skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suburbs are "cheaper" because it's a ponzi scheme. When older suburbs eventually have to face the bills of renewing their ultra expensive infrastructure costs hollow out and decline, developers simply build a new suburb and people move.

That new suburb is of course in no way economically sustainable.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2021/12/11/after-a-kentucky...

> Charley Mcgregor, a training manager at the candle factory since August, said for a major storm their emergency plan was to shelter in place in a bathroom hallway in the back of their production floor. Mcgregor said everyone was evacuated to that hallway when the sirens went off on Friday night, and she said all employees were accounted for in the hall.
I asked my friend who's a senior dev if he ever uses recursion at work. He said whenever he sees recursion in a code review, he tells the junior dev to knock it off.
Most of the problems people are moving away from have been decades (or even centuries) in the making. Not sure the recently migrating voters should foot the blame for that.
NIST Records Fifth Straight Year of Record Software Vulnerabilities Total 18,378
I found the difference in land price appreciation in other more expensive areas (specifically Western and Southern US) more than made up for the extra up front costs. Although it is not "coast" vs "not coast", as NJ/CT land prices changes were in a similar situation to IL land prices.
What is wrong with saying "we are removing RSS because we're a for-profit company and we can't monetize it"?

That would be brutally honest and probably get much more respect.
How does LS Retail POS software help to get precise customer data?
They are also incredibly tolerant to current/voltage spikes because they are purely resistive, which makes them ideal for situations when power could be 'interesting' as they will still function unless they are run well beyond normal limits. So when it's more important that it just works, it's not a bad design.

Also soldering them would be least of the cost concerns for the shuttle program, which had much bigger and nastier cost centers.
I feel like the “toxic” big tech social media platforms have been a lot more impartial than any of the MSM sources these days. I don’t think the parent comment argued for that though.
As someone from bumfuck nowhere currently living in a megacity, there's more to it than that. Cultural events for one; the difference between a 20 minute train home and a 7 hour drive is pretty significant. Job availability is another one, remote helps but even with COVID we aren't there yet.
Like, there's a difference between removing material that's actually illegal and removing material that they just don't agree with as a company. I think the difference is important.
Woah. How do you use this superpower?

I can often smell when my wife is in a bad mood (her breath literally smells sour). However, it isn’t a reliable indicator (many false negatives).
Nothing would be better for California in general and the Bay Area in particular for people to move away for a while. The infrastructure of that region is swamped. Everything is overpriced and congested.

I was born in San Francisco a long time ago and it used to actually be a pretty cheap city to live in California once. A lot of LA based law firms would open up offices in San Francisco because it was cheaper to live there then lots of parts of Los Angeles and lots of people thought the city was charming. That's hard to imagine now. To me the charm was hollowed out by it becoming so expensive. So now SF is a boring like Manhattan and Oakland is the Brooklyn of the region.

The only reason anyone pays $2700 for an 500 sq ft apartment in San Jose is because they have a great job near by. I don't want to say anything bad about San Jose but IMO it has always been pretty far down the list of places you want to live in California. You shouldn't have to suffer that much for a job, and it seems like the way things are going you won't have to.
Vimeo did the same. I used to subscribe to and watch their Staff Picks. Now I don't.
So should there be a special tax on "megaphones" like Twitter, Facebook or YouTube? What exactly is the legal framework under witch these companies could be scrutinized? Normally the manufacturer of megaphones does not get sued when a person uses it to promote hatred on a village square.
People who retire at retirement age. But that age keeps getting bumped up every year, same with social security benefits.
My favorite (and free) explorer alternative is [Q-Dir](http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir), which is unique because it offers 4 panes, instead of usual 2. It was almost a life changing tool for me, especially when dealing with multiple directories at the same time, like copying files from one directory to multiple directories. It has a little quirky UI. I've probably used almost every other file manager, like xyplorer, qttabbar, salanamder, mucommander, onecommander, etc, but I always come back to Qdir.
I've been out of town the past few days, so I'm not surprised I didn't hear about that yet.

The circumstances are particularly shocking. A violent carjacking in broad daylight at an upscale grocery? The perpetrators must be a special brand of stupid.
When I first read it, I realized was probably a Butlerian jihadist.

"Computers" are unfortunately named after the least important thing that they do (accounting.) What's important about them is that they are allow us to generalize and add infinite complexity to autonomous control systems, like valves that open when a certain pressure is reached, or switches that toggle at a certain light level. The ultimate computer network would keep the king that implemented it in power for eternity, even after his death, by keeping his will alive. If you automated his corpse, you wouldn't even need to know that the king could die.

edit: "Ordenador" (from Spain) is probably better, i.e the thing/person that gives orders, or puts things in order. Maybe "mandónador"...
> Facebook's detection and processes for this are laughably bad

Both for false positives and false negatives. I had to register an account to participate in some local town stuff, and my account got locked every week, regular as clockwork.
As an ex-FB, which has a pretty similar culture, I'm apparently picking today to halfheartedly stand up to these grave injustices against company culture. My input here is mostly just to humanize the people who stand on the other side of the robotic wall that is preventing our OP from posting videos of his son, but understanding the problem a little better may help resolve it in the end.

> * They're content with algorithmic approaches to spam prevention and other moderation that results in numerous false positives and don't see the problem with that.

Spot on. False positives are part of the game when you're trying to improve on $1.3MM revenue/employee.

> * They think their support channels are more than adequate.

Anybody at any internal discussion would probably disagree with this, instead saying something along the lines of "there may be deficiencies with our support process but we can always improve them later on."

> * They think their bans result solely in bad actors being harmed and don't realize that shady businesses that actually do spam have endless fake companies at their disposal to keep on trucking.

Nobody thinks that the bans solely result in bad actors being harmed and the fact that there are endless fake companies is what necessitates these robot walls that don't have human connections. False positives will happen and a goal is minimizing them... however goal #1 is growing the product (which indirectly requires keeping false positives from getting too high) and goal #2 is preventing company liability (which directly requires that false negatives stay really low). When you have strong pressure to keep false negatives low and less pressure to keep false positives low, then you end up with a bias toward positive results.

OK, well, that's why we end up here. Is this helpful to OP? Probably not. Sorry, OP!
You can add a couple grand from Social Security and I guess the assumption is also that your house is paid off. Also, you no longer have a commute or any of the related expenses. Given those three things, you can live pretty comfortably. Not lavishly, but quite comfortably.
What's the climate change outlook in 20 years though?
right, out of touch, like with many other of their products.
As a sole-founder/developer [1], I resonate a lot with OP's post.

Use google to figure out how much real companies spend on marketing vs R&D (e.g., engineers salary). Then you'll know how important marketing is. It's not uncommon to see a tech company spends way more money on marketing than R&D. There must be a reason, right?

Initially, you don't have much money to spend on marketing, but you have time. So how do you allocate your time? It's easier than ever to build a software product. But getting people's attention is getting harder and harder. You have to do work to let people know the existence of your product. Great things rarely happen automatically without you actively doing work. I know engineers like to solve problem in a fully automatic way. But in real business, you need to do manual work.

Every email is a marketing opportunity. It's not like you need to aggressively sell your product/service when replying other people's emails. It's more about providing great customer service. Great customer service is an effective marketing strategy. Genuinely helping your users solve problem (via email), then they'll help you promote your product/service.

It's okay to experiment with paid marketing. When you run a business, money is just a number on spreadsheet :) It's more like resources that you allocate in a strategy game (e.g., age of empires). And paid marketing is not just google/fb ads. There are other forms of paid ads. If you can learn java/python, you are capable enough to learn how to allocate resources (e.g., time, money..) on marketing.

[1] I run listennotes.com
No, I grew up with Windows 98. Compare the quality and thought given to Windows 98 dialogs and windows compared to this GNU software in 2021.

https://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/usb/usb-config-98.htm

http://gnustep.org/
This is something a lot of parents don't think of! As I keep my eye out for new houses, one thing I noticed is that no one emphasizes walkability in the suburbs anymore. It exists if you know where to look. Where I live now we can walk to some stuff. When my kids are older they will be able to walk or bike to the park, to school, to the shopping center to hang out, and I want to make sure it stays that way.

I certainly don't want to be on the hook to drive them everywhere like my parents were!
This reads like a GPT-3 response.
Those oversimplified phrases gain traction by provoking an emotional response, but that cuts both ways.

"Defund the police" was very easy to interpret as "abolish the police." It was a gift to the other side of the argument, and to that side's candidates in the 2020 election. Overall it looks like it backfired as a slogan politically, and no major police departments have actually been reformed.

If all your slogan achieves is making your own side feel better, while it alienates moderates and gives easy talking points to your opponents, it's a bad slogan and you shouldn't be proud of it.
==Here's what will 100% not work -- Activism or Trying to 'Policy' out of your way of Climate Change problems.==

Capitalism and Free Market are solutions today exactly because we have aligned our "policy" to make clean energy more attractive to capitalists. People quickly forget policies like the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [1] which invested $80 billion in clean energy. Tesla might not exist today if the DOE didn't loan them $465 million as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 [2].

[1] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/0...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/id/100759230
Hi! Fancy meeting another Edina person here, haha.
I hate to admit it, but I kinda just... stopped looking at my RSS feeds about a year ago. It wasn't intentional, it just kinda happened?

I was (am?) paying for Feedly and then I used a separate app on my phone to consume it (Hated the Feedly UI and I wanted the app I have been using since google reader).

But I costantly found myself with a huge number of unread feeds. They became unmanageable. I would look at headlines and only click a small subset of what I was seeing (likely under 1%).

I think I ended up replacing it with Reddit, Hacker News, and Apple News. Plus the few sites I actually cared about I just regularly checked on my computer.

That being said, I did just open it and scroll a little bit and saw some stuff that I actually would have liked to see. So maybe I should get back into it.

It is sad to see the tech basically disappearing, but almost no one outside of tech knows it exists. I can't remember the last time I actually saw an RSS feed button and I used to have to go digging for it.

I may just need to curate my list of feeds more, or categorize them. I don't know, but I wish Had a better solution to all of the unread stuff.
Facebook Groups and Pages create ways for people to share content, triggering exponential growth (e.g. user shares meme to their page so that their friends see it. Their friends choose to re-share. wash. rinse. repeat.)
Dualistic thinking is so pervasive in the US that I think it's far fetched to say it's a token side-effect, as much as saying never speaking another language that is not English in your life if a token side-effect of psychedelic use... like the correlation is so big if you do self reported studies just in the US that it will be hard to deal with it.

Probably what's going on is that people just become more aware of dualistic thinking because of the extra open-mindedness or increase in empathy that forces one to somehow deal more with that "other side" that they are definitely "not a part of".
A few of the wealthiest suburbs in the country are enclaves of people who rely economically on the city but don’t want their property taxes to pay for poor people’s amenities and services, so carve out a separate municipality. Cities want to re-absorb these, because the current setup is grossly unfair.

This is not representative of suburbs in general. Many suburbs, especially older ones whose infrastructure construction (but not maintenance) was heavily state-subsidized, are struggling and financially unsustainable, leaving their (less wealthy) residents in deep trouble in the long term.
Whenever I see toxicity, I always assume it's a young individual. I remember myself in teens, always up for some trolling on forums.

Today, I just don't have a need to do such things. Whenever I encounter this weird behavior, I just stop interacting, because I have a feeling it's some 13-16 year old wasting my time.
> Lets say someone walks past you and says "hi" and smiles. Lets say someone else then walks past you and punches you in the face. Which interaction maximizes engagement?

Likely the first one. Could also lead to a literal 'engagement'.
Blood thinners are not fun. Brain bleeds are a risk.
I don't think that's true. HN is pretty non-toxic, from my perspective at least. Reddit is tolerable to me.

I think the problem is misalignment of incentives. If I'm incentivized to increase engagement, then I can think of some pretty ridiculous shit to say that will get lots of people clicking downvote and shouting at me.

I think these platforms could have been more proactive in setting those cultural norms that evolve into fruitful social interaction.
They can try to shoot first. That doesn't mean they always will, or that their first shot won't miss. Or that you won't still manage to shoot them even if they hit you first, the risk of which acts as a deterrent.
Couldn't there be a proxy that generates an RSS feed, like Twitter to RSS feed or Facebook to RSS Feed
Thank you for this. This was an exceptionally well forecasted system, and it was clear the potential danger was significant. It was one of the few outbreaks I’ve seen that was as clearly advertised beforehand. I’m just a hobbyist weather nerd, but I couldn’t believe some of the language coming out of SPC and some of the local WFOs in advance of the event.
> Decentralized money, decentralized information, decentralized voting.

Satoshi Nakamoto, net worth 30 billion and veto power over the entire cryptospace (if he's alive)

Vitalik Buterin , net worth 10 billion and veto power over the whole Ethereum ecosystem.

"Meet the new boss...the same as the old boss"
NASA and SpaceX are establishing the first Martian city by 2030
Lots of good comments from the last time this was posted too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323736
> This tactic will only work if everyone agrees to do what’s right.

I do not know who said it first, but: "If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now."
But that's the exact issue no.

Social media platforms create immense value as well. I might not be a user but I can see how it helps a lot of people as well.

Do we enforce license on people to use social media platforms?
Yes, Capitalism will surely solve the problem that Capitalism wrought, and using tools like Regulation and Policy is sure to hamper Capitalism and not help consumers or the environment at all!

How sad it is that the comment suggesting we try to not continue overpopulating the globe is downvoted while this propaganda piece isn't.
Yeah I don't think someone in that role from fb is particularly qualified to talk about society and human nature in relationship to social networking.

It's like listening to someone who builds, designs and optimizes production lines in cigarette factories philosophize about why people smoke and whether it is their free choice to do so.
There are no causes, just dynamics.

And Facebook and society are in one together. Society functioned ‘better’ before Facebook, so I’d start looking at that end of dynamic first.

QED.
Maybe if facebook’s graph were designed differently so that you have circles of relationships: family, friends, acquaintances, business relationships, interests and everyone else, but by default as the relationships are closer to the periphery, the less they get promoted. The smaller the circle the higher the chance of promotion.

That way idiocy’s doesn’t spread high and far and instead has limited transmission radius.
> “Privatize the profits, socialize the costs” is not sustainable.

The church (as well as the integrated state) has been doing it for thousands of years. I think treating the general population as a somewhat renewable resource to be mined/harvested has a longstanding tradition and history of being one of the most sustainable things in human history.

Depending on how tax money is spent (i.e. in ways that benefit a subset of society, rather than all taxpayers) this is perhaps the most common and longstanding tradition we human beings have.
There are no causes, just dynamics.

And Facebook and society are in one together. Society functioned ‘better’ before Facebook, so I’d start looking at the Facebook end of dynamic first.

QED.
> Also don't vote for the policies which made you pick up your bags and leave the place you came from or your new place of residence will eventually start to look like the one you left.

Maybe people didn't leave because of the policies, but because of their position relative to them. I mean, people who aren't legacy homeowners and find California too expensive but otherwise like it might well prefer to become a homeowner and then have the place they are in become like California.
This is not true. There are a number of ways that TypeScript's type-checking can be subverted at runtime, particularly when dealing with APIs that return JSON. You have to trust that the API has returned exactly what you are expecting, or write your own very detailed validation scripts. It's similar to the sorts of testing one would do in vanilla JavaScript without TypeScript, but now executing all the time at runtime.

As a developer, in the case of an API change that violated my assumptions, I would personally prefer my applications to fail-hard at the point of the API call, rather than to have my scripts run merrily on and only error in some other code far away from the root-cause when one of those assumptions fails.

However, I have a lot of hope that runtime type checking based on auto-code generation around TypeScript's interfaces could be developed in a future version of TypeScript.
As usual, it depends. As more people buy upscale gear (Miele or Oreck come to mind), they last much longer and are designed with servicing in mind. And the local vacuum shop services almost every vacuum around. Most vacuums are easy to fix assuming the motor isn't shot. It's replacing a frayed power cord, or a belt/beater.

It's kind of similar to how good shoes can be resoled.
How can I bet against this statement?
Beautiful, and in Common Lisp just makes it that much better for me. Thanks for sharing!
> Relative to Linux desktop stuff in 2008, it’s not terrible.

That's not the rubric the commenter I responded to laid out, but even if you wanted to move the goalposts there, then for comparison, here's a stock Ubuntu desktop installation from 2008: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntu-desktop-2-804-2008...> Not especially bad, but not especially great, either. Something else that it's not, though, is anywhere near as bad as the Étoilé screenshots that are the subject of discussion.
Because cafes and bread from bakeries are (relative) luxuries. Even if it's just $1 more a coffee/loaf that adds up to significant money over a year. That's the thing that I think people miss. Scale makes things cheaper and to have scale at retail you need to pull customers from a large area.

You could do the same in a dense area but then you run into housing cost/size problems. I don't see how you get the typical 4/3 suburban house and a low cost of living without driving.
Facebook is discovering what casinos, distilleries, and cigarette companies learned from their own experiences:

Sometimes, you stumble across something wildly successful that hits so hard partially because it keys into the pathological behaviors of some human beings (which can become self-destructive).

When you discover something like that, you either volunteer to regulate your interactions with your customers or the government steps in to regulate them for you.
Lol for real, don’t know if OP is serious. How do you catch a GPT-3 commenter bot?
My wife and I currently live in Providence, RI (by way of NYC). We highly value walkability, but feel like we've aged out of tolerating some other big-city "annoyances." When Americans think of "suburbs" they think of culs-de-sac and arterials, but it doesn't have to be that way. New England is dotted with "small towns" that are basically just suburbs of Providence and/or Boston that are laid out on a grid -- with a main street, walkable amenities, and access to commuter rail. In St. Louis, where I'm from, there are half-a-dozen inner ring suburbs that meet this description (minus the commuter rail), so I assume it's the same in most cities.

There's a kind of exurban suburb that was built in the 1990s that has an outsized influence on our conception of suburban living. But there are lots of older "suburbs" that are actually quite pleasant.
This dodges the real issue which is that Facebook profits from users spreading disinformation. In fact this content is more engaging so their profit maximizers will amplify the disinformation. And as Frances Haugen's testimony demonstrates, FB knows this internally and chooses their profits over their users' well-being.

What the FB exec is trying to do here is akin to oil companies cleaning sludge of ducks. "Look! We're helping! Were part of the solution!" But the ducks shouldn't have any sludge on them in the first place.