skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, I'm replying to a person that said:

> I don't lock my phone at all. Never have. However, with the new iPhones that don't have a home button, I believe that Apple is forcing you to either use face unlock or a passcode. There is no choice to just leave it unlocked.

And I'm saying that you can use it without those features enabled; even on iPhones without a home button.
It makes perfect sense.

Square has the one office in SF, so essentially all of its gross proceeds arise from that office and are subject to the tax.

Salesforce has offices everywhere and a substantial amount of its revenues come from the work of employees outside of San Francisco. This revenue should not be subject to the SF gross revenues tax (and it would be illegal for SF to tax such income).

The question boils down to this: is the disparity in taxes reasonable given the SF-based gross proceeds generated by Square and Salesforce?
GitHub discontinuing GitHub Actions for legacy plans
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Just started trying out Firefox Preview in response to seeing this post. Firefox has SO many entries in the Google Play store (e.g. regular, Focus, Preview, Nightly, Beta), I didn't really understand what this was.

An immediate concern is that the privacy settings are either dumbed-down, or else altogether missing. I'm noticing a trend in Firefox across the various devices and versions:

* FIREFOX FOR DESKTOP - The "settings" section allows you to block trackers, 3rd-party cookies, and fingerprinting.

* FIREFOX FOR ANDROID - The "settings" section allows you to block trackers and 3rd-party cookies. Fingerprint protection is possible, but hidden. You have to go to "about:config" and know how to enable it manually.

* FIREFOX PREVIEW FOR ANDROID - The "settings" section appears to be built for my Mom. It has a toggle for blocking trackers, and that's it.

Are more granular (or at least visible and understandable) privacy settings coming in future releases, or is this just the UX direction? Why is Mozilla making it so much harder to enable desktop-class protections on mobile devices?
Serious answer: neither are useless.

I just find MacOS 100x more useful because of homebrew, and frustrating without it.

The reason is, I can blow away the OS, restore a fresh install, and then re-install everything I need with a single command. This is highly empowering: I don't have to be a mouse-monkey to get everything set up, and can do other things meanwhile.

Doesn't mean MacOS is 'bad' - sure, others can get their systems set up however they want. App Store installs are fine, if you have the time to sit there, driving your system through everything ..
As an only semi-related aside, I've always thought it was interesting that my friends who didn't want kids when we were younger because of the responsibility have nonetheless spent the last 10 years having dogs. Kids are far more expensive than dogs, for sure, but I feel like logistically, dogs and kids are more similar than people think.

You have to take care of a set of daily tasks to keep them happy and healthy. If you work, you'll have to send the child to daycare, which you don't have to do with a dog, but for me personally, there's some mental stress associated with leaving a dog home alone all day. Other than that, you can't just up and leave your house for longer than a work day without making arrangements for either kids or dogs. Naturally, there are certain kinds of vacations that you can't take with children, but in my experience, most people vastly overestimate how much time they'll actually spend travelling the world over the next decade or two.

Dogs have to be walked regularly enough that I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a lot of people will spend more time actively caring for their dog than they would caring for a child once the child is older than 5 or 6, at least when the child doesn't have a ridiculous amount of extracurriculars, though that's far from universal. Some kids are quite self-sufficient, though.

In my mind, the major thing that makes dogs less of a responsbility is that they don't live as long, but then no one ever just has one dog, they tend to string together 30 or 40 years of dogs, whereas kids are theoretically out of the house after 18 years.

Lest it be said that I must not have much experience with kids, I have 4 and have been a stay at home dad. It must also be said that I derive much more joy from interacting with my kids than I do from interacting with my pets so my whole perspective is certainly biased.

All in all, I think culture has instilled in us this fear that we'll ruin our children's lives if we just let them be children and that has made having children so much more daunting and intense and exhausting than I think it needs to be(though babies, I fear, will always be intense and exhausting).
From what I can tell they're still going to do it, but in a different way, e.g. it might be opt in (hopefully not in a fake-opt-in style like a GDPR popup) or opt out or whatever.

Fundamentally they want to do telemetry it seems and are trying to figure out a hack to get people to accept it.
Do you think that if they had just put the tracker in nobody would have noticed? I think it would go silent for a month, and then become the subject of a top-of-HN blog post about how some enterprise security guy discovered it. Gitlab would write a blog post about how sorry they were, nobody would believe them, and there would be no way to un-do the breach of trust. By allowing everyone on HN to tell at them not to implement the change before doing it, they have made themselves able to avoid the catastrophe by cancelling the plan. Although the best thing Gitlab could have done for their public image as a trustworthy service provider would be to never have even let on that they would consider such a thing, this is the next best option, because whoever wanted to do this now has lost some internal political credibility.
> Part of it is cultural, but part of it is economic. Healthy food is simply more expensive, especially if you want it to taste good.

This canard keeps getting thrown out, but it is absolutely not more expensive to eat healthy, apart from needing to have some tiny semblance of skill in the kitchen. Buying real food is cheaper than buying processed garbage, and it's not like an EBT card only works for buying eggo waffles and Doritos, rather than frozen peas and porkchops.

It's entirely cultural.
seconded. this book is fantastic!
"Check facts" as in investigating tangential issues, or as in fact-checking assumptions?

If the latter, then that'd seem very healthy. People can come to all sorts of strange conclusions about topics like politics if they're allowed seemingly reasonable assumptions that they sincerely believe to be probably true. If they're not fact-checked, then discussions on topics like politics can quickly devolve into meaningless hot air.

Wikipedia shows that the [principle of explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion) can quickly lead to absurd results in a few short examples, but the short examples are for brevity. In common practice, it's long discussions involving a lot of seemingly innocent approximations/assumptions that get off the tracks so subtly that many folks don't seem to realize it.
([Obligatory xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2217/).)
South City is also one of the worst cities in the Bay Area in building offices and rejecting homes. The long-term view is that we need more homes near jobs. What are you doing to get South City to build more homes?
Intentionally limited like how my car is intentionally limited by not having wings.
> Thing is, Flash wasn't abandoned at all, just in the minds of anti-Flash crowd.

Oh, come on. Are people building full websites in Animate, like we used to in Flash?

Even “export to canvas/svg” features haven’t caught on. Most web banners I see are being hand coded.

What precompiled Animate iOS smash hit have seen on the App Store lately?

How many copies of Animate (excluding the “All Apps” plan) do you think Adobe sells (rents)?

I’d go the other route: Flash just isn’t dead in the minds of pro-Flash crowd.
If you're transparent about doing some shady shit, you're still doing some shady shit
A. Seems like this is just a really weak discussion rip from the http://terraton.org/ competition that put up money for practical ideas for accomplishing what they're talking about. This article is just hand-waving BS that doesn't even discuss practical approaches being studied today that benefits both farm and environment.

B. India and Ethiopia already did the "plant a record breaking hundreds of millions of trees...yada yada". Here's the problem with that. Said trees are planted as really small saplings. Because that's cheap. If Kenya does this, they need to keep up with watering and barricading against critters that actively feast on saplings. A small percentage (independent estimates are single digits) of the trees through the PR stunts actually survived after a year. Since a lot are planted in drier, non-agriculturally viable areas not conducive to thriving plant/tree growth on their own. That's assuming the numbers were legit to begin with as there's a lot of controversy to that as well.

B2. Did some math. "Kenya, for example plans to plant 2 billion trees on 500,000 hectares(1,235,526 acres)". That's about 1,600 trees per acre. An overcrowded forest, with short trees, high fire risk and high beetle/pest infestation spread is 500 trees per acre. Forests are thinned down from that number to mitigate pest and fire by forestry programs. Plus, less than 250 trees per acre produce far taller trees (more carbon sucking) due to less resource competition.

C. They really provide nothing but finger pointing and "shame on you" in this article.

D. New research is already showing that trees don't capture anywhere near as much of the world's carbon as we thought. Last I saw was about 25%. I think pound for pound algae does a far better job than planting trees. Along with time scale. It takes your average oak/pine/maple about 10 years to actually start pulling the 40 pound a year carbon amount which is the rough rule of thumb needed.

D2. Oh and I just started learning about this the past few weeks. The CO2 we generate from fossil are not the same we breathe out. Trees don't absorb fossil fuel CO2 as well as what we breathe out. Evolutionary speaking, that makes sense to me since that's what a majority of plants are originally use to, animals breathing out.

E. All that being said, I've already read a few of the scientists they talk about in the article in the past. They're smart cats and this article bastardizes the absolute fuck out of their research. Skipping a lot of the interesting work they actually do. But hey, it's Time magazine. Can't expect much from them.

Reversing our shitting on the planet is important to me. Giving attention to stupid ideas that won't work or pointless discussion points doesn't help. This useless finger pointing politics and idealism in fighting climate change needs to end and more attention needs to be given to practical solution finding instead.
This is kind of a shitty, disrespectful thing to post. Really it's just insulting a competitor. I'm not a fan of GitLab's decision either, but this shouldn't be frontpage HN.
*65 year old bohemian artist communities that bought their property in 1972
Backdoors or just shitty developers and security practices?

What port knocking backdoor?
On the contrary, I use automated package management on MacOS to get my system ready for use, mostly installing .app's. MacOS has its plus points - user-centric power control over application installations and upgrade maintenance just isn't one of them.
LastPass is cheaper too. Or if you're really cheap, leave your lastpass login written down somewhere where friends and family will find it.
I got an email from you guys yesterday and I have to say I was quite confused. My company is an EE customer and we pay for our seats. Why are you including this telemetry? For the free version I understand, but you should not be treating your enterprise customers like this.
It will probably never have anywhere near feature parity with GitLab or GitHub in the browser. Part of it's goals are to remain simple and minimize JavaScript usage. Which is noble in it's own right IMO. But it's straight up impossible to do a lot of what Git{Hub,Lab} do without JS.
Flagstaff is the only city so far I've actually been able to see the milky way. We just got lucky one night while visiting as the sky was clear at the Lowell observatory.
I have a hard time considering people who aren't natural power-users of technology human.

I recognize that this is a failing of mine.
There're network effects between teams in a big company just like there're network effects between startups in a big city.

As others have mentioned, the big tech companies are all actively doing this. Nevertheless, it's not really taking. I know 3 people who moved from Google's NYC office (the 2nd largest) to Mountain View because all the top-priority projects were in Mountain View. As a general rule of thumb, you want to be where the executives are, and the executives are going to be at headquarters because a.) that's where their home is and b.) that's where all their most productive people are.

There's a steady conveyor belt where young single folks move from satellite offices to headquarters when they want to advance their career and then older folks move to satellite offices when they have kids, to be with their families or enjoy a better quality of life. This is healthy in the sense of maximizing happiness for everyone, but it means that the most ambitious, highest priority projects and most talented people are going to cluster at headquarters.

(As a side note, I feel like not enough people understand that the cost-of-living in SF is an effect of the wealth that's been brought into the area by the tech industry, and isn't just a random fluctuation. If some other metro area suddenly had a large concentration of successful companies that paid high wages, the cost of living would go up there too, until COL-adjusted salaries equalized peoples' preferences for living there.)
Even more scary with the Yahoo account in particular, I have it set up as an app-based authentication, so I get a popup on my phone if someone tries to log in. However, when they (I assume) clicked the "I don't have access to this, send an SMS instead" message, that notification immediately disappeared, so I didn't even have time to hit the "don't allow" button before it was no longer an option.

Google at least seems to have this right, in that when they attempted to do the same with those, the notification was still there. I also received a separate "request to reset account password" which stated it would take like 15 days to occur, and I was given the option to cancel it.

Regardless, I think I'm going to try to go hardware key with an TOTP app backup for 2FA going forward, wherever possible.
I used to feel bad. I don't anymore. I make my own share of mistakes. I firmly admit that, but it's really easy for others in the business to blame the developers for defects in software. "Well, you made them." Yes, I did, but I am not the one who didn't allow time for us to properly check things, or created the work culture where people are on edge about getting things done. I'm not perfect, but I'm done with other people blaming me and making me feel totally responsible for being in a position where I can't effectively do my job.
Has anyone at gitlab told you to post here? The level of defensiveness reminds me a lot of the creepy Amazon fulfilment center twitter accounts.

Edit: Why the downvotes? It's a serious question.
Passive aggressive title, frivolous outrage of the day, Top frontpage seat confirmed.
> Initially trafficked sex workers tend younger than initially indentured migrant manual laborers, so they can be taken advantage of easier.

But this isn't the same thing. You're talking about human trafficking, not sex work as a whole.

If Nike trafficked a bunch of kids to set up a sweat shop in North America, we'd be upset not because shoes were being made on our continent, but because of the trafficking and exploitation of underage workers.

Analogously, if some scumbag trafficked a bunch of women to work as prostitutes, we should be upset because of the trafficking and the coercion and strong-arming you describe, not because of the sex they engaged in.

So voluntary sex work should be perfectly fine, but it's not, and most discussions surrounding sex work seem to classify it as inherently exploitative, which simply boggles my mind.
I'm with you. That's one of the big challenges I (and anyone in the space, I presume) would have from outset. On the bright side Passbox would only be random until it's not. The right news article, partnership or some other form of validation would inspire trust. It's not there yet but any company has to start somewhere and build up.
Do you use a tool for this?
Thanks. I genuinely didn't know.

Looks like the anger is also a lot about this being sprung overnight with no warning.

> trade secrets like source code

Don't Gitlab already have their source code?
This argument tends to come from the exact opposite viewpoint of Marxists. Part of the issue is that prostitution is often "in your face exploitative" (I'm not suggesting it always is), and because it often is, a lot of people are very insistent on making it into a moral issue where it can't be anything but exploitative, because the alternative if you allow yourself to accept prostitution as "just another profession" among many that can also be dangerous, exploitative, uncomfortable, and so on, is to accept that "normal" occupations can also be exploitative, and that's surprisingly hard to swallow for a lot of people even if you don't go anywhere near all the way to a Marxist "all labor is exploitation" line.
> interesting new transportation options for us throughout the Bay.

This sentence made me think - I wonder how expensive it would be for a startup to run a private boat commuting service. Google has their buses, but obviously they have near-limitless resources.
Sure. There's still nothing quite as efficient as a one-liner brew command to get new stuff set up, though. My computer does the installing, not me ..
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That number is a myth. An intentional butchering of the homeless stats and spending numbers for political purposes.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Myths-like-homel...

The number is more like $3800 per person per year:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...
I work in CA and the estimates are usually accurate to ±10%. There are some rare exceptions for rapidly evolving situations.

Of course, if you do a driving estimate outside of commute hours, it won't match a commute time estimate, in many places.
One not need to have even worked on old computer systems. I'm not even retired yet, and I've gone to the library to look stuff up in old newspapers that were on microfiche. When I was a mechanic back in the day, parts listings were on "fish", too.

I think the author read "microfilm" and instead of hearing a synonym for the thing car parts are listed on, I'd bet the immediate thought was little micro spy cameras to put your microfilm in.
Can you provide some insight onto what 'telemetry data' is being collected and what the data is being used for?

Edit: I don't think telemetry is always bad. Obfuscated telemetry tells me you're potentially collecting stuff that you don't want me to know about, but things like clicks, mouse-movements, etc. are important for understanding how users use a service and not inherently bad.
We called out the increasing signups at GitLab when GitHub got acquired, so from our side it is more than fair that Drew is posting this.

BTW As Drew said https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... we're pumping the brakes on the telemetry changes.
> PG&E should be nationalized and the infrastructure properly managed and invested in (including burying distribution and high voltage transmission lines), instead of profits being syphoned off for shareholders while the electrical grid crumbles.

Unfortunately, some of the other comments here make it clear that government corruption is a common cause of similar power shortages in other parts of the world. I don't think your claim that the government would be a better manager is tenable.
The windows button looks more like a flag than a window, nothing to do with starting anything!
I couldn't tell if the site itself was screwed up or if it was something on my end.

I converted the article via Outline and read it that way. https://outline.com/PrPGFc
You are so wrong about the red light district.
I am Dutch and live in Amsterdam almost my entire life.
The red light district is not shady at all. Plenty of hipster bars within and around the zone. Hardly any dealers walking around anymore these days. Red-light district is both popular by locals and tourists. It's the safest city center neighborhood.
The place never really was a shady place. Not even in the 17th century. It's a place of obscure trade. Sometimes a bit too much for outsiders. The available sex and drugs in the red light zone is not linked to criminal activity. It is heavily regulated with many different institutions watching over it.
No Dutch girls working behind the glass? Again you are so wrong. Yes the mayority are Romanian and Bulgarian. But the private clubs are mostly Dutch girls.
Did you guys not expect any type of backlash about telemetry? Do you guys not read comments here at all?
Four: rain, green, brown, fire.
IIRC, he/they have funded political efforts in that direction.
A few reasons:

1. Weather in most northern states will cause death

2. Transportation for poor doesn't exist in the US

3. If one can't find jobs in SF, forget about being able to find them in Tulsa. Reasons vary from number of employers, lack of transportation, lack of education, felony record, divorces/child support.

I think the easiest way for someone to imagine this would be to think os the US as a dense jungle. The bounty is plentiful but there are death traps everywhere. Only the death traps are man made.

You need to find the patch of this jungle where you are likely to survive. Which means living under a rock in region A is better than dying in a barren desert in region B.
That's interesting, I appreciate the heads up. I'll have to see if I can find some other workaround whenever that pops up.
It can be as easy as

sudo snap install tor-middle-relay
Okay, can someone give an explanation for why Rust does not mimic the -O fast behavior? Is this something they plan to add?