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> It was insane for Twitter to open their HQ in the middle of SF's skid row.

I remember SF city government going out of their way to try to get actual businesses in there. Clearly Twitter made the egregious error of trying to play ball with the city government.

> Have you asked, "What can do to gain welcome?"

Yes.

The answers ranged from "fuck you" to "sell all your stuff, give all your money to charity, give your job to a QTPOC, and leave". None of them included kindness, compassion, or being a decent human being. None of them actually allowed for the possibility of welcome.

> Okay if that's what you're getting from SFians you are hanging out with the WRONG SFians

I don't hang out with them if I can help it. I just meet the ones who lambast millions of dollars to charity as bad (when it's people they dislike) and characterize SF's xenophobic policies as love. Who obsess over SF's supposed weirdness while resenting people who don't conform to their expectations. Who make excuses for treating migrants with hostility, and expect them to understand as they refuse to return the favor.

I cut them out of my life as quickly as I can, because I have very little tolerance for that kind of hypocritical xenophobia.

The old skool SF types seem to like me. I've got a kind of weird they appreciate. The new skool, on the other hand...

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But I'll play along. What can I do to gain a welcome?
I think the format is good for your podcast, where your listeners would be used to hearing your voice. On Hacker News though, people are a bit more familiar with BWK.

Thank you very much for transcribing the text; it's better to listen, but it's easier to translate to other languages, and also read while looking busy in an office. The audio is better for the Canadian accents though!
There have been proposals to track the location of trucks at all times, presumably so that a truck that drives all over the country is paying road fees in the states where it's actually driving instead of to whatever other state it's registered in (which would presumably be the one with the lowest fees). Levying the fees at the charging point replicates the existing (imperfect but pretty good) model with fuel tax because you at least have to charge somewhere that you're actually driving that day, without the privacy implications of tracking the vehicle at all times.
Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 PSI (2019)
> Before ~2001 or so SF was one of the most welcoming places in the whole of this planet of Earth.

JWZ's struggles with San Francisco about the DNA Lounge were quite legendary and that was prior to 2001.

SF was welcoming as long as you were buying shitty property in a shitty area and helping to gentrify it. Anything else and they fought you tooth and nail.

The difference now is that all the shitty property is gone.
Where do you derive this "almost no one" from? I use it all the time in production, and I guess quite a few other users use it to fulfill their very high uptime requirements.
I don't understand the correlation of PHP in this case. It's not about the stack but about the time vs opportunity.
In practice, if you literally replace a 20% tip with a 20% service charge, gross wages for staff decline significantly -- this is a consistent pattern. This strongly suggests that they are not equivalent from the perspective of customer psychology in some important ways, changing customer behavior. Many restaurants in Seattle have tried this and it plays out the same way every time.

The consensus theory among my industry friends is that Americans are more generous with their spending when there is a perception that the money is going to a real person -- tipping -- whereas a service charge goes to the restaurant company. Customers attribute the cost of the meal differently in these two scenarios and they are not as willing to spend more money if it goes to some faceless company instead of a person they interact with.
Because buttons weren't distinguished by color in Windows 9x, but by borders and shadows. You can do that on the web too, but this article is about color.
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Yeah no. If a design calls for something like green colored errors then that is simply bad design.

Please be unique in other ways.
I am not going to install a government app for tracking. That is a slippery slope. These government officials have thoroughly demonstrated their incompetence and unwillingness to admit their failures. When they have taken more power, when have they relinquished it?

Also consider that the US is a Republic and lets states keep larger amounts of their rights to run their own state the way they want. There federal government cannot legally prescribe solutions, only encourage and inform.

Another reason to avoid bluetooth all together is the immense amount of tracking going on in the physical world via Beacons. I explicitly disable bluetooth when not using it. I would not be surprised if Apple & Google or the Govt use this information / tech for other reasons.
Big tech has basically monopolized all the attention and all the talent. Some of the smartest people of our time are working on ad delivery platforms, aka propaganda machines.

Not only that, in this case it looks like a big advertiser can just call a senior exec at YouTube and yell at him and magically a channel that's critical of the advertiser will vanish. I'd be very surprised if I'm wrong.
You can't buy a used UPS truck, they get crushed when they wear out.

FedEx just uses standard Sprinters or box trucks so you could find a used one of those anywhere.
So they continue operation as usual? I don't understand this chapter 11 thing. Also read this week that Norwegian Airlines applied for something similar but continue operating. Can someone explain how come companies can file for bunkruptcy but continue operations?
I just don't know what to do with my shameful career when reading this.

Some people seem so focused and without doubts, I just feel so far away on the other side of that spectrum.
I think it's pretty gross and unethical to train crows to pick up cigarette butts (and likely poison them).
What did you learn about the differences between the Tinkerboards and rPi's? I've got snags I've run into with pi's in casual use, but I suspect they'll be different to what you've found just because you've had the chance to put both through a proper wringer.
So PDF viewers apps on MacOS do not support color changing by way of accessibility options?
Yes, you do... which is as it should be. What else would you expect?

If a function needs capability X then it must require that capability. Simple as that.
It was also co-authored by Adam Wathan, the creator of the tailwind css framework.
You beat me to it. The economics of pizza are uniquely good. Spending 30% on the cost of delivery does not matter in that case.
No, think of it like checked exceptions, you only need to handle the effect _at most once_ before it reaches the top (it's up to you to let it keep getting passed up or handle it immediately), otherwise the compiler will automatically infer the effect types in the layers between.
The author of this article has obviously never owned a parrot.
Name a single platform where NULL is not 0.
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Looks like a car accident: https://hudsonvalleypost.com/man-killed-in-hudson-valley-aft...
From the article:

> "In the few short days since he died,"
from what I can tell, the details of the algorithm are secret and they may do this (different weighting).

> Altho I would rather disable all drive-by downvotes if it were upto me.

Then people would reply with low value comments in order to make their dv count.
It’s not a conscious optimization. It’s just having to compete with others. Same as needing a college degree for so many jobs, not because it’s going to teach you what you need, but because enough of the other applicants have one and it’s a tiny tiny signal.

Imagine a world where you can get enough pay to eat and go out and pay rent in four hours of work per week. Your landlord can rent to you or to the person who decides to work eight hours per week, so he raises the rent and rents to the other guy who is willing to work more and needs housing as much as you do. So now you have to work more too. Everyone works more because everyone else works more, just like you have to not cooperate on a prisoners dilemma because you know the other guy won’t cooperate either (because he knows the same thing you do).
It must be possible to achieve a happy medium: something with the legibility of an older design that doesn't look dated or unpolished. (Though I reject the notion that 90's designs weren't sophisticated or polished.) It doesn't need to limit itself to six colours, but I'm not convinced that an endless series of shades with low contrast to one another is good design from a functional perspective.
I do not remember anything that would indicate that orcs selected leaders or anything else based on merit.

Parts that were shown included plenty of violence, treachery, oppression including slavery and other mistreatment (all included also orcs as victims).

With basically no reward for merit.

> All the good-guy societies are deeply hierarchical.

Yes, but the same is true for evil ones.

And if anything, good guys have less extreme hierarchies. Especially hobbits.
I’m amazed at statements like this on HN.

Just because you have some traction and user base doesn’t automatically lend itself to building a multi billion dollar business.

You’re going from 10,000 users, completely unmonetized to billions of users while acquiring many other companies and integrating them.

That’s not a minor detail to gloss over. Whether you’re morally aligned or not with Facebook, I think you’d agree.
> ...write an article in late 2020
The article is from Feb 2019
My bad, what I meant was "so reliant on others using it"
A categorized Python library index
Do not disturb: Setting time-off boundaries when work is just a click away
A4 paper - A screen is fine for a quick scan of papers and to filter out the dross, but actually reading a paper takes paper.
RISC-V so far is a turndown for a design, speaking honestly.

ARM have by faaaaar the best tooling in the industry, which are more open, than not, and the baseline is made on GNU toolchain, only with more fancy debug tools being paid/locked down.

RISC-V did not yet benefit from its openness for as long as tooling go.

However, RISC-V would still be infinitely better than Cadence, and them wanting $100k for a basic (and terrible) debugger with coresight-like functionality.
You might be correct. However, there were settlements in Mexico in the 1500s, not just explorers. They were miners, traders, etc. My point is not undermined -- there were many non-English settlements before the 1620 Pilgrims.

Of note:

"In the late 1560s, however, the able Viceroy Martin Enriquez stepped in to throw the weight of the royal government behind the effort to better (or more actively) defend the Spanish towns, mines, and ranches. In 1569, Enriquez declared all-out war ("war by fire and blood"-- guerra a fuego y sangre) against the Chichimecs and began establishing presidios in the Far North, with the result that by 1590, the presidio was a major frontier institution, a symbol of the King's authority in the Far North."

https://californiamissionsfoundation.org/articles/the-presid...

Unfortunately, it does not explain "Far North", but it is definitely distinct from Alta California (San Diego) if you read further. So I would guess this means the Baja, but I don't really know.
A federated Reddit alternative called Lemmy is looking promising https://github.com/LemmyNet
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Hasura isn't proprietary though? It's OSS software, code lives on the GH repo:

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
I can no longer edit my comment - it is intended to say "alleged scam". Posting due to chilling effect.
I thought I had a good sense of aesthetics, but I struggled with coming up with a color scheme for my own app. Once you pick colors that look nice, when you put them together, something always seems off! There isn't a unity and it's hard as an analytical thinker to explain why. You just can feel it.

Articles like this helped me out a bit, as well as just trying different things. This includes taking an app or website you like and analyzing the colors they use. It helps to look at their use of saturation and lightness in specific elements (i.e. CTAs are typically more saturated and backgrounds and other elements you wish to mute are less saturated).

In the end, if you can come up with a cohesive color palette, your product definitely looks more polished and professional. You have an overall feeling of confidence in it, even if the code has not changed one bit. It's like suspension of disbelief in a movie. When you hit something that shatters the illusion, you're taken out of the story and just look at the film as a series of filmed events played out in sequence and less like a narrative.
Are there adblockers that work on iPads? Or do you have to use a pihole type setup?
> if someone is going to sell guitars and drum kits, why can't it be Guitar Center?

why would it be guitar center? I don't see anything that would give them a competitive advantage. I only ever go there to try guitars. if I really like one, I'm probably just going to go home and order a pristine example online. there's no way I'm gonna drop $800+ on a guitar that's been sitting in the open air and manhandled by customers for an unknown length of time. it's not a local business, so I don't even feel bad about it.

as I see it, a brick-and-mortar retailer has three possible functions: an inventory, a showroom, and a service center. it's hard even for a large physical store to beat an online retailer on inventory. guitar center in particular does not seem to be trusted as a service center. musicians I know would only take their guitars there for repairs/setups if there was literally no other option. this basically makes it just a showroom. it's hard to make money showing other people's products that can be bought cheaper elsewhere.

it seems to me that the only way forward for third party brick-and-mortars is to somehow monetize the showroom role. maybe they could get paid directly by the manufacturer to show their products or have some sort of referral system. integrate it with a service center and let the customers play with the display guitars while you fix theirs.
Okay, agreed.
I have YouTube premium too. Even though I probably watch more Twitch streams than YouTube, I still wouldn't consider paying for the Twitch equivalent because YouTube has so many useful videos (tutorials, lectures, historical photage, interviews, seminars etc.), while Twitch is 99.99% entertainment. I use the ads on Twitch as deterrence to get me back to watching something of substance instead.
How many times have I googled a question only to arrive at a closed SO question- too many times. It's truly annoying. Plainly people do want to discuss things on SO.
Celebrating two Canadian POWs who took down an entire shipyard
Luckily it’s in Sweden where there is no minimum wage law and no need to declare when the income is as low as for these birds. Also, the labour law is speciecist and does not apply to individuals who don’t pass as “human”
OK, but I think the point is some people want to wear this watch regardless of it being cheap or expensive. Not everything is about price.
I mean... if you're fixing a broken API, you're going to have to bite the bullet either way -- papering over it isn't going to fix anything... it just hides the problems.

With a type system which understands effects, at least the compiler can give you very accurate help in fixing call sites.
No, I think the outcomes changed. I think the outcomes changed to be more chaotic. I can generate two possible narratives that seem plausible to me:
1) Republicans change their opinion after seeing the President getting Covid and realizing their vulnerability.
2) Further entrenching their belief that if the President can recover, so can they.

In reality, I think both narratives apply to different populations. The question becomes how many people changed their belief and how many didn't. I think 50/50 is a fair (and simple) assumption that doesn't change your expectation of the election.

With regards to your Boeing example. Seeing multiple bad events clearly negatively impacts Boeing. But Trump getting Covid is not clearly a negative to his election chances. You would have to convince me by polling many Republicans to see how their views changes pre/post Trump getting infected. Without having polled the people, I think a 50/50 split is a fair assumption. Of course, I would update my belief in the presence of relevant data.
I’m not sure what you mean by “opinion”.

It was definitely more clear what was a button, vs tree, etc. in old Windows UIs, where there was exactly one standard. In the modern web, each application reimplements the widgets from scratch.

Certainly, that’s less clear than a well thought out standard set of UI elements.
> gain critical mass is relentless deep commitment to developer tools/libraries and documentation

Which seems (IMHO) why the likes of Texas Instruments has failed. They've made a few attempts at jumping on the IoT bandwagon over the last decade and should have been in a perfect position to capitalize on the huge uptake but it just didn't fit their profit margin goals I'm guessing.
Companies are collections of people, each of which are free to have their own beliefs, but that doesn't mean the company should officially share and support their individual beliefs. I see this only causing endless division within the company, instead of people being (more) unified in their pursuit of the company's vision.

Why not encourage employees to represent their beliefs individually, and off company time, by giving them more vacation and flexible working hours instead? Empower the employees to participate in politics without the company taking a side itself?

I'm tired of people pushing their political beliefs onto me at every opportunity, in every available setting, IRL and online.
Ah, I too love his work. I have yet to use tailwind but I plan on it for my current project. Read his rationale behind utility classes vs semantic/classic/whatever-you-call-it CSS and... it just makes so much sense. It reads like he thought of every “well, but what about X” and it shows
my company supports microsoft office 365 enterprise version i guess. we have onenotes and onedrive. I use chrome bookmarks. And i have personal office 365 account, so if someday i need, will migrate to my own onenote and onedrive.
Microsoft’s Latest Windows 10 Win Comes from an Unlikely Source Apple
True, but the service is still up and running, there's must be someone behind it :)
One of the things that made me quit my last job was the director frequently talking politics before meetings while waiting for everyone to join.

There's no winning. Agree and risk setting yourself at odds against your peers and future managers, or disagree and put yourself at odds with the person who holds the purse for your team.

Even worse, complain to HR, and risk politically disagreeing with them.

I stuck with that job long enough to find something better, and almost regret staying with it as long as I did.
Isnt it lovely, a possibly whole new era of the world and its markets and its workforce just unfolding infront of our eyes.
We’re actually building the desktop app and local storage is almost done for the web app over at https://logseq.com ! We’re using the new Filesystem API so look forward to many of these tools supporting local storage in the future!
True. Although in retrospect, I see a lot of those local stores as having a limited inventory of gear and all the incentive in the world to push that inventory. While I have a special place in my heart for things like indie bookstores, homebrew suppliers, etc. a lot of small local specialty shops really weren't all that great.
As I wrote in my OP, I'm including non-permanent settlements, too.

"By the 1580s, French trading companies had been set up, and ships were contracted to bring back furs. Much of what transpired between the indigenous population and their European visitors around that time is not known, for lack of historical records."

"Other attempts at establishing permanent settlements were also failures. In 1598, a French trading post was established on Sable Island, off the coast of Acadia, but was unsuccessful. In 1600, a trading post was established at Tadoussac, but only five settlers survived the winter.[11] In 1604, a settlement was founded at Île-Saint-Croix on Baie François (Bay of Fundy), which was moved to Port-Royal in 1605. It was abandoned in 1607, re-established in 1610, and destroyed in 1613, after which settlers moved to other nearby locations, creating settlements that were collectively known as Acadia, and the settlers as Acadians."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France#Early_exploration_(...
Why does Shimano have arbitrary product mix requirements for OEMs? Why should they set different prices for different markets in excess of the costs to ship between those markets?

It sounds like they're being overly aggressive with their price segmentation. When setting up your first lemonade stand, you learn that you should set prices at the sum of costs for goods, labor, and overhead, plus a profit margin, hoping that the output of your manufacture delivers more value to your customers than that sum. Shimano doesn't want to be paid a flat rate for the value they add, they would prefer that everyone to pay exactly as much as they could possibly be willing to pay.
Well, in Texas it varies from a minimum of 6.25% to a maximum of 8.25%, but 8.25 is indeed typical:

> Texas imposes a 6.25 percent state sales and use tax on all retail sales, leases and rentals of most goods, as well as taxable services. Local taxing jurisdictions (cities, counties, special purpose districts and transit authorities) can also impose up to 2 percent sales and use tax for a maximum combined rate of 8.25 percent.

https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/sales//
Has someone written a web browser plugin to clamp all the off white grays to white, and the off black grays to black?

I paid for a high contrast screen with uniform black and whites. I don’t want to clamp the palette to stuff that looks good on a worn out tft.
This is absolutely untrue for video cameras - both DSLM's and larger 'cinema cameras' like the FX9 and C300 iii, let alone Arri and Red models. They're selling faster that they can be manufactured in many cases.
Ironically, I'll bet most people think they can assume what your politics are just based on this post alone.
The study claims its sample sizes were large enough to see an effect if there were one; I'm not expert enough to evaluate the math, but I assume they are telling the truth.

None of your other points give me any reason to believe masks provide protection to the wearer. I agree the study does not speak to whether wearing masks provides protection to others. (And I have so far not seen analysis that convinces me one way or the other on that point.)
In the bike business (and many others), there are middlemen in between the middlemen! Between me and a bike brand would often be a distributor and in between me and the distributor was a sales rep! I found my sales reps (who took 1-4 points off the margin) to be generally likeable and altogether useless. But there they were, a relic of bike retail of old, still hanging on.

And that's the view of more than a few consumers in terms of how they view their bike shop. Anything that can be sold direct, will be.