skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in SF. I consider myself very liberal. I know it's not the political orthodox for people on the left, but I will say, it is bad. It is very bad. You learn to live with it, but it's far worse than any other city i've ever lived in.

I think it's a direct result of a complete and utter lack of real estate development, but the fact of the matter is people shit in the street here, regularly. People shoot up heroin openly here. Needles littered on the streets here is normal. People smoke meth and crack, openly.

If you don't want to see it, you can avoid it with a car, but i bike and take transit.

The tenderloin is drug dealers and junkies. 16th and Mission is mentally ill people. Haight is crustypunks. Besides that, there are more normal things like people in tents in parks and under the highways.

I've seen things more like this in places on the west coast, but i've never seen the type of open and welcome drug dependency except in this region. I definitely am supportive of giving addicts a way to get help or even use in a healthy, non-threatening setting that is safe and separated from the rest of us going about our lives, but that's not what's happening.
Yeah I'm definitely not saying anything bad about the Dragon book here.

But I know there's a recency bias when people are evaluating tech books, so if there's a good book from the last five years I'll recommend that over a great book from the last 15, just so there's a higher chance of the recommendation actually being used.
Consider your choice of field carefully. I loved programming and yet doing it for a living and climbing the ladder made me start hating it. IMHO the tech field is overrun with young, bright, energetic people, most of whom are dreamers with their own private techno-utopian fantasies who secretly harbor the belief they'll be multi-millionaires or billionaires in a few short years. Dreamers are mostly innocent but there are lots of cutthroat assholes and psychopaths (as there are in many fields). The blood (money) in the water attracts some seriously disturbed people. Greed is everywhere, and in many forms.

Do something you love that doesn't require you to compromise your morals.

I wish I had been a musician. I wish I had focused on finding the right mate instead of so many nights programming, even though it brought me some fame and some money. I'm a little fucked up because I chose tech over loving the right person, and they are gone now.
https://youtu.be/lL6GdUHIBsM

Video by YC partner Adora Cheung

TL;DW - 99% of companies should use revenue as their primary KPI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21154309
How long would an HA switchover like that take?

Is your “slave” master off to the side, getting data streamed from your “hot” master the whole time to stay up?
Is this really a good thing?

1. Indiscriminate collection by law enforcement is bad to start with.

2. Since we agree it was bad to collect such data, we’re going to set a precedent that law enforcement can’t have exclusive rights to that data. Instead, now some legal process allows bureaucrats or justices to give data improperly collected about me to third party private agencies that I’m not familiar with.

This is supposed to be a win for me? If data was improperly collected, it should be deleted. I don’t care how much value Org X thinks it can derive from that data and how many government employees Org X can persuade to share it with them.

I gather from comments here that EFF has a laudable mission and track record, but the reputation or purpose of the organization in question is orthogonal to the reasonableness of the data sharing precedent.

Perhaps I’m missing some crucial facts?
The best "startup" desk that I've seen used often, and even brought to my home office is using the Ikea melltorp dinner table as a desk:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/melltorp-table-white-s19011777/

It's sizable, metal framed with a tabletop (not 4 legs screwed into a top), and $69.
I've found great utility in a pair of little stick-on round mirrors.
Strictly, to the IDE they should both be equally readable. In many cases, an IDE could fill in the from just based on the columns selected.
Qualify ?
Despite the clearly conservative leanings of this article (and I consider myself a moderate liberal) on this issue I whole-heartedly agree. I live in San Francisco, and to be quite honest the city is a disgrace. At what point do we draw the line between “let’s not lock people up for stupid reasons” and “literally anything goes whatsoever”. This city’s well-intentioned voters and government have created a monster. The city is disgusting. I would not advise anyone to visit. Recently some out of town friends visited and were horrified. They were accosted multiple times by homeless people. The trash, drug use and general squalor has gone completely overboard. And what’s the response? More services, more spending, more drug programs. And it’s just getting worse! I pay a massive premium to live here, but next year I’m moving out of the city.

It’s really sad to see so many people desperate and poor, but we essentially told them to come here, that we would pay for services for them and also, feel free to commit any crimes you want. Ridiculous.
They were built before environmental regulation was implemented, the same as the US interstate system. None of those could be built today as cheaply or easily as pre-1970s. If at all.
That was the policy in my university library (Texas A&M).

It works great.

The only thing that would be awesome on top of that is the ability to get a notification when someone wants to check out the book that I'm holding.
"Well, we're not a real third world city you see - just a techno-dystopia."
Aaaaaaand now I'm homesick!
With a lot of nested joins, both options suck. You are best abstracting. So, likely a view.
I’ve lived in SF for 10 years and my family of 4 is finally moving out. Part of it is economic as we can’t really afford to raise kids here. Part of it is rapid deterioration of public spaces. The breaking point was someone blocking my apartment door by shooting up heroin when I brought my newborn son home from the hospital.

It’s not bad everywhere. The Marina, Noe, Pac Heights, Cole Valley, Outer Sunset, and parts of Richmond districts all manage to keep their neighborhoods clean. The mission feels like a 3rd world country.

I’m democrat but I would most certainly vote in a hard line republican DA to take a stand. I’m done having my car broken into and literally shat on. I’m tired of seeing piles and piles of trash like we’re living in some kind of garbage mound. People just don’t care.

It wasn’t this bad even 3 years ago, but it’s certainly taken a turn for the worse. It’s untenable.
California is a big state of which San Francisco is a small part (2.2% population wise to be specific). San Francisco could be a disaster zone and the state stats would hardly budge.
yes, we collectively take the potential for some people to abuse it, because the cost of those people abusing it is lower than the cost of not providing universal welfare.

The lack of fallback welfare means that businesses can underpay employees because employment without fallback is not a free market. It restricts who can create new startups to essentially the rich or well connected, again because you need something to fall back on when your startup fails - which most do.

All social welfare systems (UBI or whatever) work with the very basic observation that it is cheaper over all to provide the services even if some people abuse it.
If they had prior data on their spending to compare against, that would be interesting to see if anything changed immediately.
The argument that building new buildings "displaces" people is nonsense. In fact, I'd argue that more people are displaced by not building, due to supply constraints. Wealthy people will always be able to outbid others, and if supply doesn't keep up with demand people will be displaced.

Also, nobody is entitled to live anywhere they want at whatever price they want. It's this attitude that drives so many "affordable" housing programs that are complete failures (and a tax on the middle class).
It's good that that much despair eats at you--it means you are human. A former editor of the Street Sheet wrote a nice article about how people can respond to the homeless that we encounter:
https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-be-a-better-neighbor...

What the article doesn't cover though is the silicon valley obsession with scale. A lot of us walk by the homeless either implicitly or explicitly thinking we are going to a job that is going to change the world. And that may be true.

But there's a different school of thought that the most effective social change is done locally--where you personally know the people and the issues. So I would encourage people who still live in San Francisco to get involved in local politics/charity.

(I say this as a former San Franciscan, 1st-12th grade + two startups).
The Choice Function Framework for Online Policy Improvement
FOIA is "some legal process". If we don't want that data getting out, we shouldn't allow its collection.
Why would you say that? At what point during product shipment from factory to distribution center or retail outlet is the product actually investment free, as in, no money went into the product that hasn't been recovered back from it?
I'm glad you like it! I initially used a bare git repo, but I didn't like the complex setup. I typically only work on my desktop machine but as I travel more for work I have to keep my canonical emacs and window manager configurations synchronized between devices, and Python is almost always available.
Lessons in YAGNI: Patreon's “*_hack” methods and why they're not
Yep, and it is college application season!
I know a number of teachers, and there are quite strict mandatory reporting policies for when child abuse is even suspected.

The reality is that the organizations responsible for looking into these reports of abuse only have enough resources to investigate those where the child's life is in immediate danger.

The venn diagrams of "internet chat surveillance" and 'solutions to the problems of child abuse" are mutually exclusive.

Politicians are grossly morally corrupt to use child abuse as an argument against encryption when they're the ones controlling the purse strings for Child Services-type organizations. Feathering their own nests at the cost of actual, real progress on protecting children from abuse.
Disagree all you want, but I can walk into any grocery store in America and get a day’s worth of we’ll balanced nutrition for under $3.
> The problem is Americas version of left is "I will do nothing to help you but I won't intervene if you do drugs on the street"

That's because the dominant faction of America’s “left”-er party is neoliberal centrist. The actual left would do more, but even in cities with a leftier reputation doesn't tend to have the power to.
Can confirm. I get FAANG pay as a remote worker in a low COL state. It's a cool place.
I just took a look at clash. HDL describes state in a very real way. Trying to represent stateful hardware using a functional language is just too complicated. I hate these toy examples of “look how easy an FIR filter is.” An FIR filter isn’t hard to write in Verilog to begin with. The real headache of Verilog is generate statements and multidimensional array indexing. And both of those problems are readily solved by System Verilog, System C, or any of the myriad of Verilog generators.
> Paper books provide privacy.

Wasn't sneak n' peek on library records one of the sticking points of the Patriot Act?
Flight shaming hits air travel
A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean
In fact less people may help in some cases.
The problem is any accident at that speed everyone on the train or near vicinity is toast. Even a plane coming in to land is around 300km/h.
What does accosted by homeless people mean? I’ve lived in SF over 5 years and I’ve yet to be physically touched or yelled at by one.

Now what DOES happen often is someone is loudly talking or yelling to themselves, and if you look at them or get close to them then they may react to you. I just steer clear of the craziness. Maybe your friends got caught up in that?
My grandmother only slept for 3 hours a night for most of her life before she died. She was 92.
The constitution does not specify that one's speech must be intelligible to the government. Governmental restrictions on strong encryption plainly violate the 1st amendment.
>Reason probably is that, at long distance, lower air resistance at height starts to count.

This isn't as big a factor as you might think. While older aircraft were optimized for design/cruise altitude, modern jets are designed to account for the imposed altitude restrictions and speed limits of departure and approach. They also have a much wider/efficient operating envelope, and due to improved logistics, are dispatched, loaded, and operated more appropriately wrt to flight plan profiles.
FOIA doesn’t usually involve my personal data as a typical private citizen. Personal data that can potentially be traced back to me and affect my life in negative ways. It usually involves data about the work that the government itself is doing... work that is funded with my tax dollars and involving data that ostensibly can’t be used to harm me personally. Data sharing increases the attack surface for that data... considering I never consented to that data being collected in the first place, the supposed government of the people should be working very hard to make sure my data isn’t abused or hacked.

Agreed on the latter statement though.
It should be easier to detect if they're reading it at the ends because they'd then have to retransmit the data to Facebook with a different key.
Perhaps that contributes to why the problem exists in the first place? Out of sight out of mind?
Ask HN: How to stand out at career fairs?
I’m a sophomore undergrad currently going through the recruitment process for summer. I go to a large-ish school (20,000 undergrad) and our career fairs are _crowded_

How can I stand out to the recruiter? My resume is unconventional and I’m (I think) competent at networking, but it still just feels like a numbers game. Is that all career fairs are? Or have you had different experiences where something worked for you?
Less rote stuff to commit to memory all the better
Canada has an ongoing territorial dispute with Denmark, concerning Hans Island way up north.

There is military action. Canadian and Danish forces repeatedly take possession of the island, taking down the enemy flag and planting their own. They are also said to leave a bottle of Canadian whisky or Danish schnaps for the other side.

Prospects of lethal escalation are presumably limited.
Yup, gives me hope that one day SF can improve.
Unfortunately vast swathes of the population are not able to process nuance. Even if you gently point out that North Korea is probably one of the few "crime free" societies they don't seem to parse that a world of total security cannot coexist in a nation that values freedom.
Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Benioff
I mostly ride motorcycle. always super annoyed/amazed when I drive a car at how shit visibility is. Not only all the blind spots but also how low your vision is. I can see over most cars and can always lift up on pegs if I need to see further.
no worries. On your github you have all the point clouds, so I’ll give it a shot one of these days. If you mathematize the distribution, you get a lot more mileage for your results because you get interpretation for free. Changing moments (skew etc) will sufficiently alter the dist while being imperceptible visually.
Many libraries will let you renew checked out books online, without cost, as long as nobody has placed a hold on it in the meantime. For me, that would work ok --- if I had put off reading it, but someone else wanted to, I'd get it back right away; but if I could renew it, then I'd be ok putting it off a little more.
I hear this a lot, and while it may be true for the core platform, the American left have some of the most extreme progressive views in the world, for example, on abortion.
Take the $250 million per year that SF spends on homeless. Direct half of it into building and operating a lunatic asylum. Direct the other half into building and operating a work-house.
For me, that article and the lecture it talks about planted the seed, and then a year or two of doing data engineering type work watered and fertilized it.

That observation on `Maybe` really hit home in a big way. Not at first. Eventually. I used to think that banning null and using `Maybe` instead was the best idea ever. I still love the basic idea, and wish I could always work that way. . . but nowadays I'm so frequently working in the limit case, where everying is either optional, or used to be optional, or will be optional in the future, or is officially required but somebody didn't get the memo. And it's like in some Zen parable where the student keeps getting hit with a stick until they're enlightened. Bruised, bloodied, and enlightened. You either have it or you don't. む.
Maybe we should make election day a national holiday.
> It's a hard sell. Just picture a politician on live television having to choose between having this cute little child being raped for years before they commit suicide (letting the perpetrators off the hook), or ramp up the surveillance a bit. Picture them choosing rape.

This was tried by a Canadian Minister at one point to sell surveillance in this extreme way:

> In February 2012, as Minister, Toews introduced the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act (also known as Bill C-30).[118][119] The bill, which made no mention of children or "Internet predators" outside of its title,[120] would have granted police agencies expanded powers, mandate that internet service providers (ISPs) provide subscriber information without a warrant and compel providers to reveal information transmitted over their networks with a warrant. When criticised about privacy concerns, Toews responded that people "can either stand with us or with the child pornographers."[121]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Toews#Federal_Minister_of_...

The legislation in question went down in flames as plenty of people sided "with the child pornographers":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Children_from_Inter...
Isn’t the intent of this to estimate the temperature of the ocean including the deep ocean which ARGO isn’t able to cover? It would be interesting to compare this to ATOC based measurements.
> He's spent countless hours tirelessly denying the existence of programs that have subsequently been proven to exist.

Any chance you could list an example or two?
Modern SF doesn't really tolerate local solutions. Many neighborhoods do invest in efforts to keep their streets clean and drug-free, and when they do activists come from other neighborhoods to yell at them for being heartless. And if the city decides it'd like to move a bunch of homeless people into your neighborhood, you're expected to accept it as your part in solving the citywide homelessness problem.
The problem with charging a fine is that by providing a mechanism for penance it reduces the pressure for those people who are prepared to pay fines to actually return the books on time.

The more affluent therefore work under different rules than the less well off, and can be "justified" in keeping books longer than they otherwise should. This probably explains why in the article they found a reduction in late returns when they abolished the fines.
This looks like a bunch of jibberish to me, mostly pretending it's easy by making it look like a comic.
> You can’t really hijack a train to hit a specific building, as you can with a plane.

Setting aside hijacking, which would not be the mechanism for a train attack anyway, the more likely attack on an airplane is suicidal self destruction at this point I would think, with all the new mechanisms in place.

If TSA is this silly with planes, given the relative lack of attractive plans open to attackers now, what makes you think they won't get even sillier with trains than they already have.

As for hitting a specific building, that depends: does your high speed rail line pass near any attractive targets? If the train is 800,000kg (not unreasonable I think?) and is travelling at the rated 280m/s or thereabouts, that's about 31GJ (please check my math) or 7.5 ton TNT equivalent of sheer momentum that can be convinced to continue travelling in an undesirable direction.

Seems like it may be a bit of a risk, at least enough that somebody could be convinced to thoroughly screen passengers.
How much does speeding increase accidents? Is it more than everything else we could do? Is there something else, cellphone banning, driver skill requirements that we would be much more effective we should be putting our effort into?
The mortgage price as a ratio to median income has gone up since then (nearly doubled iirc).
> Windows open nature results in more bugs and thus a worse user experience. It’s an inherent issue with open platforms relating to increased surface area for bugs to occur.

I think you are making an unsupported, and likely wrong, logical leap that windows' open nature results in a poorer user experience. I think by far the most likely reason an app/game maker wouldn't decide to support windows is the associated cost of supporting another platform. But many triple A titles do support windows and absorb the cost because in the long run it opens up the use of their product to a wider range of people. And Sony for instance is incentivized to not support windows in the games they produce because they have a competing platform, the play station. By making games exclusive to ps4, they incentivize users to buy their platform. But most games and apps are supported in windows because not supporting windows would result in missing out on a huge chunk of people.

Also BTW Mac OS is also open, you can install stuff outside the app store. Why don't you mention that? Is osx also buggy and provides a bad user experience due to its open nature? I ultimately don't understand the argument at all because no one is forcing the user to install anything, they can pick and choose between apps that they want. There are bad actor apps out there, sure. But if the user only installs well known and reviewed apps the chances of malware are low. Also Windows defender also goes a long way in protecting the system from bad actor apps. Finally, the only reason why you might be more likely to encounter more bad actors in the windows ecosystem than osx for example is due to how popular and ubiquitous windows is. And so I just don't buy the argument that open ecosystems result in a poorer user experience. Even if you write off windows as buggy and terrible, osx is a great counterexample to this argument, imo.

And finally, I'd pick the possibility of accidentally installing a shitty app on my computer over only being able to install apple/Microsoft approved apps any day of the year. This is primarily the reason I use android. Locking down the platform simply drives off a lot of users.
Apple Arcade and the Mobile Gaming Revolution
There is a similar game that is available for Android and iOS called Calculords (http://calculords.com/)
The goal is to apply arithmetic operations on a set of numbers in order to get outputs which correspond to your available attacks. It is not as strict as Num, where only one output is expected.

I like this solver, which uses a dynamic programming/search approach to find solutions. https://github.com/SomeKittens/calculords-solver