skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many people travel to cities where sports matches, concerts, and other events (e.g., conventions, auto shows, etc.) are held in the stadiums. This also affects other businesses in the city that benefit from the spending done by those that travel into the cities.

Sure, but when slg says the financials are settled, presumably they mean stadiums are a bad investment even when all such tangible benefits are taken into account.

The question is whether there are other intangible benefits - maybe a city with a sports team is happier; or has lower obesity; or an improved cultural life reduces brain drain; or the city can afford a mass transit system and needs one, but bundling it with a stadium breaks through some political deadlock; or it's just plain that voters support the stadium.

A theory of intangible benefits would also be helpful in explaining why cities keep on bidding for the olympics, which is otherwise hard to rationalise.
I'm still not convinced it's an actual thing, and not just a pretentious way to say "going for a walk"
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678304 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30682604
One obvious off Ramp is someone offing Putin and putting all of the blame squarely on a mad man betraying his country for personal reasons.
> Linux: There is an age old Ubuntu bug (which bleeds into many Ubuntu based Distributions) where the installer wipes out the bootloader of a drive that you aren't even installing the OS on. Dear open source community: your desktop OSs are still hobbyist tweaker mode. I

Never saw that happen on any Linux installation (mostly using Debian, with one Arch Linux instance to avoid getting to accustomed to the Debian Way, though).

What I often saw once I still dual-booted Windows 7 and (IIRC) OpenSUSE ~11-14 years ago was that Windows destroyed the Linux bootloader entry, while on Linux GRUB + os-detect automatically setup one for Linux and Windows, so I always had to install Windows first and then Linux as else stuff was broken due to Windows not caring about existing user data at all.

Same story with USB pen drives, once I used a FAT formatted one on Linux and then plugged it into Windows it always had "format drive" selected by default, mounting was a slightly hidden menu entry (so it could read it just fine, it rather was a bad UX pattern)
Thanks for sharing! It does not work though for pages that take time to load (at best - image previous, at worst - only background. Any ideas how to change that?
How do they even know that their camouflage foils the surveillance cameras? Ok for the passport example with the missing head, but if you just walk the streets?
I doubt they will match Kobo there since Kobo literally has been updating every single model they've ever made except for 3. Although Kobo has a tendency to keep the best features reserved for newer models like Overdrive, Dropbox, etc even if the old hardware is basically identical to the new.

But that said they've surprised me. As a niche Android device from a Chinese company I expected absolutely 0 updates but my Nova 2 has gotten several with some significant improvements like the ability to split screen apps, layers in the note taking app and more. I've had Android phones from big manufacturers with worse support.
> while Linux will leave them completely stranded if something breaks because they have no clue how to fix it.

Is Windows really much different in this respect?

My partner is not at all interested in tech, and they use Fedora Silverblue (at my suggestion) because it's less intrusive than Windows and it's hard to break. It seems to behave weirdly less often than Windows did.

(The only thing that didn't just work was the printer, but we poked around in the printer settings a bit, and now it works.)

If Windows did just work, they wouldn't have been willing to switch to Silverblue.
> provide a joint benefit to society

My sides!
But it's not like many people are in a position to turn those scraps of time between 6am and 7am in the morning they could save from heading to the airport later, into a fraction of $4K or even valuable personal time.
Usually when I fly internationally, It is a whole day event that I already have taken leave for.
If you start looking into 1000 years history of the area you will find maybe worse incidents happening from the "Byzantine folk / religious traditions" side as well, I don't think this one sided implications are warranted.
So far I've yet to see a convincing argument for what "Web 3" is and can offer that we can't currently do without the use of a Blockchain. It all seems to boil down to "it'll cost something to do something", which isn't exactly a convincing argument on its own.

The responses to this story read rather like Facebook comments on controversial news articles - there's a bunch of comments claiming the website is a bunch of nonsense without actually articulating why that is the case, presumably by people who believe (or are invested in) crypto or "Web 3".

Can anyone give a reasoned argument to the actual benefits of Web 3, in contrast to what is currently not possible without the use of a Blockchain?
The title needs (2000).
Then you don't seem qualified to be making the statements that you are making.
Shipped as in "merged to master" but Emacs 28 that will feature this has not been released yet, or am I wrong?
> more about sanctions/politial pressure than an actual threat

I think this would be one of their hybrid warfare steps (well) before actually going nuclear.
On one hand he wanted to "break up nato" and on the other he wanted nato to collectively spend 100s of billions every year to militarize. Broken clocks and politicians who take every side of every argument are right every so often.
Just with everything with potential revolutionary impact, it will be hated with harsh criticism.

We're exactly at that period with web3: haters gonna hate and early adopters will be rewarded.
They aren't really. 98% of them are Japanese citizens but that doesn't mean they're "Japanese people" - the government doesn't track that.

Also, the concept of "Japanese people" was invented in the Meiji era as part of their approach to resisting Western colonization by pretending to already be a Western nation-state.

And of course, some of them are Ainu or Ryukyuan.
I can’t speak for Paris, but London is a major sporting destination.

British sports are completely orthogonal to American sports, so it seems a bit disingenuous to say that ‘no one visits London for sport’ from an American perspective. No Brit will go to the US to watch MLS. Americans care less about Soccer, Rugby and Cricket, but much of the rest of the world does.

London-based Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham are the 7th, 8th and 10th most valuable soccer teams worldwide. Chelsea won the champions league last year. All three teams play in Europe (almost) every year.

Wembley Stadium is the publicly funded national soccer stadium, and hosted the recent Euros final. It is a regular host of European club competition finals, including the Champions League.

Lords is the home of cricket. It hosted the World Cup final a few years ago, and is a mandatory stop on international tours. It almost causes diplomatic incidents if a tour of England skips Lords. London also has The Oval, traditional host to the last test of the summer. Accordingly, many famous test series have been won there.

Wimbledon is the most prestigious and historic tennis tournament in the world. It’s staunch traditionalism is polarising online, but it’s perpetually sold out, and ‘ground passes’ (a ticket to all the smaller courts) have queues for days. I’m an annual queue-er, I’ve met people from all continents.
I will go on the record here and one-up them, warning against the use of any antivirus product. SO many vulns and gaping, smoking holes in that kind of software over the years, it's not even funny. Faux-security is what most vendors are peddling.

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1427935182200492039 is one of my favourite bugs from recent years. I acknowledge this bug is not specific to an antivirus product (but of course, Fortigate offers that as an optional component for traffic inspection - and I keep wondering what that sub-component's code quality is like 8-)), but anyone who tries WILL find examples for grave problems aplenty.
(2005)

I don't know about squash, but this:

> The squash player who runs back and forth to attempt every shot...

doesn't appear to be true of tennis. Rafael Nadal in particular is famous for trying to catch each ball and save each and every shot. Lesser players give up more easily.
A better optimization would be adding appropriately sized SVG <use> tags to comments before first paint (to prevent re-flowing the layout) and lazily generate avatars to a SVG sprite sheet. No canvas required.
Yeah this one in particular is a symptom of some well-paid guys dividing their salary by hours-worked to determine how much their time is "worth" and applying that where really it shouldn't (like Matt Yglesias: https://twitter.com/sarahkogod/status/1346868669947768832?la...).

Why did he stop at flights though, surely there are other things you do more frequently you can save time (and therefore money) on? Why did he not say "If you’ve never shit yourself, you’re spending too much time walking to the toilet"
Courts ruled that when you are on-call, they have to pay at least minimum wage for every hour you are on-call. Additionally, you get tax benefits for working night and Sunday, which your employer has to declare.

That's why you earn so much more during on-call in Germany
Yes, I'd prefer to pay a fraction of a penny (which might go as low as $0.000001 for example) for each and every single one of my interactions, both read and write, and have it fund the decentralized network of data providers (servers, staff, users, ...) rather than have them try to extort money from me in predatory ways via ads, paywalls and the like. The fact you can block them only hides the problem and it's a pointless game of cat and mouse that only gets more and more devious.

Of course that expenditure has to be reasonable, ideally $1/day for intensive use or something affordable by everyone or trivially subsidizable, either externally or by participating in the network.

Costs ballooning out of proportion would be a problem of course, but the decentralized nature allows developers and users to move to another data provider once it proves it costs too much to operate (as it happened with Ethereum).
Jetbrains was already banned at the department of defense and many other companies in the wake of
previous hacks where they were suspected as the entry point.
I admit, I have a hard time believing that there are many people who would've never heard of London or Paris if not for their pro sports teams. There are absolutely some cities where I can believe it, like Liverpool or Manchester, but London and Paris?
I just tried it and wow, this works surprisingly great. Pretty snappy, zooming and searching works fine (well, it's using openstreetmap.org for searching, so the results are pretty bad, but that's not the fault of this package).
Correct: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2...
It's much, much easier to immigrate to Japan than the US; you just need a 4-year college degree and someone to sponsor your work visa.

The main issue for Americans is that wages are lower, might not be able to pay student loans or save up for that house.
The SNES used a dumbed-down version of Doom:

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Super_NES

While this port makes it a point to port everything accurately, including multiplayer.
Crypto makes it possible to own something digitally.

Web3 incorporates this ownership. While Web 2.0 was about writing something to the internet and the World Wide Web was about reading something on the internet. It's a further iteration which just makes sense.
I think this is just generally a way to justify doing whatever it is you want, and implicitly deflect anyone telling you you are wrong by adding a criticism of those who don't do it.

Sometimes its good justification: if you have never failed you don't take enough risks. Fair enough.

But i'm sure an alcoholic would say something like: if you've never been fired for being too wasted to work, you don't know how to have fun (maybe they would be a bit more subtle, but you get the point).

I think its better to just be honest with yourself, drop the implied moral criticism. Instead of saying "if you never miss a plane you spend too much time in an airport", just say, "For me personally, i find it acceptable to miss a plane every now and then if it means i don't have to go to the airport 2 hours in advance" You're making explicit the trade off, and you're not going on some high horse that there is something wrong with people who make a different trade off or have different priorities.
The point is what you're getting back.

The studies on cities spending big on stadiums have been clear that the economic benefits are marginal at best, while the spending is big.

I dunno how big the benefits for the military are here, but they're probably not spending very much on letting movie makers borrow uniforms or use shots of F-35's in the background or whatever.
You're the one acting like a jester.

Also, look up open-source. Your mind will be blown.
In Sweden at least, if you leave the church you don't get to have your wedding, funeral or baptism there. If you're a member then it's all free. You can of course still attend the Sunday services, but I don't know about taking communion or other rituals.
That has more to do with relegation in European football than anything else. A bottom tier NFL team is at least 2 billion because you know they will be in the league in 20 years. A bottom tier EPL team is likely worth a few hundred billion as it will cost money to stay in the Premier League. The fact that there are football teams so high on the list should tell you of the global brand value they have.
You're right. I've read so much about it that I had stored it as "it's here" in my mind.

Thanks!
Reading this was a bit maddening at times, because, for instance, the author always seemed to give up after 15 seconds of a command executing with not much explanation. A bit meandering.
Sure. A "free" internet.

Not in terms of money, but in terms of freedom of speech without censorship and a controlling authority.

With no authority that decides whether I can send money to/receive from someone.

Especially living in a corrupt authoratarian system, even only those two outweight all the bad sides (tx fees, scalability, PoW environmental effects) for me. It does more good than it harms in the big picture.
The grand prize is $250,000. This is a good money.
10 hrs waiting (i.e. catching up on email and social media, eating or shopping) for 4k? Does this seem reasonable to you?
If I were to build a facial recognition system, I wouldn't use color input. Doesn't e.g. Apple's facial recognition use infrared?
I can’t do anything any more after posting two comments. And the website ate my gas just by pressing the post button.
Uh? My data points are in operations, not dev, and are from working in Europe, so that may be an entirely different reality, but I've always been paid for being on call, plus for every time I was actually called and had to work - either remotely or on-prem, depending on what broke and what access was possible.

My manager once realized that I was sometimes even called by the other oncall engineers if they were stumped, and retroactively compensated me for a "2nd level oncall".

Not even once have I ever felt exploited - it was always sufficiently flexible for my personal life, usually 1 week/month, and always reasonably compensated.
Thank god WSL is around.
Otherwise I would've given up on supporting Windows environment for those who still stick to Windows.
Now have time for a longer reply. There are a few different phenomena.

First is that "fear" and "anxiety" are indeed used by the news media or politicians to get more attention. There I agree. It is cheap, unsustainable and harmful. But there's more to glaciers than news fearmongering.

The second concept is "the planet doesn't care". George Carlin has his famous skit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c Of course life will continue on earth, after relatively large temperature swings or 10 kilometer asteroid hits etc. That doesn't mean we don't need to care about anything. His skit can be seen as a wake up call (which he might or might not have meant). Why would we do anything? Why would you recycle instead of dumping plastic bags in the river? Why would you put the safety on in your gun? The planet will be fine even if you blow your leg off. But you will be affected. It's the people that are f.... That's the punchline.

But I also disagree about his "don't meddle with nature, let the species die". If we change something, let's say, dump cyanide or mercury in a river, it's not "natural" for animals to die downstream. It's not "nature doing its thing". It's our responsibility. It's an untenable philosophical position to do something and then act as if the consequences don't have anything to do with the deed. But that's not the core point of the skit.

So about caring. If there was an asteroid headed towards earth, I'd care. Yes, it's happened before, and life has survived. But I still care. It would have great negative consequences for me and others. And there are others that care. There are programs to survey asteroids. To build technology to deflect them. Why do it? The asteroids are not our fault. They have struck before. They are "natural". Sure some news media might use them as scare tactics, to get attention. Those are all red herrings. It would matter, it would cause great suffering, that could be prevented. So let's prevent it. Let's not fall into apathy.

The third is this attitude of shallow dismissal of large amounts of scientific enquiry, that was at the start of it all, in your first comment. I got the implication that the fossils show how stupid the scientists are, that everything will be fine. No, a massive amount of work has been performed studying glaciers, or climate change. We have ice penetrating radar to map the ground underneath. We track glacier flows. We measure sea temperatures at depth. Of course also paleoclimate has been studied. Paleoclimate was actually one of the great motivators for the CO2 theory, to show that climate can change drastically - more than what would be expected from the small insolation changes. If you really want to have a rational approach to glaciers, then don't follow some news talking heads but look at the science. Marine Ice Sheet Instability is the key word here.
So you're suggesting it's okay to ignore the law if the enforcement isn't complete? It's designed to protect people from corporate overreach.

Also, given that the EU has been taking increasing action against companies for non-compliance, I wouldn't bet on it remaining unchecked forever. In the intermediate term, I'd bet on there being third-party compliance checks and certificates, with companies that don't use such getting more attention.
Hue smart lights simulated sunrise was a game changer for me.
But that's the easy part. What about your backups?
Originally yes, of course. But that's not the fault of the person that actually hires them. If you are the only company that hires everyone without any discrimination, you just have a bigger supply of people.
GDPR creates a legal liability. It's less about enforcement and more about litigation risk.
You seem to be assuming a lot of things, like that Kaspersky couldn't deploy certain updates to targeted customers? That malware will leave behind trails of how it got on the computer? That plausible deniability is impossible?

What happens when a definition update "reduces false positives" but actually lets in a Russian cyberweapon that is delivered independently?
I don't see how without breaking compatibility, as that would change the image hash.
Shhh men and women are exactly the same, have the same desires and strong points, men that decided at 25 that they are not men can magically become women, there should be a 50/50 split in prestigious jobs (but not construction or underwater welding), and if you disagree with any of the above you don't believe in equality and are practically a Nazi.
Well, to do my part in scaring potential expats away, air pollution and noise pollution (it's LOUD) are pretty bad here and you might find lead pipes and asbestos in your building. If you live in a bajo (ground floor) in the old town, expect cockroaches the size of mice (they are quick). Depending on where you are, the tap water tastes like the water from a children's swimming pool. Depending on where you live, your barrio might smell like a sewer on certain days (even the expensive ones). Population density is very high, so expect to hear a part of your neighbors' lives, walls are often thin.

Never seen shirtless guys with machetes anywhere, day or night. Crime (apart from pickpocketing) never struck me as a huge problem (not above general big-city levels), neither pre- nor post-Covid, and I don't live in the best part of town for sure. But all the stuff above I personally experienced.
> Every major "high prestige world city" as you describe is a hub for multiple sports and various tournaments that invites both local and international crowds.

Big cities tend to attract big sports, can't deny that, I just don't think the causation really works the other way, at least not strongly. How much would London or Paris suffer if they lost their big sports teams and events?
When the enforcing agency works against it, its harder to effect change. Do many companies change their ways due to GDPR though? Not having too many fines may also be a testament to compliance kicking in before fines are necessary.

I think the system improved the web as a whole for EU with new options for consumers despite.
Staff/staff+ Engineering skillset look at Carta
It's curious to look on at this situation from Linux. Perhaps I shouldn't be too comfortable but it's really a different world. I suppose that one should take care which distribution one uses as that is also an effective entry point for software from the outside but at least a bit more obvious and open than some AV company.
Workplace (plus immediate neighbour offices) ride share / carpool can be the only real winner there.

Someone should build an app for it.
If you are using company account, company owns the data. The data produced during company time is company's property. Company has to request for deletion. Slack is right about it.
"Two British publishers have censored books intended for western readers to ensure they can be printed cheaply in China, in the latest instance of companies yielding to Beijing’s restrictions on free speech."

With all that's happening now with the cancellation of many things Russian, and many Russian people themselves, for no other reason than being Russian, it may be hard to complain if a Chinese printing company refuses to print things because they don't like them (including because of local laws, whatever we might think of them).

I am sure that they are many printing companies in many other countries, and the real issue seems to be that publishers prefer to save money on printing rather than to keep a book's contents.
All the positions on the site currently are remote friendly. I work for Oxide remotely from the UK – you just need a reasonable overlap with PT, I overlap four hours most days.
The practice developed around the GDPR looks something like this: You keep a separate record of deleted accounts. If you ever need to use or restore from backups, you need to filter the import or other use against that list. You can only do data-integrity checks against the backups and not use it for any purpose, of course. You must notify your local data protection authority if there are any exceptions. Like, if you restored a backup but you can't guarantee that deleted accounts remains deleted.

In other words, you don't need to wipe backups but you can't use them without processes in place to ensure you comply with your customers' rights granted under the GDPR.