skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what's up with that dark spot in Western Australia.
A twitter account I signed up for a while back was immediately followed by someone who claimed to live in the city my zip code falls in and described themself as "a former libtard who saw the light". Followed by the exact posts you would expect, including odd local location name dropping.

It was not a great start.
I do, and glad to hear it. :)

To ask questions, a good place to start is the Teahouse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse

Good luck!
Well, it's still CA, so as soon as people realize there is a house for $250k in the Bay Area, or rental options for sub $1500, they will start moving there again. Not just one house, but even a million new houses will cause people to move there.
Not being a big Twitter user, I didn't understand the whole "blue checkmark verified" scam, which works like this:

1. There are a host of requirements needed to get the blue check: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twit...

2. However, once an account gets the blue check, the owner is free to change the profile pic and display name, and the blue check doesn't go away.

3. So the scam is that some bad guy buys a previously verified account, changes the profile pic and display name to someone else famous, then uses it to phish.

#2 is colossally stupid, and is trivial to prevent (lots of dating sites require profile changes and pic changes to be reviewed before going live). Apparently this has been going on a long time so is baffling to me.
A few months ago, this article would have been titled, "Why is every podcast sponsored by a shaving company?" or "a mattress company" or "some other company".
SF isn't pristine nature. It's entirely a man made construct.
Some states it's just illegal for teachers to strike at all, wildcat or not, or even to organize with unions.
I don't think the follower count being that high is a hard requirement. The sentence in full:

> Follower or Mention Count: If your account is detected to be in the top .05% follower or mention count for your geographic location, it may count towards notability evidence for certain categories.

Emphasis mine.

The other listed sources of "notability" are things like news coverage, IMDB references, and Google Trends. So for example, an elderly state senator who "never quite figured out the socials" would not have millions of followers, but would be eligible for verification because they are notable for other reasons.

The follower count thing seems more like a bolster for influencers and such. They won't have industry references, given that they aren't really in an industry per se, and they won't probably won't end up on the front page of the NYT just for having lots of followers. But nonetheless, it's in the best interest of both the influencer and Twitter to avoid having phonies of the influencer promoting scams.
> more market-rate housing won't solve the problem either

If we created 10 billion homes priced at market-rate built at present costs, what do you anticipate the market rate would be?
I'd prefer outright crypto scams over all the "There are many ways to improve your life. Here are 30 best ones" threads that have taken over my feed over the last few months. PLEASE give me a way to turn that off.
> men who aren't having to deal with abortion are looking at this issue as "I don't need an abortion so it doesn't concern me".

... maybe we shouldn't have spent years telling them they weren't allowed to have an opinion because it didn't concern them.
actually many communities still using phpbb like nsxprime, ferrarichat

i found that discussions were more civil, trolls were quickly purged and it was difficult for them to rejoin due to this admin wall.

it created a nice garden effect against shill/ratioing where there is little to no barrier to creating mass number of accounts to impact opinions.
The forces working against innovation and how to overcome them
My understanding is that under current EU market abuse regulations trading on inside information* that you overheard on the train is still insider trading. Sharing inside information in a manner not required to fulfill your role (i.e. with an analyst if you are a regular employee, or with a specific analyst before the general analyst community if you are the management) is also a violation of MAR (dissemination) even if nobody trades on it. It is only if the information is public that you can trade on it (with an exemption for market makers).

* Under MAR confidential information is not necessarily inside information, as one of the prerequisites for the information to be inside information it must be likely that it has a significant effect on the price of a financial instrument if made public.
Dupe:

"Ask HN: How do you discover music?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835559

8 hours ago, 112 comments
> prospective teachers are expected to go to college, get into debt, get a master's in education, then get a job where they still have to live the life of a broke college student.

On the plus side, they do qualify for student loan forgiveness and if they stay until retirement, they get a pension. Public employees sacrifice current pay for future security.
GP needs to fix their comment, it's completely inaccurate and presents to people who don't read the article an entirely wrong conclusion.
Spark, after all _is_ a large Apache project?
No, I didn't get any RNA anything. I said parts of the future for a reason. I don't see a connection between space lasers and MRNA therapy.
It always has the same meaning if you squint hard enough (like many autoantonyms.) A very similar meaning to "tabled", which is why it came to mind.

If a question is moot, it has been proposed but isn't necessarily useful. It could be because it was a question about a decision that has already been taken, or it could be because it's the first time the question has been asked.

If a motion has been tabled, it is an issue that is pending a decision (on the table.) When Americans table a motion, they're saying that the only thing currently being done with the issue is to leave it on the table (active) to be dealt with later. When others table a motion, they're putting it on the table to be dealt with now.

Americans leave things on the table to be dealt with, others put things on the table to be dealt with.
The full report is here: https://groenlinks.nl/sites/groenlinks/files/2021-09/CE_Delf...

I don't believe their numbers. They say that data use over wi-fi consumes 150 watt-hours per gigabyte transferred, or 220 watt-hours per gigabyte when including the energy used in data centers.

Downloading Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, at 250 GB [1], would consume 37.5 to 55 kilowatt hours depending on whether you use the lower or upper figures. That's more energy than you need to fully charge a Nissan Leaf. Watching 8k video on YouTube can transfer up to 22.5 GB per hour [2]. At 220 watt-hours per GB transferred that implies 4,950 watts of power -- comparable to running a large air conditioner or an electric oven. If data transfer really had these huge power demands, you'd see electrical brownouts whenever a hot new streaming series debuts.

When I've investigated reports like this before, the flaw of the methodology is usually something like:

1) Take a well-sourced megabits-per-watt study of networking equipment that somebody published long ago -- say, in 2003.

2) Measure today's data consumption.

3) Multiply the 2022 data consumption number by the 2003 energy intensity number. Get a huge result.

Figuring out what happened in step 1 can be difficult because of indirect citations. A current paper will cite "Davy, 2018" but you look at the Davy references and it's getting numbers from "Smith, 2012" while Smith sources from "Chu, 2008" and Chu finally references the person who measured it: "Graham, 2003."

[1] https://gamerant.com/pc-games-file-size-hd-space-biggest-hug...

[2] https://www.androidauthority.com/how-much-data-does-youtube-...
Kodak was the first mover and they totally dominated the digital photography business for the first decade of its existence. There's this misinformed folk meme that somehow they didn't know what they had on their hands, but there's no evidence that I can see of that.

Kodak shipped a 1.3-megapixel camera 34 years ago! They had literally zero competitors for the first 11 years of the market. They owned all the patents and everyone had to license them.
(see electric cars^h^h^h^hbikes).

There, fixed it for you.
https://imgur.com/a/FZRAMhf
Apples and oranges, you should instead compare it with other non-profits. According to top links in search for 'non profit ceo salary' give me average salary numbers about $150k
>creators actually receive very little from YouTube Premium subscriptions.

They actually receive a lot more cash for per view from YouTube premium viewers compared to free ad-supported users. And it's not even close, we're talking an order of magnitude more money per view when it's youtube premium
I'm not sure of the source (as I'm not the parent), but I wouldn't classify crypto farms as "datacenters". They have very low needs in terms of bandwidth and reliability. Many of them are barns on consumer ISP connections filled with bare mobos sitting on pieces of cardboard, or other similar arrangements that are presumably OK given the economics of crypto, but wouldn't be sellable even as cloud compute for most purposes in the current market (it might be OK for batch-type stuff that doesn't involve tons of transfer -- some kinds of scientific workloads like Folding@Home maybe?).
Yes, that's where I heard about this problem. Sketchy indeed.
It's less of a scare tactic and more of a way to punish and prevent teachers from organizing in the first place.
here's some more research about this: https://www.landuseinsights.org/cities/san-francisco/
For quite a while now MSDN has edit button that takes you to the source of the page on GitHub :)
I'm glad you like it :)
To be clear, this mind mapping application is my personal project and P3.express is a group effort and I'm one of its contributors.
It increases competition if people who were forced to commute are given a space without an increase in available units.
"Than they would have" if what though? They just allowed subconscious racist biases to affect their decision making?
It's not like we lack evidence that this does in fact happen.

If an "anti-racist lens" means anything other than "processes to help avoid the effect of subconscious racial bias" I'd agree it's a problem.
> it is so weird when people do this on HN with no contact info in their profiles ;)

I googled their username, clicked through to github, clicked through to repositories, clicked through to personal page (first repository on list), clicked through to cv folder, clicked through to cv pdf, and there they have a phone number and email address.

All of this is publicly available but takes at least four clicks but most importantly, I am not sure whether it is the same person!
men love to shame women over sexuality. A man does this, no one blinks an eye. A woman.. oh no
> They in fact do not work at all in Firefox

as noted by jfk13 below, you have to enable `gfx.font_rendering.colr_v1.enabled` in about:config
My nostalgia kicked in and so I opened the link and began searching for videos of it hitting the corner perfectly.. And then it started. I love google for these hidden gems.
> A DDoS made of finance obsessed man-children and brogrammers.
> As for Twitter the check mark might actually be useful if it disappeared the moment you changed your “display name” but we can’t have that!

That would be a very smart policy, but twitter is too afraid of inconveniencing psuedojournalist professional hand wringers and their pressing need to update their display names with the emoji that shows they Care about the important issue of the month.

Or to be even more blasphemous, perhaps Twitter should hire humans to review changes to bluechecks' display names.
Is Lisp Regaining Popularity?
I thought lisp is losing its audiences but seeing more Lisp posts on front page recently. Is it coming back?
Twitter and Instagram seem to be overloaded with bots. In my Twitter DMs I get 5-10 messages per day from clear crypto-scams, and under posts from high profile people there are loads of bots.

Instagram is no better, bots comment some obvious scam statement "Who wants to see me naked" with 140 likes on a post that was just created. Instagram doesn't want to address the problem because it gives them fake "user" numbers.
Nobody was fat when grannie was a little bit younger and ate her own pies, litteraly nobody.
There is nothing contradictory about wanting to solve homelessness and wanting them out of your neighborhood. In fact, that is exactly why many people want to end it
Actions speak louder than words when it comes to memory
You are clearly not in their backyard. :-)
Ok, but that's not what OP is advocating for. At the very least there should be streamlined CEQA processes applicable for certain developments in certain areas. IE -- it is not at all crazy for a 4/8/10-plex townhome-style development to be built on a piece of land in San Francisco that currently contains a single family home, or an undeveloped paved parking lot.

Individual parcels of land that are especially exceptional within such areas can be marked as such (think historical landmark designations, though that process is a whole separate can of worms).

Yet currently San Francisco has some of the kafka-esque building requirements for the most common types of buildings AND 4 private golf courses on what would most certainly be classified as protected wetlands today. So clearly today's CEQA isn't even working by your own scenario.
Latest https://1blocker.com does come with the option to block YouTube ads while using the mobile site. Don’t think it works if you use the app though.
Seconding Temporal, it is definitely a second-gen workflow platform with approaches that make many Airflow frustrations nonexistent.

In particular, workflows are extremely durable, they can easily just sit indefinitely waiting on a condition and you can redeploy workers whenever, and workflows will resume exactly where they were.
> Basically, we need a game to do to Godot, what Undertale and Nuclear Throne did to GameMaker

Wasn't GameMaker big a long, long time before Undertale existed?
It's a very different show. The pilot is note-for-note the UK show, but they quickly realized that Steve Carell can't play Ricky Gervais; he's just not enough of an asshole. So they recalibrated. I think the US version in its heyday is the better of the two shows.

Greg Daniels was the showrunner for the first 4 seasons; he's Peak Simpsons, and also King Of The Hill.
I checked the Wiki article on it, just to be sure.

I just don't understand how it could look any way different (at least significantly), this is a classical case of the function dictating the form.
you mean increase the supply?
Ya but the fruit is full of fructose.
That was on the advice of my lawyer.

You, however, probably need to consult your legal team.
In my experience, management tends to protect themselves and go up to bat for each other, especially when things can be blamed on their subordinates.
VPNs are very high margin products (50% of revenue is cashflow, the author points out). But they suffer from higher churn rates than most SaaS businesses. Switching costs are essentially free, it's hard to differentiate your product from someone else's in a meaningful way, discounts and promos abound, and achieving any kind of lock-in is next to impossible.

Therefore, they advertise a lot. We here on HN probably get a lot of sampling bias because we are more likely to listen to tech related podcasts. If we listened to fashion podcasts, we'd hear different ads.

VPNs also have a unique problem where the people that really need their product don't have the facilities to subscribe to one. To illustrate this, most of the countries in Africa censor the web to varying degrees, but the credit card penetration rate on the continent is only at 4% right now. So VPNs have to advertise to the people who don't need VPNs, but can afford them. And that's why you hear them talking about how everyone at Starbucks is snooping on your web traffic as if https isn't 30 year old technology or hyping up their "military grade" encryption (i.e. AES-256 run of the mill stuff).

Source: I work for a VPN company.
Relevant: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/25/if-someone-is-prattling-...
Do you have technical documentation regarding this device?
Here is a guide I hope helps get you started: https://growyourown.services/
I am using https://yunohost.org, but https://pibox.io/ looks like a cool setup that takes care of some of the more difficult things such as tunneling and backups.
> especially complicated class of device.

is it as complicated as calculus? or running your own e-mail server? you're perpetuating the same sentiment. Let the OP figure it out on their own.
There's been a lot of articles lately talking about how all those previously easy to live areas have become less livable due to... well people moving there.

The root cause is demand > supply. That's it. Everything gets more expensive, and those who can get paid a lot do, and everyone else has to make do.

Texas yes, but tell me about Austin... and how it has all the same problems of the bay area now, entirely because people moved there.
Apple chooses to run iCloud in basically the same way every mainstream cloud company does, plus some additional privacy features.

Expecting them to operate a service like iCloud like a tech-expert-focused privacy-first-even-before-usability service is just utterly unrealistic.
>And fairness aside, if you do not look through an anti-racist/anti-oppression lens you would destroy years of work of improving company diversity.

Making "improving company diversity" a terminal goal is a problem in and of itself.
There is a way. It's pretty obvious if you think about it.
it's really complex, and quite interesting!

"Video game crash of 1983 - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
Makes sense, but must be also tied to something else unique about the B-52. There are certainly much larger aircraft with 4 engines.
> There are a lot of real issues here, but this article gives a skewed picture of the problems by focusing on a somewhat unusual example, in which the owner actively resisted the city's process with the intention of going to court.

The reason he can take the issue to court like this is because the city's "process" is illegal.

> Tillman has done plenty of media and activism, and it seems his goal was not just to get the project approved in order to proceed, but to use the legal system to clarify developers rights more broadly.

Good for him.

> Whatever you think of that approach, I think "sue all the way to a state judge and set a precedent" was always going to be slow.

Saying something is slow is meaningless if you don't compare it to something else. What avenue for reform in SF would be faster? The legal solution may not move as fast as anybody would like, but I think it will be faster than any idea anybody else might have (which seemingly mostly boils down to 'raise awareness' and 'fundraising for local politicians'.)
I dont understand the problem. The Bay Area already has 8 million people. Its busy already and water supply is limited. The residents have voted and agreed to limit development, keep the city as it is. This is democracy in action. If you want development and/or high density living, move to other locations or NY or Texas or Florida.
Super interesting, however you need an option for "this company commercially backs this repo so there is no need to donate".

Let's be honest, it's hard for me to justify giving a developer at Facebook who makes $500k/year an extra $5/year because Facebook is footing the bill for their salary to maintain ReactJS.
It is the fastest way to surface new information. For example this XKCD actually happened during the 2011 earthquake n Virginia. Folks in PA and NY saw the tweets before they felt it.

https://xkcd.com/723/

The news about the Osama bin Laden raid first broke on Twitter. The news of the Mar-a-Lago raid first broke on Twitter. News of Heartbleed first broke on Twitter.

Every other platform has basically abandoned efforts to compete with Twitter in this area. Reporters are on Twitter because it’s faster than their own news sites. Google piloted a “real time search” product and gave it up.

In addition, I find a lot of hilarious humor content there. It’s amazing what jokes can fit into 280 characters and a couple image or short video files.
Why are you trying to make it sound like most layoffs are race-based?
I started looking up information about this, and one thing that's not mentioned in the article, but I found when researching this is that child marriage is largely a cultural issue in the United States. While the numbers are still large, they're really centered in specific subcultures, for instance Islamic households, where this practice is considered acceptable in that religion. Ultimately, the laws no longer reflect majority culture in the United States, but have not been changed, and there is likely resistance to changing them as being religious or cultural discrimination (although not all discrimination is morally equivalent, and this case I can safely say I personally don't think child marriage should be legal in modern society, for anyone of any religion).

I wonder why this article and most other articles on this topic make no point to mention the sociocultural and religious angle for this practice?
You don't build "market rate" or "below market rate" housing. You build housing and let the market figure itself out. There are enough old buildings in the city that will come down in price the moment there are better options available.
San Francisco has a building height limit of 40ft. They could build sufficient housing for everyone but have made it impossible.
I fell into a hole where Spotify just couldn't recommend me things that I didn't know that I wanted. I ended up building a little app that selects a random album based upon genre, related artist, or something reviewed by a publication.

https://album-mode.party/
> if an executive paid $350k is 35% less likely to make a mistake that would cost the organisation $1m (which is about 1% of their budget), compared to a volunteer working for free, then maybe, from the organisation's point of view, the expenditure is cheap.

True, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe that's a realistic hypothetical at all.
Are you claiming that use-after-free bugs do not scale with codebase size? If so, please provide evidence, because that would be amazing.
Only one way to find out ...
Sounds like there is lot of political interference by the US on Taiwan, as if they wanted to annex the island, scary
I work at a Bay Area tech company with over 10k employees and we are asked to log our ethnic and gender identity in Workday.
And in doing so, they almost perfectly matched what a school district did back in 1985 and got wrecked by SCOTUS over: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/476/267.html

A bold move, especially since the court looks even less favorably on affirmative action than it did 40 years ago.
Those looking for more details may enjoy this post comparing ELF to Hunk https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/2018/02/01/on-elf-...
That's a lot of assumptions about a person...
1 person and their lawyers held up bike lanes for YEARS with lawsuits.

The city isn't a monolith, its not all 1 person, and fixing it isn't always easy: state and federal laws have primacy over certain things, and lets face it "permitting reforms" is hardly the ballot box getter.

But things have gotten better, the parket situation got a lot better, new bike lines, walkable streets, etc. All it took was a deadly global pandemic! Yay progress!
Twitter users love changing their profile picture/name to support the current cause of the moment so much that it’s become a meme. Changing that would piss off their active posters.