skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this cost him $87600 in addition to whatever he spent on lawyers and his own energy

Wasn't there a commercial rent moratorium during this time? Why did he keep paying the rent?

I'd have been very up front with the landlord. The lease is signed with an LLC that will be worthless if the city doesn't approve the licenses. The cash is there. But it won't go to the landlord or to the LLC until the earlier of the (a) city approving or (b) moratorium expiring.

I understand this is unsavory, but it's what these sorts of licensing processes force. There is a reason the New York restaurant business is notoriously scummy, and it's not because restauranteurs are bad people. (Far from it.)
This is an issue with JavaScript that TypeScript inherited. The many module systems and ES versions that need support are insane.
Many years ago, I used to build myself a magnetic coil, in order to manually degauss my CRT screens. First I would approach the coil nearest to the center of the screen, then moving it slowly away, while turning the coil on itself. I worked very well
It is not done for research purpose.
NSA is behind them
Don't worry, you're not alone - about 4 years ago it got reported on so everyone wanted to try it.
My alma mater had zero language courses. We were expected to learn enough of whatever languages were necessary for concepts covered in the course. Intro courses used Scheme and Java. C ended up being used in later courses after the intro ones, e.g. operating systems.
We observe this process by noting the over-abundance of nuclides with masses that are a multiple of four.
+1 If I wanted a VM, I would run a VM.
Looks like this is WSL2 only :/
Yes and no. It’s my understanding that the Germans pioneered the field of implanted medical prostheses (like titanium pins to stabilize broken bones). A lot of that research was done on prisoners, and they were even kind enough to extend the benefits of the medical treatments that they developed to prisoners of war (no sarcasm intended).
For a while I believe that there was a push by twitter for it to be "twittered" but it's a made up word so we can craft our own tenses. To most english speakers tweet having a past tense of twat is perfectly reasonable (unless you're british but enjoy how quickly you speeded over this comment). Companies use BS word creation as a way to get around trademark collision and validity concerns but I strongly dislike the habit of making new words up so you can get an easy registration. I think it's perfectly legitimate to counter their BS with our own BS shaming them over their easy out and I'd encourage other folks to follow in suit. So, until the end of time, the name of that console is the X-Bone.

When you're naming a thing you should be careful and deliberate in your process - generally coincidences will work against you, though you might get lucky and pull a Kit-Kat[1].

1. https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/the-kit-kat-in-japan-a-trans...
It is literally impossible for a search engine to provide unbiased results. There will always be some biases in how the ranking algorithm is designed.

If you query Google for the shape of the Earth should it return "round" and "flat" pages equally so as to avoid bias?
Do you know of any company that has done this?
Given the sort of business Cellebrite is in, they would probably still want to treat anything connected to it with an overabundance of caution.
Joe Wiesenthal on twitter sometimes has some good anti-anti-fait shtick. https://twitter.com/TheStalwart
I feel bad for this guy. One question:

> He spent several months searching for the perfect space and landed on the 20th Street site in June 2019, signing a lease for $7,300 a month. He hired an architect to draw up plans to upgrade the electrical and plumbing systems, build a front counter and install kitchen equipment. He planned no structural changes or modifications to the building’s exterior.

If you're leasing the space why are you responsible for these sort of renovations? Shouldn't they be on the owner to upgrade things like plumbing, electrical, etc?
Congrats, very well done! I look forward to trying this. Just curious: What framework are you using for the frontend?

One feature request right away: Please offer a light mode. Dark mode is very tiresome for me to look at for longer periods of time.
Housing should be a low margin, boring business. Smalltime landlords buying, renting, and flipping properties on leverage is another symptom of a distorted market.
When you have to debug something in postgres, are you going to communicate with it by using netcat and writing your own TCP messages by hand, or use psql? Both should work, but you wouldn't say postgres is obfuscating things intentionally so that you have to use psql (or some other postgres client). The fact of the matter is that complex tools are much more useful if they also come with tools to pave over (some of) that complexity and provide a more useful interface for developer experience.

You can debug React apps just fine without the React developer extension, but in some situations it will be much harder. And to elaborate, I work on React full-time and just use the javascript console and debug messages for 99% of my debugging.
At $7300/month rent, you would need to average about $243.33 per day in profit just to cover the rent, not counting staff wages or other overhead.

Restaurants are notoriously hard to start. They have slim profit margins and other challenges. It's part of why franchises thrive in the food industry: A franchise has a proven model that can work and, even so, it's not guaranteed to work.

I know it may be due at least in part to spin -- because the article is about San Francisco and Prop H -- but not one word was said about how much research was done to pen out potential costs, demand, etc.

It says he spent time looking for "the perfect" storefront and signed a lease. How perfect was it when there were two nearby competitors and a process that let them actively hinder its opening?

I'm not trying to blame him. I'm kind of thinking out loud here. I'm not in San Francisco. I don't know how easy it was for any random person to be able to predict some of these critical factors.

But I feel like if you actually pen this out and determine you need $xxx in daily sales in a neighborhood with two competitors, it only makes financial sense if they have lines out the door and down the block because no one can get enough ice cream in that neighborhood.

Green tea ice cream is also something that sounds crazy to me. It sounds like one of those things only the person dreaming it up sees any real value in.

I've never heard of green tea ice cream before.

Now I'm curious where you would find solid info on how to actually plan out a restaurant opening that has some hope of success.
Blocking 3rd party network ads do deprive creators of revenue; but using uBlock Origins does have these important benefits:

*Protects you from malicious attacks through 3rd party ad networks.

*Keeps your browser fast from trackers.

*Stops intrusive ads that literally take up 30% of your screen and move the website around making it difficult to read an article.

But sponsored segments built into the video itself? It has none of these issues. A lot of creators do what they love, but they still need income. If you value the content they create these sponsored posts allow them to keep doing that or you can chip in a few bucks to pay for an ad-free feed.

Video is a lot of work.

Source: made my own DevOps video course that I had to video edit + now part of a video D&D podcast that I thankfully do not have to edit or subtitle.
> how can an employee be totally psychologically safe in an employer-employee relationship?

How can any human feel totally psychologically safe in a world with climate change, cancer, random attacks of violence, earthquakes, etc?

The answer is that you're thinking in black and white terms about a concept that is a continuum. Even in employee-employer relationships, with a good manager it is entirely possible to have a reasonable level of psychological safety, just like it's possible to have a reasonable level of physical safety while driving a car.
In Sweden you have to notify authorities two weeks before opening. Not sure why they would need more time than that.
TIL: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fall+off+a+truck

Edit: looking up a bit more, it seems like this idiom is used to denote goods sold for cheap because they were stolen. Like "Bob is selling genuine iPhones very cheap, I fear they fell from the back of a truck".

Edit edit: I initially took it as "we won't tell how we got this", because I didn't know this idiom, but it seems several people agree with this interpretation. Not necessarily stolen, but obtained from an undisclosed source.
I wonder if there are any ways to modify processes to account mitigate dynamics like the one you describe.
With native opensshd in windows, and a windows build of rsync - why would wsl be needed?
maybe request a guest post on some relevant blog? Obviously only a very specific, short term solution.
Even for vector math, there are subtle differences, such as the numerical precision of the hardware reciprocal, leading to different implementations for x/y.

The Eigen library did recently combine most SSE and AVX code paths, however: https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=3.4
Third world countries can also has surprisingly complicated bureaucracy. But at least in a 3rd world countries you could grease some of the bureaucrats to expedite the process.
The OP doesn’t suggest that coffee may cause dementia but was a possibility for sleep deprived and low on dopamine individuals drinking too much coffee to stay functional, exacerbating their sleep deprivation thus rising the prospects of developing dementia.
If China hadn't tried to put it under the rug, Italy/Europe wouldn't have been so underprepaired (well it also would've helped if the US would have played its usual part as a world leader). But I'm digressing... all the talk about our bad past doesn't alleviate the mistakes we still do today. Those are the most shameful even, where we have so much knowledge about the virus and still take the wrong turns all the time.
its mostly for people doing work in the WSL world. If you're writing code, you can throw up an IDE running directly inside WSL and run toolchains that exist inside WSL altogether. Before, you'd have to do something like use WSL remote or open the project in a Windows program and edit the Linux file, then use the Windows version runtime of whatever langauge youre using to use any of the built in IDE features for that language.
I think WSL2 has that, WSL1 used to be super slow disk wise, but I've seen near-native disk speeds on NVME drives on WSL2 (Specially useful for node_modules)
Important context missing from headline:

"Less than three hours after Mark Barr called for help, his son was dead of a toxic dose of ketamine, the initial autopsy report said. That report was later amended to list cause of death as toxic effects of ketamine combined with LSD and cough medicine."

I don't know enough about pharmacology to say that they definitely shouldn't have added that ketamine, but it's also very hard to know what to do when someone is in a dangerous state and may (or may not) have other drugs in their system.
Here is a city zoning map: https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/resources/2019-02...

I think the biggest problem is that like 3/4 of the city is zoned as low-density residential (pale yellow areas), only allowing detached single-family homes or – in some places – duplexes with low building height limits, and not allowing mixed uses like small ice cream shops, bodegas, bookstores, or cafés. As a result small businesses get crowded into a few streets zoned as “commercial corridors” (purple areas), and both residential and commercial rents are much higher than they would be if more parts of the city allowed construction of low-rise apartment buildings with bottom-floor storefronts (e.g. to RC3 from RH1/RH2 zoning). The real winners are large-scale property owners, who end up skimming a substantial margin from all economic activity in the city.

If the rent weren’t so punishing, an extra couple months of permit bureaucracy wouldn’t be nearly the nightmare it is now, and existing small business owners wouldn’t be so desperate to protect slim profits. (A once-in-a-century pandemic still might kill many nascent businesses, but it’s hard to plan for that one.)
> It's a fairly typical place for a western country to be at this stage of the pandemic

I'm horrified you can waive it away as "fairly typical" for a western country when Texas has a deaths/1 million population 3 times that of Canada, 4 times that of Denmark and on and on.
Not everything can be fixed with the criminal justice system. This should be solved with disciplinary action by the university (and possibly will be [1]).

[1] https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-cse-linux-kernel-research-a...
If the "smart" contract resolves settlements automatically most of the time and most of the disputes get resolved without escalating to the actual legal process (which is relatively expensive and slow) then that can save some money.

I would treat it essentially as arbitration on steroids; just as in arbitration, you make up an alternative process for deciding who pays whom and how disputes are resolved, so that in most cases you can use the alternate process, however, in unusual cases or boundary cases or outright fraud by one party you can escalate to the full legal system.
Calcucrypt – Diversify
Judging by the performance/UI catastrophe of Outlook, Teams, Windows Terminal and the rest of Office, Microsoft has already stopped writing apps for Windows. Look at them, eating their own dog food.
As a taxpayer, it's kind of like suing yourself.

The only recourse is to move out of SF.
> Not to mention that it's single-threaded, so the answer to scaling up better is to just run more instances.

Yeah, this sucks. It's impossible to do any actual processing in javascript since functions that don't return immediately will clog the event loop. Why can't we have javascript code that runs asynchronously and reports completion and results as events? Even browsers seem to have this now. I tracked issue #2133 on GitHub for a long time and nothing materialized.

Not sure if Node.js still lacks this feature. If so then it means Node.js is nothing but an I/O scripting platform. You get events and you make the system copy data from some source to some destination in response. Any sort of actual processing means latency becomes unacceptably high.
Minor issue of lies on the application
They are not putting malware into their app. They are adding athletically pleasing files to their app. Is it Signals fault if someone else's software doesn't work properly with them? How can Signal test every piece of software to make sure it's compatible with their own software? Especially when the other software is using Signal in a unintended way.

It's not signals job to secure 3rd party software, that's entirely on the 3rd party.
Back in the 70s, a friend of mine said he loved the Z80 instruction set the best. I replied that it was the most complicated and kludgy one. He laughed and said the complexity allowed his code to shine above others and he got paid more.

Of course, these days the Z80 instruction set looks trivial :-)
> but not one word was said about how much research was done to pen out potential costs, demand, etc.

Because it doesn't matter, he didn't even get a chance to open before burning through those 200k on rent for two years when the legal process was blocking him from opening.
Pen testing is essential, yes, but there are correct and incorrect ways to do it. This was the latter. In fact attempts like this harm the entire industry because it reflects poorly on researchers/white hat hackers who are doing the right thing. For example, making sure your testing is non-destructive is the bare minimum, as is promptly informing the affected party when you find an exploit. These folks did neither.
See my top comment. I didn't "try to excuse the researchers behavior as ethical".
Actions from the federal reserve are not part of the stimulus packages though right?

Stimulus packages are legislation passed by congress vs independent actions taken by the Fed.
I’m curious if these competing rebuttals get to read each other during the editing process. Otherwise will there be two more rebuttals in the next issue?
My deepest thanks for all your work, as well as for keeping the standards high and the integrity of the project intact!
This is cool stuff. I am planning to do something like this myself.
> What has a Linux GUI but no Windows app or alternative?

I don't know about alternatives (it seems Cubase is a proprietary one), but Rosegarden [1] is a GNU/Linux "audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool" that does not seem to have a Windows build (a maintained one anyway). It's a great app, I guess it could convince a musician to use Linux for some music-related activities.

I don't know if it runs (well) in WSL (1 or 2).

Rosegarden aside, I'm not sure there is a single app I use regularly that absolutely can't run on Windows (some can run on Windows (and Mac), but probably run way better on GNU/Linux, like the Kate editor, and Clementine seems to have a spotty Windows support too).

[1] https://rosegardenmusic.com/
Strangers submitting patches to the kernel is completely normal, where throwing people off is not. A better analogy would involve decades of examples of bad actors throwing people off the bridge, then being surprised when someone who appears friendly does it.
This is pretty decent advice. I'd also suggest that prettier should be in your setup in 2021. Let's stop fighting about formatting once and for all.
I read it in Chrome Inspector.
SF is one of the most difficult cities in the country to launch a food truck[1]. It's not atypical to take a year to get the permits to operate.

[1] https://www.foodtrucknation.us/wp-content/themes/food-truck-...
I'm not the person you asked but I think it's because it looks like it gives organizations the ability to track biometrics of its members / employees.
Given the current ubiquity of UTF-8, is there value in having native CPU instructions for it? Or do they exist somewhere already?
The actual accusation is that they lied on the application and misrepresented themselves as a business but were actually a franchise
A 140 square feet room in that area with shared kitchen and bathroom goes for 2000. 7300/mo for that corner is probably accurate.
Words are given a meaning by society.
one can learn a lot from reading the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html :)
I thought it was an euphemism because they couldn't reveal who gave it to them. Confessing it was stolen, even as an euphemism, is too blatant to be taken seriously IMO.
Fair.

Definitions: There are two sources of demand for USD. One is the ability to purchase oil, and the other is organized international crime. I would consider crime a fair-weather investor, so the big demand for USD is really based on the ability to purchase oil.

First, examine the history of shipping tonnage [1]. Observe how quickly Chinese ports have come to dominate all world shipping. This is representative of the general trend of global supply chains coming under the centralized control of the Chinese government. Nothing presently happening in the US will improve our trade balance in the near term.

Second, examine the beneficiaries of belt-and-road [2]. All of these countries will have an incentive to have reserves of CNY. Some of these countries are significant oil exporters. If oil exporters start hoarding and regularly trading in CNY, then it's a small stretch for, at least some of them, to start trading oil for CNY.

Third, since oil is fungible, any nations trading oil for CNY will peg oil to the Yuan in addition to the Dollar.

Fourth, the governments of some nations, notably Iran, publicly believe that petro-dollars have motivated the government of the US to engage in warfare in and near their countries. They are furthermore publicly opposed to this, and publicly supportive of China ousting US hegemony.

Then, my argument. Belt-and-road gives a large number of nations a reason to hold and trade in CNY. It's a small stretch for some of those nations to start trading CNY for oil as well. Belt-and-road nations will have an expanded connection to the Chinese military, and success of belt-and-road is a face-saving issue for the Chinese government. That means efforts to oppose it could spark military tensions with the Chinese. This makes it plausible that wars to preserve petro-dollars are unlikely to succeed in belt-and-road nations.

There is almost no international demand for USD to acquire US produced goods or labor. This means USD is unlikely to succeed in an environment where it has to compete with CNY as a reserve currency for oil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_ports_by_cargo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Anyone with the wealth to not care about the outcome, even if it means getting dismissed. There's more wealthy individual contributors in tech than we might think. It's certainly not everybody, but there are some who could speak their mind, without fearing losing their income and risking their mortgage or rent payment.
It is high brow left wing types in particular that delude themselves about the oddness of their own beliefs. The Daily Mail becomes a special object of hate because it is a reminder that they are - at least politically - very strange.
If an open-source project adopt a trusting attitude, nation-states can and will take advantage of this, in order to inject dangerous vulnerabilities. Telling University professors to not pen-test OSS does not stop nation-states from doing the same thing secretly. It just sweeps the problem under the rug.

Would I prefer to live in a world where everyone behaved in a trustworthy manner in OSS? Absolutely. But that is not the world we live in. A professor highlighting this fact, and forcing people to realize the dangers in trusting people, does more good than harm.

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On a non-serious and humorous note, this episode reminds me of the Sokal Hoax. Most techies/scientists I've met were very appreciative of this hoax, even though it wasn't conducted with pre-approval from the subjects. It is interesting to see the shoe on the other foot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
What windows build of Rsync are you referring to?

I haven’t found one that doesn’t use Cygwin (slow filesystem).
SpaceX denies claim that Starlink and OneWeb satellites almost collided
This is hyper generalization without any references to back the assertion.