skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, sharing an apartment is typical in college. However, when I was in college, it was typical to go to the management and modify the lease to include the extra person. That way they are at least equally legally responsible for everything, and it gives the landlord a reason to care. The landlord may even run a background check, which may have exposed this issue, since you state this was not the first time.

Regardless, tough lesson to learn on not handing out a key to someone without a contract. I mean, that's a level of trust that I don't even have with my friends, much less someone I'm potentially going to room with. No contract, no keys.

I had a feeling there was more to the story. There probably still is, but I'm satisfied now on how this managed to "just happen". I still don't understand how, after the restraining order, this person then claimed legal residence in order to get your friend removed from her legal residence. I also don't understand why this wasn't immediately a phone call to the police to get this person removed from the property.
This is not accurate. Sun was never in danger of being acquiring by Apple, instead they nearly merged before NeXT was acquired, then Sun and Apple nearly merged again in the naughts (but I honestly don't believe Jobs was serious about it). But in 1996, Sun nearly bought Apple.
NYCHA residents also get parking, as you'll notice if you glance at their vast parking lots, and they do it with taxpayer subsidy.

I'm not defending the vast street parking problem (although you underestimate how many of those cars parked in Greenwich Village are actually not residents there at all but traveling from outer boroughs or LI or NJ). But it's a little bit more nuanced than, rich people with all the cars.

The amount of cars in Manhattan swells considerably during the week due to commuters, for one thing. You can observe the traffic patterns on Google Maps each direction on the FDR, Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, etc.

Maybe resident parking permits should be considered.
Your measure of better or worse is subjective. If so called agency of women results in economic gains, but at the same time puts costs on social cohesion, children growing up a good childhood, and the value of family (or so on), then you could also say it is worse.
That's a very shortsighted view.
WinMerge is better. It has better UI: bottom line comparison, keyboard shortcuts, copy left to right and vice-versa, lots of preferences settings, etc. Too bad it is Windows-only.

If you can accept a paid version of WinMerge for Linux and Mac I'd highly recommend BeyondCompare (U$ 30.00).
I haven't done so myself either, but as the time passes I increasingly become convinced that the only available options for vast majority of population will be to do it now on your own terms or be forced to do it with everyone else later.
Its not my fault she parked behind me.
Really cool, and I think I might use or integrate this, but I agree with:

> I find this tool an interesting concept, but I couldn't get through the initial step to create a 4/4 kick loop. There's too much internal state going on with no indicators about what's active or what mode I'm in that it feels more like a memory game than a fun music toy.

I think it should be set up such that you can immediately, intuitively start making things as soon as you visit the page. It should feel like a fun music toy.

One web app that does this really well, in my opinion, is http://sampulator.com - you just start pressing keys and you get sound; you press shift and you start recording tracks. It's very simple and intuitive. It doesn't have nearly as many capabilities as your app, but I feel like friction is one of the biggest issues with digital music making, and if you want to stand out, providing something people can wield as an instrument without even thinking about it will be a huge advantage.
The 1990s had a lot of weird stuff like this - platforms, operating systems and software were exploding, and nobody really knew what the end result would be so they focused on ensuring they had a hand in everything.

Running Mac OS and Mac OS apps using MAE on Unix workstations was one example.
But there were others too - some I remember are NeXT on Solaris with OpenStep, Mac LC systems that had a DOS compatibility card (486 CPU) to run DOS/Windows apps, and Unix SysV running in Mac OS using A/UX.
Sure, but now we're not saying "Europe had an intellectual tradition, thus it succeeded", but "Europe didn't have a centralized bureaucracy, thus it succeeded".

It wasn't an issue of nourishing intellectuals, which China had been doing for centuries, and it wasn't an issue of regular war against peer armies, which again, had been happening in China for centuries.

So now the question is: why did Europe care about telescopes, and China didn't?

My intuition is that telescopes didn't solve any problems for Chinese emperors/subjects, and so they didn't care about their invention. Similarly, if it were important for China to know that the Earth was round, they would've figured it out.

> The Chinese still thought the Earth was flat until the Jesuits arrived:

I think this might add some nuance to what "thinking the Earth was flat" meant: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7ug0yf/coper...
Uh, in the eyes of a Fox News viewer, doesn't Australia count as "a liberal state government that doesn't share [their] political views"?

What does this comment even mean? It reads like GPT-1 spent too much time on /r/politics
I’ve taken a meandering path in developer-adjacent roles: Engineering management, then product management (entirely different type of management), then adviser/consultant roles, and even years as a stay at home dad with some stints as an IC developer mixed in.

When I talk to developers, a lot of them expect me to gush about how much better things are once you’re away from the code. The truth is that I frequently regretted not sticking with a basic software developer trajectory from the start.

Management of any type is far more difficult than it appears from the outside. A huge part of my management jobs has been handling and hiding all of the problems that come up so that the team doesn’t have to deal with them. The better I’ve done my job, the easier it looks from the outside. My teams should never have to know about the difficult battles I’ve dealt with, down to some of the most bizarre and even scary personnel problems I’ve had to handle.

Software development felt like the most difficult and least-appreciated job at the company when I was young, but after a tour of management positions I miss the days of being able to sit down with a team and solve hard problems in the code.
> As soon as the police are engaged in acts of violence, and people start filming them, it would not be in their interests to arrest anyone, unless they were prepared to follow through, destroy evidence, intimidate detainees into silence or commit perjury.

This is such a naive take from someone who had never had to face police officers blatantly violating your rights and physical well-being.
I mean, without delving into spoilers, the idea of a world and a society that undergoes major structural cycles is a GRRM idea as much as it is a Miyazaki idea. I'm sure he had some kind of impact on the story, they are just already very aligned on the big ideas going into it.

Besides that, most if not all of the major bosses/characters names start with either a G, R, or M.
Jesus christ, it's like large parts of HN don't even realize people exist outside of their affluent west coast bubble.
I have a feeling that this is one of those very well intentioned things which will likely lead to a worse environmental outcome. It is my understanding that paper is almost an entirely renewable industry at this point with most paper coming from recycle or trees which were planted for the expressed purpose of paper production. So the carbon footprint of paper is mostly just from the production process. It would not take many discarded "reusable" cups to completely nullify the benefits, depending on the material the reusable cups are made from.
Consider that The Guardian does not itself claim to be leftists. It's classically liberal. The lack of many other outlets for leftists in the UK with reasonable reach and The Guardian's willingness to print opinion pieces by leftists, and some overlap in policy is what has given it a reputation in the UK as leftist. Most other places in Western Europe it'd be considered centrist to centre right on most issues, and downright regressive on some.
I was actually surprised from the photo to see that her tires seem to be pneumatic. Looks like pneumatic tires began to be manufactured only a year or two before her trip.
Bitcoin is the critical pillar that enabled the commoditization of the ransomware industry. It's a whole field that likely wouldn't exist if it wasn't for pseudonymous digital currencies.
Ya, if we would just electrify our rails like they do in Europe, the problem would be solved. Battery is also an option, though it seems only viable for auxiliary locomotives (the ones that push carriages together in yards) for now.
So why they didn't try to require ID for all the previous years until laws required it?
Almost every invasive thing in our lives is because of "think of the children".
What kind of problem solves this measure? If someone think that minors won't access adult content that person is pretty naive. Only with TV shows, series, movies, music, and games they are going to watch a lot of violence and sex scenes, and most of us knows there are a lot of easy ways to access to this kind of content outside mass media.

Letting the usefulness of this measure aside, I think there should be other ways to get your age without using your ID, like using a credit card for example. I don't know if there is any way to get the age of a person using the credit card, to be honest, but at least is an identification method with a expiring date and possibilities to cancel in any moment, not a unique number you can't never change in your whole life (at least in most Western countries I know).
They want us to live in Utopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYaXy5mmA8
There is a lot in there, but my own personal view is that shape of the land has the biggest influence on what civilizations do over the long term and what they’re like in general as people.

Europe is countless rivers and coastlines. Europeans learned how to do boats, how to do sailing, and learned how to float goods all over the place. This accelerated movement of ideas, production and development of technologies. Even if it was disjointed and ridden with conflict, it was just a matter of probability.

This is what enabled the colonialism - after accelerating ahead of the rest of the world in technology, Europeans found it easier to just use that technology for slavery, conquest etc.
I don't see why Manhattan (or any place with good transit) has free street parking.
following the precedent Apple had already set

This is false.

You don't need to give Apple a credit card to download apps. You do need an iTunes account, which can be created without a credit card (I have two with no cards attached).

If you only download free apps, you're good. You can fund the account with PayPal or gift cards if you choose to download paid apps.

Try to refrain from making stuff up in your defense of Google.
Since supply of these jobs is so limited, how do you know whether that’s true or not?

It may be a lottery ticket where a 30-day investment increases your chances of winning to 1:100 from the default of 1:10,000. It’s still unlikely that you’ll get in.
I’ve seen personal cars just drive up and park on the sidewalk. Totally blocking everything. They just put their card saying “nypd” and nobody bothers it. Good luck having a wheel chair and getting by.
City employees unfortunately have a lot of voter power due to the unions, balanced against an otherwise very low voter turnout for Mayoral elections.

DeBlasio is said to have been very loose on parking enforcement of 'placard abuse' as they call it. It's pretty obvious downtown during the week and also downtown Brooklyn. The City picks winners and losers just like that.
I wish Philly would let us do this for cars parked in bike lanes/on sidewalks/in crosswalks. It’s a real problem here, and makes it more dangerous to ride a bike or just walk around.
How do you deal with the stress related to trading?
Isn't it hard mentally when it goes "not your way"?
Insisting subjective experience isn’t real is like pissing on someone’s leg and telling them it’s raining.

Seriously, if you read the book, you realize his main angle of attack is (intentionally?) substituting a different definition of consciousness. The position he is arguing against is the existence of qualia/subjective experience, but the book is mostly about showing that we overestimate our capacity for higher order cognitive synthesis of sensory input. In new editions/epilogue/? (it’s been a while), he finally does address the hard problem (though doesn’t admit that his whole book misses the point), and just makes a few dismissive points.
Cultural relativism was en vogue a couple decades ago but I would like to think we have outgrown that wildly naive school of thought. Throwing gay people off roofs is bad. Murdering adulterous women is bad. Silencing political dissent is bad. These cultural values are bad, and the cultures which permit them are to blame.

I think it’s time we start being a little less apologetic about our good values and a little more critical about their bad values.
Many states and countries have vowed to prohibit ICE sales by either 2030 or 2035. So eventually the choice is gone, but the tech is catching on rapidly anyways, and who wants to be the last person to by an ICE?
I bought a used 2012 Nissan Leaf in 2015 for $12.5k. It was a post-lease vehicle. Around 25k miles at the time. I used it as a daily driver until COVID hit and it’s still my go-to vehicle in the house.
I am still waiting for Planetscale's big announcement.
The same way "rain on your wedding day" is ironic.

It's not.
If they want us to believe they're displeased at this requirement, why don't they say so? Google has certainly complained and protested about other laws before.

> In response to multiple complaints we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 15 results from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaints that caused the removals at LumenDatabase.org:
I'm an xxdiff man myself: https://furius.ca/xxdiff/

I don't like the whole "balloons with tails" thing meld does.
xxdiff strikes the best balance between "being a graphical tool" and "not having distracting clutter" in my opinion.
>How do you get laid in a way that enables you to still look yourself in the mirror with respect

By hitting on your co-workers, one of the things that HR departments are notoriously for!
"because the voters want it" is just how they spin it, the reason is to have a chilling effect on expressing dissatisfaction with whatever party is in power.
who is Dave?
6 months, so you're basically a tourist, and have one piece of anecdotal evidence. Yet you wrote as if you have deep experience of modern Japanese culture - any sort of condescension was warranted.
How much did you need to make day trading worth?
Asahi Linux-The First Linux distribution to support Apple M1 processors released
Asahi Linux for Apple Silicon has launched for the public. It is the first Linux distribution to offer native support for Apple M1 chips.
Hate to break it to you, but the people are already against one another. This is just harnessing that energy in service of something that's at least productive. This is turning into the Decade Of Karen. Might as well motivate these nosy, belligerent people towards spotting actual lawbreaking rather than harassing barbecuers or minorities jogging in the park.
It's not the massive bureaucracy. It's that civil service-style systems (as in China) and pay-for-performance are both basically illegal in the federal government.

Big government is not necessarily flawed, but big govt as we have structured it is just incompetent.
Yes, one way of making two projects slightly different is to have two different versions of the same interface (all components expose an interface and they only know about interfaces) and then use different components in the two project (that implements the same interface). The development project can also mimic production to some extent, by using profiles (see https://polylith.gitbook.io/poly/workflow/profile).

You are right that you need to handle breaking changes in some way. Refactor all the code that uses the changed component is probably the best way to go in most cases because it keeps the code as simple as possible. Second best (or best in some situations) is to introduce a new function in the existing component (if it's not a huge change, then a new component can make sense). This can be done in different ways, e.g. by adding one more signature to the function or by putting the new version in a sub namespace, e.g. 'v2' in the interface namespace.

You will face similar coordination problems with microservices too. I worked in a project where we had around 100 microservices. To share code between services we created libraries that was shared across services. Sometimes we found bugs due to some services used an old version of a library. Then we went through all the services to make sure they all used the latest version of all libraries, and that could take two weeks for one person (full time)! You had to go and ask people about breaking changes that was made several weeks ago or try to figure it out yourself.

The alternative is to not share any code and just copy/paste everything (or implement the same shared functionality from scratch every time) but that is probably even worse, because you will not get rid of the coordination needs and if you find a bug in one service, you have to go through all code in all 100 services manually to see if any of the other 99 services contain the same bug, or hope for the best if you don't.
It's high time that we start regulating terahertz EMF radiation. It is dangerous stuff. It can even cause physical eye damage! Scientists refer to it as "pollution" when it occurs at night, because it's so unnatural for the human body to be exposed to so much of it after dark.

The fact that THz EMR is completely unregulated and never discussed by the media is a sign that politicians and the scientific community are complicit in protecting industry at the expense of people's health.
Dunno what you mean by this being unrelated to Git.

In Git, you can stage files (git add). You have only one “staging area”. In Perforce, you can also stage files (of sorts). You can create as many “staging areas” (changelists) as you want. Changelists are publicly visible, if so desired, before they are even “committed” (submitted, in P4 jargon).

Changelists work on entire files, unlike what TFA proposes.
"Princeton University study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.": https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/

The government does the bidding of the economic elites. Economic elites don't vote, they buy influence.
The U.S. may force Companies to Disclose Climate Risks marking a Historic Change
You and I both don't trust people. The second I read your comment I questioned if I would trust my kids alone in a car without me. We know some people are evil. What if you can take over a car and it's destination by hacking the car, something we have seen many times over, and then kidnap a child without going near the house. Or maybe it isn't kids but maybe one day a dictatorship decides all of it's political opposition will be redirected to the detention center. I wonder how long it will be before we see hostile take over of a cars destination and how we can prevent that from happening.
It's "eastern" only insofar as it ended up on the eastern side of the iron curtain. Geographically, Poland is very much a central European country.
The US is offering to pay rewards of up to $5M for info on RU oligarchs assets
All I can say is, you can have my Hasselblad when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Also Department of Environmental Protection issuing fines to house owners, sometimes big ones, because a random person dumped furniture in front of the house. Meanwhile, you have mounds of garbage at intersections for days, and debris that's permanent around government and NYCHA buildings.

NYC's arbitrary enforcement schemes should make even the most ardent statist cringe.
I’ve experienced it, although it was a while ago and only briefly in someone else’s car.

It felt simultaneously very impressive for a grassroots effort, but it felt like the underdog status was doing all the heavy lifting in the owner’s perception of how great it was.

When something like Tesla’s autopilot makes a mistake, everyone harshly criticizes them. When Comma makes a mistake, if feels like their fan base is quick to forgive and wants to point out that it’s an impressive effort from a small company.
It is interesting to me to read your thought process. I still cannot disagree more.

No one discovers a scientific breakthrough until they do. That breakthrough may have been an inevitable result of multiple independent teams working on it, the prior research hitting a certain point, technology advancing to provide the tools, and so on. Yet we praise the team that actually discovered it.

Similarly I don’t care if “an” Amazon was inevitable. It was Bezos that founded it and Amazon that did it. I am an individualist and I appreciate that we have superstars in all manner of art, academia, and business as well. These are what move society forwards. The moment I’m forced to start giving my stuff away to the collective is the moment I leave. I’m happy Bezos is rich as I’m happy sports stars and musicians are rich - it’s great they made our lives better.
Windows used to run on top of DEC Alpha too
Yep, that's my routine as well.
Ask HN: Give Android apps useful to relax and be happy?
Eventually that allows one to be successful in friendship.

Or to live like a Scandinavian.
I’m curious what era in particular you are talking about. Maybe I have rose tinted glasses but I remember iTunes being pretty great in the late 2000’s/early 2010s.
I wonder if there's any correlation between sheep grazing locations and actual desirable features for building?

My intuition says sheep would graze where the grass is greenest, which if it's like my property would be where the soil keeps water for longer after a rain, which would decidedly be a bad spot to try to set my foundation. But I don't necessarily live in the climate or a similar geological area where this folk belief originated, so now I'm curious.
They don't do that out of benevolence. The reality is they know a huge portion of their customer base are already on the lower income side. If required that info upfront they would lose millions of customers. Never underestimate how many people live on the fringes of society. No bank account, no credit cards, no offical address.

Also worth remembering that selling you stuff is not how google makes most of their money. The sell you as a product. The more people they have on their system the more money they make even if they are not buying anything.

I've had an android phone for many years without ever putting in a CC to the play store. I've bought apps though through Fdroid though.
Tbh, i dont really feel i ever do anything valuable with software either
Nice.

I read the book and found it quite good.

It seems at least the conquest part is wrong, but that part didn't interest me that much.

What I found most interesting was a thesis at the beginning of the book. That real innovation (revolution instead of evolutio ) is mostly accident and not facilitated by personal virtue of the innovator.
Sounds like what I want to do. Do you believe this transition was worth it? Did you see a pay increase or cut? What do you see in the career trajectory?