skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just SF. The whole state of CA is woefully mismanaged. They just have enough money to smooth over much of the stupid stuff. When the money runs out (next recession?) they are gonna get hit really really hard (and they deserve it, stupid should hurt).
> First, the judge won't usually allow charges that are outside the bounds of the law to even be presented to the jury. Second, even if the jury does convict of something outside the bounds of the law, it will almost certainly be overturned on appeal.

And in between, if the charges are within the law but the judge feels a reasonable jury could not convict on them, he can (and presumably will) dismiss the charges either before or after the jury verdict; judges cannot toss a jury acquittal (or convict on their own without a jury verdict), but they can and do do the reverse.
> the collapse of the urban wage premium for less-educated workers means that the extra housing would mostly attract additional skilled workers

Doesn't this contradict their conclusion? What are those workers attracted by if not more affordable housing?
I'm not sure you read the article? The author lays out a number of ways in which SQL itself does not match the relational data model well, and gets in the way of doing data retrieval well.

His criticisms are nothing new. Relational "gurus" Date, Codd, Darwin, Fabian Pascal all made similar criticisms of SQL over the last 30 years.
Still waiting for them to orbit literally anything...
Agree entirely, maybe if some of the billions of dollars available went to providing the homeless with good, free mental healthcare they would be a good start to making San Fran a better place. I’ve never seen anything so sad as the streets of San Fran on a cold night, disgusting.

Edit: Go for the downvote button, most of the world thinks the state of the valley , San Francisco and the living conditions and poor infrastructure are a joke given the insane amount of wealth housed there. You can take ownership of it or blame someone else (which it seems many of you are doing a great job of).
I don't see how that's relevant to this particular problem.
"Without getting too into the math weeds, at a high-level, we call approaches like Bezier curves and Hobby splines implicit curves"

I don't think of Bézier curves as implicit in any way. There's an explicit equation for the curve, as a parameter of "time" (0 at the beginning of the curve, 1 at the end, increasing monotonically in between).
Just watch the intro to an old movie or sitcom that you can remember from back in the day.
You're reading too deep into the analogy. It's just similar to trickle-down economics in that the idea is "if you let more rich people get houses, that will help poor people get houses too."
It's a bit tongue in cheek and perhaps I should edit it out before someone misinterprets it. To a lot of people, iq is a mad scientist, in the best way. The rediscovery of SDF and invention of raymarching almost immediately gave every single graphics developer pause. It's such a different way to think about graphics and modelling and art and helped open people's eyes to alternate approaches and representations.
Fear of citizens burning down city hall? It's usually difficult enough to pass ordinary tax increases. Trying something outrageously unpopular like that would probably be political suicide.
I just learned the source of this epidemic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ9bP6wo8rA&list=WL&index=49...
So much so that it will take them weeks, if not months, to build it.
What you describe is a software limitation in the TV's video player if it doesn't have an option to loop. Right now, I can open up a video in Firefox, say a VP8 WebM, and there's a right-click option to loop it. Every noteworthy media player (VLC, MPV, etc) supports looping. Websites can tag video to loop. Likewise, you're able to loop a gif even if it doesn't have a loop flag - the loop flag doesn't need to exist, it can be external to the format be it GIF or video.
> ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its 2018 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report, which shows that nearly 1.5 million (1,447,906) U.S. single family homes and condos were vacant at the end of Q3 2018, representing 1.52 percent of all homes nationwide — down from 1.58 percent in 2017. [0]

> A report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development has found that just under 553,000 people are homeless, with approximately 65% staying in sheltered accommodation. Out of every 10,000 people in the United States, 17 experienced homelessness on a single night in 2018. [1]

It looks like this already happened.

[0]: https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/single-family-r...

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/12/20/the-u-...
Patches existing for the firmware vulnerabilities of major manufacturers is good (I'll take your word for it, having not looked recently, but I know that a few years back this was not the case and known vulnerabilities could be found easily on shipping products).

The pathway from the patch existing to the patch being applied is overgrown with flammable brush. Infrequently traveled. Not healthy. There are efforts to fix this, but they don't have too much momentum at the moment.
I don't buy that, splunk has a clear concept of columns and rows and could have chosen to expose support for a SQL like grammar for assembling them - they instead chose a less structured format that makes data assembly quite difficult.

More legitimately splunk may simply be unable to deliver performant data expression if a user is typing a query complex enough to justify SQL.
The point is that they are more images than videos. They have no possible way to contain sounds so the annoyingness is limited to having unwanted images in your browser. You can tell your browser to block a particular still image. You can do the same thing to block a GIF. You don't need a pause/play feature on a 2-5 second sequence.
A distracted, divided U.S. is no match for China’s long-term plan for domination
Wasn’t there talk of applying the new wave of quantum sensors for this?

There’s gravimetric ones that can detect underground cavities
I’m glad to see a different approach. SpaceX has the “outrageously audacious” space well covered. It’s good to have a competitor working on something more incremental in case it turns out that the giant leap isn’t viable.
> You both get so much of this story so utterly… /not even/ __quite__ wrong

Sorry, but no. It is perfectly factual.

> leave so much detail

I was on mobile (hence the typo). I included the level of detail necessary to make my point.

Speaking of points – did you have one?
> Why not link to the xpi that can be installed now?

This is the crux of my remaining frustration with how Mozilla handled this issue. That XPI should've been front-and-center in all the articles that detailed the fix. And yet, instead of something like...

"If you have Studies enabled, a fix should apply automatically. If it hasn't yet, or if you have Studies turned off (or are using a version which does not support Studies), you can install the hotfix add-on [here](URL to XPI)."

...pretty much all the official messaging ended up like so:

"If you have Studies enabled, a fix should apply automatically. It may take up to 6 hours; please be patient and wait for it. If you don't want to (or can't) turn on Studies, you're SOL until we push out a point release (and further SOL if you're at the mercy of a Linux package maintainer or you want to use a version of Firefox that still supports XUL-based addons)."

The notion that this was a deliberate ploy to get more people to turn on Studies is surely conspiracy-theorist mumbo-jumbo, but nonsense like this makes me wonder.
Just found the source of this epidemic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ9bP6wo8rA&list=WL&index=49...
But isn't that the point? This is intended for RHEL users who previously had trouble shipping Docker images based on RHEL that Red Hat would provide support for. Not so much for non-RHEL users.

It will also be attractive for ISVs who want to partner with Red Hat.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we compete with Red Hat in a number of areas.
> Literally they could just supply a password manager that also sends all the passwords to a third party.

Could have taken the source, added the backup to 3rd party server, and released binaries.
I am not sure if I understand the objection. Is that that you don't agree with the use of "2D graphics" and "3D graphics" to mean what they mean in the article?
Oh as opposed to Elon Musk who had vertical landing nailed before they went out courageously and told the word that they are doing it.
Yep - just a few more taxes and regulations will fix everything! And if these don’t work, add a few more!
I came here unknowingly to hear this. I am you. Thank you for this.
So is this comparable to DARPA’s driverless car challenge from several years ago?
Another important difference: you can still install linux on a macbook after it is EOL'd by Apple. HArdware support is poor but the machine can still have an OS patched on a regular basis.
Also in a well-to-do neighborhood, though south in Orange County. I've had people look through their windows at me while I'm holding their mail, which was incorrectly delivered to my address. What can you do other than toss it at their door and go back home... I genuinely don't understand it, either.
Yes. Technically they are parametric curves but you can turn any parametric curve into an implicit one (the reverse not being true), so I chose to leave out that small detail for narrative purposes.
There are 268.8 million vehicles in the United States. Uber's software and be can use to capitalize on the majority of these vehicles. If they pay their workers a bit more and spend a bit less on the R&D the supply of workers will increase.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/why-uber-and-lyft-drive...

I think both TESLA and UBER are 20 years away from fully automated vehicles on US roads. Show me technology that supports autonomous driving from Denver, CO to Salt Lake City, UT any day of the year in any weather when roads are open to human driving and I will change my view.

From a stock valuation perspective the question then is;
Which of these companies will be the most profitable in the next 10 years? Both firms seem to be spending all available cash and capital on growing their companies fast. While betting on the completion of future technology to sustain their business in the long term.

For this reason, I would short stock on both firms in the short term then switch to long positions if either of the companies had tangible indications of mullite year profitability.
believe me, I abhor the thought of not having the usual invisible hand determine the outcome of the effects of supply and demand.

But, when your head is bleeding out in an intersection, and you're about to die, it's not the best time to be shopping online for an affordable ambulance. Just so you know, an ambulance ride can cost you 3000 to 5000$ even if it's less than half an hour away.
Yup, the entire point of Bezier splines is that they are very easy to explicitly evaluate, and somewhat intuitive for humans to control.

The gist of a Bezier curve is "Take weighted averages, repeatedly".
Err well publishing the PR while it's still vaporware is not the Amazon way.
Sadly, pain and suffering does not fix stupid.
I was reacting to the lack of scrolling inertia on Mobile Safari. Running 12.2.
> users should be able to opt-in to updates (including hot-fixes) but opt out of everything else

Finally some good news. This is what I suggested in one of the previous threads: there should be a delivery channel for important updates, and a channel for experiments/telemetry/whatnot. Some other HNer said it was an unrealistic expectation "because manpower". Guess what, it isn't. This is how things should always be.
I would be OK with such a law if it only applies going forward, to companies that are headquartered in SF and formed only on this date or later.

But to pass an IPO tax after hard-working employees have put in literally years of longer/more-stressful hours at reduced compensation levels (relative to working at established companies) to get to this payoff is unfair and unjust. Those employees have entered this arena (the startup game) with certain expectations and rules in mind, which made taking on risk and deferring gratification worthy to them. Pulling the rug out last minute to shore up the city's own finances is punitive and unreasonable, especially when the law is targeted so narrowly. And no, the fact that some of those employees will get large sums of money out of this does not make it less unfair or less unjust.
I am still surprised by how often devs put full size images into thumbnails.
Some ORMs like Hibernate have their own QL, but they typically preserve the SQL data model.

This isn't just replacing SQL, they're trying to implement a new data model that is backed by Postgres.
In my example x was a contained object, and y, z, w were member variables or methods on that object. A shorthand for wrappers was exactly what I intended.
The "free market" is not a binary value. Surely you agree that there's a difference between building codes and state-owned housing?
This seems unenforceable; how do you know if a property is unoccupied, and for how long? Cletus' suggestion is more enforceable.
I would suggest either Firefox or Safari instead of Brave. Brave is an ad platform.
Because even though you can do most things in cmd, it's just never been a very good tool? CMD is a bad tool that we learned to use b/c we had no choice (w/o loading an add-on scripting env of some kind). PowerShell has a learning curve, and I've delayed learning it for many years, but now is the time to do it, esp now that it's open-sourced and available on more and more Linux distros...
I frankly find that easy to believe. After all, operating systems give desktop apps a lot of trust because they trust these desktop apps to respect the users' trust. It is very recent that we now have desktop apps running potentially untrusted code that can subvert the trusted desktop app.

Of course, there are ways but just none are convenient. Generally the well established security boundaries are between the operating system and the user, and then between different users. Almost all the ways I can think of involves Firefox temporarily elevating privileges, which is undesirable.
re 1&2. Ok, that's what I was thinking. Thanks for the refresher.

re protection model. Nah, it was MULTICS from a Saltzer and Shroeder paper. They're among the pioneers of INFOSEC in high-assurance security which I'm often talking about here. They describe their reasoning about that here [1]. It, segments, and an IOMMU were in SCOMP, the first system certified to high security. Early promoter Roger Schell got an ex-Burroughs guy that Intel hired to add the rings and segments to their chips so high-assurance, security kernels could use them. The one he backed and got certified, GEMSOS, did leverage about every security feature on Intel CPU's. STOP used all the rings. GEMSOS had a hybrid scheme. BAE was selling STOP with Aesec still selling GEMSOS. Threw in a link on security kernels if you want to check that out. Today's state of the art moved on to secure hardware/software architectures using a mix of formal verification and language-level security on top of other QA activities. The competition used type enforcement [3] and capability security [4].

[1] https://www.multicians.org/protection.html
https://www.multicians.org/exec-env.html

[2] http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse443-s12/docs/ch6.pdf

[3] https://cryptosmith.com/mls/lock/

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223007/https://www.cis.u...
Thanks for the clarifications!
Astronauts train for doing astronaut things like spacewalks and other zero-g activities.

I would expect a tourist needs to demonstrate they have the fortitude to:

1. Not Die

2. (Possibly) not lose their shit (any definition)

These can probably be handled with a centrifuge after the tourist demonstrates surviving an extreme rollercoaster.
FinCEN's guidance on crypto business models: are you a money transmitter?
Hopefully RISC-V will be enough.
At least someone is trying (and given the track record, will probably achieve it, Gradatim Ferociter indeed)
Induced demand applies to roads because people have a choice whether to drive or not. But they don't have a choice of whether they need a house or not. For housing it's not induced demand--it's just demand.
That's fair, I apologize for my assumptions.
Sorry, I didn't realise you were the article's author.

I'm answering with in good faith and with good will to you :)

Most of the article doesn't seem relevant to the headline, and as such I found it difficult to understand where the article was leading and why I should be interested to read on.

If the headline was something like "Parallel histories of 2D and 3D vector graphics" then I would have understood what I was committing to read and been more satisfied with the overall experience.

Obviously, the article has found an audience so perhaps I am wrong and you can safely ignore this thought ;-)
Buy Effort and Sell Value
Do you believe that statement contradicts or supports my claim (below) ?

> What you are purchasing is a license, which may (and almost certainly does) have limitations. One such limitation could be time (commonly done for product trials, but not limited to such).

My assertion is that what you are purchasing in the Adobe Software case is a license, what you are purchasing in your hypothetical book case is not. It is something else, it is different.
Blue Moon Brewing is also having a ball w/ this https://twitter.com/BlueMoonBrewCo/status/112661146722524774...
Indeed, it usually makes it worse.
So the question is going to be if you can lift this with a Falcon Heavy, given that New Glenn isn't even close to ready, and while the pace that Blue origin moves at is awesome compared to traditional space vendors, it's way behind where it needs to be for this, and where SpaceX is today.
While I agree with you that stupid should hurt, I think one of the reasons the situation is so bad is that a lot of the stupid decisions haven't been hurting the people who make the make them and the people who cause them to be made. This isn't just a problem in CA, just look at the Boeing debacle. Tons of bad decisions, the people who made the decisions made 10s - 100s millions of dollars and laughing all the way to the bank. Same think with California's politicians and elite class ... public workers, on the hand, are probably screwed ...
Unless you run an unbranded builds ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded... ), or the Developer Edition ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ ), where setting xpinstall.signatures.required to false still works, then yes, Mozilla can prevent you from using an add-on.

More than "going forward", this has been the case for a while now. It's been long enough ago that they disabled that setting in stock Firefox that I don't remember exactly when it happened.
SF vacancy rate is extremely low: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/21/18276227/vacancy-rate-san-jo...
I think I agree with your overall understanding. It would be interesting to learn what FSF's position is regarding WSL2.
There's also HTTP/JSON support.
30 year San Francisco resident. The issues San Francisco faces today are not from wealth inequality. That’s horse shit. It is in fact dysfunctional government. Also, you are mistaken about the genesis of San Francisco based tech versus the Valley. And you are wrong about the history of workers living in San Francisco and commuting to the Valley.
Let's say you gave me an atom. In this situation, you can't create other atoms. When you give me protons, electrons and neutrons, I can create any atom I like, in addition to anything else in the universe. Thus, when you give me an atom, you actually reduce the possibilities somewhat.

In reality, it's not just about the small number of constructs, but also about how fundamental they are. In one sense, atoms are less fundamental than protons/neutrons/electrons, and therefore reduce the number of possible creations.
With some of the worst neighbors I’ve had, the police killing them extrajudicially would be a positive outcome for me personally.
> I am surprised, but at the same time I'm aware that unfortunately there is an endemic lack of taking responsibility in many modern engineering professions. Software engineering being one of them.

There is no such thing as "Software Engineer". You can't get a Professional Engineering license for it, nor can you be sued for not adhering to standards.

The National Society for Professional Engineers (NSPE) was screaming for years that software people should not be allowed to call themselves engineers. They lost that battle, and here we are with your comment. And the all the resulting issues that the NSPE predicted.

> I recently watched a documentary about death penalty and how states couldn't get doctors to design the lethal injection because none would agree to work on it. I envy that doctors can have such integrity, but as a group we engineers have very little when money is involved.

This has nothing to do with integrity and everything to do with the fact that you could lose your medical license.

You would have to offer a doctor enough money to cover the rest of their career, and states are notoriously cheap.
Right, but is Uber going to offer light-rail ridesharing now? Many of these profitable systems have fixed public infrastructure in place that contributes to that variable profitability.
http://techrights.org/2009/07/15/ms-technical-evangelists-li...
Note that if Visa/MasterCars were to force two-factor (or 3DS how they call it) the cardster business would be severely hampered, as one could not simply copy dumb credit card numbers around.

But they do not so, because the fraud cost is paid by merchants (fines, fraud buffer in fee %) and ultimately the consumers as higher prices. Fraud does not hurt Visa/MasterCard bottom line.
Source escrow is an interesting concept. My initial thought it that would create huge perverse incentives. A company might continue to release small, nonsense updates to products they otherwise don't care about, just to avoid giving the source away. Meanwhile, as the owner of a device, I would be eagerly awaiting the death of the company, so I can get my hands on that juicy source code. I certainly wouldn't recommend their products! Anything to make them die more quickly.

It gets even more interesting when the "secret sauce" is in software. Say I market "SmartButton 1.0", which is nothing more than an ESP8266 connected to a button, but with some cunning algorithms and proprietary protocols that make it useful. Under an escrow system, I'll have a competitor on my hands the second I stop supporting SmartButton 1.0. Even if I'm already on SmartButton v19.
The only firmware code running after boot that UEFI mandates is not below ring 0 and is fully optional - called only if and when the OS asks for it. The UEFI runtime services table is not a kernel and is parked in ordinary memory waiting to be jumped to/called.

SMM is supported but not mandated, which is exactly how any hardware feature should be treated. Blame those enabling the SMM code you don't like. Or blame the hardware manufacturer for putting the feature in at all.

UEFI is not your enemy. Its only sin is being overly complicated, which is (somewhat) debatable given the complexity of systems and OSes needing to be bootable.
The Essence of Reynolds – “The Master” of PL Theory [pdf]
People have been saying that about California for more than 150 years (when the gold runs out, SF will turn into a ghost town, you’ll see!).
Recently I've been having peanut butter sandwiches and fruit for lunch. It really is a lot cheaper than buying lunch at a cafeteria, shop, or restaurant, and it seems to save time as well.
The Tragedy of the Sharing Economy – is there a better way forward?