skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you don't have any data? Just checking that we're in total agreement here.

This is exactly why I've long said that the only course that should be required of every college major (or ideally every high school graduate) is basic accounting. The number of things in a system is the cumulative result of all inflows and outflows. The population of a city can fall without any kind of change in the outflow process. By the way population flows are both domestic and international. If you stop foreign in-migration but you don't touch domestic out-migration then the population will decline.

By the way SF's population also declined 2000-2009 and sequentially in each of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. So unless you have real data showing SF population already fell more than 4%, I also question "unseen in decades".
Thanks for this comment, I was quite confused why this site said Cloudflare when my OS is configured to use 8.8.8.8.
You could switch off Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Twitch, but for all but the most influential of people the folks you interact with won’t follow.
I respect Swartz a lot, and he makes many good points. But let's not pretend that Twitter and Facebook hold information monopolies with equivalent power to the government's ability to censor. As proof, consider that we are having this conversation right now, about an article that was published and is freely, legally available online to anyone with a web browser. You can disagree with Twitter's editorial choices, but (as long as we prevent a literal technological monopoly, a prospect that seems increasingly probably) the consequences thereof are in no way similar to government censorship.
The gains from an NTR over chemical rocket has to do with the temperature, thus velocity, of the exhaust.
When will support for this be added to webstorm?
"The other side is worse!" cannot be perpetually be the answer or response. Politics is not everything; at some point we have to understand that politics does not make a society, a society makes politics.

Ask yourself this: if these same mechanisms, that again are used by autocratic governments, get taken advantage of by a future administration and we somehow defeat them will you be willing to admit accountability and culpability for the outcome? If not, then walk cautiously, because this future is very real and discounting people that raise the flag does not age well.
There's a difference between doing something hard and running a scam.
The American Bar Association's 'Diversity' Diktat (2008)
I’d she’s based in SF why didn’t she contact the SF Fed?
And at the same time, private companies cannot force you to use their services, or threaten you with violence or imprisonment if you refuse to follow their rules.
But would Taleb specifically make a one time bet on one particular Black swan? Isn’t the idea the same as venture capitalism, where this idea only works if you do it with all possible black swans?

You’d have to be crazy to take this one specific bet, you can only realistically take all possible improbable bets.
I was on the back-end of a large electronic health records implementation. I'm not actually sure better care resulted, and the security was that dystopian type, ridiculous and insecure at the same time (we had to downgrade some systems to connect).

At least in this mental health practice, you charted on paper / locally to the providers systems. We had a billing team (in old model) that only uploaded key patient info (MRN / DOB / Service date / time / billing code) to a billing system. This was done using billing slips that went to someone trained on it (who could handle all the weird hassles around eligibility etc etc).

Provider would actually talk to patients etc etc. The notes were pretty focused afterwards. And yes - pretty secure - it was actually hard to just browse around - providers locked up their notes in their office, and their office was locked (we had a three lock rule -> front door with alarm (metal gate), office locked, file drawer locked.

What people don't tell you is with the electronic health record, they also required that all these required elements be "charted" - on EVERY visit. So in new system pretty soon charts become a pages of boilerplate per visit - copy and paste stuff. It was not useful anymore to do a case history from this chart.

So we made the admin folks happy, but what a trash experience - the EHR folks are selling bills of goods and the admin folks implementing and the compliance folks mandating endless boilerplate and macro entries to get anything approved are wasting all our time and money.

I got out, never felt better - the people were great, the ordered from on high decade old java app through a double VPN that worked 50% of the time with no user experience thinking - a nightmare.

And in this new system, every sysadmin could basically snoop on anyone (all in the name of patient coordination) as could lots of others who just ended up with the extra permissions because the system was so locked down we all basically had to be superusers. To run billing reports you needed access to every record - so they had to give you these ridiculous permission levels. And to avoid QC issues billing staff are reading all the chart notes to make sure all the required boilerplate is in them. Such BS. This system was integrated with a lot of providers, so you could also see everything related to that person everywhere (all the office / admin / billing staff at literally every provider included). While a bit helpful if you had a billing issue (same unit type billed at an unapproved frequency) all the benefits focused on that type stuff (admin ease) and privacy was zero across that backend system.
The UEFI spec insists on locked down - Microsoft sells features that depend on it being open, and sells them probably for much more than the value of dealing with rabid lawyers is.
That is a really simplistic take IMO:

1. Many software projects that would be profitable at 100k per engineer become unprofitable at 500k per engineer, so implying "just pay all your engineers more" isn't actionable advice.

2. If you could pay engineers 500k, without a societal-wide increase in skills, it means those workers would just come from other high-demand jobs, potentially creating a shortage in those areas.
> No sensible person believes blocking QAnon nonsense is a "scandal."

It's not QAnon, and the fact that you made that statement betrays your political biases. Think of the harm you could be causing by your attitude. If the Jeff Epstein story broke during Bill Clinton's electoral run, would you also dismiss it as a conspiracy?

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1330253/bill-clinton-massage-ep...
In my experience realistically even if you can unlock the bootloader, the hardware is still so proprietary that you have no hope of ever installing an alternative OS it because by the time you reverse engineer it all the phone is already 10 years old.
If it wasn't a foreign meddling attempt then it was a domestic one. To me this is less a question about Twitter's right to block stories (which it absolutely has) but rather a question of whether election meddling attempts should be recognized on their own as blockable or censorable content.
That was literally the first links of dozens. I can pull articles from NYT, Crain's, CNBC, you name it, all showing the trend. The budget deficit alone should suffice. The fact that you ascribe a "political agenda" and use the phrase "show your ass" - what is this supposed to mean, that we discovered the enemy in the room? Don't answer that, I don't want to know.
A great look at coffee house culture at the time is in Tom Standage's A History of the World In 6 Glasses. At this time, coffee houses were the place to be.
https://www.amazon.com/History-World-6-Glasses/dp/0802715524
> what is the point of it?

Great question, and I share some of your concern, though I can imagine some positive framings in addition to what you wrote. For example, to use an analogy, what’s the point of trying to predict the weather, or trying to predict the stock market? There are lots of reasons including planning ahead for likely outcomes, the ability to protect against losses, and last but not least making money.

I can also imagine that the desire to talk about the potential outcomes is valuable as a social activity, and doesn’t necessarily need to meet a standard of influencing the vote, or adding to our democracy.

> My concern is that these things are distracting and may actually dissuade some people from voting because they think they “don’t have to.”

Of course if your concern is founded, this can go both ways... if the polls show the candidate you favor starting to lose, it could be a call to vote.

If polls are distracting and dissuade voters, then unfortunately election results might do exactly the same or worse. When a state has been solidly red or blue and not purple for 50 years in a row, people do (perhaps rightly so) jump to conclusions about the outcome in advance.

One question we could ask is whether, if voting were made mandatory, would election predictions go away? I’d speculate no.
> The ability to digitize and aggregate the data, and maybe even subject it to some kinds of AI, might result in massive improvement in therapy.

This 100% is not true.

We can't properly even see rates of STI increases in communities quickly, so worrying about an AI that would have IQ's at human level, which is decades away, is not relevant.

This 100% could be done with written notes.

Cost is the only factor.

Making a therapist cheaper will save lives.

I suspect electronic notes saves pennies in the dollar, compared to the other expenses of therapy.
As someone who worked a couple of decades for a company selling GPL-ed development tools, I was always mystified by a similar case. It was the developers who wanted to develop proprietary software and were upset that they would have to pay subscriptions if they wanted to distribute their software without the GPL "restrictions".
Airlines have always banned some subset of people from flying them for various behaviors and actions. What would be interesting to understand is how much of an increase this is - both relative to the number of flights and number of passengers - from prior to March 2020. Primarily, because this seems like a safety issue - every time someone gets banned, there is probably an altercation with a flight attendant (they remind people often to put their masks back on) and that’s time that flight attendant is unable to perform other duties.
Kudos to iD Tech’s PR firm.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

> Parents are scrambling to find creative ways to cover a disrupted school year. That is where a handful of operators, like iD Tech, are stepping in to fill the skills gap.

> iD Tech teaches cutting-edge topics ranging from virtual robotics to Roblox and 3D printing, and in-demand coding languages like Java, Python, and Unity. It also recently launched a math tutoring service in response to consumer demand. iD Tech alumni often go on to work for companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and also Facebook
That's still not tyranny, that's just the network effect. They have a choice about what platform to use as do you and I.
In psychotherapy it is called the Dodo bird verdict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict
So the high Isp is due to the very light exhaust (hydrogen, not water or CO₂) which gives the higher velocity to the gas molecules at a lower temperature?
It's really not the most important parameter, though. Unless you get the necessary thrust levels, the efficiency (Isp) of electric propulsion will get you very efficiently nowhere.

And don't get me wrong - electric is amazing and well working, but if you want to move serious payload to Mars, that's not going to work for a while.
Isn't that technically true, though? I thought Swartz joined them later, months after they had already launched the site.
Of leases 24 months long the average lease should be 12 months in right now (given steady state). I.e half of them expire in a year. Lets say that they realised this summer that things will be different then the effect should gradually start to show almost immediately.
Waterbed Theory
> If they had less authoritarian instincts, they’d realize that prohibitions generally spectacularly fail. I suspect any of the things they wanted to ban just got attention they never would have otherwise due to the Streisand effect.

If that's true, why oppose censorship?
I tried ebay - didn't see the part unfortunately.

That is very cool to know about GE appliances!
I appreciate what you're trying to say here, but a UNSC resolution is not even a full step away from "great power games". It's not the same, but it's hardly different.
> I'll note that the whole password on a sticky note example is not ideal, but doesn't weaken such systems against what is likely the biggest risk they face: network systems being compromised remotely.

Until somebody posts a selfie with the sticky note in the background.
Proposition 47 essentially decriminalized shoplifting. Californians literally voted for this petty crime wave. As a Florida resident, all I can say is, y'all have fun with that
I don't want dozens of links to Crain's. I want primary data that shows the current net domestic migration out of New York (or SF, you pick) is unprecedented in decades, which is what you said.
Are you aware of "Adaptive DNS Resolver Discovery"[1] and do you have plans to block that too? (It's already in iOS 14 and slated for macOS 11.)

1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pauly-add-resolver-di...
It takes more than that, but the pieces are ready, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18520231
easy. I googled the population increase during a normal workday.

During regular Monday - Friday business hours, the city's population surges by at least 20 percent -- or more than 160,000 people.
https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/11327/interactive-how-san-franc...

that number could be wrong. but that 20% beats your 4% by a comfy margin. and that 20% has special impact on the city center that employs many service workers. those people are no longer commuting. if they're no longer commuting, then prices of apartments close to jobs will lose value. then rents will fall. rents are hard data that you apparently refuse to google.
Nah.. if you want to get out of a depression or recession hire a Democrat. It’s a fact supported by the data.
GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN

HELLO

A STRANGE GAME.

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS

NOT TO PLAY.

But how? Choices:

* "Does this need to be an app at all?"

* SwiftUI

* Flutter

* UWP

* I don't know what competing options there are on free platforms these days, but I care more and more about freedom these days, so I'd love to know about projects that bring composable views to these OSes.
This is the problem with people not understanding how Secure Boot works, then reading specs that require such understanding.

For max-level compatibility with Windows 10 Enterprise, there's a requirement that owner of the device can change all the keys. It doesn't require a "disable Secure Boot" setting. Worst case, the device won't permit you to keep it in what's called "Setup Mode" without some inconvenience, however you have to be able to enter Setup Mode.

What's Setup Mode?

Setup Mode is when the PK variable (PlatformKey) is empty, effectively disabling SecureBoot. This mode exists so that you can load new PK value. According to UEFI Secure Boot spec, it's supposed to be frozen by manufacturer. However, being able to set your own one is critical to some of the Windows Enterprise features, and as such a way to enter that mode is required by Windows certification.
I feel the same with SSD, although it's replacable. Often it's cheaper to buy the smallest SSD option, throw it out and buy a new 2TB SSD instead of asking for it integrated.
No, nuclear thermal rockets could be launched from the ground. That was the plan with NERVA, which was a pretty serious attempt to develop the technology in the early seventies. A nuclear thermal rocket engine 'looks' like a rocket engine, but there's energy from fission in the combustion chamber.
It may well have made the story bigger, but also it may have benefitted Joe Biden anyway due to (e.g.) the education many people got regarding this attempt at election meddling. The polls didn't seem to get significantly worse for Biden as this unfolded.
There’s been many weeks where epidemiologist were sounding the alarms but the CDC had basically zero tests available. The whole world was getting infected and the US was flying blind

Or May be just look at what other Asian countries have done (outside of China) and look at what they did. It’s exactly everything the US did not do

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/sin...
ssh or remote X server
Are you familiar with unsafe IO?

It's used pervasively in low-level code because the idealism of monads just doesn't cut it. In my opinion, this proves that the pragmatism of side effects is a necessary evil for actually getting things done in a performant way.

Lazy evaluation has the same kind of issues. Most humans don't think that way, so performance suffers. This may be a universal problem as in my experience, Haskell doesn't have good tooling to help with this issue.

Always immutable is another large issue. Yes, there's a ton of safety in immutability and it's the right tool for MOST code. Compilers aren't prefect and there seem to be an endless stream of situations where the compiler can't figure out if it is safe to mutate "immutable" data to gain performance. For the foreseeable future, the ability to mutate can have huge performance dividends.

Finally, Haskell and it's libraries are prone to rather academic programming styles and techniques. These are amazing and beautiful. They also can be hard to grep even if you know the math. When you consider that the overwhelming majority of programmers don't know the math, it seems plain that these constructs are a detriment to pragmatic, non-academic usage.
Glamping Veluwe
Nuclear rockets are almost exclusively proposed for use as upper stage engines or for interplanetary transfers. One major reason for this is "no one wants their launch complex to glow", which is a major downside of the currently feasible nuclear rocket engines with >>1 TWR. (Orion drive, which is throwing nukes out the back and riding the shockwave, and the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket, which is like that but continuous via a standing nuclear detonation in streams of enriched Uranium salts in water)

Once you're in space, ISP matters a lot more than TWR, and is the main limiting factor on how far you can get with a given mass fraction. Nuclear rockets generally have ISPs at least double that of the current best high-thrust engines, hydrolox. (hydrogen+liquid oxygen)
Capitalism is the least of journalism's problems. Journalists making political endorsements has all the same dangers under communism (where they always endorse the state party without exception) or capitalism (where in the last 50 years they've overwhelmingly endorsed global interests and Democrats over American ones).
SF is in desperate need of living space

Is this still true? Rents are plummeting because of people leaving. Plenty of apartments for rent right now. No need to convert commercial space.
Fantastic. Can we have 24M next?
Oh, I totally agree—Sway is my favorite window manager on Linux by far. systemd and Wayland and other similar projects are controversial, but they're making huge improvements in the Linux desktop space and the lack of fragmentation is refreshing.
You missed the part where this thread was flagged by HackerNews earlier.
The way you feel about SF vs your 300k residents town is how I feel about Tokyo vs SF. When I'm in SF it's sad how few choices I have and how bad most of them are. And all those asian restaurants you mention are not remotely "good". You can find a few descent asian restaurants in the south bay like say Fremont but LA does them all significantly better and in far higher quantity
Agreed, both on the conclusion and the argument.

I've posted my own, based on an earlier HN ccomment. Some parts of this are simply wierd:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/808cf690f8e801381778002590d8e...
The criterion can be that stories that are unfairly promoted are penalised. HN does something similar.
I guess it depends on the circle of friends/coworkers as well as location. I hardly hear anyone talk about inequality in my circles. Many would be considered top 10%, but most would at least be top 25%.

On the national level, many people in high cost of living areas may be in the top 10%, but may not feel as blessed because of the high cost of living. For example, you may be making $300k per year in a dual income family in SF, but an average house might cost $750k.

In my opinion, if one complains about something multiple times, but does not do anything to fix the issue, then that is hypocrisy.
Probably true, though much of the focus following the suppression is on Twitter and Facebook and not Biden.
It's true but they are also a bit past the point of diminishing returns, at least in the bang/buck department.
I did a double take when I saw that and realized the entire point of this piece was not to be informative or novel in the slightest.
"One of these days you should read the X section of the Unix Haters Handbook."

I have. It was written by someone who doesn't know the difference between a "client" and a "server".
Allegedly. I've never managed to make more than 2 of them work at 60hz at the same time. Maybe the correct set of cables might make it work, but they're like $20 each and frankly I'm sick to death of spending without results.
Faster ships are good, yes, but doubling the specific impulse also means you can move twice as much for the same amount of fuel (roughly, don't get pendatic on me).

Twice as much mass may not sound that important, but there's always these limits wherein it's not worth building it at all because it would take too much fuel. The life support equipment humans need is also heavy- double the lsp is what we need.

So many options open up with an efficient and powerful rocket like this.
“Sometimes I Think We’re Alone, and Sometimes I Think We’re Not.”
They did a good job too. It’s a lovely building in my opinion.
Same logic: if your product is unprofitable at the market rate for engineers (not saying 500k is!) than you need to re-evaluate your business plan.
In the end, inflation kills us all. By 2050 seeing 500k salaries for tech as a norm might be a thing, for now it’s reserved for a very select few companies that pay their engineers more than their sales people.
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Two words: pinebook pro. It’s slow, and an arm processor (so missing software support). Also, stability isn’t the best, but it is improving.

Other than that, it meets all the Free source and ergonomic thin laptop requirements for $200.

My ideal setup is something like that as a client, and a bunch of high end machines located far away from my desk.
Yes, I agree that most major cities have these things, but I truly believe the SF Symphony is special, almost as brilliant as the NY Philharmonic.

They regularly host top performers from around the world -- Itzhak Perlman, Gustavo Dudamel, Yuja Wang, and so many more. And Michael Tilson Thomas is a treasure. Anyway, I can ramble about this forever and I appreciate the response :)
Trump asks Supreme Court to block deadline extension for North Carolina ballot
There are no economic islands.

Office space is vacant, property prices drop, tax revenue drop, city services get reduced.
I didn’t know about NERVA, thanks for the correction!
I agree. IMO, being frugal is more like being careful to spend extra money only when it makes a real difference in what you're getting than getting the cheapest version of everything no matter what. By all means, don't buy a $30k car when a $12k car does everything you need a car to do. But for a tech professional, it's silly to pinch pennies on a tool you spend a substantial part of your waking hours using and is used to earn your living and should last several years.