skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so this is a hugely political issue right now. Don't be surprised to get wildly differing answers. Republicans are pointing at public disorder and screaming about crime, and Democrats are accusing them of being fragile suburbanites who can't handle normal urban life. I'm a left-leaning independent, and I tend to agree with Democrats on a lot of their talking points, but I will say that everywhere I go I see more public disorder than I did a few years ago. There are more locked shelves everywhere, and I think people's perceptions of crime and disorder are also affected by the fact that there are way more encampments of people living in tents and RVs (which leads to more litter on the streets etc.). I live southeast of Seattle, in a straight-up middle-class area, and our local Target now has OTC pain relief behind locked glass doors. I stopped dead and stared. I'd never seen that except in a big city.

As for the issue of unhoused people, which I don't think is related to the actual crime rate but is very much related to perceptions of crime, we also have some tent encampments down in my area. In Seattle (I visit the International District weekly) a year ago there were huge tent cities under freeway overpasses, actual structures hacked together on sidewalks, people living in deplorable conditions. There have always been unhoused people in Seattle but it was an order of magnitude worse than normal. In the last several months Washington state and Seattle have made a huge effort to clear the tent cities and get people into transitional housing, and from what I can tell it's working: the sidewalk shacks are gone, the tents are gone, the areas are fenced off, and by all accounts they've gotten almost all the people living there into shelter of some kind. I'm paying attention to whether I hear less squawking about crime now that there's less visible disorder.
Ghana at the Verge of Default on Bonds
This sort of trick does make me wish I'd gone for a larger pot. I've got one of the smaller offerings because I have pretty limited space in the kitchen and usually am just cooking for two.

There's no way I'm fitting my rice cooker pot inside of my instant pot, that's for sure.
I have a feeling that would just make most of the server owners ban it
Get the PDF or etext -- from the buttons that are hard to find.
That sounds like a very low number I would have never have guessed. Is Mastodon so heavy?
> hire back anyone caught in the crossfire.

Who would agree to be hired back without extracting serious risk premiums from Twitter? If I had taken the 3 month severance and am seeing the ongoing chaos, the only way I’d agree to go back is as a contractor for $2000/hr with a $1M retainer with no clawback.
Absolutely, I don't know if they're identified yet but generational trauma and stress is definitely a thing and it gets passed down
> privacy

Do Not Give google credit for privacy.

first, showing maps for a location it is already showing on the screen... the data is already all there. it is pure and simple calendar team didn't want to bother using maps team's api. nothing else. nobody had a meeting and decided against it because of user privacy.

second, no matter the product, the only integration all of them MUST have is to both advertising and profile. those two internal apis respectively serve ads against your profile (ssp) and add events to your profile to later target ads.

so no, absolutely nothing on google deserve the privacy argument.
Have the same experience with AWS, the customer service is nice and I always felt like I’m talking to a human and not a bot like with Google. Google is just the worst nightmare for developers
It's sometimes called "elimination tournament" or just "draw" too.

Just as a curiosity, where you from? Is English your mother-language?
Twitter apparently was working on their own protocol, under a project named BlueSky. I personally feel this was unnecessary and redundant because w3c had put forward activity pub.

However, this project existed just the same. As far as I can tell, the Twitter and blog for the project have not been active since late October and I'm not sure if there's any life to it anymore.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog
Aws has no provision for shutting stuff down for exceeding a budget (or at least when I ran services there). We would rather reverse your $20k bill and keep you alive. I ate huge write downs from small and big customers accidentally blowing themselves up. I remember on guy almost in tears because he knew he would be fired due to his screw up that blew up the bill. It made me proud to help him. Amazon has a ton of serious issues but they are genuinely incentivized to care about customer problems (I.e., you are paid and promoted on how far you go for customers).
I have to dispute your dispute, I wonder if you might be doing it wrong? I thought the same thing until I tried precisely following the rice cooking instructions for instant pot. You have to use a lot less water in the instant pot that you would in a rice cooker because it's not loosing water to steam.

To me there is no contest, instant pot is a much better rice cooker - faster, more energy efficient and most importantly better texture. We got rid of our rice cooker once we figured that out.

I remember in Jiro Dreams of Sushi they use an ad-hoc pressure cooker to make the rice, so I think there really might be something to cooking rice under pressure that improves it.

Haven't tried the pot-in-pot method yet, but that's meant to be even better.
I was going to do the same but the USB ports on my monitor go down to usb 2 when youre also doing video. I was disappointed when I found that out.
Nextcloud being slow as a dog hasn’t helped my opinion. Most fast php sites seem to achieve speed mostly by aggressive caching to serve static content outside of php or having a setup that supports adding infinite servers to scale up.
I had this once with Google Drive, when I forgot to enter my new credit card because the existing one had expired. Took weeks to get my files back. It's like people at Google just wait for shit to happen instead of trying to think of the obvious things that could go wrong beforehand.

That being said, if Google is looking for people to lay off there's some obvious candidates. I would include their mangaers too.
That was my second favorite one.

peanut cheese - "it's naturally non-dairy!"
Right, I guess the Fantines of today are whiny spoiled queens(?) because they might have paid access to an apartment, food and water, electricity... Hell, they may even have a smartphone. What have they to complain about? They should be thankful! It could've been worse!
How does one know, whether they are healthy or not?
Iowa, like that whole part of the continent, has brutal winters. There's a reason people don't want to live in the interior of the country: the weather on the coasts is much better overall.

However, it is really good for growing certain crops, and that's why it's used for that, and also why America has historically had a huge advantage by being the "breadbasket for the world".
The cover is reminiscent of K&R 2nd edition.
You are wrong. Web applications written in languages like Python or Ruby will spend most of their time spinning the CPU instead of retrieving stuff from the database. There are languages that are just that slow.
Expert in stolen goods here.

I was talking to a NYC colleague the other day about how there are trends in favor of not punishing people for certain criminal activity in the city. We were talking about driving with a suspended license, but I asked about shoplifting. She said, "Oh, no. That's on the opposite trend. Not only are they prosecuting it to the maximum, but they just changed the law to make it easier to hold people on bail for shoplifting." She made it clear that shoplifting was never a low priority for prosecution, but now it's a higher one.

I understand that the claim in this article is that aggregators/sellers/fences whatever should be surveilled and prosecuted (more), but just wanted to add this tale from the courthouse and emphasize that the street-level shoplifter will be the target of most policy interventions here, which is the least effective and least humane strategy.
I'd just make a backup AWS account with separate billing before I worked on multi-cloud.
Didn't Elon take Saudi money to help with the Twitter purchase?
Yes on the "big user" side (you're just burning little extra money every month on slow code), but no on overall.

Having fast code means that random $10 a month VPS can now support much bigger community. The hosting providers can also provide cheaper/better service for people that want just pay someone to run it for them.
I have seen similar stories like these in the past here. It's a shame Google hasn't done anything at all for so long to combat it.
You think the the US would increase the British standard of living? There’s no way any Brit would go for anything the US has to peddle.
they're self-governed but rely on a super power for protection, what do i win?
One time I emailed jeff@ and then a few days later someone called to talk to me about my Kindle on Android bug. I got a workaround and it was fixed in the next version.

And I've talked to a support human at Google before, about our GSuite.
Even in 1985 you could foresee wanting to reference something after 2000 - terms for a thirty year loan, for example.

Harder to see reasons past 2038 back in 1970.
> The component won't be undergoing any stress at all

It has a compliant clip that bends to clip and release; its entire purpose is to retain cables against being pulled out of sockets; and it is designed to press-fit around the body of an ethernet connector which, if it is not too loose or a perfect fit, will subject it to a continual stress.

Are you looking at a different object than me?
I played American football as a kid, but I know plenty of kids who never played any sports outside of PE. And PE was mostly just jogging around a track, dancing, and other non competitive actives. Plenty of kids just half-assed PE, and never would have demonstrated to anyone any genetic proclivity for sprinting.

>Incidentally he also wasn't interested in running. He was much more interested in football, but seeing one kid Bolt across the field led others to convince him to try out track and field.

Being seriously into any team sport makes being identified as a gifted athlete of any kind much more likely. Most kids are either not involved in team sports or aren't trying hard enough to really be noticed even if they are genetically gifted.

In addition in many countries almost half of the kids are overweight, obese, or just out of shape, which probably swamps out any genetic benefits in terms of sprinting.

>He ran a 20.4s 200m in 2003 at the age of 17. His ultimate personal best and still world record would be 19.19 in 2009.

That's about 10% faster than what's considered a good time for someone that age, and that was after, by that time, a ton of practice. My point was that he probably wasn't beating other "fast" kids by 20% margins.

My overall point isn't that when participating in athletic events, a genetically gifted kid isn't going to be noticed. My point is it's very possible for a kid with Usain Bolts genetics to go unnoticed, simply because they aren't interested in sports.

The differences in speed between young kids are likely small enough that it's not obvious just from playing tag a few times that this kid is freakishly fast. And many kids will just never run 40 second races. It's very possible that whatever genetic advantages Usain Bolt had didn't even show up till puberty.

Maybe the kid is just bookish and doesn't play outside much, maybe he plays with older siblings so his natural ability is dwarfed by the extra year or 2. Maybe he gets fat because his parents feed him too much etc...
The privacy argument doesn’t make sense to me. The addresses are already in Google Calendar. They don’t need to be saved into a different service to be viewed anonymously in Google Maps. You can already do it in Google Calendar for one event/address at a time.

Yes there are business/internal-politics reasons why some obvious features or experimentation doesn’t happen, but those aren’t necessarily good reasons beyond short term benefit to specific individuals at a company.

But I do think some of it can generally be blamed on large companies losing their ability to be nimble due to the inherent friction of the politics and logistics that build up as an organization grows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo_Guthrie

Woody's son, but he's eclipsed his father in some ways.
The growth in C suite pay since 1978 is largely attributed to salaries of executives at public and non profit companies becoming public.

However, yes, a fantastic CEO can potentially provide incredible value to a company. But it is incredibly hard to tell who will succeed and who will fail. It is a complex job. Some of it comes down to gut instincts and intangibles.
what even was project inbox? at most five people used it.

hangout is now integrated in meet, which is integrated in gmail.

it's google doing a microsoft/apple and trying to be the leader in video calls/remote work/remote classes by forcing people to have it ready just by having the gmail app.

just like apple with facetime (but they have no idea how to expand on it) or Microsoft adding teams to windows status bar, you like it or not.
Because in an emergency, you sometimes don't have time, so you solicit options from many people, have them all work on their solutions in parallel, then choose the best one?

If you go back and look at Musk's tweets, it's pretty clear he didn't know what he was talking about it in terms of what would work.
Here's a contributor's (pfraze) reason for not using ActivityPub.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/255#issueco...
Censoring real news stories that look bad for particular political groups. The entire set of "fact checking" systems, adding NFTs because someone thought it sounded cool. Being sued by the government for being an ISIS recruiting and messaging platform.

All of these pretty clearly indicate that no one was minding the store.
Proton mail doing a little advertising of their own through a blog post. lol
I am very sad to hear that this happened to you. It must’ve been absolutely maddening to be unable to talk to a human being as your business was destroyed.
Upvoting in the hopes that someone on HN has a connection internally at Google, AND to raise awareness for this issue.

My business uses Firebase, and I'm having serious second thoughts about that right now.
The Costs of PE (2019)
Sigstore the Easy Way
If they lose their house good, that means non-criminals will have the chance to buy a home.
The comments on thingiverse are full of people saying they printed multiples and all of them broke when used.
I don't think you understand the appeal of this, you wouldn't really enjoy this if you've never played the game before.
NASA trusts him with their astronauts’ lives. I think you’ll be okay.
The legality gives people power to knock on the doors of ISPs, who can (and often do) know everything. Even without that, authorities can (and occasionally do) run honeypots after they find and disband the main site operators.

There is no technical solution to the anti-piracy war, it's entirely a legal problem.
Most of the comments here are ignoring the difference between regular old shoplifting and the trend driving the increase discussed in the article, which they're referring to as "organized retail crime".

I think it's very fair to have differing attitudes/moral thresholds for an impoverished mother shoplifting a week's worth of baby formula versus "a couple in Alabama [which] pled guilty to shifting $300,000-worth of stolen baby formula on eBay".

My reading of the article suggests that the trend discussed is a result of the latter, which is more recent and problematic, and not the former. Comments here discussing the morality of crime or a desire for policy change are missing this distinction.
Sigh. It's now been [0] days since the last "My [business | e-mail | critical thing] depended entirely on a single service with no backup, I got suspended, and now I can't do my [business | e-mail | critical thing]!" story. I do sympathize, and the right fix is for these services to have better support, but come on... These stories happen so often and get ample press. They should not be surprising. Please stop doing this, people! If something you rely on for your livelihood depends on a single company as a single point of failure, that is a flaming, burning emergency that needs to be solved right now!
I hear your pain and desperation. It is a sign that you ought to
delete your account, for all the good that will do you.

HN is starting to become an unofficial customer support forum for
derelict big-tech businesses. We regularly see messages like this
"hoping to contact someone", as a desperate last resort in case
developers hang out here.

If I were a big-tech employee reading HN I'd feel ashamed of this.
Depends on the environment, in the tech world of six months ago I'd have no problem signing back on for a few tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The risk of losing your job however, carries a greater premium today than it did six months ago.

I don't know if 100k retention grants are good enough, but they're going to be good enough for some people.
Show HN: A new way to do footnotes
I bought a Librem laptop and was trying to install Debian on it, only to find that there was a firmware bug that prevented me from using the installer. So instead, I read the Arch wiki and installed Debian Arch-style using the live ISO and debootstrap, and I've been installing Debian that way ever since. I've never used Arch because I like everything as boring as possible, but someday I might take the plunge. They're the first place I go for docs, regardless of what distro I'm using, except for maybe Alpine when I have to read docs on something strange like OpenRC, and have to go to Gentoo's wiki for that.

The thing that makes the Arch docs so great is that it covers edge cases and has lots of examples.
Yes! i think games like this could be useful for training aesthetic and relevancy output from the models.

Actually implementing that kind of feedback is beyond my skills with machine learning though!
This ignores reality. At least in SF most of the auto break ins and shoplifting is organized crime.

These people could get a job, they just don’t want to be a “sucker” and work 9 to 5 like some chump.
In the past 1000 years, hasn't the overall set of ghostly evidence increased? Reported sightings, suspicious photos/videos/images, reported haunted houses and locations, etc.?

Even if one finds the reported evidence unconvincing, it seems difficult to definitively prove that ghosts do not exist.
As someone who used a WebOS phone, the software was excellent, but the hardware was a little less. I had two different phones-- a Pixi which had a dead earpiece/speaker from day 2, and a Pre. The latter was an odd form-factor, and apparently prone to twisting apart on the slider mechanism. Neither were performance kings and the screens were tiny even for the era.

If they had put the software in the hands of someone who knew kit-- a Samsung or LG or even Nokia instead of Palm and eventually HP-- maybe it would have competed better.
Ötzi had them. Was Big Shoe around even then?

https://www.livescience.com/otzi-the-iceman
Based upon some of the submitter's previous submissions. It appears that they have some 18+ "dating" apps...

Disclaimer: Googler, not in this area.
I’m sorry. Are you able to work with your customers to keep their business while you sort this?

I would port your stuff to aws. Most services have close equivalents and it is probably worth while to try. As another poster noted it might be useful to have cross provider redundancy.

I’ll be honest I have refused to work at gcp and have steered the mega corps I’ve advised on cloud choices explicitly away from gcp. Azure is better, but less technically sophisticated. It’s still a one shop cloud. And any company whose core business is surveillance and advertising won’t care about their customers - you’re just meat for their machine. Amazon was built around a customer centric business (retail) and aws inherited the ethos of that retail business. It’s technology is marginally less sophisticated than googles, but googles technology comes with an embarrassingly large amount of smugness and clever solutions that fail in clever ways. Amazon basically just wraps up common technologies in a managed control plane (aside from a few primitives like kinesis, SQS, sns, and DynamoDB) and doesn’t infect everything with their smartness.

Good luck.
Paying customers should absolutely have access to customer service.
Have you considered the possibility that some western narratives might be upvoted because they're popular with the (mostly western) audience of Reddit, and not because governments are manipulating the site?
Well I certainly didn't have "Tumblr becomes culturally relevant in 2023 after adding federated content cross-compatibility with foss platforms" on my bingo card, but here we are I guess.
Tumblr infamously had a lot of spagetti code back in the day, with both new and old features breaking all the time. Last I checked (within the past 10 months), my tumblr accounts still shows -1 likes.

I think Automattic has been good for the site code quality-wise, but also very much believe it when I see it. Plus, what happens when porn federates over to someones Tumblr dashboard?
Dunno, seems like Japan has been trying that strategy for going on 20 years without any significant changes in inflation. Even though the explicit goal was to increase it.
Just adding to the positive feedback here ... I was literally thinking about, as a newcomer to chess, how bad the learning experience is with online chess engines and how surely something could be done to make the engines work with you at your level to help you learn.

So far, this seems to fit the bill very well! I hope this is a success and will definitely consider supporting it with a paid account. Well done!
Wow! I know folks at this bank, they are one of the few banks approved by Washington DFI for cannabis -- https://dfi.wa.gov/cannabis/financial-services -- we were looking to move some banking there.

But one of our crew found info on Crunchbase about Alameda Research + Moonstone and we nope-d out of that deal. They said "we don’t have any risk or exposure from Alameda Research" -- but, still -- too close for comfort
Lisp macros much more unified approach to DSL/little language creation/usage.
Which indigenous people? The ones we stole it from or the ones who had it stolen from by the tribe we stole it from?
Some things are truly "never" however, and not "eventually" at all.

I am _never_ going to fix those kitchen cabinets, we already moved out of that house.

I am _never_ going to rewrite that in Rust, the entire project got cancelled and it's not coming back.

etc...
Customer Obsession
Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
Sadly, I've learned how many people don't know what solicitation means and I have to explain it to them. Sigh.
Regulating legitimate business activity out of existence to support progressive prosecutors ideas about shoplifting and street crime is the opposite of a solution.
It's easy to be thankful when you're loaded with money.

When you're not, other feelings take their place.
The frameworks largely exist, the above situation is like if you rented an office building and then started running an unlicensed side business out of it. It’s just a lot rarer (cloud computing has a much lower cost of entry then a commercial lease).
No one from Google ever turns up here and says they care and it matters.

It's now broadly known that developers and businesses don't trust Google, but strangely as far as I can tell, the google CEO has never been held to account for this.
>I don't want to search for the comment with the archive link to get past the paywall.