skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlikely. It just decentralizes distribution and dealing - bulk darkweb drugs still end up in the hands of street resellers.
> People need to go out to eat somewhere, right?

Not really. I haven't eaten from a restaurant or a takeout in four years, maybe a few times in the last decade. When on the road I sometimes eat ready made food from a supermarket, but mostly bring something home prepared. Restaurants are a convenience, a luxury even.

It isn't an austerity measure for me though. I enjoy the process and get most meals prepared by someone who really cares about what I want and is the world's leading expert on that subject.
So don’t hold my breath for the Chinese Version of ‘Black Mirror’ hm?
Soviet censorship used to be less heavy on science fiction then on other subjects. is that true for China as well?
If you don't mind me asking, as someone who appreciates the arts and music, what kind of programming do you do?
$500 GPUs where the end product being developed is a dot com; isn't that excessive?
Please allow me to rephrase so my comment does not get flagged.

The Hawaii false missile alert was quite likely a coordinated hack combined with a bumbling cover-up. I have evidence suggesting this to be a likely explanation.

Of note is that the EMA story changed and was rather opaque. There was no discussion about the duplicate alerts that many people received, including me.

No explanation as to why a military looking couple was goading me that evening at coffee gallery about my suicide bag.

At a minimum, since people sporadically received duplicates hours later, this should have been part of some official public report, as this would indicate a notable technical malfunction. No such report exists.
This is really an outrageous suggestion, when so many extremely overqualified people work in restaurants.

If you have paid any attention at all, you would realize we live in an increasingly service-based economy. The repercussions of that undermine your entire thesis, which is the long-time neoliberal position that there are millions of jobs sitting empty for decades on end that could be filled if only people had gotten enough college. Well, the solutions have been pursued and all numbers conclude the diagnosis was false.
it may be the case that complexity flows forward only rather than time flowing forward only. the scaling level of temporal progression is centered on the quantum rather than the macroscopic. The best humanly understandable explanation ive found suggests increasing Entropic content of the universe is what we experience and lable as time.
That may be due to capex. McDonalds can invest in a ordering system while a mom-and-pop can't front capital for some sort of ticketing machine.

I don't know how the economics work out in Japan. I'm sure a large part is cultural and shared knowledge.

Maybe there's an opportunity for vendors of Japanese ticketing machines to jump into the San Francisco market??
What is the cook going to retrain in that’s going to substantially change the picture? The only substantial wage gain would be in tech, and retraining to be a coder/designer/sales person is not a universal panacea, not everyone can do those.
This kind of complaint drive me nuts. It is manifestly untrue that "restaurants are suffocating in San Francisco." San Francisco is chock-full of restaurants, and the vast majority of them are not going out of business. The author's real complaint is not that restaurants are suffocating, it is that his restaurant suffocated. But the reason his restaurant suffocated is not because there's a systemic problem with the restaurant business in San Francisco, it's because the market didn't conform to the author's preconceptions. If it were really true that there was some kind of systemic crisis among San Francisco restaurants, they'd be closing left and right. The survivors would then be able to raise prices to the point where the crisis went away. That's how the market works. But this isn't happening because there is no crisis, only a market operating just as it should by occasionally weeding out businesses that, for whatever reason, don't conform to the market's needs.
The elephant in the room that this article highlights, but never addresses.

A mobile phone has become a de facto a requirement for illegal commerce, as described, and to me presents a pretty huge single point of failure.

And yes, I know, EVERYBODY has a phone. But I don't. Why would I want to carry a police officer in my pocket? Especially if I'm a criminal.
Sorry. Someone already beat me to the punch. My whole day is speaking in TLAs (Three-Letter Abbreviations).
Is porn banned? Or only some types?
I think this type of thinking is shortsighted for a few reasons, but still you have good points. It’s just very hard.

In terms of children, there are many people who feel very strongly that a life goal to raise children is a moral imperative that supercedes any consideration of wealth or affordability.

Many people who can only get low-skilled jobs also rely on their extended network of family, friends, church, whatever. The prospect of moving to a different place is preposterous to them, because even if they had marginally better pay compared to costs of living it would’t matter at all if they don’t have their grandmother nearby to offer frequent free child care, or they couldn’t see a longtime family friend who helps with hard times or addiction issues or many other types of things.

It’s also quite hard to relocate for most people. It’s not like being a cook 5 hours away is the type of job you scout out and uproot your life over. What if that restaurant goes out of business? How much other available employment liquidity is there after you uproot & move? Who pays the relocation costs? What about uprooting kids’ lives?

Finally, a lot of people have generational and/or cultural attachment to a specific place, and they believe that this also supercedes any market conditions related to housing or jobs. Doesn’t matter if it’s a natural disaster, an economic crash, or being priced out by gentrification... you have to imagine the mindset of “this is where I am from, this is where my family is,” and the feeling that if generational home can’t be sustained, that this is a greater loss than it would be to slide into poverty.

Obviously not all of this applies to the situation of the article, but generally this is hard. A lot of people simply commit to an ideology they believe is literally exempt from being affected by economic conditions, and that those values transcend any other type of decision-making.
I think they had a server crash and moved to a new host.

http://osfree.org/

They have something that boots, but I am not sure if it can run OS/2, DOS, Windows code yet.

I wanted to donate $5 but their donate button is broken.
I wrote an entire e-commerce inventory SaaS platform singlehandledly (frontend, backend, database, cache, nginx, blah blah blah) that had 100 users and about $30k/mo revenue.

Then I got kicked out by the owner high and dry after I refused to take sales calls and support calls on top of my developing responsibilities. :)

Software is still running today. It's probably at $50k/mo.
I share the same sentiment. In my opinion, having children is a huge responsibility, and should not be treated as a default right. If one cannot get themselves into a stable position financially, they shouldn't be raising children. And certainly not four. Having four children without substantial financial security is outrageously irresponsible - people I know that are very well off would hesitate to have even three despite having the technical ability to afford that life.
but stooping to underhanded publicity stunts instead of open intellectual conversation

Attempts to have an open intellectual conversation, specially in these fields, gets you deplatformed after SJW attacks, or draw people screeching when you attempt to debate at the Uni, to the point debates have to be cancelled by limp wristed admins.

The only way left if to use sarcasm , or these kind of maneuvers. What's the point of exposing the insane and unethical academia establishment if you have to tell them, in advance, they're being exposed?
Thermal Airship
Isn’t that true everywhere? A quick google turns up that 90% of restaurants fail in their first year and the average lifespan for the rest is only five years.

I think it’s because it has relatively low barriers to entry, is something a lot of people want to do, and it seems easy.
My father used Linux on a Live-CD when his XP had issues. He used to work at AT&T so he knew how Unix works.
Religion is so popular in China in part because of the great ideological changes in the country. Over the last century or so it has gone from Confucianism to Sun Yet Sen's Christian social democracy to Maoism to Deng Xiaoping's moderate capitalist socialism to Xi Jin Ping's new authoritarianism. The result of all these swerves is that a large part of the population has lost any ideological belief in the government, and looks for meaning and guidance elsewhere.

And when it comes to this Christianity presents a particular threat to the government. Besides being associated with the West, it is universalistic, as the article says. All people are children of the one God, so they all have rights and the right to criticize the government, and the Chinese government also has no right to try to imperialistically dominate the world.

You know, when a government engages in this sort of suppression, it likes to say it is because it is so strong, but actually it usually means it is in a panic over lack of support by the population.
It's dishonest, but in my eyes it's less dishonest than how tipping works as a socially-mandatory fee. So I welcome it as a path to improvement.

Maybe some day we'll get it and sales tax to be part of the list price. But that will probably take legal force.
Isn’t GlimmerJS their React equivalent?
Really depends, as what you are describing spanned likely a nearly 25 year span (give or take a few.)

but for me, the heyday, was the mid90s to early 2000s. it was a magical place full of "Under Construction" webpages (static hand coded HTML webpages), and user run linking networks called "Web Rings." Web rings, basically if someone linked to you, you linked back to them, and to someone else, typically there would also be a link to an index of all in the ring, a random button, and generally some sort of image related to the ring, they generally followed some sort of theme, star trek fans, college alumni, mudds/fantasy games, etc...

The browser wars where still a thing, and the look and feel of the internet wasn't settled, browsers where implementing there own features, that were wildly divergent from each other, and sometimes the same functionality, that required completely different code to perform it. Java Applets, where the bees knees, and mostly pointless, but pretty features to the web (water ripple effects on images...)

Gif or any animated image format was still a heavily contested copyright issue. And droves of people from all over the world were pouring "online."

Highschool and colleges, trying to come up with a way to "cite" webpages like book authors. (url, author, publish date.)

The organization of the net, was very much akin to the wild west, small clusters of interlinked sites serving as frontier towns, universities played a huge role, as they often had the students who had the brains, time, and inclination, to create sites, and generally small of enough to maintain a "sitemap" of all of their pages.

No real way to search all of the net, no "social networks", chatrooms and IRC were hot beds of communications, and because of the loose coupling, it was much easier to meet people, and actually become friends with them.

I'd say it wasn't until pop-ups started showing up everywhere and people started buying goods online, did the web shift its direction.

And though I tech is amazing today, I still feel we aren't the better for it.
PG&E talking to banks on multibillion dollar bankruptcy financing
Probably just happened to be the shortest domain extension avaliable for “fine”
My vision was distorted for full 30 seconds after reading this page.
One factor I haven't seen mentioned is that moving everything to a new phone is a bit of a risk and a pain. Reinstalling apps, reestablishing connections and credentials, manually moving the stuff that inevitably got missed, getting a new case. Bleh. If I have to spend my money and my time, there has to be more than a sliver of payback, but a sliver is usually all that's offered. Forget it. In another few months my work phone will be up for replacement, and TBH I'm not looking forward to it. Just another damn forced "upgrade" to steal away my time for no real gain.
She spent two years building a tiny house. Then thieves wheeled it away
It sucked! Absolutely nothing worked.
Cixin Liu's 'Remembrance of Earth’s Past' trilogy are the greatest sci-fi books I've ever read. I still remember when I picked the first volume and than patiently waited for a very long time for translations of the next books to arrive. The wait was well worth it. He manages to put his characters into seemingly insurmountable situations and it feels like he won't be able to write his way out of them but somehow he manages to achieve the impossible. His world-building skills are second to none and he introduced so many novel and interesting technologies into his universe.

Liu's a true master of sci-fi (and definitely a genius) and these books are my favorite fiction books of all time. After I finished the last book, I was depressed because I realized that I'm not going to read something this great again for a very long time. They're also the first Chinese sci-fi books I've ever read. Since then, I read the rest of Liu's books (including the Ball Lightning which came out last year).

Can't recommend these books highly enough but beware that it might make subsequent sci-fi books less enjoyable since you'll be judging them by a different yardstick. I tried to read so many sci-fi books since (I usually buy various award winning books since it's a decent filter) but I rarely finish them because they never capture my attention (and imagination) like Liu's books.
I wonder how the numbers compare nationally. I thought restaurants has a tendency to close more often than any other business (30% close within 3 years). Also, why is this only a phenomena in SF? The real estate price in NYC should be higher and the business seems pretty good for even the nonfamous restaurants. Even small coffee shops thrive like crazy here.
I’m trying to make a relevant comment but it keeps getting flagged. Why? Why does my comment need to disappear?
React and Ember.js is not an apple to apple comparison. React is a UI library, Ember.js is a framework. Glimmer would be a better comparison.
I thought people were overstating the case that humanities departments across the country are converged. But if investigating whether dogs actually get consent before mating in dog parks (or is there another definition for "rape culture among dogs"?) is considered possibly legitimate research, I may need to revisit my judgement.
One unusual thing is that, at least for the curl example binary, the pre-built installable version is an x86 one and not an x86-64 one.

From briefly looking at the assembly, it seems like each variable or stack object has metadata associated with it in the stack frame. Some of this metadata seems pretty heavyweight, e.g. having `0xDEADBEEF` as a magic constant, what looks like the size, a pointer to a global variable, etc. One worry is that this metadata appears adjacent to memory it protects.

I wonder if it would be easier to just make all local variables into heap allocations and handle things uniformly there. This would make it easier to upgrade the runtime in the future without requiring recompilation.
> Maybe some are, but a lot are not. From my experience the vast majority in SF only last a few years.

This is how the restaurant industry works everywhere. It's how most small businesses work.
Yeah, it's a great story, but machine vision + machine learning + surveillance could pull the rug out from the dropgangs market in a second.

But really, other than this fatal flaw, it's a great narrative of the internet spilling into and interfacing with analog markets
https://github.com/prettydiff/getNodesByType
What’s their return rate compared to an index like the S&P500?
> My budget is $1,500/mo total, $600 being food.

How do you pay for housing in SF with $900/mo or less?
They didn't generate any real results

Except they did. They exposed the review process as flawed.

This is like saying a bug report doesn't produce results.
_Her_ restaurant, not his.
I agree; nobody should be considering cryptocurrencies an investment. That’s not the message coming from most Bitcoin enthusiasts, though.
When I think of what I wanted the internet to become, HN, Wikipedia, github and Archive.org spring very heavily to mind.

I think it's easy to lose site of the fact that the "old" internet is still there, there's just so many new layers of people and layers of things on top of it that it's hard to remember that you can still setup a /~bane/ website pretty trivially...lots of other services could still exist but nobody wants to foot the bill.

I think one of the best representations of the old internet is how the demoscene operates. Free, volunteer, information rich, a bit quirky and communal.
I guess when I was 12 and had a Commodore 64 in my bedroom. I stayed up late and got up early to learn basic, put sprites on the screen, debug and otherwise get caught up in whatever I wanted to create that day.

I’d like to say thank you to my father for buying it and keeping the chocolate milk and powdered doughnuts flowing.
They will not survive on only luxury, however. They do have a legitimately great system in many areas, but are currently not selling it to as many people as they can.
1) When your cursor hovers over the "More Results" link, it changes to a "text" cursor rather than the "pointer" cursor.

2) I don't know what "broad search" is. Maybe add an explanation in a tooltip or a help page or something?

3) Switching "broad search" on and off doesn't change the URL. So there's no way to bookmark a broad search.

4) The header isn't consistently located. When you're looking at search results, it's stuck to the left side of the screen. On the blog page, or the "hello world" page, or the "dream" page, it's more centered.

5) The background of the blog page is black, which is really jarring when you're on the search results page and click over to it. Could you make the color scheme consistent?

6) How do you plan to keep this thing running once the bandwidth and data storage costs reach a point you can no longer personally maintain? Accept donations? Ads? Charge a monthly fee for premium search features?
https://ibb.co/vwyNtH9
The first sentence is probably parsed wrong, Chinese fairy/mythological novels are very popular in China, they've surpassed Chinese martial arts novels which has broken my heart because the fairy/mythological novels suck:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianxia_novel

Note 仙 can mean fairy in Chinese, they are part of the Chinese category known as 仙侠 or 玄幻，which is Asian/Chinese themed fantasy that differs from Western fantasy novels because its about Taoism/Buddhism, Chinese dragons, demons, immortals and Chinese legends.

As well Chinese magical fantasy or 奇幻 is still alive and well but they're basically Western fantasy genres written by Chinese people with similar ideas of Kings, Queens, Western Dragons.
I currently work for a company that is focused in increasing online privacy. Everything I write now supports this effort. I've never felt better about a job.

Second to that would be the games I wrote on my TI back in high school (90s) when I should have been learning trig. That and some late night script kiddie exploits got me on the path to a career in tech.
Also, Amazon AWS opened in 2006. The first iPhone shipped in 2007. "The Cloud" has been around for a while.
I didn't read the article yet but what are some responsibilities an average failed restaurant owner should take? Improper location/menu? Bad hiring? Poor ability keeping staff morale up?
Look, I agree with all that you say.

But the but-for world here -- analogous to Twitter, Patreon, etc censoring stuff -- is that national mass media would not have covered that stuff.

And how does what you say about Patreon not apply to traditional media that's privately owned?

Also, I'm not necessarily arguing that Patreon etc should be prevented from censoring. Mainly I'm pointing to consequences of traditional media being rep0laced by social media, Patreon, etc.

Some decades ago, there were similar concerns about public streets and squares being replaced by shopping malls. And this is a far more extreme version.
In a known, easily watched location?

Did you read the article?
Dead drops don't require a phone, only something to take a photo of the hiding place.
Sad story! Did you get any sort of shares/equity?
Not arguing that housing is expensive, just that "There is no amount of money an owner could pay an employee within the economics of a small business" is an extremely broad claim and obviously wrong.

High-paying small businesses, especially when employees do not have children to support, do fine. It's not like you see mass retail vacancy in SF.
before there was profit to be made, there was no evil. people shared. everything was free, like the air is today. people could take as much as they wanted. eventually that was boring so they started giving. then they realized that giving felt good. without profit to motivate greed, people's good nature appeared.