skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's odd to me that anyone finds this compelling. You have a right to wear whatever t-shirts you like. You don't have a right to prevent other people from wearing t-shirts with colors you find objectionable. Yet, somehow in housing we've decided that, no, you actually do have the right to object to all kind of innocuous nonsense (window styles, setbacks, paint colors, and on and on). There's nothing so trivial that it's beyond objection.

I understand that people would like to control what others do around them, but we should be totally unresponsive to those desires. The sentiment behind modern NIMBYism isn't remotely confusing. Presumably, people who buy a house in a neighborhood do so because they like the neighborhood the way it is and don't want it to change. But...so what? That desire is outweighed by other concerns at every turn.
>It seems like libertarian leaning people forget half of their philosophy on this issue.

Because they are "drunk" on theory. To grind out a new video hosting platform is a lot of work.
But if they lower your wages, you can generally qualify for unemployment.
I should put a disclaimer at the top of this saying that I'm just a regular old Hacker News commenter who skimmed that file and really has no idea what this code actually does, so I'm not trying to scaremonger because I saw something sketchy without following up on it. However, that file seems indicate that Terminal logs process connections. Is there a way that this information might leave the device? Could it include arbitrary processes on my system in that data?
Steve Jobs was in the same boat and got "multi-listed"--

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Economy/story?id=7902416&page=...

The short answer is you technically can but the ethics are foggy. On the one hand you do help even out the geographical disparity. But you're kind of buying an organ that would have gone to someone else who's probably poorer than you.
Right, these sorts of surveys typically have 5 answers: strong negative, negative, neutral, positive, strong positive.
I see, so typing entries is purely a Covid-19 reaction? Sorry, hadn't appreciated that earlier.

Definitely feels like something to keep after things go back to closer to how they were.
Which email and CRM service do you use?
This mostly doesn't change much. Most people who come to high pay areas come for the pay and opportunity and will continue to do so. Sounds more like PR. It's yet to be seen if productivity is better or worse.
Let's just say they keep pay the same. All the employees who stay will look at those who moved to Pennsylvania and bought a 2br 2bath 2,000 square foot condo for $300k and say "hey, that costs $1.5 million in SF. Why am I not being compensated for the higher cost of living?"
> A multiplayer game is just like any other cloud service in terms of economics.

No, it's not - this is an absurd statement. Cloud services get most of their income from big and medium companies, billing tens and thousands of dollars in privately negotiated agreements. Digital Ocean and AWS don't live on single developers paying them $5. All their real money is on B2B.

Multiplayer games either get a flat subscription from all their playerbase, or rely on micropayments. Either way, they spend much less on account management where they interact with customers as individuals, and much more on analytics, where they measure and work with their customers in aggregate. These are completely different business models, that completely shape companies that operate on them.

> Find the pain points your business customers/partners are having and then charge for solutions.

Games are not solving any problems - they are entiertainment product. I've seen people who have tried to reason about games in the terms you're using, and it always yelded hillarious (but also sad) results.
Here are your options, i think:

1) You're upfront about it and tell your manager, they update workday, HR schedules a meeting with you to explain the multiplier effect and how your salary is being reduced.

2) You're kind of sneaky, you update your state tax withholding, it updates workday and put you into the appropriate COL bucket for next year's performance review, your salary slowly falls in line with people in your COL area.

3) You keep it secret, allow the company to keep paying taxes to your original state, maybe pay estimated taxes or something to your new state? Don't develop any relationships with coworkers that'll eventually leak your true situation, get away with it?
Personally, supporting Epic's anti-customer activities by purchasing from their store is the bridge too far for me.

Buying exclusivity over finished games, the lack of common customer-friendly features in their store (like reviews), and their past interactions with indy developers (not allowing some non-exclusive new releases on EGS) have all joined into one intolerably heavy load of straw.
Also, what if people move every year? are they going to readjust after every move?
I've proposed this very idea to UBI supporters on many occasions, and they always seem to dodge and say it will only work if everyone does it through the government. It's apparently an all-or-nothing situation where the outcome of failure is catastrophic economic collapse. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
This. We used Rabbit in our platform for a few years and it was an absolute disaster. Network partitions mainly. In retrospect I'm sure we were doing it wrong but that really wasn't obvious at the time.
All of those things you mentioned exist outside of major cities.
Certainly I do. This one's a bad one though.
I think I heard Pioneer Square is bad, just walked there the other day and it's not anything like SFs bad areas. There could just be better options for homeless during the shutdown here than SF though. I will reserve full judgement until things are back open.

People are going to be surprised by the state of the FiDi in SF when things open back up. Many tents have gone up there with everyone gone and WFH. Going to be interesting when people go back to the office there.
"It's a bit tricky to see exactly how to fix this, since you don't really want to just give each side a court-appointed lawyer: you really should get to pick your own lawyer."
I don't know the details of it, but in England while you can pick your solicitor (the person you meet with out of court, who does research, puts together briefs, etc), you do not get to choose your Barrister (the person who represents you in court and argues before the judge. While this has changed to allow for some selection in the past few decades I believe you still don't have full choice.
That, plus this free version doesn't include previous DLC and expansions. The platinum edition with all the DLC up till now is still $40, plus another $40 for the next season pass.
Seriously? There's a link "Ports (non-x86-64)" in the side bar.

https://k1ss.org/ports
Brave ? https://brave.com/

(I'm asking, not endorsing)
I would agree with that conclusion; it’s central to my belief system though I must also offer the caveat lector that I don’t want readers thinking this to be THE criteria, just one (honestly opinionated) criterion.

Although it would be the first data point in an outline of what would be my infinitely-less abridged critique of the “American Mythos”, under which many, MANY others would invariably fall-it is still at the end of the day only one.

The others would probably include a few one liners shamelessly stolen, but dutifully attributed to Hunter Thompson, James Baldwin and Cormac McCarthy. Could probably fit Howard Cosell in there too now that I think about it.
New NYPD press officer co-wrote The Intercept Reality Winner story
Sofware engineering efficiency and its $3T impact on global GDP [pdf]
People can afford healthier food with more money.

Real estate doesn't matter post C19 once office and schools are decentralized further each year.
Very nice, I love pinballs. There's room for improvement on the ball detection and flippers movement, probably requiring a faster processor and complex code; I mean having really good control of the flippers (and ball detection accuracy) so that a flipper can be used to stop and direct the ball by firing it before the ball enters in its area then using the flipper returning to place to damp the ball speed, then before the ball falls into the hole, wait the right amount of time before firing again the flipper to give the ball the desired trajectory. This is not too hard to learn for a human but probably quite a challenge both for hardware and software.
There's a relevant engineering axiom, that a sufficient quantitative difference amounts to a qualitative difference (sometimes phrased as "quantity has a quality all its own").

At some ineffable point, a "private platform" of sufficient scope becomes a Commons, resembling a social substrate more than a mere voluntary exchange between individuals. A historical equivalent would be "company towns", with goods only available from company stores, exchanged in company scrip, etc. [0]

Obviously, from a purely legal perspective, you are 100% correct. Google is under no obligation to uphold a principle of free speech, non-favoritism, etc., and it would take significant new legislation or regulation to change that.

Nonetheless, in terms of the role that is being played in society and culture, tech giants in general, and Google/Facebook in particular, are wielding disproportionate (and arguably ideologically biased) influence, bordering on an attempt to control narratives and ideas. It's perfectly legitimate to find this trend concerning without supporting the particular ideas being suppressed (I think Plandemic/InfoWars/etc, are utter nonsense).

I believe such actions tend to be counter-productive: (a) isolating and ostracizing those who are falling for bad ideas only reinforces their beliefs and persecution complex, while obstructing the path back to better ideas; and (b) every once in a while a seemingly-crazy idea turns out to be true (it's instructive the extent to which it was a fight uphill for germ theory to be accepted by the experts of the day [1]).

There simply isn't a magic wand that sifts good ideas from bad, a priori; and if the power to make that decision is centralized, even with the best of intentions, whoever wields it will inevitably make mistakes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease#John_Sn...
I don't agree with your Europe observation.
Shopify could have easily been a European company (in fact, it's Canadian).
Scaling is hard but is a very known problem.
What Europe is missing is VC money and entrepreneurs. Many many European entrepreneurs flock to the U.S due to no VC money, not lack of engineering.
And even if you think the U.S has a tremendous engineering advantage over Europe, it's still unclear to me why U.S tech companies have to set base in Silicon Valley and not Anywhere else in the US?
The second paragraph of the press release reveals what the institution is actually excited about ;)

> The discovery means that The University of Manchester is the only institution in the UK to possess authenticated textual fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
I'd also imagine that excavation is more expensive than just pouring a concrete slab.
> How did it ever get here? Requiring more than 2 parking spots per apartment is insane.... especially for "affordable housing".

People who live near new property developments don't want to end up with their streets completely full of parked cars from residents and guests of the new building.

I can't say it's unreasonable for the existing residents to feel that way. I lived in a neighborhood where that happened, and parking got so bad it was difficult for people to visit me.

That kind of parking situation is the kind of thing that people are willing to deal with in NYC, not the suburbs. So they pass laws to require parking spaces. This particular example is extreme though.
More worrying to me is the great effects that botnets can have on reddit post. If you can get a post off and running early, it will appear on hot and then get to the front page, and grow exponentially. I mean, the internet research agency is no big secret and this sort of work is their bread and butter 1.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
Trickle up, baby. Man I love Andrew Yang and what his mission is with Humanity Forward. Good move, Jack.
no, there were other choices there.
Definitely true, also the anything near 16th Street Mission Bart is out of control. There are definitely nice parts of SF, usually on a hill, but the bad parts are BAD.
Honestly I ran into partially related situation in NYC. I found a 1-bed apartment I liked at a nicer building, I decided to proceed and next thing you know I'm signing the lease. I read the lease and says a few very peculiar things:

1) the rent is 50% higher than what I saw being advertised/communicated

2) there is a massive discount that brings the rent down to what we agreed to on a separate page

3) this turned out to be a rent stabilized building so my rent is protected under rent control and I was informed I have more rights about increased rent

After some more thought I realize building management has been increasing the rent at the government regulated percentage every year behind the scenes and sometimes the market was relatively flat, they continued to raise the actual rent providing discounts, 10 years later they are giving a massive discount so that it actually meets the market demand. Later on they have full control on raising rent as often as to basically whatever price they want. Something about the whole thing seems like this isn't what rent stabilization was for...
It's like you guys didn't even read TFA.

The proposed building site is an existing public parking lot. The underground parking lot isn't just for the residents, it has to replace the public parking capacity it's occupying as well:

Residents and the public would pay for parking in an underground garage,
which would help finance the project, as would rent from a small grocery store.
Extreme irony in seeing this title changed from the original "That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born"
I think of it as refreshing. That's the spirit!

The 'ecosystem' you are speaking of reminds me of taxes, lawyers and judges, burying their victims under infinite amounts of stamped paper in triple copies, annotated, and ultimately annoying because of its bizarreness and kafkaesque absurdity.

Time to burn it down.

(quad-edit because lack of coffeine...(spelling))
As an aside: the announcement started at 10:00 Pacific and Mark continued to speak for an hour.

This story (and many others!) were created and posted well before any of the details were mentioned.

I'm not saying that's bad, but it was strange getting e-mails from people with links to fully formed news articles even while I was watching the announcement live.
It's not very tricky at all. A random sampling of citizens are asked if they experienced violent crime (including instances not reported to police), and if so, to describe the offender (ethnicity being just one component).[1]

Year after year the random samples of victimization correlates with arrest rate by ethnicity.

[1]: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245#Methodolog...
This gets a bit into monopolies. YouTube is Google and Google prioritizes its own properties. Google is the most widely used search engine and works hard to keep it that way.

Is there a way to easily have popular interviews online outside of YouTube?
The State of Micro Front Ends
> I want to participate, but I lack impulse control, so I'm excluded. That's not fair.

Yes, it is, because the problem is not the garden, it's you. You want to participate, but you don't have a basic skill (impulse control) that is required for participation. It's like saying you want to be a concert pianist, but you don't know how to play the piano, so you're excluded and that's not fair.
>"Our system broke, you're screwed now, sorry" is never an acceptable answer.

That's not what happened at all. The college board admitted their fault and are letting students take the test again. Even without that, they mentioned in their FAQ that JPEGs and PNGs are the only file types acceptable and even sent out a tweet (which should have been an email) a week before especially for iPhone users to let them know how to take pictures as JPEGs.

I agree with the people blaming the board for not having a standard image input field that lets the OS know when to convert images to JPEG but that is their only fault and I wouldn't have thought of that as a bug deal if not for this issue. While I'm all for open source media formats replacing what we have, HEIC certainly isn't big enough to be considered as among standard input options. Also, isn't Apple themselves infamous for not supporting certain formats throughout their devices?
Apparently somebody claims to have been able to change the extension and submit the picture, but got "file corrupted" later:

"Senior Dave Spencer took a demo test before his Calculus AB exam to make sure he understood the process for uploading photos. He Airdropped an iPhone image of his responses to his Mac and tried to convert it by renaming the HEIC file to PNG. Changing a file’s extension does not guarantee that it will be converted, but Spencer was still able to submit the demo test with no problem.

Spencer used the same process on the real exam and thought it went through, but he received an email the next day saying the files were corrupted and that he needed to retake the test."
Generally I agree with your point but this isn't your uncle's homemade public photo gallery. These are people's lives on the line. These kids have no say in whether they think they should take these exams. And because of that yes it is absolutely College Board's responsibility to

1. Correctly label their expected stream types.
2. Test all of the most popular devices before having something this broken in production.

What about a kid that's using a cheap android tablet from aliexpress? Are you arguing that the company nobody's ever heard of is at fault for not programming their tablet to use the correct image format? I agree that they should probably be using JPEG but that doesn't mean College Board is off the hook for making it easy for a user to not be able to use their product for something this important.
Not at all what I said, I asked how will passively sitting by result in an unban? You are simply confirming the fact that there is no way to get unbanned, even if the moderators made a mistake, or if the person wants to actively participate. Reddit basically says if you get banned you must make a new account if you want to participate in that board still. So it's natural people make lots of accounts. Is there a mechanism to get unbanned? I'll ask you again.
Now that I'm at my desk, I'll have a look. Thanks for the disclaimer :)
All big corps have development teams all over the world though no?
I agree it's an issue. But the talent pool remote work opens to you is huge.
It feels like innovation theatre. Everyone wants to be seen to be doing something innovative in response to this, so they all jump on the obvious “innovative” thing.
Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, an AI for industrial systems
Similarly, a vanishingly small proportion of citizens (as opposed to bad guys) have a life-altering bad experience with the police.

It'd be interesting to see real numbers, but I suspect officers on the beat get the short end of that stick.
This would increase the talent pool for tech companies that goes remote. e.g. U.S. companies could hire more international developers without sponsoring work visa for them.
They’d be paid that in Sunnyvale too.
Apache seems to have 100 databases and data processing projects under its umbrella. Is there a cheat-sheet on what they do (and sometimes how they differ) and how popular they are?
It's a bit more complicated than "paid less for doing the same amount of work". Compensation isn't purely based on amount of work done, there are other market factors involved like supply of talent.

If a company suddenly allows working remotely full time, they've suddenly increased their supply of talent, as moving to another city will no longer be a roadblock when they consider Facebook.

At the same time, if more and more companies go with a remote friendly approach, the supply of job openings that applicants have access to will also increase.

Theoretically, this will lead to some sort of equilibrium where compensation is actually based more on the value/output of your work than other factors.

To make an analogy, an apartment building in SF serves the same purpose as an apartment building in Ohio, yet they charge vastly different rents. You're paying less in Ohio for something that provides the same utility (shelter), because of factors outside of the direct utility of the apartment.
I don't think this logic applied to humans actually is inaccurate. For much of human history, extended family cohabitation was the norm, and the standard American nuclear was a radical, almost unimaginable idea. Most animals operate on a biological impulse to further their offspring; do most animals operate this way to pursue immortality and evade death?

I don't see anything inaccurate with this base level analysis, although it obviously elides most of the finer elements of human existence that exist a bit higher up on Maslow's hierarchy.
What makes it worse? So far, you said that the things that make it bad are 1) it's removing a choice and 2) causing citizens to get "equivalently" murdered.
It's more the sneering, condescending tone of the comment that I thought was jaw-dropping. Sure, noise ordinances are reasonable. But labeling poor people as loud - and thus undesirable - is not okay. I can't believe I even had to explain this to be honest.
Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR
See also:

recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868286 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22739461

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400681

a bit from 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7128091

a bit from 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693224

Introduced in 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2501160
Stage of grief: 1 to 2
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It's not really your data though, how can you control / monetize it?
I am not an organ donor. The reason is simple: Everyone in a transplant chain (Organ Procurement Orgs, Hospitals, Transplant Surgeons) makes money off a transplant except the guy giving up his organs. The rules for me are clear: I have a simple price on each of my organs should I be brain dead. Pay the price to me, and it will go to my beneficiaries in my notarized will, and you can hollow me out if I'm brain dead. Don't and I take them with me.
im not sure "how does he have all this time" is relevant? this is a harrassment story, Gallowboob gave in under enormous pressure. It is a sad day for Reddit and I am bearish on them while I don't see any strong ideas for how they fix it.
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