skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my neighborhood there are very few teenagers. The bike thieves, package thieves and car ransackers are either actual thieves (with lookouts), or addicts. People like to blame bored teenagers, but given my city has one of the lowest percentages of teenagers in the country but yet this happens, indicates it’s something else (proven by the pictures and videos posted by neighbors).
> Isn’t this based on self-answered surveys and not hard verifiable information to establish residency?

True, though collecting hard verifiable proof of prior residency from homeless folks seems beyond what can be expected from a one-day citywide survey. :)

If you know of a survey that did collect that information, I'd certainly be interested in the results.

> The homeless and activists/nonprofits advocating on their behalf have an incentive to make it look like they’re mostly local.

I suppose a high out-of-county population might make locals stingier, but getting caught providing bad data also seems like a pretty bad outcome for any of the local non-profits that helped conduct the survey.
> phone is plugged into power and not in use

A) When it thinks it is not in use, not so easy to predict.

> To be fair, how could you have known that? It only says so when asking for your passcode, after all.

Yes, but it actually presents the prompt twice, and one wrong tap reboots the device with no way of aborting the process which on a good day takes 10 minutes on my phone.
So if someone wants to rent a house (for whatever valid reasons), we prevent that somehow?

Sorry, want to live here? You have to buy; we don’t allow residential investing here.
FastBoot just caches a bunch of known things that your system was able to boot with and then doesn't bother re-initializing/re-training/re-discovering various bits and bobs in the hardware.

It's not taking away some 90% of what UEFI does - it's letting UEFI do its thing, writing down what was done for your hardware configuration and the location of your boot image, and then reusing exactly that again on each boot.

That's simple optimization - not a fundamental change to UEFI. Though it is good optimization which certainly could have been baked in from the start.
Curious what the author thinks about open sourcing the secure enclave co-processor in iPhone/iPad/etc.
> In the scientific world, he says, it may be risky if researchers actively choose to study trendy topics that hit the headlines, but aren’t as important as other pressing issues that demand more time and effort.

I think scientific research has had its own trends for a long time now, though they probably are more local than what the author is writing about.

I can recall a conversation I had with an acquaintance at an APS fluid dynamics conference last year about how trendy the broad field of fluid dynamics can be. 5 years ago it was all about "dynamic mode decomposition" (which hasn't died yet but is on the wane) and now it's machine learning.

You can be confident a-priori that most machine learning studies in fluid dynamics aren't going to do much of value because their "training data" is deficient in some way, whether the number of data points or the variation of an important variable. (There are other problems as well but that one seems most accessible to HN folks.) These more fundamental issues are not well appreciated, probably because they are hard and not sexy.

It's a lot easier and more exciting to try $buzzword for $X. (If you've missed the trend you always could try comparing $buzzwordA and $buzzwordB for $X. One talk at a conference I'm going to next week fits this template!)
Xamarin isn't either. It really is whatever open source cross-platform UI leads the pack. I am really impressed by Qt Apps, but I also am not happy with their licensing. I would like to see something new with Vulkan desktop integration. I think Microsoft really needs to reconsider what is important, and I believe them working on open source will have to be a better commitment. They should pay some of their Kubernetes engineers and Linux engineers work on a Linux Kernel OS. There are just certain nuances about their OS that they can't seem to grasp, especially when it comes to Mac at least application packaging better Windows. Choco for GUI apps is awful, and the only solution will be application containers, and Linux is likely going to outpace them... and I see more and more great apps for Linux. I don't think it will be too much longer.
+1 to that (and I don't live in California either)

It seems more like the proponents of cheap housing want to encourage lots of people to move into the city (which is how the existing supply becomes insufficient), at the expense of the people who were already living there.

Though what I haven't been able to understand is why these groups are not in favor of creating housing further off where the land is cheaper? In the bay area why is "goodness" only measured in distance from downtown?

This is a sincere question, I'd love to understand.
agree, and the element picker is nice to use also
On the Playstation 2, which didn't have accelerated perspective correct texture mapping, Parappa the Rapper embraced and ran with the stylized 2D-in-3D look!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYKbmx9ykWM&t=2m29s
Show HN: The ultimate full stack starter project
> Imagine if tpb resolves incorrectly on some networks.

It already does. DNS can’t be totally trusted now. Arguably it’s already broken.
If you look at the history of Microsoft across platforms, with the exception of the Xbox they've been pushing the unified paradigm for decades. It's one of the things that really set the iPad apart at release- a tablet that didn't try to re-use the desktop paradigm, as opposed to the parade of previously failed Microsoft tablet attempts. UWP was simply an attempt to do the same thing from the opposite direction, with the same poor result. It seems to be lesson that's been very hard for them to learn.
In case this is a serious question and not a joke (unclear which it is) then he may be saying that older movies and shows had these longer intros that seemed normal at the time, but if you watch them again now they seem long and boring now. So that is one to show how your attention span has become shorter
To be clear, this is just an opinion piece by someone not at Microsoft. And since the article starts with "As I predicted", I'd take it with a grain of salt.
You think you're kidding.

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Python

https://github.com/plv8/plv8

https://www.graphile.org/
> Isn't it obvious that mobile apps UI/UX is poor...

Isn't this the direction that MacOS is going too? I hear complaints of "iOS apps" becoming default on macOS too.
What issues you've encountered with installing GUI apps with chocolatey?
The point is that if I send you a gif, you currently don't need to tell whatever program you opened it in that it's meant to loop. When I send you a gif, I expect it to be looped on your end. It's part of the gif package that we've come to love.
Of course the loop flag doesn't strictly need to exist, but if someone has to perform an extra step to do what gifs were already doing, then no one will use it as a replacement.
are you claiming Volkswagen is in the ev game because of california?
Not every culture is the same in what they consider rude; not every socioeconomic group is the same in what they consider rude; not every person is the same in what they consider rude.

Consider talking to people and trying to understand them before you cast judgement on them. Cultural relativism really isn't that hard.
Disappointed there wasn't an Amazon box in the payload illustration.
Earlier article with more information: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Here-come-the-I...
Didn't they fire the guy behind Windows 8?

Microsoft took mobile-first too literally and applied it to their entire OS
It is hilarious people think "money will run out" and CA is mismanaged. CA has a $30bn rainy day fund. It is incredibly managed. We have protected our shorelines, our mountains, our nature while other states have sold them off to the highest bidder. Our legislators pioneered equal rights and made LGBT mainstream in American politics. We pioneered action against climate change and kick started incentives towards alternative fuel, solar, and wind energy. We have the most generous healthcare coverage in America. We have the most generous welfare in America. We have invested billions in public transportation. We have the most upwardly mobile population. We pioneered recreational marijuana, and decriminalizing drugs. We are leading the revolution against mass incarceration. We have some of the most generous policies that are pro-women, starting from abortion to parental leaves. And we have the #1 economy in the world. That's quite mismanagement.
What if they just pass the tax retroactively on those that are the 1% that moved out of the city and are no longer involved in funding the politics?

The idea that something can be passed retroactively in any form is insane.
https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/sustainability/refugee-aid.h...
FTA:
> And the way we know that’s true is that Win32, WPF, and WinForms have all been “elevated to full status”—Gallo’s words—in Windows 10 all these years later.

I guess these three.
Too much fud. Can you download code from github and type ‘make’?

Then you can run anything
Cost of living is high is because people want to live here. CA population is actually going up.
This is the “city as a closed universe” fallacy. What you actually have to do is line up every potential purchase of a home (which may be more than one per buyer) in the city by any person in the world in that order.

If only we had some example of a city that built as much as the market demands. https://jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/how-tokyo-bui...
That almost no one can afford to live there is surely the best of evidence that San Francisco has "crushed it".
If something doesn’t work, try it 99 more times!
As a recent Brave convert, I was skeptical of Brave for the same reason.

I switched to it from Firefox (after switching months ago from Chrome) due to Firefox being slow, tabs repeatedly crashing, UX disharmony, and the recent cert addon debacle.

Brave's ad proposition makes sense: the internet is inundated with ads, which is unpleasant, but free websites do need to survive. So, make the ad landscape nicer on an opt in basis.

They take privacy seriously. I'd recommend it.
As briefly mentioned in the article, SOPA proposed DNS-level blacklisting against copyright-infringing websites. But the fact that you are able to choose what DNS server you use almost guarantees that at some point someone would set up a DNS server outside of the US that would bypass these blocks anyways.

Savvy users could simply bypass a SOPA-enabled recursive DNS server by pointing their DNS settings to an off-shore recursive DNS server... What would happen to users if an infringer decided to setup a “free, non-SOPA” recursive DNS server for users to use – one that additionally hijacked legitimate banking, ecommerce and business websites, too? [1]

[1] https://dyn.com/blog/sopa-breaking-dns-parasite-stop-online-...
The term would be 'resident for tax purposes' an already existing category in some parts of the world that doesn't give you extra rights.
Its a fair point, just a matter of money and a limited number of manufacturers for the bits that make rockets fly. NASA had the advantage that as a single target they weren't overseeing three different SaturnVs, three different launch vehicles, etc. The horses here are Bezos, Boeing, and SpaceX.
Tuft+&+Needle+Mother's+Day+Savings
> Presumably, displaying a bitcoin address isn't illegal, and you are not in control of who sends you coins.

Both parts of your statement are naive and wrong.

Soliciting payment in any currency other than the national currency is illegal. No one is going to be fooled by claims of "oh I just put our corporate bitcoin address up for...uh...personal aesthetics; we weren't actually suggesting customers can pay us that way".

In any case, where is the documentation for the annual audit? When the tax department looks at the corporate bank statements, what do you think they'll see?

I own a company here, we are required by law to hire an external auditing agency. Do you think the auditing agency is going to, what?, just lie to the government for me when it is obvious to them I'm accepting payments in bitcoin since there is no documentation for local currency payments?

The tax departments come to our office every year and goes over the books. They are looking for tax evasion, money laundering, and so on. But it would be pretty trivial to spot if someone is getting paid in Bitcoin.

I'm trying to imagine how you think the conversation would go when they audit the company Bitcoin account, "Oh, gee, some bitcoin got transferred to the company account. Dunno how THAT happened! Ha ha. Guess it was just a DONATION! We were definitely NOT breaking the law! Don't look at our invoicing system that shows we marked that as a payment received for order #81351."
San Francisco has build way more housing in the last decade compared to rest of the Bay Area and the state. Look at the entire east side of the City. Areas like SOMA, Mission Bay, Dogpatch were industrial wastelands. Now they have so much housing. Blame really lies in the rest of the Bay Area cities that haven't built their fair share of housing.
Yeah, but some people still seem to think leaving it out there is a good idea. It baffles me frankly.
It is a sort of grim form of comedy to watch it: http://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-f...
"And you can bet their safety/reliability record will be nigh near perfect."

Why do you believe this to be the case?
Think you mean the Playstation 1; the second definitely had perspective-correct texture mapping.
San Francisco's administration is the poster child of corruption and mismanagement. It's a controversial topic because it comes across as a strong and opinionated comment, but decades of failed policies, unaccountability and lies give strength to the truth that the city of San Francisco is inadequate to enforce law and order and help the people who are - in the tech capital of the world - literally dying in the streets. I wish this was a bad dream, a nightmare, but it's the real life.

Banning electric scooters, taxing IPOs, soda taxes are all distractions that prevent the voters to focus on the problems that really matter: the needles, the drug abuse, the human feces, the absolute lack of enforcement of the most basic, essential, rules of society.

San Francisco must enforce the "Broken window policy", and it needs to start from the broken politicians and local administrators that are betraying their fiduciary duty and, by doing so, hurting the community.
I remember it being about "well rounded" students who knew History, Philosophy. Literature, Foreign Language... and of course some Biology, and Math, but not really Calculus or Quantum or Programming. Those were for nerds who played D&D!
I dont want people defecating in the streets either, but how you going to prosecute that? If you have reached that level, do you care about a fine you cant pay?
Is govt going to fine them the $250 they dont have?

Also where are they supposed to go to the bathroom, not like there are many readily available in SF, especially at night.
> I see more and more great apps for Linux

Bit of an aside here, but what for example? I'm using Linux these days as the least-worst option, but I wouldn't have claimed app quality as one of its advantages. It has the best terminals (matched perhaps by iTerm on mac), and most of the important cross-platform apps are perfectly fine (VS Code, IntelliJ, Firefox, Chrome etc). Could you list some of the linux-specific apps you consider great?
Bless you people, for revealing this concise and informative gem.
> Instead, we have extremely vocal NIMBYs who lobby to get laws passed that benefit the rich minority of residents and harm everyone else.

My point is that my basic economic understanding makes me expect this to be how the legislators behave regardless of what the legislators know about economics. They may not in fact have any understanding of economics, but I wouldn't expect this to affect their behavior either way.
This is a really sharp approach, where synthetic scenes are rendered and used to train a system so it can better understand real scenes. It reminds me of the bit with Deep Thought in HHGTG, where "even before the data banks had been connected up it had started from 'I think therefore I am' and got as far as the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off." This isn't quite that, but it's a good step in that direction.
Technically I think one must be clear. The cert (client and ca) all have dates and that you are right. But what your miss is that the revocation measure is the key here. It is not just sign it for the period. The CA and the root CA list has to maintain those cert and revoke them. You should not just trust the date and signature. The revocation list is key.

In other words you check everytime you use it basically. That is how stolen Microsoft cert stopped.

All old app are checked for validity. It is not as you implied.
Imagine the impact on the world if this was FLOSS.
I hate you this pun is amazing shut up
It is like that adage "Nobody goes there anymore. It is so crowded"
As long as your build toolchain is available, that is, signed.

Signing software is a good idea. Which signatures to trust should be a user's decision, though, with sane defaults.
An AI System Spontaneously Develops Baby-Like Ability to Gauge Big and Small
Apply this to Federal Healthcare.

Physicians want to get paid 300k/yr. Pharma is obsolete by computers and paid over 100k/yr.

Not to mention the pharma companies and hospitals.

Its why healthcare only gets worse with legislation.
Housing developments are regularly proposed that have a certain percentage of units that are "affordable housing" in that their price is artificially held low. (And there are restrictions on purchasing such units, so that a well-off person can't simply sweep them off the market.)

But even such developments are also being rejected by SF, even ones that would increase the number of affordable housing units available overall. For example, a project in SoMa was unanimously rejected because it overshadowed — on the day with the most shadow — 18% of a nearby park[1].

It is clear to anyone who is watching that SF is not concerned about the affordability of its city, or the livelihood of those who are not well-off enough to afford homes whose median price has been as high as $1.6M.

(And while I disagree that you can't build affordable housing now, I do agree with your treatment.)

[1]: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/4/10/18304717/shadow-housing-sf-p...
America Seizes North Korean Ship, Citing Sanctions Violations
Nice to see some advancements coming to landers from the private sector. Hope they will be able to work with other parties and move the technology forward and make it cheaper.
This unclear, the law states that retroactive laws are illegal both at the state and federal level
Did they get a lawyer to look at their reasoning? It reads like what you get when software guys try to make "common sense" reasoning about IP law.
Sure, but the numbers still favor the bay area if you are a software engineer: https://thestartupconference.com/2018/09/21/about-that-silic...
Your first article attributes those quotes reasoning about the lack of construction to speculation by “neighbors”. There is also a traffic problem created in part by construction of a bus line that is 18 months overdue. It seems a bit quick to be using that as justification for SF housing policies, especially as they don’t seem to be working.

Your other article is paywalled, but I imagine that tightly planned cities introducing only new luxery housing is the same general situation and would be similarly vulnerable to the very arguments you’re responding to.
One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex
Ok, but when they allowed high paying companies to set up shop, they had to know the people serving coffee would be pushed out of a place to live.
> today you can install Debian or Ubuntu or other distros in a container

This is far far from the title's promise of being a "Linux laptop"... you might as well also claim all Windows PCs are now Linux PCs because of WSL.

I know I'm not alone when I expect a computer that claims to support Linux to mean running it on the hardware, without a hypervisor, outside of a container or any other kind of virtualization.
Houston doesn't have zoning, but does have fairly stringent land-use regulations on single-family homes (min. lot size, setbacks, etc.) See: https://marketurbanism.com/2016/09/19/how-houston-regulates-...

Houston is also surrounded by sparsely-populated countryside, rather than on three sides by water like SF, giving it more room to grow cheaply.
> But is it ever OK for city to say ...

It's important to be a bit more rigorous. What is "the city" in this thought experiment? The city government? The "will of the people" (what does that even mean, does it require a majority or a plurality to decide the size of the city)?
> It seems more like the proponents of cheap housing want to encourage lots of people to move into the city...

No. The person pouring coffee to the wealthy shouldn't have to drive 50 miles to work one way. Or live in an apartment with 7 roommates.

That's not encouraging people to move there, that's taking care of the people already there.
>That can't be solved with the parametric form alone.

That's not strictly true - you could choose a numerical algorithm like Newton-Raphson.

3D B-rep modelers will typically solve x,y,z on curve that way because many of the curves won't have an implicit form of any reasonable low degree. In fact, some of them won't have an implicit form at all.
I think the onus is on you to disprove them, not just to merely question their veracity.

Anyone who has built a house in any urbanized area with an highly environmental conscious outlook can tell you that building a house is difficult - I think anyone can also tell you that San Francisco has a large amount of demand - I think there would also be universal agreement that San Francisco is also basically built out. Upmarket housing tends to get built first when market demand is high, and its expensive to build in a place, because its harder to recoup the costs on cheaper housing.

Without significant densification (which has proven untenable politically) no significant amount of new housing will be built - so you can pass all the affordable housing bonds in the world, but until you change the zoning (regulatory) construct - nothing will change.
(First, this article is not about individual attention span: it's about an increase in volume of content and the consequently dwindling amount of time the collective public has to dwell on a given piece of published content.)

Anyway, this brings to mind one good thing about Hacker News: while breaking stories make it to the front page, so does older content worthy of discussion. We need more people to care about curation of what might otherwise be forgotten.
That will probably be fine for the 90% of Mac users who came from iOS anyway.
How much construction does a 'bus line' take exactly?
I have never heard anyone say that Pinterest is the most interesting ANYTHING before.

What do you consider to be their obvious superior monetization potential? And is their anything else about Pinterest that makes you find it so interesting?
It's weird how his eyes don't change at all, but his elf-ears go up up up.
I'd add:

4) move the jobs to less expensive cities. The discussion largely driven by a very small area in a few cities that have been extremely successful at job growth in tech, finance, and lobbying. There isn't a housing affordability crisis across most of the country.
>And there's currently no analogue to SpaceX in the self-driving car market.

Isn't... Tesla analogous to SpaceX in the self-driving car market?