skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What we should be doing is eliminating all off-street parking requirements […] and then simply charging for convenient on-street parking

Where does all this on-street parking come from? It does not compute that it’s impossible to build sufficient parking on the lot, but there is an abundance on the street. To the extent there is an abundance of street parking, this almost certainly means that previous development created sufficient off street parking for their residents.

Nor does it makes sense to encourage developers to dump the cost of building those spaces onto the city. Allowing developers to build without spaces means the rest of the neighborhood pays the cost for the parking congestion. As do the residents who now don’t have a legal parking space.
Some pieces are great, but others are infuriating, like the fact that I can't disable pointer or scroll wheel acceleration without installing 3rd party software.

At least they let me invert the scroll wheel so that its behavior matches everything else in the world.
Research shows hemp compounds prevent coronavirus from entering human cells
Sonos was going to brick working devices for people who were in the recycling program not quite the same as brick to convince people to upgrade. Not say its much better but not quite as ugly as your suggestion.
Is that distinction really useful though? Doesn't that rope in pretty much any behavior that deviates from your idealistic expectations of yourself?

Is a nail-biter an addict?
This isn't true when the people making the decisions are atypical humans in terms of morality. Consider two identical corporations where one has a normal morally conscious person and the other has a sociopath. If the second corp has an edge in business you could see how it could lead to non-average decision makers.
Not really a single PHP file, but multiple PHP files: https://uxwizz.com

It's a self-hosted analytics platform, I chose to use MySQL and PHP to make it really easy to install and maintain (most hosting providers offer a default LAMP stack).

It does earn me some money (varies between $500 and $2k per month) and could probably earn a lot more, but I hate marketing as I have the "will market it when all the features are implemented and all the bugs are fixed!" syndrome.
It’s really not if you simply stick to html, css, and a tiny bit of js on the client.
"The Department of Defense must place greater emphasis on defending servicemembers’ digital privacy as a national security risk."

What stood out for me was: "The objective of surveillance capitalism-enabled advertising and information warfare is the same: to influence an individual’s behavior change in support of someone else’s goals."
Thansk for the comment. I have no problem with multi-generational living. I'm not Asian but I lived with my in-laws for a few years while we were saving up to buy a home and it was great. The problem I have is when there are more people in a given housing unit than it was designed to accommodate and so you make up for that lack by consuming something in the commons, specifically street parking.

The pattern I saw in the Bay Area was not so much multi-generational families as groups of multiple unrelated working adults moving into a single-family home together as roommates, each adult individual having their own car and quickly exceeding the 2 spaces provided by a typical Bay Area driveway. Maybe they could park more in the driveway but nobody wants to block in other vehicles so they park in the street for every car beyond 2. Pretty soon the neighborhood is fully parked up.

This is unrelated, but there was also a guy in my Palo Alto neighborhood who hoarded junk cars. He had them parked in his garage, his driveway, yard, and when he ran out of space he started parking them all up and down the street near his house in front of neighbors houses. It was a real nuisance and the police never did anything about it that I could see. Behavior like that shows a real lack of respect for the commons.
I highly recommend reading Human color vision / Peter K. Kaiser and Robert M. Boynton. It's a great read if you've gone down the color vision rabbit hole as it has nearly every single topic in regards to human color perception. The biggest surprise for me was that there's still a bit of debate about how exactly neurons in the eye are wired together to produce the color signals that go to the brain.
This is what middle class has basically always referred to until people (mostly Americans) began using it to refer to people who are at like the 50%ile.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26411908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20328650

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20334259
This is what is wrong with mobile gaming today.
Why don't they use encryption? Wouldn't it be preferable for your messages to be completely inscrutable?

[Edit] To clarify my question, I'm specifically talking about these unencrypted parts:

1. The number of "Skyking do not answer"s indicates the severity of the message.

2. The fact that it is known that messages to Skyking are for a nuclear force.

I wouldn't want an adversary to know when or with what severity I am commanding my nuclear force. It leaks significant information that an adversary can use, for instance, to judge your response to some action the adversary took.
> That's not at all what happened. Source?

So this is not true, and it is all lies? [0] So Mozilla can survive without Google's money and be free from the demand to be the default search engine by their own competitor? That isn't taking privacy seriously is it?

Either way, Google seems to have Mozilla on life support and Mozilla will do anything to keep itself alive whilst falsely preaching their mission on 'privacy'. What else are they hiding?

> False. (Source: I work for Mozilla.) I won't attempt a further argument here; it doesn't seem worth the attempt.

It is true. Don't bother denying or arguing it because everyone knows it's true. [2] Even from the title in 2007:

> "Mozilla can live without Google's Money, Baker says"

> "Mozilla Corp. will walk away from Google Inc. and the millions it collects from the search company each year, if that's what it takes to stay independent, the open-source developer's CEO promised"

I expect Mozilla employees to continuously deny it. Even when 14 years later, Mozilla still has no significant revenue sources or any plans on being independent and still wants to be heavily reliant on Google's money despite promising to 'walk away' a decade ago.

They know that they cannot live without Google's money and call itself 'independent' or 'privacy-first'. There is no significant revenue source other than Google is there?

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/08/13/mozilla...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-lays-off-250-employees...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...
To disincentivize cars driving around empty.
It's ok, but it's no Victor Hugo https://bookstr.com/article/the-longest-sentence-that-victor...
It's not like government has a monopoly on unproductive workers. I'm sure us corporate folks have all seen slackers and inefficiencies.
I generally prefer to walk by a lane of parked cars than walk so close to a lane of moving car traffic.

An extra-wide sidewalk with trees and other decoration or a well-protected bike lane can provide a similar benefit, but parking isn't the worst option.
Paying for parking changes the calculus of life. It makes everything significantly more expensive and really puts a damper on membership type things.

Like we've got a membership to the children's museum. But parking is ~$15 a time so we go far less frequently than we otherwise would.

Economic arguments about freeloading are good and something I theoretically agree with. But in practice when the other option is 2 busses & 45 minutes you end up not going to as many places as you otherwise would.
You can always ride a bike :)
> Whatsapp is also bound to a phone number ...? Is that carrier bound?

In the world with NMP - it is 'carriers' bound, but still - good luck moving to another country and preserving your number.

> Why throw out a sim card?

There can be any reasons.. but the most common one is someone 'liberate' you of your phone and other belongings (sometimes including documents). So now you want to talk to your family, you get a phone, login with your Google account... and now you are required the same phone number to work it back. So off you go to your telco office to restore the SIM. Oh. It is 3:00 AM and you don't have any documents/ID to prove what you are the someone you claim. And imagine if this would happen not in your backyard, but on the other side of the planet.

> In Belgium, the number is personal and not from someone else

MNP. But still you are tied to your /number/.

Unknown number: "Hey mom! It's me, your son NicoJuicy! I was robbed tonight, can you send $100 so I could get home?"

Yes, for me WhatsApp is similar with proposed RCS implementation - it is too 'carriers' bound. I hate what I need to throw my /phone/ number around to everyone to just be able to receive some text from them.

I would really prefer some identificator not tied to a local provider of a completely irrelevant service.

Telegram, at least, allows you to use a nickname, though it still requires '2FA' through the SMS for the registration.
Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
> dexwiz - Is there any truly hard money other than precious metals? If the internet goes down or partitions, then what happens to all those coins?

If the internet goes down, we have bigger issues to think about?
AIUI (I'm no expert, someone will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong), the L2 Lagrange point is not stable. If you were perfectly at the L2 point the forces would be balanced and you'd stay there, but you'd have to perfectly at that point with zero perturbations, which is impossible.

It's like standing a sharp pencil on its tip - the slightest disturbance causes an accelerating fall, so it always falls. In the case of L2 any object placed there will always drift away with accelerating velocity.

To counteract this you need thrust, and that needs reaction mass. You can't do it with gyros etc, you have to chuck something out in the opposite direction to the way you want to push.

Edit: Incidentally (again not an expert) this sounds like maybe a useful quality of L2. L4 and L5 are stable which I assume means they're filled up with space garbage and odd socks, which maybe would be a problem for putting things there?
I'm sorry but you need to learn how to format text into paragraphs if you expect people to read that. Just honest advice.
You’re the only one talking about forcing anyone to do anything with masks. If you want to wear it fine, but not forcing people to is not the same as forcing people not to.
This is a lot of money, but the way this additional safe works is a bit scary. It takes on the terms of the lowest cap safe or convertible note between "when you're accepted to Y Combinator" and when you raise a priced round. Obviously the $125k Y Combinator safe is issued after you're accepted, so its cap should be one of the options for the MFN cap based on that wording. I believe Y Combinator's $125k for 7% is a post-money cap safe, which means the cap should be $1,785,714.

This is a pretty low cap and a startup is unlikely to raise more seed rounds at an even lower cap than that, though it could happen. So once you raise a priced round, Y Combinator's additional $375k converts into, at best, 21% of your company, or an even higher percentage if you raise additional safes or convertible notes at a lower cap. This means that as long as you raise a priced round or hit a liquidity event, Y Combinator will own 28% of your company or more in exchange for $500,000. It's not a terrible deal, but it's a massive chunk of your company.

To me, if you've already given up 28% of your company long before you've raised $1 million, you're setting yourself up to eventually have the founders' share of equity at mid-to-high single digits by the time your company IPOs or is acquired as a unicorn. You're basically setting yourself up to be like the Box co-founders, on the opposite end of the spectrum from a high-equity founder group like that of Square (34% at IPO despite raising $500 million in equity financing).

Somebody tell me if I'm wrong about the terms here. I'm a lawyer, but not a venture capital lawyer.
Is it malicious because it is (I am guessing) in wide use? Would it be malicious if there were nobody using it? 10 people? If there is a line established based on usage, where is that line? I don't know.

Also, would it be malicious if the author had simply deleted the project altogether, as opposed to putting in an infinite loop? From the author's perspective, if you want to use my code, fork it, and have at it, but I don't want it in my space any more. Is that not a reasonable stance to take? It may not be the "right thing to do", but it is his code, and he is the associated "owner" of the code. I don't know.

Going to an extreme, the implication _could_ be that I should never delete any open source project that I create, because it would be "malicious". The reality is that I could delete most of my open source work, and nobody would bat an eye. I'd be pretty shocked to my doing that being labeled a malicious act.
That's the connections portion, you're right. Saw a lot of pretty bad stuff at IBM.
“Walkable” doesn’t give much room for options. 30 minutes walking covers far less area than 30 minutes driving.
I live outside Boston just barely out where walking to the subway is infeasible (30min walk). But, it's only $2 or $7 to park at the T station and take the train in. This is a win-win for me, if I feel the desire/need to go into Boston. I don't have to worry about paying exorbitantly for a parking garage (or finding a parallel parking space and then parallel parking), and it isn't terribly inconvenient, even with a 2-year-old.
I wonder if I can program my novelty Stack Overflow ctrl-v/ctrl-c threeboard to work this way.
Simplified guide to Firefox privacy:

If Firefox has any real interest in privacy they would make it easy to achieve with no "how-to guide" needed.

For what privacy in Firefox should be like, see Brave.
Or to come into a city for an evening event. I'm actually quite close to commuter rail to the 40 mile away large city. Which I take if I'm going in 9-5 but it's completely impractical to use for going in for dinner and a show.
I tend to agree when considering _new_ projects. A new project begins with a larger ecosystem of knowledgeable and experienced software professionals. This would include people tangent to software development (project managers, designers, executives, etc). I suppose the intent for asking the question was really something like, "how could or should one institutionalize quality improvement?" Maybe that starts with 1) ensuring that the business actually grows, 2) ensuring that the software actually works, and 3) ensuring that some flexibility is baked into management of software as an asset... or something along those lines.
Sure, microtargeting could be potent.

But its effectiveness depends so much on the message, we could be calling anything information warfare.

I feel that the automated, microtargeting part is often over-estimated. We are routinely exposed to a huge range of content and are pretty resilient, the delivery doesn't radically change that [1].

[1] An exception are new media such as radio and TV in their infancy and perhaps Facebook for elderly people today - see the paper from Andy Guess, Josh Tucker etc.: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau4586
The linked NYT article about beef prices is worth a read, too: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/business/beef-prices-catt...
I am fortunate enough to have this kind of manager.
U.S. Justice Department forming unit to counter domestic terrorism
My point was that commercial air travel has been around since before 1990.
> it can make balancing the WebSocket connections a bit more challenging since they are long lived. Deployments are even more inconvenient since (in our case) we disconnect the WebSocket consumers whenever a server is restarted

May I suggest that the solution could be to design your WS protocol to be reconnect-friendly, like the Phoenix LiveView protocol?
Maybe make a protocol which assumes and expects that a connection may be dropped by any side at any time, with robust context-restoration API such as “full snapshot” or “all updates since event ID”
> For a number of years, we’ve had a program in place called Queue Dodge. It’s a program that lets anyone opt out of Riot within their first six months and get paid part of their salary [10%] to help transition to whatever is next.

I can't tell if this is a good or bad offer. It's about a 6 week severance pay for the company to let unsuitable employees to voluntarily quit.
Sprints and SCRUMs.
* Most managers are not good managers, however*

There it is.

I deliberately chose to step back from management and went back to being an IC despite getting feedback from my former direct reports that genuinely almost made this cynical fucker cry about what a great manager I was for them.

Truth be told, as much as I really enjoyed the presence of, and admired the people reporting up to me and what I was able to do for them, and how they made ME a better manager and engineer, I never want to be a manager ever again.

By my own standards, I’m not good at it and the stress it brought, eh. Just not compatible. Glad I learned that lesson. I’d much rather be on the doing end, the next time I find myself in management will be when I finally have the means to cut loose and work for myself full time.
Same here. I pay for LastPass, and I was able to export w/o a problem.
So you’re saying forever then, because Covid is not going away. Do you honestly think people should be forced to wear masks for the rest of their lives?
Ok, one that doesn't have a grid of icons. Are you claiming it's prior art?

I don't think there has been prior art, once you consider all the irrelevant details. There very likely isn't, because if there was, Samsung would have used it.
https://archive.is/ELWTr
Thanks Ian!
I tried doing this and my team said they are not "code monkeys" and want to be involved in every meeting and discussion.

Go figure. :)
> still lacking things some of us need - admittedly a minority:

Can't you and a few 100/1000 like-minded people crowdfund a custom Framework keyboard with full-sized arrow keys and and track point? It's designed to have bits of it customized/upgraded (including the keyboard).
This is very useful info for everyone aspiring to do cross platform graphics, thanks a ton!
The BLS publishes data that's often about 12-18 months behind the current year. They can't publish much more frequently as the year has to end before they can collect useful stats. That said, you can see trends by going to the Job Outlook section.

Under More Info, there are also links to O*NET which has its own summary information that's often updated much sooner. For example, the page for Software Developers notes that it was last updated in 2021 in the upper right corner:

https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/15-1252.00
> "It works for ME, so don't change it for OTHERS."

I don't recall every seeing anyone complain about the existing UI though (either from FF or other browsers implementing similar tab bars), so seems like most "others" were also perfectly satisfied with the existing UI. A browser tab bar is a solved problem and attempts to mess with it usually end up worse, both for Firefox and even for Safari's as their recent-ish attempt demonstrates - which they ended up thankfully rolling back in a subsequent update (the "separate" tab display option now behaves like it used to but there was a time when even the separate option added a disgusting amount of whitespace, along with a bug that would crash the browser if you dragged a tab while it was loading).

> even though the changes are for a product and user base as a whole

You mean the single-digit marketshare which is mostly power users, a good chunk of whom is here on HN always complaining about their changes because they're so out of touch with their current users? Or the user base that doesn't exist and never will because those are perfectly happy with Chrome and don't want to switch to what looks to them like a slower, knockoff version?

> you aren't very appreciative how hard it is to get UI/UX right

I absolutely am aware how hard it is to get those things right. I also believe that once you do get it right (through a decade of effort, experience and feedback) you don't ruin it on a whim like Mozilla did. Today's low-effort trend of replacing everything with whitespace and removing most affordances is also a major step backwards and this isn't limited to Firefox.
But which specific measures are actually effective and which are a waste of time? The 9/11 highjacking was accomplished with box cutters. Also 9/11 transformed highjacking from a major inconvenience to a national threat.
Doctor loses practice after branding patients' livers with his initials
That's fantastic in theory, not so much in practice. Visual studio code crawls into a halt and the only way to "get it back" it is restarting Firefox, even if it had just one tab opened.
Turns out a steam based thermodynamic cycle is expensive even with "free" energy.
Feel free to steal them! I can send you the React components if helpful :)
>Tipping, at a minimum, is social grease, and to the extent that you want it to be, redistributive economics with near zero administrative overhead.

The "zero administrative overhead" also makes it massively unfair. Why does the waiter at a fancy restaurant make hundreds per night in tips, but the grocery clerk make $0?
Hey everyone! I’m a software engineer at Meta, and I helped work on the program that the newsroom post is about. Sorry I’m late, I only just found the thread! I might be able to answer some questions about the technology - many of the building blocks are open source, like the PDQ photo hashing algorithm (https://github.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/tree/main/pdq) mentioned in FAQ (https://stopncii.org/faq/). I might not be able to answer every question, but I’ll do my best!
It would be nice to see them outlawed in city centres but for a completely different reason. Pollution. Those 2-stroke engines pollute a lot more than cars nowadays and with the rise in food delivery services these vehicles have been on the rise. Likely undoing the effects of banning old cars from city centres.
I have an app based around some long running resource intensive processes that run on scalable microservices. So you click a button and may have to wait 5+ minutes before you get a response. Websockets let you do notifications and make everything async. They've served me well for request/response that might take 3-30 minutes.
If you're concerned about the long term effects of the vaccine, you should be double concerned about the long term effects of the much more complex and much less understood virus.
I think you'll find this true in most places, at least in the US.

The main differentiating factor is probably the consequences - or lack of.

Disobey traffic laws and get caught in a car or motorcycle - you face consequences that can range from harsh to at least significantly annoying enough that you'd rather not.

Do the same in a bike, and most people don't care beyond giving you the finger or a nasty look. Even cops don't care more often than not.

True - you don't have a cage of steel surrounding you like in a car so you also risk being killed or maimed, but I've found most cyclists also have a sense of invincibility until they actually get hurt. I am guilty of this myself.
The opposite is true in NYC. Do you have public transit?