skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still undecided on how much to blame Bain, KKR, and Vornado for this. They did what private equity does: they bought the company and transferred the debt to it and tried to restructure the company. They failed. But they bought it because it had Toys R Us tried to remodel and relaunch in response to Walmart and Target, but it wasn't a success. This was 2005, so Amazon wasn't even a major player yet.

I'm not sure if PE exasperated the situation, slowed the bleeding, or caused it to sink, but I doubt that Toys R Us 2005 was ready to face Amazon in the coming years if it was struggling with Walmart and Target.
An interesting business model could arise.

Lease camera space on buildings. Capture and process everything you see from your global network of cameras.

Sell reports to anyone with money.

e.g. $1000 for any records of this face in the area in the last week.

Clearly this ends up in a situation where everyone can monitior everyone.
Nope, it's science (https://www.cdc.gov/features/school-start-times/index.html).
Interesting story, if this is true, It means Xi is going to get overthrown by the chinese soon?
Where Women Fall Behind at Work: The First Step into Management
I don't know what it is, but the internet seems so small these days. Every news aggregator or media outlet seems to have all the same stories. I miss when there seemed to be a vast world out there. Maybe I've just gotten trapped in a bubble.

I'm not sure if there's some powerful force controlling the media as many paranoid people would have it, or if it's emergent behavior.
Just because you went through something counterproductive and unhelpful and found positivity in it doesn't mean then next generation should be subjected to it too when we now objectively know better.
> When I first moved to the US a decade ago

Isn't that around the time all the housing price dropped?

> mid-sized city in Michigan

That might not be in the list of the places where most people desire to live.

> Of course the job prospects aren’t as good as a major city, but housing isn’t a major issue.

I think this is not following my comment. The point is not to talk about where affordable places are, but about how affordable places where a lot of people want to go can be.
He's referring to Meng Wanzhou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Wanzhou#Detention
Yeah, I started using Python 3 immediately. By biggest pain point was probably print going from a statement to a function, which while I agree it was the right move, I still have muscle memory that wants to use the statement. There are a few other pain points, like Unicode encoding, csv line endings. But, what prevented me from moving earlier was lack of 3rd party support. Things like DB and MQ access...
My 5th grader has never had homework. Each year the new teacher says the same thing: homework has been conclusively proven to not only provide no benefit, and actually to increase negative outcomes. Each teacher says she stopped assigning homework about 5 to 15 years ago, and the result has been categorically positive.
No, it's biology.
Kim Jong-un studied in Switzerland, Pol Pot in France.
I've found 2 and lost 1 in 49 years. But you'd need more than a couple data points to suggest anything. Let's at least require p<0.05 before suggesting something is "odd".
> I don't think Ionity operates from such incredible leverage position

Again, you're thinking terms of closed networks. It's all CCS charge points combined. Tesla doesn't have anything magical to offer them, and will have even less to offer year by year. Tesla can either join the party or keep running a closed network and carry that cost with no business from other EVs.

Ultimately the same thing will happen to Tesla's chargers as happens to all closed networks: they either become dead infrastructure or they convert to the common standard. America Online and Prodigy already found that out. Tesla will too.
And 'Lo!': How the internet was born
GP is implying US admissions are more corrupt than China's. e.g. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_s...
The article gives an interesting perspective that sending her to the US tostudy allows him to recall her back as a sort of gesture in the future
Ehh... I think in common usage the "LGBTQ+" designation is fairly politically loaded. It really is intertwined with specific strains of political activism (mostly progressive left). And because of that, all sorts of policy views and prescriptions on ancillary matters have coalesced under the "LGBTQ+" umbrella. It may even say more about one's political identity/grouping at this point, than it does about sexual preferences or gender identity, etc.
I think you are underestimating the power of such progress. Look around all the objects you have from iPhone to laptops to pencil sharpener. They were made in some factory and very likely human hands played some role there. Now imagine you can throw in $100 human hands which can operate as dexterously as human from cameras just like human without taking rest or vacations or requiring medical insurance. What you think will be the impact of this? People call it Industrial Revolution 4.0. It will change world beyond billions or trillions of dollars. The investment in places like OpenAI is bargain of lifetime.
For me quiet would not be enough. Being under the tracks on the road is dark and depressing. I'd prefer the trains/subways underground. No noise and I can see the sky when above.

Think of it this way. Imagine a street with a lot of cafes with outdoor street seating. Now imagine building an elevated train over the street. I believe most people would no longer find the outdoor setting to be pleasant even if the train was quiet.
Ultimately the buck for public education in US states stops at the state, therefore, this amounts to an administrative change. They set the curricula, is it a stretch to say they should also decide when that curriculum is administered?
Here is exactly what I wrote:

, my two sons are top performers in their school and the school network is top 3% performing in NY state.

I wasn't just talking about my two sons but about the school network in New York state. That's not anecdotal what so ever.

Here are the actual results from Success Academy:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/more-on-the-phenomenal-eye-po...

How is that anecdotal?
I've been paying attention lately to https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ and https://www.red.com/ They make video cameras which take interchangeable lenses, produce video and stills good enough to be used in feature films, and are relatively cheap (comparable to Leica and Hasselblad cameras from the film era.) They are positioning themselves to be successful where Nikon, Canon, et al are becoming increasingly irrelevant.

My Nikon DSLR is four or five years old now, but instead of replacing it with another Nikon I'm thinking about a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera. (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketci...)

Video is the new still photography.
Meetup is owned by WeWork. So it’s even more problematic than that.
Context is important.

Context #1: there has been a years-long trend for Western entertainment media (movies, games) to cater to the Chinese market. This ranges from voluntary censorship that seems odd in the West (no skeletons?) to more sensitive topics like sexuality.

Specifically, last year Blizzard disappointed fans by announcing a mobile Diablo game that no one really asked for and that many felt is squarely aimed at the Chinese market.

Context #2: the trade war and Hong Kong protests have brought a lot of attention to China in general. The Hong Kong protests seem to be particularly popular with younger people online.

Context #3: Blizzard's reaction seemed particularly swift and heavy-handed, giving the impression that it was more about not offending China than about discouraging political statements on streams. Blizzard's announcement on Chinese social media supported this impression, and their delayed and lukewarm non-apology statement in the US didn't do much to change that perception.

Further, Blizzard's support for LGBTQ suggests that it's not just about political statements on the stream, but the content of the statements is important. Put another way: would Blizzard's response be the same if the unauthorized statement was pro-LGBTQ rather than pro-HK? There is no way to know for sure, but if the answer is "no" that means Blizzard is indirectly picking sides.

Combine all that and Blizzard put themselves in an impossible situation with no good way forward.

My personal opinion: it probably was about China, it probably was a decision made locally further down the corporate ladder, and US HQ is now stuck with something they can't fix.
That is odd. Couldn’t people hail a cab at an intersection instead? Just walk half a block or less.

On a related note, I’ve become more sensitive to the exhaust and engine noise from ICE cars when riding my bike. Nothing like directly breathing in the pollution to sour the trip and dash hope for getting rid of fossil fuels. Glad to hear about the upgrade anyhow.
>I'd be eaten up inside with anxiety and stress if I did something like that as my conscience chewed at me. Do they not have these feelings?

Those feelings are easy to get over; just be a hard determinist who hates authoritarian regimes and is a "good person" but lives interdependently with others in a system designed to serve Moloch AND WHICH ON AVERAGE is pretty ok or getting better and beyond your control in the meantime anyway. :)

>I wish people who downvoted would have to put their name with the downvote and explain why. The hit and run "wrong" unaccountable nature of them in any forum bothers me. It's made it too easy for people to just jab at you without consequence and treats people like they aren't other people but rather enemies to bury in grey.

Comment voting and its consequences have been a disaster for online discourse. uwu

It treats people's ideas like they're a thing you can counter with a click and don't have to engage with. Without it, the mob must at least spam half-thought-out, rash rebuttals, and these can hilariously backfire.
Not a total fix, but I always just put a new rule under the one I'm replacing, and use the checks to enable (override) or disabled the rule.
Can you share a link to the cartoon?
I thought so. Reading this article I could have sworn there are of the subway to Queens from Manhattan being above-ground. Not sure why the article wouldn't mention that? The article is about New York, not Manhattan, so I'm not sure what they meant by a "forgotten" elevated subway.
Why would you use a platform like Amazon for high value, high complexity, low volume sales like this? Amazon is for a bunch of sellers competing on the same product used, or for highly similar products like "USB hub" or "guitar picks."

For one, I wouldn't sell it without cash in hand/wire/ACH or something that's chargeback/dispute proof, and for two, I'd use Shopify or something like that only shows your brand and allows you to have the appropriate info re: shipping, delivery time, etc. (or again, if you are one product that costs a hundred grand, you can afford to throw together a custom order UI and add Stripe for payments).
As you said, this looks to be more of an advertising stunt than a viable purchase. All those + foundation, land, etc means you're looking at a pricetag almost double or more $150k.

With that said, I wonder how hard it would be to sell prefab sections/houses that are already wired for electricity and plumbing straight from the warehouse.
Wow this looks awesome.
It seems obvious to me: C, Blizzard does nothing.
I roughly agree that we should require vastly more transparency than we do for all large-platform decisions (traffic/ad/metadata/data-sharing agreements between any number of firms, developer accounts, payment/donation platform accounts, social media accounts, etc.) that can have a really big effect on normal people relative to the platforms implementing them.

But this is still conflation.

1. Unless/until communication is excluded from what can legally be a business, Twitter has a legitimate commercial interest (and probably a legal obligation) to moderate the platform it built to ensure its the company isn't significantly harmed by the behavior of users who are not paying customers.

I doubt anyone can do this with integrity over time when money and power are involved, but unless you're advocating for nationalizing social media platforms or creating some sort of Department of Public Speech to provide "neutral" voter-accountable moderators at no cost, I don't see how you can argue that the organization running a platform doesn't have a legitimate interest in shaping what it is for. No other separate entity--not the IRA nor Facebook nor HuffPo nor Exxon nor Fox news nor the DNC/RNC nor the IRA--have any legitimate right to shape the purpose of Twitter's platform.

I guess the IRA can try to turn Twitter into whatever it wants--but Twitter is completely within its rights to shift policy to address how any entity that doesn't hold a controlling stake uses its platform at scale. Regardless of how Twitter does or does not exercise this right, there will be genuine and malign actors attempting to portray them as only doing X for illegitimate political reasons (to stir up support, circle the wagons, or bully them into doing more or less of X).

2. The mechanisms are very different. If the IRA manipulated democracies by banning people from a platform they built--or if Twitter ran a massive astroturfing operation intended to synthesize the appearance of social consensus on someone else's social media platform--we'd be talking apples-and-apples.

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I want to be a little more cautious moving ahead since I'm assuming more here, but outside of and separate from this conflation issue, it seems you're building an argument like:

1. anyone who thinks unchecked state social-media influence operations merit action by a private company with the ability to directly and unaccountably manipulate the channel should instead want to nationalize or close social media to protect everyone from the owners of the platform

2. anyone who doesn't think unchecked state-sponsored social media influence campaigns are big enough of a deal to justify nationalizing or closing social media platforms is being disgenuine (either by over-weighting the influence campaigns, or under-rating the possibility that the platforms owners engage in similar behavior.)

But the opinions aren't mutually exclusive. Someone can think prosecutors have too much power, and advocate for them to use the power they have more-justly. Someone can think platforms are too big to be opaquely-ruled fiefdoms and advocate for long-term solutions while advocating for harm-reduction in the short term.
The easiest, safest and very noticeable one is to wear a T-shirt with relevant message.
It’s not about fairness. Why is everything about ‘fairness’? It’s not a biological impediment. Getting up early is not a super power nor is childhood a disability.

Getting up early and getting an early start gives you a buffer towards the end of the day. If you start late and run out of time, the whole rest of the day will be derailed.

Anyways..just my 2c. I am not here to argue because I have no dog in this fight.
Will you have PMI for the duration of your FHA loan, or do you wait to refinance by the time you have 20% equity?
This is also anecdotal. While it will of course vary from person to person, it's been conclusively shown teenagers circadian rhythms are shifted later than adults. Sleeping later and waking up later in teenagers is biological and it doesn't do anyone good to fight it.
Sure you can, you even get to keep 70% of the things you acquired while participating in the social contract! That's a pretty generous severance package.
Your great-grandfather likely complained that quality heart pine was being replaced by cheap "natural wood" planks. Wood has been on the decline for decades and it's a stark reminder of how much of the natural world we've plundered as a species.

Luckily, cheap treated wood is pretty durable.
> Right now NFCU estimated our property taxes high so our mortgage is $2100. Next year our property taxes will drop due to LA exemptions that will drop our mortgage down to $1800 - 1900 range.

What do you pay in homeowner's insurance?
Maybe it's a non-sequitur if we're discussing your personal feelings, but the fact that twitter is a free service offered by a private company without guarantees means that twitter has no obligation to provide service. Just because some group of people decided to congregate on twitter doesn't mean that the fundemebtal nature of twitter transforms into something owned by the commons. If it was twitter's desire to ban all conservatives from the platform that would be their right, twitter owes nothing to the users, the amount of users on twitter is completely irrelevant (and an arbitrary statistic)
> dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false

This breaks copy-paste for quite a few rich text editors (it was the reason why pasting into Riot didn't work for me for several months). So, some of these options can subtly break harmless websites.
Originally I was algorithmically generating events using Google's wait time information, but I switched models to having local businesses post up events. If it takes off I'll let people post their own events as well, but that has some serious safety concerns in comparison to events at public venues.
While I generally agree with your comment, Python generally gives easily accessible migration paths. Regarding your division example, you could import from __future__ integer_division (maybe it was another name?) Since I think Python 2.5 before it became the default in, I think, 2.7.

I wish the wallrus operator was available as a future import, bit it's not.

Also, Python never had printf. It had a print statement; print became a function in Python 3. Yes, its a syntax change, but its for the better. Having print as a first class statement expands its utility and versatility.
Usually very late for many people by that point.
In a funny not serious but also totally serious way I want to be friends with everyone who cares about the fact that this repo exists regardless of if they think its worth using.
Wrong.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/read-muellers-full-indic...
> The UK has a disproportionate share of the world's expensive cities, despite being a relatively middle-income country.

How is that a counter example?

> Second, there are examples of large cities that don't have these issues. Berlin is probably one of the most well-known examples,

> and guess what...rents are going up

It seems you are contradicting yourself, or it is not clear what you wanted to say.

> part of the problem is local policy causing a problem in aggregate

Definitely a problem. But I would say there's not many cities that can escape it. As for NYC, which you mentioned, in the last 10 years the average price nearly doubled [1]. While salaries didn't grow that fast.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/new-york-ny/home-values/
Plenty of evidence has been found.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/18/us/politics/m...
78704 is still the best zip code in the country though
Something about IQ which we forget is that people with exceptionally high IQ scores are not necessarily exceptionally intelligent. They are good at answering the types of questions on IQ tests.

I would agree with you that it is likely true that generally intelligent people will generally be generally better at scoring higher on IQ tests.

Are there any formal studies you are aware of which compare IQ tests as a predictor of success with other intelligence tests, or just other tests?
"What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls."

...I'm not feeling so confident now.
I think you make an interesting argument. How do you feel about the limitations of Twitter affecting someone's ability to speak?
The character limit or the layout or any other reality of the platform design.

I haven't really ever used Twitter. I sometimes end up on a developer or product page in doing some web surfing, but I can't think of any information I was able to retrieve through another medium that I would rather have received on Twitter.

For example, some top search results for a developer was a tweet of benchmarks. I read the tweet and then made my way to his site and to a conference video on the subject. I wish his site had been my top search result.

Maybe Twitter is a good forum for "subscribing to notifications" and using it to broadcast external links along with word-bites is a good use of the platform?

I'm interested in how you or anyone think about this, especially about the idea of "translation" and "protection" that various media stamp on issues.

I'm further interested in "live news" and I hold the opinion that live news isn't necessary to me or to be even available to anyone. I'd rather have a transparent recording and processing pipeline that delivers to me newsworthy stories(I can't read everything), but that I could also inspect to see how editorial decisions could have omitted or changed meaning (looking at compiled source material through a search medium designed for that task).
This would have been a closely guarded secret known by only a few people. I wonder if this leak is in response to the situation in Hong Kong. Anyhow, as China's president Xi wouldn't have taken the decision to let her go back to the US lightly. Given how Xi treated his own political opponents and real possibility of mounting opposition to him within the CCP, allowing his daughter to return to the US starts to make sense.
People that try to pin this as a cultural difference only need to look at Taiwan, which is a functioning democracy, and equally as Chinese.
I'd agree with you if Twitter Inc. isn't being fully transparent with its actions or manipulating things on the back end without visibility and favoring one side, like the intentions and effects of the Russian interference.
8chan. Contrary to popular belief being accused of a crime by a mob does not mean you are guilty.
> The philosophy department of a community college in rural Tennessee was interested until the administration balked at my qualifications. They’d have accepted a degree in religion, but not one in law.

The author has a Juris Doctor, not a PhD. Presumably the issue was not with the subject of study, but with the level of the degree. No offense to JDs (I have one also), but it's not the same thing as a PhD.

IMO, the author tells this anecdote in a way that could be read as stereotyping Southern/rural colleges: "they love their religion, but not lawyers". In reality, it was probably just a PhD requirement. But that doesn't make for a seemingly-counterintuitive anecdote.
It'll take a decade to build the full protected lane for bikes. But banning taxis would improve safety overnight.
Python 3.3 was 8 years ago, packages started really migrating in 2015 when PSF stopped adding new features to Python 2.7.
Are you claiming that women are in control of whether or not they get raped?
I agree it comes across as incredibly disingenuous and unnatural. It's like a salesperson saying your name over and over. It's not normal and FEELS like a performance to elicit a response.

I don't know why reasonable and honest communication is so hard for so many. You can speak plainly but kindly and be genuine in the process. Nobody likes being or feeling like they are being manipulated and nobody who uses "techniques" to do this is not obvious.
Fast tracking the global adoption of electric vehicles
> Brilliant marketing move though, calling it "nonviolent communication", implying that any other form of communication is violent.

Thanks, I've been trying to put my finger on what irks me about this and I think this is it. I tend to have a strong negative reaction to people trying to control a conversation by framing it with loaded language. It's dishonest and manipulative and you see it all the time.