skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this problem appeared acutely starting in 2008. When I moved to SF, rents were not exorbitant; they were high, but ordinary people could pay them. Then they climbed dramatically in a short period. This is easy to ascertain; just look at any graph of rents. This graph has no relation to the graphs for new construction or population growth, both of which grow at a steady pace. This is an acute crisis caused by a spike in demand due to the sudden inflow of new wealth, not by a supply constraint. When one person can buy up every house in the Mission, the supply side of the equation is not as relevant as the demand size. This is blindingly obvious, and only some serious denial seems to be preventing people from acknowledging this.

As for concern over whether developers are making a profit; apparently you have never read any history of redevelopment. Here is a good place for you to start, learn something about your own city: https://hoodline.com/2016/01/how-urban-renewal-destroyed-the...

What will happen, over and over, is poor people will be moved out, rich people will move in, and developers will make a profit. Your econ 101 fantasy will not take place.
> It is quite remarkable the breadth of the ideas that were explored.

For example?
I don't work in the US. I guarantee you those people exist outside of the US.

You think the engineering team behind Alibaba's singles day sale are just a bunch of sweat workers? You think people in Bulgaria can't understand context? Engineers in Canada can't?
Given that it was mentioned off-hand and you’re unable (or unwilling) to give more information, why would I consider this anything other than FUD?

Please substantiate your claim or don’t make it.
The tone is very different to the British/US science fiction I have read. I think it works well, almost like the whole thing is an official report of what happened, lending it a 'stranger than fiction' quality. Mind you I listened to the audio version which tends to introduce a bit more colour to the characters by virtue of the voice acting.
I love this post, and as someone who has worked remotely for a decade or so, and currently works for an all-remote company, I agree strongly with his points. I'd add that remote work offers us an opportunity to spread the economic benefit of working in tech into more areas that don't traditionally have a lot of tech employment. In the U.S. wealth is heavily concentrated in a few coastal and metropolitan regions. Encouraging the growth of remote work should help us spread it around, and I think that would be awesome.
Seems like a “d’oh” finding
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There are often legal, contract, or regulatory restrictions on outsourcing software development to other countries. For example, most grants from the Department of Energy require that funds be spent in the United States.
thank you! sounds AWESOME!
The examples on the IBM site had zeros without slashes or dots. And the character set showed a slashed zero exists, but it isn't the default zero. I believe you if you're using it, but I'm not sure where your dotted zero came from.
I left the Bay Area in 2010 after living there for the better part of 20 years. I've been working remotely ever since and you couldn't drag me back to working in another BA office if you tried. Maybe remote working is not for everybody but I and the teams I work on are a lot more efficient and productive than the teams I worked with in offices. And that was before everybody decided that open offices were a great idea.
College degrees are so necessary in modern society in large part because its discriminatory towards the poor to require them. In the same sense, investors want to be discriminatory towards the poor because they are not culturally like them. They want people of similar character, and since they can't be racist or sexist in whom they invest in without facing potential complications being classist by crowding out the poor is a viable way to "keep the riff raff" out of your money making schemes.

And it turns out making a city unlivable except for the top 5% of income earners is an effective way to keep the poor out.
A large number of people moved in, the vacancy rate went to zero, and an equally large number of people had to move out because they had been outbid for every unit. If not for hosting shortage we'd see a population boom.
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If you’re sufficiently paranoid just use a new phone for every single call.
You are 100% incorrect. Go look it up in the dictionary.

Mean == Average, by definition. Median is the middle point of a set, and mode is completely different, it's the most frequent number in a set. In no shape of form is "mode" ever confused with "average".
Write to disk has no practical latency because of write buffer, either local file system or remote database. Flush to disk would be slow unless you use SSD.

On the other hand, a single machine has limited reliability. If one wants to have high availability, they needs to dual write to another machine, which also has network latency.
Travis-CI uses Ember.
Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem" is a trip. Recommended.
What about the 2200/MCP etc. from Unisys? Does anybody here have experience with them and can shed some light on it?
Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamscript (2014)
That’s true but it’s not necessarily true. It’s easy enough to conceive of alternative ways of structuring education, and especially job training. MBAs and JDs are both of astonishingly little value compared to their cost except insofar as they enable you to get certain kinds of jobs that would be impossible or very difficult otherwise. Law schools are quite adamant that they’re not trade schools. We have an existence proof of trade schools of some kinds being sufficient to substitute for a Bachelor’s in at least one area too. Lambda School is teaching people to be web developers in well under a year. I’m sure there are other well paid jobs they or someone like them could do the same in. College isn’t necessary for work training and there are large parts where it’s currentky necessary if you want a job but it needn’t be.
Do you never sit down or pick things up?
I know, right? No company would give us a private area to make phone calls without disturbing our neighbors.
Yeah yeah. I know...

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids and your damned dog...

-- Old Man Big from The Haunted Amusement Park
VCs occupy a completely different part of the risk-reward spectrum.... so I'm not sure that's an apples-to-apples comparison regardless.
Having >10K karma on here and knowing people involved in this restaurant and the SF scene in general.. I can make these observations:

1. The vast majority of people on HN are in complete denial about the impact of a massive sudden influx of demand on SF housing.

2. They will exclusively talk about supply constraints and also totally ignore the concept of price inelasticity due to inexhaustible levels of demand.

3. pg himself had noted the importance of a vibrant restaurant scene for startups.[1]

4. This truly is a widespread problem for all SF restaurants. Nopa, one of the most prestigious midrange restaurants, has been advertising for cooks in their menu for years now.

5. In order for the market rate price of housing to become affordable to cooks and servers, it would first become dirt cheap for tech workers making 2-4x their compensation. Therefore all of that worldwide demand for SF tech worker housing would need to be satiated before the market solves this problem. (See point 2.)

6. Most tech workers don’t give a shit. They are here to hopefully make their fortune or at least get their career started in the next 5-10 years. A vibrant restaurant or working class community is not a priority. If they burn through it, it’s fine. Long term community development goals are a “nice to have”.

7. Only reserved means-tested housing for the working class will solve this problem. This is what divides the “market YIMBY” and “affordable housing PHIMBY” political groups in local SF politics. It’s not just about ethics.. If you want a vibrant city rich with interesting restaurants and cafes then you need to provide housing for the service industry. Otherwise you face a real macroeconomic problem.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/pgh.html
Totally agree. There is no right to a current state, there are only people and change.

I was raised in my hometown in a part, which was build up from the ground. Everything was new. The very same people who are now living there since 30+ years complain that the city wants to develop a new part of the city from scratch.

So the very same people who benefited from the scratchpad 30+ years ago now complain about future generations.

Added bonus: think about ancient cities. A beauty for sure, however also a burden. What was once build 1000+ years ago still defines the present.
By increasing density in existing housing stock, which is exactly what would happen if the boom were being driven by sudden population influx. This isn't what happened; instead poorer residents just began to be replaced by wealthier ones.
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How could identity theft need fixed?
Remember, these were the numbers from September, just after the election. Lots of people would still have their hopes up then.
On the web, BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com ). Excellent successor to Google Reader, and totally worth the $20/yr subscription

On Android, News+ , which has a BazQux plugin.
I use https://www.inoreader.com; it has a pretty nice Android app too.
Hear that everyone? People from New York and Chicago haven't heard of small business, good food, or getting food from farms nearby.

But on to the main point. It seems obvious Bay Area restaurant prices need to come up to keep pace with everything else costing more. But if you're going to charge more, you make it part of the price. You don't tack on an "extra" charge of any kind; that's madness, and sends the wrong message psychologically to the customer. The same people complaining about a service charge will gladly pay a higher base price exactly equal to that charge. It makes them feel "upscale." Paying a service charge makes them feel penalized. Or something. Anyway it sounds like the type of thing that has reasoning or an explanation attached to it. You want to be in a business where people pay more, and either the reason/explanation is obvious, or even better, there is no explanation and they just pay more anyway. Like Apple. But either way, you don't want to be in the business of explaining/justifying a charge, ever.

It's tough to make money? Your workers can't survive? The food sucks?

Charge more. Pay the workers more. Make better food. Nothing about "the economics of a small business" prevent this.

You may still fail. The macroeconomics of the Bay Area are difficult. But you'll fail for sure if you under-charge, under-pay, and under-produce in complete disregard of those economic conditions. In a tough market it's always the mediocre who fail first. But if you survive, and enough other restaurants fail, eventually the few that survive will be able to... you guessed it, charge even more, pay their workers even more, and make even better food.
In Silicon Valley, often several renters correspond to a single owner.
I've been using feedly. Free version just works.
See Daureg' reply below for November numbers.
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Some good points, but "vast majority... complete denial" is a bit much.
Even in the feudal era, early landowners didn't generally pay artificially lower taxes than later landowners. What we have with prop 13 is worse than feudalism.
The difference is the mentality of the people going into them. It was a different time; you'd join one looking for friends and the novelty of the experience meant that everyone at the same level, exploring this new place together.
Ok so they simultaneously have an inordinate effect on other disciplines, like science, but can't hold it together enough to keep their own boat afloat?
> bloating the bundle with things you will not use

The problem isn't that Ember has a lot of things you don't use; it's that the things that are there are much larger than their React counterparts. In terms of actual functionality, Ember doesn't provide anything that React+React Router doesn't. The difference in bundle size arises from the different ways Ember accomplishes the same end goal. This differences make it more suited to desktop apps loaded over high speed internet connections. My point is that as someone who's building PWAs designed to load as quickly as possible, it's unfortunate that Ember isn't even a possible contender due to the minimum bundle size.
> Renters are more transient, so less willing and able to exert political pressure

New York's renters are quite politically active. The bottom line is most people in the Bay Area aren't politically active. It's not cool to write to one's elected representatives, go to town halls, collect petitions for candidates and spend weekends stumping for them. Primary and local election turn-outs, critical in an effectively one-party region, are miserable. These factors lead to a large fraction of the population self selecting out of the political process.
How could the citizens trust the government to do only that?
I still don't understand how people who don't use RSS/Atom get by day to day… during development of software projects I subscribe to tags on GitHub for dependencies that I may need to update, same thing for stuff I package in the Arch User Repos and need to update promptly after a release, for services that I host I subscribe to lots of services blogs and status pages so that I get news of security updates or outages quickly, etc.

Even for non development stuff I can't imagine going to each blog I read individually or just hoping that I see it on a social network; instead they all come to me and I don't have to do any work to read through all the various blogs I like, news sites, etc.
San Francisco isn't unique as a city with very high rents. Somehow places like London, NYC, and Washington DC all still have a nice selection of restaurants. This makes me think that it'll sort itself out even if it is painful for some of the people currently affected.

It probably doesn't help that San Francisco has been shooting themselves in the foot over housing for years. This link from a couple weeks ago has a lot of details on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18778496.
You don't need a considerable increase in population to affect prices substantially. You only need to push out the marginal people, the ones who are at the lowest end of the rental spectrum. So to compete, these people are forced to pay a higher % of their salary towards rent, this creates a vicious uptrend in real estate prices.

The only remedy to this problem is to increase housing supply.

Good luck...
Phoning home is where a web site uses Google Analytics for example, while a CDN is where the assets you actually want are loaded from a server with large links to Internet backbone near you. Completely different things, which are sometimes conflated by people confused about the nature of the argument.

Calling the phone home feature a required library is part of the malintent from Google. Most websites I interact with don’t need a Google Analytics in order to function, for example. If I block a Google Analytics they refuse to work. The simplest explanation here is that time-short programmers just copy the code presented by Google, who in turn want everything to report back to them so they can monetise third party sites.

Building your site for AMP and blindly using the 8s timeout from the Google copy and paste archive is exactly the same story. You don’t need that much time to load all the assets, that timeout is there only to punish people who block the AMP resources.
Try this Firefox add-on [0]. In my own personal experience it works 95% of the time.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch...
Our Big Bang "may have been"
a super-massive white hole event,

"so we are" a universe-within a universe.

Hardly an irrefutable hypothesis.

You need to revise the "so we are" into "so maybe one might imagine we could be" in light of the "may have been" part.

But taken as granted, let's just say the big bang actually happens to have been what you describe.

The first thing that such a hypothesis would reveal is that in such a scenario, the big bang we consider to be as an event of origin and the beginning of "space/time" suddenly is not at all the beginning of anything. It is no longer the origin of the universe. Now, there was something prior to it.

Second, if we look upone the universe, as it exists today, we find many super-massive black holes. At this point it becomes clear, that there are likely to be, or to have been just as many super-massive white holes. All contemporary, and all distributed in a similar fashion.

If there's one, there's another somewhere else. Just like we see with galaxies, or exotic stars, or exoplanets. If there's one, there's another somewhere else. So too for white holes.

Thus, even if the big bang, which we see as evidence in the cosmic background radiation, remains the most recent grand-daddy and mother of all cosmic events in the past 20 billion years, it cannot be assumed to be unique in THIS unerverse, and in THIS space-time continuum.

We can only draw the conclusion that in this very universe, there may have been another super-massive white hole event, prior to even the big bang, just as transformative in the distribution of mass and energy, and not only that, there will be a similar cataclysmic white hole event in the future, perhaps beyond the era of humanity as we know it, whether we continue to reside in this solar system and galaxy or not.

So, multi-verses are not a necessary conclusion to draw from white hole events, because there's nothing stopping total creation and total destruction and then total recreation from occurring and reoccurring in the same universe we seem to be in right now, simulation or not.
I dislike pretty much the entire Windows command line, except for one small bit of it: `start` (for the purpose of launching stuff in the background and disowning it, not for the `xdg-open`-like functionality).

So, I had this in my rc files for a while:

start() { nohup "$@" &> /dev/null &; }

After that, I replaced the function with the custom command from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20151221072546/https://felixmilea...

I'd still like to have auto completion for this, though, but I never got around to learning about the ways to achieve that in bash and zsh.

Edit: Also, the one I probably use the most:

alias l="ls -ltrash"

although I've started to replace it with

e() { exa -bghHliSa --color=always "$@" | bat; }
et() { exa -bghHliSTa --color=always "$@" | bat; }
So? There are plenty of other alternatives anywhere.
Happy to be proven otherwise.
13oz is well over what casual users order for most drugs. I'd bet the vast majority of orders are under that size.
This isn't a single mistake, it's a pattern of bad behavior that's been going on for as long as they've been in business.
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RSS is one of the main ways I consume the web (including HN). Been doing it for years and I'm very happy with it. I don't know anything about how it works, but it seems lightweight in that I can keep using it without any problems even now when I'm in China, going through terrible internet connections which prohibits "normal" web usage (in addition to The Firewall, that is).
The second is my favorite by far as well, but I find it funny how it's described as amazing Sci-Fi when I have to describe the plot. Half the book is

spoilers

The result of granting a nerd all the resources of the Earth at his disposal. He promptly uses it to find the perfect waifu and seduces her in his idyllic European villa.

That's not Sci-Fi; That's a power fantasy as old as time.
They're behind, but you may end up installing far more of the non-hardened versions, and do the redundancy yourself. That seems like a tough trade-off to do given that there's no fixing it once it's there.
It appears nobody who responded to you actually read the content behind your link. All the responses to you and the OP are merely low effort proclamations of exasperation unrelated to your argument.

As I understand your argument you were saying that Tor's rebranding-- emphasizing human rights advocacy-- could ironically make it more difficult to operate nodes in countries that have a poor track record on human rights. You gave some examples of Asian countries which took firm stances against corruption, for example, but which also took stances against western ideals of human rights. The implication being countries which might allow Tor to enhance whistleblowing capabilities might reject Tor if it is closely associated with human rights activities.

That said, your article is 2+ years old so there should be substantial data on your claim by now. What does it show? Has Tor usage diminished measurably in those countries due to their rebranding, or not?
>Make under $60k? You can get a 1 bedroom for $1600/month. Don't? Join everyone else fighting at $3k/month or what not.

Sounds like SF should experiment with marginal rent, based on how marginal tax rates work. Something like: landlords charge a base $x rent, if you make above $50K a bit more is added one, make above $60K a bit more is added, etc. That was the person making $1 over some arbitrary cutoff isn't much worse off.
Ah, thanks, I must have gotten that in the early days of the GDPR, when there was a lot of misinformation.
A large data center has 20-30k machines. Amazon disclosed that back in 2014. Most likely you want to partition the machine into some chunks, so each application or each database only use some of them. So you don't need to talk to many machines at once.

In general, a distributed database can be really fast. DynamoDB claim to be 3ms (AWS reinvent 2014). The current technology can probably achieve close to 1ms, which is equivalent to memcache. With such performance, you don't really need local storage.

You can get much faster IO if you use many local SSDs. The downside is utilization. It is very rare a single machine has a workload that fully utilize local disk. You end up over provision greatly fleet-wise to get high performance. A managed database over a network is more likely to utilize disk/SSD throughput.
A city that is setting aside a large portion of its housing stock for low income people isn't all that capitalist. Businesses have to learn to work with the system.
I also want it synced across all of my machines, so probably with some sort of cloud service, and want to be able to share it with other people (so as much as I like a good TUI, I probably can't convince my coworkers in marketing or sales to use it); but that does look really nice still.
Good point, I haven't seen anyone else mention the addict angle other than you.
I'm not about not RCE 0day but here's some information about Telegram's security problems:

https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/raw/master/why-telegram-is...
You can't use some claim as an argument and then deny any discussion of it. Especially when your claim is extraordinary.
LTA is fascinating to watch but prohibitively expensive to operate.
Well that is a fair point, we only have one example of a species capable of building civilizations to work from. It seems unlikely, however, that we are going to end up being particularly unique in that class.