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>The bad parts are extremely bad— like, apocalypse level bad.

From a May 2023 article on the decline of the city <http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed...>:

>A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in the East Coast press about how our city is dying. San Franciscians hate—HATE—these pieces. You’re a stooge and a traitor for writing one. When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall. In the first three months of 2023, 200 San Franciscans OD’d, up 41 percent from last year. “It’s like a wasteland,” the guard said when I asked how San Francisco looked to him. “It’s like the only way to describe it. It’s like a video game — like made-up shit. Have you ever played Fallout?”

>I shook my head.

>“There’s this thing in the game called feral ghouls, and they’re like rotted. They’re like zombies.” There’s only so much pain a person can take before you disintegrate, grow paranoid, or turn numb. “I go home and play with my wife, and we’re like, ‘Ah, hahahaha, this is SF.’”

I found it notable that no one in the Reddit discussion <https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/13dvrjs/san_franci...> mentioned the Fallout comparison despite the fact that, well, this is Reddit. I think it hit too hard.

>but being a small city some destinations put you near them

Yes, this is something that people don't understand. The SF Bay area is as large as any other major metro area, but San Francisco is tiny, at 7 miles by 7 miles. More to the point, the place where most business happens and where most tourists go is right next to the Tenderloin. The only place I can think of in Manhattan that is kind of like this is the Upper East Side at 96th Street, and tourists just don't go there often (and Spanish Harlem isn't that bad, anyway).

>I only lived in SF for about 12 years, but even that was enough time to see at least part of the change. At the time I moved there, you still avoided the TL, but the area around civic center at least didn’t feel like a war zone.

>Was never mugged, robbed, threatened, etc.

Same for me on all counts. But were I a woman my experience would surely have been different.
A someone with two middle names "only" totaling 19 characters I still run into issues with many forms, both online and offline.

I'm never quite sure what to do on offline forms that have boxes for characters that run out, I normally just continue writing past the boxes, but at least one official government documentation has been addressed to me just missing the second one.

And a few things seem to handle having multiple middle names (and thus middle initials) poorly, ignoring the length.
That explains why it's going downhill then. It's sad to see what Windows has become even if I'm really not their biggest user.
I'm not familiar with Paco so thanks for sharing.

I looked up Howe and he said this about Paco:

"There was mention of Paco de Lucía, who is the greatest, well, if not the greatest ever flamenco guitarist. Many people love him dearly as I do, and if somebody says, 'Can you play like Paco?' I say, 'No, no.' [laughs] So I just jumped on board, and it was wonderful. Very nice people." [1]

Howe made up a flamenco piece on the spot for a Queen song so he was talking about Paco then.

The nod is there by the man himself for the greatest flamenco guitarist.

But if you discuss something that is basically subjective, you still need criteria because if one person is saying oh Paco is the most technically skilled that's one thing. Another would be more akin to how the Decathalon decides the greatest athlete.

I don't know if Howe is the best ever, but if there was a Decathalon equivalent for guitarists, I'd bet Howe would top Paco no problem. And in that event, he'd top Jimi Hendrix and Page too. But that's just my benchmark, having range and full command of the discipline.

[1] https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/yes_...
They forced a password reset. You can use HIBT data in a way that's less disruptive.
In France, in 2004, a law was made to permit joining 2 family names together when parents want their child to have both last names, joined by not one, but two hyphens "--".

This lasted about 5 years before it was reversed. I met someone who had this in her last name and thought she was yanking my chain.

I'm so sorry my country did this.

Here is something in French that mentions the law, I couldn't easily find the original law online:

https://www.senat.fr/questions/base/2011/qSEQ110418181.html

Now that I think about it, it's entirely possible that it caused some issues with SQL.
> and they wrote their own assembler, linker, etc.

True, but over 30 years ago. In fact, said compiler was the very first program written for Plan 9. Those decades you speak of came afterwards.
Every damned time this happens someone asks how it's possible they have so many employees when it's just an app... Spotify owns multiple large podcast studios, has sales people, negotiators, music industry people, lawyers, facility staff, lawyers, marketing, content curators. It is the business engine through which the vast majority of the world consumes music these days. You can quibble about if they have too many engineering employees, but at least get the real number first.
Who are the women you think should have been mentioned?
Let capitalism eat the world!

:edit sarcastic. I wish capitalism died!
joined a startup recently whose founding team was entirely from FB (who used Phabricator internally), and Google (who used Critique internally).

They missed those code review tools so much they just rebuilt it themselves lol.

I was initially skeptical but after using it for like 3 or 4 days it's going to be hard to go back to vanilla git tbh

https://graphite.dev/
Recently someone on hacker news described statistics as trying to measure how surprised you should be when you are wrong. Big fat error bars would give you the idea that you should expect to be wrong. Skinny ones would highlight that it might be somewhat upsetting to find out you are wrong. I don't think this is an exhaustive description of statistics but I do find it useful when thinking about forecasts.
> long-term support

> out of date, unsupported legacy garbage
A spy camera that looks like a towel hook seems like a product that should be illegal to sell. For what legitimate purpose would somebody want a towel hook camera? Don't most people put towel hooks in bathrooms?

It seems perfectly reasonable to hold Amazon legally responsible for selling this product even if it was a 3rd party seller (not clear from the article). A product whose intended use is to secretly record videos of people in settings where they will probably not be wearing clothes should be unlawful to sell just as it is (or should be) unlawful to knowingly record such videos without informed consent.
That's "active work" though. So you're also going to be spending a lot of extra time sitting in your car waiting for delivery offers to come in. Outside of lunch and dinner hours, you'll probably be spending an equal amount of time idle as you are "active" according to DD.
Shameless plug - I'm one of the creators of GitContext (https://gitcontext.com), a code review tool which has drawn much inspiration from Critique and others, and would love feedback from anyone who's interested in kicking the tires. We just launched in private alpha.

We're putting a maniacal focus into the user experience of code reviews, which we feel is overlooked by most tools. Many of the features of Critique that developers enjoy have been included in our first release...
- A focus on only the latest changes
- A familiar, side-by-side diffing interface - show 'diff from the last review' by default
- Tight integration with other tooling
- 'Action set' tracking - we allow you to pinpoint and assign line-level issues to relevant team members and track who's turn it is to act
- Satisfying gamification - plenty of buttons that go green and even some fun visual rewards for merging

Additionally, we've layered in...
- A beautiful, modern UX that provides light or dark mode
- Comments that never become outdated and reposition/evolve with the review
- Smart version tracking that handles rebases, merges, and force-pushes gracefully
- Progress tracking that allows you to see what each participant has left to complete down to the file revision level.
- A real focus on trying to get turn tracking right

We're just getting started and have a ton of ideas we can't wait to layer on. If anyone is up for giving it a try, we're actively seeking feedback. If you mention 'Hacker News' in the waitlist form we'll let you in right away.
To be able to tell press inquiries "we have a review team".
The more "oops" things like this get pushed in automatic updates, the more I begin to despise our modern culture of continual updates. This is by no means just a Microsoft/Windows problem either, this affects everything nowadays. My damn Pixel watch suddenly has a bug where if I turn around and walk back down the road I just came on, it rolls back my distance, like an old school odometer that is just tied to wheel rotations.

I'm so sick of having working software one time, and the next time I open it it's broken or worse, has a completely overhauled UI and I don't have time to learn the new way to use it.

As a dev I love CI/CD, but as a user I'm beginning to actively despise it for the UX that it's led to. I think too many people have decided that QA isn't needed anymore because "we'll get bug reports and can patch and deploy them quickly." That's a terrible philosophy and you are bad and you should feel bad if that's how you ship your software.
You can do that in Github, but for some reason a lot of reviewers are not familiar or bother doing that. Fixing nits that way or giving a suggestion improves turnaround speed greatly and builds a relationship between reviewer and proposer and the final product/commit(s).
The fine-tunes of Mistal 7B, open-Hermes-2.5 and OpenOrca are good. Zephyr is underwhelming.
Lets Encrypt will only give you a cert that is good for 3 months, because they want you to automate the update.

I don't think K8S should create an LTS, I think they should make it dirt simple to update.
Anybody been in more than 20 data breeches?

All my stuff's been locked down with a password manager/2fa so I'm not worried, but having been on the internet for ages it's pretty funny at this point.
There's also some weight in the word senior as that can also be referring to someone who's moved up within paybands within the same jobtitle as well as the (now less certain) expectation that someone who continues to work at the same place will get promotions to more senior positions as they show they're capable of them.
FWIW, the people that order food regularly don't care that they are paying an exorbitant fee for it, and there are plenty of them. The folks that don't regularly order may order less, but that's not going to really have a significant impact on the business overall.
Be satisfied with fixing the new passwords going forward. Or gracefully force a new password for everyone, if circumstances permit that (circumstances including decision making authority; if you are the new CTO or CISO, and you're paranoid about reviewing the existing hashes, you should strongly consider the batched graceful forced reset!)

You can set a flag on login to use the password in memory rather than stored.
That depends on how you define a user. In many cases this is too narrowly defined to a specific subset of visual users only and thus may present output that legally qualifies as discriminatory in many jurisdictions. What matters is not what is visually viewed according to a tracking metric but what is cognitively consumed by the intended audience such that it results in dedicated engagement or interaction.

Again, whether or not HTML outgrew its business case is irrelevant to whether it is properly deployed to its consuming audience.
In my opinion if you need a stable production enviroment; MicroK8s stands out as the Kubernetes LTS choice. Canonical managed to create a successfull robust and stable Kubernetes ecosystem.
Despite its name, MicroK8s isn't exactly 'micro'—it's more accurately a highly stable and somewhat opinionated version of Kubernetes.
Elon Musk's X platform fueled far-right riots in Ireland, experts say
I have not too many data points to add, but the 2nd smartest person I know joined Microsoft and left after 2 years to found a startup.

The smartest person I know left the industry after doing a few years of freelance work¹ earning heaps of money and bought a property for their family to settle somewhere remote.

¹ ABAP
If I get food delivered for less than some definition of a living wage, the delivery person is still better off than if I had walked to the restaurant myself. If the delivery person had a better job available, he or she would have taken it.
Or maybe you have seen some top-end products without realizing it.
Tipping in the US has become an obligation or entitlement and is rarely associated with the actual service anymore.
> Interference issues crop up because the pirate broadcaster likely did not have the engineering knowledge or resources to analyze and predict problems in that chain

In this case, in Boston, the FM band is full. No new licensees can be fit in, due to the dearth of open channels and minimum power regs.

So any pirate is likely to be stepping on someone. Maybe not in protected contours, but I'm willing to bet that the complainants are not actually measuring interference anyway.
Trucks will always be on public roads, certainly the EU could mandate an exterior pillow for trucks.

Anything weighing over 6k will hurt, CT may be safer compared to taller vehicles that will hit the head simultaneously.

Also, the future of autonomous driving may change the calculus.
QA on Windows? Is that a thing?
It's a pretty new thing to have online market places with the kind of scale that exists today while claiming no duty to know about the things being sold. If Walmart or your neighborhood mom and pop tried to sell this everyone would be up in arms so it's weird that some people think it's a good idea to structure society in a way where we strip any responsibility away. On the gun shop we do actually require some duty of care from them. You have to run a background check and I think advertising a gun for the use of committing crimes isn't allowed
I expect that many of the players have their private keys not only on accessible machines but also likely under version control. Probably on a cloud platform.
Your congressman doesn’t yet have hexrays to decompile your letter
Nice shifting of goal posts. First it was cost now it’s that defense industry has an interest in commercial power generation. Like maybe. But also countries have no problem creating nukes without commercial reactors so maybe that doesn’t matter so much? There are also reactor designs that result in fuel that can’t be reprocessed into plutonium / weaponry. Not sure the state of that research / if it’s even worth bothering to do so because generating plutonium isn’t that hard in the grand scheme of things and if the defense industry wants to do it they’ll build a reactor anyway, it’ll just maybe cost more. Not to mention that the US has all sorts of nuclear reactors already and they don’t need to rely on commercial ones so much.
You can probably remove the "unsupported" part without changing the overall correctness of the statement.
It definitely shouldn't be unlawful for the service provider to ask prior to completing the service but I really wish more people would see it as distasteful, as seemingly most forms of drip pricing are considered. Obviously the tip is for exceptionally good service; if it's baked into the sale price then it's just another form of drip pricing.
Food delivery didn't used to be a luxury back in the days when you had to actually call up your local pizza or Chinese place.

Is Papa John's really considered a luxury?
In academia it totally makes sense. If you have to do numerical work a d don't have to integrate into some legacy code base it is totally the way to go
You're only insulated so long as don't have to move. Very few people stay in 1 house for thirty years. If you own a house you are now stuck there - hope you don't need to move for a new job, hope you don't want to have another kid, hope your parents don't age into needing substantially more care, etc.
This explains the confusing email I got from Microsoft Family Safety last week saying that my child (who uses a locked down Windows PC for gaming) had purchased the HP Smart application from the Microsoft store for $0.00.
Immediate threat scenario:
Ad targeting based on genetic data that isn't available through other means. For example, discounted plane tickets to Ireland. Aeromexico did a joke ad about this once.

Alternatively, imagine a genetic "klout" type company that harvests such data and is used like a personality credit score. Your employer, university, landlord can check whether you have the right "personality traits" without directly falling afoul of anti discrimination laws.

Notice that the important thing in both of these scenarios isn't whether genetics is truly useful here, it's that people believe it is regardless of actual efficacy. Phrenology and foot measurements were used for similar things decades ago.

Future threat: individualized, immutable presence identification and tracking from eDNA. We can already do this in marine environments and at a species level elsewhere, but it's a very new capability.
...and THAT'S how easy to scam someone.
The "bulletproofing" showed off on the video is just pure gimmickry.
Good. Amazon has been happy to rake in commissions for years from dodgy products sold by third party sellers (uncertified electrical equipment, scam flash drives/SSDs, spycams, etc) and then turn around and blame the marketplace sellers when the inevitable happens.

Unlike eBay, Amazon goes to great lengths to sow confusion about what it sells versus its marketplace participants. The average user thinks that when they buy something off Amazon, they're buying something procured and vetted by Amazon, when it's really a marketplace seller using Amazon's logistics services.

Well, they can't have it both ways, either Amazon is a well vetted marketplace or the wild west. They can't project one image to their customers and claim another in court.
how much of what you said is part of the complexity that comes with Kubernetes in general?

at the end of the day it’s about cramming a ton of functionality into something like YAML is it not?
Thanks, I fatfingered the copy paste on my phone :/
"power grab" by artists to defend their works.. so unhinged, hard to respond.

OK - in the spirit of YNews.. there is a band of ambient, slow style musicians on Seattle radio KEXP live studio.. called "SlowDive" .. it appears to be four adult humans. Those people own equipment and to some extent, do tours.

For thousands of years literally, this "make music and tour" activity is part of human society. This particular "Slow Dive" band does ambient with some emotional lyrics on some songs.. basically it fits exactly what critics here call "copying other influences" .. yet, how do these four adult humans live a life in the modern West ? (might be UK-based) they have to pay bills, the time they tour or make music is "opportunity costs" per Chicago economics.

What is the emotional-psychological-economic driver to loudly and repeatedly deny the efforts of these four humans to make a living with their own "slightly unique" music style? Why is it not only OK, but cheered on here, to steal their copyright creative material to "train" computers to produce very similar material, at scale and at low cost?

I see a bitter side of non-artists, business people or just money lender types, who see an opportunity to financially benefit by buying stock in companies that steal from artists, combined with some kind of "oh grow up - no one values your precious artwork" attitudes..
There is historical precedent.

My favorite were winemaking kits sold during Prohibition that told you what you needed to avoid doing, because doing that would make wine.

https://grapecollective.com/articles/prohibitions-grape-bric...
An offshoot, yes.
That part is confusing to me because it specifically calls out items that are for violating privacy. Any defense from "we are not responsible for how a product is used as long as it's legal" or "our safety team inspects products that could hurt people" (AC appliance without a properly grounded case) would have sounded much more reasonable to me.

The reality of it is probably that reviewers can only spend ~1 minute per item before flagging it or not, the reviewer was a bit on "autopilot" and didn't flag it because it doesn't look like a camera at all.
Food delivery existed before platforms, but only where it made sense. You could order something like a pizza, where the marginal cost and effort required to make another meal was low, and the sales volume was high enough to justify using paid employees for delivery. Service area was also chosen by the restaurant itself to ensure that they would not spend too much time on a single delivery.

In the end, it's pretty simple. How many deliveries does a single person make in an hour, including idle time? Is someone paying enough for that? And does the kitchen have enough spare capacity for that?
Those are the same thing in reality.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230527030738/https://www.amazo...
This is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's website (the Australian national broadcaster a la the BBC). As a whole coverage is pretty good, but the website has gotten more clickbaity in recent years.
Your comment isn't clear enough to make sense... it sounds like you are agreeing with me, but I'm guessing since you are replying you disagree.
There’s a major epidemic of a specific kind of cancer, specifically in the US, because of this - as in, other countries don’t eat celery? Or don’t eat food later at night before sleeping?
Ask HN: How do you keep track of people who inspire you?
From the perspective of the content producer, there are probably dozens of "apps" that let folks share which platforms they're on so people who are interested in what they write, share, present, etc. can find them.

From the follower perspective, it's a game of finding a person via blog RSS, social platforms, etc. and deciding how to follow them and keep up to date with what they produce.

What's your method for keeping track of people that inspire you?
Sam Altman May Have Found a Loophole to Cash in at OpenAI
Why would we do that? Nuclear waste can be reprocessed into more fuel and medical applications and other use cases instead of just throwing it away.
There's a bunch of S3-compatible bucket stores. I suppose one could ask their user for their S3 bucket key. It should be possible for an S3-like service to provide one-bucket-only keys w/ rate limits. The users knows where their data is and exactly when its being read/written. And when done using the app, the user can even revoke access.

Of course, having users manage a storage bucket and its key is a bit tedious. Browsers could generate a per-app bucket and provide the bucket key to the app, all with user permission (like when a site asks for location permissions).

These buckets can be shared between apps too. As long as apps can read the same data formats, data portability is stellar.

It would be great to have an ecosystem of apps that all use compatible buckets/formats.

But this is unlikely to happen bc this sort of transparency and data portability isn't currently a big demand by users / governments. Privacy activists have gotten a great number of wins over the past decade. We need to make progress in many more computing issues.
> When people say "plain text", they really mean "American English"

No, when people say "plain text", they mean not HTML.