skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“the committee evaluates each project’s design, scale and massing for accessibility, safety and aesthetic merit.” The review process “ensures that each project’s design is appropriate to its context in the urban environment, and that structures of the highest design quality reflect their civic stature.”

This is a perfect example of why you codify requirements and any review for permitting is as objective as possible. In this case, it's totally subjective and will be abused to get money and other favors from developers that want the project.

This is pure corruption out in the open and they don't even try and hide it. They even mention that they might not need the full $1.7M and they'll find other uses for the money if it doesn't cost as much. This is theft of tax payer money by unaccountable officials.

Any extra money should be returned to tax payers and every single part and labor cost must be documented and justified.
Love this. Reminds me of the other Kiwix projects to make MediaWiki services like Wikipedia available offline[1]. The entirety of English Wikipedia is ~50GB of text and ~100GB of images.

1. https://wiki.kiwix.org/
Maybe they'll raise taxes to pay for these toilets, and then raise the price of the toilets to match the higher budget.
I'm curious when the OSS, which was both founded and dissolved during WW2, had use for that advice.

Were they sabotaging German bureaucracy, or American? Neither seems likely.
en-US "public school" is en-GB "state school".
How soon will the next regular election be held?
Dark matter is statistically distributed, the same as baryonic matter. Galaxies with no dark matter or "too much" dark matter is as consistent as galaxies having different baryonic masses or things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CfA2_Great_Wall
I have been using Firefox + ublock for a long time, so there might be something else?
Yeah, it started like C++ for wannabee programmers, but during the last years it has being becoming a more and more useful tool for professional developers.
Why are racing cars driving up and down an abandoned railway tunnel?
A novel solution: what about a hose into the ground with a large opening, and a 3/4 blind, maybe mounted on a tree, or post.

Feces is another issue but … urinating is something we can solve.
The treasury has no business banning books. It has nothing to do with sanctions. It's purely political. Whatever happened to all the people shouting that "Republicans are banning books"? Banning books is okay, but only if it's for the right now?
See my comment above. For me, all of the Yeti images are hosted by Caring Bridge on AWS servers. Caring Bridge seems like a nice company, but they are unable to stop the spammer from abusing their free hosting.

From 10/18 - 𝘠𝘌𝘛𝘐 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘔20 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘳 - 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥!##
https://ns(x)hn/WxXqK which redirects to https://yuzuapples(x)com/0/0/0/ecf39df03591d83ed90be8d40d962...
Man I really do not care where American politicians go to school. But it sounds like you're not aware of the really outsized representation that Oxford graduates of PPE have in UK politics: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford...
Why political tribes are becoming more dangerous than ever
When they decided to terminate Parler not even giving them time to move hosts, that wasn't political censorship?
> The same cities that many people despise living in yet do so for work? The same ones that basically everyone recognises aren't efficient at all. What is an ideal city in your opinion? San Fransciso? New York? Paris?

Stockholm (my current city for almost a decade), Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, etc. are quite efficient and very pleasant to live in. The issue people currently have in those is cost of living.

I don't live in the US and I think American cities are horrors, just not as bad as in my native country (Brazil), which were completely "inspired" by American urban design.

Don't pigeonhole cities just in the ones you feel are terrible, get out of the bubble, there are plenty of examples of very livable and nice cities. The Americas are not in that category, generally speaking.
SFO is commonly a shorthand for San Francisco, LA for Los Angeles, SD for San Diego.
I lived in the bay for a year. the city is for the winners of the startup and stock lottery and those who want to rent to be near them.

100% believe this.
> Taxation is stupid.

To some extent I agree.

> ... US Governments have the worst value-delivered-per-dollar-collected ...

Can you give me your reference for this?

Looking at [0] the lowest & highest marginal tax rates, cross referenced with citizen happiness [1], USA does not seem to be the worst, but you might have better reference data.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...
Obviously it matters to the people who wrote licenses that explicitly require credit and to the people that chose to release their code under such licenses.
I don't understand this response - it's ok for people in one party to say whatever they want and it doesn't count because someone else 'distances' themselves? It was still said - the damage is still done to the level of civility and more hatred was thrown into the fire.
As a longtime Twitter user, I personally feel that the Twitter spam problem is vastly overstated. I'm not talking about the total amount of spam, I'm talking about its effect on individual users.

I occasionally get spam replies, but not very often. I just block the account, problem solved. I don't feel it affects my overall Twitter experience much. In fact, I'm vastly more annoyed by real humans who reply to me with insults. Or real human Twitter "influencers" who start quote tweet memes that everyone obsequiously follows, "spamming" my timeline with the same tweet over and over. In other words, IMO the humans are worse than the bots. ;-)

I'm not Twitter famous. I've got several thousand followers, which is significant but not huge. Maybe if you have millions of followers, bot replies are a much bigger problem for you. But then again, if you have millions of followers, nasty real human replies are also a much bigger problem for you. Fame is a no-win scenario, except just ignoring replies entirely.

If you use the reverse chronological timeline, you only see tweets from the people you intentionally follow. (I wouldn't advise anyone to use the algorithmic timeline, unless you're into masochism.) So I literally never see bot spam in my timeline. Spam isn't really affecting me. OTOH I never tweet about "crypto"...
It's like when an org needs to add a button to their website and it takes 20 meetings to get the okay.

It's inefficient, ineffective and definitely not cheap.

When many hands, many meetings, and definitely many layers of middleman are involved, it'll cost millions to build a single toilet.
> NATO has become a threat to survival of NATO. And Russia. And everyone.

Can you elaborate how NATO is a threat to itself and everyone else?

It would appear Putin is the greatest threat to Russia and everyone else. He is the one ignoring Russia's own territorial treaties. He is the aggressor invading sovereign states. NATO alliances are defense pacts that are entered into voluntarily by all parties.
Copyright holders care about a lot of things, doesn’t mean they are legally defensible.

If you have code under a restrictive license but we acquire it and use it privately for our own needs in trade secret processes how would you even know?
'Recently, political tribes have become historically coherent, research showing that voter attitudes are more unidimensional and ideological primes increase conformity with norms. Aside from making contemporary politics more bitter, this bodes ill for the future. If authoritarian politics returns with tightly organized tribes, a condition absent from previous eras, it could be more vicious than ever.'
The gp was probably trolling given that it is obvious apple only makes processors for phones and laptops that have much less than half the world's market share. Not even counting servers or workstations. But with the advent of graviton and oracle's arm server nodes, I do think the gp made an unintentional point about arm defeating amd and Intel. If we see some higher end Chromebooks start making intoads for things besides browsing and mail that will probably be the writing on the wall for both amd and intel to pivot and fast.
> need to respect the licensing terms of the code they are using because without the data set provided by all those volunteers co-pilot (and statistical auto-completion in general) would be impossible.

You assume that is even possible. I do not believe that would be possible, at all, at least completely impractical. Copilot would not exist. Also, remember Copilot is from the United States, where we have a thing called "fair use."

If a court finds that Copilot is "fair use," copyright and license are completely irrelevant. Cry me a river, it doesn't matter. We already know many things in tech are fair use:

- Google v Oracle showed copying API titles was fair use. Even if you copied tens of thousands of them, for the near entirety of Java. Also see ReactOS, which clones the Windows API; and Linux, which cloned the UNIX API. Imagine how Microsoft and the UNIX vendors felt - but it did not matter.

- Just because John Goodall had `AddTwoNumbers(int x, int y)` implemented as `return x + y;" back in 1981 doesn't mean you can't too. Even if you read his work. There is a degree of copying that is legal, despite copyright or potential infringement, that is decided in courts on a case-by-case basis when someone complains.

- And finally... even if it regurgitates proprietary code once in a while, that does not make a service de-facto illegal. See YouTube. Just because someone gets clearly copyrighted material (such as an entire movie) on there doesn't make YouTube illegal if YouTube takes it down and tries to prevent it from occurring. If GitHub argues the same, that they try to prevent large regurgitations in good faith, and remove complained-about regurgitations on request, the odds of the court shutting Copilot down approach 0%.
I think part of the reason is that there is lots of money in treating acute symptoms with medication while there isn't much in having serious talks with patients to try to debug their lifestyle problems that might be causing their health problems and then educate them on what and why they should be doing it.

I also think people naturally tend towards easy and fast solutions even if those solutions are known not to work. This self imposed blissful ignorance is what causes people to keep buying weight loss supplements or go on diets even though both are known not to work while we know that for 99% of people there is a simple solution -- reduce stress, learn to like to eat healthy and exercise daily.
Sounds like how complaints about Stripe magically get personal attention from company insiders, but only after being publicized to HN.
Remind me of the $60k/tent in San Francisco for the homeless... San Francisco is not corrupt at all: "S.F. spends more than $60K per tent at homeless sites. Now it’s being asked for another $15 million for the program"
My trigger was not Russia, it was de-platforming of Parler. I kinda care more about my life in the US and consider political de-platforming an extremely dangerous development. A “trigger” caused by my “living experience” as my son interprets it (but I think it’s more logical than that).
Because not everything is fungible.

Because a person is a person through other people.

Because despite the rhetoric of cynics, good governance is both possible and valuable.

Because one is not content to merely be critical of current governance from the sidelines.

Because one supports the mission; it is necessary.

Because the mission is challenging.

Because one values service to their fellow citizens.

Because their fellow citizens value that person's talents and service.

Because even if someone believes that everything is fungible and nothing matters but themselves, it's possible to find challenging, well paid, highly regarded work in government.
Interesting!

I think the reason I'm excited about prediction markets in particular is because I think the average voter, justifiably, does not have the time necessary to familiarize themselves with all the details of a proposed policy and related research on its likely economic ramifications.

I see the kind of in-depth analysis of financial assets that hedge funds currently do as being somewhat wasteful. I would prefer that they switch to policy analysis in the public interest, by betting on which policies will deliver for voters.
Personally I think Amazon should have a regular Amazon marketplace and a third party seller marketplace that is more like Ebay. A lot of the third party stuff is untrustworthy and the listings gamed by the sellers.

Could be a toggle, a checkbox, a separate searchbox, etc. I do not like having to separate the wheat from chaff myself.
For this, let private companies install public pay toilets. Let activists fund free pay toilet passes for the homeless/poor.

Eventually there should be a couple brands of private public toilets where some are essentially free (lets say you own a business in an area with no public washrooms, it may be a financial benefit to you to sponsor a public toilet) and others are more luxury with higher prices to keep the riff raff out and fund more public ones.

There is a market solution if the government gets out of the way.
Whats the incentive to get it done fast or cheap when you don't have to answer for what you spend and the general public is threatened with incarceration if they don't pay you.
Converting carbon dioxide to solid minerals underground for more stable storage
Ok as long as we can also freely copy all other works, including Microsoft's.
Yes, obviously. We're talking about San Francisco where this toilet is being built with a very explicit purpose.
I used to live in the South Bay and go up to San Francisco and Oakland every other weekend. It was bad, but it seems to have completely gone to hell in the last decade.

I would not set foot there unless all of human existence depended on it.
Bazooka?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka

Molotov cocktail? "the time-honored anti-tank weapon of last resort."

https://www.thearmorylife.com/molotov-cocktail-vs-tank-a-his...
Black Death etched a mark on our genetics, warping immune responses
Not without going to get them, first, which requires you to go to where they are... eg Twitter.
Correct — everybody knows that Mohammed Nuru [1] was not the only corrupted one. He was just the only one caught. The problem is that these kind of corruptions is so hard to catch and prove.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-san-francisco-pu...
As someone who is running a rather large Openstack install (3500~ VMs) I agree with the statements on what needs to change, Making it easier to install would be nice, Kolla / Openstack-Anisble are pretty OK, just when they explode its really hard to figure out why it exploded, This on top of lack luster community support (Their IRC channels are /very/ dead when it comes to support) what people mean when its "consulting-ware" is that there are no real documentation on the failure states, tunables, and intermixed services. it has rather shit logs (90% of the time its just a python stacktrace shown to the end user) so you have to hit up a consultant that has had to deal with all the BS that openstack has.
For years I felt this way. But with a 3 year old child you go into lots of public toilets all over the city. Nearly all toilets near playgrounds for children have been fine. Basic but fine.
The central issue in SF really is just that all the stakeholders with any power whatsoever are highly incentivized to minimize change, because most of the voting and bribery base (I mean, political donation base) is manically obsessed with keeping housing prices as high as possible, so every department in every place in government is designed to slow and reject permits as much as possible. The incentives have been there so long that it's seeped into appointed bureaucrats in every place in local government, so even if you vote for someone staunchly anti-obstruction, it would take years of intense work to get the rot out of the entire system, longer than a single election cycle for sure.

Plus, the people who would vote less obstructionist policies often are the ones who live out in Oakland or something and commute in to work, and thus can't vote on the SF policies, so those people get shoved out even more by the high costs. It's a vicious cycle and there's probably no answer to it besides state/federal intervention to force lack of obstruction (e.g. making certain zoning requirements like "single family home only" illegal). For now, the incentives of local voters are stacked in the "we'll take literal shit on the streets if it means higher housing prices" camp.
That paper sounds like a fun rabbit whole to go down to. Do you have any other recommendations to read? Maybe some books?
SFO is the airport, not the city. We call it SF, or San Francisco.
Only when it's not.
It's legal for AWS to have business with Russian entities.
It's illegal to have business with occupied territories (LNR/DPR in particular).

It's like You know. I have not suffered enough according to those sanctions. Lost a flat of my mother in my homeland. And now loss Amazon/IMBD accounts. Seems that I will be loosing my Google account soon.
I agree, `UnreachableException` is really poorly used here, and most of these are argument exceptions, and clearly are reachable. However, for other "unexpected behaviors", you should really throw an `InvalidOperationException` - you did something that is invalid. And even better if you sub-class Invalid with a custom exception that more clearly describes the unexpected behavior (also easier to search for that exception type in your log analysis tool).

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.invalido...
this mindset is why you have terrible public services.
Hard to confirm the article and the tweet. The author should provide the exact details and operations for someone to replicate and verify, or at least do the math.

The mongodb pricing page says one can setup a M10 instance for $57/month. [https://www.mongodb.com/pricing]

Racking up a $2500/day bill is several of magnitudes off - there’s nothing in the article to help put the workload in context.

I have zero interest in mongodb, as a stock or a technology, but this article doesn’t help to actually determine anything about cloud costs. (Lack of data points, irreproducible method and conclusion)
> My guess would be something about the dynamics of dark matter in galaxy evolution pushes the distribution into a shape that produces those mathematically simple rotation curves. That seems Occam's-razor compliant to me;

It's not just rotation curves, there are numerous validated predictions MOND makes based only on the visible matter (see the paper at the bottom). These would all be a set of remarkable coincidences if the current CDM model were true.

> it would be weird if rotation curves with dark matter were really complicated and unpredictable. It's also possible that both MOND and LCDM have some truth to them.

Yes, this was the idea behind "superfluid dark matter", but it doesn't quite match observations either: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07282

Maybe another take on this fusion will stick.

> But usually people are trying to get rid of dark matter, and that's just not happening.

I'm not sure "usually" is an accurate summary. It's more like they're claiming that the standard CDM model is refuted or should be very disfavoured, which is not so unreasonable IMO:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331/htm

IIRC, some MOND proponents suggest that neutrinos can satisfy the dark matter observations that MOND itself doesn't explain. I believe that's discussed in the above paper but it's been awhile since I've read it.
Interestingly enough, I think a lot of the complaints were from authors of copyleft code. For them, Copilot doesn't do enough to ensure that their code will be perpetually open and attributed (it definitely doesn't do anything for attribution), since it doesn't attach a GPL license if it draws of GPL code.

FWIW I completely agree with regards to copyrighted code, I think there's definitely an argument to be made against intellectual property rights and laws as they currently are, but I'm not qualified to make those arguments.
The US Army Is Working a Mine That Can 'Hear' and Attack Enemy Tanks
Is that really true though? Money is the only factor in admission? No entrance exams? No rejections for “families we don’t want to be associated with”? No special admittances for prestigious families that don’t get charged?

If not, maybe that explanation isn’t a very helpful one.
> Copilot is magnifying a problem that was already there.

Copilot is a large-scale public distribution service which pumps out copyright violations which directly degrade incentives of competent software authors which are known to have brought about the code that Copilot wants to pump out.

It is magnifying the problem of the volume in play of a structural solvent that is dissolving the means to produce quality original software.

> It, or any human doing the same, is not doing anything morally wrong.

A person has placed an object into society, asking for certain treatment of it, upon which they base their livelihood. Knowingly disrespecting and ignoring the requests placed with it – which are in part embedded in a formal social structure of international law and the accompanying expectations of behavior – BY USING A GIGANTIC MACHINE TO DO SO… to support your livelihood… is not a moral failure? Can you confirm?

It’s the same if you don’t use the giant machine for it.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t see it or choose not to accept it as such. The original author may still stop working, and there is a completely unnecessary moral failure there.
I already downloaded documentations, like the python api, or the cpp preference website as a pdf or html archive.

I don't know if it's available for html or js or css, or opengl.
I would say that the hate between parties is not nearly as strong as the hate within parties, often veiled entirely or hidden in extremely polite language. After all, the other party is opposition, your own party is competition.

I remember Jo Cox, who was the conservative who got killed?

The death of Jo Cox wasn't a party political matter, it was a US-style radicalized loner.
Say what you will but the fact that cities in the US have that kind of money to throw around says a lot about the country - compare that to having to heat ourselves using duvets in Europe :D
Came here to say the same thing. There are 400 of them and cost about €6 million per year to operate and maintain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette
SF, not SFO