skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This dispute is ostensibly about a rights issue. But am I wrong, isn’t this really about preventing homeless and other itinerant people from entering the park? And as a side effect, Palo Alto harasses visible minorities trying to enter the park?

It’s interesting, the main way many parks in San Francisco avoid the former problem is by simply being inhospitable - the tops of hills, slopes, the cold, the lack of facilities. In Pacific Heights and the Presidio the parks are hard to use with dignity because of their geography, climate, etc, not necessarily by design. But it goes a long way obviating the need to deploy the law to keep homeless and crunchy people out.

Compare to the Mission, which is a very habitable, sunny and flat part of town, with most services accessible by short walks, that has many small parks that itinerant people use, sometimes pretty intensively.

If it could, would residents in the Mission restrict its parks? I don’t know if it’s possible to restrict public access to things, have a positive experience of gentrification as a net seller of homes / existing resident, and not harass visible minorities all at the same time.

Palo Alto residents are so confident in their belief they will never someday be harassed, that the demographics of their town will not change. And maybe when it does change there will be both homeless people and a visible minority family, unmolested, in the park.

In this sense the confusion about, who owns the park - it doesn’t really matter. If Palo Alto wants to prevent itinerant people from using the park, and if it doesn’t care that that also means every black and Hispanic person is asked if they are residents and white and Asian people are not, they will get their way. The solution is through hearts and minds - through empathy and selflessness really. If the ACLU could get people to see that anyone’s family member could be homeless, anyone could have mental illness, that those very same East and South Asian immigrants almost certainly had relatives who were beggars, you could maybe move the needle.
I'm a huge fan of the multigenerational house, having grown up in one myself and now being the middle generation in a 3 generation house, it's really amazing there's always help and conversation to be found.
It's so hard to target web development with how fragmented the ecosystem is, so it's nice to see they have a lot of extensions already.

That said, because of how fragmented the ecosystem is, it is difficult for me to jump in. For example, my main side project right now is a Vue app that uses SCSS syntax in components, which the Vue extension for Nova does not yet support. This might sound like a small detail, but it's a total dealbreaker - and while, if this was a totally open source editor, I might be interested in contributing to the extension, I can't say that I'm interested in paying $100 and then helping out. It's a very difficult chicken and egg situation.
Spot on. Doesn’t help progress in online dating that most of these apps are owner by one or two companies either
He did his job but that doesn't mean he has final say. I've read enough interviews to know he carried a heavy weight with him until his death because he felt he should have pushed back more. I think there's some confusion that I'm advocating an engineer must stop all risky actions at any cost. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying if an engineer doesn't bring up a risk because "The boss doesn't want to hear it" that's willful negligence. Fighting for a position and being overruled is different that meekly rolling over.

If you believe engineering is a public trust profession, you owe it to the public to at least do due diligence. My issue is the people in this thread saying "It's all managements fault" and displacing any responsibility from the engineers. The engineers are the technical authority for management. We should strive to make sure management understands that technical risk; if they do and proceed anyway I think the engineers have done their job. That's what I think happened with Challenger. That's different from placating management because you're afraid for your job or plowing forward knowing a design will put people at risk.

If the bar was to get every program engineer to give a GO, there would never be another launch. There are engineers who don't trust aircraft that have flown for decades in part because we are bad at judging overall systemic risk. NASA has since instituted formal dissenting opinion processes and distinct technical authorities to allow risks to be raised and formally acknowledged without grinding the process to a halt.
For context on why this park restriction comes across as racist, East Palo Alto is a different city from Palo Alto, and these are the demographics:

Palo Alto[1]: 60.6% White, 27.0% Asian, 6.2% Latino, 1.8% Black, 0.2% Pacific Islander

East Palo Alto[2]: 64.5% Latino, 15.8% Black, 7.4% Pacific Islander, 6.2% White, 3.6% Asian

It comes across as a law that prevents Latino, Black, Pacific Islander people living in the area from visiting their local park.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California#Demograp...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palo_Alto,_California#Dem...
I remember WP being a very stable format between versions, unlike Word ~ 2000, it wasn't able to manage their own document formats. So if people put up with the issues then, why not now?
I'm not an authority on this stuff, but the rationale that resonates with me is: 1) gaining awareness of & context for the ego-narrative can HUGELY reduce psychological suffering, and 2) the ego doesn't go away for the vast majority of practitioners - it is put into perspective within a larger awareness
Usually not money, but free items or discount on next purchase.
Man I'm still vim only. I've tried these giant IDE apps, but just can't wing it.
Wonder what Apple's rationale is for acquiescing to requests for iCloud data while staunchly refusing to unlock physical devices.

Could it simply be the idea that data stored on iCloud is Apple's property and not yours, while a physical device is treated the other way around?
Ah, okay. So the simplest case is that you just don't have those features through Google so you have to find another provider. For instance you can do contact sync through CardDAV courtesy of apps like https://www.davx5.com/, email with K-9 Mail, get apps from F-Droid, etc. Depending on exactly what the problem with Google is, you can also use unofficial software that still talks to Google services like https://microg.org/ instead of play services and newpipe instead of the official youtube app.
There is still plenty of development activity going on (last commit 2 days ago), I'm not sure why there hasn't been a release in so long.

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace
>> Oh my god, the horror. Are you suggesting that I could, I dare to think it, pay Microsoft some money for a working operating system that meets all of my needs?

You are free to do that now. Maybe Linux meets your needs, or maybe Windows, or something else.

>> Lets say I decide to build a linux app that is dependent on Microsoft APIs, as you fear: what's stopping you from just not using it? If Microsoft allows this, and we're legal with the licensing, what gives you the right to (1) control how I build the software I want to build, and (2) control what kinds of software my users want to use?

Nothing gives me that right. The problem isn't about you or your users. The problem is that longer term, developers like that end up using MS APIs on Linux and then all Linux users are forced to use MS APIs and we all end up paying for it. I don't pay MS anything these days, I use Apple and Linux systems and I don't want MS and other developers to ruin one of my options.

Fortunately the Linux Kernel folks are well aware of this type of thing and don't allow GPL licensed shims that serve no purpose other than supporting proprietary binary blobs.
Edit: I think my performance with the background is a super niche one. It runs fine in Microsoft Edge on my Windows install on a Macbook Pro 2015, but not on Chrome.

The animation is really cool especially that onscroll effect!
That's wrong.

Here is the ordinance: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/paloalto/latest/paloal...

Here is the complaint: https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Final_Complaint_f...

> Only residents of the city and regular or part-time city employees, members of their households related by blood, marriage, or adoption, and their accompanied guests are entitled to enter on foot or by bicycle or vehicle and remain in Foothills Park.... Upon the request of an authorized city employee or a member of the Palo Alto police department, a person seeking to enter Foothills Park at the main gate or a person within the boundaries of Foothills Park shall provide identification or information to satisfy the requirements of this subsection.... No person shall enter or remain in Foothills Park in violation of this subsection. Violations of this subsection shall be a misdemeanor.
Crash reporting, formerly Hockey App but when acquired by Microsoft it became part of App Center.
You're not far off, to be honest. Just replace 'conspiracy theories' with 'extreme political YouTube channels'.

It's not all bad, though. He invites his friends over and shows them how you can find all sorts of cool stuff online. One of them the other day was apparently trying to stump YouTube with increasingly obscure woodworking joints.

I think most people would be surprised how many people are still out there who have no idea what the internet is or what it does. Imagine discovering that there's a machine that can show you how to do anything, or play any song you've ever listened to, and you had no idea something like that even existed.
Is it?

I'm seeing iOS devs on twitter complain about multiple builds and redundant versions. I'm waiting for Xcode 12.1 the launch seems to be a mess.
Sketch has the same subscription model.
Studies have shown that individual iPads and iPhones are used for web browsing much more than Android devices, just as their users spend more on apps.

So Web Browsing is a very imperfect measure of installed base. Worldwide estimates are that that less than 20% of mobile devices sold are iOS, roughly 15% iirc. It’s almost certain US sales percentages for iOS are much higher, but no where near 60%.
I love native Mac apps, I love Panic…but I’m not sure what this gets me over Visual Studio Code, besides a Preferences pane that isn’t inscrutable.

I’m not sure there’s enough of a market on the Mac for another commercial code editor, as we already have BBEdit for hard-core text wrangling. (And obviously all the open-source options.)
If you're on OSX, try using https://contexts.co for your switcher, and https://www.alfredapp.com for your launcher

Contexts gives additional 'switching' options on different hotkeys, fuzzy window searching+selection, history-based selection, and no mouse interaction required (but it is supported)

I dedicate spaces to tasks, eg communications, monitoring, and 3-4 development task spaces with tools/docs/terminals

I have Contexts setup as follows:

cmd-tab: cycle thru all visible windows of all apps on current space
opt-tab: cycle thru all windows of all apps on all spaces (include hidden/minimized)

cmd-~: cycle thru all windows of focused app on current space (include hidden/minimized)
opt-~: cycle all windows of focused app on all spaces (include hidden/minimized)

cmd-space: activate Alfred
opt-space: search/activate of all running apps on all spaces

Alfred then allows you to add effectively anything you can script/applescript for additional workflows and a complete, keyboard-driven navigation/switching experience, and total deprecation of the slow 10.7+ mission control gui

I also use Totalspaces (https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/) to give a 'grid view' spaces overview & manage app-space pinning, Stay (https://cordlessdog.com/stay/) to manage static window placement & sizing, and Sizeup (https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/) for dynamic window movement
I can't speak for Audible, but I have recently started buying my e-books from Kobo instead of Amazon (because really FUCK Amazon) and thanks to crappy restrictions on both ends my books don't work on my Kindle. It's maddening.
Despite of what you have to say, most people believe that Dropbox has degraded the "value" it provides to the user. Why is that? They've been pestered by notifications (which can be turned off), annoying upsells, features that no one cares about and the folder has now become super ugly - vaults, computer back and passwords (they should be in a dropbox services folder), constant barrage of messages on phones to share photos, no way to export multiple photos to iOS Photos app, etc.

Please respect the honest opinion from the users and try to work with them and show empathy. I am not seeing that.
"Housing for the poor" is indeed life-changing, but not in the way you like. The government has spent billions on housing for the poor, and the result is usually called a ghetto.

If instead you hired some of these poor people to build something nice for you, they wouldn't be so poor anymore. They could even afford decent housing, if the government didn't prevent that from happening with zoning laws and various other regulations.
Yes, I'd just come to that conclusion too. (Thanks for the tip anyway). I've just pushed an update so this should work now.
Whistleblower Alleges Medical Neglect, Hysterectomies of ICE Detainees
> how their parents refuse to let them move back in during the pandemic, citing the “time to grow up” mentality.

My sarcastic response is that I hope they enjoy the retirement home their kids put them in in the future.

I don't actually mean that, but just to make a point...
Are you saying that the disparate impact here is a statistical outlier from p-hacking, and not an outcome of historic policies excluding certain races?
Oh im loving it, no doubt.
Comment I left in the other thread[0]

I'm really curious to see an engineering presentation on the Quest 2, how it utilizes the XR2 hardware, and what it adds on top. From my understanding, the XR2 is capable of doing all the tracking on its own. The previous gen of hardware was based on the 835, which did not have SLAM on-chip, and thus Oculus' tracking algorithms were the big value-add over the competition.

And originally, Oculus was behind the curve on hardware implementations. The Lenovo Mirage Solo was the first 6-DOF headset, a year prior to the Quest, also running the 835. The Vive Focus was in the middle of the two. So, if the XR2 is doing the heavy lifting, it would suggest a big roadblock for competitor devices has been lifted.

So how much of the Quest 2 is above and beyond the Qualcomm XR2 VR headset reference design minus Facebook's services integrations?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495138
I want this tied to a crude speed estimation algorithm, from a stationary camera.

Even with ALPR retention restrictions, I could trigger a video save and send the police a video of the idiots doing 50mph through the residential neighborhood.
I'll never forget listening to Jim Dale narrate the Harry Potter books.
Great to see the up-to-date pricing model find another high-profile adopter.

Subscriptions for non-service-based apps are terrible for customers, while major version upgrades make it hard for developers to plan around a steady revenue stream. Up-to-date models, as Panic has implemented with Nova, offer the best of both, with perpetual licenses for customers and a regular income stream for developers.
> (This doesn't even take into account that mortgage rates are drastically lower since then.)

Which is an important factor, too! In Germany rates seem to be around 1%, as low as 0.5% fixed for 10 years. (US seems higher though)
I wonder if it would be more efficient with OpenCV?
Since I haven't bought/read the 'Red' book, does the Black contain everything the Red does, i.e. a superset?
I'm sure the tech is amazing, but WHY are we required to login with Facebook?

I mean, I guess I know why, it just grinds my gears that good VR is finally arriving, but we have to make a deal with the data-devil to get it at a reasonable price.
Its the highest ever because the 1% are correspondingly much richer than ever.
Yes. You can always get a roommate and split the cost.
That's part of what makes it such a rich subject. Even something as simple as writing y=sin(x) has so much more embedded into it than the "input x output y" notion of functions. Parametrization of the Unit Circle, right triangles, special angles, you name it. Diving into the rabbit hole enough to convince yourself the step is justified is part of the learning process, if you're engaging with it properly. You do need to be judicious sometimes with what you decide is important to dive further into. That comes with the context/goals and experience of the reader.
No sign of it here yet.

I’m curious if it fixed some of the unpleasant behaviour and bugs that were never fixed in iOS 13.

Things like Mail not displaying new emails properly unless your went out and back into the mailbox. The keyboard autocorrecting to random names aggressively and inserting capital letters if you dare move the cursor. All new behaviours introduced with iOS 13 that adversely affect the user experience.
If you were trying on iphone this should probably work now.
Interesting, I've never seen that stat before. one problem is that inflation is a lot lower than before. If you borrowed a house in the 70s/80s you'd pay less each month but after 10 years that payment would be negligible, where now it still takes a big chunk out of your pay.
Google forked WebKit 7 years ago.
I think that's covered in the reviewer summary line "The F-word. Yeah, we'll get into that. " F-word -> facebook. Subtle, but a great analogy.
.. and it does appear to be very slow at the moment.
intellij is functionally the same.

Buying a subscription gets you one year updates, and then whatever that last version is remains functional forever.
It looks pretty configurable. What parts weren't you able to hide?
Which culture are you referring to?

At least to my knowledge (of S.Korea) and my experience, most will eat together, watch some shows together.
The photos I saw seemed to be in Paris, and I'm pretty sure it's illegal to run a license plate reader in France.
Cmd+tab for apps, cmd+` for apps' windows.
Show HN: A mailer server to help you send emails
That is of course Cory's genius. He sees the business model in the noise.
That would be why most airlines don't fly over the Tibetan Plateau :)

If you really want nightmares about flying in that region, I recommend looking at the approach to Paro airport. 7.5k elevation, surrounded by 18k peaks, horrifying turbulences.
For reference, 95% percentile would be somewhere around £100k a year in London. (If you look at working men aged 25-55 the number should be a fair bit higher)

I don't know what you earn but if you are early 20s it might be less than that. There is a lot of money floating in London, the price of homes almost make sense when you realize what the top earners actually earn, the few percents competing for the same homes.
in the US, living with your parents after high school implies you need their support financially when you're old enough to have a job of your own.

Usually any mention of living with your parents implies being lazy ( the whole "neckbeard living in their parent's basement" stereotype ) unless you qualify it with "but I pay rent". If you pay rent then it appears more like you can support yourself and still not relying on mom/dad to pay your way even in adulthood.
I apologize if my tone was poor.
It made me look rather a bit horrifying! But fun stuff, nice work!
> WaPo, BBC, etc. on the more neutral/conservative end)

Sorry but no, WaPo is absolutely not on the neutral/conservative end. I suppose some argument could be made for BBC being more neutral.

I would put WaPo on the liberal end, and WSJ on the neutral/conservative end.
Since 2007 hikers from abutting lands, like Los Trancos, have been allowed to enter the park. I don't know if the council ever codified this.

When my friend Corey was on the council he tried to open access to non-residents, but there wasn't support for it.
It's actually not available on device as of this writing...
Sure, you don't have to worry about Bernie or AOC being in anyone's pocket, but the only thing they're experts at is getting elected...
I don't see much reason to think it's actually about preventing homeless encampments in the park. There are plenty of parks that control homelessness without being closed to anyone from out of town.
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This page lacked any information on the tech details of the Quest 2 and how it would compare to the first edition. Are those available anywhere online?
Well - it's abnormal in that it is not what the US's coming-of-age systems look like. Hit 18, move out, get a job. Whether that is good or bad or right or wrong is irrelevant, it's definitely abnormal from a cultural standpoint.
Looks like between 2 and 3 feet - closer to 2. I use the huge monitor like the virtual desktop - we've all heard the metaphore but don't really use it. Spreading things out left to right is fine, but I don't like to tilt my head to look up (I have progressive lenses so that's worse for me than younger people), so the top is - like further away areas of a desk - where I shove things I don't need right now but want nearby. So if you're wondering how I can see the whole thing up close the answer is that I don't need to or try to. I might roll my chair back a bit if I want to watch a full-screen video.
I think it's for people that want their text editor to feel like a Mac app. VS Code is great, but it doesn't feel very Apple-y.
> to sidestep the walled garden of Amazon-owned audiobook platform Audible

Aren't all stores a 'walled garden'? They decide what they want to sell. Curation. Seems completely reasonable to me?

> Instead, Doctorow is selling the recorded version of the book through a Kickstarter campaign, and it will also be available through non-Amazon vendors like Google’s Play store and libro.fm

So there's multiple competing options he can already use? What on earth is the problem here?
if you edit outside of visudo, you can run visudo -cf <filename>.

example:
visudo -cf /etc/sudoers
visudoe -cf /etc/sudoers.d/extra
In the past they were able to afford the places they wanted to live.
god, YES! i needed this reference in my life today :)
Looks like a more beautiful version of Sublime but macOS exclusive.
'Generous' implies an act of benevolence.

A bait-and-switch scheme is anything but.
Because your contact list is something you should backup somewhere (cardav, Google,...), and this is the expected place for all your contact information.

Signal would need to store a second contact list if it was not using the phone contacts. And suddenly you need to backup this second contact list. If every app does that you can forget about the user backing up everything, they simply won't do it and the feature becomes useless. The solution would be for Signal to store it on their server, obviously encrypted. But then you have different privacy issues to take care of: how can you retrieve a user's contact without storing its identity. How do you hide the number of contact they have...
Not quite. It's $67/month to just be able to try to stay in business. What benefit does that tax provide to start-ups, and why isn't it a function of the product the business produces instead of the flat rate that's imposed?