skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that public officials are more fond of projects like stadiums than voters. Last November, voters in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Denver, Colorado; and Augusta, Georgia all voted against ballot initiatives to fund stadiums that would increase their tax bills. Meanwhile, the elected officials in each of these places seemed to have been fully behind these projects.[0]

In the Buffalo Bills example from the OP article, it sounds like they're attempting to negotiate directly with the governor. Smart, I suppose, since if the other examples are any indication, the elected official will be more receptive towards giving them money than the taxpayers.

[0]: https://reason.com/2021/11/05/voters-dont-want-to-pay-for-yo...
This is like complaining you can't use electricity to fill up a petrol car...

This is something that can and has been polyfilled for the moment, but runs into some a11y issues with screen readers and the usual style/compatibility ones that a native implantation won't.
Second the silk eye mask, one of the best things I've ever purchased.
Well, I can honestly tell you such a cryptocurrency exists. Cryptocurrencies are byzantine-fault-tolerant consensus algorithms. These are tricky algorithms to get right, but I can assure you that Bitcoin is not the only viable solution. In fact, I don't understand people's pessimism. In the universe of all possible algorithms of this kind, known and unknown, I find extremely unlikely that Bitcoin-like ones would be the best and only possibility!
>I'd be glad to pay a penny (or a fraction of it) for each comment on HN or whatever and have it fund the network (server hosting, staff, etc). Much better than the current alternative.

Really? You'd prefer to pay for every single interaction on the web rather than be served an ad that you can block by the way anytime?

What about people that don't have the luxury to throw away their money like that, should the internet exclude poor people from participating?
I have both, two modern cars with services all 30k km and one from the 80s with motor oil changes every 5k, gearbox oil every 10k and axles every 10k as well. Not to mention that modern gearboxes and exles tend to be greased for life.
It's debatable: it's easier a system that when it decide to upgrade can regularly lock you out in an "waiting" state for an unknown time until it hopefully finished without error then a system that you can re-deploy just with few lines of already written code?

It's easier a system that degrade while you use it, deriving to unknown states quickly or one you can rebuild and you normally do that upon any upgrade?

IMVHO Nix language is horrific, yes, that's a big issue and I dream Guix for that witch unfortunately it's not mature enough for my needs, but what NixOS offer:

- custom image to deploy just a simple .nix + oneliner away

- reproducibility

makes it far easier than any other system we have these days. Consider that the fact most people decide to make acrobatics on a blade simply ignoring the fact their system once installed, typically in a manual way, derive and degrade, keeping manually managing it fixing issues as they appear without even a real "backup plan" (at maximum having backups of personal data, witch are useless without the working OS) does means "easy" as "hey, it's easy not thinking, living day-to-day no matter what", yes it might be easy, until shit happen, when (not if) happen... Such easiness demand a potentially very big and up-front unknown price.

Thanks to NixOS I've upgraded many time my home infra, smoothly, I have everything up to date and everything can survive hw changes, crashes etc without much manual work in a reproducible manner. Oh, and that without wasting a gazillion of resources for things like ks and their obscenely long YAML-based setups, containers that are loooooong to rebuild to a point many simply do it once in a while etc.

Windows might sound simple for some because of ignorance: they already know it and only it, they get it pre-installed, when something happen they call for third party support etc, but that's not easiness that's habit+offloading problems to others. An easy recipe for disasters and hi opex + regular capex with much randomness.

In "complete" (desktop) terms classic systems were meant to last a decade of comfortable usage*, they were products with a significant value, mastered by the user/buyer of them; now systems last mostly only few years just to sell new and even more crappy hw, stating "hey, do not worry your data are secured on our servers, just pay us what we told you to pay, at our condition since you depend on us for anything".
No London team even breaks the top 10 of most valuable sports team, but there are several US entries there, so that seems unlikely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes%27_list_of_the_most_val...

I tried googling more directly for global popularity/famousness, but couldn't find any hard data.

And of course there's the issue of "has well known sports teams" vs "well known for their sports team". The former you could probably get data on somewhere, but the latter, I doubt it.
The problem is that it gives people a reason to be an asshole:

If you’ve never missed your kid’s birthday, you’re too focused on family.
I'd move to Georgia with absolutely no hesitation!

The life is surprisingly "slow", people are more relaxed (apart from the recent protests related to the incident we all are worried about), friendly faces, and like you said, the cuisine caught me off guard and turned out to be absolutely amazing!
Generally I would avoid building something in a non-standard language at a company unless there was a compelling technical reason to use it - someone else will need to maintain it and if you're the only Elixir person on the team that's not a very good long term strategy.
I wonder how this is supposed to work with workplace apps such as Slack, especially with regards to GDPR.

Say I am leaving my job, and want my personal information to be purged from this 3rd party service (Slack). They say [1] "Primary Owners of a workspace or org must contact Slack to request deletion of a deactivated member's profile information.". What if I contact the "Primary Owner" before leaving my job and they ignore my request, or better yet I have already left my job and I don't know how to contact them or who they are? Why can't I request my personal information to be deleted from a completely 3rd party American company's database myself?

[1] https://slack.com/help/articles/360000360443-Delete-profile-...
I wanted to say the same thing, but I am reluctant to go back myself let alone recommend it these days
This is just a hater hatin, coming up with the worst ways to make web 3.0 look bad.

An example of a real value proposition of web 3.0 is spam protection and reduction of fake reviews. Much like how bitcoin itself cannot be counterfeited, utilization of the blockchain enables some guarantees in a digital world of endless copying.

The only thing I got from it was that the creator hates crypto bros so much he's willing to spend hours on end making an app to demonstrate why he's right.
Which ends up funny if you migrate there. I've heard so many stories other Poles going there, declaring they are atheists so they won't pay taxes, and then being surprised when they come back only to their their local priests laughing them out of door when they want service XD
The quoted blog article from Gav Wood, who introduced the term to the blockchain ecosystem ~8y ago:

https://scribe.rip/gavofyork/why-we-need-web-3-0-5da4f2bf95a...
You know this trash approach will have no effect on SEO, right?
On-call is a stop-gap for when you don't yet have a fully staffed 24/7 SRE team yet, and you need to be pretty big before you can afford something like that. Plus your software needs a big round of professionalization, because it shouldn't break overnight.

I believe the SRE book mentions this; if you want your software to go from on-call engineers to being managed by SRE's, your software needs to be stable, have certain logging requirements, documentation, etc. And, if it breaks more than X times in a row, or causes an SRE to be paged too many times, the pager will be handed back - fix your shit.
German Government Agency warns about using Kaspersky
Except, we already have decades of research into general purpose decentralized databases that aren't tied to shitcoins.
>If a service claims that you can delete/hide whatever data you uploaded on the blockchain, you'd be able to verify it and not only trust them

Given that the the two most important features of a blockchain are decentralization and immutability how would any service ever be able to guarantee me that? That implies they own the blockchain, in which case it's just a slow database.
Jetbrains already made an announcement about it 4 days ago https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
How do I know I'm not already dead?
The functionality in the msilib module is somewhat low-level anyway (it basically just opens the database for you and leaves the arcane incantations required for doing anything as an exercise for the reader) so it probably wouldn't be hugely difficult to replace it with ctypes calling msi.dll directly.

If I were to replace my msilib-based installer, I would migrate to Wix# [1], a fantastic high-level wrapper for WiX that lets you express your installer in a few lines of C# (and then generates the thousands of lines of XML that WiX needs, but you don't need to touch it). I wouldn't have used msilib if I had known about Wix# at the time.

[1] https://github.com/oleg-shilo/wixsharp
Thanks, but I'll be sticking to Kelvin* when setting my oven.

* Or Rankine if you're American.
Because cryptocurrencies are dependent on the reliability of distributed systems and cryptography. Both concepts are extremely tricky, the only true way of validating them is by trying to break them and failing, this takes time. But the floodgates have been opened.

Also, who cares if there are several cryptocurrencies? If they have good properties (fundamentals) and people find them valuable, why not?
The danger with surrogate keys and pseudonymization/tokenization is that the mere patterns in the data such as foreign key relationships may be enough to uniquely identify someone.
If I have an IP address I can host anything and anyone anywhere on the internet can access it right now. There's no company controlled centralized database I have to get permission from to host an apache server with cat photos for example. Isn't this problem already solved?
> Seriously, this is what you are focusing on in my comments?

What are you talking about? I responded with multiple points. Look at the comment chain.
Why not Singapore? The tech scene there is amazing and inspiring, (too?) Warm, diverse, and very good public transportation. Heck, you can walk though neighborhoods if you fancy some sweating.

Unfortunately it's a little bit too car-centric despite the expensive prices of cars, and I find the culture to be a little bit "unhinged".
HA claims to offer MySensors integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mysensors/

Does that not work or is something missing?
Not only that but they're unaware that "Web 3.0" was the semantic web, envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee over a decade ago. The blockchain web is "web3", named after the library in Ethereum.

Web 3.0 and web3 are very different ideas.
Baseball is huge in Japan and other Asian countries and has been for a long time.
Because you might just need that dialog to edit an entry in a table?
When a user requests deletion from my wishlist service, I fully delete everything, not only to be GDPR-compliant, but because it's the right thing to do. This includes:

- Their account changes and passports

- Their own wishlists, including all items added

- Any claims they've made on other wishlists

- Any item suggestions they've added to other wishlists

- The checked status of any item suggestions they've checked on other wishlists

- Removing them as partners on collaborative wishlists created by others

- The user

I'm not sure why someone would _want_ to keep user data around, as that seems more of a liability than an asset.
Are those people optimizing for having every product available at every time? They have to balance against the very real cost of spoilage, so I don’t think they consider the occasional out–of–stock as the system breaking
For video at least she mainly uses iMovie and KineMaster
I concur. The data model was what finally turned me off to OpenHab. I just couldn't wrap my head around the weird terms and ways stuff is configured.

I would pick OH if I was getting paid to do automation and the system had to be super reliable for years. But for my home, where I'm always tinkering with stuff I'll go with Home Assistant + NodeRED with a MQTT backend.
Actually, I haven't seen any clear sign of age-based discrimination here in Romania. There are two other factors that can give that impression, though.

For one, the programming demographics are extremely skewed towards younger people. There was almost no programming being taught or practiced in 1980s or 1990s Romania (and the same is true for all of the former Eastern bloc basically), and then there was a huge burst in the 2000s as the country decided to push this particular segment (even today, you don't pay the 16% income tax on your salary as a programmer with a relevant college degree). Overall this means that there are far, far more 30-ish programmers working in Romania today than 50-ish ones. I believe the same is true to one extent or another in most of the formerly Eastern bloc countries.

The second reason is less rosy. Big outsourcing firms, which make up at least a plurality of the programming market, have little need for experts. Their hiring and retention practices greatly emphasize cheap junior hires, whom they don't want to retain past some point. They will usually have a handful of seniors around for the more advanced contracts, but they don't have any reason to keep around a workforce that gains in experience. This is mostly greedy but also partly rational - unlike a traditional business where you get to accumulate valuable context as you gain experience, in outsourcing you will rarely spend more than a few years on the same project, so the advantage of having been around the company for years and years is much less.
That's actually a decent point, though I think it's debatable whether this is actually useful.

There are probably otherwise-sad US cities with decent pro sports teams that help bring name recognition...but does that actually translate into anything productive? The data on economic benefits seems to indicate the answer is 'no'.
> A lot of people like watching sports

I don't think that that is true anymore. It used to be, but sports is competing for eyeballs with all the other entertainment out there.

Yeah, sure, sports had a large audience when people did not have games, instant messaging, social sites, Netflix, AmzPrime, Hulu and more in the palm of their hands.

Basically, sports is in competition with all the other forms of entertainment. I'm looking around my circle of friends, family and acquaintances, and the only ones who are interested are:

1. Those with children on some team in school, and then they're only interested in that particular sport, and only when their children's teams are playing.

2. The older folk who were supporters all their lives, and will continue being supporters.

3. The people betting on matches.

I know of only one family that actually is into sport, and regularly follows all the soccer and/or cricket matches that come around. The others have cancelled their sat-tv and just use netflix, amz-prime and the internet for entertainment.
It should be possible to complain to your local data protection authority.

Whether they'll do anything tangible about it is another matter (in the UK the answer is absolutely not), and same for whether they are able to do anything tangible about it (good luck if the offender is shielded behind the crooked Irish DPA).
It makes sense; those who enter academia choose to devote their gifts to the progress of human knowledge, at the expense of anything more than a slim chance of fame or wealth. It's not surprising that their political views tend to be socially rather than individually focused.
Following your own logic, that coup did not happen in a vacuum either. The coup was against a pro-Russian puppet regime that did not hesitate to shoot and kill their own civilians. Any western influence agens involved probably did not have to work very hard.
Definitely, yes! That was just a theoretical example to say that this kind of claim can be proven wrong very easily and publicly (probably not worded the best way though :))
When moving onto multiple (depth) camera setups, in-painting from old frames worked really well, even before any masking off of static vs moving content (done in realtime, for live streaming)
If all lives are equal and everyone has a finite amount of resources, why does it matter if they prefer to help Europeans?

Yes, there is an uncomfortable racist and classist component to it, but it's human nature. We feel more sympathy for people who are more similar to us.
I'll test bettermailto with an Android simulator, sorry about that!
I've had great success with Wake-up Lights / Sunrise alarm clocks. They do get quite bright when fully lit.
What? Oil change every three month? WTF is wrong with the US industry?

The very same cars in Europe will have an oil change every 2 years or so. My Volvo S60 Model 2000 has an oil change every 3 years.

There must be something that you get sold on by marketing that is so wrong. BTW. Also a Tesla has oil in their gearbox, even if it is just a single gear integrated into the single unit combined with motor and inverter. For a Model S it is recommend to replace it every 12.5k miles, which is exactly the very same recommendation as with other car model.
I'd be curious to hear about any solutions to enforcing invariants on state transitions in a decentralized manner pre 2008.
Navigation Preload is a different feature that is specific to Service Workers. `<link rel=preload>` has been supported in Safari for a while, since 11.x.
Tim Berners-Lee ?
No one really checks

Source : talked with people who implemented gdpr deletion at some companies.
Electric heating is almost immoral in environmental terms. Instead of getting close to 100 % efficiency by burning fossil fuel in place, it is burned in a power plant at 30 % efficiency.

This is changing with increasing solar and wind power, and heating is a flexible load that is useful to stabilize the grid. It as of now it‘s net-negative.
Looks cool! I've beginning to wonder if Markdown is the right tool for generating "presentation" or "complex" web pages, as it was originally created for blog posts mostly. I believe that's the reason people complain of the lack of customizability of popular static site generators.

Markdown was made for blog posts not for custom web pages.

P.S. Built my own static site generator https://mkws.sh but don't support Markdown out of the box, just plain HTML.
The other somewhat significant use of Ruby that you may have heard of is Puppet. Much less in vogue for infrastructure as code these days but still useful for e.g. managing corporate fleets of Linux laptops.
One Big Text File = productivity tool
There have been many articles in HN regarding using plain text files as a productivity tool. Just pointing to this small community on reddit which writes only about that.
Basketball is a major sport worldwide, honestly probably #3 after soccer and cricket and ahead of tennis because of its popularity in China. Baseball and ice hockey are region-specific (Japan/DR/Cuba/Venezuela for baseball and Canada/Russia/Scandinavia for ice hockey).
It’s both. I suspect most of their focus is on data retention; regardless of where it happens.

Most times, that’s usually a server, of some kind, but it could also be something like an iCloud data account, I guess; which would be a challenge, as the data could be in many places.
The stadiums are rarely profitable. If there is no public funding, then stadiums would exist only in very few places. As far as I know majority of the stadiums in Europe are also own by municipalities.

Also are cities really investing in something better?

Oakland lost both Raiders and Warriors. It seems like Oakland spend that money on pension benefits of city employees. And they started laying off teachers. If you ask me: if you cannot spend money on schools (or anything useful) build a stadium.

But this is politic: stadiums are easy target but do know that city will probably mismanage the money any way.
I really don't understand Trevor Noah.

France does not separate citizens based on skin color or religion or anything else, they're all french. This seems much better then the American way that Trevor jokes about with heritage. Sure, first generations will have a background of where they immigrated from and nothing can take that away, but if they've obtained citizenship they're citizens... As for later generations what heritage can someone even have after being born and living your whole life in a country?, they'd be as much native as anyone else born in the country.

This seems awfully similar to a tone deaf interview with Idris Elba where he was asked how it was to be of african descent and he just replied he's british.

Thinking a bit more on this, it does seem quite racist, would he call the American teams French-Americans, German-Americans, British-Americans, Chinese-Americans depending on where their roots are from?, likely not, only looks over skin color to say African-American or American...
Huh, that's interesting to me. Didn't realize you had to be a member to attend services. My experience has been that churches are generally quite open to visitors.
Thanks for the pointer to the conversation.
to preface, I'm not saying that you don't know this, but maybe for others:

gentoo is not a linux distro either (from a certain point of view), more a meta-distribution, where you use the package manager (portage) to build everything from source.

fun fact: docker uses alpine linux, which for a while was a gentoo build, until it got to a point where it could bootstrap itself.
Speaking of debugging, I found this handy:

print-%: ; @echo '$(subst ','\'',$*=$($*))'
include Makefile

Save somewhere, eg as ~/Makefile.debug, then when you want to know the evaluated value of some variable or task in some Makefile, you prefix it with print- ­— for example, LOCALES:

make -f ~/Makefile.debug print-LOCALES

It'll print the evaluated LOCALES of the Makefile in the directory you run this in.
(not gp) I would prefer having a link to the other post (as someone above provided) so the comments there can be read. Duplicating the comments means I see the same thing twice, or it means the previous replies to that comment are now obscured to me. Which of the two it is depends on whether I find the other post. Not a desirable situation imho.
Stadiums are a in the end just a marketing instrument for 2nd and 3rd tier cities to brand themselves and stay in the national or international news.

The alternative is spending money on image campaigns and other fluff marketing. Once you realize that every time a city is (positively) mentionen in news, it is "earned media", the whole calcuation shifts a lot around.
about time

web 3.0 is fakery
It's all fun and games until a judge orders you to remove the content, like a revenge porn photo for example. You'll have plenty of time to think about how best to explain immutability, blockchains, etc. as you're sitting in jail in contempt of court.

The web3 dream of nothing is ever deleted is going to have to hit the brick wall of reality that we as a society agree to follow laws that explicitly allow deleting and removing content. You need a judicial solution to change that, not just a technology one.