skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are excited for quality, owner operated pharmacies to return and replace them. Just like they served us before Walgreens came in and muscled them all out of business.

What makes you think that the owner operated pharmacies won't be targeted by shoplifters? Are a significant chunk of the shoplifters doing it for ideological reasons?

>It’s almost as if not looking out for your community results in that community not looking out for you.

Sounds like victim blaming to me. The whole point of having laws and law enforcement is to have an official way to pay your dues to the community and get protection in return, rather than having to pay for "protection" from the community itself.
Same. I want to move from Auckland, NZ to Azores and it's not super clear whats the climate like (tho comparing some other charts seems Azores wins).
They invited me for a job interview for a Principle Designer role out of the blue (i.e. I didn't apply). I was really excited cause I loved the company and had lots of ideas how it could be improved. Anyway, ultimately they felt there were 'more data driven candidates'. I respect that, they know their business better than I do, but I still was really excited about some of the opportunities in the user analytics space and I learned some really valuable stuff in the interview that gave me the motivation (along with the rejection) to go and solve the problem for people :)

I have actually written a short blog post about it if you're interested I can share a link.
Well, someone obviously must understand how the algorithms work otherwise they couldn't have implemented it. I actually don't think the algorithms are that complicated and have been thinking about writing a toy simulation to demonstrate how reinforcement learning can be used to re-order the sequence of interactions in a social media sandbox in order to keep users engaged for as long as possible.

I just wanted to know if there was prior work on this that I could use before I went ahead and did the work because if someone has already done this then it would save me a lot of hassle. But it doesn't look like the question will get an answer on cs.stackexchange so I'll probably have to do the work myself.
Exposure matters. I don't think the SG has that many Twitter followers. :)

I feel like there was a real missed opportunity for the President to do, well, Presidential things. Like if whoever was President had done a series of prime-time infomercials that had this kind of information. The kind of TV event where literally every major network would carry it live.

In my wildest dreams I imagine Carl Sagan as President. Or Mister Rogers. Can you imagine how different the response could have been if a careful communicator and good educator had taken the biggest stage, gave us the straight dope, talked to us like adults and children alike, and made us feel like we were in it together. Instead we had the biggest stooge desperately trying protect his only accomplishment, the record stock market and historically low unemployment from cratering because he was only worried about himself.
A bit annoying given that it's a pretty pricey device, but I only use the cloud stuff for transferring pdfs from my computer to the tablet, and I guess as some nominal backup of my notes on the device. There are other ways to achieve both. I'd still strongly recommend the tablet, it's amazing as a paper replacement.
Even worse, what happens when Bill Watterson sues for copyright violation and wins? What happens when a court serves an order on every US person / exchange to remove the NFT from their platform or be shut down?

Note: The Calvin peeing image is derivative and was never drawn by him. The artist might have a defense of fair use but it is not clear in precedent.
A single VPS server with a GitHub action that builds and syncs code to the server using Git, with a bash one-liner to restart the server. Properly configured this can serve millions of requests.

A cron job which saves a copy of the DB to S3.

That’s it.

If you’re focused on anything more with no employees you’re probably wasting your time.
To reduce the spread in communities.
It takes much less effort to maintain k8s deployments than to maintain bespoke, randomly cobbled together ones.
End-to-end-to-CIA-encrypted
The price is not relevant. The idea behind vaccine mandates is that it’s the only way to protect people so therefore it’s ethical to force people to take the vaccine. But this treatment has been available for almost a year…
No one should be forced to take something if there are alternatives.

Instead we should have ramped up production of these game changing drugs. Why didn’t we?
You probably already know this, but crossing international time line stops rendering fingerprints on one side and starts rendering on another - can't seem to have both on screen.

Also - any chance to have this as a table? i.e. so you can find places with bestest weather? So far looking at map Sidi Ifni Airport stands out for some strange reason.

Finally the range at 18-24 degrees should be potentially more finely grained. The difference of 6 degrees is huge.
I think you're confusing capitalism for anarcho-capitalism or something like that. I think most self described "capitalists" support the existence of a government that, at the very least, enforces property rights and resolves contract disputes. 'Capitalism' is not synonymous with 'no government.'

Nearly all libertarians I've ever met will readily admit that some form of government existing is desirable. Their disputes with socialists are all in shades of gray. In internet discussions on platforms that amplify extremism (reddit, etc), it may seem like the the two camps are "no government" anarcho-libertarians vs "all the government" totalitarian-communists, but in my experience either of these extreme positions are so rare they're hardly worth considering at all.
oh haha, nice catch, I've updated it with the correct copy now! No idea how I didn't spot that :(

If you would like a demo of Squeaky then let me know, there's a demo booking page on the website - I'd also be really interested to learn about Microsoft Clarity from you too :)
These are great, thanks for sharing!

I don't see an integration into excalidraw yet, maybe that's my next project...
> You'd think by the 4th or 5th one he'd be denied bail.

I don't think the article says, but I suspect that he probably hasn't had a bail hearing related to these arrests this year. The court system is badly backlogged, and the alternative would be indefinite detention (here is where I'd expect the civil libertarians to come marching in, but there's always curious silence when it's someone like this).
I think resistance to a carbon tax is more complicated than that, at least in the U.S.. You've got a large and vocal minority that doesn't believe climate change is an issue in the first place. Of the people that are concerned about climate change, some are worried about the cost to themselves, and some are worried about the cost to others. I'm pretty well off (not wealthy, but middle-class) and I don't think a carbon tax would affect me much at all. But for some people it would be a big deal. I'm in favor of a carbon tax, but I understand the argument that it's recessive and is basically paid out disproportionally by the poor, because they spend a larger percentage of their income on gas and electricity.

I think a carbon tax offset by a tax credit for lower-income taxpayers would be a reasonable option.

I see cap-and-trade as the sort of arbitrarily-complicated system that Congress creates when they want to shake down an industry for campaign contributions. If it gets us less CO2 emissions I guess it's worth it, but still it's kind of gross.
One example from a few years ago: Genius.com was accusing Google of taking lyrics data from their site and displaying them on search results. They changed some apostrophes into the similar-but-different ’ U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK in a specific pattern. https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande...
We're starting a new crypto team at Stripe
Could you give some examples of the incredible work you mention? I think Solana is pretty cool, and am looking to learn more about the space.
A lot of SF judges have been elected on a platform of being less harsh on defendants, and stricter with prosecutors. I don't know this particular judge's politics, but one SF judge recently opened up in open court on the incompetence of District Attorney Boudin's office that resulted in it dropping a criminal case: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-judge-blasts-DA-C...

Boudin and his defenders have been trying to spin the rebuke (including the apology, which was actually to the trial attorney, not Boudin), but the comments are perfectly consistent with this critique of Boudin's office from earlier this year: https://www.marinatimes.com/why-colleagues-say-district-atto...

Boudin famously fired at least 7 veteran prosecutors immediately after taking office. (https://www.kqed.org/news/11795676/why-did-san-franciscos-ne...) I'm not sure how many more prosecutors were fired or left after that, but as far as I can tell 7 is about half of the total number of prosecutors. And he seems to have replaced them with public defenders and fresh law graduates who have no experience prosecuting cases. (Boudin himself had never prosecuted a case.)

Boudin doesn't deserve all the blame. His predecessor, Gascon, made several changes that already made the San Francisco District Attorney's Office one of the most lenient in the country. People compare Boudin to the reformist D.A. in Philadelphia, but the better comparison is Gascon; Boudin took things to a whole new level, far beyond the reforms in Philadelphia or in the national conversation.

I've always been on board with Boudin's push for more lenient sentencing. But that's just a small part of his agenda, much of which simply translates as no sentencing. And because of general incompetence he's flubbing everything, resulting in him becoming defensive, spinning and lying about cases (e.g. most recently--last couple weeks--a controversy about disparate treatment of some pedestrian death cases that resulted in his firing the office's victims' advocate) that really should have seen both better attention by his office and, mistakes notwithstanding, a better defense in the media.
Stripe is building a team for crypto payments
Walgreens is losing money and shutting down hundreds of stores nation wide.
I am there for 9/10 cases, but needing to have a browser session logged in to Reddit at all times so that it defaults to old.reddit.com is pretty obnoxious on mobile. Apollo also surfaces far more functionality with far more immediacy than I can normally be bothered to interact with in a (mobile especially) browser session. I’m actually using the Hack app by Pranoy Chowdhury for Hacker News for many of the same reasons.
> I bet there are dozens if not hundreds more like him.

To be clear: betting like this is baseless speculation. I'm telling you from lived experience that it just isn't that common here, especially when you factor in how dense and populous NYC is compared to SF.

And it's probably not the case that he's "singled out" in any way (other than for reporting by the NYP). He's the "spiders Georg"[1] of shoplifting. There's always one!

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg
Might be weird for most of the world outside the US. Pretty normal/par for the course in the US.
Many apps, but not all.
> And there are, according to the CDC over 160 _million_ of such people in the US

Your link says 120M. Not a big deal, but odd since you linked right to it.

> Under the "man dates" all 160M are considered "unvaccinated",

What? No, only the unvaccinated ones are considered unvaccinated. Are you suggesting that everyone who has been infected is unvaccinated?

> a lot of them are currently being thrown out of their jobs.

Actually, it looks like it's very few. [1][2]

1. Lots Of People Say They'll Quit Over Vaccine Mandates, But Research Shows Few Do. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/1041500566/vaccine-mandate-qu...

2. Only a fraction of U.S. health care workers are risking their jobs over vaccinations. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/science/covid-us-health-w...
Fortunately, Fossil can now use SHA3-256 as well as SHA-1 (even in the same repository if necessary, perhaps due to upgrading an older repository), and I think it also has a hard mode to detect if SHA-1 collisions seem likely.

(I think git doesn't allow a repository to have multiple kind of hashes; from what I understand, only a single algorithm must be used.)

Since SHA-1 and SHA3-256 have different hash length, you can tell which one it is. It doesn't work so well if the length is the same; one way to fix it would be use a multicodec prefix. (My own implementation (currently incomplete) internally uses the multicodec numbers to identify the hash algorithms, but these multicodec numbers are never stored in the repository; instead, it is only applicable for the argument for the function to compute the hash, which can also be used in other programs.)
it sounds like the developer is in a team of developers.

If someone else on the team wants to shake up literally everything with no consultation with the rest of the team on whether or not it's a good idea, now everyone else is getting dragged along for the ride without much consent, because now it has to be maintained and kept up to date. And it may not even be a good idea; individual developers are not infallible.
i laughed so hard i cried, thank you for this

(to everyone involved)
https://archive.ph/JLM0C/
With software you need to consent to perform each update (I don't think bitcoin core has auto-update yet). This is nowhere comparable to a government in power, which has enormous power and can't be easily deposed. Even recall elections take some time, and can theoretically be interfered by government controlled security forces.
We built a digital currency prototype in 2010, idea Satoshi Nakamoto found cool
How do they know that, are they exit polling the robbers?
> During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment.”

From the article. This isn’t normal
I’m also a SF resident and the above comment does not represent the vast majority of people here. A good example is Ahsha Safai’s comment (the supervisor for district 11):

“I am completely devastated by this news - this Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades. This closure will significantly impact this community.”

https://twitter.com/ahsha_safai/status/1447988178586013698?s...
> To be clear: betting like this is baseless speculation.

It is speculation, but it is not baseless. I base my speculation on a foundation of N=1, which may not be very firm but is not baseless.

Just now though, I clicked through to that nypost article and found this:

> There are 77 other thieves right now walking the streets of New York with rap sheets of 20 or more shoplifting charges, NYPD sources say.

77 is a bit more than 6 dozen, so I feel vindicated. My speculation was accurate.
You may want to edit this comment. It reads as though you don't think Hispanics or Blacks count as American. I don't think you intend to express this racist sentiment, but it's easily inferred from the text as written.
How do you freeze hydrogen?
Wherever tech ends up, it'll definitely be somewhere with nice weather. LA maybe?
78% of job seekers lie during the hiring process
HTC’s new headset has leaked and it’ll make you look like a bug
Once an open source project gets successful, there's a lot of pressure to do it, and among other things, gives the incumbents in the space some modicum of control
GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptible VMs
My goodness, what a selfish take. God forbid 20 somethings miss out on some party time. Meanwhile, people who need medical care (many of them not elderly) can't get it because the hospitals are choked with covid patients.
I wonder if there is some Marxist website somewhere celebrating this.

These huge businesses like Walmart, Walgreens and Starbucks target and study successful mom and pop businesses and then move in ruthlessly. In Portland I've seen so many great local businesses destroyed because they couldn't compete with the large chains. And, if that eventually doesn't work out for the chain, they close up shop.

Amazon and Walmart have destroyed small mom and pop grocery stores across the country.

I bet these retail gangs wouldn't go after a mom and pop shop of any kind. The owner would probably fight them with their bare hands. That's why they are going after Walgreens.

In some weird way, this feels like capitalism, actually. It's just a hidden facet we don't see often.
I've lived in major cities in the southeast and the west coast. The west coast of the US is still extremely unhealthy.

Learning how unhealthy the culture I grew up in is has been a gradual process. Shock moving to the west coast, and then shock at each of the subsequent moves around other parts of the world.
> how could you use it without

just don’t make mistakes
This is a hugely important distinction. Unfortunately, speeding in urban areas — which is the kind of consequential speeding I care about — is still very common. If it were confined to the type of speeding you’re describing, then it wouldn’t matter (as much). But it’s not.
I agree with that.

My class-based solutions are more prone to failure than other solutions I've used before. It always gets more complex than it should.
As unsatisfying as it may sound, Common Lisp taught me that, truly, none of this function binding capture stuff really matters in practice. Millions of lines of Common Lisp code have been running for decades without running into problems with capture. So I purport solving this problem is akin to solving a 0.00000001% issue if we measure the frequency of encountering this error writing thousands of lines of Lisp per day for a sizable chunk of one’s lifetime. The explanations by Pitman et al. are wise. If someone on my team were regularly writing macros that expanded into non-externalizable, non-PRINTable function objects, I’d probably be irritated. You’re hindering my pretty-printer, you’re hosing my debugging tools, and you’re breaking my expectations of interactive development. What? One big negative the article doesn’t cover is that if you’re essentially embedding function pointers in your macros, redefining that function won’t take effect in previously expanded code.

(defun f () 1)
(defmacro m () `(f))
(defmacro n () `(,#'f))
(defun g () (m))
(defun h () (n))

; later
(defun f () 2)

H will always return 1 (bad!). G will reflect the global binding (good!). You would have to re-evaluate the source definition of H to get it to reflect the new pointer. This is contrary to Lisp’s DNA of interactive development and is a big no-no. (You have similar issues if you, a library author, are declaring the functions you provide to application programmers as globally INLINE. It’s not for you, the library author, to choose when things should be inlined!) You can force late binding using FUNCALL on a symbol to look up the global binding

(defmacro n++ () `(funcall 'f))

if you so please, but it’s not very satisfying. F can never be captured by the local environment there.
Except they don't pay, you and all the other citizens pay via taxes
> I wonder why OSS projects bother with 0.x.x. If you are never going to change the initial 0 to something else, why not just drop it?

Possibly due to being unsure, thinking too many changes will be made and they don't want to drop it.

> Why not just do whatever you want, and ignore SemVer entirely?

If your version number is a single number which always changes, then it will still be compatible with SemVer (since it will be the first number, and the other two numbers are then zero), although not very well in case sometimes it still is compatible you will not be able to upgrade without checking this.
It was a little clumsy of me, but I was trying to hedge between the normal reactionary critiques of SF and something more constructive. NYC has plenty of problems, some of which are a lot worse than SF's, but we don't have anything really resembling this.

Why? Probably a lot of reasons. But it certainly doesn't hurt that we have a (mostly court-backed) housing mandate, and the country's largest youth employment program[1].

[1]: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dycd/services/jobs-internships/abo...
Plenty changed their mind due to seeing the subreddit. You can find a bunch by searching it for "IPA" and the twitter account https://twitter.com/YassIPAqueen shares a bunch as well.

I don't think the hateful comments are the reason people are changing their minds though. I think it's just seeing example after example of people who think like they do facing the consequences of their actions which really drives home the point. On the plus side, I think some of the outrage over the tone has gotten people to check the place out when they might not have otherwise. I wouldn't recommend the tactic for general public outreach but it does seem to work for a certain segment of the population and we're at the point now where people are trying everything they can think of. I thought the "funeral home" ad was an inspired idea https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/21/us/covid-vaccine-billboar...
Sorry if I was curt, Chuck. I reread OP's post and your later dialog. It's interesting that you mention something I thought of but I hadn't seen before: the capacity of the grid to handle a very large power source.

I saw "3 Gw" as a comfortable max right now, maybe even that was from you; I don't know how accurate that is, but let's go with it for the moment. Let's say that you can't connect a power source larger than 3 Gw currently, although maybe raising that number is straightforward.

So it seems almost beyond dispute that the capital cost of building a fusion plant will be immense -- far, far larger than any other type, and that would be true for any type of fuel that hasn't been used before, purely because it's Plant #1. Plant #100 always costs way less.

But fusion isn't just any type of new fuel; it's radically different and unknown as to its properties. Will the neutron bombardment break it down in a couple years? Won't there be something that needs regular maintenance? No one knows how this thing will behave in 24x7 use, and yet the cost will be huge.

As OP said, even with free fuel, the capital cost of a geothermal or waste heat plant makes it noncompetitive with natural gas, and your argument is that fusion will produce so much electricity that the inequality will change.

So it costs huge sums to build the thing, and that can only be worthwhile if it produces huge amounts of power. More than 3 Gw. Furthermore, any downtime is horrifically expensive: you have to keep amortizing those construction costs.

So we probably have to upgrade the grid to handle these things and we have to over-engineer the thing grossly to avoid that expensive downtime.

One can argue that these are just part of the learning curve for any new technology. That might be true, but it probably means that it'll be 100 years before fusion is a big win.
Yes that's a fair lens to view this situation with, I think, and I've stated a similar view in a sibling comment.
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I wish there was more interest in electrifying our major roads and freeways (i.e. allowing cars to charge while they're moving) in part to reduce the necessity of hauling giant batteries around everywhere, but also to shift EV power use from mostly-nighttime to mostly-daytime when more solar power is available.

Another option is to get some high-capacity high-voltage DC lines connecting continents so that countries around the world can sell power during the day and buy it at night. We can keep the fossil fuel plants around as emergency backup.

At this point, though, we're a long way even from being able to shut off the fossil fuel plants during the day while the sun is shining.