skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure they did try to do this legally, but then they lost the ability to actually send and receive USD from the US. If you tried to do the same thing you'd run into the same problem. If the effective point of your tether is to allow exchanges to avoid enforcing anti-money-laundering controls and skirting legislation requiring them to be properly registered in the states they do business, then good luck finding any US bank that will work with you once they figure this out (either to hold your account if you are US based or to transfer money to and from your international bank if you're international).

So what likely started out as a legitimate operation probably found it impossible to continue that way once it could no longer easily exchange tether for USD. So the options were probably to shut down or keep operating "untethered" and basically have a free money printer.
Thanks guys, I was a bit embarrassed to ask that question but I suspected the answer wasn't quite intuitive.
Asana reminds me of that saying that there are only software that people love to hate and those that nobody has heard of, Asana has been reliably bad when I used it, this in a humourous way confirms it.
> they then cannot have health insurance and so they cannot get help because they cannot afford it

What? That's not true. People without income can get health insurance paid for by the state.

It's called Medicaid, look it up.

> which is perfect if you are an insurance company

Again, what? That doesn't help insurance companies. They don't care, they'll just raise their rates. It helps the average person I suppose, although they end up paying for it in taxes, so it doesn't make a net difference.

> As somebody who does not live in the US

What you really are is someone who gets all their info about the US from the news. Please remember: If it's in the news it's not typical. Your impression about a county should be the opposite of whatever you read in the news.
As parent pointed out, they're already at 40k+ per person at the moment. Why would lowering that rob them?
@GuiA I know your neighborhood well - until recently I had space below SF autoworks on 21st & Valencia. What you didn't mention about the Zuckerberg mansion is the constant security detail around it - private security in black full size Suburbans. Regarding 22nd & Mission it is amazing how quickly it all got torn down so an expensive apartment building could be erected. Corner lots and gas stations seem to have a lot of accidental damage in SF that results in them being quickly demolished.

In my experience the vast majority of SF homeless have substance abuse issues overlaid over mental health problems. The streets are dirty and dangerous, but the dumpster diving behind restaurants and food stores are rich pickings compared to other west coast cities, according to street people I befriended.
My point is, if you don't care how you get there (rejecting principles) and only look at results as the measure of success, you can justify anything.
That’s why Germany is strong in manufacturing AND has superb working conditions... and the UK has a service economy and zero-hours contracts

Bravo, well said. Solid working conditions, meaningful employee input to company decision making processes, and excellent remuneration for all doesn't really impact the bottom line but significantly improves quality and productivity in most cases.
I'm starting to notice that this AI malarkey is becoming a bit of a thing. Do people recommend I take a course in it?
Crazy to think I could go buy a 16yr old a pack of smokes and likely get in much more trouble than anyone involved in this pill pushing operation.
I'm not sure you can be "disruptive" if you aren't competently managed...
Yep. Back when they were much more simple (like gingerbread?) I felt they hit the usability peak. My Pixel 2XL has a lot more features. It's certainly faster and better in almost every way, but it has so many trivial user experience bugs that it blows my mind that QA isn't fired.
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It turns out...
I don't think that's what a typical software engineer makes. A Level 5 SWE at Google makes that. But that is far from representative of the vast majority of SWEs.

More likely, you can afford a $1m mortgage on a double income of $150k which, IMO, is a lot more common.

The reality is that a lot of people (single and married with kids) rent with the hopes they will be able to afford a mortgage.
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I have a different algorithm: Instead of asking "what editor has the best plugin for X", I just use emacs. If emacs isn't great at X when I start using it for X, it'll be there soon enough.
Battery life is, realistically, part of performance- it’s just “per watt”. Apple is also a leader in that area as well.
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That's the mobile provider fault, not Android's... And no custom ROMs are necessary for root usually.

Also, what makes you prefer macOS UX than Windows or Ubuntu? They surely have their downsides, but I don't think they're THAT bad to the point of not even touching one.
I'm really enjoying his ML class on Coursera. Considering taking the deep learning series next. (And I work more than full time at a tech giant. It's working into my schedule okay so far.)
Other smartphones either do the same thing (slow down) or just plain crash (most of them do this). It’s a common complaint.
Like H2O and carbon and stuff?
Change your news sources. Fast.
The first part about institutional investors deciding which company gets to be part of a market index and which not (thus defeating the purpose of “index following”) is also very interesting. But for now everyone is happy that the “tide is lifting all boats”, that the “fundamentals are healthy” and all that, even though to me it looks sketchy as hell and reminds me of how the rating agencies were doctoring their ratings pre-2008, for “the good of their clients”.
SF is already spending $305 million a year... That's $46K per person!

That counts only SF expenditures, not state or Federal.
900MM according to Business Insider. You would think this should be enough to get a 1B+ especially when they have been around since 2008. My guess is that they have a decent ARR but they are struggling to find more addressable market.
Then you have not looked into it. Android forums have been filled with complaints over “random crashes” when doing something CPU heavy for years.
Regex101 is actually awesome. It's what I reach for whenever I've got to do stuff in regex.
So allow those for the TLDs where it makes sense. Keeping them out of .com seems like a reasonable trade off.
We’re fairly happy with Asana - but it took us a couple of weeks to figure out how we wanted to use it and come up with our own conventions.

I think it works well for mixed teams- jira was too technical for half of our team, and I was opposed to email. It doesn’t absolve you of doing project management though - I wish its reporting tools were more powerful...
Also, as far as what a typical household making near that much might look like: my personal situation is that I'm a senior software engineer, whose total comp is nothing really exceptional. I'm married to a nurse. Our household income is around 500k. You can easily imagine ways to tweak our careers to put us into the 1% range.

Even as is, we have an attainable 5 year plan to buy a home at the lower end of the listed range without being stupid.
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I can't really see an argument to be had that it's not Google's property if it was worked while on the clock.

Considering how protective most companies are of IP, I'm shocked Google even has a mechanism by which a person can take back things they've worked on in office at Google.
If you could still use your gingerbread phone, you might be amazed how far it's come. I found an old Galaxy phone with 2.3 on it, and it was incredible how differently I remembered it. It was slow and clunky, and ugly by today's standard.
Integration with existing/external systems is likely a huge part of the cost. If the DMV integrates with the police systems (so police can run license/registration), they need to be integrated. If they have license plate scanners that do the same, they need to be integrated (or replaced). Point of sale terminals for things like license renewals might need integration.

No system exists in isolation.
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> I'm not sure how one defines "already homeless" before arrival.

Shipping homeless and/or mentally ill to other locations is a thing that's been done by a number of jurisdictions, more than once over an extended period of time with San Francisco as the destination.
With a little change to the algorithm, you can mark areas as "must not change" and "must change", basically manually marking areas as "high energy" and "low energy".
Maybe that's the best we can accomplish -- grant them some of what they want so they are otherwise prevented from harming society and the ripple effects of a black market supply chain are eliminated.
Disengeous comment.

“Homlessness” is a much broader concept than the yelling szizophric on the street with that weird “missing hair syndrome” on his head that a lot of them have.

It covers things like eviction, family unit disruption, etc.

Yeah sure 70% of homeless fall into “previously housed here and fell on hard times.”

While sad and should be addressed it is not the homelessness that is greatly affecting quality of life. It is the small fraction of chronically sick, chronically insane and chronically addicted that are literally dying on the streets in front of people.
Well, you can spend 5 months writing your software in C++, and a month fixing your bugs and doing a bit of optimization. Or you can spend 3 months writing C# or other modern language and have another 3 months to optimize, all the while enjoying substantially faster compile times and super easy refactoring.
> First you get evicted because you earn too little to pay the rent.

> Then you lose your job because you can't stay presentable.

Then you lose your health because you aren't insured.

Then you lose your sanity because you take drugs to cope.
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Either the company needed to have a mission to attract and impact investment firm or the impact investment firm is having trouble finding opportunities and has to convert companies into faux impact startups.
You left off the key part of the sentence: "for families." For single adults, substance abuse was the most oft-cited cause (68% of cities). See page 19 of:
http://www.ncdsv.org/images/USCM_Hunger-homelessness-Survey-...
> The government simply gives the homeless person a house, no questions asked, no strings attached. You want a house, you get one.

Your references don't support this.

[0]

> The idea of Housing First is that housing comes first, services later. Clients do have to pay some rent — either 30 percent of income or up to $50 a month, whichever is greater.

They also review every case and only provide housing to those that aren't dealing drugs, and aren't violent.

[1]

> Tenants pay rent and are entitled to receive housing benefits. Depending on their income, they may contribute to the cost of the services. The rest is covered by the municipalities. They provide the support themselves or buy support from other service providers, mainly from the NGOs.

[2] is in reference to Chicago. I don't think that city is a success story.
To keep the price pegged at around 1USD
There's nothing sketchy about it if you buy a phone that is unlocked or unlockable. If you get a Samsung from Verizon, then yeah you're gonna have a hard time.
Sometimes these announcements include or are driven by secondary sales to provide liquidity to founders and employees.
Disclaimer: I don't program in C++ day to day, so maybe my experience is atypical.

Moves and rvalue references (and whatever a PR-value is) and even RVO scare me. They make me want to pass pointers around, because at least I know for sure what'll happen then. (And, funnily enough, C++ seems worse than dynamic languages for this -- more magic around function calls and returns than C or Python or JavaScript.)
It's called Medicaid,

In CA, it's called MediCal... but SF has its own program called Healthy SF as well.
It probably does count much of the state and federal spending on SF homelessness, which is funneled through the city budget (as revenue that pays for an expense) and not direct state/federal spending that bypasses the City and County.
Let's say I'm hypothetically inclined to sell BTC futures. Where would I go to do that?
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Political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.

-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, introduction to Book IV.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/...
Do you have data suggesting that SF is in fact attracting homeless more than other cities?
When we support all of the people that can be verified living and working in SF prior to their homelessness then we can use your excuse for shirking our responsibilities.
Which isn't that much of a problem. When that approach is truly called for, you can fake it well enough in C with function pointers and macros. I know that isn't easy. If it makes you think first, sometimes "not easy" is a net positive. With "easy" OOP, the typical result was a wad of tightly-coupled classes that were difficult to enhance or reuse.

C++ jammed so many different concepts into the built-ins, catering to all yet pleasing none. Last I checked, exceptions were still kind of a mess. Places I know that still use it have their own peculiar commandments as to what is halal and what is haraam. I do not blame them.
Trollish?

Not my comment, but I have to ask:

What does "it was probably a homeless person and the homeless have it bad enough" imply to you, if not allowing them someone else's belongings/money out of a sense of need?
In rural areas almost nobody lives in the town limits, so the actual population is considerably higher than the quoted figure. It is still a staggering amount of narcotics.

I used to think that the old argument that drug companies killed marijuana legalization efforts behind the scenes was tinfoil hat stuff, but now I'm not so sure. This is basically a giant funnel of government money (many people in these tiny communities have been on government assistance ever since the mines shut down) directly into the revenue streams of these drug companies. Sure it also tears the communities apart and destroys countless lives, but it's great for the bottom line.
just a contrary opinion. I read the c++ book in the very early 90s. someone told me it was the future of programming.

every single c++ shop I've worked at since has said, 'well, yes the language is a mess, but if you stick to a well controlled subset, its really pretty good'

and all of those shops, without exception, have dragged in every last weird and contradictory feature of what is a really enormous language. so I guess the 'sane subset' argument is ok in theory, but really not in practice.

i've actually seen some really* clever mixin/metaprogramming with templates. it was a total disaster, and in a different environment it could be a really great approach. i could never understand it in complete detail, but if C is a 38 that you can use to blow your foot off, C++ is a 20ga shotgun with a pound of c4 strapped to your head.
I am currently working on a largish COBOL codebase which the company has tried 4 times to port to Java, each time by porting all at once. It cannot be done all at once.
Because large numbers of people always buy cheap.

Going back to amazon, just take a look at the 'most wished for' in any category; then look at 'best sellers' for the same category and you'll see, in a lot of cases, cheap wins even when the average review is like 2.5 or, sometimes less.
I'd bet most of the money is going to their employees. Asana offers great perks. Higher than average salaries, free meals, "unlimited" vacation, paid maternity/paternity leave. New employees also get $10,000 to furnish their desk.

They probably burn $250k/yr per developer, higher than most other tech companies.
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Or go and buy a dime bag of weed.
Why are we (collectively) only responsible to the homeless in SF? I'm proposing that we all take responsibility for homelessness in America as a whole.
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> incorrectly packing boxes, not trucks.

From Amazon's point of view, they're doing both correctly.

Their algorithm apparently optimises for packing completely filled tucks leaving the warehouse first, then optimises for minimal packaging second.

If they need a few more boxes of a particular size, to completely fill an outgoing truck, they will split some orders appropriately so that those boxes appear on the conveyor at the right moment.

This means that sometimes you receive an SD card in an A4 size box, because that was the only item that was available when they needed an A4 box to fill a truck - and the algorithm decided that the trade-off was worth it.
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> I promise you that treatment is rarely the "answer". Most addicts don't want to go to treatment.

Most addicts don't want to go to treatment because treatment doesn't work - mostly it gets people to focus on their failures and feel bad about themselves. Someone responded to my previous quip about AA's miserable success rate with...

I'd say 12-step is closer to "takes credit for the
~10-15% of people who'd beat their addictions anyways".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15024780 (168 days ago - above quote is from the response to this comment)

My girlfriend was doing fine with her addictions. The main factor was that I did not approve, and she liked me more than the drugs. She's spent the last two years getting 'treated' by the mental health professionals, who have reversed cause (self-medicating) and effect ('mental illness').

Some months ago her treatment provider did a genetic test, and decided she'd benefit from Vitamin B-9 - grains fortified with folic acid doesn't work for poor methylators. It's too bad the treatment providers don't start with healthy diets and supplements for all their patients.
Same here. We quickly grew to hate Asana, and eventually switched to Trello, then ClubHouse, but I'm personally pretty fed up with these tools. In the end, they become bottomless buckets of stagnating information. We don't need charts or burn rates or estimates.

For projects (like a big new feature with a clear set of tasks), a Google Docs document or spreadsheet works just as well, and usually it's best to have this stuff in the project manager's hands, and not let people mess with it individually.

That said, there's parts of the process that don't have an obvious place. A typical example is a customer issue that arises and needs input and coordination between multiple people, including devs and salespeople and the customer themselves, perhaps including some files that need to be shared. Email is so terrible at this, since adding new people late to the conversation don't let them easily see the chronology, and no email client has yet to make conversations (which sloppy top quoting and huge corporate signatures) readable. A group direct message on Slack, perhaps? I'm thinking Slack is a little too real-time and chaotic. Maybe a private Discourse install?

Managing one's personal queue of tasks (which don't necessarily map to the project's tasks, they could be things like "refactor X") is where I personally seek a better tool. A Markdown file really isn't sufficient. Apple's Reminders app is terrible. Evernote is not good at it. I've yet to find something good.
Just so you know, Nick Carlini was also on that prior work.
I would assume it's a perceived sense of lack of fairness in the sentencing; to be clear, I share your position on hate crimes. They exist for the same reason that we have both Murder and Manslaughter charges, because our system of law considers intent as part of the sentencing.

But it is not hard to see how some would view such laws as unfair. Intent can be difficult to prove and it requires interpretation; if you believe in clear cut and easily understandable laws, then naturally Hate Crimes and other such laws probably seem like a bad idea, and I get why that is frustrating and even intimidating with how fast gossip can travel. The system itself is built with release valves, but it's likely not much comfort for the wrongly accused.

I think that's a separate problem, however, which is just exacerbated by perceptions of laws like Hate Crimes as opposed to being caused by the laws themselves.
Hmm, I wonder if they ever considered cutting CA tax rates to decrease the burden?

CA does have the 4 highest tax brackets in the country.

Does seem like they are “stealling” from the federal government with a tax regime so out of whack with the other states.
Customer acquisition. Once you know the LTV of an enterprise customer and you know the cost to acquire them, as well as the channel, you go to the bank, take out as much money as you can, and get as many of them as possible.
It's a socialist program.

It's effective.

It's cheaper.

It's giving housing first.

Finally, Numbers and Chicago don't care what you think.
As far as I'm aware, POTENTIAL security issues. No one's busted it and shown proof.

I still don't trust their encryption when compared to Matrix.
That's self-reported poll data not verified against any objective source.

I think it's natural for a subject of such a poll to respond how s/he thinks will produce a result favorable to her/him in the long run. People like a sense of belonging.
You edited your post quite drastically. I'm responding to the original:

> Why do you insist it be the city's services and not the federal govenment's services? Where in San Francisco do suggest we house the nation's 643,000 homeless if the problem isn't solved at a national level?

Is it really only 643000? San Francisco's a city of ~800000 and could probably handle a 75% increase with a bit of high density construction. Sounds like such an easy problem to solve financially speaking. Why hasn't it been done already?