skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/dec/analysis-new-home-office...

> The two-year study by the Home Office makes very clear that there are no grounds for asserting that Muslim or Pakistani-heritage men are disproportionately engaged in such crimes, and, citing our research, it confirmed the unreliability of the Quilliam claim.

white males end up as defendants in CSE cases more often than any other ethnic group

https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/no-pakistani-me...

> while white men make up 83 percent of the population, they accounted for 88 percent of the defendants in child sexual abuse cases.

see page 38 https://www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/02/Trends-in-O...

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oh you edited your post to add more anti-muslim rhetoric.

let’s dive into the detail a little

> A pre-sentence report will normally be considered necessary if the offender belongs to one (or more) of the following cohorts:

> at risk of first custodial sentence and/or at risk of a custodial sentence of 2 years or less (after taking into account any reduction for guilty plea)

> a young adult (typically 18-25 years)

> female

> from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community

> pregnant or post-natal

> sole or primary carer for dependent relatives

> Or if the court considers that one or more of the following may apply to the offender:

> has disclosed they are transgender

> has or may have any addiction issues

> has or may have a serious chronic medical condition or physical disability, or mental ill health, learning disabilities (including developmental disorders and neurodiverse conditions) or brain injury/damage

> the court considers that the offender is, or there is a risk that they may have been, a victim of:

> domestic abuse, physical or sexual abuse, violent or threatening behaviour, coercive or controlling behaviour, economic, psychological, emotional or any other abuse

> modern slavery or trafficking, or
coercion, grooming, intimidation or exploitation.

> This is a non-exhaustive list and a PSR can still be necessary if the individual does not fall into one of these cohorts.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/overarching-guides/magi...

1) i dont see the word “muslim” mentioned anywhere

2) i see about 10 other societal groups listed that have nothing to do with religion

but sure, let’s keep blaming the muslims for everything, that sounds like a healthy approach to life.

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second edit because fuck it.

i grew up in an affluent part of the country, a quiet and mostly white countryside town. went to posh schools. most of my first 20 years i didnt spend much time around people of other ethnicities.

i get it man. i get that you might be afraid of losing your “identity”. or maybe you’re afraid of the big scary bogeymen on the news.

but you don’t have to be afraid. you dont have to be afraid of the bogeymen. the bogeymen are mostly made up stories. you don’t have to be afraid of change. life becomes a hell of a lot more fulfilling without fear.
Not really, no. My peers and I were constantly opening ChatGPT when probing new topics. But now, with Gemini integrated within Google and the hallucinations of LLMs, seeing the SEO result along with the AI summary has become my goto choice. The one thing I find extremely frustrating (which I hope Google fixes) is not being able to continue the conversation with Gemini if I have follow-up questions.

I think this also stems from a new design paradigm emerging in the search domain of tech. The content results and conversational answers are merging – be it Google or your Algolia search within your documentation, a hybrid model is on the rise.
Rather than thinking about the suit itself, I’d consider the dress code or culture of the company you’re interviewing for.

Turning up in formal business wear isn’t going to be a positive social cue if everybody you interact with is dressed casually.

The social cue you’d be giving off is that you stick out like a sore thumb and probably didn’t do your research on the company before you showed up.

Literally no different than turning up to Lloyd’s of London in a Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts.
The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded–and China Is Closing in on the US
A lot of CSS tooling feels designed to overcomplicate it so it feels more like "engineering" rather than "markup". I find Tailwind particularly bizarre, essentially writing your CSS as inline styles via single use non-semantic classes is absurd to me.

Wasn't CSS invented so we didn't have to write every html element "its blue, centered text and bold font" yet people willingly choose to use class="items-center font-bold text-blue-600" and running it through a compiler.
Wow, seems like what I really need!
Z8 and Z9 can do the same, Z9 can do 120fps in jpeg mode 11MP, similar to your Z8. Z8/Z9 will do 30fps in jpeg fullresolution, 20fps in RAW. how long it can do it without slowing down depends on your card, and whether you use uncompressed raw, lossless raw, lossy raw etc
Tech giant Meta dumps 3 Bay Area offices
> In the EU you could text people from different countries and it would often work.

Wasn’t foreign texting expensive at the time?
the key thing to remember is that Trump was targeted by a wide range of legal attacks on him personaly, and he is looking for anything that will link those attacks, and expose any
co-ordination or links to affiliate organisations,
and given that the legal shenanigans are ongoing, though currently, only performative, it would be advisable for anyone involved to consider that there may be enough links between the various attempts to impeach and prosecute Trump, for counter charges of conspiracy, and treason.
Not that Trump is a great guy, but that the moves against him, might have been precipitous.
There must be a healthy middle ground between mass untouchable criminal communication networks on the one hand, and full panopticon 24x7 for every civilian on the other. Or I don't know, maybe there isn't. But at least the debate should be public.
"Fully open" is a strawman. These are not names of MI5 agents, or a list of active police investigations. This is a massive breach of privacy of every UK citizen, and forced recruitment of every company into a government informant, forcing them to lie to their users that they're being given privacy, whilst informing on them.

It is trying to keep the existence of the Stasi a secret.
Mostly the latter but still. What some people on this thread don’t get is that unless you’re a known industry luminary, companies are not going to accommodate odd preferences without a legit reason like a physical disability. The resume probably won’t even make it out of HR. One key is both the company and candidate making requirements like travel clear up front. Saves everyone a lot of time.
As a British native I feel well represented.

It's not perfect of course. We might take a step back occasionally but this usually results in two steps forward. Some press like only to comment on the backward steps though.
Well, it's called "Emoji" (絵文字, literally "picture character/letter") for a reason ;) Weird how it's often misunderstood as being derived from "emotion" in western media.
Show HN: Keep your AI agents up to date with latest docs
Hey HN! I wanted to practice "vibe coding" and see how far and fast I can go by only prompting, without actual coding.

I decided to make a simple CLI app that scrapes web docs into a single md file (I was annoyed that LLM keeps writing Tailwind 3 code for a Tailwind 4 project).

In just a couple of hours, the CLI app was ready! Then iterated on arguments for another couple of hours. Result:
https://github.com/vladstudio/web2llm

Then I decided to go further and "productize" the CLI by making a web app for it. Another half-day, and the web app is ready!
https://web2llm.dev/

Feel free to try! The stack is Astro, Typescript, SQlite and Tailwind (no React!) on an $3/m Ubuntu VPS on Hetzner.

Also to deploy it on Hetzner, I asked AI to write a collection of bash scripts for me. This was harder than it seems, but after another couple of hours of iterating AI got it done too:
https://github.com/vladstudio/ubuntu-node

I happily achieved the goal of going from 0 to 1 without writing any actual code (except minor CSS). Very interesting to see where AI shines, and where I'd better do it myself.
This is like antivaxx. Yes you will find heavy metals pretty much everywhere if you test sensitively enough.
Want a real solution to electronic waste, with real international knock-on effects?

The EU should mandate 10-year warranties for higher-end consumer electronics and durable goods.

This could work on a sliding scale: less expensive items get shorter warranties (but never below the current 2-year minimum), while pricier products require longer coverage periods.

Such legislation would:

1. End the exploitation of workers in sweatshops producing deliberately short-lived products

2. Discourage planned obsolescence and reduce manufacturing waste

3. Significantly decrease the climate impact of consumer electronics

4. Create genuine incentives for a Circular Economy where durable products like quality ThinkPads become standard rather than exceptions

By requiring products to last, we'd not only protect consumers and the Environment, but also the vulnerable workers currently trapped and exploited in sweatshops designed to produce disposable goods.
pretty sure they would lose a lot of sleep if no third party application could open their raw
Not exactly.

> If the command doesn't already take a single file as input, you need to pass it the special `{0}` argument, which GitHub replaces with the temporary file that it generates the template-expanded `run` block into.

It seems to be writing your script to a file, then using an executable to run your file. That ignores any shebang.
The danger to your knees scales with your weight class - no matter if you're overweight/fat or muscular.

A very lean and thin person weighting in at sub 70kg will hardly ever get issued with their knees, even if they run daily
Sorry it wasn't entirely clear that I was by no means saying the web in its current form is anything close to what it could/should be. My main point was that, by making backdoors for MCPs there will be a new possible entry point for bad actors by exploiting said backdoor.

As for the optimisation to _waste human life_ I do agree but the reality is that the sites which waste the majority of human life/time are the ones which would not be automated by the MCP and would, ultimately, see more 'real' usage by virtue of the fact that your average human will have more time to mindlessly scroll their favourite echo-chamber.

Then we have the whole other debate of whether we really believe that the VC funders whom are largely responsible for the current state of the web will continue pumping money into something which would hurt their bottom line from another angle?
So let me get this straight, you think that this attorney is personally part of a conspiracy of lawyers to… “attack” him?
I recruited for a late stage pre-ipo unicorn after COVID. On the cash portion of compensation - 145k was the suggested starting negotiation point for a fresh out of college engineering candidate at offer stage. For that level, we'd go as high as a one-time additional 22k on signing with equity at 225k in RSU's (/4 year vest).
My favourite part is when you middle click the link to be opened in a new tab to be read later to find out that it opens a bunch of main pages or nothing at all. That’s a top level UX.
I think the trouble with Trump's approach is the ham fisted way he's trying to do it. If he wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US for strategic reasons even if the costs may be a bit higher than doing it in China, which I could understand, he should have announced a stable thought out policy years in advance to give people time to train, build factories and so on.

The current approach is a mess.
We just replaced the government responsible for the first issue with a moderately competent one. I expect there to be some progress now. In fact there has been. And it turned out to be mostly bollocks.
No, most people are stuffing everything into the application layer, or worse, a web/mobile app these days and don't know how to fix anything below it. I know many "programmers" who can neither configure a SME/Enterprise firewall or switch nor build their own PC or server from parts.
Also, during the 90's everything was easy to find and access. Piracy was the norm and FOSS was booming.
I'm using ChatGPT or Perplexity as my defaults for any research/questions I have (open research). I do go to Google when I have a specific company I want to quickly check some details (close research).
Except as it mentions in the article, the accused denies that he wrote or published the material in question.
Sorry for the snark, but yeah, I agree, human dignity and empathy have no place in the capitalist work place. You must prove you're disabled or else.
Either there are ways of intercepting information or there aren't. If there aren't then even criminals can keep their conversations secret. If there are then even criminals can intercept your conversations.
It seems to me that one (of many) factors contributing to the fact that electronics are no longer repaired as often in Western countries is the wealth of these countries and the relatively low cost of electronics. If an hour of a technician's labor costs X, and a particular piece of equipment can be bought for, say, 3X, it doesn't make much sense for most people to repair it.
So if I start talking about crimes and criminals in an affectionate way, can I radicalize it?
How did gay marriage revolutionise the market for involuntary marriage?
How does it compare to playwright mcp?
Hang on – are you saying Americans don’t have vending machines with snacks and hot drinks in office buildings, schools, hospitals, etc.?
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

Or the fork https://open-vsx.org/extension/muhammad-sammy/csharp
I didn't say word one about "bootcamp coders." That's all you, pal.

Every generation has to invent sex and politics for itself, or at least imagine for a while in its 20s and 30s that it did. Why not the same in another preparadigmatic field like computing?
> It's a possibility. SARS II was much harder to contain though. The first SARS actually made it to North American hospitals, but was contained. It didn't spread in the populace.

Totally fair, but as I recall he didn't even try to keep it away from US soil (which had always been the CDC approach).
That proper "no elephants" first image is hilarious. Another key point here is the generative AI's meme game is getting rather strong.

Which isn't a small thing, humour is an advanced soft skill.
The math doesn’t math when it comes to encryption. It’s Pandora’s box. Once backdoors are created encryption may as well not even be enabled.
More like 10000 [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawara,_Fukuoka
Well it was more that basically all the people he appointed talked him down last time.

This time he picked based on loyalty, so it's pretty much whatever he wants (apparently tariffs).
I love that judges are saving society. They’re keeping the government here honest. Let’s hope it continues.
For real. This is the best thing I’ve seen on HN in a long time. My kids are very into these card collections/games and I told them about it and they thought it was a great idea to put “normal” people on these cards. Super great story and concept. Japan isn’t perfect, but some amazing things come from their society.
Makes sense; iirc the Enigma code was broken in part due to many / all messages having the same "heil hitler" sign at the end. Encouraging the messages to use the same words - like "flying saucer" or "ufo" - would help with the decoding process.
It could be an issue with your position (seat too high, too low, cranks too long, if you are using clipless pedals maybe need to get wider stance, ...). I would get a professional bike fit.
It's run by a government elected with 34% of the vote. Before that, 43% of the vote. Before that 43%. Before that 37%.

None of that sounds like democracy to me.
Except Tibet was part of China before westerns divorced it from China.

I dunno why but I think I'm gonna trust people who used to be the victims of colonial domination and looting over the recidivist offenders of the said colonial domination and looting when it comes to Asian history.

Also NK is a Chinese protectorate as much as the USA is a Republic.
I'm pretty sure you'll find individual Tesla owners who haven't yet had any issues, but their poor track record in terms of reliability and repairability remain.

Stop encouraging companies who lock you out, stop renting products you should fully own!

Locking things down is simply a hidden subscription in the shape of repairs and replacements. When you stop paying the subscription (stop repairing, stop upgrading), that's also approximately when the rental stops working (car, iphone, etc).

I'm sure the percentage of broken to working devices is a carefully monitored R&D output, to maximise profit and retain customer trust from renters such as yourself.
> The main issue of course is cost;

This is exactly it, and it's a similar issue to what people talk about with clothing (Shein etc). Although clothing isn't automated, that really is just cheap labour.

We have all these electronic artefacts in the first place because of highly integrated processes (starting with the "integrated circuit" itself!), done on mostly-automated production lines. But the automated processes rely on rigid standardization: all the inputs must also be new and precisely in-spec. You can't easily "undo-redo" part of the manufacturing process to fix something.

As a society gets richer through automation, things which still require humans get relatively more expensive. This is known as "Baumol cost disease", the phenomenon that things like education and healthcare are much more expensive than consumer goods because the latter can be automated and outsourced while the former can't.

People will pick cheap-unrepairable over expensive-repairable almost all the time. The awkward corner is expensive-unrepairable, which is becoming an issue (see John Deere vs right to repair).
No one under GTK/Gnome uses plain C, they use Glib as a wrapper. Plain ANSI C might be 'unusable' for modern UI needs, but, as I said, just have a look on WebkitGTK4.
Glib everywhere, WebkitSettings are a breeze to setup.

Vala it's a toy because Miguel de Icaza went full MS with C# since Ximian. If Vala had more support from Red Hat, Gnome 4 could support Vala as the main language for it. JS? Lua and Luajit wouldb be a better choice for Mutter scripting. If you have a look on how Luakit and Vimb behave, the difference it's almost nil.
In Poland everything found in the ground belongs to the nation treasury (government) and performing excavation in order to look for things like this is illegal without specific permit. So if you find something you either stash it and don't talk about it or it goes to museums.
Surely you are implying that everything in a "functioning democracy" can be solved by voting... I know a ton of pro-EU people that might want to have a talk with you...
> In my opinion, most websites should be using htmx

In my opinion, in five years no one uses htmx, but another shiny toy. Hence, how about not starting to use it at all?
Compared with 8 bit home computers appliance nature, that wouldn't be a big problem if we had repair shops all over the place, which could nonetheless take over replacing/upgrading soldered items.

I do agree having back user upgradable ram, disk and GPUs on laptops would be much better alternatives.
Its the same security model as NPM/left pad yep, but consumers still use electron apps? It's a novel attack method, but its not a novel attack surface
> Companies should have to bear the full cost of cleaning up, repairing, or disposing the products they unleash upon the world

Boy have I got a WEEE for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electroni...

More broadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_(symbol)

(however, both of those schemes don't put everything back directly - which would be inefficient. They allow delegation by paying recyclers. This can result in "carbon offset" like shenanigans.)
I have wrongly assumed that a global health threat is equivalent to a pandemic.
Sorry but this is nonsense. Do you have a theory about when certain LLM capabilities emerge? AFAIK we don't have a good theory about when and why they do emerge.

But even if knew how something works (which in present case we don't), shouldn't diminish our opinion of it. Will you have a lesser opinion of human intelligence, once we figure out how it works?
Generally speaking, any law is only good if there's consensus in upholding it. Because we write laws to simplify the implementation of the general (societal) intent, not to design the future society (although this may follow as secondary consequence). Now if the society decides some law is not applicable anymore, first they will start skirting it, then pressure to change it. A constitution is no exception, if until now the society was fine with it (a few amendments aside) it doesn't mean it will forever fine with it - societies change and laws will follow, never the other way around. Long story short: don't expect to change the society by changing the constitution. Watch for the society changing, or try to push that in some way.
Through history and experience from other countries, there is a lot of data that let us correlate criminality with other variables that people would let the Government control (quality of children education, access to jobs, housing, healthcare, safety networks, punishments to deter crimes, etc).

The fact that the Government prefers to spy everyone with the excuse of stopping crime instead of improving any of those variables (specially housing) makes me think that the people in charge are either stupid in the best case or criminals in the worst.
Well - maybe. But take for example how Microsoft is doing bitlocker encryption on every Win11 system - by default, without prompting the user, your system drive gets encrypted automatically and the encryption key gets saved to your microsoft account.

Yes I hate that they do that without prompting, but in theory that solution offers that balance that OP talks about - if there are no backdoors in Bitlocker(let's assume that there aren't), then your encrypted data is perfectly secure. But if a judge issues a warrant for your data, then Microsoft can provide them with a key to unlock your device.

To me, that's an acceptable compromise - it means that someone stealing my laptop won't get my data, but if a warrant is produced then bitlocker drives can be unlocked for a criminal investigation.

Couldn't Apple create a solution where all your communication is end to end encrypted with a key that they just have a copy of? No backdoors necessary.
For your car note, insurance is only worth it if the thing being insured can ruin you if something were to happen to it. In the case of cars, you can potentially get ruined from the value of the other party's car. But if you live somewhere where most people drive normal cars, it might be worth it not having insurance. Our culture of insure everything, from your iphone to house is a market failure. If your house were to burn down, the value of the asset is still mostly concentrated in the land.
New laptops, phones also last a lot less (borked storage, borked motherboard), forcing us to buy another - which I think is the point.

We have one refrigerator that's still going strong after 50 years whereas one of our 'newer' air-conditioners had to be replaced after 6 years.
this looks like youtube kids from youtube itself, what are the differences between the two? I use youtube kids for my own kids on our iPads, which works somewhat fine, a bit clunky to add channels and to use it for offline watching though.
Aquarius is huge in Catalonia as well.