skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite the all complaining you'll see on the Urbanist, Seattle's process is pretty good for a big city -- which is probably why it's been one of the fastest growing prior to the Covid exodus from downtown. Seattle has recently had more cranes deployed than any other metro in the US, despite being a much smaller city -- not exactly the bane of the YIMBY.

Design review can slow things down, sure, but they eventually do get built. These buildings will be around for 100+ years, taking a year to get the design right for everyone isn't the end of the world.

And there are a bunch of easy things we could do to get more housing made, with fewer drawbacks like rushing out massive towers, like allowing duplexes or fourplexes in single-family neighborhoods.
What, no. They won't finance shit. They are trying to reduce legal exposure with the minimum resources they have to use.
Mostr: A Fediverse-Nostr Bridge
I, for one, would very much so like to live in a row house, but they're nigh illegal to construct in my city.
What's growth rate on that revenue though? If it's like 20-30% growth per year... you're talking a pretty short amount of time (3-5 years) until that revenue multiplier is at parity with many publicly traded tech companies.
I have always thought the most troubling aspect of these frauds(Theranos/Madoff/Enron/Wirecard) is the fact that they are not sophisticated, are complete and total frauds, and yet they persist for years or decades. It makes me wonder how much companies get away with when they only do a little bit of fraud.
The homepage of site now advertising AI features on the top. Which feels like that summarization is just the first thing and there are more AI driven features yet to come. It feels like its going to shift focus on AI as a top priority.

More AI driven features are good probably, but the whole product being AI driven is questionable.

I don't appreciate the Gmail archive very much. I have a pile of emails I want to get rid of (delete) which archiving does not help with. It actually increases the size of the pile when you archive unread emails. I would just like an option to mark an email as read when I mark it done in shortwave.
nowhere in that thing do I see any mention of things like work life balance, it's just a bunch of claptrap about "infrastructures of oppression". Whatever that's supposed to mean

no wonder it's a small union. No economic incentives? No thanks
Two new apartment buildings recently went up where I live. Both have roughly the same number of units inside, and the units are of similar size. One is ugly, and the other blends nicely into the neighborhood, even incorporating some green space and planted trees. There's no reason why the ugly one couldn't have been nicer looking, other than that the developers didn't bother to make the place look more like the surrounding buildings, and nobody required them to do otherwise, even though it would have been a trivial extra cost.

Dogwhistle for NIMBYs though it may be, something akin to "neighborhood character" is a legitimate thing that residents benefit from (including and perhaps especially lower-income residents who would otherwise be priced out), and its loss is absolutely an externalized cost in terms of qualify of day-to-day life. Green spaces, shade trees, etc. are nontrivial in their importance to residents, and the importance of deliberately preserving or expanding those features actually increases as density increases, because otherwise they will be lost and possibly gone forever.

So I don't think it makes sense to be an absolutist about design review. But there do need to be some checks in place to prevent abuse by incumbent property owners. I don't know what those would look like, but I also know that a treeless street walled in with apartment buildings and no local shops or other amenities makes for a sad shitty neighborhood. Housing equity needs to be about the complete lifestyle, not just about making more physical square feet that humans can theoretically inhabit. Otherwise we're just repeating a denser version of the same development mistakes that gave us stroads and suburban sprawl.

Of course, "existing condo sues other condos" isn't quite the same thing. The loss of the view is legitimately an externality, but here I think it comes down to a question of whether the current owners are entitled to their view, or if it was always a temporary benefit that would exist only until other condos were built.
Former AppHarvest employee (by acquisition). That place was an unqualified fuckshow. Not surprising they’re being sued for fraud.

“There are many reasons why they’re doing it, but one of the reasons is because they know that Silicon Valley investors won’t invest in a farm, but they’ll invest in a tech company,” says Henry Gordon-Smith, founder of Agritecture, a firm that consults on urban farming projects. “In reality, these companies overspend on R&D by crazy amounts, and then say, ‘Oh, shit, that didn’t work.'”

This could have been taken from internal communications almost verbatim. The CEO straight up cited my former employer’s acquisition was significantly motivated to position AppHarvest as a tech company, rather than an ag company, for the purpose of propping up the valuation.
When you Google for emergency CPR tutorials it is not giving you videos designed by their creators as instructions for learning some CPR during an emergency. It is giving videos designed for learning CPR so you will be ready for future emergencies.

Many of these will be unsuited for emergency use. For example the Red Cross CPR video someone else linked to takes almost two minutes to actually get to doing CPR. That's longer than the sum of the lengths of the video in the article and the ads.

It might be a good idea to have some videos specifically aimed at people who need to learn right away to deal with a present emergency (for a variety of things, not just CPR).

Searches for "emergency" or similar should not include those videos in the general results but instead should have a notice at the top of the results saying "If you are dealing with an emergency right now click here" which would take you to a page where you can click on what kind of emergency you are dealing with and it gives a curated list of videos, along with text instructions.
Think of it as English as it was when the concept of England originated.
You could just choose to not have a housing crisis, you know? It's not the foreigners fault that you insist on outlawing construction.
It’s like nanobots and the gray goo scenario, but for code.
Ask HN: Did you tell your employer you use AI to do your work?
Or to just speed up your work? And how did (s)he react?
Although it seems intended as fun I’m always a little nervous of things like this because it also denies the power relationships that led to those borrowings. Degallicized English is kind of erasing the relationship between England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and even Cornwall. I’d be much more comfortable if I didn’t have to explain to so many Americans that Scotland is not a part of England, that it isn’t a separate island, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/27/russia-i...
This article says we're overfishing redfish. I guess it's a different population but we're overfishing everything. The oceans need a break
> This is very much the system working as-designed

The system was designed to criminalize any attempt to monopolize, not just block the transaction.

The Sherman antitrust act was quite clear about it:

> Sec. 2. Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof; shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

Later it was made a felony.

It is not enforced this way by the courts.
maybe because w3 stands for "WORLD WIDE Web Consortium"? there is not only USA in this world, it is funny that you are interfering with the rest of the world for your own social and political problems.
Have you had to adjust your diet to eliminate natural sources as well, or does the reaction only happen for high concentrations?
they don't pay taxes for the school systems?
Linux-factory: A framework used to create custom Linux Debian operating systems
SF is trapped because there are well-organized community groups in the Western half of the city that will actively block density increase for the same sorts of reasons described here. You can get to higher density incrementally, but not if it’s always stopped at the beginning.
What were you trying to achieve with this comment?

'our family farm' is a pretty clear indication of the property rights and that gives the OP every right to refer to it as that.
Yes! You can cool neutrons down to the point that you can collect them in a container, like a gas. They even "slosh around".

Unfortunately because of the 10.3 minute half-life of free neutrons, this is a hideously radioactive gas that is dangerous to be anywhere near.
How can you build social trust when there is no commonality with your neighbor? Without some commonality of principles how can I trust that any social contract would be recognized or understood. How do people flourish in that environment?
1. Don't use GMail - the US government and a bunch of commercial corporations should not be able to read your email and/or mine it for useful information to manipulate you with.

2. With this kind of frontend, you're just adding more entities which scrutinize your email and your behavior patterns. Oh, and apparently this costs a bunch of money to really use.

3. The appropriate frontend for email services (even GMail) is a FOSS mail client.

Here's a list of many of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients

I use Thunderbird personally, which is ok-ish and somewhat extensible.
Seattle notes:

Escala condos were the model for the protagonist's apartment in 50 Shades of Grey

https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/fifty-shades-seattle-...

Also across the street from Lola's, where Bezos often has breakfast.
I would actually prefer VW to not add tracking capabilities to the car in the first place.
And my comment has been flagged. Too coy now?
This version is free: https://youtu.be/5rdXvtdSIF8
Paying to rent Photoshop to use it for a task is absolutely no different than paying to rent a tree stump grinder. It all depends on what your needs are as to whether such rentals / subscriptions make sense for you or not. Don't rent the thing in question if it doesn't make sense for your context.

If you need to use Photoshop daily for the next three years, paying monthly might not make sense. If you need it for two months, it might make a lot of sense to rent it instead of buying it.

> Requiring ongoing payment just for continued usage is predatory

No it's not. You're not entitled to their property. If you don't like their payment terms, don't purchase their service. It's no different than purchasing a television one-off; don't pay $5,000 for a TV if you don't agree with the pricing. It doesn't matter if you're paying monthly or one time, the principle is identical. There are available alternatives to just about every type of software.
I think you're underestimating how much time it takes to get the ball rolling on policy change in an organization as big as amazon. The story was published today, and even though torrentfreak reached out to amazon for comment, it's not clear how much time transpired between "amazon PR department is made aware of media story" and the article was published on torrentfreak. It could be very well be as short as "a few hours before publication".
good, now do google and facebook
You seem to care very passionately about getting free stuff.
Impressive, I see one definite problem and a potential one:

* I had incorrectly stated the conditions of the Y grouping. The digits must sum up to a multiple of 7, rather than be a multiple of 7 by themselves. 0000007 and 0000016 are valid sequences, for instance, but 0000014 is not.

* The Z grouping probably has to be [0-9]. At least I've never tested non-numeric characters whenever I've installed Windows 95 (I usually type out 00195-OEM-0000007-00000 when I install it).
> Guy did not know the project

That's the bigger issue. Why would you put someone in charge of testing something who doesn't know it? That's brainless. Your manager was not very competent, sorry you experienced that.
Tesla battery factory US workers lost their manufacturing skills
You can also force the contrast by having something bitter, like unsweetened black coffee, before something not normally considers sweet, like bread.
I am not a lawyer, this is not advice:

Lawyer up, and pull whatever you can alluding to negotiations, talk of ownership etc if it was on a company email account before you're cut off.
> On web, you'd have to run multiple versions server-side which is tricky

True, and this hints at one of the reasons why I do not use SaaS.

> On mobile you'd have to release a separate app which is not what the App Store UX is designed for at all.

Not really, and least for Android. It's tricky in the app store, but there's no reason why you have to use the app store. You could sell the apks directly. I've actually purchased a few apps that way.

But I understand that apps stores are a trap for both customers and developers, and it's hard to escape it. It's one of the big reasons why I consider app stores harmful.

For me, price really doesn't enter into it. It's the mechanism of subscriptions, and all the downsides of it, that keep me from buying them.
I think it's definitely more useful, especially long term, in a more controlled system where the government agency that is handling the actual CSAM is simply submitting hashes of the content the company (Microsoft, Apple, or whoever else) to add to their database with which they can use to flag/review suspicious content.

However, the system described in the article is open to the public, and simultaneously privacy/anonymity oriented. I see this as a double-edged sword. While it does protect the identity of legitimate users, that also opens it up to nefarious actors flooding the system with images/videos taken from legitimate content creators on OnlyFans other sites, potentially getting those creators' content flagged/removed. Even if this simply triggers a manual review, you could feasibly spam the system with so many that it grinds to a halt.
Yet they couldn't be bothered to stop the merger of every major media company down to a total of basically three businesses.
Smells like gig economy. Because you're an "self-published" author you get to do all the stuff a normal publisher used to help you with arranging, like anti-piracy. But if you don't do it to their standards, you get unceremoniously fired (sorry, "removed from the platform"). Can you feel the independence yet?
Yeah, Vundle's (presumably temporary) removal caught me off guard today on a fresh install. This, in turn, has caused me to take a hard look at the Vim plugins I was using. Turns out I only needed one...which I wrote. So I'm now just storing that one in the horrible "vanilla" Vim plugin scheme and putting that in my dotfile management.

Just a good reminder that dependencies will always let you down. It's just a matter of time. Oh, and never turn your back on a big company.

Here's the tracking on this issue:

https://github.com/community/community/discussions/48173

GitHub: "The VundleVim organization has been flagged. Because of that, your organization is hidden from the public."
This is a bad-faith argument. I have heard it throughout council hearings on housing in my city. NIMBYism itself is a prime example of greed and I don't see how it's any different.
I'll let ChatGPT do it for me for nothing. And I'll probably wind up with a better essay.

Seriously, though, can an admin please delete this spam? Thanks in advance!
Is this English: Yes

(riffing off the "Is this Arabic" that was posted a few days ago - it's a lot easier in english, ie if the speaker says ti's english, it's english)
It’s not clear to me why the project should seek to revert the linguistic influence of Norman invaders while enshrining or even amplifying the linguistic influence of Norse invaders.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was asking. I don’t write Rust so it’s informative to see this.
Tired point to make. Languages are cousins, either first or fifteenth. (Or maybe they have no known cousins, but whatever… English certainly does.) Anglish proposes more Germanic words. It doesn’t propose to find words which cannot be traced back to a common Indo-European root word…

> Not to over-charge this conversation, but it reminds me of anti-race-mixing ideologies. Race is also a much more slippery concept than some people would care to admit; we're all related if you go back far enough.

First of all, “race” is pseudo-science. Language research is not. Second of all, try to make an argument for “race mixing” which isn’t racist.

In contrast, Anglish is more of an aesthetic approach to language, one which doesn’t threaten to marginalize any groups of people. Frankly, I suspect that the reason why this offensive comparison is even brought up is becaue of the Germanic assocation, which some people might not find aesthetic for historical reasons.
Something I've always wondered about is how do black holes form, specifically?

E.g.: Do they grow outward from a point? A true mathematical point, or a tiny by finite highly curved region? Does the matter "fall in", or does the event horizon "expand to encompass the existing matter"? Does the observer's perspective matter? I.e.: is there a scenario where from one frame there is a black hole seen but from another frame it's just very dense stuff?
Doesn't SSI kind of make the site not static anymore?
No, unfortunately. In Germany, first aid training for the regular drivers license does not expire.

I would welcome mandatory refreshers every 5 years. Not just because people forget, but also because the best practices (legal and medical) can change over time and people should be kept up to date.

In California, DMV requires renewing the drivers license every 5 years, which requires a simple vision test and a knowledge test about the rules of the road. The knowledge test can now be substituted by a ~90 minute at home online training (short videos and quizzes). I think that would be a great model for first aid refreshers as well.

(On the other hand, to be fair, the mandatory trainings are mostly from an era where emergency services weren't always instantly reachable by anyone. And there isn't _really_ a reason why the drivers license in particular should require first aid training; accidents can happen anywhere.)
> The consumer doesn't get a choice.

The consumer always has an obvious choice: don't use Photoshop.

It's not a monopoly product. Use something else. Consumers are not entitled to access to Photoshop as a birthright.
Don't the Celtic or other pre-Saxon dialects have the better claim to seniority, rather than the tongue of the Saxon invaders?

https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Anglo-Saxon-...
> The company stresses that, if books are removed from Kindle Unlimited, they remain for sale on Amazon’s regular store.

Kindle Unlimited pays authors out of subscription fees, based on pages read. There's a price per page read. [1] A pretty obvious fraud would be to get paid for reading (or at least skimming) by taking books you found elsewhere, uploading them, and reading them (probably with a different account). It's not easy for an automatic system to tell whether an author wrote a book themselves. This runs up the number of pages read and lowers the price per page, effectively taking money from other authors.

So, this seems to fall under "business models that aren't very seller-friendly because fraud." Amazon, like most businesses, does tolerate some amount of fraud, but I guess there are limits?

When people pay for specific books then it might be used as a money-laundering scheme, but at least it's not taking money away from other authors.

[1] https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201541130
You cannot lose that many magical internet points on a single post, so don't worry about it.
Probably common origin - i.e came to english before German as it is today existed.

Supposedly cognate with Beech (the tree) which is called bok (sv) and Buche (de)
Ants Aren’t Adapting to Warmer Temperatures
On the contrary, in my experience the Genius bar has a test device that does a sound sweep and any failure at all they hand you a replacement on the spot.
> I think we are about to see a huge resurgence in self hosting and returning to "old ways" that worked before subscriptions.

I've been seeing signs of that, a bit. Even my daughter, who is in no way any more computer-savvy than anyone else her age, asked me to help her self-host a number of things because she was fed up with subscriptions.
NYC definitely has urban density and good public transport, but it's much bigger than Boston, and more car-friendly than Boston.
I’m against parking money in other countries that result in empty homes.

Home ownership should be only for people who are permanent residents (they can own up to 10 years or until they receive citizenship, to cut down on loophole abusers) or citizens.

Why should any country let mega rich people from other countries (let’s be honest if you have money in 3rd world country you’re most likely doing something sketchy.. otherwise you’d move here to work as a swe or something) who have no intention of living here.

Source: I’m a naturalized US citizen originally from 3rd world, grew up poor and I know income inequality there it’s far worse than what exists in US. I’m against dirt bag tier rich people from taking advantage of our system. We have plenty people doing that here already lol.
> And the idea that a contract can be broken, to the detriment of one side, due to the actions of a third party that neither has control over, and that the contract isn't primarily about, seems highly suspect.

Isn't this actually an incredibly important part of every contract? Surely I would want any contract I'm part of to be clear about what happens if one of the relevant parties gets injured, or is unable to fulfill their obligations due to any reason beyond their control.
Not a great article as it ignores the ~40% inflation of the last few years. Counting sales numbers would be a better metric.

I have seen budget/economy cars being discontinued in the US, such as the Honda Fit. But it has a lot to do with emission rules pushing folks to buy larger truck platforms. That still needs to be fixed I think.
in addition to the very good sibling comment: lettuce is also a cold-tolerant crop that can grow well at 50F, whereas other popular consumer produce like tomatoes or peppers require minimum soil temperatures of 75-85F for optimal growth. Managing that optimal growing environment gets costly quick.

Another important factor: lettuce grows uniformly, and the whole plant is harvested at once. There is no pollination required, no trellis-training for production vines, or fruiting bodies that must be plucked when ripe.

Lettuce is about as straightforward as you can get in terms of mass production.
I think your self-confidence needs a giant boost if you are a white male who is "concerned about being represented".

Why don't you go and check the executive boards for the companies listed in the "Working with stakeholders of the Web" section to help soothe your fragile ego.
They're big enough to owe society better customer support than robots. Bust 'em up (antitrust), this ain't what a healthy market looks like.
I switched to simply self-hosted https://feedly.com (before I was using Trello). I try to funnel all the feedback there or on the email.