skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Henry George observed this fact (that as cities get wealthier, poverty also increases) way back in the late 1800s, and in SF, funnily enough. This is what his book Progress and Poverty [0] covers, and the title is a reference to this phenomenon.

Also, the game Monopoly was invented to demonstrate his philosophy, and it’s why it’s not fun with the default rules. It’s supposed to make you feel bad.
So, so much this. When it comes to how companies make money, people focus on the forest and can miss out on how each individual tree is a part of it. Will one missed tree damage the company? Probably not. But it's still a sum of all of them, and those individual trees are probably supporting a few people.
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People choose their messaging apps for reasons other than privacy. And there's nothing wrong with that.
[1] is Moxie saying that he is against third-party clients using Signal servers (meaning third-party clients cannot communicate with Signal users). [2] is Moxie saying that he is also against federating with other Signal servers (and implies that they use their trademark aggressively to stop the term "Signal" from being used by third-party apps).

Given how explicit he was about this at the time (and the lack of comments to the contrary in the past 5 years), I honestly don't think any clarification is necessary. That's his opinion and while I may disagree with his opinion, we shouldn't pretend that he is likely to change it in the future (or to imply that isn't his opinion on the topic). If you feel strongly that you want decentralised instant messaging, use Matrix (or something like it) rather than hoping Signal will become something Moxie has said he is against it becoming.

[1]: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
[2]: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
A medical professional I know had COVID in November and just got her second dose. Anecdotally, it doesn’t matter if you’ve had it or not for the purpose of the signup process.
I mean... read the article before you go off on your soapbox. It's not suggesting that SPACs are "magic" as in pull a rabbit out of a hat. It's actually describing the technicalities of who is paying for what in a SPAC.
It takes years to train a nurse and a decade to train a physician. An indication of max capacity is when hospitals halt elective procedures. There are currently 130K people laid out in hospitals. We have mercifully just trended down from a third peak. Would you rather we get Italy's fate of mass casualty stage rationing?
I find it difficult to take articles with such an aggressive tone and that exaggerate unimportant points seriously.

For instance:

> you’re back to approving cookie access every single goddamn time you load an article at The Guardian

I honestly don't remember the last time I saw a popup there and I read it daily. I think the consent lasts quite a while.

Furthermore, the drivel about clever people, clever things… what? How is that related to blocking a banner that sites are legally mandated to have?

Doesn't make me want to try the extension, just makes me think that someone has just discovered adblock or was paid to write it.
They know about this deficiency:

https://krita-foundation.tumblr.com/post/621253203762331648/...

Getting a cross platform UI to work consistency is an impressive challenge to meet.

Getting cross platform press-quality print support working reliably, seems like another one of those terribly hard problems.
I'm sorry you had a drunken parent. I commiserate and I have close relatives/friends who have grown up in such households, some who are people like that themselves.

I share sympathy for your viewpoint, but I don't agree with it (and neither do most court systems). But I do respect your difference of opinion.
If the 65+ group made up 90% of the hospitalizations and they all have been vaccinated, do they know why are the hospitalization numbers down only 40%?
You’re saying that what progressives championed in the early 1900s, and continue to support (as evidenced by the reality in progressive-dominated cities) is conservative. It doesn’t make much sense.

The conservative movement never really had much to say about housing policy as far as I can tell. Classical liberals on the other hand, have been consistently anti-regulation.
I'm not saying that places will be shut down completely. I was talking specifically about masking and physical distancing mandates and other such restrictions. I don't think big business and the public will tolerate losing another season of attending (in-person) Football, Baseball, Ice Hockey, <insert favorite sport here> games.
I have installed Signal and do not use it because none of my friends are on it yet. A critical mass is required before I can start using it. You can't migrate group chats from platform X to Signal until everyone in the group is on Signal. This isn't bad news really, as long as people continue installing Signal, eventually I'll be able to start group threads on Signal. I guess it is only a matter of time, assuming more people continue downloading Signal. I think the easier sell is to just get people to install it -- they don't have to use it right away. Then the early adopters can start group threads and chats as they become possible, which will start the shift from other platforms to Signal (assuming people continue installing Signal, of course).
without trying to seem lacking in empathy it is exactly that. I mourn for the loss of contribution to science and math.
The delays I see are usually a couple seconds. But if the phone is in a deeper sleep it could take a while. But that's true of most types of notifications.

I don't see any particular reason this technology is more vulnerable to deplatforming as the alternatives.
It might be a difference in jurisdiction, but I've never noticeably been caught out by this in the UK.

Honestly, I think I'm seeing a lot of rose-tinted spectacles here because I can order a burger to my door and track it all the way in about 15s flat if I want to with the Uber eats app. I really don't see what the problem is.
Its hard to ban these things. Make the access to a banned thing too hard and then you get smuggling and contraband, make it easy and then its a joke. The right way to go about banning these things is to put them just outside the reach of ordinary person's living wage.

The think should be accessible, but its supply reduced and price a little high so that people begin to measure the pay off between buying and the pleasure they get from it.

These things happen with Sugar too. The amount of lives ruined by easy access to a addictive thing like sugar is just unbelievable.
Yes they are. However, the moment we start to talk about offline maps, the skills needed to use physical ones becomes relevant.

Doing that is not too hard. And paper does not have downtime.
That has been true for us up until the pandemic - at least in our case. The combination of the school taking extra precautions and parents not sending sick kids to school is working. We've had our daughter in daycare for months with 1 total illness (minor cold). And in that case I believe it was from taking her to outdoor dining. Kids seem to touch every part of those restaurant high chairs which are never sanitized.
Lol. Email was the internet for most people when you were in diapers. It attracted federal regulation as early as 1986.

Decentralization is hard to build a business around.
The short of it is group chats lose functionality when even 1 non-apple user joins, and apple works hard to make sure you can't use imessage on other devices.

It's so frustrating. I want to like apple and their approach to privacy, but then they do stuff like this that alienates non-apple users.

Anyway, imessage is like a caveman compared to messaging apps like Kakaotalk and LINE. Those have more features and I like group chats on them much more than I do on imessage. Not that I had a choice; I don't think I ever got my Korean friends' actual numbers because everyone uses Kakaotalk.

[0]: https://www.androidauthority.com/green-bubble-phenomenon-102...
Unfortunately many (most?) service workers have already been priced out of SF and commute from elsewhere to work, so that link isn't quite as strong.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations
What are the reasons why the Times should keep his name? Surely we’ve moved past the whole “erring on the side of ruining someone’s life just in case the accusation turns out to be true” thing, right?
"Modified" as in, contains contraband that gets smuggled in via the book.
Buying airline wine reminds me of how hotel chains have product catalogs; you could buy the Westin "Heavenly Bed" mattress or their branded soap/shampoo.

I used to be on an 80% travel job for work and that stuff would've been the last thing I wanted for home.
Anyone work out the key bind for undo?
This comes across as a plea for affluenza.

Your father is responsible for ruining his life and making yours more difficult, not the prosecutor.

If he hadn't committed the crime, he wouldn't be imprisoned.

By your own description of events, there's not much brilliance, integrity, or goodness on display from him here.
Your point is unclear.

If someone (non-violent and intelligent though he may be) regularly puts many people at risk of death, and likely will cause many more deaths if left unchecked, what do you propose to do?

There is no tool available in the US (or even in less free societies, for that matter) to reform alcoholics into non-alcoholics, or to deny them an ability to drive.

Installing alcohol detectors in every car sold in the US is technically feasible, but the preferences for individual freedom all but ensure this idea will be rejected (https://www.thedrive.com/news/30486/new-bill-could-force-aut...).

Did you have any other proposals in mind?
The state has actually just started an office to sue cities over HAA inspired by YIMBY Law and CARLA.
The “Tin Man”? Is that the same as the Barfing Boy?
Unreported crimes aren't factored into the stats you quote.
All work and low pay: are we too devoted to our jobs?
It was also not uncommon to reuse a name. if a child died that name might be given to the next baby born. It seems creepy but you can see it as the child being reborn and trying again.
I’m not sure how much of it is fear of the MRNA vaccine itself, and how much is an objection to the creepy fascist context. Probably a lot of both, and maybe yes a bit too much of the former.

But in any case their reply is, “We would rather take the risk.”

If they get sick and die like your grandma (condolences), they will have done so at least partially by choice, a choice which they have damn well earned by their mid-nineties. I would not prefer that to them avoiding the disease entirely (they would be especially mad at being shut away in a closed ward to die alone), but it sure as hell would still be better than seeing them enslaved by technocrats.
What is it about American companies doing background check? I only saw banks requiring it here.
Maybe the replacement battery will have better tech!
The "generally understood" purpose of prison is for:

retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation

The US skews a more towards the retributive (i.e. "just punishment") than other jurisdictions. For example, the federal sentencing guidelines explicitly prohibit reduced sentences in order to facilitate rehabilitation (except drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs).

It's easy enough to imagine a society where prison has a significantly less retribution focused, instead focusing on how a criminal can be rehabilitated (education opportunities, community corrections orders e.t.c). Popular example being some Nordic prisons.
The algorithm is body language and context

The arbitrary metric is relationship

Any misunderstanding beyond that is a failure of both parties.
OR you could stop assuming criminals are different than you and realize they have the ability to learn from the mistakes themselves, especially heartbreaking ones where 2 people die.

I am so sick of seeing people who feel that justice can only be served by destroying peoples lives and making them and their families suffer to the full extent of the law. Why do we keep electing prosecutors to the high offices? Why do so many prosecutors feel they are good if they can put away the baddies for a long time? I wish we would promote and elect more defenders because they seem like the only people who see that the people facing life in prison and a family thrown into poverty are not "they" but are "we".
something I've always been curious about and honestly not trying to be edgy. Why is it that with the choice of drunk driving, it is 100% rationally made and bears the full consequence of his actions, but when alcohol is involved in sexual relations, then it is perfectly fine to argue the inability to make sound judgement?
If that is your logic then even the premeditated crimes should be only given slaps on the wrist as their "decisions" are as much of a product of their environment as anyone else's. They don't live in a vacuum either.

It is, in fact, a rather patronising view to believe only the poor and unfortunate lack personal agency to make good decisions. As if bad circumstances shut off their brains and makes them incapable of doing anything.
Just provide more effective tools allowing users to tune their own feeds.
What type of malware, specifically? They all seem to point to docdro.id and the download link there is a direct one to a PDF.
Phrenemies Is an example of a next.js site using WebSockets
> You say you're feeling bad on a normal conversation and people immediately link it to your weight.

I've never seen that happen. It sucks that it happens to you, though. We must live in really different social circles.
Humans have general intelligence and understand what their eyes are perceiving at a far deeper level than any CV system.
Test positivity is a weird metric because of things like this. It's interesting week-over-week, but loses meaning over the long term as testing protocols, other behavior changes, and changes to the disease. This makes it a lousy metric for policy making.
I can’t believe I’m 35 and have never seen a dead human body or killed an animal more sophisticated than a fish.
Of course!
That's why I posted it! This was the most prestigious laboratory in the world.
My understanding is that those trading companies were effectively the tools with which those countries conducted foreign relations in those regions. I know at least the leader of the VOC was directly government appointed. Could be wrong though, I haven't done much reading on them.

>Once you reach a certain size and scale, is there really even a difference between government and enterprise - except that the voters control one and shareholders the other?

Voter control of countries over time and by country has varied from none to tenuous and I think shareholder control of enterprise might be the same. I think the bigger distinction is use of physical force/violence. A government is the collective with a near monopoly on force within a region. So the thing that makes it scarier when they get access to new tools of oppression is the exact thing that makes them what they are.
indeed, i tried it myself now. but there was something in the wishlist of features about remote control. it should be possible to capture mouse clicks and most keyboard input in the browser and send it back. don't know how much effort that is though
I think it's more a case of some commenters on HN having more empathy with a person who they assume is like them (young, intelligent, privileged) then the people this drunk driver killed.
> > ‘Alcohol has ruined a lot of lives’

> True. True fact.

> You don’t know that this is that.

I don't think it's that far of a stretch given

> > he commits a strong-arm robbery down in Monroe stealing a fifth of whiskey
I stand corrected. I think I am thinking of the Soviet program with regards to heavyweight dual use.
What exactly is so difficult about wearing masks for Americans?

I'm an expat living in Thailand, which has an exceptionally low number of cases due to consistent mask use and social precautions.

Even if the vaccine reaches a level of saturation that is deemed safe, wearing a mask is a sane precaution that does not hurt you in any way and potentially saves lives of those unable to receive the vaccine.
10% is not correct, that's the max allowed by CA. SF is way lower, and set on an annual basis: https://sf.gov/information/allowable-rent-increases

Here's from the last 10 years in SF:

https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/Document/Form/571%20All...

Effective Period Amount of Increase
March 1, 2020 – February 28, 2021 1.8%
March 1, 2019 – February 29, 2020 2.6%
March 1, 2018 – February 28, 2019 1.6%
March 1, 2017 – February 28, 2018 2.2%
March 1, 2016 – February 28, 2017 1.6%
March 1, 2015 – February 29, 2016 1.9%
March 1, 2014 – February 28, 2015 1.0%
March 1, 2013 – February 28, 2014 1.9%
March 1, 2012 – February 28, 2013 1.9%
March 1, 2011 – February 29, 2012 0.5%
March 1, 2010 – February 28, 2011 0.1%
How do you get into trading SPACs? Where do you trade them and where do your tips come from?
You're reading the ads. I said mostly.
So let us say it was totally the fathers fault. Shouldn't the fact that he served his sentence and "paid good dues" mean that still be the end of it (btw this should apply to any body having issues off their dues).
Here's an hour of a Cruise vehicle driving in San Francisco.[1] Watch it deal with a trash bag that fell out of a dumpster, a left turn across heavy opposing traffic, double-parked cars, cars pulling out of parking spaces, a FedEx truck changing lanes across their path... Makes Tesla look like amateur hour.

[1] https://youtu.be/EZ75QoAymug?t=122
This pattern occurs everywhere. Leveraging a broken system against the people most vulnerable under it with the pretense of abolishing it.
I don't think FSD rollout is the central goal. The goal is to build hype and thus market cap that Tesla can use to build factories. Ten years ago, Tesla had no factories (at high capacity). They've had absolutely ridiculous velocity since then precisely because of their ridiculous valuation. Even if this FSD thing doesn't work out, it might have been necessary for Tesla to get this far. If Tesla's stock crashes, they still have the factories. All they need is to make sure nobody can prove Elon knows he's full of it (securities fraud). His Twitter persona suits this strategy to a T.
I don’t think the parent is suggesting that the Times deny this man mercy, but rather that this shouldn’t be the general policy (rather, an angry mob shouldn’t be able to jeopardize one’s livelihood).
Intel is still capacity constrained, no less. I'm not saying they make the best CPUs, my last purchase was an AMD Ryzen, but this idea that their demand will fall of the face of the earth assumes that other fabs have the capacity to pick up the slack which is verifiably untrue. Merely due to their existance they'll have time to turn it around.

Disclamer: long intel, a few thousand shares at $47. not enough to need to pump the stock.
Ask HN: Experience with Virtual Assistants like magic, fancyhands, wing, etc.?
What has your experience been outsourcing parts of your life with Virtual Assistants? Are they worth the money? What type of tasks do you delegate?

So I have a couple of small projects (1-2 months of part-time work) that I've been wanting to build for some time (a small brochure/booklet type thing), and I don't really the time to work on the logistics.

I wanted to delegate all of the logistical work to a virtual assistant and all I'd do is review the process ("no, yes, no, yes, that should be red", etc). Of course I'd be focused on the actual product and would be deeply working with the designer.

I need everything from researching freelancers on fiverr, upwork, etc to finding the right printing company, getting prototypes shipped to me, etc.

Has anyone got experience with working with VAs on this sort of thing? Would appreciate some input.

Thanks!
> There is no housing crisis.

The people claiming it’s fine or the problem is just “too many vacant units” are going to have to try to explain to the state why their RHNA number should be zero and they’re going to fail.

> If the residents of an area do not want to turn their city into Hong Kong or Vancouver with 100's of high rises stacked back to back, it's absolutely reasonable for them to do that.

Have you seen Paris? Mostly 6-story buildings. Meanwhile SF is mostly single family houses worth over a million dollars each. That’s not the natural order of things! You can do better.

Sprawl and empty land development is not doing better, it means less wildlife, more emissions and more risk of fires.
I don't recall where I heard this, if it was a serious suggestion or a comedian, but the idea was simple. When a person reaches legal drinking age they get a drinking card allowing them to drink and buy alcohol. Not use their driver's license.

Do something illegal that involves alcohol, lose your drinking license for x years to forever. Get caught selling/serving alcohol to someone without a card, that's a 'crime' now.

Additionally, since you are not removing their driver's license as punishment, they can still do things like go to work, take care of kids/family and so on. they just can't drink legally. Obviously lots of issues and ideas, but that is the basic idea.
That's easy. I bought a 4K OLED screen. Laptops are a dime a dozen in just about any spec and things like SSD's can be upgraded, but a laptop with a 4K OLED screen are rare. There is not a lot of choice.

My previous laptop was 4K. Sadly I discovered after I had it for a year or so 4K is addictive. It's hard to give up the screen real estate once your used to it. When it comes to 4K on Lenovo it's the X1 or nothing, and Dell's keyboards have pissed me off for the last time. I didn't look beyond Dell and Lenovo.

The OLED was a first and only available on the X1. It's lovely and all, the contrast ratio and max brightness are extraordinary. So extraordinary if I take the brightness beyond 10% or so in an office I can't look at it for long periods. It's also twice the price, and heaver on the battery. No huge regrets, as it is a truly beautiful screen, but I won't be doing it again.

All that said, those key marks on the beautiful OLED screen are really starting to piss me off.
Hardly anyone has a system with written in only one language. Typically you'll have a mix of both languages, some statically typed, some dynamic, so strongly typed, some not. The problem is not about serializing data from language A and deserializing back to language A, although that comes with enough problems (e.g. what if you language supports functions as first-class types?), but going from language A, serializing the data, and then deserializing it to a language that may or may not support something the source language has built in: floating point, complex types, UTF8 strings, and so on.
Why not develop roads that act like tracks and can be guided by an algorithm. Seems like a simpler problem albeit less robust than autonomous vehicle
For one, it happens to be a walled garden.
My brain is a bit fuzzy today but this comparison seems... off? Yes an interconnect inside a colo is going to be dirt cheap. But you can’t compare it to a huge backbone spanning continents that gives you reach across the world. Everyone should peer with everyone they can locally. Use the tier 1s for reach beyond what you can peer with. (This is not a defense of tier 1s and their peering policies or pricing.) Also this is why it’s always amused me when DC guys quote their raw switchport capacity with pride. Gotta multiply that by distance traveled to get a real comparable metric.