it into a good University and move on to a good career. I know because I made all of those mistakes. Plus, the consequences for being mediocre were not too severe. B students had community college, C and D students had decent jobs at the mill and the factory or could learn a trade, and so on.

Today, the bar for entry into a comfortable, middle class career is so high, that my kid needs to make zero mistakes. She has to get straight As, she has to stay out of any kind of trouble, she has to have the right polished "profile" for all the various career- and life-gatekeepers she will meet and need to pass. And if she doesn't pass the gatekeepers, where is she going to end up? There is no safety net and no real humane jobs left for lower-performers. Life is so much more bifurcated now, the kids know it, and they stress about not making a mis-step.

In the 80s I was competing with my small town. Now, kids are competing with the entire world."""

This nails it, the bar for "normal" life is really high, coupled with social media where every day you're bombarded with what you can achieve if you try really hard or pay enough money for it - traveling, having fun, luxury, having a perfect body and being envied by other people, etc. Being an overachiever try-hard is cool these days. Weed makes you a bit lazy and when you smoke you're not 100% super productive and you're not living your life to your "fullest potential".
While that is true, its really not easy to do without re-writing from scratch and scrapping a load of features which is organisationally difficult to do.

What large piece of software with a user interface do you work with that is actually fast and stays fast? For me, its probably just Chrome / Firefox. Everything else seems to get slower over time.
Consider the samsung 57" ultrawide. ‎7680x2160 resolution. Lots of usable space, but a better form factor for productivity than a TV.

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-DisplayPort-Mini-LED-DisplayH...
Yeah, I deliberately worded it that way because I would have said the same as you.

I don't really see MYSELF being into it, but it just seems to WOW the hell out of a lot of people.
(Nitpick, but it’s just a “superficial” superset. The biggest difference is probably doing “multi-methods”, aka the runtime type of an argument deciding which method implementation to call vs java’s static overload resolution.)
Am I the only one that questions the validity of self reported survey data? No, the concerns are extremely well documented, including documentation about psychological and situational factors that impact the results.
These are talking about 48V, so my guess is it's for all the little bits (window motors, wipers, all the internal electronics, switches, turn signal lights, etc etc)
> But particularly strange is that if you go to flutter.dev, you'll notice you can't find anything about who Flutter is.

It's on the front page: "A Global Open Source Community. Supported by Google, open to everyone."
> And developers should publish or not publish their code, but empathize that other people will potentially use it and might ask for things or point out perceived issues.

I think this is wrong and the problem. Developers really don't owe users anything other than honesty, which can be fulfilled by a generic disclaimer of all responsibility. It isn't "they don't owe you anything, but..."

Three notes:

1) What many FOSS developers need is therapy, because they have boundary issues that allow the criticism of freeloaders to register as a problem. You're already doing enough for freeloaders by contributing an enormous amount of effort to the ecosystem, and if they have a problem with you, they should just fork off. Most of these people are whining for you to fix something that helps them with their six-figure jobs, they're the last people who need charity.

2) A lot of Open Source isn't actually a gift, it's specwork and an act of ingratiating yourself to an industry that mostly hires friends and acquaintances. Which is why it's almost all software useful for big business, rather than at users. If this is what you're doing, be honest with yourself. If this is what you're doing, the demands of strangers are important, because you're cozying up to them with the hope of making money out of it. You're afraid they'll fork, because you're afraid you'll lose your chance. If you can't handle people, maybe find somebody to intermediate between you and the public who has better social skills than you. You're actually doing business, so you might even have to pay this person while not making a dime yourself. Maybe you'll end up a multimillionaire in the end, though, or at least get your foot in the door. That's how investment works, and your time was also money.

3) I'm reminded of stories about the past, some I think that David Graeber used to tell, where feeding someone meant that you were obligated to feed them again, that you'd taken responsibility for them. The debate about what people have the right to demand from FOSS maintainers is the best proof I see of this in life. But accept modernity in this case; you can't regulate beggars, but you can ignore them (or even ridicule them if you like.) I remember him also telling that story about the guy on the road who would rob everyone who came through by simply asking for a share of what they had, and convention meant that none of them could refuse him. Eventually, they all got together and murdered him so he wouldn't ask anymore. That, these days, would be an overreaction. Better to ignore silly conventions, especially ones drawn from communities that were smaller and tighter-knit than the random selection of jerks on the internet.

Lecturing everyone to behave better is a waste of time. They don't care what you think. They're healthier than the victims, which is why the victims are victims.
How many people are the “we” this blog post talks about? 5 people? 500?
No dispute there.
Oh that’s an interesting idea! Thanks Dave, had not think about that!

Regarding playing on phone: one improvement I have in mind, is to have the stock (aka reserve) and waste piles be on the right side. That would make them easier to reach for right-handed players, I guess. What do you think? (The foundations piles would inversely go to the left. They are rarely manipulated, given that one can double-tap a card to automatically send it to its foundation pile.)

Thank you again for the feedback, that’s always very appreciated!
Are you suggesting the govt should change who they did business with because one of their other businesses didn't politically support a certain candidate for President?
It makes me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_KlTKP50
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If it helps Blue Origin or AWS get a multi $B gov contract under a Trump admin, then the loss will be more than worth it from a purely Bezos financial standpoint.
Have you checked out Backdrop CMS? https://backdropcms.org/
> I mean young engineers in my company get paid nicely in comparison to their older peers.

No, they don't, not after you adjust for inflation and housing prices.

And young engineers are a very privileged few, the vast majority of young American workers have had it much worse.
Good luck getting a respectable job that will allow you to buy a house and raise a family while your wife stays at home without a STEM degree nowadays.

And the US education system is uniquely terrible at STEM education before college, meaning many American kids who could have gotten onto the STEM gravy train instead get replaced by immigrants like me.
I think if the stone were kept exceptionally clean, it would go a long way. The dark stained look adds a lot to the sinister vibes, IMO.
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They have insurances for downturns built into the cost of the deal.

Even if the value of the property doesn't increase as much as expected, you are still making a decent amount in income from the rent being paid. 6% maybe doesn't sound like much, but it's tax free income due to being able to deduct from that income the depreciation from the property and appliances and such which in my experience always is more than enough. It makes it pretty competitive with alternatives such as index funds long term IMO and again in my experience so far over the last 11 years.

The worst case scenario is basically you hold onto that property longer and make about nothing on the sale which is more than can be said about the stock market in my experience. At least you still have what you made passively in the meantime.

Sure, I can't predict the farther future, but I still make decisions to continue this or change my holdings based on policy changes like that.

I'm not claiming this is some magic get rich quick scheme, but so far it has been working out well and definitely has given me income without me doing anything, which fits the definition of passive income here, so I just thought I'd share it.
I've always felt like I have more mental clarity whenever I'm out in the fog, the heavier the better - maybe this is why.