skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-perspective as someone who moved from LA to Austin earlier this year and also worked in Austin back in the late 2000s.

Good things:

- To me, the city is about right-sized. It feels like an actual city, but isn't a sprawling mess like LA, Miami, NYC, etc.

- Despite what other people in this thread are saying, the city is very walkable/bikeable if you actually live in the city and not in Pflugerville or something.

- As a growing city attracting companies and new residents from all over, there are tons of opportunities and new people to meet.

- Austin has a good amount of attractions and just general things to do / things happening.

Bad things:

- The weather sucks. I think we got about 3 weeks of spring this year before a record-hot May and now it's in the hundreds for the rest of summer.

- The food is really not great (aside from BBQ). I've made a point of trying a bunch of different restaurants and food trucks with different food types and they've mostly been very unremarkable for very not-cheap food.

- As someone who enjoys hiking, central Texas is pretty awful for outdoor activities. Sure there are various lakes, but "hill country" is kind of a joke and most of the nearby land is privately owned.

- The city has been making an effort (which I appreciate and think they are doing a hell of a lot better than west coast cities) to fix its homeless problem, but it's still fairly bad.

- The music scene is nowhere near what it was like ~15 years ago. You're now far more likely to see a cool band in a random bar in Nashville than you are here in Austin, where it seems I have to kind of go out of my way to find live music.

- It's probably a result of having moved to a yuppie area dominated by transplants from other cities, but the people in my neighborhood are just not friendly. At least half don't even say "hi" back to me if I greet them in passing.

Point is, Austin is a mixed bag just like every American city these days. Be wary of people who gush about it (or anywhere else) without recognizing the downsides.
Anyone remember about a decade ago when Chrome had a "Print to FedEx Kinkos" setting in the print dialog? I used that so much. It was the most convenient thing. It was only available for a year or two? Then suddenly the feature vanished and I had to go back to using USB sticks. And now these days there aren't as many locations to print as there used to be.
> We also changed standups to mean that only the person holding the Bluetooth mic connected to his cochlear implant could speak: that had the added benefit of stopping standups from falling into solution-finding exercises.

That's wonderful! As the parent of a child with bilateral hearing loss, this accommodation would help immensely in his future work and study environments.
Most cancer is definitively not self-inflicted, it's actually a fairly natural consequence of aging.
> I know there is a real issue with advergaming and “user as product.” This is not what I’m referring to. I’m asking for more nuance.

Intent doesn't matter unless the data collection includes legally binding provisions to delete all collected data in the case of bankruptcy or acquisition. Otherwise this is just a pile of user data waiting to be scooped up by private equity and sold to third parties.

> In fact, there is very little money to be made by making online education more effective.

Right. So when the ed-tech company gets into financial trouble the data becomes an asset to be sold.
This is probably the worst take on all of these issues, I am trying to figure out which one is the most absurd.

Is it - cancer is self inflicted or homelessness disappears if the homeless are removed or kids get 100K+ loans to party for unemployment.
>Why do they need to refute it?

The author has an entire section that says “Apple is anti-diversity.”

If you think Safari is a bad browser and Apple should use Chrome that’s fine! But to twist your argument to make it seem that we will have more browser diversity if Apple lets iOS run Chrome is what I have a problem with.
What they can see and dislike may still be legal in the jurisdiction it's happening in.
Browser Database Comparison
yes via netnewswire on osx
AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue
Actual article headline is, "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative." "Flashy" and "status clothes" are words/phrases that don't even appear in the article.
Firefox improved this a fair amount a while ago now - by moving to CoreAnimation for a bunch of their rendering?

I find Chrome absolutely murders the battery life of my work 16" MBP, though.
The study is based on interactions between strangers on the internet - it doesn't necessarily indicate how this would play out in the real world.
Have you listened to the earnings calls?
They are related: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a consequence of a more fundamental fact that "measurement operators do not commute", which is the mathematical way of saying "measuring quantity A can result in resetting the expected result from measuring quantity B" (sorry, it is difficult to say something in normal English without it being imprecise). Contextuality is itself a more general way of thinking about non-commuting observables. If anything, I would say that the Heisenberg principle is a consequence of contextuality (but again, this is a vague handwavy statement).
As a Houstonian, I definitely agree that Austin's food scene is not up to par.

But Austin's heat in the summer is more tolerable (generally drier) than what we have, so it's a tradeoff.
Austin isn't unique, you just finally found some friends you like

i feel like some newbie techie writes this exact same article about any city just before it hits bottom. i was reading these words about SF and Seattle not too long ago

Austin, however, has a particularly nasty problem. just wait til the legislature passes a law about something you care about
Not sure what you mean by "- OCaml vs Kotlin: no JVM needed." as Kotlin has support for native and JavaScript compilation, and WASM via native.
Who says civil unrest is inherently bad?

Civil unrest led to women's suffrage, racial equality, and countless other things that are indeed good. Good things sometimes come from bad situations.

There's very little to support your argument that "Why can't there just be civil unrest?" is arguing against the idea of goodness itself.
Maybe is just me.. but I really like safari, mostly because it just works. and is super snappy and CPU and memory friendly.
> How am I moving the goal post?

For example, you want from being concern about killing, to being concerned about suffering, to being concerned about the environment, to arguing how healthy it is to eat a vegan diet, and now you're concerned about cruelty.

In truth, you don't care about any of those things. You're just promoting your ideology on the internet. Or rather, in an HN thread that nobody even reads besides you and me. Yawn.
to mean you need reasoning and episodic memory to be consciousness
Paul Graham is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and essayist. He's done multiple things which have a global impact - YC and HN for example. He's made a billion plus dollars for himself. Calling him "incompetent" is, objectively, wrong.
Stop wasting everyone's time with face to face meetings. Words are meaningless, easily misinterpreted and non binding.

Written documentation of actions are easily referenced and binding.
My early laser printer in 1992 was great - the LaserWriter 300.
I second inoreader. Even though RSS is dying they have native Twitter support, email feeds and they also have the ability to turn an html page into a feed which all work great, so I'm able to turn most public streams of data into a news feed.
By your reference to stable coins, it's unclear if any of the values you talk about are real dollars (or euros or rubles or any other fiat money), or just the dollar equivalent in crypto.
>but simulations like this show that random inequality is not an aberration, but inevitable.

At least some of this wealth is completely inherited (maybe even most of it). There's not a good mechanism to determine how much someone should inherit, but I bet wealth being limited to the lifetime of one person would certainly change the model and make it not-so-inevitable.
Don’t Call AI “Magic” (2018)
Epson is refreshingly frank on that page.

> Why not just make the Ink Pads a user-replaceable item?

> Implementing this type of a design would result in more expensive printers. Most users would not benefit from such higher costs because their printers will never reach the Parts End of Life message.

In other words, if the pads are done, then chances are the rest of your printer is worn out.

Thanks for posting that link. It makes me feel better about Epson.
We live in a post-scarcity society now. We’ve just invented artificial scarcity to keep our current economic and social structures going.

For example there is plenty of food to feed the entire world, but some people still go hungry. There is plenty of land and buildings to house everyone, but some people are still homeless. There is far more than enough clothes, but some people still have to wear rags.

I don’t have the answer. But I know there’s more to it than technology and innovation. Because those have already given us what we need, in many cases. But we have so far failed to leverage them fully.
Headline should really read: Japanese man loses password-protected encrypted USB stick.
Inside that society and with the direction of our technologies. Is not only post scarcity, but post talent and ability. As soon the individuals ability to compete will be eclipsed by AI.

The argument should be to form a society that embraces that fact. But there are certain inefficiencies within out late stage that may stop this an equitable form from happening. As well as be catastrophic if not handled as infrastructure. As the question is what game are we using these AI tools to solve? Profit? Beware of offering stock in market dominated by AI actors that can willingly create disinformation in seconds to pump or short your companies stock arbitrarily. Etc...
> Speaking as a non-American

Then why do most European countries have more restrictions on late term abortion than the US?
No, I think this: Result_set.t list

means a list whose items are of type Result_set.t.

Also I think the notation X.t is idiomatic for a type defined by module X.
This is OK for icon sized images, but it hurts me when I read webpages that incorporate photographs or visualizations in low resolution. They keep saying “Web resolution” and talk about something like 200x200 images maximum.

Even for the past 20 years, when I read webpages with images, I inspect them closely. Often it’s something like a newspaper article with photographs or Wikipedia. I specifically set my Wikipedia settings to deliver me images at the highest possible resolution and now I can actually enjoy reading it. Specifically I use the Timeless skin and set the thumbnail size to the maximum.

Sometimes I come across webpages that describe something like historic trains and all they have are icon sized photographs of them. It’s so sad.
Yup! I use Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/) and run it into Reeder 5 on my Apple devices.
Blockchains offer democratized access to programmable money, and you think this is a BAD thing? Where's your creativity?
Health destroyed by stress. I can be proud of some things we did; but looking back on it i should've chosen "Life" over "work" a lot more often.
It does not replace OOP because there are no answers to other questions like: does it support polymorphism? Or data encapsulation? Etc. It's a data access design principle, and that's about it.
Persistent preferences require consent and is considered tracking. Only auth doesn’t. Go visit any government site and they have cookie banners for their preferences cookies.
Rarely. Like a few pages once a month - if even then. And sometimes I need to print pages upon pages, which need to be in color.

Was thinking of getting a color laser printer.
Most great food in Austin is found at taco trucks, because taco trucks can make food in all kinds of interesting ways that don't scale, which makes them unique.
Sample size of one, but I always lift weights fasted (12-16 hours fast) and I'm ready to eat a horse about an hour or two after my workout. I once ate a whole rotisserie chicken. I also crave burgers right after strenuous hikes or long bike rides. Perhaps I'm just badly configured.
Regeneration of Pancreatic β-Cells May Cure Diabetes
It's what they do if there is not a healthy market with lots of innovation and competition. It is a dieing (of maybe stagnant and on the decline) market where the few remaining are squeezing out the last remaining drops of revenue.
This seems to run counter to what I see in data based on heart rate at least.
As you get more fit, your cardio conditioning level goes up, which means you are substantially more efficient in exercise.
When you're not efficient, you'll burn more calories doing the same work.
I mean to be fair any college exam is physically proctored by TA's and teachers to avoid the same thing before. Though the solutions aren't great there is something to be said for attempting to keep the validity of an exam.
> that will move (often at personal expense!) "where the jobs are".

This is often stated on HN and Reddit, but simply not true. At no time in US history has there been less internal migration. It's actually one of the major problems we have with inequality - people are demonstratively not moving to where the economic opportunity is compared to generations past.
Kagi isn't - which is how we achieve results that people often describe as 'better than Google' ;)
If you look at that map you'll see that abortion is legal for the majority of people on planet earth.
the actual guidelines in the linked pdf are not useful. it does seem to allow, for example, using the content of stuff kids write to train stats models. (writing content = 'reasonably necessary to participate in the service', guideline 1, and training a model isn't 'unrelated to provision of school requested service', guideline 2). and the trained model is no longer PII, but can definitely be used to advertise to kids on youtube. (via awareness of topics they like, for example).

there are no strong anonymity requirements. no discussion of merging student's profile with their google ad profile in N years when they're out of school, or defaulting to being logged in in the browser.

this reads like the ftc has no idea what the harms here are and is unwilling to come down on schools for requesting things that are dystopian, like eye tracking in exams.
WelLMS first open-source headless Learning Management System (LMS)
What Mexican places here disappointed you? ATX Cocina? Fonda San Miguel? Guero's? La Condesa? I think those are all great and have quite different takes.
What aspect of your "privacy" do you believe Plausible is violating? None of the (very minimal) data they collect is even linked to you in any way. There are no cookies or any other persistent identifiers. Raw web server logs (which you cannot opt-out of, for obvious reasons) are more intrusive to your "privacy" than Plausible.
Oh man... The wall of text we'd need to discuss this.

Anti abortion laws impact one segment (and the sub segments within, obviously) of society: women. Before you start talking about men's rights and whatnot, please consider not doing that. Nothing grows inside you. Anyway, these laws ONLY IMPACT WOMEN. The US has a ridiculously high Maternal Mortality rate for a "developed" nation and it's worse for non-whites:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020...

For many, abortion is the safe option but making it illegal means it's harder for the poor (which are disproportionately non-white) means they will either have to have back room abortions (remember that talking point in the 80s?) or have babies, which will increase the mortality rate for non-whites even further.

Know what we love? Forcing women to have babies. Know what we don't love? Their kids. Our social support structure in this state is abysmal. So now we're forcing people to have kids that we won't help them with, driving further into poverty, so we can talk about how minorities are The Problem.

But wait! These kids are US citizens, surely they can grow up and vote for change! Not so. We are big fans of gerrymandering. It's a Texas art form and the lines are constantly shifting in obvious ways that basically make voting more of a spectacle than a real thing. We draw lines through minority neighborhoods to split their votes with surrounding neighborhoods that are rich white folks.

And this is all just stuff I can type out on my phone because it's such a common discussion point that I don't have research it any more. We could for hours about laws that are on the books already and those that have been added recently and those that are coming up but if you read this far, I'm already surprised. Texas is tailor made for white republican men and those that that orbit them. Our state laws are giant piles of hypocritical BS. We use one argument to support a thing and the opposite to support another and they're bought and paid for by gun and Christian lobbying.
There's shiori [0] that's been linked below, and ArchiveBox [1] that seems to do exactly that.

Share-links on the other hand can convert the page content into a pdf file using weasyprint [2].

[0]: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori

[1]: https://archivebox.io/

[2]: https://weasyprint.org/
https://www.kraken.com/en-us/features/otc-exchange
I'm still prone to overeating when I'm in a lifting phase and since those come and go in spurts, I've never been able to tame that.

On the other hand, I've been a 3+ hour a week cardio guy for a decade and when I first got started at 20+ mile a week running, I would eat away any caloric "gains" by 2x. I no longer have those issues and, like others have pointed out, I tend to lose my appetite for awhile after a run/ride. The harder the effort, the less appetite I'll have.
Why do you think your opinion (and yes, “worse” is objectively an opinion) is reality and everything else is not? Maybe you get flagged/banned for making sweeping statements and shutting out discussion by denying the existence of any other viewpoint.
So now they only need to synthesize it and put it in a pill!
In the US at least, probably medium-sized cities for the most part. Raleigh (and really the whole Triangle) has been mentioned in this thread. I know some co-workers in Columbus (think they all went to Ohio State). Both coastal Portlands. (Portland OR probably comes closest to a destination but I probably wouldn't travel there just to visit the city.) Portsmouth NH.

Probably college "towns" generally. (Some are obviously pretty small but others like Ithaca NY are substantial.)
"status" is mentioned 17 times, including in the headline. "Flashy" being a synonym for "status" clothes is well-known.
I admire your stubbornness. I've thought about doing something similar to parse news sites into raw content... how hard was the parsing and rendering?
This is the first time I’ve seen the word “grindset” and I cannot think of a word that work more easily summarize the kind of people I absolutely despise. It’s just an excuse for being ineffective and making it up in volume.
Really? From what I've been reading the cities in the 1970s and 80s were a lot worse off than they are today.

I think we are seeing a global trend of mankind rediscovering urban life.
The article's title is "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative", and the title here on HN is absolutely wrong.

I like wearing flashy clothes myself, and I would even say it has proven advantageous to cooperation in my line of work, so I was curious about this article. However, nowhere is it stated that flashy clothes make people less likely to cooperate with you. They say wearing clothes with luxury logos and signal high status does.
I had a inkjet (bought for an Atari 1020?) printer in college. Four years plus graduate school, and all I needed to pay extra for was 2 ribbons which were cheap.

I was concerned my instructors might question wether I typed it, or used a dot matrix printer. None had a clue.

I was one of the first people to have a computer and printer, and I was embarrassed. It felt like cheating.

I will never understand why we as a society go from a device that works and is built well; to overpriced gadgets that are constantly trying to trick us to giving them more money.

I would like to see a ratings system, like that one we had here from I believe the EU that rated items on repair, but include any other shinaggigans after sale.

It's too bad Brother's caved in to greed. I was one of their unpaid promotional guys up until today.

I like to give credit where credit is due. I throw this in.

If you need a plumbing fixture buy Moen. I have two faucets that I have gotten free parts with for 15 years plus. I fill out a simple form, and send my receipt to them via email, and the parts arrive in the mail. In all honesty, I need to change my pipes to copper, or pex, but have procrastinating for years. Hence, I always buy Moen, and tell people just how good the company is. Moen recently changed up their lifetime warranty, but most products are still lifetime. If I was CEO at that they would go back to a simple lifetime guarantee on every product. It's free word of mouth advertising, and it's honest customer advertising. Once a company has word of mouth fairness on their side; they will actively have to make stupid decisions to not attract new customers. They should teach this in MBA day school. Just be fair, and honest.
That's great, most people don't, so let them change their preferred browser as the DMA requires it.
Brands Missing Their Shot at European Soccer Digital Marketing
What are examples of virtue emojis?
Why do we keep moving the goalposts? So it not only needs to be open source but now it needs to be from a non profit? Why does manpower matter? So now all open source software needs to be developed equally by purely non-profit orgs? Malarkey.

We are getting a free and open source browser engine that anybody can fork. Microsoft forked it to create Edge, Brave uses it.

Frankly, I wish Apple would either open source Safari, release Safari on other platforms, or contribute to Firefox.

Edit:

> Chromium being open source does nothing to change that because nobody but Google has the same level of manpower

Microsoft
making moderator a paid position would entirely kill the vibe of a lot of reddit communities.

there's definitely some places where reddit needs more paid moderation, but the volunteer moderator is an essential role.
> I agree that the weather is terrible, and as a person who likes birding and exploring outdoors it really sucks to live here for that

I was struck how the author kept describing +100° as a "warm city". Is that part of that old Texas oversizing trope? "We call drop dead on the sidewalk heat 'warm'".
a study of people putting status symbols on online avatars made them less likely to be cooperated with to perform menial tasks is what it actually says

“Science”
(I lived in Austin for 7 years and permanently moved away a few months ago)

I predict Austin will never approach Silicon Valley's success.

Austin's tech scene is 80:20 Product Manager:Engineer, whereas SV was quite the opposite. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of engineers about, but the culture of the new arrivals feels very much defined by the PM/MBA type.

Why does this matter? Because SV was built by engineers–idiosyncratic, independent thinking engineers. Of course, they were supercharged by VC, but ultimately, the engineers defined the culture.

The iconoclastic engineer is unlikely to move somewhere on the basis of a "Top 10 Cities" list.
A sign of a mannered people. Now let's try it in New York.