skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The authors of the good manuals had written them for O'Reilly Associates,

I see the bar is relatively... low.

That being said, I expect the reason authors wrote for O'Reilly was so they could actually get paid.

> The obstacle is that many users think that a proprietary manual is good enough—so they don't see the need to write a free manual. They do not see that the free operating system has a gap that needs filling.

The biggest obstacle is probably either a) finding money to pay a good writer or b) finding a good writer who is happy to work without pay.
There's no way this is correct. I live in NYC and this would represent a turn-over of nearly half of our population. It's simply not true. The study is wrong:

> About 3.57 million people left New York City this year between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7, according to Unacast, which analyzed anonymized cell phone location data. Some 3.5 million people earning lower average incomes moved into the city during that same period, the report showed.

Questionable methodology that clearly yielded incorrect results.
Heaven forbid that free software authors want some sort of income.

There are those that do not have a free office in MIT and a Mc Arthur grant.

Apart from that, really only the leaders of big projects that were low hanging fruit in the 1990s and 2000s cash in massively, while most of the work is done by others.
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I heard a talk once from some guy working for a company who analyzes this data (it had something to do with transportation of people; where it would be most efficient to have a new bus route and such), some of the regulations are actually rather interesting (Europe). E.g., location-specific data is not allowed to be sold if the amount of data points is below a given threshold, to avoid de-anonymization scenarios such as the one you have mentioned. Granted, I have no idea how well the regulations actually work, but it did sound as if quite a bit of thought went into it.

Thinking about this, I wonder if companies providing smartphone apps with invasive tracking are upheld to the same standards...
I think I edited to add my last paragraph right as you were commenting. You're right, of course.
Nestle illegally fires worker for reporting racist comment
> U.S. courts have held that constitutional protections against unreasonable searches do not apply to non-citizens overseas.

In effect it's harder and harder to find cases where the 4th amendment protections apply to US citizens, either.
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A helluva lot of post-WWII "investment in innovation and growth" was spent in Europe. You're welcome.
"While the US is very young "....

What's that? By what measure? It's one of the oldest continuous governments out there.
Cyberpunk 2077 review: dad rock, not new wave - Polygon

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/22158019/cyberpunk-2077-revi...
There's a huge difference between being able to apply a set of known techniques and being able to create novel techniques. I suspect most of the autodidacts you are referring to are able to read papers and implement them, and are well-versed in the practical aspects of how to tune models, but would likely struggle with doing something novel enough that is actually worth publishing.

There are exceptions, of course, but for certain types of work that extensive background in math/stats/cs is absolutely necessary.
Louis Rossman said it in many of his recent videos.... new york has everything, but also costs alot. You have cinemas, broadway, restaurants, everything.... and you pay for that privilige.

Now, when all that is closed, you have only the "bad" parts (the homeless, crime, noise, bad smells... all that with a "premium price")... so, why stay?

Poor people have no jobs, have to move out.... rich people don't have anything to do there, and move out because they can.
Another case of lower income groups responding strongly to financial incentives and higher income groups responding to quality of life incentives. Lower income renters see a discount to be had, higher income renters see an opportunity to get higher quality housing with more space.
Thanks, this is exactly what I was thinking about, glad someone did an actual study.
>> While the US is very young and doesn't have many large examples of this, Flint and Detroit come to mind.

You mean “most of the rust belt”
(Disclaimer: I was involved in the prep for this article so I'm probably biased but) I think the comparison between the two 13" MBPs is the most like-for-like. They're similarly priced and outfitted.

I'd expect the future 16" MBP with Apple Silicon to be more of a like-for-like competitor to the current 16".
Every story has at least two sides.
Check out some of the amazing PRs people have been able to do recently on https://github.com/mdn/content/pulls
Being able to do scripts or grep + sed or other advances bulk edits is really cool. E.g. https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/152
All the comments are timestamped. The HN API has all that, and you can probably also look at other sources, e.g. Google BigQuery's copy of the public HN dataset.
Real estate, being a straightforward investment attracts those who couldn't be making more money at pretty much any other type of investment.

Hence you get the most clueless people managing the properties.
I coul get into the epidemiology and biology of a pathogen that stays on surfaces for days.

But for simplicity sake I'll just say this.

I wouldn't want my surgeon walking in to give me surgery, with a mask he just used from another operation.

Corona virus doesn't become any less deadly or contagious outside of a medical institution.

Also falsely accusing someone of spreading false information Should be like falsely accusing someone of rape. The accuser should go to jail or get banned if they're wrong.
The point is regulations (and laws) are just tools - like a hammer they don't have inherent 'goodness'. A regulation can protect abusive business practices as easily as protect consumer rights.

Might doesn't make right but might writes. (regulations)
Rich people are repleaceable not in the short term but they are very much repleaceable specially rent seekers and those whose earnings come only from owning which describes most of the non financial and some of the financial elite of the city
Touch on smaller screens became the primary interface. Fingers fat, buttons big.
> If you wouldn't be granted press credentials for something, you're probably not a journalist.

But if you would, you might still not be. I once got press credentials (and a steep press discount to an event) because I wrote for a group blog and knew a guy.
Yep, another here too.
Weird really weird when both emails have existed with this forwarding scheme for over 2 years.
Vulgar?
Ask HN: What can a technologist do about climate change?
It’s been 5 years since http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ was published. Is it still up to date? Are there other similar resources?
How is this legal? Since EU members have to create laws for implement EU laws. So each country has a law for GDPR, including the UK. Those laws aren't going to suddenly stop being on the books in the new year.
> What matters more practically is a comparison between an M1 Macbook Pro and a leading competing laptop with a discrete nvidia GPU.

100% agree. We would have liked to do that comparison but, as mentioned in the article, the required software is not yet supported on the M1.
Decent game? Probably not. Based on the article the demo runs at 20 FPS completely saturating the SNES' CPU with a hard limit of 30 FPS due to bandwidth constraints.

At 20 FPS you're already pretty laggy; dropping the FPS further to manage game logic will likely make playing the game an unpleasant experience.
That's why I also mentioned "done things not many people have done". I was referring to professional accomplishments such as getting published, speaking at conferences, invent something that other people use, etc. You can try thinking of people that did all of that by pure luck but that's not the norm.
whoah. that is kind of a big one, I agree.
github has un-verified my account and I'm unable to merge PRs, leave comments, etc... until it's verified again.
> What's there to be afraid of, so long as your workflows aren't made significantly more painful?

It's more painful.
Facebook lifts ban on political ads for Georgia runoff elections
The government may be one of the older ones, but many cities are far, far older. Many cities in Europe have been around for thousands of years.
I'm a little fuzzy, also. I assume anachists would not be in favor of a law like Obamacare because it was imposed on the 49% of the population who were strongly against it. I would assume acarcho-capitalists would have the same conclusion.

I understand the historical relation between anarchy and other leftist politics like socialism and communism. But since anarchists seem to be opposed coercive top-down hierarchies, idealogical or otherwise, I found it interesting that they are considered to be on the left and not outside of left/right politics.

As I'm typing here, headed towards looking up the differences between left and right, I found this: "In both its social and individualist forms, anarchism is usually considered an anti-capitalist and radical left-wing or far-left" [0]

That jives with the overlap I've noticed between anarchists and a subset of libertarians.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
Also, keep in mind all the tooling GitHub offers. Comments with reactions, quoting, permalinks, blocking, etc.
Yes, it can be built in-house but would cost a fortune.
I'm old, and I'm finding language drift to be something that I regularly see, and frequently to be baffling. This is an example.

To me, "lol" means "laugh out loud". So I ask, and it's a genuine question, did "alt.religion.emacs" really, honestly, make you "laugh out loud"? It may have done, but I'm interested to know.

The follow-up is this.

If it did make you "laugh out loud", what is it that you found funny?

If you didn't "laugh out loud", what do you actually mean by "lol"?

I'm interested in language, its uses, and how it's changing, and this is one case where I'm definitely in doubt as to the intended meaning of the comment.

Thanks.
this. Firefox isn't a competitive threat for Microsoft; Chrome was. So Microsoft did what they're extremely good at: commoditising competitive threat where they were losing on market share. They've done it with Linux too. Whether you love them or hate them, you have to recognise the effectiveness of both strategy and execution.
Gmail says “significant” number of users affected by ongoing problem
> That's a symptom of the fact that the establishment does not want the press to document what it's doing, to the point that it's arresting journalists.

... or it's the other thing: more journalists in closer contact with crankier cops. Or maybe even some combination of the two. This is my point--we can't draw conclusions from an observed spike in arrests.
The non-Max iPhone 12 Pro is still a big phone...
Over the past 24 hours, I've had GitHub request that I re-verify my gmail three times (roughly 22 hours ago, 2 hours ago, and now), each time resetting my primary email's status to "Undeliverable" and "Unverified"

The triggering event may be an email bounce. I get a lot of github notifications sent to my email, and the failure of just one/a few may trigger the reverification.
> If you take a picture of something happening on your street and write a blog post about it, you are not a journalist.

Yes, you are, and should be protected.

> If you wouldn't be granted press credentials for something, you're probably not a journalist.

This is a horrific definition. Being a journalist can't be defined by the willingness of the subjects to be covered. That's stenography.

> If it's a side gig you don't intend to make a living doing, you're very likely not a journalist.

So belief in anything is evidence that you aren't a journalist. Journalists are defined by their income.
> Sorry, but I don't really trust the "anonymized" very much. Why should some company I've never heard of have access to my cell phone location data in the first place.

If you don't have location services turned off on your phone, chances are they have access to it because you gave it to them (via an app), or gave it to someone who gave it to them.
Unless it's a coincidence, I don't think this is just Gmail as I am seeing slow, failed networks connections to services in Google Cloud.
The most eye-raising part of this data to me is that 3.5 million people apparently decided 2020 was the perfect year to move to New York. Even if I thought NYC was the place I wanted to live more than anywhere else, I would still heavily consider delaying that move in light of the current health and economic situation. The information on who those people are would be interesting to me.
Just 2 points to add here:

Scientists have reflected lasers just off the surface, and there are unmanned probes (Russian ones) that placed reflectors on the moon.

But the point should still be that, if anyone cares to learn about the difference, and how we know the difference between all these different types of reflectors, that information is freely available and could easily be understood by most people.
> About 3.57 million people left New York City this year between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7, according to Unacast, which analyzed anonymized cell phone location data. Some 3.5 million people earning lower average incomes moved into the city during that same period, the report showed.

Uhhh I'd take this with a HEAVY grain of salt, given that it's based off of anonymized cell phone location data. Were this true, 40% of NYC's population has turned over in the past year, which feels like absolute nonsense from anecdotal experience.
Generally, yes. Victims of this tactic are required to obey the absurd orders and then seek remedy from the courts afterward.

There are exceptions related to orders to break the law, put oneself or others into danger, and so on.

For example, if you resist arrest, the underlying charge may get dropped for lack of evidence but the resisting arrest charges may remain. Though, the resisting arrest charges (or obstruction charges) may get dropped too depending on the prosecuting agency's policies.
Good photographers may have better eyes/skills/technique. They also put the time and effort to be in the right place and the right time. And, as you say, you see a tiny fraction of what they shoot--after it's all been edited.

I'm not remotely in the class of top photographers but my Flickr feed is a very curated version of the pictures I take. (How curated being somewhat a function of why I'm uploading.)
Yeah, I get that. But why punish the Desktop users with mobile interface? We used to punish Mobile users with Desktop interface back then, we just reversed the problem, didn't actually solve it.

They should be 2 separate things. 2 separate css files with @media select. 2 separate button sizes and styles.

I know what happened - designers got lazy.
Designers need to justify their continued employment.
Or Maradona
They're supposed to have stopped, but I'm not sure I believe it.

https://www.wired.com/story/fcc-fines-wireless-companies-sel...
I think, this highlights a bigger problem. You can very roughly split people's mindsets into 2 groups:

* Long-termers. They don't mind delayed gratification. They like planning and saving for the future. Most have complex multi-year degrees or have business experience. They are generally happy with life and want to teach their ways to their kids. What they want from the political environment is a clear set of rules (e.g. taxes, laws backed by a truly independent court system) with minimum interference in their lives.

* Short-termers. They prefer instant gratification. They gather credit card debts on impulsive purchases. They live here and now don't want the headache of long-term planning. They are usually less happy with life and expect politicians to appeal to their emotions. Recognize them through identity gestures, say great words, show attention.

Long-termers tend to earn more, except something in our society changed, and they are quickly becoming a dying breed. So many new social policies, especially in high-density areas, are targeting short-termers and blaming long-termers for inequity. Quite predictably, they are leaving these areas, driving the median income lower.

But, what's even more alarming, the same trend is happening all over the West - the middle class of happy independent thinkers satisfied with life, is vanishing, replaced by unhappy low-earners driven by divisive tribal instincts.
Yes. I email hundreds of thousands of Gmail users each week (yes, double opt in, they all want the mails!) and we immediately delete any user for whom any Gmail error comes up at all in order to keep a solid delivery record with them. Sounds like we might have deleted 80% of our list if we'd sent today..!
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The most plausible explanation, to me, is that operating the product was not considered the primary purpose of the acquisition.
Ask HN: Problems which have many edge cases but low algorithmic complexity?
I love algorithms, data structures and time complexity, they are the basis for being able to solve complex problems. However, in my experience in software engineering, the dominant challenge is writing bug free code rather than solving complex problems. I once took a codility challenge which had a complex problem description with many edge cases but the time complexity was not graded. The difficulty in solving the problem was fully understanding the long problem statement and carefully implementing the algorithm to cover all cases. Essentially, it was more of a correctness test rather than a code performance test.

Does anybody have any recommendations for problems which have a difficult correctness component but easy performance component?
(c) finding a good writer able and willing to do the work under any conditions.
The article was ambiguous about what the $34B was a measure of (income of the departing residents or the tax income generated by the income of the departing residents).

But the underlying paper makes it clear that it's the former. So it's not accurate to say "US citizens saved $34B...". That was their aggregate income, which is still subject to the same federal taxes no matter where in the US they moved. They would have saved on state and local taxes, depending on the rates of their new home jurisdictions.
ANd if you like payable rent non obnoxious hipsters and their shitty music, POC and people that have politics informed by more than buzzfeed
What's cool about git as a persistent storage, is that you can use vscode, emacs, vim, or notepad. Or you can write a little web app that starts a WYSIWYG editor on localhost:8888 or Heroku and have it dump to the file system and then you just need to write a script that takes care of submitting the PR from there.
What I wonder is how many of these wealthy Europeans own FAANG stocks?
I can't see the buttons (mobile)
Invariant sections aren't free, surely?
Consider using the [Obsolete] attribute on methods or other entities you don't want people to keep using: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.obsoletea...

This results in syntax highlighting in Visual Studio and warnings on compilation when somebody tries to use the method.
It should be noted that I strongly suspect the "declining usage" and "unsustainable maintenance mode" was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I would frequently want to tune in to a Periscope of a commentator, and then discover that if I locked my phone to listen to, rather than watch, the commentator, the stream would immediately halt. That shitty behavior that EVERY FREAKING USER complained about made me stop using the app.

I've seen this many times in my career:
The suits refuse to invest in a piece of tech, and then cite the loss of users as a reason to not invest, despite clear evidence that the loss of users is caused by the lack of investment.
Exactly, which is why I pointed out that healthcare workers frequently change masks for reasons related to their environment. It's also, of course, why medical workers wore surgical masks before covid.

PPE worn outside of clinical settings already exist in a lower risk situation and so it's reasonable to accept lower standards for it.
You've linked to the same URL as this HN post
They werent told any lies, they are simply micromanagers who want to see their employees in their seats
Does it cost more per capita to run NYC than it does smaller cities like Austin?
I can't speak to MDN's tooling or culture, but... it sounds like the transition that many FOSS projects made from wiki-workflow docs (Confluence/Mediawiki/etc) to PR-workflow docs (ReadTheDocs/Github/mkdocs/etc).

Anecdotally, for the project where I contribute most... the issue about fewer contributors is real. But you do still get contributors, and PR-workflow makes other aspects easier (like broad clean-ups/reorgs/scheduling/versioning). For contributors who come, you also get the opportunity to socialize/engage them during review. Overall, there are drawbacks/risks, but I'd say it was a net-improvement (wrt quality/clarity of the final docs).

Maybe look at it this way: Both workflows provide a way to organize open/community docs. Both workflows have positive role-models. In both, you need capacity+interest for editing, for socialization, etc. If you tend to these, you can do good. But if there's neglect... then that's where you'll see the starkest differences:

* In wiki-workflow, the likely symptoms of neglect are draft-quality content, bad prose, quirky TOC, drive-by edits that are out-of-place, etc.

* In PR-workflow, the likely symptoms of neglect are slow review/feedback, older content, would-be contributors who can't assimilate to the workflow, etc.
You make it sound like having a leading role in a game is the highest honor in the land one can bestow upon an individual.
It makes a lot more sense if you say it as upper case every time you say it out loud. "I shoot in raw format" vs "I shoot in RAW format!!" It makes the conversation more interesting.
> Pasta releases water over time and too much of it will also make you very sleepy, especially after lunch.

No way
Seriously, the amount of time I needed to assist my relatives since they switched to ChromeOS became almost null.

They don't play AAA games, they don't really do administrative work (and the times they do, Google Drive can help), and they can't really break it even if they tried.
”[...] The issues for writings are not necessarily the same as those for software. For example, I don't think you or I are obliged to give permission to modify articles like this one, which describe our actions and our views. But there is a particular reason why the freedom to modify is crucial for documentation for free software. When people exercise their right to modify the software, and add or change its features, if they are conscientious they will change the manual too—so they can provide accurate and usable documentation with the modified program. A manual which forbids programmers from being conscientious and finishing the job, or more precisely requires them to write a new manual from scratch if they change the program, does not fill our community's needs. While a blanket prohibition on modification is unacceptable, some kinds of limits on the method of modification pose no problem. For example, requirements to preserve the original author's copyright notice, the distribution terms, or the list of authors, are OK. It is also no problem to require modified versions to include notice that they were modified, even to have entire sections that may not be deleted or changed, as long as these sections deal with nontechnical topics.[...]”
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_...
Yeah, I like rich, data-heavy, information dense desktop displays. Mobile UIs are such garbage, not to mention shit like reddit that only is able to process a request 30% of the time.