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You’re comparing apples (the Big Apple, it turns out) and oranges. SF is 7 miles by 7 miles of hilly, earthquake prone land, surrounded on 3 sides by water. There is literally no “new land” available to build on, and redeveloping existing lots to rezone, or increase density, or whatever is costly and slow (and that’s true in most US cities, not just SF).

These are _essential_ complexities of land use in SF that are fairly unique to it, and hence comparisons to other cities are rarely useful.
I think (I _think_) maybe because they’re machines designed to kill people.

Just a guess.
My theory that I offer without evidence is that large scale fully remote work maintains (may even bump) productivity over the short term, but over the long term, in an economy with high labor mobility job switching in a fully remote environment exacts costs we’re now seeing.

Anecdotally as a manager who just started a role at a new company managing 2 teams whose members are mostly remote to different degrees, it’s been very difficult to get a sense of the teams capabilities, mood and load vs the book of work. It’s easy to ask questions and I want to keep everyone engaged, but I also don’t want to micromanage or give the impression of big brother looking over their shoulders.
Weird to use NYC as the example here, given the ghost town that is Manhattan.
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> they obviously don't respect their users enough to give them that choice.

This is not necessary. Apple has sold millions of iPhones. If Apple customers did not feel respected they would not buy the product.

Just because a product doesn't have a feature YOU want doesn't mean the rest of us don't appreciate the added layer of security and simplicity.
The person suing got their termination notification on 11/1 so I imaging they know more about what their termination actually entails than you or I do.

Also Musk consistently pushes and oversteps the legal boundaries of what he can and can't do to get his way. Him being in charge of Twitter at all is because he was forced to execute a contract he willingly signed what makes you think he'll be more calmly compliant to laws?
I and the folks of chinese-descent in my family prefer wooden chopsticks over steel ones because of the better grip wood texture provides, so perhaps pincers are the future, but not the metal ones OP has. Wood might be more sustainable, too.
These guys are just asking for the guillotine.
I hate forks as much as the next person (compared to spoons and knives, forks are far worse at performing their primary job), but I'm not sure about these pincers. For one thing they look more difficult to clean (stuff would get stuck at the base).
Have you not noticed tiktok? People are being trained to have the attention span of a gnat.
I don't want to be prevented from using my device to its full potential because of what some teenagers might do. Sure, throw up some scary warnings to try to save the kids, but in the end I want control over the device I'm physically holding in my hands. I'm not going to spend $99/year to install apps any more than I'll spend $18/mo on heated seats.
I also dabbled and didn't have an overwhelming Eureka moment. I do firmly believe there is one to be had though. I suspect it comes when you discover that you can bend the language to your will to solve problems in ways you couldn't have imagined, or would be very difficult in other languages. Lisp is isn't just a program language, it's a programming language toolkit more than most.

The reason why I don't pursue it further is that as a language toolkit, each project evolves effectively into its own language with less portable knowledge if you were to work on a different project with a different team. [For that reason and I do like static types.] Lisp might be more comparable to Perl "there's more than one way to do it". If I were to pursue lisp, I might choose Clojure which has more 'batteries included' and an ecosystem that makes different projects perhaps share more.
In my opinion, the best way to treat something is to first understand the why before attempting to fix it with the what.
Try and have her understand why her hip is hurting. Is it pain radiating from her bone(s), or from the ligaments, tendons, muscles, etc in the area.
A couple things I would suggest she focus on.
1. Daily exercise, such as walking at least 1 hour a day, is crucial. It increases blood flow to the lower body, lubricates joints, etc.
2. Another crucial and very neglected form of activity in western society is stretching/yoga. Make sure she is stretching daily, preferably after doing some sort of exercise like walking so that the muscles are warm and more malleable.
Do guns also come with airbags and anti-roll cages to protect you from other people who don't know how to operate their gun safely?
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Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32636412 - Aug 2022 (596 comments)
We're hitting a ceiling based upon how many hours a single human can work without dropping dead from sleep deprivation, when you talk about 90 hours a week that means living at the office, over 90 hours a week and you're looking at only 90 minutes of rest per night 7 days a week.
Free speech and breaking confidentiality agreements are orthogonal to one another. The latter might result in legal action or firing but it has nothing to do with the right to publish.
It leads to immigration in the sense that an H1-B terminates in a green card or the worker loses it after 6 years. Compared to a Chinese Z work visa, which you can just renew indefinitely and has no path to a permanent residency, an H1-B is a completely different beast.
I wonder if it’s just programmed to look for clickbait listicle numbers like

5 secrets your doctor doesn’t want you to know

10 ways to grow muscle without exercising

And that sort of thing. Maybe it’s even just looking for any leading number under 15 or something like that. I’d expect out of any random assortment of modern day headlines, most that start with a low number are clickbait nonsense, where something that starts with a number in the hundreds or thousands is likely to be a real article
> There are no news here. Ad blockers were never allowed to Play store

This comment is absolutely unacceptable. I understand this isn't your decision, but its a decision I disagree with in the strongest possible terms. Ad blocking is the number one extension I use above all others. So if someone finds some excuse to bring attention to that fact, I say, let them do it.
All the fired twitter employees should get together and form a new twitter
Sure you can.

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

> It is a form of legally binding preventive by which a party involved in an actual or possible legal matter can ask a court to conclusively rule on and affirm the rights, duties, or obligations of one or more parties in a civil dispute (subject to any appeal).
I disagree. My ability to apply consequences is a necessary part of freedom. The consequences on their own shouldn't be illegal (e.g., murder), but applying those actions shouldn't in themselves be illegal when applied as a consequence of speech.

For example, if I'm in line at McDonalds and the cashier tells me that I'm ugly and he hates my family, I should be able to say, "I've changed my mind, I'm not going to eat here". But not being able to apply consequence to speech prohibits me from doing even this simple act.
What logical reason would Pfizer have other than damaging information being revealed about them?

They sell medicine, people don't pick what medicine they get for the most part, their doctor does. (yes there are exceptions) The number of people who would push back against a medicine because "pfizer had ads next a twitter post with racial epithets" seem vanishingly small.
In a drug-induced haze, Elon offered to buy Twitter at a price that was a weed meme and after sobering up, went on a full court press in the media to get out of his deal. It required a absolute shitpounding in the Delaware court of chancery for him to cop to the legal obligations he clearly wasn't aware of.

What on earth has this man done to make you think that he knows his legal obligations?
This is exactly what Web Out Of Browsers (https://woob.tech/) aims to do: get information stored in websites, and offer a programmatic way to use them.

There is an application called woob travel that shows timetables: https://woob.tech/applications/travel. It plugs back ends, each of which is a website. Once parsed, the data is programmatically available for anything.

Bonus point for OP: it is all written in python !
Kitchen tweezers are more expensive and less durable to make than forks and chopsticks so I doubt this will ever happen.
I pay my ISP. That should ensure I can communicate with anyone else paying their ISP.

As for content monetization, I host my own site without ads, solely to spread my own views. I take enjoyment in that.

I watch YouTube with uBlock Origin on my laptop, and NewPipe on my phone. If I were forced to watch ads, I'd stop watching. And I wouldn't pay for YouTube, because I believe it is much larger than its competition, and don't want to contribute to a monopoly.

I pay for Nebula, and when the creator also posts there, that is where I watch their videos.
We're also all doomscrolling, playing games, watching youtube, listening to podcasts or writing to hacker news. No wonder we're tired after doing all that! Have people lost the skill to unwind?
> Ironically, it was the walled garden that kept me on Apple for so long.

Ideally Apple can keep it's walled garden for regular users and also let power users unlock their device to side-load apps if they so choose.
The current situation at Twitter has made me want to go back to the good-old-days of RSS, I'm glad to see I'm not alone.

I'm rusty, though. What's the best Mac desktop RSS client these days?
Yep.

I have not seen a picture of the filler but they said its the cheapest sand they could get (probably even free).

So i assume it is mostly rocks and gravel anyway.

Not sure about the math here, but it is surely cheaper to build a bigger tank with crappy sand than a smaller one with more expensive clay.

I would say rocket heaters have more constraints on space while for a large industrial tank you would not really care about it being large and heavy.

From an efficiency standpoint you will not run into many problems, since the efficiency of heat based systems is based on the thermal loss.

Thermal loss occurs on the walls and in processing (like the rest heat in the air venting out of the system).

The process losses are independent of your storage material and often unavoidable.

And since those are large installations, the mass to wall ratio is really really good (square–cube law).

If you make them big enough not much insulation is required and the overall efficiency is high.
It is pure speculation
People fear what they don’t know, and the media pushing it as a partisan issue doesn’t help.
Leaking confidential information that you agreed to not leak is actionable as a contract violation.

It's not a free speech issue.
There are plenty of terrible drivers in Portugal and the US.

That's not true of a gun violence problem.
agree to an extant, but we do it all the time with mortgages, as in buy with loan against value of the asset. the only difference is that bank wouldn't give me a 2M loan against 1M house. In this case this seems like a play on credibility of Musk that banks & other investors are willing to overpay. IMO its a mistake & misaligns the incentives but lets see.

I do however feel that there should be civility in these layoffs regardless of what Musk's belief's about performance of these employees (or Musk fanboi's). There should be proper severance/healthcare and prorated vesting.
Most don’t choose to interpret what they read in the most literal sense possible.

American gun culture scares even a majority of Americans themselves.

Incidentally we just concluded yet another trial determining the fate of yet another teenage shooter who committed yet another mass murder in yet another high school. Do we need to continue this debate?
Exploding air bags spur do-not-drive order for 276k Dodge, Chrysler vehicles
There's an option of overbuilding PV to fully accommodate cloudy days or the winter season (with extra PV going to waste on sunnier days). ...Versus making up the difference with stored energy.
are you considering a macos or linux version?
I'm more interested in 'Lessons from the career of Cal Newport': it seems that quite a lot of his productivity is likely to come from having chosen a topic and then writing a whole series of books / articles / podcasts on very closely related subjects.

Not meant as a criticism just a lesson in how focus and persistency can pay off (although I do tend to admire authors who have a wider range more).
> I really don’t see how arch fairs any better here, care to elaborate?

Arch has spent a considerably amount of time getting to the figure it has and is in the same position as NixOS to maintain reproducible builds. The claim that NixOS solves this, or is uniquely dispositioned to solve this, is the false. That is what I'm effectively trying to point out here.

>While it is a different problem, my litmus test for package managers is installing gnome a (the whole group) and then seeing whether I can transition to kde or vice versa without a bunch of dependencies lingering around forever. Pacman, apt, etc. all fail terribly here.

That is not what Reproducible Builds is about.
Neither I nor person I responded to knows. However, person I responded to took issue with mere existence of such position.

I know that that comment was just pure emotion and hate. But, the fact is, there is nothing wrong with having department for visuals. Or department for marketing or department for communication with advertisers or what have you.
>You can always sell assets (at a haircut of course) to evade cash flow insolvency

If the assets in question are marketable securities (stocks and bonds), traded commodities, or real estate, then that's generally true. If the asset is some shitcoin for which no real market exists, not so much.
Don't blame labor for failing to unionize when media has been filling the room with anti union sentiment for a century.
More from The Intercept, here's a document from DHS on disinfo discussing using 3rd party non profits as a "clearing house for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda." https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1587257992449208320 in the same thread there's a Draft DHS quad review, which plans agency policy, leaked that shows growing focus on MDM (misinfo, disinfo, malinfo) to protect homeland against spread of "toxic narratives." How the agency defines false info and what narratives are prioritized isn’t clear.
Agree on the rebranding. Thank you for your positivity & inclusivity!!

Apologize if the "heartbreaking" and "liberating" language felt a bit dramatic (I am a bit dramatic...), but it really did feel that way for me after living my whole life feeling like I was constantly doing everything wrong.

Ever since slowly going deeper and deeper into the ADHD community, the positive spark of the community is undeniably special and since reframing a lot of my views on ADHD & myself, I've been able to lean more heavily on some of my "superpowers" as well.

We actually love the Big 5 personality traits out of all those similar quizzes, backed by good science and I think it's actually the fan fave of our Head ADHD Coaching Psychologist, Xenia!

There's an organization understood.org that is starting/forwarding the movement (neurodiversity as a whole, not just ADHD) exactly as you say! We're excited about some upcoming partnerships with them :)
> In that case, Musk sounds very much like every government, business, politician, friend, family member and neighbor I've ever known.

If your friends, family, and colleagues are routinely getting into legal trouble, you need some better friends, family, and colleagues.

Of course, maybe you're part of The Family(tm), in which case... say no more.
Covid injuries, Long Covid, Covid vaccine injuries, Layoffs, High interest rates, Inflation, Nasty employers; color me surprised.
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macOS is not a UNIX-based operating system. It used to be marketed as "UNIX" but only because it met the Open Group's POSIX standards.
This seems to be a rag-bag of right-wing talking points e.g.

* Covid lockdowns - bad

* Harsh policing - good

So the chances of it being based on anything other than the writers pre-concieved political biases is basically nil.

In particular, SF seems to be getting blamed for partly Californian and Federal policies in a somewhat loose manner. Even if you disagree with them, and you think the people in charge of SF at various levels agree with them, it's silly to heap it all onto SF as some kind of hate-focus.
While I agree with you that the ballot should be physical, electronic counting defeats the purpose of transparency. Counting should also be manual in the presence of representatives of each candidate. Marking of ballots and voter eligibility checking do not present any issues if done electronically.

Maybe one way to address the issues of electronic counting would be to have parallel counts by each candidate (and their reps) using their own hardware and software with a manual count in case the electronic counts of every candidate do not match. But this means each candidate has to bring their own counting infrastructure which is prohibitive.
The difference is what is the primary utility of a gun vs a car. It is the primary utility that determines societal value.
Ads don't pay for the Internet, they pay for content. The problem is that's it's highly intrusive and mostly unimaginative leading to a negative sentiment. It's also pushing content that I haven't asked for, products or whatever.

I'd rather pay cash money for the app that is being advertised, than pay-per-view for ads promoting a free app I'll never download, which itself is funded by more adverts.
Why assume that they are merely "tell[ing] them this is important" and not actually "doing the job" as an independent validation?
s/device/gun

I agree.
What problem do you have specifically with donor advised funds?
Are we sure HR wasn't laid off? The article notes Twitter didn't respond to a request for comment because the comms staff was laid off.
COBRA is what it is, if you had high priced employer paid coverage and you want to continue it, it's going to cost a lot.

Otoh, there's exchange plans which tend to be lower cost. All the exchange plans have to cover the same baseline things, but of course how big your share is varies. There's subsidies if your income is low, but not too low for medicaid.

Yes, there's a lot of fussyness in the details, and it can be stressful, but you just go and do your healthcare and wait and see what the bill is, and then decide if you're going to pay it or not. Mostly, there's no requirement to pay at time of service.
Nice!

A CSS Houdini worklet would be another way to represent this in CSS.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Houdini

https://houdini.how/
We know from the Voyager Digital CH11 filing that Alameda owes them $650m USD, and has not repaid them so far, instead FTX the exchange affiliated to Alameda is trying to acquire Voyager digital assets.

I presume that a lot is also owed to BlockFi, which explains why SBF is trying to bail them out so that he doesn't have to repay them.
Among other issues with this view, Musk repeatedly said the deal was off and only closed after Twitter sued.
> Things that could conceivably destroy crypto are more along the lines of coordinated regulation from an influential, multinational group, like the entirety of the G7

Sounds like a plan.
> With the same quality of discussion and excellent moderation? ... Most 2000s-era communities have been swallowed by the reddit leviathan and are now made up of similarly low-quality, validation seeking type of discourse.

There's nothing saying that one can't create a community on reddit and moderate it severely. Yes, it will get some flack from being one of the subs where the moderators delete everything.

The community and moderation evolve together and with a few exceptions of being able to edit titles after the fact or change where links point to - reddit offers similar moderation tooling.

What is needed is the "create a sub, and moderate it to match the vision."

Be it reddit or grabbing a reddit clone and hosting it yourself, or finding another format that works better - the problem is similar. And the core problem there is that volunteer moderation is a thankless task that people only complain about and rarely praise.
I'm worried that I wouldn't be able to monetize it. I am kind of selfish with my time and as such extremely cautious of any hobby that doesn't improve either my physical health OR financial situation :-)

I actually asked something related here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32152652
Your friends, family members and neighbors typically aren’t going to have the power to fuck over thousands of former employees though. Great power comes great responsibility and all that.
Ironically from what I understand in Germany the government claims the opposite is the problem: individuals save too much money. This has led to a requirement that all bank accounts have a negative interest rate, which effectively bans saving money.
so the new boss doesn’t actually believe in the ideology he loudly preaches?
> If they don't know what the spam numbers are, then where is the 5% figure coming from?

Again, that is 5% of mDAU, not 5% of accounts. Mudge is complaining about the latter, Twitter only represented the former.

In any case, Twitter's methodology to get the 5% figure, based on what was stated in court, appears to be:

1. Every day, have someone(s) randomly sample 100 users from the mDAU pool and use various pieces of data to try to determine which of those sampled accounts are spam/false accounts

2. At the end of the quarter, use the 90 samples to estimate the proportion of spam/false accounts among all mDAU users

This allows one to get a relatively tight estimate of the proportion of spam/false accounts among mDAU users without knowing the precise number of spam accounts among mDAU or the upper bound on the total number of spam accounts among all users on the platform. The former isn't known because of the statistical nature of the method, and the latter isn't known because the pool the samples are drawn from isn't the one needed to determine the total number of bots.

> None of this is to due with the spam accounts that are known, and not counted as part of mDau. Those spam accounts are KNOWN, and not included in counts.

Non-mDAU users consist of more than just spam accounts, though - for example, inactive users and users using non-monetizable clients are excluded. If the precise makeup of the pool of non-mDAU users is not known, then that would easily explain not knowing the upper bound on spam accounts.

Strictly speaking, one can trivially provide an upper bound on the number of spam accounts - just give the total number of accounts - but that's hardly a useful answer. Presumably Mudge wanted something with more precision, and if that information is not tracked than Twitter obviously wouldn't be able to give a useful answer, no deception needed.

> These documents are stating that twitter has no information on the actual total number of spam accounts.

But it doesn't state that Twitter fabricated the total number of spam accounts, does it?

And once again, the total number of spam bots is irrelevant to Musk's purchase. Twitter made no representations regarding such a statistic in its SEC filings or in the merger agreement, so there can be no fraud or falsification regarding that statistic. The only statistic Twitter provided regarding bots was the 5% number, and that was bots as a percentage of mDAU, which is different from the statistic Mudge was complaining about.