skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the city's 2017 San Francisco Homeless Count &
Survey, most either were already homeless when then arrived in the city (31%) or became homeless after being here less than 10 years (another 31%, see page 22).

http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017SanFranc...
ELC: SpaceX lessons learned (2013)
Even if it isn't a prerequisite without I/O there would be two challenges.

1. How do we prove it is conscious.
2. How do we gain value from it if we cannot interact from it.
The range of compensation is wide, ie. there is a lot of income inequality among Bay Area software developers. I’d estimate Google, Apple, Facebook alone have a five-digit number of employees or former employees who were there early enough to afford a multi-million dollar home, or who get paid enough now to afford such a house.

There are also some other factors which tend to push up Bay Area home prices. Due to building restrictions, the market for homes is undersupplied. Due to prop 13 and the nice weather, people are less likely to leave even if they don’t need to be here for work anymore. So the market for homes is not very liquid and prices are sort of a one-way ratchet (barring economic meltdown). Really, only the top 10-20% or so of earners are in competition to buy a single family home at all in the area, and that number is shrinking.

Consider a random engineer at Google who bought their home seven years ago for $1M and it’s now worth $2M, while they paid off the mortgage with their RSUs. This person is no bigwig, but they might get approved for a mortgage on a $5M house and afford the down payment no problem.
>“Asana’s mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly.“

I worked in many companies previously where Asana was used. I can tell you with sheer confidence, at no point did we feel the "help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly." part. Not once, not ever.

Every time we used it, the project managers would love it for the first two weeks and they would simply revert back to email/slack for reminding teams of deadlines or deliverables.

But you know what REALLY helped out the most? Unsexy Excel sheets combined with regular checkin meetings. We would have ONE meeting every Monday morning where we would review our excel sheet for everyone's progress, updates and deliverables.

Heck, I think even Trello works much better than the god awful interface that Asana has. But, Asana has never worked for any of the teams I've worked with in the past, irrespective of the company size. Maybe that's just me.
It's early days. Think Netscape.
Regarding D, it looks like that, but any big code base enjoys meta-programming (mixins), templates.

They have a ton of warts regarding annotations, usually worked around by using templates, because on that case they are inferred.

The semantics of shared are still being worked on.

The way const/immuatable works, makes some devs just give up and remove them from their code.

I can equally tell some Objective-C issues.

Yes, in general they are better than C++, but not without their own warts.
Solving the problem would be even more effective and much cheaper if the city just shot every homeless person it sees.

"But that's murder!"

Yes. Now do you want to solve the problem, or keep sticking your head in the sand and hope it goes away by just throwing money at the problem...
Giving anyone who shows up and claims they are homeless $30K is the cheapest and most effective way to solve the problem? It sounds like the most effective way to rob SF of its treasury.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16263143

93+ points
Seems like discussions about unions never get more nuanced than: "unions are good" or "unions are bad". I wish such topics could be more about learning from the pros and cons of different systems and figuring out new solutions.
You're completely right, but I think what they were trying to say is, of all the homeless people in the USA, very few of them were born in SF. Yet due to freedom of movement, they could all come here for the price of a Greyhound bus ticket.
Obviously Trello lacked the mission to help humanity thrive, so their burn rate was much lower ;)
For many reasonsons. Some include the fact that homelessness isn't an issue that arises at a city level it's something that arises at a national level and was in part caused by federal decisions such as the privatization and defunding of mental health institutions and the failure of the federal government to appropriately care for veterans.
Wondering if you still have that with you? Would be super useful for folks here.
Australia?

We also have a local train manufacturing industry. But end up buying from China...
I agree that I am expanding upon the metaphor that the brain is a computer and an individual is a program. It's no more a delusion then any other metaphor which only inaccurately describes the world. All metaphors can cause poor understanding when taken to far, although I agree this specific one is often used to jump to poor conclusions.

I'm not convinced that it is impossible to transplant consciousness from meatspace to VR. Am I missing some prerequisite reading to form this conclusion?
concretely.
The situation is different since the body is still intact. You and those people are not talking about copying the whole body though but about copying just the brain -- or rather some information that was extracted from the lump of cells that constitute the organ "brain".
Not unlike the gothamist.
yeah but before that he was a super fucking famous ML researcher.
Honestly I think 'those' people dont read hacker news or need a guide on how to do this. It was an interesting post but not for anyone that has built or bought property (anywhere) before.
Language at the End of the World
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January Link Roundup for Startups: Do's and Don'ts
I've been using/buying from Amazon for the last 10 years or so, and this year for the 1st time I think I finally got a "fake" product, a replacement water filtration filter for my refrigerator... sadly this kind of product ( where you're actually consuming the end result ) is IMHO the worst kind of fakery, I mean, what did it actually put in the water I was drinking ( it smelled/tasted like burnt rubber... ewww )?!?! As the original poster says, Amazon was more than happy to let me return it postage-free and gave me a refund ( in amazon gift credits of course...lol ) but what about if it actually hurt us? what if it had lead or something in it?
It really goes beyond providing a place to live. As somebody who does not live in the US it blows my mind that if somebody has mental illness bad enough that they cannot keep a job, they then cannot have health insurance and so they cannot get help because they cannot afford it. It really seems like Americans have optimized their healthcare system so that those that don't need help are the ones most eligible for it (which is perfect if you are an insurance company).
To be fair, companies are well capable of adding extremely crippling bureaucracy to development processes without union help.
Google has always been tone-deaf when it comes to how they treat their users. Apples treats their users as something special. Apple delights - google, well it's fast, but it sometimes creeps you out.

throwing more bodies at the problem isn't going to fix it - this is a top-down issue.
This is a pretty HN-bubble view of the software industry. I'm not surprised at all at a low (compared to SV wages) salary. The Bay Area (and similar metro areas) is an extreme anomaly in terms of developer compensation.
How is the point that advertisers can give locals a misleading picture of their own culture illustrated, or supported in any way, by a foreigner getting a misleading picture of local culture?
This fairly common piece of software does it.

https://www.regexbuddy.com

4th result on google for "regex conversion" for me.
Seems like there are quite a few others.
Better yet, scale the image proportionally down to the largest of the two target sides, then run the algorithm once in the direction that needs to shrink.
The issue with the tires aside - because that is appalling in itself - I have to wonder what safety standards RV's have to be built to? Because to me, they appear to be little more than a truck-style ladder chassis mated to a fibreglass caravan shell (in essence). Any level of accident in one seems like it would result in serious injury.

In the US, do passengers in them have to wear seat belts? And do the vehicles undergo crash testing to the same standards as conventional truck cabs?
Also, if you really want to write code that's agnostic to whether you're working directly on the DB object or a transaction, you can just declare that interface yourself; it's not like in java where the implementing class has to opt in.

The absence of the interface being predeclared for you does mean more boilerplate, but I agree that transactional vs. not doesn't strike me as a good thing to be hiding; this particular case seems like maybe a very reasonable omission. I try to avoid abstractions that leak.
So, comparatively, a few bad screaming apples spoil the whole bunch? (should clarify, I'm not disagreeing, just trying to relate)
How do you arrive at this $30k/mo figure?
How to apply to become a company supported by his fund?
It seems clear that there's a difference between a reasonable set of policy prescriptions and wholesale slaughter of human beings.
Actually, your link verifies my claim that most were not born in San Francisco: 29% already homeless when arriving here, plus 51% of the remaining 71% have lived here less than 10 years, means a minimum of 65% are transplanted from other areas.

That's not saying we shouldn't help them, but just that this is a national problem, not one that San Francisco can solve unilaterally.
The Bay Area has around 3 million households. The top 1% of households in this area make around 720k or so. So that by itself gets you to 30k households.

Account for the fact that 2 million is much more attainable than 3, and based on income alone you get pretty close to 100k households.

Many people also store their assets in real estate. Add those in (people selling their old house to buy a new one), and you are definitely above 100k households able to afford a 2 million dollar place.
easiest method (this article glosses over it): use BFG 2000: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
https://www.aifund.ai/
How to generate Swift model class from JSON automatically?
It might be slightly high, but it sounds about right extrapolating from my situation.
I really think to achieve actual AI we need a new material other than silicon but idk
Optimizing them is a bit more work, but they can outperform hand-rolled C code:

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2014/05/31/attoparsec/
It seems stupid to blame socialism for this, when really SF's problem is that they throw money at problems but don't care enough about efficacy. The most effective policy for ending homelessness is socialist: The government simply gives the homeless person a house, no questions asked, no strings attached. You want a house, you get one.

The homeless person now has a house, and so they're not homeless. (duh!) It's shockingly simple, and ruthlessly effective at not only getting people off the street but solving health, addiction, and employment problems. Oh, and did I mention that it's way cheaper than the traditional patchwork model of mitigating homelessness?

Again, and again, simply giving away houses is a cheaper and more effective way at ending this problem. Cases in point:

Utah cut homelessness by over 90%. [0]

Finland has had similar results. [1]

Just today, NPR reported that Chicago hospitals cut ER costs and improved the health of frequent homeless patients by simply giving them an apartment.[2]

Housing First works. It's a waste of time and money to do anything else. Oh and it's gasp socialist!

[0] https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2017/mar/22/finl...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/581778796/er-use-goes-down-as...
I tried Asana twice, first to coordinate a couple of "weekend projects" with some other devs, then at work with a larger team. In both cases I have found it very underwhelming compared to other products I used (Atlassian Jira, MS Planner). My last experience was that every time I logged in Asana, I would be redirected to an empty project/team, and there was no way to change that default behaviour (if I remember well it was because my email was on a different domain than the rest of the team, and Asana creates teams based on the email address' domain). I disliked it so much that I ended up asking my manager to change product, to which he agreed.
Who is automation for? What end does the technology serve? If the economy doesn’t serve humanity then to hell with it. Offer people decent lives, or at least don’t act surprised when the luddites come to smash your precious “labor-saving”.
Using self hosted gitlab NPM modules in Docker container
A $1M loan (at 4%), is just under $60k/year for the mortgage, you also need to pay property tax and insurance, but it wouldn't take you too far off the rules of thumb for a $180k. Of course, $1M doesn't get you much of a house in the south bay. Either a pretty small house with a fairly small lot in an iffy neighborhood with poor schools, or a condo/townhouse with more square feet and nearly zero outdoors space. If you want to live in mountain view, $1M is probably going to get you a small condo/townhouse.

It's a bit tight at the beginning, but since salaries seem to be increasing at a crazy pace, and your housing costs would be locked in, it gets easier in a few years. Or everything goes to hell, and at least California is a no-recourse state, so at worst, you can walk away with ruined credit and no further obligation to pay.
Rancher is awesome. As was CoreOS, and I am really pissed RH bought them out. RH manage to break everything they touch.
Thank you for pointing this out. It's far to common to hear that the increase in homelessness is the result of out-of-town transients invading from afar and then settling here.

Here's the relevant study http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...
I have lived in San Francisco for only four years. Am I not deserving of the city's full services in hard times?

I agree that the federal government needs to do a lot more, but cities can solve their own problems too. These people are our neighbors. We can do better for them.
If we're gonna do anecdotes here I've seen management refuse to give a 5k raise to someone when they knew replacing them was going to be 40k minimum because "no one gets more than 2%", and I've seen that multiple times.

I've also been threatened before with concerns about my "culture fit" in a meeting my boss brought me into 5 minutes after I told him I disagreed with his approach but would do it if he said so.

I've had good managers but it only takes one asshole getting Peter principled above them to neuter most of their ability to run a team well
Not in New Zealand, France or a host of other countries without software patents.

Where is the creator located?
An American citizen that's liven in SF for years is not an immigrant by any reasonable definition.

This is an important distinction because people that emphasize homeless as "not being from here" often use it to justify inhumane policies.
A decent way of life and some semblance of culture.
Fron my experience, the process is more important than the tool.
I apologize for disappearing after my "trolling", but it is an important inquiry, so I hope you're not too offended.

What user information was turned over in the buyout?

That seems like a pretty important piece to leave out, and I'm surprised nobody else asked.
You have to go up a couple levels of government for it to not be murder. California is the controlling authority on the definition of murder, assuming that the situation doesn't involve federal property or federal employees. California can just make an exemption for homeless people, and that is that.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned self-sovereign identity and digital identity.

Here are some excellent links about the subjects:

http://www.moxytongue.com/2016/02/self-sovereign-identity.ht...
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-sov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_identity
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/07/02/beyond-p...
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/
https://www.forgerock.com/
I lost count of how many mistakes I made on the job, but fair enough.
It did. The have a majority of the market. They don't make money selling phones. They make money selling ads. As long as all the phones are using google search and ads they do well.
It's true that mental illness and substance abuse are major drivers of homelessness, but lack of affordable housing can be the final straw for someone on the brink of homelessness

I've known long term renters who've lived in the same apartment for years and been forced out by landlords trying to capitalize on rising rents. If you are getting by on low income, or have a moderate or severe but treated mental illness (even like ptsd for vets), and lose your home, that can be the start of a slippery slope that can lead to homelessness. Affordable housing would provide a safety net to catch people falling down this slope
Why the "city's full services" and not America's full services? Shouldn't homeless people all over the nation be housed, not just the ones who come to San Francisco?
Do not forget spacious walk-in closets, which are very underrated. Having a boutique-like experience for picking out clothes and a full size mirror to check them out in is a great way to start a day or prepare for a fancy event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA1RgpYS2IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av5kuarKmNA
Do as the docs says not as the doctor does.
I'm not sure how one defines "already homeless" before arrival. Maybe something like "had been homeless before". But maybe they were hoping to do better in SF. But even so, from a sister post,[0] I get that 71% became homeless after moving to SF. So yes, it's arguable that ~30% of SF homeless are immigrants. I guess that they like the weather too.

Still, deportation doesn't seem like a viable option.

So 31% had were homele

0) http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes...
High productivity, great worker protections, and high unemployment. Seems to be a mixed bag but the workers who have jobs wouldn't trade it.
Speaking as someone with multiple addicts in his immediate family (some with 40+ year addiction histories), I promise you that treatment is rarely the "answer". Most addicts don't want to go to treatment. They want to maximize their draw from society and minimize their effort to get that draw so that they can continue to use drugs as much as possible.
This guy has enormous energy . How can I copy him (1%)?
The one question which any of these Crypto ICOs dont answer is why do I want to get paid/pay in their coin over actual cash! There is only drawbacks with it!
I am surprised it took so long for this to happen. Ideally speaking you would want the famous ML guy to help you in vetting any startup claiming to solve the problem using AI/ML.
And a well designed small house is better still in my view - having everything you describe in a small place without it feeling cramped. My suggested measure is being able to vacuum the whole house from a single power point.
Couldn't agree more.

On the mobile app I am working on, the hope is to move from dozen of Activities to a single one all MVI based.

That's nice (even though it will be a nightmare to debug and optimize) but it will takes tons of engineering work for absolutely not product return.

My current plan is to get the hell out of there before that.
The reason for annual flu vaccinations isn’t because we can’t make vaccines, it’s because the flu virus mutates quickly and the mutations are sufficient to make all existing “knowledge” in the immune system not see it.

The average annual flu vaccine actually includes markers for two to three different strains that are /estimated/ to be the ones that are likely to take off each year. The reason for this years flu being so bad is that they got it wrong.

As far as general immunity, that’s unlikely: immunity basically isn’t inherited - “inherited” immunity is generally derived from the mother’s immune system through milk and some of the microbiome picked up by the baby during birth.

Generally gene editing is unlikely to allow magic vaccines to be built in to your dna.
These days the primary problem in creating vaccines is first finding a set of markers that are sufficiently stable to make it unlikely that they can be trivially mutated away, that also doesn’t match any markers people have on their own cells (otherwise you’d just create an injected autoimmune disorder), and also can be packaged so that trains the immune system correctly.
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Substance abuse was also mentioned by 12% of cities as one of the top three causes of homelessness

That would mean that for 88% of cities, substance abuse was not in the top 3 causes mentioned.
The claim is that homeless (and borderline homeless) people are already attracted to San Francisco, and that making it more attractive isn't going to solve the problem while there are near-unlimited reserves of more homeless people in the rest of the country.
Sure, but the point is that homelessness is horrible treatment for drug and/or alcohol dependence.
Commonly accepted figure for total cost of a house is 1% a month.
> Who is automation for?

All of us.

I, for one, am glad that I'm not sending this message via pigeon by the light of a candle, because I wouldn't be sending it - I'd probably be spending my days plowing some field somewhere were it not for "job killing" technological innovation.

50% of the United States used to be farmers, now it's 2%. We sure as hell don't have 48% unemployment, and I'd guess that nearly every American has it better now than they would have in the same social strata then.

Tesla saw the promise of electricity and automation as a magical force that would free men from toiling away doing things they actually needn't do. And I think he was largely right! Think of where we would be if Tesla, Edison and Westinghouse refused to work on electricity, lightbulbs, and electric motors because it would put the people that stoke fires for a living out of a job.

What happened when tractors came and took all of the farming jobs away? Food became much less expensive, and we all ended up doing different things - the vast majority of which are much better than farming. And the luddites would have smashed the tractors?! What a counterproductive way to try and help people.

It's not always beautiful in the short-run, but the economy cures itself relatively quickly, and the people that fill the gaps are handsomely rewarded. To fight innovation for the sake of jobs, so far as I can tell, is almost always short-sighted.
Google has a profit margin of 20% while Walmart has a profit margin of 2.3%, according to Yahoo! Finance. Labor supply for Walmart probably does exceed demand, but that is only because Walmart uses unskilled labor. Walmart can't pay much more than it does without raising prices, but it also can't raise prices much and maintain its market segment as lowest cost provider.