skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, many of the people who left did so because rents just got too damn high, and purchasing a home was completely out of their reach.

I do agree with you that the influx of money that came with the tech boom did clean things up a bit, and make things a bit safer (didn't stop me from getting mugged in the Mission in 2013, though, but I digress). But the soaring demand for housing, and the city's complete inability to build more, drove a lot of low- and middle-income folks out.

(And I say this as a tech person who greatly benefited from all this. With very mixed feelings.)

I was never a huge fan of Ed Lee (didn't strongly dislike him, just was kinda meh on him), but after seeing the results of Breed's leadership... wow, I really miss Ed Lee.
Where did you read the mall is closing? The final paragraph in the linked article indicates things are staying open, Westfield isn't shutting anything down, just deciding to back out of repaying the remainder of their loan.

It's a functional foreclosure, which divests them of their interest much like selling an asset would - do you just mean it's "much different" because of the amount of money they make/lose?

Trying to understand the distinction you're making as it relates to this article and their preexisting plans to exit the market.
I had a Jornada 680 without the keyboard and it was truthfully a piece of garbage. Without jailbreaks and Linux they are as good as a coaster.

You can jailbreak an iPhone and achieve the same result.

Don’t rly see the argument from the author.
I am with you. This whole title nonsense actually makes the system predatory. Managers are asked to make seniors take status reports from juniors or whatever.

And they want these things even if collaboration without titles is actually better for morale.

It's almost like hierarchical monkeys want to impose hierarchy on others.
Definitely, bad diagrams (as opposed to bad diagram notation) give UML a bad name. Your example of the misuse of state diagrams as a glorified flowchart is something I see very often.

Undergraduate students probably don't have the experience and design maturity to fully appreciate when and how to use most UML diagrams. I think you need to get stuck at design problems a few times before you can appreciate the need to capture ideas using the right diagram, and then you might be ready to adopt some standard so you can share your design decisions with others in a way that correctly captures and conveys just the right amount of detail.
I don't think property tax factors much at all into land price. Else wouldn't land price be relatively consistent across locations with same tax systems
Tech Bubble
Napster the company didn't win, but file sharing and distributed sharing is the reason Spotify doesn't cost $1,000/month and we are no longer buying tracks for $1 on the iTunes store.
Litigation stops a whole lot of things in its tracks. Copyright stuff barely scratches the surface of the legal issues these things raise.

Other things that are soon to come - trade secrets no longer being trade secrets because company staff are feeding internal documents and source code into a cloud model (a practice that doesn't really align with "reasonable efforts to keep something secret"). Or even just the basic question of, who gets the blame when something generated by an LLM causes a significant problem? It doesn't take much in the way of judgments or settlements before an org realizes the risk of un- or under- reviewed output simply isn't worth it.
> perceptually uniform colour maps

Thank you, googling this led me to the following, which thankfully has quick-loading images as examples (as opposed to the janky OP link)

https://colorcet.com/
Those are all extremes (yes, these days, even extended family living together is rare), and quite visible ones. But what about the "dark matter" of "alternative life course", i.e. regular people who either can't afford to move out, or realize it's an economically stupid move given the housing costs? Wouldn't surprise me if plenty of such people were casted as "basement gamers", because it's easier to claim new generation refuses to grow up than to accept that prior generations treating housing as investment is preventing the next generation from growing up.
It is pointing out the degeneracy that plagues society in a lighthearted manner, by using the German flag, which could easily be interpreted as a new iteration of the gay pride flag to the untrained eye
I have heard great things about porkbun, but I personally use namecheap and am quite happy with that.
Price seems high for multiple pairs of headsets - that’s going to be hard to justify when you need 5 pairs for a DND session.
What if it’s a small company with 10 employees? Shutting down their lively shouldn’t just get swept under the rug.
I bet the Substack folks are partying hard lately. Watching your competition immolate itself has got to be a heady feeling.
Right! just last night I had a couple of free hours and thought... 'you know, I really should do a preventative valve check on my honda 450'. Youtube step by step to the right, cold beer to the left. Just bliss.

About the ECU. Bikes are becoming increasingly hobbled by emissions compliant ECUs. The aftermarket ECU options allow you to tune the bike the way you want. I'm not talking diesel-gate here either. My Honda ECU was getting me 40mpg, my aftermarket is getting 50-60 mpg but with maybe higher CO2 per gallon??? I dont understand what the rules/laws are optimising for?
Plenty of 'John Doe' types are using feature phones these days, because they're uncomfortable with the proprietary 'app' ecosystem that Apple and Android devices come with. A fully supported Debian Mobile device would essentially be a highly reliable feature phone, with selected smartphone features added to it that actually work for the user and not against them.
Google is one of the only DynDNS providers that do one secret per hostname rather than a shared secret. I wonder if that’s going to get killed too.
Wouldn't Gentoo or Source Mage GNU/Linux be similar?
Selling (elsewhere) vs abandoning to lender (SF).

There is a huge difference between the two.
Interesting - though I hate their use of terminology. A play mat and accompanying tracking wand for precise targeting is much different from anything hologram related. This is not a projector system but rather AR glasses with a high visibility base mat for orientation.
> Apple will be landscaped and taken care off for years and not arbitrarily abandoned and turned into a drug den

Exactly. And to anyone complaining about Apple fees. Get this in your head: running that ecosystem costs money. I get it that sometimes crap slips through, no system is bulletproof. But that's where the cut goes to. Yeah, we can discuss if it's 15 or 30 percent. But you at least get a human to communicate with on the other side.
> If you calculate GDP per worker, and call that productivity, then productivity is declining.

"Productivity" is output (generally economic) per operation. For workers, it's typically economic value (to the employer) of an hour's or day's labor. For machinery it's typically economic value of operating it for a period.

GDP per worker doesn't make sense and is not what anybody uses.

BTW, WFH can increase productivity from the worker's PoV since they no longer have to divide their salary (the economic value of their work) by the commute time, just the time when they are working. So same numerator, smaller denominator.
Google made its best acquisition nearly 17 years ago (2022)
I moved nearly all my domains (50+) to Cloudflare a few years back, saving me something like 200 quid a year from my old provider. Only domains outside cloudflare are my .ie domains, which are currently not supported and I think one or 2 others that haven't been supported yet. Handy to have the rest of the cloudflare services on there too.
I work with undergraduates sometimes and its amazing what we can take for granted in terms of computer literacy these days. Some of these kids haven't touched a desktop OS until they get into college, at which point they are just using like google docs and sheets and the filesystem within those webapps. They don't really get what files are, what file types are, what folders are even, and look at me like I have two heads when I say copy and paste some text to a document, save it, send it over.

You think they'd be hamstrung for life but honestly, there isn't much computer literacy in the workforce from what I've seen, either. They'd fit right in. It just sucks to think about all the kids who might have gone further with computing if more of it was exposed to them, instead of locked up basically until they get into college and demoralized by a crushing CS curriculum, since highschools and middle or elementary don't really teach this stuff either.
Manifest Destiny is undoubtedly what drove Spotify to ban this Hong Kong protest song.

Is there no end to western imperialism?
The "free WHOIS protection" is something they have to offer, if they[or anyone else] wants to do business in Europe and be GDPR compliant.
Great for them. Leave my walled garden alone. Considering the volume at which iPhones sell I'm pretty confident that's the sentiment from millions of users.

Edit: When I'm somewhere hundreds of kilometers away from home, sitting in the car parked on the side of the road in the forest and trying to connect with people to figure out where I need to go to exactly, I want maps, email, browser, and phone. In that situation I really don't care about debian, flatpak and stuff. I just want the device to do what it was designed for.
I mean just take for a second, the great lengths the us government went to recover a single f35 that botched a carrier landing. Now imagine your species developed FTL travel. Jack Black ironically nailed it: we don't have the technology.
then when substack becomes the adult in the room they will become like quora or medium
I recently took a car in for a clutch master cylinder replacement. It’s was for a Honda with a 4cylinder and it was buried inside the engine cabin below hydraulic ABS and the Break Master Cylinder; I’m mechanically inclined but this time I was too busy to make time for replacing it myself.

I get the car back and the idle is rough…it stalls (car is running lean)when disengaging the clutch and oddly enough brake booster vacuum is completely lost when it stalls…(not normal as breaking should work for a couple of pumps before stiffening the pedal). Almost crashed…

Anyhow I open the hood check all vacuum hoses for cracks or improper connections. Long story short the mechanic forgot to put the break master cylinders coupling gasket back on the brake booster was letting in unmeasured air causing it to lean and stall; which also caused me to loose breaking when stalled. Worst case scenario.

Honest mistake probably but I feel like the shop mechanic may have been rushing and completely messed up. Luckily I caught it.
So yea I don’t trust most shops mechanics…
Two words: Wolfowitz Doctrine.

Note that the doctrine applies to all countries external to the USA. Which includes allies such as the EU.
Section 230 does not address recommendation algorithms at all.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/justices-...
> These federated things need to be set up so that there's "no wrong door"

I would argue they are. Any of the servers will work fine. There needs to be a paradigm shift that only things that are centrally managed and have a profit motive are good.
I'm pretty sure I remember how I take my coffee! I've never done that.

Now you could argue that maybe I'm more likely to order a muffin alongside my coffee when I take splenda? Could be. I don't think so, but maybe.
> it seemed like a lot of people thought they wouldn't kill GCP

I'm one of them. Cloud services is a large opportunity Google will be stupid to ignore/give up. I anticipate the service evolving, but I don't see an outright death of Google Cloud.

I'm not throwing Google a challenge ;)
SSO only applies to those engaging, with those lurking being presented the default selection of subs for that front end site.

Essentially, Reddit Appollo and all the others are the front ends, with the subreddits being independent back ends (which would certainly also have their own front ends, even if restricted to their own sub).

Thus, the most popular front end would almost certainly just be a clone of old.reddit with the /all and /popular being made of the aggregate communities that front end has selected for default inclusion (with the most inclusive front end almost certainly "winning").

Tldr - SSO only matters for commenting/posting, lurkers would/could get literally the exact same experience as Reddit...
This field draws on a lot of the same people who are drawn to social work. They know they're not going to make big money doing it, but they're going to get into it anyway because taking on the profession is a virtuous thing to do. There's a degree of willing self sacrifice, especially since (like other similar fields, such as museum curation) it practically takes someone dying for a position to open up.

Given all of this, these librarians aren't being tricked by anyone. It's just one more moral, virtuous thing to do for the community, despite not having the training or support to handle anything but the easy cases.
If you haven't moved yet, and are open to giving SF another chance, pick a new neighborhood. Based on your post, I'm guessing you lived in SoMa? It's... kinda the worst, honestly. I moved to the Dogpatch right before the pandemic (from SoMa) and am fantastically happy. The pandemic did kill a few businesses, but others have sprouted up in their place.

If the Dogpatch isn't your cup of tea, there are many other neighborhoods that are much safer, cleaner, and pleasant to live in than SoMa or thereabouts.
It is stealing in the same way that pirating software is stealing. No more or less than that.
Yep, we'd go with what they did, except OpenAI embedding vectors are already normalized, so you can just do the dot product.
Lol you're not even being a jerk about it and this still gets downvoted.
https://0x0.st

https://ipinfo.io

https://tsimobile.viarail.ca/ (if you live in canada and take the train)
> A fresh install of NextJS is roughly 150MB. You realise that's mostly code that all needs to work right?

Really??
It's long past time to start throwing dangerous right-wing conspiracy theorists like this in jail, until they agree to stop spreading this nonsense.
> Android also beat more established rivals like Microsoft’s Windows Phone (and Windows Mobile), Nokia’s Symbian, and most notably BlackBerry.

What?
> the cost per year of the average book just to exist on a shelf

Of course, that cost will go up the fewer books there are. In my local library, it's a magnificent, 2 story tall building with only one story. The bookshelves are widely spaced, and not very tall. The shelves only are in one part of the floor space.
Wish that was the case in general, but it isn't. The implementation details matter, because:

- There may be other tools better at specific aspects of the product, which you may want to include in the process;

- Special case of the above, the design tool may not carry you 100% of the way, and you don't want the tool to become an anchor at that point;

- There may be other people working on the product, using different tools;

- There is lots of ready-made stuff that can be plugged in to your product to enhance or prettify or optimize it - provided it's compatible with common standards at the implementation level.
It's not like I like the situation. I wish things were like 90s with a lot of competition making sure individual end-consumers got most of the benefits of Moore's law.

But, putting on my economist hat, not all market-structures naturally generate large-scale competition in the fashion of white box PC clones. Some market structures are naturally monopolies (energy), some are naturally oligopolies (automobiles) and some naturally have a dominant player plus marginal players arrayed around them.

There's just no easy solution to this. That said, it's not like we don't GPUs of unprecedented power available at a variety of price levels.
Side note: any CO2 humans exhale was already in the atmosphere and fixed by plants.

Humans produce no net new CO2 by breathing.
German speaking. You can take German IT to get an idea what would have happened to SWE if you'd have kept those bureaucratic methods from the 2000s as the backbone of all SWE endeavors: a horrible, expensive, non-working mess with barely any progress.

I think what many people, esp. from outside the SWE world, don't get: Software engineering is a deeply social kind of work. There are dozens of solutions for the given problems, you have to agree on one that works for all peers. That's the job. Optimizing it for drawing funny diagrams is not an issue if not for communication.
> Digg died because reddit existed.

Sorry, but digg died because they told their community in unmistakable terms (aka v4) that they don't matter. Reddit happened to be there to take the refugees.
Reddit doubles down on criticism of 3rd party apps
for .com

Google Domains - $12/yr (includes private whois)

Squarespace - $20/yr (includes private whois)

Yeah, total rip off. There are plenty of Registrars that are at $12 (AWS), or less (Porkbun $9.73).

Google is double screwing it's users. First by selling them off, then by selling them to a price gouger.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.24...
It sounds like someone should write a book about postgres. I'd buy it. But I think it should be a supplement to the current docs, not a replacement.
I love it. The transcribers have a few `Drs`, but also `Biggo` and `Witchy`. There's something comforting about that.
Not the parent but pipenv is decent, poetry is even better:

- clear separation of dev and production dependencies
- lock file with the current version of all dependencies for reproducible builds (this is slightly difference than the dependency specification)
- no accidental global installs because you forgot to activate a virtual environment
- (not sure if supported by pip) allows installing libraries directly from a git repo, which is very useful if you have internal libraries
- easier updates
But you knew about all of that when you bought it, and you still paid for it.
Freedom ends at the next person's nose and often doorstep.
There is, but the good ones are usually better on iOS (support, battery life). That's not because iOS is terribly good, rather because Android is unusually crappy and that attitude propagates into apps and the whole ecosystem.
It factors very much into the rent price. Lots of people think the property tax is paid by the landlord, and think increasing it sticks it to the landlord, but it is paid by the renters.
Well, I'm biased. What can I say? I've lived seventeen years in this country! There was a time when people asked me why do I stay if it's so bad, and I would say, "oh, it's because of the beautiful weather, the great food, and the friendly people". And then no more questions.

A country that keeps voting the Nasty Party to power again and again, and only votes otherwise when it votes its Light version, is not a country that people choose because it's a nice place to live in.
Been using Brave Search since it was public, it's improved a lot since. I also really like Duckduckgo and I use it on mobile, but Brave Search indexes their own sites rather than being a meta search engine, like how ddg uses Bing results. Nothing wrong with meta search engines though, I just personally prefer the way Brave does it.
Do you have any reason to think that this is more common in shops than in home mechanic things? Because, "left over parts" is a stupid common thing that I have heard from all teardown and rebuild projects. To the point that I'm willing to wager it is more common for home repairs than it is for shop run repairs.

Further, you can always split it. Hire them to do it, but then you inspect it when done. If you are good enough that you can inspect after you did the work, you can inspect after anyone else did, too. Right?
That works but I had already searched startrek@startrek.website without the prefix and followed it. Does that give me some way to post on the site without having to create an account?
Monetize good networks …
I guess the only surprise here is that they're selling it.
I just ask GPT all my Postgres questions now. I think some of this will become a moot point over time.
It's not so clear how much money Google makes from Android. It's not like anyone is paying licensing fees. Android may make mobile safe for advertising but it's not impossible Google could be selling mobile ads without owning the OS.
The success of the newest GPT models relies on RL to refine the latent space inside the LLM. There's a bottleneck when using humans to refine that space.

Human based RL is used because humans know stuff about the real world and can sort language utterances by this. There's "self play" process that gives a system this sort of knowledge.
Things got a little confused - what I linked to was a hypothetical private ChatGPT. I'm sure Google already has lots of private ways to use AIs that are not the public Bard interface.
It sure does. I was frustrated to see the lawyer roll over on the "shrink wrap EULA" (I guess click wrap in the story) when it seemed like last I'd heard about those things they were pretty shaky. It'd be interesting to hear a legal analysis of the few points they talk about.

Edit: Casual searching suggests my impression is exactly wrong add these agreements are enforceable. What a world.
Likewise with Lit, but that is besides the criticism that he was making earlier
Seattle got rid of the advanced placement math classes. It had nothing to do with the history of math.
I very much agree. GitHub is always a source of inspiration for me design-wise
I had a sinking feeling when I read this in TFA:

> Squarespace said it will honor Google Domains customers’ renewal prices for at least 12 months following the close of the deal.

... knowing it meant Renewal Sticker Shock, eventually, for those who stay.
So exactly why do you need access to the file system? You have access to a location where you can share files between apps. Any application that supports access to file picker gives you access to any of your installed document providers like iCloud, Google Drive, Box, an attached USB drive, a network drive and the local device.

And direct access via the Files app.

The one thing missing is that admittedly there is no way to add your own music to the music library on the phone itself.
The economic, industrial, agricultural, social, technological and cultural differences between north and south Korea are far, far greater than between east and west Germany.

Germany still has east-west integration problems.
To whom? Yes to Westfield's bottom line, but both you and another commenter have replied this as if it has self-evident corollaries.

Why is the difference meaningful to anyone who isn't the corporation already planning on exiting the market? Would be a helpful exposition to better understand what you're both trying to indicate with pointing out that 2 different things are different.

edit: I'm asking bc the article doesn't really explain that either and I'm not sure why this means anything beyond Westfield couldn't find a buyer at the price they wanted, or thought this was the simplest/fastest way to divest
"Soon after HP's merger with Compaq in 2002, HP discontinued its Jornada line of Microsoft Windows powered Pocket PCs, and continued the iPAQ line that started under Compaq."

"In mid-August 2011, HP announced that they would be discontinuing all webOS devices." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ

According to the linked source:

"But then HP encountered the grim reality faced by anyone trying to compete with Apple in mobile devices: making competitive hardware is difficult, and attracting developers is even more so. It's the Catch 22 situation I spoke about in my earlier webOS analysis: no apps = no customers = no developers = no apps." https://web.archive.org/web/20110925012246/http://mobile-dev...