skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What ever happened to making the place attractive so people actually choose to live there ?

You are talking about forcing people into situations that they are unhappy with, like it's normal or ethical.

The people who pay for the infrastructure and services are free to leave to more attractive places when they feel like they are being exploited. It's the city's responsibility to manage itself in a way that keeps residents satisfied. If the residents feel like they are getting the short end of the stick, they are right to leave and many will do so. Then you are left with those who had no choice and good luck getting them to fund your bloated, inefficient and needless projects.

The policy makers are in charge of just that, making policy. The residents have little control over that, but they do control where they live.
That's a nice start for Apple. But for now it indeed looks like a cookie request on any website nowadays.
The real question is whether Apple is going to verify the information provided by the app developers. Will Apple do some kind of information flow control (IFC) through taint tracking on the app code, to make sure that the user name or location is not collected as the app description says?
NYC is costly, but not as costly as people think. The lifestyle is also different.

1. Most of my life in NY (pre children), we had no car, no car insurance, no parking, and rare taxis (and before our current mayor, subways worked very, very well, I rarely considered taxis.)

2. Property taxes are comparatively low to other states

3. Access to culture is widespread and cheaper than people think -- there are subsidized tickets for students, etc. Museums are plentiful and often free. Libraries are literally everywhere.

4. Access to jobs is great and you dont crush your soul with hour-long drives. And when you lose/change your job, your next job is also often in the city center, so you dont have to move homes.

I live in DC suburbs now and we have one car. It is hard getting places w/o a car and the train system is good but does not cover as much of the metro as one wishes, and there are last mile issues. Property taxes are way, way higher both both homes and other property (e.g., $800/yr on my Kia minivan), but there isnt a city income tax.
Besides Touch ID being more useful than Face ID during a pandemic, I'm also not a fan of the PWM flicker across iPhone 12 models. Depending on how paranoid you are about your eyes, this could be a deal-breaker.
I'm not sure there are enough NYers for this to noticeably impact the carbon emissions of the eastern seaboard, let alone the world as a whole.
70,000 in a city of 8 million.

It’s less than 1% of the population.

The infrastructure needs don’t change much.

How much of the tax burden did those people support?
I have an HP EliteBook which has a built-in modem and a micro-SIM slot.
A better question: Can concentrated animal feeding operation's ever be sustainable? It's not just dairy, but the vast majority of the agricultural meat markets.
"I cut off my dog's nose."

"But how does he smell?"

"Horrible!"
Tried visiting https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_... , noticed that the sidebar which contains links to related resources gone.

Also since it's based on markdown, would hosting MDN locally be possible now?
Mean is not the same as median. Billionaires drag the mean average up but not the median average. Most people in that area are not earning almost 1 million even though it is pricey.
I wonder what kind of computer code was shown. I find there are times when reading boiler plate code/code that has more to do with API calls or the likes one does not need any kind of logic/problem solving but just shallow understanding
Blimey, why use a free Gmail account for a business critical operation? That's just asking for trouble.
I've had zero problems with it on PC.

Fantastic game with maybe 2-3 bugs
Market reach, the new consoles have just released and are very hard to get.

Big AAA need plenty of market reach to be profitable unless they have some exclusivity deal.
I'm pretty sure the study refers to the location of the repeater which talks to your phone, so most likely no permission needed
Correlation != Causation does not apply when the system is under the control of single entity. So many of these governments have been run by the same party for decades on end. If these long-term rulers didn't cause the bad outcomes from the time of their reign that only means they were completely ineffective. Why should ineffective government be kept around?

It is plain stupid to not hold elected leaders responsible for actual outcomes produced under their watch.
Having Dutch law apply to the owners of Dutch property doesn't seem like a huge government overreach. If, however, the law ends up giving the Dutch government information about, for example, Estonian freelancers, then there would be reason to complain.

The "smell test" for this will be whether the person whose data is accessed is allowed to be informed by the service provider when a government request comes in, and from which government, and why.
Aren't half of their cousins in MS and AL anyway?
There are phones with similar pic quality. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJs_KrPh8A
There's centuries worth of legislation about equity. You can still get screwed, but "I'm giving you the right to own shares in this company" means something in the eyes of the law. Getting paid in participation tokens doesn't.
I am European and I live in the US. I would like to ask for more proof of your assertion that most of the tech on which big tech is built originated in Europe.

In the US it is taken for granted that there has been a virtuous cycle between public research money, research universities, venture capital and tech companies. My impression is that most of the tech originates in this ecosystem.
Signal desktop was missing basic features like answering calls not long ago. It also had at least one significant vulnerability (some code injection IIRC) so I don't know if I'd say that it does "encryption well". Having applications with such a needlessly huge attack surface is not good crypto in my book.

I do like Signal, otherwise I wouldn't put up with that software. But you can both enjoy the protocol and Android client and think that the desktop app is a pile a donkey dung.
Not that I disagree much, apart from one thing - that places like NY have 'everything'. If you like nature, mountains, adrenaline sports, weekend adventures without crazy commute, then NY has none.

Irrelevant to some, but folks like me couldn't be bothered to even consider it even if my take home salary went 10x.
I figured one major incident for Google was enough for the day! We had a bunch of email bounce to @gmail domains yesterday in that timeframe.
True. AI Ethics is a very important concern here. I wonder some big tech giants, collectively or some governing body should be formed that must play a role to enforce regulations around the ethical use of AI.
It's not that easy. We have 60+k pages carried over from 15 years of organic evolution. It's unstructured and messy.
A move away from HTML to something "more popular syntax" (like Markdown) is NOT easy.
Hey... Marc here from AWS. I'm the PM lead for this service. Thank you for the feedback. Pushgateway is important for our customers and it is a feature we are looking to support as part of our roadmap. For the time being, you can continue to use the Pushgateway as you do today and remote write the metrics to AMP for long term storage and querying!
Not knocking on you here, just really genuinely confused why you’d cite Louis Rossman of all people on earth for his thoughts on places to live. But maybe I’m not in on something here?
> I think this comment is dangerous as it legitimises the (clearly documented) widespread arrests of openly marked journalists behaving entirely non aggressively, almost surely because they were pointing cameras at police officers behaving violently.

I have yet to see an instance of journalists being arrested for filming.

What I have seen are crowds of people refusing to abide by curfews or dispersal orders and getting arrested - journalists are sometimes among them. Each time I see a video of a journalist supposedly being arrested for filming, I also see a bunch of people in the background who aren't filming also being arrested.

Anyone can don a jersey that says "press, or a lanyard claiming to be a journalist. The more widespread the notion that these things somehow exempt people from curfews and orders to disperse, the less surprised I am that so many journalists (most of them independent) are getting arrested.
Education, healthcare, and public employees are almost always the largest expenses.

For instance, in CA, only about $100M a year out of the $100 billion a year budget is spent on transportation [1].

Because of prop 98 in CA, a minimum of 40% of the budget has to go to education [2].

In NY, it's only 4% spent on transportation [3].

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/California%27s_state_budg...

[2] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_98,_Mandatory...

[3] https://openbudget.ny.gov/overview.html
There are clear rules regulating that, but they may depend on the country.
It has been fun explaining to customers that G-mail has been having issues.
> Go look at the voter rolls

I used to do this, and can report the area of London that I lived in turned over 25% of its (voting) residents in a typical 12 month period: that is, before coronavirus time! They may have relocated within London, of course. I assume that New York City is comparable in this respect.

Further assumptions: People not vote-registered are likely to turn over even quicker than that. People who you know personally are more likely to be settled and therefore less likely to move out, just by statistical virtue of having any such personal connection - your anecdotal data will be extremely biased by this.
CDPR is owned in 66% by investors. And investors want ROI and there is nothing better than holiday season for that.

They also knew about how bad the game runs on PS4 and released it either way because “money>everything”.

Its really that simple.
Apple pwned them, though.
Cyberpunk 2077 is ~2 years delayed and was marketed heavily as the pinnacle of what the last generation of consoles could do, to the extent that they released a limited edition Xbox One X bundle for the game [0]. They couldn't exactly do that and then not sell it on that console, could they?

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-one-x-1tb-console-cyb...
For the record, thank you for the camera app! You do awesome work.
There are a lot of houses in Scarborough (the suburb of Toronto) that have Milk Doors. Some people nail them shut, but others just leave them as-is since they lock both on the outside and the inside.

I was told there was a specific word for them, but I don't remember it and my google fu is failing me right now.
Had a boss that tried very hard to get us to develop some Voice verification system.

Apparently he knew all the right senators to get a regulation passed making it so all health companies would be forced to license our software.

Wasn’t technically feasible at the time. Might be now.

Freaked me out as to how evil it was.
Very cool indeed. Seems like a good platform to apply the demoscene trick of "adaptive subsampling" to greatly improve performance at the cost of a little image quality.

It takes advantage of the fact that pixels that are close together in screenspace are likely to be similar enough to interpolate from it's neighbours where possible. It focuses the computation time on areas where neighbouring pixels are very different, such as object boundaries, shadow boundaries and large lighting differences.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101123123238/http://exceed.hu/...
Silicon Valley ‘Texit’ Is Real: Here’s Who’s Going and Where
This is another good reason to have email @yourowndomain.tld

When this happens, you can spin up a temporary server and have a mechanism in place to redirect email so you don't go down when your provider does.
> teaching people to be able to practice it during realtime conversations of unrelated object level discussions (say, politics) is something else entirely.

In my experience, once you give people the basic toolkit for introspection, it can kick off a positive feedback loop. Not everyone will become a stoic, but they can make meaningful progress on their own.

> I can imagine many people who may see a downside of a population who is broadly capable of skilful critical thinking. I don't think it's an accident that we only talk about the crucial need for it, but never talk about actually doing something about it.

On the contrary I think those who see this as negative are few and far between. Democratic power in the western world has never been greater than today, so if this is something the people want, there is very little that can stand in their way
I thought that was PascalCase and this is camelCase? Have I been wrong all these years?
The federal government is conservative?

Best measure of the size of government is budget, and conservatism values small government. There is nothing conservative about a staggering rise in the spending of federal government.

Neither are any of the procedural changes to congress, lack of deliberation or expansion of the powers of the executive branch.
The closest thing to this currently is Mastodon. https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentr...

There are a lot of open hard technology and business problems to make decentralized systems act as good as centralized systems. In short, The web architecture (HTTP, HTML, URI, MIME) inherently is decentralized for consumption but encourages centralized updates. Many years ago I wrote about these technical challenges and some ideas for solutions on “the Write Side of the Web”.

https://www.slideshare.net/StuC/ill-see-you-on-the-write-sid...
The landlord's paying for the building no matter what, so it's possible that depending on how it's leveraged and their income overall, they'd rather lose money and get a reduction in taxable income than break even with lowered rent.
The Museum of Borgmon Abstract Art
For social networking companies like Facebook, is that bad? Shouldn't each county be able to enforce the things that are important to them (ie, outlawing Holocaust denial or allowing more nudity) rather than the entire world bowing to US mores and customs?

Nothing really changes for the rest of the web. You're allowed to stand up your own webserver if you want.
How are people being exploited? Where is the harm?
Everything gives room for corruption and incompetence. The problem is the US has some of the most incompetent government on a local level in the developed world. Part of it is American individualism, part of it is the Republican party starving the beast, part of it is the government as a giant jobs program.

There is no reason we cannot have competent civil servants, long term planning, clean cities, etc.

I'm completely serious when I say we should just outsource everything on the county level and lower to the Swiss or Dutch.
The article seems to confuse these too.

"Lonely people have been found, for example, to focus more on internal thoughts, perhaps to compensate for their lack of actual social experiences."

Well, for me, I daydream and live in my head a lot but I don't think I've ever really felt lonely in the last 10 years at least. So my brain probably looks like this but I would've responded to their survey with "not lonely". Maybe from their point of view I've been coping so long I don't even realise it?

I think a better study would have segmented out people who have limited social contact but don't feel lonely.

Post-apocalyptic movies with a small cast have a strange appeal to me, like it's the ideal small unit of society. We sort of got to experience that earlier this year in Sydney, with few cars on the road, no one walking around outside, and times when I didn't leave the house for days on end except to walk the dog. It was bliss. I had my dog and my wife and a few people on chat, and that's all I needed.
This doesn’t work when there are network effects. We had enough smaller social networks in Europe but they were all eventually subsumed by a US companies like fb, Twitter ir LinkedIn.

Also, the US has 50% of the worldwide online advertisement market in a single cultural region.
If you’re saying people need to make their content available for free with an option to pay for a printed copy, then you’re telling them they can’t make money from their work, which is the thing at issue.

And we can argue about whether authors of books about FOSS tools should embrace the same ethos as those tools’ developers, but it seems silly to hide the ball or act like there’s a win-win solution hiding in plain sight.
California already has plenty of that, and if it ever becomes a problem, that means there is underused capacity that will attract more people (with their income taxes) in again.

Oracle, HPE, and (not moving, but might as well add) IBM have long made their money with legal and financial shenanigans anyways, they are exactly what we should call zombie companies.
That's not what I meant. Sure, underneath it shared tech. But when people think of Gentoo, they think 'build from source' and get every kernel dot release etc.. ChromeOS isn't related in that sense.
Having played cyberpunk on PC it's mostly a fancy light show and not a lot of substance. You can't even customize anything past the creation screen, no car paint jobs no hair cuts and no body modification, no transmog system..

They tried to hide the console issues while reaffirming time and time again that current-gen console will be a first class citizen, that's an EA tactic not something that CDPR I thought I knew would do...

Moreover CDPR was given a $7 million grant to develop the artificial intelligence. This game has one of the worst open-world AI I have ever seen.

Cops spawn on you, the drivers and pedestrians AI is almost non existing. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas from 2004 is miles ahead of this game.

They even announced that they are "very sorry" and that people can get a refund only that Sony won't refund if you played or even downloaded the game not to mention this game is very badly optimized on AMD systems the current gaming king.
Two problems with that. A) New consoles are pretty tightly supply-limited on release, so people won't buy the game until they know they can pick up the console. You've totally killed the preorder market.

B) You risk losing even more game sales towards the end of the console lifecycle, as soon as rumors start flying around about new hardware about to hit the market.
I had the mini for a week and returned it for an SE2. The screen is slightly smaller on the SE2 but in a good way because your thumbs can reach better. It also lacks the cutout at the top. I have average size hands but my thumb can really roam around everywhere on the SE2/iPhone 8 screen size. I just wish the SE2 had OLED and a bigger battery. That would have made it a tank of a phone. I really have to agree again with Steve Job's old reasoning for small phones. It really changes how you interact with the phone. I'm happy to be able to pull up the control center from the bottom again rather than from the top right corner. Source: I'm an iPhone X convert.
> Even worse for San Francisco. Basically just "restaurants" and an easy getaway to outdoors.

This wasn't my experience in San Francisco when I visited in 2016 - I saw some of the best live music in small bars I've ever heard, went to a couple of awesome free outdoor events, record shopping was quality, just walking around an area like Mission I came across a lot of interesting cafes, shops, bars, street art, and people.

I was visiting from Melbourne, Australia - supposed live music capital of the world, ranked worlds most liveable city, and it has a lot of the above - and San Francisco felt pretty exciting with a lot to do.
Looks like lots of places that grow the food you eat.
Why not just lower the brightness? Why mention blue light at all? It seems like you're just backtracking your comment.
Rallying for mass adoption -- generally -- should be done after having discussed it in an open-minded setting.

Most ideas become refined as they grow from very small open-minded spaces, towards mass appeal. So perhaps this idea can be refined as well... no sense in trying not trying.
Software Freedom Conservancy Files “Long Comments” for Its Three DMCA Exemptions
That doesn’t make sense as most of the money is invested long before a release date is even announced.
The problem listed in the article is specifically “freedom to copy, modify and redistribute”, not “free to have”

O’Reilly would be fine, if they allowed you to modify the book as you please — but they don’t; like licensed software, you’ve only paid to access the content, but you don’t really own it.

Basically every argument for FOSS is now being applied to the manual(s) as well
As appalling as this is, I kind of love it. Pine stuff is for hackers 8-)
Is that your review? With 50 hours of gameplay when you reviewed, 75 now? You dissed it, the played it for 25 more hours! You sure played the game a lot for something you didn't enjoy.

On top of that it's sitting on mostly positive right now on steam, despite all the bugs.

Sounds like the game's actually alright, apparently it looks amazing too.
There are game companies where salaries are not paid until a release is delivered.
You really have no idea? The number of people on previous gen consoles dwarfs the people on new console, especially in a world where new consoles can't even nearly keep up with demand.
Ring is not that great tbh, not pure rust and the API is quite hard to use even for cryptography practitioners.
Just to note here, the dev teams aren't moving to Texas, management is moving to Texas. The dev teams are more likely to be moving to India where costs are lower (especially if we are talking about Oracle and HPE).
This is accomplished at Google using the build system. Your visibility declaration tells the build system what's allowed to depend on a piece of code.

When deprecating old code, you can shut that door with a whitelist and gradually force consumers to migrate.

I really like how code is managed at Google.
They also have a phone which has an HDMI input. *Yes, Input! It's great as a field display for DLSRs among other things.
When you actually read the decision it seems like there were a lot of things said second, and third-hand, but no direct evidence anyone said anything. Based on that second and third hand accounts, the supervisor was suspended, but not fired, and so the group of aggrieved employees filed a complaint because they wanted him fired. Seems more like pitch forking than actual grievance.

https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20423335-board-deci...
I share your optimism, though I think there remain significant economic and technology headwinds that have been slowing down the development of decentralized web technologies.

I spoke about the technical considerations several years ago at the W3C annual conference: https://www.slideshare.net/StuC/ill-see-you-on-the-write-sid...
I imagine one very real reason right now is that most people cannot buy the new consoles right now, or at least don't want to play the in-stock game to try to snag one when they drop and are available for 5 minutes at retailers.

So lots of people who have the last gen hardware see that the new consoles are constantly out of stock, and decide that they are 'good enough' for now until you can actually just order a new console w/o hassle. That may not be till well into the new year.