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I guess I’m not sure who you’re telling this to. Most people don’t have the time or energy to lead city reforms on their own. Their choices are to stay or leave, and it seems an increasing number of people are picking leave.
I don’t think breaking them up is the only option- we need to continue to create innovative companies that defeat the incumbents.

Its hard to see right now but history tells us it will come and they will fall, every incumbent always gets complacent and stops innovating and someone comes and cleans up. For example YT hasn’t fundamentally changed in a decade, and the user experience is starting to feel a little off (sponsored content, a gamed recommendation algorithm etc. are all degrading the experience).

I don’t know how / where we’ll consume the bulk of our video in 2030, but there’s a significant chance it won’t be YouTube.
Curiously the daScript repository goes back to 2008, when it contained a URI parser: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/tree/262ca4a...

Ten years later, in 2018, someone added a basic lexer for "YZG" to the repo: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/commit/215d5...
alt: https://plantuml.com/en/archimate-diagram

https://networkx.github.io/
I agree with you.

1. Traditional paper ballots, manual counting are easy for voters to understand and increases trust in the system.

2. I also agree that traditional voting seems to increase the cost of substantial rigging (with multiple points of failure) compared to all electronic systems we have seen.

And yet: we all know the election rigging has always existed and will always exist and many times voters don't always understand how that is possible. I'm in a country where elections are considered by international standards to be fair: and yet, every election common people see reports and talk about rigging through various physical means (ie. Disappearing ballot boxes, stuffing ballot boxes, dead people voting). I agree that as a principle electronic voting seems to expose to rigging at lower cost and higher scale but I don't think it would be necessarily less trusted by the people.
I can watch an airplane fly and be confident that it's actually flying. I can watch election workers count and be confident that they're actually counting. I don't need to know why something works when I can personally observe it working.

But I can't observe the operation of an electronic voting system. All I can see is the result, and a fraudulent result looks very much like a legitimate result. I'm forced to understand it (which is likely impossible considering the complexity of modern hardware) or to trust people who have incentives to cheat me.
I'm posting this from Firefox Mobile. Works just fine for my day-to-day surfing.

DuckDuckGo is my default search engine, and it's not perfect or a panacea, but it works well enough (and there's "!g" for when it doesn't).

What we really need to do is be willing to pay for our tools, though.

Wikipedia estimates there are 21 million developers in the world, so if one out of twenty developers donated $1 / month to Mozilla, they'd be getting $1 million / month. You could sustain a few small dev teams on that. Not tons, but it's something.

If you took it to $5 / month, now you're looking at a lot more manpower.

If donations are given to specific software projects rather than the foundation as a whole, and bookkeeping is in the open, you can have decent confidence your money is actually going where you'd like it to go, too.

Just some half-baked thoughts.
if you use tmux, read up on "set background_edit" in mutt. welcome to the 21th century! :D
Putting any valid criticism of this article aside, anecdotally, I know a bunch of people who have either left or are in the process of leaving California in the last few months. One of them just left SF. In other news, one of my cousins is seriously working towards moving out of NY. 3 of my team members have moved to smaller parts of the country.

Simply speaking, my gut tells me this isn't just about San Francisco. They don't have a monopoly on overexpensive housing, homelessness, drug problems, feces, violence, or taxes.

Again, anecdotal, but I think the exodus is real, and it's not hard to see why. We're going to soon hit a point where apologists for cities will no longer be able to defend them. I would love to live in a city if it didn't both punish success and fail to help those whom are truly in need.
I think they must have gotten caught in the "not allowed to do business" category for a while.

We ordered and didn't hear anything back for a while, but then once we got an email saying they "accepted" our order, it shipped very quickly.

My wife had a question because they packaged things different than what we expected and they got back to us within an hour.

Which is to say, yes we also had slow service from them at the start of lockdown, but after things eased up a bit, they were very responsive.
From the LA Times in 1990

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-s...

Apple went on to use ARM in the Newton and other devices....
SSNs are probably the closest existing parallel. How many people in the US of voting age haven't had their SSN leaked yet? Obviously SSN is abused in the things it is used for (I.e. identification), but I don't see any indication voter IDs wouldn't be abused the same way.
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This really doesn't help, because the average voter will have no understanding of what that "digital token" is or how it can be used to "check" anything. Are we imagining some kind of unique QR-code or similar, that I scan to get a confirmation my vote was recorded? That's pure black-box voodoo... why should I believe that there's any connection between that "check" and the official count?
Semantics, we all know what the poster meant. Whatever the cause, the homeless make large swaths of San Francisco unappealing, especially for people with young families. BTW, quite the irony that the most liberal city in the country has the biggest homeless problem. Whatever they're doing isn't working, maybe they should try something different?
try buying a pair of authntic raybans. It's not exactly easy :/
I’ll buy it so that my kids can grow up learning basic in the old school way. The Spectrum basic was one of the best back in the day. I’ve been teaching them using a C64 emulator but that Basic is pretty lacking.
Amazon is only 4% of the US retail sector though. I wouldn't call that dominant.
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You are right. My fault.

I guess I was triggered by amount of users that were registered very recently and that they are broadcasting the same messages as pro-kremlin propaganda does.

Will not do this again. Thanks for letting me know.
This will most likely carry on with other states.
On the other hand, in the US, people had been net migrating out of many cities--including today's "elite" cities--until around the late 90s for about the previous 40-50 years. The current idea that young people all want to live in cities is relatively recent. When I graduated from grad school in the mid-80s, essentially no one from my class who went to work in the Boston area actually lived in the city.
The Spanish government tried to suppress the Catalan succession vote, but they used IPFS to host the voting system to prevent DDOS and DNS blocking to successfully cast votes anyway.

http://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15367531
> My perspective is biased towards correctness and “WTF are you doing?”

What an arrogant and pompous thing to say.

That tells everything you need to know, the author thinks of themselves as some sort of intellectual God.
Identity is about how you visualize yourself, and how strongly you feel those visualizations define that concept of you.

And yes, I know people for whom hungry is a part of their identity -- it's certainly common in media as well. Sleepy is another one I've seen. Clothing choices are sometimes part of someone's identity. There are people who wouldn't be caught dead in a suit, and people who wouldn't leave home without one.

Identity isn't some measure of objective reality, it's about who you believe you are and what you value about that. When your identity doesn't match reality, it can cause something called dysphoria -- the opposite of euphoria.

Take someone who identifies strongly as a chef but hasn't ever cooked. They might be miserable all the time, frustrated by their current job, day dreaming about the meals they hope to prepare. It might be really distracting and impactful to their lives. They might quit their job and go to culinary school. Or they might have to take a look at their identity and see how to adapt to the dysphoria.
Good introduction, but the article warps time a bit to have IBM coming up with virtual machines just in time to solve the cloud computing problem.

Virtual machines were first designed and built in the 1960s.
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I had a case where someone crossed out a word in the HTML version but the client just left the word in for the text version. Slight hilarity ensued.
The problem is that, IMO, centralization of the internet is simply the natural course. Especially when people seem to care so little. Centralization is cheaper, easier to monetize, easier to control, easier to update and upgrade. That's why people prefer Discord to IRC, that's why people prefer Slack to SMTP or Jabber, that's why for many people these days the distinction between git and GitHub is blurry.

I suspect that if you broke those companies up you'd only win in the short term,
then it would consolidate again. You'd need a constant pressure to prevent this
situation and given that the USA would be in the best position to do that I'm
not holding by breath.

The internet started decentralized because there was no money to make and we
were still figuring things out. As soon as it became mainstream it started to
coalesce and we're just now reaching the final stage of this evolution. Even
here on HN you have threads full of people coming up with excuses for why they
won't run Firefox, and that's a community that should understand the implication
of those things. Good luck convincing the internet population at large.

Are there statistics on the browser usage on HN? Just for a good laugh.
99.9% survive covid. 88% are asymptomatic. How could that be remotely close to 1918? Keep lying and you will get your reward. Your families won't survive the civil war.
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Distributed schemes don't take off. Especially this one can lead to severe privacy / security loopholes. And what about people who rarely come online / have limited bandwidth?

A more realistic dream would be finding good algorithms for "webscale" search engines, that all competitors (Bing, DDG) can use such that any one of them can't have excessive advantage over the others.

Secondly, human curated directories may still have future. If I search Google for interesting links or just programming blogs on specific topic, I find lot of SEO optimized low quality content instead of deep technical content so that I often have to search through HN, reddit etc.. and sort by popularity - but searching for particular topic is difficult.
I wouldn't know. I stopped shopping on Amazon in 2016. It really irks me when I see a product I'm interested in and only see it on Amazon! I'll often pay the $10~$15 more to buy it straight from the manufacturers website to avoid Amazon (and a lot of times, it's cheaper outside of Amazon).

I miss the days of PriceScan/PriceWatch and other comparison sites.

Recently I bought some new camera parts. I noted the price of the body and lens I wanted on B&H, Adorama, Newegg .. and then went to Google shopping and found a smaller store called TriState Camera out of NY. Their website is old school; but I saved nearly $400 of the big retailers for the exact same parts.
What has changed is near universal availability of high speed wireless. Followed by a national experiment in remote working. You don't have to live in the city to have a lucrative tech job.
It's homophobic.
This is truly amazing work. All possible shit is included, all art and drawings. Engineering solutions and fresco painting methods recorded and analyzed.

https://www.amazon.com/Leonardo-Vinci-Walter-Isaacson/dp/150...
mbsync is far superior in resource usage and speed compared to OfflineIMAP, python3 would not help with that.

combined with fdm filtering/sorting/archiving the speed has been incredible.
> SF already had such low inventory numbers that any change would look huge on a chart like this

Bingo

Its a delta of a delta

I like the ones that show rent and pricing drops more

This chart is an additional footnote but not one to make an article about in isolation
There are tons of niche hosts that have sprung up recently, a lot for developing and serving AI/ML applications.

Amazon was there first, but it's getting cheaper by the day to buy a bunch of hardware, stick it in an increasingly cheaply electrified building, run a bunch of fiber to it and slap some virtualization software on it.
That's not how government priorities work.

Should we cancel NASA budget because there were homeless people?
Should we reduce public library budget because of people are suffering due to police brutality?

Every section of government is different with its own budget and goals, because a nation can move forward on all fronts.

Nobody is saying that providing clean water is not a priority.
Provide fast internet is just a new priority on table. it does not necessarily mean reducing priority for other items.
And, as many other articles have noted, there is a danger of death spirals as in the past. Transit systems are having serious problems. City services in general are going to have very serious budget issues. And so forth. If you now have to buy a car to live in the city will you still stay?
Microsoft are an absolute beast, their revenue is diversified across so many areas in b2c and b2b, and they are selling real products / services that solve problems that people actually need and pay for. Contrast that with fb/google who are selling ad space for others to buy to fill with actual products, it’s clear who’s driving real value.

I would bet that MS will outlast all the other tech giants by a long way.
I also did not find any evidence of Zinnia benefiting financially from drug sales.

But just reading her writing, I couldn't shake the feeling that Zinnia has a very strong interest in increasing the rate of "gender dysphoria" diagnosis. Plus it is very obvious that Zinnia is not a neutral researcher on this topic.

As for the journal, EJN has an impact factor of 2.9. As a student, I used to publish stuff for fun in an IF 4.3 journal. So I'd consider EJN in the "motivated hobbyists" category. For comparison, Nature (the article discussed here) has an IF of 24.3.

Edit for your edit: Requesting revisions is OK, but accepting a paper that was rejected in the first round and DID NOT fix the issue that caused it to be rejected ... that looks suspicious.
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I concur entirely, and I second this! This is brilliant!

Hey, if you don't mind my asking, where is this community computer lab located?

I wouldn't mind stopping by someday if I was in the area -- and I'm sure other HN readers who are local to you wouldn't mind stopping by either!
all languages I know have async tests
Hello “Hello, World”
Every retailer you mentioned deals in grey market products. Here's B&H proudly admitting to it: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/HelpCenter/USGrey.jsp
> I'm not generally in favour of government picking winners

tHe MaRkEt WiLl ReGuLaTe ItSeLf!!!
Yeah success can lead to all these. Especially when shareholders demand it or someone in marketing gets the idea. In general programmers don't get that much evil ideas.
I thought we made it past the era of every company having a blockchain patent.
My sister learns 1 new dish from youtube every week.
i think she missed the notice on lynching somebody. i will pass on the message. thank you.
Is the "set" evaluated where its written or only during "sum()"? If not, whats the sum for?
All analogies break down fairly quickly, so I'll preface this with a clear vote of support for what you said. But in this case the purpose of a hospital is to provide for the sick. The purpose of a city is to do the opposite of homelessness - a city is a massive collection of homes.

The existence of a large homeless population is concerning for reasons you allude to, but because a more appropriate analogy might be "the piles of corpses made the hospital uninviting". The point of a city is to not have homeless people and so something fundamental went wrong if there is a big homeless population.
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Congratulations! I did exactly this to go from ~105kg to ~80. I slipped occasionally, but knowing that tomorrow I'd get all the food I craved got me through so many moments, while stopping in the middle of a meal has never worked more than sporadically.

I'd also note that not having any food in the house was a major help in this as well. Even if I had a non-stop mini-market 2 minutes walk away, the small friction of having to go there stopped many a cheat meal.
> If you wanted to make a pure HTML+CSS page, with no JavaScript, I can't think of any technical reason why the AMP specification couldn't be extended to consider that valid AMP.

Meaning that right now it isn't that way, right?

> The AMP project is now part of the OpenJS foundation, along with Node, Electron, and others: https://openjsf.org/blog/2020/06/23/openjs-world-day-one-hig....

For some reason everyone still seems to associate amp with Google, and the only times I can remember finding AMP pages are when I search with Google.

If a site is technically AMP but served from a non Google domain, I admit I haven't noticed it.
For now my gut will just consider this trend to be of slowing down in urbanization (of large metropolis) trend rather than a reversal or collapse of large (quasi-)city-states.

If anything, this will improve the live of those who can't move out of big cities. And cities will hopefully have some breathing room to make different kind of decisions now that some of the citizens have left.
You probably don't want to risk the attack surface of a full browser by default. You can use something like this:
text/html; lynx -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput

And then map a separate key when you are sure...
I think the religious values are an interesting factor. Of course there is a lot wrong with it especially if it becomes bigoted, but after the travelling parts of the west of the USA for a month I have to say of all fastfood joints the best food an service was at Chick-Fil-A, the second best was at In-N-Out. Both chains are privately owned by religious christian families.
Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Obesity in Adults
I think Chromium/Chrome won because it was the better tech product and also mostly open source and free to use. Closer to web standards, faster to use, isolated process rendering etc. This was and still is fueled by lot's of money, coming from platform economics, not from a walled garden strategy in the sense of AOL (proprietary standards, locked down access). Users actually like it, because it's free and works well. Developers like it because it's actively supported including dev tools and has a large enough user base to treat it as the default platform. It's just not possible to have a competing product based on the same open standards if you don't have the same amount of cash to give it away for free. And IT budgets are cash-strapped outside of the VC bubble too, it makes sense to choose the market leader and code against that platform. Similar to the old "Best viewed with Internet Explorer 3" back then, but now at least with better standard compatibility.
Reminds me of the old-fashioned "m.<domain>" sites we used to have to maintain for mobile browsing; often using wonderful tech like WML.

That sucked.
Primarily, one should note that these cells were identified in mice where they found a subset of cells that potentially respond to multiple taste stimuli including bitter, sweet, sour, and umami.

There are already existing classes of cells that respond to bitter, sweet, and umami taste and those that respond to sour and salty stimuli. The cells identified here (BR- Broadly Responsive cells) respond to bitter, sweet, sour, and umami. But if you look at Fig. 3D, even within these BR cells, there is separation between cells that uniquely respond to specific tastes so it is not clear to me how they are all classified into "Broadly Responsive".
Yup, and Reader mode on Firefox Mobile is disabled. Couldn't read more than a few sentences.

Just out of curiosity, what controls whether or not reader mode is enabled?
Isn't that a scam from Enron that we are still living with?

In New York we have almost as many ESCOs as there are shady looking prepaid phone cards. Maybe they save you 0.001% over the real electric company if you cash the check for 78 cents they send you every six months.

I thought the point of that was financial engineering. Used to be if you wanted to shut down a coal burning power plant the power company would be sued by creditors. Now the creditors can sue a shell company with no assets and get nothing.

It is good that coal burning power plants are being shut down, but rather than having an engineering or environmental based plan they do it this way. There will be plenty of money for solar roofs if they government is paying but private money will not be there for other investments if it doesn't have to be paid back.
Yeah I believe many programmers don't like their donations going to a non technical overpaid CEO's salary or activism instead of browser or technical projects like rust.
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Meh, I think the longest lasting protocols are the decentralised ones, the good ones just can’t fail by design. SMTP is still going very strong, BitTorrent isn’t going away, bitcoin won’t die anytime soon

slack/discord will probably disappear and be replaced by another closed system until we find the right way to do real time chat in a decentralised way.