skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. But downtown is a small part of Detroit, and those properties were given huge tax incentives so they generate very little income for the city.

Mike Ilitch and Dan Gilbert have done amazing things in a 5 square block section of downtown, but it does little to help the population of Detroit. These taxpayer-funded giveaways to local billionaires has not exactly played out as planned.
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Not disputing that I may be horribly wrong -- but the same source puts Larry Page's (obviously symbolic) compensation at $1 (ignoring equity) - so I'm not sure what to make of it.
Wow! Damn!
Weird name. Wagyu translates as “Japanese (wa) Beef (gyu)”
How to outsmart smartphone scammers
You are not, those people choose to be up there and with it there comes an element of extreme anti-social personality types.

Society tends to look at these groups as well at least we don't have to deal with them and as long as they stay up there, then let them sort it out among themselves. The sad reality is that had he buried the body and been "hardened" like the rest of them, it would have not caused an issue for the local sheriff and the sheriff would have most likely just ignored it unless someone came around making an issue over it.

I have been in these kinds of environments in FL, when I was a child the everglades and the glades-men where frontier territory and they are a hardened lot, they will kill you, especially if they have an issue and get themselves worked up while drunk. One of the most dangerous occupations, back then, was being a Florida game warden, due to these types. We had them go missing all the time back in the early 70's and 80's.

Everyone up there, in this story said, he was going to kill him had Taylor not acted and at the point that a person brought a 55 gallon barrel and a buddy to tell me I was going in it, I personally would have been plotting how I was going to kill him in self defense before he killed me. I honestly do not believe I would have let either of those men leave my property that day standing on their feet. I don't say that to sound "Internet Tough" but rather to highlight, given my experience in frontier areas, the mentality I would have been in and the mentality I would assume a guy like Taylor would be in. The reality is that the law was not coming to save him, and given the repeated incursions and threats on his property it was only a matter of time.

That being said, I do believe the other gentleman would have eventually killed him but he sensed weakness in Taylor after the second exchange where Taylor was bending over backwards to "make it right". So the plot to run him off his land and buy it up seems plausible. The problem is Taylor was not in on that plot, being the target and he was being threatened in a lawless territory. His only rational had to be, I am on my own and do I want to live?

This is exactly the white people version of the hood and gangs. It's the only reality they have and it present few good choices. It's raw survival.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of tech debt being something so subjective/invisible that it just creeps in and you have to discover it.

(I'm open to be convinced)

Generally I have witnessed tech debt as something pretty blatant and obvious - generally it's detected in the code review process. Sometimes it's big faults being introduced, more often it's small faults leading to 'death by a thousand cuts'.

My current policy is to allow zero tech debt, following the "no broken windows" principle. https://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/softw... That involves a greater investment in code reviews.
With the senate filibuster, most Congressional legislation is just appointments and removing rules anyway. New legislation feels impossible to enact.
It’s largely because of a failed and broken framework for addressing racism that people develop the kinds of attitudes you’re responding to: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neazxq/the-disturbing-thi...

> However, what we found startling was that white privilege lessons didn’t increase liberals’ sympathy for poor Black people. Instead, these lessons decreased liberals’ sympathy for poor white people, which led them to blame white people more for their own poverty.

There are a lot of reasons people don’t get a fair shake in society and end up in shitty life situations. People who grow up in abusive families and aren’t very bright have a rough time of it for reasons that are inconceivable for an upper middle class software engineer in a trendy city like Portland. It’s hard and depressing work to actually understand and sympathize with literally every type of social injustice, so most people round it off to a handful of superficial issues like racial bias—literally looking at these issues in terms of black and white.
Idk, I can come up with so many example of life changing tech ... But yeah, all things considered, having running water or central heating is def more life changing than reusable spaceX rockets for example. The progresses of the first half are more impressive because they were basic needs with high impact on health, transportation, &c. once these are met everything simply becomes "nice things" to have.

I think the most obvious progress was smarthpones, they are :

- Navigation systems

- Allowing seamless and instant text and video communication worldwide

- Capable of holding more music than you'll ever need

- Having better cameras than anything before (price for quality/convenience, I know medium/large format cameras from < 1930 produce better images but they are nowhere as convenient)

- Letting you manage things like your bank account or your emails, &c.

- Allowing you to rent shared cars/bicycle on the fly

When you really think about it something like google Earth would have been close to witchcraft not even 70 years ago.
I could probably store the entire library of Alexandria in my $60 kindle.
A tesla is "just" a car, but hasn't much to do with cars from < 1950s.
An airbus A320 is "just" a plane, but has't much in common with planes < 1950s.
A single PS4 is probably more powerful that the entire NASA computing system of the 60s.
Reusable space rockets, supersonic planes, landing a probe on a comet, the curiosity rover, GMO, nuclear power plants, discovery of planets out of the solar system, credit cards, microwave ovens, efficient freezers, induction cooking plates, washing machines, dishwashers, tumble dryers, advances in psychology & medicine, satellite internet, photochromic lenses, solar panels, li ion batteries, birth control, 3d printers, you can watch lectures from top universities of the world on youtube for free, the list goes on forever.

If your grandparents are still alive ask them about how life was 60 years ago, everything changed. Being used to amazing tech doesn't negate the fact that progress still happens.
I think people just got bored/lost their ability to see magic. A dog playing with a stick is more ecstatic than the average Joe having the entire world's knowledge in the palm of his hand.
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Touchscreens seem like it was overly ambitious to implement in the first place. Not to mention prone to attack by an EMP, or even literal sticky fingers (heh) but I bet a lot of other stuff on the ships are too. Navy may bumble around a tiny bit but I really like my GPS.
> Windows Server is a great product and I want to pay great money and use it without worrying about where in the cloud it's floating

If that's the case, just use the windows license that's provided to you when you spin up an instance with your cloud provider. This is only for people using dedicated instances.
"We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism, the reigning ideology..."
As a society we are split roughly 50/50 on who is stupid and wrong, so this really just means “silence those who disagree with me.”

Anecdotally, the hn community does have an obvious majority on most issues, including this one, but is still good about allowing dissenting opinions to be heard, because it is necessary for the mission of satisfying intellectual curiosity.
+1 just for the name
Do older people have a different smell?
It makes me sad that topics like this are politicized when it should be looked at as a crime against the Earth.

The only voice animals on our earth have is their plummeting population numbers, if we can't even look at that as a sign of global crisis and act on it, I don't know what else we can do.
We do. We're a non-profit, and a few years ago we went cloud-provider hunting. Microsoft was willing to be generous with us in a way that Amazon was not. Not only in terms of non-profit friendly pricing, but also in terms of incidentals -- trainings, related services/pricing, and so on. Amazon offered no concessions at all, so it was kind of a no-brainer for our CTO and board.

So everything we host is Azure. We are a relatively small outfit, but a fair chunk of our 'stuff' is customer-facing. We haven't had any negative experiences yet at all and it's been a few years now.
I’m affected as well, noise damage. Had seen the papers coming out a while ago and desperately waiting for something that becomes available “for the masses”.

Do you know of any existing self-treatment (e.g. an app that applies a notch filter on acting as a Spotify client) or do you happen to have any reference to more specific treatments that might be available on the market?
Feel free to link to the "correct" ones...
Google exploiting search monopoly to 'dominate' job recruitment sector
I love the idea...when is the Linux beta?
There is a typo on this page:

https://www.gumlet.com/how-it-works

I think you mean "images" not "imags"

edit:

Also the link to the docs doesn't work.
How is this a dilemma at all? There are two options, send in the troops and forcefully pacify HK or wait and let all kind of mayhem happen. The second choice is a no brainer. Xi's powerbase is in mainland China, and the people there currently have negative sympathy towards protest in HK, not least because they labeled mainland people as 'locust' and waved British flags calling for foreign intervention. HK's economy is also not directly controlled by China, nor benefit China directly, having the protester turn the whole place into shit does not harm China at all, and serve as an 'I told you so' to all of China as to its point on the protester. Rolling in the troop might galvanize support for HK both outside of China and within China, and taking all the blame for past protest and whatever pacifying action the troop did. It's clear as day which choice is superior to the Chinese government.

The troops in Shenzhen are most likely just a threat - if they do roll into HK it will be the worst miscalculation by Chinese government since 89.
The PRC would love nothing more for this to be seen around the world as a bloody civil war, where both sides have equal power.
As someone who despises bananas outside of banana bread, I find this episode of Banana Facts completely shocking. I always thought is was like cilantro, where some people think it tastes like soap. I guess I'm the only one who has to suppress my gag reflex whenever someone peels a banana within smelling distance?
Unfortunately in the event of (armed) intervention, I expect the US and Europe's reactions to be similar to the Kashoggi murder. A bit of faux outrage and then everything goes back to normal. Heck, I could even see Trump praise Xi Jinping for being such a strong leader.
Hong Kong residents may possess firearms with a permit, not unlike most industrialized countries.
This change won’t fix that performance as Qemu is slower than native virtualisation. This will speed up ARM emulation. Great for iPhone Simulator, and a potential future ARM Mac.
Writing hacks and throw-away stopgap solutions is generally a bad idea in reality. The only time when it can actually be allowed is when it it concerns a feature that is a pure leaf in the system with nothing else built on top of it.

I worked at a company where there was an API and an explicit place for such hack code, for consultants to customize the product. The way it was done, was to ensure such code was a pure leaf.
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I thought, I was the only one like that. Always, thinking of the worst case scenario and lowering down my expectations so that I never feel disappointed. I would love some help on this as well.
Rust is cool but these lib names are like "Contemporary Conformist" memes.
Hong Kong was not the only port grabbed by foreign powers. There was also Macau, Xiamen, Shanghai, Tianjin, Dalian, Qingdao... I might forget others.

It's trying to push a narrative to argue what is part of the country...
I honestly don't know what you expect, if you want to find some way to force autocratic regimes somewhere in the world to not use source code that's published to the open internet. If you discover some way to bend north korea to your will, please let us know.
Not just in America, but in SE Asia as well. My gf grew up in one of the largest cities on coastal area in our home country in SE Asia. Her city got flooded every year for third year in a row now whereas it wasn't the case before then. This year is the hardest one among three; the water rises up to chest level and lives were lost.

I worry that poor countries like my home country, which has not much resource to migrate people in mass, will face serious issues in the near future. Having said that, I also believe in the resilience of the people there. They have been through military dictatorship and whatnot, so I have faith that they will survive albeit with huge cost of lives and property...

Climate change will disturb world's political and economic systems, and I hope (and kind of believe) that the humanity can survive through this ordeal. In my honest opinion, it's too late to stop climate change, and the best we can do is to do our individual parts to mitigate the effects and come up with ways to cope with it the best we can.
Gorgons have snakes growing from their hair and presumably that's what's being referred to (though I agree that the author of the quote is probably confused).

But "the medusa" is also an error at another level, because one should write either "Medusa" or "the gorgon". Medusa was the name of a specific gorgon.
Yack! is a native desktop app built for online communities such as Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube, Indie Hackers and many more.

It has an open source plugin architecture which allows anyone to build a plugin for their favorite communities. If you're interested in helping out, shoot me an email at hello[at]yack.io

Looking forward to your feedback :)
"dilemma"? - give me a break! As if this is some kind of crisis nobody saw coming. This is a homemade problem, a dictator facing the results of dictatorship. It's sad the world isn't much louder in its support for Hong Kong.
This kind of flamebait is not ok on HN. We ban users who post like this, as well as the comment which you've since deleted. Please don't add any more of this kind of thing to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My protocol for dealing with no-PR's has been (especially in this case where you can just host the tool on github.io)

1. Just fork it and use your own version until the PR is accepted

2. Directly email the maintainer if you think your PR is worthwhile

3. If you have a bunch of PR's that are pretty useful to others, consider making it a real distributable (and not just a personal) fork if the maintainer still doesn't respond
I kinda hope someone advocates option 3: Start negotiations to change some of the rules.

Idealistic, I know. But I can still hope.
This looks nice but "Many Communities, one UI" just doesn't work for me. The way I use hacker news is different than the way I use youtube. And it is different than how I use reddit.
When you say politicized, do you just mean that there is not universal agreement on the subject?

Because anything where there isn't universal agreement is inherently political...
> So Boston combats segregation by making children commute for longer ?

Yes, and not just Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing

> Does that also apply to privileged families?

Sometimes. Other times places close the schools in poor/non-white areas.
It really depends on the task at hand. I'm one of the most vocally pro-MySQL commenters on HN, and have literally built my career around scaling and automating MySQL, but I still wouldn't recommend it for OLAP-heavy workloads. The query planner just isn't great at monstrous analytics queries, and ditto for the feature set (especially pre-8.0).

For high-volume OLTP though MySQL is an excellent choice.

Regarding Kafka: in many situations I agree. Personally I prefer Facebook's approach of just using the MySQL replication stream as the canonical sharded multi-region ordered event stream. But it depends a lot on the situation, i.e. a company's specific use-case, existing infrastructure and ecosystem in general.
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Would you rather have a bug-free fighter delivered in 2021 or a buggy fighter in 2020?

Especially considering that many codebases are expected to have a shelf life of 5-10 years.

IME working deadline-lessly doesn't mean you're suddenly knee-deep in a metaprogramming rabbithole. You just do the same stuff, stress-free.
I see nothing concerning in what you've described, except that they are totally at your mercy for whether you are delivering what you describe.

EVERYONE will say that the code is clean, maintainable, and has documentation that is meaningful for the next programmer to come along. Not everyone will be lying about that, and if I made it sound that way, my apologies.

But if the next programmer comes along and says the code is a mess and poorly documented, the company is STILL not sure what's true. Is this next programmer the one with an issue? Was the original not stating the truth? Are both fine and this is a philosophical difference of approach? You can ask around...but you have no real way to judge the comments you get, and they have all the incentives to create misleading info.

There's a power imbalance. I'm not saying consultancy is evil, and I'm not saying the power imbalance is avoidable, but in the context of the article - I'm not a big fan of encouraging the _furtherance_ of such a power imbalance, because once you get in, there's very little means of getting out.
I like that delineation between branches and leaves. If it’s a branch, solve the real problem. If it’s a leaf, consider just getting it done.
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And what would the US and Europe do? Invade China? Nuclear deterrence is still a thing.
Focusing on macOS version and building more plugins at the moment, thinking about Stackoverflow and StackExchange next, but also open to suggestions. Let me know what you think :)

Linux and Windows support will be added with the final release.
It's amazing how much money you can make taking content provided to you for free, getting academics to review it for free, and then charging outrageous prices to access it.
If you are the sort of person who enjoys bringing your politics to work then naturally you will stick around as long as possible at a company that permits or at least tolerates it.
It's at least 90% because it makes the acronym work.
There's something absolutely twisted about your argument's implicit acceptance of a state that runs roughshod over its own populace, but treats foreign investors with the Velvet glove while turning a profit through the meat grinder.

If you can't see the good of the balance sheet shouldn't always justify the enablement of despotism... Well... I'm probably not going to make any convincing argument that'll make it past the pragmatism filter.
I think "terraforming" means "changing planetary climate to be more like Earth climate". We are doing something rather opposite.

You can use "geoengineering" if you want a sarcastic term similar to how rocket people use "rapid unplanned disassembly" instead of "crash".
I have that too. I have a small suggestion. It doesn't solve the problem, but it makes it slightly more bearable.

Find the least damaging form of procrastination and use that. For me these are:

1. Reading fiction books (currently reading "The Humans")

2. Exercise

3. Hacker News

In that order (I'm protecting myself against YouTube which is way worse than HN).
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> They are screwed without an armed populace.

Say Hong Kong did have something like the 2nd amendment, and more private firearms than citizens just like the USA.

What are the strategies and tactics that these people could use to win a military campaign against the might and weaponry of Chinese People’s Liberation Army?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Liberation_Army
> One App to replace them all.

You mean like a browser?

> Intuitive UI

I understand I'm probably not the target market for this - but I'm very uninspired by the Slack-copy design trend happening everywhere.
What does it mean, then?
I’m not sure how you can have such a strong no reaction to a statement that can mean almost anything.

The word “component” barely means anything at all. Lots of room for interpretation there.
Thanks. Don't forget to report back here :)
Tangentially related to Verizon: I lost Verizon cell and cell data service (along with my cable internet through a different provider) this weekend when a construction crew accidentally cut a fiber line.

I had not realized that literally all modern communications were flowing through a single point of failure. It was a surreal experience.
As the other reply said: Freenode. But I also am on other servers and many other channels.

I run a The Lounge[0] instance on a cheap VPS.

[0] https://thelounge.chat/
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No, the declaration is optional in many cases.
There are many kinds of tinnitus, and I had some coming on last year from too many concerts and power tools. But, after a few months of wearing an A.L.F. appliance for sleep apnea, my TMJ opened up a bit and relieved some of the pressure on my skull, and most of my tinnitus went away. I would say the "volume" of it is less than 1/4 what it was, and low enough that I wouldn't say I have it now.

So it's not a guaranteed fix, but I highly recommend talking to a TMJ specialist about your tinnitus and see if there is anything they can do. I think there also may be connections with blood pressure, vitamins/minerals, hydration, etc that could affect programmers sitting in chairs all day. Hope this helps, YMMV.
That was the argument for pinball prohibition starting by just outright banning all pinball machines rather than sort them into categories: they were hugely addictive. The loot box mechanic draws the public scrutiny of the comparison to slot machines, but that worst case is that the scrutiny continues on to find the entire category too addictive. (Which is exactly the progression pinball prohibition took: at the time there were an increasing number of pinball machines which we might call today more "pachinko-like" / "plinko-like" that initially grew the ire of politicians and family groups, but after evaluation they started to feel all versions of pinball were addicting and needed to be managed.)
In the third video there is an iMac on the table, you think it's a different one?
Don't they already have the map of the world in 3D?