skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ActivityPub, Matrix, XMPP and NNTP all do superficially similar things in very different ways. I personally think of ActivityPub as being a bit like multiplayer RSS; Matrix as being like a replicated pubsub open object database; XMPP like a overgenerously extensible messaging protocol; NNTP like a semi-closed federated BBS.

They all have different primitives and semantics - it’s not just data types. Matrix is the only one which actually implements a full data structure replication protocol between nodes, for instance.

Braid https://braid.news/ is one way you might be able to abstract thag operation on HTTP tho.
This. Came here to say exactly this.

I hate those stupid apps that use custom interfaces and custom buttons and whatnot. And for what? "Branding"?

Somehow f.lux gets a pass from me here but it's on thin ice ;)
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I haven’t seen a single grant system in the crypto space that was worthwhile.

Gitcoin is arguably the closest to working but at least it’s obvious that it’s a popularity contest there.

All the corporate controlled grants are super arbitrary, unorganized, opaque and you don't even know who you are selling to.

And all the community ones are penny pinched popularity contests where everyone still imagines that specialized devs from Malaysia will work at low rates.
1. Many of the links I shared are about the Bay Area as a whole.

2. Here's the definition of zoning:

> Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones.

Here's the definition of libertarianism:

> Libertarianism is a political philosophy and movement that upholds liberty as a core principle Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, emphasizing free association, freedom of choice, individualism and voluntary association.

In what way is government dictating that you can't build more housing on your property "libertarian"? You're pulling some desperate mental gymnastics.

> As for zoning laws, they are absolutely libertarian, in the sense that the people who have made it are using them to pull the ladder up behind them.

Literal nonsense. That's not what "libertarian" means.
Not true, your seeing what you want to see.
But can't that backfire? Python 2 just meets your criteria, but you shouldn't use it, vs Python 3 which is only 12 years old.
A relevant machine-translated paragraph appears to indicate that they are only required to implement monitoring of a single mailbox:

> This is about a blackmail that had been sent to an automotive supplier from a Tutanota mailbox. Tutanota is now forced to program a function by the end of the year that allows the State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia to monitor this mailbox.

Lacking the ability to read this without translation, I cannot determine conclusively whether or not they're also required to preemptively retain plaintext emails for other mailboxes in order to support any future wiretapping requests.
> You can't set window.location.href=""; to a clickonce activation link because of a race condition in the download bar in IE.

I don't even... shakes head in dismay
I general agree that timed coding is not good. I had a similar experience. I don't know that take-home stuff is good either. It can allow some individuals to cheat.
I disagree that these are disqualifying, and also disagree Monero is a better alternative, but you missed one big one I do find worrying about zcash: there's no way to verify supply. Not only do you have to trust the trusted setup, but if the cryptography is broken it will be very difficult to find out there's no way to verify that coins are not being created from this air.
We talk about the tech community right? What do you do when there's a problem in your community you want to address... not talk about it?
Feel like this article is thin on people moving to Miami, so here's a short thread of people ID'd as moving to Miami in just the last seven days: https://twitter.com/bunsen/status/1335735136277688329
Your link says otherwise. These would make it completely unusable... I'm not sure what they were even testing...

> First of all, there is no video or sound driver, so we were stuck with a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768. The network drivers apparently don't totally register with Windows
The leaked info is sort of wrong in both directions. (Or, the info is correct, but is widely misinterpreted.)

The $2.4B they paid to ST Micro is not for terminals, as ST Micro doesn't manufacture electronics, they are a foundry and so they only make the chips. The $2.4B includes the costs for the chips for the first million receivers, but the assembly and non-chip costs add a lot on top of that. So in that sense, $2400 per terminal is a serious underestimate.

But it's also wrong in the other direction, because the $2.4B didn't just include the chips, it also included the development and mask costs for those chips. This should be considered to be NRE and not considered as part of the price of the terminals, as SpaceX will not have to pay that for the next million terminals.

So the real number is above or below $2400 depending on what costs more, the motors, pcbs, the antenna layers, the chassis and the assembly of a terminal, or 1/1000000 of the NRE of developing the ASICs for Starlink. Who knows.
Was there anyone who actually still believed that story? I mean, it should have been pretty obvious for at least a few years but did someone still believe it? (Less snarkily, they do still have a financial interest but yeah.)
The zoo was a WPA project!
You are really late to this party, this has been happening since the late 90s.
There are suburban "downtowns"/shopping districts near many BART and Caltrain stops where it's quite possible to commute and do most everyday errands on foot/bike/transit. Possibly even easier than a lot of the southwestern half of SF proper. (Having no access to a car at all - through friends or a willingness to use Lyft/Uber - does make some things harder). The older and higher-density suburbs tend to be better for this: for instance downtown San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Berkeley, Pleasanton. You pay for the privilege though, and I'm not sure that it's _that_ unique nationally?
I was just trying to figure out why this was on my front page. There's no call to action, no analysis, just some rando's car with a broken window. I don't live in SF but my city has crime too. The link is a clickbait title as well which I found super annoying.
LeetCode is not fundamentals.
Netflix not playing in Chromium is a Chromium problem, not a Linux problem. Don't blame Linux for Chrome and Netflix making the web a proprietary DRM shithole.

If you want Netflix in Linux it's as simple as installing the official Google Chrome browser.
I've had a similar thought regarding the impact of affordable autonomous vehicles, for two reasons. 1) Commuters who can read / game / whittle while they commute will be willing to commute farther, and 2) if widespread adoption of autonomous cars can mitigate the effects of traffic (i.e. enable us to actually drive the speed limit during rush hour, or at least closer to it), we'll be able to commute farther in the same amount of time.

Those effects combined would unlock an absolute ton of land around urban areas.
> "we can make it private, but not for criminals"

That's literally not what Zooko said.

> I think we can successfully make Zcash too traceable for criminals like WannaCry, but still completely private & fungible.

At the very least it'd be interesting to see what exactly he meant by that. He's got enough crypto and pro-privacy cred to be worth a listen.
And Uber stock in after-hours trading is not even flinching. Wasn't this like, THE whole strategy?
I think this has been happening for a while now. Even if the pace might be accelerated, until we get alternate cities that develop a startup ecosystem, you will simply never have the level of innovation that comes out of SF (and to a lesser extent NYC).
You usually have the sound using HDMI/Display port output ?
I suggest enabling simultaneous sound output.
Absolutely. the decision will be made on UX as well as features. agreed Gitter’s UX is great :)
Most replies are having their Green Eggs and Ham moment.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I am.

Meanwhile, people who have actually used it, find it great. It's a wonderful framework.
I am glad we agree, me being both the one you are replying to and the OP you are referring to.

For the avoidance of doubt, here's the link to the FCC RDOF auction and the relevant quote:

"... Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to bring high speed fixed broadband service to rural homes and small businesses that lack it."

https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904
It’s usually down to the game developer to implement features like that.
Might be for the better.

It's interesting how quickly the conventional wisdom shifted from "You have to be in the Bay Area if you want to do X!" to it not mattering.
The infrastructure those companies have built already exists, and the subsidies are mostly going to pay debt. If the subsidies stopped, the companies would go bankrupt. Their assets would be sold to another company, likely at a price less than the debt. The new company could therefore have a lower debt burden, and wouldn't necessarily need the subsidies to provide the same level of service. The subsidies are stopping the market from efficiently allocating capital.
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California launches Covid-19 app based notification system
Users flagged it. Moderators didn't touch it or even see it.

We sometimes turn off flags when an article contains significant new information and can support a substantive discussion in the community, but this was not that.

HN hosts tons of discussion about PG, much of it negative, so that's not the issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25325716 was just yesterday.
I felt the same way about the source. Business Insider is pretty far from a serious news source.

I know a couple of medium sized VC people who are going to start living outside of SF proper (not the Valley), but the people I know who live in the city love being in the city of San Francisco. The people who are leaving the bay area were probably always going to leave some day if they weren't happy there.

And you're dead on about schools and research centers that require in person. Hardware or R&D need a physical space for work and security. And some people do like a cool office experience.

Anyway, tl;dr I agree with you, ha ha.
Agreed, South Bay is a wasteland if you don't have a car. I tried really hard to bike around, but even that only goes so far, especially in the summer. I'm assuming OP meant SF proper, since even Oakland is hardly walkable if you live anywhere but the downtown area.
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Nice move for everyone around

F for Uber’s optics but it is clear how this is good for them nearterm
Does someone here scan all the domain names, and not just the titles, when browsing HN? Genuinely curious, please comment if you do.
Within Uber, it was categorized as a "big bet", as opposed to a core vertical, like ride share/eats. Having now shed new mobility, elevate and now SDV, It looks like Dara is really set on focusing on the core verticals now.
https://winstonprivacy.com/ is the only thing I’m aware of that’s remotely similar to Pi-Hole; but it comes with a subscription cost.
Is it sustainable or "sustainable?" (As in, not really sustainable, but spun so people think it's sustainable?)
It's depressing to see yet another intellectual 'bubble' sweep through the Internet and the educated parts of society, especially one that falls apart so easily under a little scrutiny (as they all do).

The cost of living in the Bay Area reflects extremely high demand for living there. Other than some people becoming more comfortable with remote work, what will have changed when the pandemic ends?

You can't visit SF and not see that it's a special place. An amazingly dynamic, exciting city filled with creativity, culture, beauty, resources (including two elite universities and many others), natural resources, etc. People LOVE San Francisco (and many other cities).

Cities in general are well-documented and researched as the great economic and cultural engines of our societies. It's not hard to see why or how that would be. We all knew it well; then suddenly it became trendy to forget it.

We know well the subtext of the new anti-urbanism: Reactionary politics. The reactionaries in the US (primarily the Republican Party and sympathizers) have been trying to denigrate cities for many years because, despite the facts on their success, cities are strongly liberal, ethnically diverse, and pro-Democratic. As an example, Trump tried to make it the focus of his campaign over the summer and a/the major focus of the Republican convention, though that fizzled.

Taxes are bad (by definition!), liberalism is bad, protestors are bad, college education is bad, homeless people are bad ... it's a highly conservative perspective - conservative as in, 'protect existing interests' - rather one that reflects a belief in progress, knowledge, change, and in the potential in every person (not just the wealthy ones) to do great things. Cities are inherently optimistic and reactionaryism is inherently pessimistic - why choose the latter, other than that is where the social herd is running? How will that turn out?

The IT industry didn't discover remote work in the last year; it might have been forced on reluctant managers in some industries, but we knew it very well. Companies tried it years ago, and then walked it back (I remember them telling employees they had to come back to the office). Nothing replaces the dynamism of meeting people in the hallway, seeing people face-to-face, etc. Remember everything SV companies invested to keep their employees at work and having fun? Now they think it's the same if they are home and isolated from each other?

Bubbles in finance are about ideas, not money. People feel compelled by the normalization of a social tide. If you think you're too smart for it, you are a prime target.
They’ll have a major share in Aurora after the fact. They just are focusing on their core competencies, I assume. To compete in the self driving space, you need to have 1) a crap ton of money and 2) the patience to wait 10 years before you see any ROI. Uber is not structured to do that this late in the game. They’ll probably get a preferred partnership for licensing the tech once it rolls out, if Uber still exists in 10 years.
> Nobody really brings up that the bay area has better LGBT and other minority protections than anywhere in the US, either. Every time someone mentions cheap midwest cities I have to pull up https://crossingenres.com/out-in-the-united-states-where-can... and see if anything's changed since I last checked.

I'm not sure how often that article gets updated, but this Wikipedia article[1] has maps that are regularly updated and is a good reference for anyone who is LGBT, or has LGBT family members, and is looking to relocate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Stat...
If your job is not either my only hope or my dream job, no, I'm not doing homework assignments that take a few days. I'm probably chasing several different places. 3 days homework times 10 places equals something that I do not have time in my life for. Nor am I going to make time for it to try to get into your company. You aren't that much better than anywhere else, so don't make it harder for me to get a job at your place.
That claim was infinitely repeated on internet message boards but never acknowledged by the company or taken seriously in the industry or by investors. That entire division was an expensive moonshot. Uber's core strategy and valuation have always been rooted in being a taxi company with human drivers.
Agree on all counts, just putting Seattle out there as another city with a strong LGBT presence.
"Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology"

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2018/mars-terrafo...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6
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Not OP.

I can't wait to see Google dump Stadia.
The vast majority of the bay area is typical sprawling American suburbs that absolutely requires a car.

The cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley are about the only walkable places where it's feasible at all to not have a car, and even then significant parts of those cities are not walkable.
When you say "someone who can't code", what exactly do you mean by that? Does it mean that they have no idea what a for-loop is? Or that they have basic understanding of a programming language, but lack the fundamentals? And how do you define fundamentals?

The phrases "can't code" and can't pass "fizz-buzz" are loosely used. What exactly is fizz-buzz? To me, it's writing a for loop to reverse a string, but to someone else, it's implementing Dijkstra's algorithm in a 40 minute period to solve some made up problem.
The command line is a user interface.
>One question I have is whether these gigabit deployments actually happen,

No.

Every time the US gives money to telecoms to roll out fiber, the telecoms play a shell game and disappear the money or use it to fight against municipalities that try to build their own infrastructure.

https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-...
> [the aliens] wished to prevent mass hysteria

I don't think any government agency has a right to hide the existence of aliens from the public for the public's good, whether the aliens consent or not.

Proof of the existence of aliens would impact our understanding of the universe and ourselves so fundamentally that hiding their existence is cruel.

It would be like teaching your kids not to kiss or they'll get pregnant. It's a misguided attempt at protecting people in ways that prevents them from dealing with real life.
Flags are worth more than upvotes - that's one of the imbalancing forces between the two. And something can be flagged off the front page (or two/three) - effectively halting any natural upvotes - without killing it.
YouTube's deep learning AI boosted two news channels in US
The headline is a little decieving. Though Uber sold their self-driving division to Aurora, Uber is taking a stake in the company so it seems like a partnership.
Chicago and NYC do car-free better than the Bay Area, where not owning a car is really only viable in SF and a few small surrounding communities.
Can't speak for other cities, and maybe not even Chicago today, but when I lived there, there was a lot of diversity in the loop (the downtown business district) during the workday, but beyond that it was a very segregated city.

Also, though I did own a car, I really only used it on weekend trips out of town. If I had stayed long-term, I would have sold it, because it's expensive to own one there (parking is expensive unless you want to gamble on finding a spot on the street, and there are extra city taxes on gas and registration). Chicago is pretty walkable and has usable mass transit.
It's not always about money. Sometimes it's about ego. Or ideology, which in these circles amounts to much the same thing.
Roads were absolutely, definitely the issue, and the article slides that in while pretending to refute it - bicycles 'called for improved roads' not because they didn't need them, but because they did.

Ever try to take a beater bike out on a rough trail with washouts and rocks? Its murder on the rider and the bike. You end up carrying it half the time while hopping from rock to rock or trudging through washouts.

Here's a more interesting question: why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories? Its like, nuclear war vaporizes all the bicycles. Where in reality in a fuel-exhausted world they would last for generations and provide rapid transport and communications for decades.
That doesn’t excuse hem forgetting what a priority queue is and when it’s appropriate to use one. The good senior engineers I know have a strong grasp of the fundamentals
what happens to Uber now when Waymo releases self-driving taxi? Will they lose all competitive advantage?
"This cooperation includes a secret underground base on Mars, where there are American and alien representatives."

Wouldn't this require some pretty big coordination to pull off? Assuming the UFOs didn't just suck up some astronauts with a tractor beam...

Just seems like lots of people would have to know about this, making it hard to keep secret. I'd have a hard time believing Trump would know about this and never say anything... But what do I know?
It was an investor narrative, similar to most of the stuff you read about WeWork. Companies need a topic to write PR stories about periodically.
That statement is true. The Bay Area is a place you can live without a car (namely by living in SF or parts of Oakland or Berkeley, or in many downtowns near a BART or Caltrain station).
In fairness, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War crashes constantly for me on Windows. It's not a polished game on any platform.

I agree though, the uncertainty is definitely an issue. Maybe if enough games start to get played on linux, this will be the push that's needed for game devs to start supporting games on linux (even if that means it's through wine).
HN is, not the most positive, but is certainly among the upper echelon of the most reasonable of online places. I admit that it's been more negative lately (Covid and the election getting on peoples' nerves, I suspect), but I still don't know of anyplace better. (I know of plenty that are worse, though...)
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Leetcode requires you to know all the common algorithms and data structures. Every software engineer should know these
The walkable parts of those cities is vanishingly small, on the order of a few square blocks. The tiny walkable segment is also super-expensive.
If we can't even stop our own planet from warming...
> the wealthy has been subsidizing more than 80% of the population

CA does not tax wealth, they tax (predominately) income, and I wouldn't be so quick to equate the 2. Prop 13, for example, can mean that wealthy land owners pay almost nothing in tax if they've owned their property for a long time.
Phoenix and the surrounding area also has a decent LGBT presence.
And that's fine in the future maybe it's possible.
Parent reply doesn't mention terraforming.
You have an interesting thesis here but I think there are some logical consequences you aren’t considering. Prior to COVID the US personal savings rate was under 10%, lower than that of countries like China and India, both of which are materially poorer than the US on a per-capita basis. Relatedly, Americans also have extremely high levels of consumer debt.

When you consider just how low US individual income tax rates are by global standards, it’s obvious that disparities in net worth have a lot to do with the fact that a large share of Americans, regardless of their income, effectively choose to live from paycheck to paycheck on the brink of personal insolvency.
Thanks for sharing because this is interesting to me. I would not have guessed that. When I use WSL2 it's mostly transparent to me so I don't think about the implementation.

Do you consider "Docker" to be "works on Windows?"
Posturing. Almost all of the plastic pollution in the ocean comes out of 5 river systems in Asia
Perhaps they do. I have never seen it here, though. I have seen, several times, the moderators having far more patience and restraint than I would have...