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If you want to see the latest in the gentrification war, check out the San Francisco subreddit. On the one hand, it’s everyone complaining about the nuisance of the on demand scooters; on the other, it’s people complaining about the needles and human feces. It may have been about poor vs yuppie in 1985, but it’s a culture war now.
Inflation-adjusted science spending didn't increase last time the Democrats were in power, why do you think it would this time?

We need another sputnik moment before the public will spend money on innovation.
I was super against Flutter when it was announced. I wrote my apps in objc and java and recently swift/kotlin. I had some downtime recently and tried out flutter for a simple crud app and I gotta say... it makes mobile dev wayyyy more fun.

There’s a bunch of stuff missing (maps, etc) and dart isn’t my favorite language (I like kotlin and swift way more) but it’s sooo much easier to prototype up and build cool apps in flutter than native. There’s just so much freedom and you can hot reload to instantly see what you change.

IDK that I would make a production app on it today, but it definitely has stuck in my mind.
Suppose a disadvantaged woman decides to leave her abusive husband and is trying to find another place to move into.

Your hypothetical disadvantaged woman would have zero ability to pay $2000/month rent for a studio, however many of these might be available. She would likely find it hard to get an apartment in a rent-controlled situation - so the situation is effectively "hard versus impossible", a condition where "hard" is less harsh.

And I mean, I've lived off and on in the Bay Area under both these conditions over the last forty years and the impossible rents of course are the hardest for those of lesser means. Of frickin course.
Maybe it's just me because I don't know how the US works, but when trying to find the official information for this, it seems like none of the news agencies I found via googling reference official information, they just reference their own news about things officials said. Eventually I found a reference to a fda document. Seemed painful to find though.

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/Guidan...
As someone who has lost 20 pounds since the new year, I can say with near 100% confidence that it would not have happened for me without obsessive calorie tracking. Can't recommend MyFitnessPal enough.
You might try NOT stealing background images from Campo Santo / Firewatch for the "invite new pals" header/"hero" image...

https://imgur.com/a/NXON1RL

What will the excuse be?

1) "We outsourced it, and we totally trusted random internet person not to steal shit!"

2) "We have no idea what copyright is, and will dig our heels in, this is totally fair game!"

3) "This happens all the time, how do you think Google Image Search can display these images in the first place, eh???"
Is this a consulting service? Or do you offer software? If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the average project size using a prediction market.
> The FSF and its GNU project are a political endeavor.

But neither has anything about abortion policy in it's public declaration of goals.

So, while some political messages might make sense in GNU technical docs, I don't see why a warning making an oblique reference to the Mexico City policy is not only acceptable but so critical that central leadership needs to overrule the specific project's maintainers to preserve it.
Is there plans for Flutter on desktop? How about support on ChromeOS maybe using the new GNU/Linux support using the KVM?
This is harmless - probably true, nobody would die or suffer harm from having irrelevant content in the manual. We could splice full seven books of Harry Potter into it, and provided it is clearly marked up, it won't cause any serious harm. But glibc technical manuals are not exactly the place for RMS - or anybody else - to wage political advocacy campaigns, criticize US federal government or joke on the topics unrelated to the technical content. It's not harmful (which is a very high bar), but it's also not appropriate. Do we want to see political debate and advocacy in glibc manuals, commit messages, code comments and other places? Probably not. There are ample venues for this - and especially for a person with the name recognition RMS deservedly enjoys - to advocate anything he likes. He doesn't need the venue of glibc manuals for that, and shouldn't use it.
What is that supposed to mean? What's prudent and what is safe?

The reality is that driving at night isn't safe at all and that people often can't avoid collision from an obstacle suddenly appearing at night.

Maybe if they drove at 15MPH at all times, it would be possible in 99% of cases, but in practice we don't expect that.

Hence, we have collisions. Not because the drivers are always guilty of recklessness, but because driving at night has a risk to it. That's the point.
This is not a controversial opinion amongst lots of people by the way.

I’m not arguing for or against it, but it’s not an argument ad absurdem.
They already aren't built for pedestrians in most of the world. I'd be happy just removing the chance that I get killed by a car because the driver wasn't feeling good that day.

That said... I think passengers in self-driving cars will learn to be more patient and we can allow self-driving cars to yield to pedestrians more often.
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You don't have to disagree with Stallman on abortion in order to find his humor tasteless and inappropriate for product documentation. Pulling rank as GNU project leader for the sake of a tasteless joke is squandering your moral authority, I think, and he may need it for a time when, say, a state actor tries to sneak nefarious code into glibc.
The exact circumstances of the struck pedestrian likely violated many [possibly curde] bayesian priors for what to consider a positive collision threat: A rogue pedestrian at an unflagged portion of road, at an odd time of night, on a road that doesn't usually have pedestrians, with a bike moving perpendicular across the road (instead of parallel along it). Each one of these had been learned to be a high false positive to true negative ratio.

The product of these rarely encountered events (even independently) allowed a higher level algorithm to "score" the approaching unverified object through bayesian inference, below the level of a reasonable expectation of human collision.

In a way, this system should never be expected to become overly reckless or feckless as compared with even top human drivers in the long run: close calls of this nature should be input to the system (perhaps deliberately through staged QA?) and added to the model of collision threat identification.
Lead tastes good too, taste is not equivalent to importance.
I agree with RMS on this one too. Another reason not to set foot on US soil for I cannot trust the US law at all.
As a skinny young man with a big appetite I've found myself using these calorie counts as a way to maximize calories for the lowest price.
I think that's fair, but there's a minimum they could be doing locally that they're not. If we can't fundamentally solve the problem, we can find some better ways to manage it locally.

There's a bridge on RT 2 near the Glendale / Silver Lake area that can't be described as anything other than a public health hazard due to the amount of people, junk, and debris that line the sidewalks. The city chooses not to address it (for, what I optimistically hope are legitimate reasons), but it's been that way for going on 2 years now, so I begin to wonder.

I appreciate the complexity of the drug & mental health issues (have an aunt who has been homeless much of her life b/c of mental health issues), and I also understand how as a society we decided to allow those with mental health issues to have the right to not enter treatment. It's a massively complicated situation (hence me not really stating true solutions, other than finding ways to incentivize better collective action).
>I'm all in favor of the intentions behind rent control, but the implementation is an atrocious way to achieving its goals. If the goal is to help the poor long-time residents of a city, then do that directly.

Rent control is a hack, but it's a hack that largely works. It's not nearly as atrocious as the reputation profit hungry landlords have tried to give it.

Why not treat it exactly like any other kind of hack? Take it out, sure, but not a second before the real fix is in place.

>Raise property taxes

Yes. A lot. And do it first.
Gentrification by definition is bimodal and polarizing to the opposite extremes. What you are describing is more the aggregate standard of living increasing. I think the 2 are correlated though.

The tell-tale sign of gentrification is increased homeless people and blights in areas that simultaneously have wealthier people becoming wealthier. While there are bigger extremes, the aggregate and average wealth also increases.

I also agree about government getting out of the way but I wouldn't say that there's nothing wrong with gentrification.

Personally, my theory is that anything that generally increases prosperity also generally increases gentrification.

It is easy to see why once we understand 2 observations:

1) Human abilities, willpower, motivation, etc, follow a Gaussian distribution (bell curve). Intelligence, health, motivation, charisma, etc.

2) Modern civilization has amplifiers that create leverage. These include technology, education, and access to capital.

Take a bell curve and multiply it with an amplifier. A motivated person has access to the Internet to learn whatever they want and financing to create an online business. Modern society provides the tools to greatly expand your life if you so choose. However, few do. Without those tools a gifted individual can not achieve that much more than their neighbors.

The difference between a caveman who is naturally gifted with health, intelligence, and is motivated; and caveman who is not so blessed is not that significant. Even if they wanted to, there isn't much they can do to dramatically improve their condition. They might be able to improve it a little bit but not that much compared to their peers.

If you take those same 2 people and place them in modern civilization, the gifted and motivated individual can accomplish far more, perhaps achieving 1000x more wealth than their peers.

The only way to get rid of gentrification is to get rid of any form of leverage or to collectively deploy force to redistribute wealth -- neither of which I think is a good idea. Doing so means getting rid of anything that increases aggregate standard of living. We would have to give up education, technology, access to capital, etc. Gentrification would be gone, but everyone would be equally poor.

With that being said, I see it as the natural consequence of progress and so I'm not concerned about it from that angle but I wouldn't say I don't see it as a problem.

Class warfare being one of the bigger symptoms of gentrification and it can have devastating effects when governments go through revolutions. Revolutions tend to result in massive destructions of wealth and human life.

So I definitely see gentrification as a bad thing with some nasty side effects, but I also see that prosperity is increasing.
Your question gets asked often: How long can this continue?

And the answer is: It will continue as long as people are willing to pay the rent.

I understand from your post that you are fed up with the high rent and the low quality of living. But the most important part of what you said is the fact that you are still willing to pay, and you are still willing to stay, despite all of the disadvantages. In other words, you have decided (whether you like it or not) that in your case the advantages of living in SF outweigh all of the disadvantages.

And there are many others like you. You are all collectively voting for things to continue the way they are.

Making it stop would require you (or others like you) to decide the trade-off isn't worth it.
I don't think that is a safe assumption. While good controllers do wear levelling, there are many that have less capable wear levelling. Also, even with reserve blocks, having a constantly full drive can make inferior controllers cause abnormal wear.

This is probably less of a problem even with lower end controllers today, but let's not forget the early Sandforce controllers... those chips could be part of the recycling process.
this is indeed a very interesting idea. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-rea... was describing something similar several years ago.
It won’t last, calorie counts are not reliable indicators of how many calories you’re actually digesting (look up the thermic effect of food), and long term you will not keep it off if you focus solely on calories, quality whole foods come first.
Ask HN: Has anyone bootstrapped a business using services like Upworks?
I would like to go into consulting in a specific niche, but lack clients (currently working as software developer in a company).

There are related job offers at services like Upworks, where I could think make ~5000$/month (of course only if i get the jobs) which would be a lot of money in my current situation. However I read many horror-stories about Upworks, Toptal, Freelancer.com and related services, so I am hesitating.

Obviously I want to expand my field to direct customer interaction in the future, but short time it might be a decent idea?

Thank you for your insights and sry for my bad English, HN.
Compare how liquid it is to real-estate. I'd say it is pretty liquid.
The most effective labels we could have are "Added sugar" and "Added corn starch".

If you show exactly how much extra sugar and corn starch you're consuming, it's much harder to get fat by accident.
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If you think that fat and protein--- especially when paired with cholesterol + saturated fat--- are "healthier" than sugar found in grapes and apples...

... then I suppose you've already made up your mind. Please don't force it on the rest of us
That is the classic self-driving tradeoffs question, no?

I believe rather than absolutes, the solution is her is properly identifying a serious crash causing injury was missed. Regardless if it was ID'd as human, it was still someone pushing a shopping cart full of bags across a highway intersection that could have been detected. Even if it wasn't human, and totally dangerous and improper crossing at night time on a busy highway, it should have stopped even for the drivers own safety.
So he probably lost money on that.
Sure it protects removing things that are obscene, lewd, or excessively violent.

But it absolutely does not protect against viewpoint or political discrimination. Which is what everyone who uses the XKCD comic is referring to.

The whole idea that a company can just censor certain viewpoints is false. They will lose their legal immunity if they do that.

It is only very specific things, like lewd content, that they are explicitly allowed to censor.
I am rather confused:

Should the car always respond by slow down as the mandatary response when there is object in front?

Are you implying that the algorithm would conclude that because it's unlikely that there is an object in that circumstance, it is ok to disapprove its own observation that there is some thing in front of the car? That sounds utterly nonsensical.
The language you choose to use -- about "blighted" parts of a city and realizing their "full potential" -- is the language of eminent domain.

Which is curious given that you then turn around and talk about "rights of the property owner". Gentrification is largely about a wealthy group of people declaring that they will do more useful things with a neighborhood than the current residents would, so they should be allowed to move in and take over, whether through economic coercion (driving up prices and rents) or through legal coercion (having buildings condemned, properties seized to be "improved", etc.).
What's the global gag rule you are referring to?
Good luck tbh, my experience with 365 is it being very end user focused. I wouldn't embrace it any time soon for development.
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Hiring a former NTSB chair while there's an active NTSB investigations sounds a lot like a revolving door to me.
Are you sure you are not just remembering this South Park Episode?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Homeless
This. Both of you should see a professional counselor/therapist together. Google for ‘business partner therapy’ or ‘therapy cofounder’ for details and practitioners.
It is legal to pull into the intersection on green or yellow, and wait until it is clear (often when the light turns red) to turn left in Seattle. It is the correct/legal way to make a left turn. Otherwise you are just going to sit there blocking traffic for multiple cycles during busy times.
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I couldn't get budget for a tool that I ended up telling an outside consultant about.

They were able to get a PO for the tool, no problem.

They then spent the next few months using said tool at what I'm sure was a very high hourly rate.

Management never blinked. And they were apparently quite happy with the results the tool enabled. But respecting and approving an internal request for same? Forgetaboutit.

Of course, they were "restructuring" the company. Internal employees had all become "cost centers" and doubtless, behind closed doors, "the enemy".

Something important to understand: Much senior management has become a step or two away from -- akin to -- outside consultants. They come onboard to arbitrage short-term financial gains, often of a constrained nature. Then they move on.

Paying expensive consultants is just fine -- preferable, even -- if it is part and parcel of making an end-run around employees towards said short-term goal and exit.

They are birds of a feather. (And they will shit all over you.)
> they just said that they didn't believe it was the sort of thing that belonged in technical documentation

I've been dreading the day OSS projects became as soulless and boring as corporate ones. If we can't have jokes in technical documentation then it seems that day has come.

Next the FOSS HR department will be asking them to rename the abort function.
The entire town literally smells like crap. The people are alright. No idea why anyone would want to live there.

The best thing about the gentrication war is all the trustfund liberal arts crowds shaming tech workers for trying to make a living.
Assuming that the housing supply is finite, the poorest person living in a city is also displacing a different potential resident, just as much as a medium income person, right? Yet gentrification is always portrayed as the "richer" people trampling on poor people. Go figure.
Why exactly did you move? I live in Venice and while I won't dispute that homelessness is our #1 problem, I'd say it comes with the territory and it certainly isn't enough to make me consider leaving this amazing place.
“Unless there is a mass migration from urban to rural areas” -> I expect this to happen, and it would be great.

I also disagree with your premise, because elasticity of demand for housing isn’t zero, even if you assume zero regional mobility.
I don’t think RMS is trying to cater towards your needs, though. You’re perfectly capable of understanding him; it’s an (understandable) choice that you don’t put the effort into getting through the distractions. I don’t see anything wrong with expressing yourself in a preferred way, damn if it actually persuaded anyone.

I mean, it’s the same deal with an open fly. You get out of that experience what you look for. Most people can’t see past the fly, and that’s fine.

It’s so silly talking about this Facebook essay like an argument or a persuasive essay when it’s so much more similar to art or entertainment. Either you get it or your grandkids do, and it doesn’t mean you have to marry them or even agree with them to appreciate the cultural expression.
You are trying to equate the horrific acts of rape, enslavement, and murder, with the act of writing text on a website about such

Writing about a behavior and encouraging people to engage in said behavior are distinctly different sorts of speech acts. I don't know what you find 'increasingly tenuous' about the very detailed and specific exhortations identified here. Writing such is of course not the same as committing it, but I don't agree with your position tha it's free of any culpability. Again, it seems like you're more troubled by people exhorting such behaviors being thrown off the platform than by the impact upon those targeted by such statements.
https://hyper.sh aimed to be a CaaS (Container as a service) and Joyent’s Triton as well. It’s an interesting premise, but from the outside both don't have much traction.
use fail2ban.

Every month or whenever you choose, review your access log and see what kinds of attacks are happening, then use fail2ban to block those.

If you target 404s for non-existing PHP files, especially things like "setup.php" you can nail most would-be hackers before they can find vulnerabilities. Use a low-retry count and a high ban time, that'll kill the scanner-bots.

Other than that, make sure your webserver is secure. If your server is secure then you don't need to do anything because nobody can get in. Secure first. Aggressive next.
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> backed up with both attending a marriage counsellor

Is that even doable for a non marital relationship?
It is actually used to replace banks and remitters and central banks. You know, it performs some utility like companies do.
But the right to show people the door is the letter of the law on free speech, free press, and free association; that is, it is part of what you recognize as the minimal guarantee that must be preserved.

Right, and if you are declaring to the world, that this minimum is as far as you're going to go, then thanks very much! That's useful information on what kind of person you really are, and I didn't have to pay anything!

On the other hand, if a person is able and willing to go further, and engage and show that their ideas really are better, then this impresses me much more! WWII and the cold war wasn't won by the side that engaged in totalitarian enforcement. It wasn't won by the side that knew a-priori what all the right answers were and forced their citizens to only do and think the approved things. The 20th century was won by the side that let the truth have legs. This was to the benefit of the long arc of justice. I think that it will be so again with the culture war.

Power corrupts. It doesn't just corrupt the right or just the left. Power corrupts whoever is "on top." This is precisely why Freedom of Speech is fundamental. You know how to find the good leaders? The good leaders let others speak truth to power, and the bad leaders oppress dissent. Power corrupts.
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I used to spend a lot of time combing my logs with custom scripts, but honestly I think the effort is better spent elsewhere. There're countless automated attacks a day on a big site but they really aren't anything you need to worry about.
The website owner would send a user's email address to a third party (your service) before the user can give consent. For European websites that's tough with GDPR regulation.
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In many of the cities where Uber would like to deploy self-driving cars, a "rogue pedestrian" crossing where there is no marked crosswalk would be at least a multiple-times-per-day event. Any system trained to treat that as an ultra-rare anomaly would be a killing machine if unleashed in such a city.