skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that Bragg is any good, but turnstile hopping has been happening long before Bragg. Perhaps it’s gotten worse - I don’t have any data
Earth's warming hole not indication of abrupt climate change event, study finds
I originally built this because Kiwix desktop didn't work with TED videos for me. Kiwix-serve works nicely always, plus I wanted to learn SwiftUI.
Corps are boiling the frog slowly. The counter narrative is that this inflation is about corporate profiteering. Wages haven’t grown to increase demand to justify prices.
I still think that's a bit "rewriting the history". E. G. Vmware enabled fast self-provisioned VMs and nobody called them cloud. Heck in 1999ish or so, while at university and way before I was an IBMer, I could sign up to some ibm development program as a student, get an account, and provision Linux VMs on mainframe.

Not to say your scenario isn't valid and real, but I live that scenario every day today with in house cloud and virtualization too - it takes months of approvals and solutioning and security assessment and network engineering and procurement and costing and whatnot... To deploy a windows vm.
He is the very new CIO at Stability, apparently: https://twitter.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/1575068030367059968
You think that's the same thing that we're talking about here?
> openly evading Subway fares

Nobody has ever cared about this (nor should they, IMO; disclaimer: I have never lived in NYC). Occasionally journalists go to NYC to interview random residents about fare evasion, and the main response is a shrug.

Frankly, we’d all be generally better off with free public transit. Governments end up paying most of the bill anyway, and increasing transit use would be a big benefit to those most needing help.
I've lived in NYC, SF, RDU, Hartford and New Haven (CT), all places that the news would paint as practically ruled by crime, but I've never experienced theft. I lock my doors and keep my car clean and that's been enough.

Despite all the stories in this thread, me and my neighbors here in SF leave our cars out and haven't hade break ins. Even the $100,000 convertible with a soft top parked outside our place most nights hasn't been bothered in the year I've lived here, and I live in NOPA, so not exactly the outskirts.

I think the saying "crime doesn't travel up hill" is very real in SF
It gave my primary theme as "Stargazing."

Given that I mostly comment on astronomy posts I guess that really is right on the money.
Fun!

If someone reads the comments first, try this in a private/incognito window please! (Then compare in non-incognito)

There’s a clever product recommendation section, and the test will say “you might own…” and it showed me something I was considering to buy the other day!
Cops have been useless for a long time. It is why everyone currently hates them. They don't work for us. They don't protect us. They extract money from us to justify their existence. Truly useless.
Before Chesa they blamed Prop 47. There's always some excuse.
I'm not anti-gun, and fully appreciate the need to protect one's self (and household) at home, but if I ever felt the need to carry a gun outside my home, that would be my signal to move.
I don't see muggings, burglaries, or car break-ins in that quote.

Not that you were asserting otherwise but it doesn't seem like support for disinterest in theft being a prosecutor choice rather than a cop choice.
[I work at Firebase, but opinions are my own]
I am happy to report that Firebase is actually used by companies of all sizes and types, including Fortune 1000.

I appreciate the concern though :).
New analysis of obsidian blades reveals dynamic Neolithic social networks
Your comment is so crazy, seriously. I said it was not clearly better. I never claimed the opposite either. I never gave my opinion at all except to say, essentially "it's debatable". You are the one dismissing everyone who likes Android and accusing people who just say they disagree of shutting you down which I never did. The fanboy was true of the parent and is true of you, a fanboy is someone who is so in love with their own POV that they categorically claim their favorite phone os (give me a break) is the best, and then when someone even tries to say that isn't "clearly" true, they then get so defensive that they attack that person claiming that they were attacked. So yeah I'll stand by my fanboy comments, you have validated them.
Sometimes I do and sometimes not. That's nothing new.

I don't think it's so unclear why we'd put that up there.
Thankfully it's nowhere that radical, and we can avoid both Android and iOS and build towards a better future, thanks to the recent revival of "real" Linux smartphones.
Tech workers can't commit wage theft.
Under this law that's fine sure. But how far do they go with this plan? Do they cost up each part of the car and allow you to use only that bit. And when you have bought enough of a car it can then serve as your transport?

The desired rule is hard to pin down though isn't it? But subscriptions, DLC, DRM etc all grate on consumers as not quite right somehow.
If the friction is high enough, antitrust law has always seen that as bearing on the definition of the relevant market. You can’t lock people in and then start charging monopoly prices with impunity. One issue is what happens when the stickiness is mostly psychological friction instead of something that an economist analyzing rational action would see as a barrier. These are laws for people, after all, not for hypothetical rational beings.
I mean maybe? But does that matter? It's by far the highest efficiency (in terms of bandwidth) open codec out there. It takes a lot of money to develop these sorts of things, especially given the patent risk, so I'm not sure how else you'd expect something like this to be created.

Netflix and Facebook were also early adopters of this. Between Google (Youtube), Facebook (various) and Netflix you have three of the biggest content providers. Other big ones like iQiyi and Vimeo jumped on it pretty quickly too.
The PJs (2020)
Thinking your political opponents are duped by propaganda just means you lack the ability to think outside your bubble and understand people who have different values and priorities. Certainly abortion views are not the result of GOP propaganda, seeing as how it’s illegal in two dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa, and the subject of careful compromises in all but a few liberal democracies. (Views on immigration, same sex marriage, multiculturalism, etc., aren’t the product of “propaganda” either. Most people in my home country of Bangladesh would agree with the GOP on all those issues—especially if the shoe were on the other foot and you were talking about e.g. hearing people speak foreign languages in Dhaka—but they certainly don’t have positive views of the GOP itself.)

This myopia is a great shortcoming of democrats (of the last 20 years—the party used to be savvier in the past), because it leads them to believe that politics is about lecturing and badgering, instead of building coalitions of people who agree more than they disagree.
> You don't need more tools, you need fewer.

Fully agree with this.

For me, it has also been important to keep the workflow and tools that I do use as streamlined as possible (KISS), so as to stay "in the zone" as long as possible.

For instance, if I will write some code, I don't need bells and whistles, I only need LSP support, split screen and the ability to change files in a split second with a few keypresses. Likewise, to version-control code I need a tool that let's me do that and just that.

And so on.

So I find myself most productive when living in the terminal using things like tmux and vim.
A unopened first generation iPhone has sold for more than $39k
+1 for this. I have been super happy with both Mint and Pop!_OS after leaving Ubuntu. They have everything I like about Ubuntu with basically nothing that I hate.
https://archive.ph/q73Tv
Thanks for sharing. While I have no first hand insights, it does sound like it's not necessarily providing the best set of incentives.

However maybe it also have to do with the size of the company. To survive the ecosystem, you first need exposure and output, in order to secure a position/network that will allow you to work on harder problems.

To expand a bit on the idea, if you think of what it takes to make things move in a company the size of Facebook, you probably have a long queue of easy/boring task, and then anything remotely harder than the boring stuff require team work, collaboration and having secured the right talent in your team to move the needle. Collaboration require good communication, which can honed through getting people to write a lot about their work. It also make it easier to spot the right talent.

While it can have some negative effects, maybe at scale it helps organizing the company.

Definitely would be interested in reading other people's opinions here.
This is the v1.5 we were waiting for, you can test it by using the same seed locally and on DreamStudio.
And even if they are, you probably aren't going to do a digest on the whole thing all at once.
Loud pipes do not save lives [0] but they do annoy many, many people.

[0] Link to different pieces of discussion here: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/new-study-confirms-loud-pipes-s...
I had a bike stolen from my garage. This bike lasted 6 years of Northern Philadelphia being locked out side. But couldn't survive SF haha.
> If you're only playing the flute for an hour a day, you might not notice it; but if you're doing it for eight hours a day, as a professional performer, your arm muscles are going to be tired and shaking at the end of each day.

Maybe? I've done 4+ hour days and my arms were fine. [edit: I recall my embouchure/lips giving out on particularly long days, not my arms!] I wasn't a big weight lifter or anything at the time either. If I tried that right now, when I'm way out of practice, it might be hard at first, but I think I'd be fine again before long. Muscles adapt to use.

Your arms are bent and not really that far out when playing the flute, and flutes aren't that heavy.

> I take that to mean "people with Parkinsonism, and other conditions that mean that holding your arms up becomes hard."

Interesting. Yeah, that's great if it makes that kind of a difference for someone. I'm not sure there's any widespread demand though.
It always had Bluetooth support, it was just locked to the Nike integration they had a partnership with. The update gave it support for other devices though.
1. China's military age population: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/15-49...

2. China's old age dependency ratio, 65-plus per worker 20-64: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/Ratios/OA...
i saw a similar image in a documentary video. i was so impressed by it that i took a screenshot, intending to look up more about that some time. looks like i don't have to do that anymore because HN brought it to me.
Thirty-nine thousand dollars? For a Phone?!
A lot of people don't have the luxury to move. Specialized jobs, family, extended family, etc. They can try to move to a nicer area but then financial limitations start impeding mobility.
The discourse has already changed quite a bit since the first release, which was only 2 months ago, and is getting alarmingly close from OpenAI's "we must delay release of XXX for safety reasons". It was probably to be expected, OpenAI are not just morons who decided to freeze opensource progresses, there are likely legal reasons behind it. But adding to that last weeks dramas, I am not very bullish on StabilityAI, hope I'll be proven wrong
The EU, home of laws like this and the reason for the cookies popup, where the citizens talk about how they have better privacy than the united states.
That’s the FSF definition yea, but lots of developers nowadays don’t agree with the FSF. For example some people don’t want companies to use their open source libraries/code for a profit.
Nielsen (of TV ratings fame) has been selling this sort of data mining to grocers for decades. Decades ago I worked for a small regional chain and we based a lot of decisions off that data - we could have never done it on our own.

For any item in our stores we could get a list of other items that were commonly purchased together, for example. I'm sure it's even fancier nowadays.
clever but mostly pointless political theatre - the President could order the various TLAs to reclassify cannabis and/or end the War on (some) Drugs (WoD) immediately. The WoD machinery appears to be a permanent part of the military-industrial complex.
> Unfortunately for people who entered their ecosystem, there is a heavy influence to keep them there (more than a walled garden, an active insulation and inculcation - its hard to take your life elsewhere if you bought into the Apple ecosystem).

Where?

Any music you bought from iTunes since 2009 was DRM free. Apple Music runs on Android, Amazon Fire devices and a few other non Apple platforms.

The AppleTV app is available on every streaming platform and you can watch movies and TV shows you purchased. Apple also participates in the Movies AnyWhere initiative along with most of the major studios. Meaning when you purchase a movie from Apple, Amazon, Google, Vudu etc they are added to all of your libraries.

AirPlay support is available on Roku devices as well as a few other platforms.

AirPods work as standard BT devices on non iOS devices.

The standard file dialog that apps use to save and load files surfaces all of your installed storage providers (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc) equally along with iCloud. If you are on an Android and have to get files off of iCloud, you go to the web.

FaceTime has been available
for Android for a couple of years.

> don't sync their music libraries and don't do whatever it is Apple is selling gadget for these days.

Almost everyone uses a streaming service in 2022 and Apple Music is available for Android.
> And they are real problems, but also they are not going to get fixed in a year or even five years.

SF could easily be fixed in a year. Zero tolerance policing, locking up drug abusing vagrants, and broken windows style follow up would work wonders.

The problem is that the sheer force of will to get it done simply does not exist. Nobody in power is willing to step up and take the inevitable heat for the action that is sorely needed.
> How can this not be at least a nationwide, if not worldwide reality?

It is certainly not worldwide. Take Japan for instance. Your stuff[0] left in the open will almost never be taken. And in the event they went missing, there's a good chance it's because someone took them to the nearest police box.

[0] Umbrellas on rainy days are notable exceptions. But they're so cheap (a few dollars) many consider them "communal" items.
Had a homeless guy sit behind me on the bart repeatedly saying he'd slice my neck if I turned around or moved at all. It was a mostly-empty car, and it seemed like he was serious and that nobody else was going to do anything. Wound up sitting still and bolting out at the next stop. Tried calling the cops after and they didn't care in the slightest. Just one of many incidents.

I live in Cambridge, MA now, and it's a million times better. Only thing remotely close that I've seen was one time biking past the Woods-Mullen Shelter in Boston (saw two other comments here call it "Mass and Cass"), except it's just one block and extremely tame compared to what you find all over the Mission, SOMA, and Tenderloin.
Real payroll doesn't work like in Andor, or the old American West. :) You have to be in a position to personally profit by convincing your employees to underreport their time.
China's strong points:

-China's military has hypersonic missiles that evade most defenses

-Chinese attack drones can paralyze communications networks

-China's naval ships outnumber America's, including 3 aircraft carriers

-China has 2 million serving members vs. 1.4 million US soldiers

-Cyberwar capabilities can disrupt US infrastructure

Considerations:

-China lacks combat experience

-A top-down command structure could make them less flexible to improvise on the field

-40% of training involves studying the Communist Party rather than training

-Untested modern warfare efforts of joint military branch execution

-General lack of readiness based on red vs. blue team exercises

-Shortage of high-quality talent based on standardized admission tests
You can't vote yourself out of this situation.
And this is a reason among others why I left. Tired of the bullshit.
1) You can now get the addictive drugs injected at your doctor's office.

2) ... and addiction plummeted.

Hmmmmmmm... It doesn't make sense.
That has long been my practical intuition. To put add an additional issue, at a glance, a motorcycle light at night just looks like a car that's far away. That's definitely not going to work out well.
A major problem, IMO, with mixed-use projects is that developers don't create a good mix of commercial spaces, and city planners don't differentiate. The vast majority of spaces are too big and expensive.

Cookie-cutter isn't necessarily a problem. Though they can look quaint, even most old walkable neighborhoods contain nearly identical assortments of businesses. Most of those businesses require only very small spaces, and could never generate the revenues to pay for larger spaces while competing with big box retailers. You need many small, cheap spaces. Over time you'll eventually start to see a handful of quirky establishments pop up. But if your aim is just for the quirky establishments, setting aside only one or a handful of cheap spaces, with most targeted at chains or otherwise too large and expecting too much rent, what you'll likely end up with is a bunch of vacant commercial spaces and low foot traffic.

Nothing wrong with 5 over 1 buildings, IMO. What's wrong is that the first floor invariably will have N commercial units, all too large, when they could provide 3N or 5N, all significantly cheaper and capable of supporting small proprietors. Moreover, with a larger number and assortment of businesses, that ground floor will begin to look and feel much less cookie-cutter.

But I guess it's probably difficult to raise money using a pitch that features comic book stores and flower shops, rather than one that imagines a CVS or Walgreens as a tenant.
Fire forensics.
people consider a lot of different factors when choosing a place to live. crime rate is an important factor, but it's not the only one.

reading that some other city has X armed robberies per capita doesn't give a great sense of how that would actually impact my day-to-day life. obviously I'd like X to be as low as possible, but if it's already lower than where I currently live and the place has other positive qualities, I would consider moving there.
I read it too and the way he backs it up makes sense.
I voted by leaving. Much happier.
You actually can have Vanced be the default! Set an app timer for 0hr 0 min on YouTube, and go into the app link behavior in settings to default to Vanced. After that, links should open in Vanced. In apps that have browsers, view the link in the internal browser if it brings you to YouTube.com, and it should redirect.
That would certainly have been the argument at first. Battery life is EVERYTHING.

But Netflix announced they would be using it in 2016. YouTube started using in 2018, the year the standard hit 1.0.

Apple had plenty of warning and time to get the necessary hardware acceleration blocks available by now. Chips have multi-year timelines but it’s been 4+ years.

Now on the other side, Netflix actually started using it in early 2020/late 2021, depending on device. YouTube rolled it out wide in 2020. Twitch is working on it.

So Apple is at most 2 years behind the content. It’s not like it’s been 5+. And if they decided to wait to see how those early rollouts went due to hardware timelines it might make sense support only appears to be coming now (based on someone pointing out AV1 shows up now in the AVPlayer framework documentation).
Walkable, amazing weather, tons of beauty, interesting people, 15 minute bike ride from some of the most beautiful spots in the entire world.
Not charging extra for heated seats is an important basic customer protection?
In a generation. If present trends continue. Experts predict. Barring unforseen events. Anyway, here's the end of the article.

The true test of PLA personnel will be when they’re called on to fight. Some American military strategists and analysts say China might be a generation away from having the ability and training in its military that could effectively match those of the U.S.

“Our staffs have been doing extended combined operations for decades. Theirs haven’t,” Mr. Blasko said.
Much of the point of the idea is that you can fit more humans in the same street space by not having each one drag their own living room around with them. And a pedestrian is in a much better position to notice (or indeed intervene in) a crime than a driver is.
I think that this twitter thread describes the horror show in trying to build such a sensor. TL;DR It ain't easy.

https://twitter.com/rbaron_/status/1491467468996431873
Two thoughts I've had about Stable Diffusion:

1. The web UIs I have used are taking advantage of the same mental pathways as an electronic slot machine. Just like you can max out your bet on a slot machine and mash a button until you run out of credits, you can do the same on the hosted stable diffusion apps until you get a shareable hit.

2. Just like the dream you had last night, nobody wants to hear about it at breakfast, no matter how epic it was, because it's not backed by any meaning.

That said, I love stable diffusion and am an addict to it almost every day.
Robotic automation will have an enormous multiplier effect on the work units of Communist Party Youth. Would be interesting to know the primary author of that one child policy and the gullible decision tree in the Communist Party that fell for the argument.
It appears there's some rule or other factor that prevents it from working with my name. I thought it might be length, but it does pg just fine. Perhaps because my name is entirely numeric?
I agree. There should be a "No means no."
Yeah, I'm wondering: Why $39k for an original iPhone? My 3g is sitting on my desk and it's completely useless.

They can't even connect to today's networks.
As someone currently trying to switch jobs, I will say LinkedIn is head and shoulders above its competitors that I know about. I switched to "Open to work" and get 2 dozen recruiters a day reaching out, and around 5% are recruiting for positions that pay competitively for me (5 YOE, targeting high 200s, which is L4 Google comp in my area).

By contrast, I've had less than 5 companies reach out from Hired and Triplebyte (and none that were offering competitive pay), even though I got top 10% scores on the platform's stupid quizzes. If there's a new platform I should be using instead, please let me know, because having to respond pleasantly to 19/20 recruiters who are wasting my time is a bit draining.

Unfortunately, I didn't major in CS and have only worked at two companies, neither of which normally pay well, so my network is pretty limited.
Missed a chance to fine billions instead of millions.
Omnifocus for me. It’s been the only thing I’ve stuck with. I’m pretty sure that’s because it’s the only task system I’ve used that lets you hide things based on properties; I don’t get anything done facing a giant list, but a small focused list of things I can do right now, is possible.

It also fills a need for organization meta-work, but that’s not really a positive hah

Best thing I can recommend is pick ONLY ONE thing to hold onto tasks (notes app, a todo app, a sticky note pad, etc.) and actually commit to it. Force yourself to log a task the second you know about it.

Even make an effort to tell people “I’m adding that to my list” so people start reminding you. Whatever gets things you need to do out of your head asap.

It’s aggravatingly difficult for a while until it’s a habit, but having the stuff you need to do somewhere that ISNT your memory is going to be a massive boost.