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prh8··on One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Absolutely, law enforcement in the US is disproportionately not normal people. The system is designed to reject smart people who are not aggressive and have empathy. The system is designed to accept people who will uphold the design of the system.
prh8··on The darker side of being a doctor
The medical training involved for nurses and physicians is absolutely not equivalent
prh8··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Even the house is unfairly tilted towards smaller states because of the 538 limit
prh8··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Either your head is 6 feet deep in the sand or you aren't really so non partisan

We have had secure elections for a long time, how is it that the only 2 that Trump has presided over are the ones that are a security concern?

prh8··on SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
Countless directors and managers are now cosplaying as engineers. I've seen so many myself and that's just my tiny slice of this engineering world
prh8··on Back to Kagi
Kagi does have some methods for enhanced privacy if you are concerned about having an account. See https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/anonymity.html
prh8··on The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse
This already exists as something called dot phrases, which most doctors are familiar with. These are typically shared and refined and highly useful. You can find plenty of resources online as well.

This is just a hacky way of doing the same thing, all on your own, and a tremendously silly way to do it. Which makes sense because this is literally just an ad.

prh8··on The Causes of Long Covid
MCAS is the underlying condition, which is then triggered by a Covid infection. This results in an escalation of baseline symptoms, which is what Long Covid is
prh8··on The Causes of Long Covid
Sadly, no mention of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, or even mast cells at all
prh8··on OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon
Opportunity for all the big money to get something back out while they can, which collapses the whole thing
prh8··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
Same here. Anyone being even hesitant about AI is viewed negatively by management
prh8··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
Try commenting without using AI
prh8··on Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
Having long ago built an app that does gamecasts for multiple sports, similar to what you get from ESPN, every sport is completely different. There's almost nothing that matches up, except for the very basic concept of a box score. Even play by play has enough differences to be vastly different
prh8··on CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity
My company has pushed engineering all-in for AI in the last few months

Our stock price has also gone down 70% in the last few months

Naturally, we're pivoting our platform to put AI front and center

prh8··on The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign
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prh8··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
The state constitution does not forbid an income tax. We both know it is more nuanced than that. Don't accuse me of bad faith in the same comment that you present an inaccuracy in the form of simplification that suits your argument
prh8··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
So, you _already_ moved, _for non tax reasons_
prh8··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
People aren't leaving Seattle to save a small amount in taxes every year
prh8··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
Ahh, another favorite talking point. Yes, because the tax burden is already carried by the people you claim to worry about
prh8··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
For readers not in Washington, there is currently legislation being worked on that is essentially a millionaire's tax, (simplified as) 10% income tax on income over 1 million dollars, inflation adjusted.

There are a few very angry, emotional, and vocal opponents of this in most corners of the internet, although very few of them actually make a million dollars and there are many million+ income people supporting this.

Demographically, there are over 3 million households in WA, and only 20k of them would be affected.

prh8··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Fwiw I thought it was pretty self evident in your OP, and additionally that England is small enough to be a sufficient answer
prh8··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Citizens. US citizens
prh8··on Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
I don't think OP is glad people came around on it
prh8··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Their own data reports that they are holding tens of thousands of citizens who have committed no crimes.

They have murdered people in broad daylight and allowing many more to suffer and even die in their facilities.

People are not being hysterical, and the people who are downplaying or ignoring this are showing that they are in fact evil.

prh8··on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
It's easy to not see anything if you willingly close your eyes
prh8··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
This is really awesome
prh8··on Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
That's because it's a docs page. Product page here https://orionbrowser.com
prh8··on Can Bundler be as fast as uv?
What do you use to manage other languages? Asking because asdf is basically a multi language version of a ruby version manager rbenv
prh8··on Ruby 4.0.0
For future readers, I mistakenly referenced the grpc gem; I was thinking of the gem `gruf` which is a grpc framework
prh8··on Ruby 4.0.0
One issue is gems which are locked `ruby < 4.0` which will now require updating, and releasing 4.0 instead of 3.5 was only done very recently.

For a more concrete example, the grpc gem locks Ruby versions (< 3.5), and they refuse to change it. So until they support the next Ruby version, we could test ruby-next by testing with a preview release. This worked for 3.4 and 3.5, but now doesn't work with 4.0 (bundler resolves 4.0-preview2 > 3.5, whereas we are able to do 3.5-preview1).

So unless I feel like doing a lot of grunt work (which I don't), I can't even test Ruby 4 in our app until they release a new version. And while I recognize this is an issue with the gem, it is a consequence of choosing to do 4.0.

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