skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chicago and Detroit also look pretty different economically. Detroit was overbuilt and depended too heavily on car manufacturing, which left it vulnerable to collapse. Chicago meanwhile is still a pretty decent sized transit hub, and it has the financial markets used to stabilize the price of a bunch of important commodities like grains and pork, which provided a diverse enough economy to stumble forwards despite nakedly corrupt and incompetent leadership.

The question is, how much wealth will leave SF? If some startups leave, it’ll probably look more like Chicago. Clearly bankrupt, but still functioning to some degree. If most startups and their employees leave, it’ll be the Detroit route for SF.
Did you read the article? It laments a lack of investment in:

* Affordable housing

* Public transit

* Green energy

Can you show me any of these items in the current Republican party platform, or even point to any local Republican-run government which has invested significantly in any of these?
https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=rec.autos.spor...

Was really suprised to see this, a page an a half of posts and healthy replies from just this last month. I really wonder what type of people still hang out there.
SF needs a Rudy Guiliani type.
Great. But the code has WAY too much comment spam.
No, but SF's byzantine planning and approval process jacks up the total cost to build to the point where it doesn't make financial sense to build low-end housing. That means the developer has to increase sale prices in order to turn a profit, which in turn means new landlords need to charge more rent to just break even.

If you consider that a newly constructed 750 sqft 1BR apartment can easily run $800k-$1M, a buyer is looking at $4-5k per month to cover the mortgage, property taxes, insurance, HOA, maintenance, etc. Do you really think a buyer is going to turn around and rent it out for $2k/mo?

For buildings wholly owned by a leasing company, the economics are better, but still not to the point where they're going to rent that out for under $3-4k/mo.
we really new way to store and access data. Some sites generate 2 GB per hour just for logs, let alone users uploading TBs of videos. 1 TB sounds a lot but it isn't. Imagine 4k security camera recording at 60 fps, 30 day back up videos, for 1 million customers. That's about 120 Gb * 30 * 10 * 1 million = 36000000 TB of data every month. Now do duo backups just in case and you need 72,000,000 TB of space.
For the bureaucrats, it's fantastic!
thats nonsense. The slimmest and fittest I ever was, was when I ate the most processed food in my life. I was cycling from my hometown in bavaria to nice in france. So I just had to eat all this garbage from the supermarket but it got burned immediatly. Funny that he gets downvoted he expressed his point in a very friendly way. I will just say it plainly: fat people are lazy. thats the reason they are fat. You can eat as much sugar and refined food as you want as long as you move around enough.
Yes. Stating that the product was useless due to FTP+SVN/USB drives was incorrect. The idea was a huge success. Dropbox just wasn't the one that got the reward.
Same here. I like the improved camera, and the poor man's LIDAR would put me over the line to buy as I could totally use that for 3D mapping, but otherwise, a new phone just doesn't give me much.

Recently, since us in Massively Lucky Tech World mostly work from home now, I've taken to leaving my phone in the bedroom and just wearing my smartwatch for 2FA stuff... and it's made my life better.

The compulsion to look at my Sadness Rectangle has been fading quite rapidly, I'm more focused on whatever my task-at-hand happens to be, and I'm spending more of my break time doing stuff that I want to do for me: reading one of my books, writing stuff, etc.
It’s quite easy for the wealthy to move their domicile and assets between states and even countries. The tricks lawyers, accountants, and estate planners can do run circles around tax authorities. They can’t close the loopholes as fast as new tricks are created.

The “if we only just seized money from the rich to solve all our problems” theorists are wrong on two major counts. First they expect to be able to seize the money, which as I described above is very unlikely. The second is that once they seize it once, they will be unable to seize it again as the wealthy don’t have any more assets or wise up.

The proper way out of the fiscal mess is to reform government and, if needed, increase taxes broadly and sustainably. I am not a Bernie Sanders supporter but he was the only one who straight-up said he would raise taxes on everyone, unlike every other candidate that was promising utopia by taking the money from billionaires. But everyone wants easy answers nowadays, no one wants to sacrifice, if it’s not something for nothing immediately then it’s a non-starter.
Let it sink in that East Palo Alto, former murder capital of USA has less crime per-capita than San Francisco.

East Palo Alto is a shining example of how a township/city can clean up its streets in a short time period, by investing in the community.

SF = 2018 was 690.89 per 100,000 population
EPA = 2018 was 470.14 per 100,000 population

Src:
EPA = https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/east-palo-alto/crim...
SF = https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/crime...
That drives me nuts. I don't see an explanation in the article for why there are just six irregular cells in the whole grid. It does mention that it's "in part to accommodate the southern half of the Kingdom of Norway", despite the system having been developed by the US or maybe Germany. Why Norway? Why only Norway?
If we like the stress implied in "begging", I think we can replace (mis)use of the form "this begs the question: ..." with "this begs us to ask: ..."
I was hoping so badly that the rumors were wrong and even the smallest option came in a full featured pro version. I don't get these enormous phones except for older folks who struggle with small controls. All options are super frustrating to me. Small, touch id and best camera is what I want.
I don’t understand how engineers can read the actual text of the Question and think this is a good idea...

> shall be required to equip such vehicles with an inter-operable, standardized and open access platform across all of the manufacturer’s makes and models.

What is a “platform” in this context? The vehicle is supposed to be equipped with one, so presumably not a cloud server then?

Inter-operable with what? Other manufacturers? Standardized how and by whom? What does “open access” mean in this context?

Does this run on the car? In the cloud? How do you connect to it? Remember this is a legal requirement, not a spec that can just be revised.

> Such platform shall be capable of securely communicating all mechanical data emanating directly from the motor vehicle via direct data connection to the platform.

So I think this is saying that all mechanical data which is emanating from the vehicle must also be made available by connecting directly to “the platform” but you could read it two or three other ways.

> Such platform shall be directly accessible by the owner of the vehicle through a mobile-based application and, upon the authorization of the vehicle owner, all mechanical data shall be directly accessible by an independent repair facility

As supposed to the ODBII port which is the current standard, now we have a “mobile-based application” which the “owner” of the vehicle uses to directly access the “platform”.

I don’t know how the car is supposed to know who the owner is, let alone the original manufacturer of the car.

But then after somehow authenticating the owner on this mobile based application there’s also going to be a way to authorize your repair shop to do the same?

So perhaps repair shops are registered with this platform and I can select them from a list, or maybe after I’m magically authenticated I send them an email and they open that on their phone and click a link which send a message to an app which... wait what?

> limited to the time to complete the repair or for a period of time agreed to by the vehicle owner for the purposes of maintaining, diagnosing and repairing the motor vehicle.

Oh yeah and these access tokens are also time limited and revocable.

> Access shall include the ability to send commands to in-vehicle components if needed for purposes of maintenance, diagnostics and repair.

So I’m just not following at all the level of complexity here and the huge number of red flags on legislation which is trying to spell out a technical solution instead of just spelling out the effect.

We don’t need an open access inter-operable standardized data platform providing direct and delegatable remote control via mobile application to mechanical control systems. We really don’t.

I would be a lot happier if it simply said that manufacturers must provide documented vendor extensions to the ODBII port to cover any new data streams.
This "article" is from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank.
I think you are misinterpreting the post you are replying to. Any single-party system devolves into graft and cronyism as the politicians aren't held accountable for their actions. After all, what are you going to do, waste your vote on the other side?
The next iPhone box would be empty, we would have to pay another $1000 to get the iPhone; For the planet.
The other thing is that SF's political leadership is put into leadership positions by voters; one could just as easily say, "SF voters have squandered a fortune."
Excuse me for having an incorrect opinion.

Butterfly bad. Gib upboat.
My comment didn't say that the product was useless, and it certainly didn't shit on the idea of an online storage solution. In that thread, I was saying that I already had an online storage solution, and it was working pretty well for me. When I said the notorious "quite trivially" phrase, I was in fact predicting that it would be easy for every other tech company to jump on the same boat.

Regarding USBs, Dropbox's messaging at the time was "throw out your USB drives", and this was before smartphones or ubiquitous dependable network connections. At the time, if I had to give a presentation in a university classroom, Dropbox wasn't moving the bar much on that particular problem.
Upgrade culture is unethical and toxic
This is good data but hard to imagine financial corruption being the only reason the city is a toilet. Take for example the fact that open drug use and public defecation isn’t even a crime here.
No need. git init, and you've just made a new repo in local directory. You can't make it simpler and as powerful.
if you do the math, it's expensive to let a unit sit for more than a couple months as opposed to offering a discount on the rent. This assumes your tenant will turnover in a couple years time, mind you.

I did the math for SF and IIRC ~2mo was equal to a 15% discount. if it sits empty for longer than 2mo, you should have just given the 15% discount. if you let is sit for 2mo AND have to give a 15% discount, now you've really fucked your finances up.
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These are mentally ill people who are living in tents on the street.

What are they supposed to do?

How are the city managers supposed to solve that problem?

Would love to hear policy proposals for how to tackle it in a humanitarian fashion. I don't have any answers. It's a tremendously complex problem.

LA hasn't solved it either. Neither has Las Vegas, or San Diego.
I own the base station, which is pretty close to what you are describing. Apparently the base station pro is different.
Sounds like a great way to get a multi sport IOC ban. Those athletes that win medals will get intense international scrutiny, I suspect consistent faking of records will get found out eventually.

Anyways, just because some participants may cheat doesn’t inherently mean a rule isn’t worth making.
Same here. And then the touch ID on the SE!
As much as a handful of rich people like to piss and moan about it, Seattle’s more progressive politics will probably be its saving grace because it has allowed it to still be somewhat affordable for people other than its tech workers.
The claims by and around Wim Hof are often pretty absurd. I wouldn't go so far as to call him a charlatan, but there's a sliding scale and he's more to one side than the other.

I'm sure there's _some_ benefit to breathing techniques, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were at about the level of 'general exercise and wellbeing'.
I believe there's a low-calorie treatment pioneered by a research group out of Oxford University a few years ago. The treatment was shown to send type II into remission.

It's currently available on the NHS in the UK:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/diabetes/treatment-care/low-calor...
> I personally "broke" my crashplan account a year or two ago.

CrashPlan lost some of my data some time in 2012/13, blaming it on how they work with Windows's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

I should have stopped my subscription there and then, but I continued subscribing for another 2 years, probably because I was anxious about needing something else that was in the file retention history.

It wasn't a very good service anyway — slow to upload, often stopping mysteriously, and requiring 1GB of RAM for every 1TB backed up.
I propose a moratorium on all analogies using, and discussions on, agricultural practices on any media based in the Bay Area or NYC. Not beating up on these posters. But geez, people...

Our generation is unique in the history of the world in the social and cultural chasm between the vast majority of first-world people and the agricultural systems that generate their food. Practically everything written off-the-top on agricultural sciences and practices by this generation by the average smart person on these sites, although it sounds simple and logical, is somewhere between naive and wrong. A hundred years ago this wasn’t true. It is now.

As analogies, it is not worth the off-topic thread to clarify things.

On actual practices, farmers have better things to do than correct posters on these sites. It’s harvest season for most of them, they have enough problems. Although bean prices are up, so many are smiling...
Using a proper dslr or mirrorless does make a measurable difference in terms of the depth of focus, aperture, image size, speed, etc. The lenses in the latest iphone can't really compete with a quality camera lens.

However as I mentioned those cameras are not fun to carry around all day unlike my phone. They are bulky and heavy, so I prefer not to use them except in important events or just around the house. And these days phone cameras are getting rather good for the average user's use case like posting to instagram.
What did it say that was inflammatory?
if you want the one thing that will work, though with a much less polished very un-Apple-y design, this is expensive, huge, and it will work basically edge to edge.

I will say having used it, I understand why Apple axed the idea. It is huge and gets hot and I assume it is thicker than Airpower would have been.

https://www.theverge.com/21242641/zens-liberty-review-wirele...
I've never been a Tesla owner, so I'm not speaking of experience. But from what I see on various YouTube reviews, in urban areas, it's pretty close.

Are there anything specific that you feel are nowhere close?
Ah. Then there really isn't any completely voice activated solution on the market that can sort your needs. They're all so cloud-focused.
Local elections in SF are actually quite competitive, thanks to both jungle primaries and ranked choice voting.

Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won't have a candidate to support in the general.
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When the letter is full of bad news, just shoot the messenger.
I haven't listened to them but can recommend the Medlife Crisis episode [0], in which he reviews the scientific literature around the effects of cold exposure, blood oxygenation/acidity from hyper-/hypoventilation, and related topics. He comes to the conclusion that Wim Hof is likely a genetic outlier, but that breathing techniques can have real physiological effects on things like pain perception, and that cold exposure likely has a bunch of real benefits – but also that placebo may play a big role (which is nevertheless a very real effect).

[0] https://youtu.be/D6EPuUdIC1E?t=2215 (timestamped to the conclusions)
IME, sf has falled 20-30% even in desirable neighbourhoods.

You can get a recently renovated 3 bedroom with laundry and dishwasher, in a desirable area for $4500. Those bedrooms weren't going for less than $2k a year ago.
Is there something in the article that’s untrue? It’s not like the state of the city is a secret.
Why haven’t the Democrats who have ran this city done any of that is the point of the article. Your looking to republicans. It’s a liberal run city.
I recently moved from Manhattan to outside New York (for reasons mostly unrelated to the pandemic; my roommate decided to move in with his significant other, and I didn't want to pay for a 1 BR in Manhattan). The building we used to live in did officially originally say the rent would be increased for the next year, but when we told them we weren't staying, they pivoted and offered us three extra months for free if we signed on. I'm not sure if this is evidence for or against your statement that rent isn't falling much in New York, but I thought it was an interesting data point.
before the pandemic, the city doubled in size every day to 1.6m folks, during working hours which would reduce the ratio by 1/2

The city also includes the airport, which alone employs a mix of 30k public and non public workers.

Finally, SF is unique in that is both a city and a county, so all of the sherifs/jail workers/county transit workers are employed by the city itself, which inflates numbers relative to other cities.

I do not know what the true number of residents per public worker is, but my point is that the numbers are a lot more complicated than what you present here.
Not really. Atomic broadcast is equivalent to the consensus problem. VS itself can be turned into Paxos and vice versa via shuffling of details. All of the performance optimizations the VS sales literature pushes so hard are just as possible atop Paxos, and in fact are done now in practice. It's just a divide of concepts/terminology for the most part.
By making Autopilot available but requiring that you're paying attention and ready to take over, Tesla is getting you to perform the testing of the Autopilot feature for free while the vehicle collects data for improving the system. Very clever business model.
It would have been a lot more fun if capital M Monopoly as you wrote it actually meant the game Monopoly.

Anyway all I can really offer is to flame and stress less, if there’s something exciting about economics and journalism to you just focus on that. Don’t shoehorn the wonky excitement into something sideways-adjacent to FAAMG companies.
Wow.. so violent crime in SF has the same rate as death by covid19? Puts things into perspective..
I've been living in the bay area for 16 years, and SF for the past 10. I love it here, and absolutely would live here regardless of my employer's stance on remote work.

Just because your tastes are different, it doesn't mean most other people agree with you. For some it does make rational sense to stay, and for others rationality isn't the driving force, and there's nothing wrong with that.

(Though I guess you said "SFO". I wouldn't want to live in that airport either.)
There's also one by Yes Theory that is very cool.
They dropped it in 2015. The old airport express has audio out as well.
I still miss the thread visualization that MacSOUP used. Much easier to follow up on new posts in threads than the modern inline/indent format used by sites like HN and Reddit. https://faqintosh.com/risorse/common/ecg/204/it/msgwin.png
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It seems all too frequent that this is the outcome of many things in the US. Like universities and healthcare. More and more money becomes less and less effective. When there's so much demand and so little supply, it seems the suppliers of things (e.g. effective governing) care lesser the more it's demanded.
I hope no one feels 'not needing to upgrade' is a 'bad thing'

It's a testament to Apple's build quality and long term support that you don't need to upgrade.

Samsung and Android are big on the half baked gimmicks and lackluster supports. Those phones you have to upgrade after a few years as they become more bloated than a Windows 95 machine bought from CompUSA.
The real link is https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/jad7rp/upgrade_cult...

Now... Good luck getting the average apple users listening to that.
Previously, on Hacker News...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230988

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20041139
And apparently the left is approximately the same because they totally dominate there and yet none of this is fixed.
It’s a 2 hour drive minimum between the two... If they are one big mega-city then Sacramento is part of the bay area.
> Municipal employment has eaten up a large share. Salaries and benefits account for almost 45 percent of the budget, averaging $175,004 per employee, in a city where median household income is $96,265.

This is not fair. Comparing salaries + benefits to income is an apples to oranges comparison.
Maybe rot13 the words you think you need to censor? That'd be in keeping with the usenet tradition at least from the mid-late 90s when I was reading/posting heavily. And maybe add a simple javascript ROT13 widget so people can easily reveal it? (There was a time in my life when I could read ROT13-ed things pretty accurately in my head.)
So manhattan is to sf as nyc is to the bay?

you ignore a lot of other industry around the bay and around nyc. Neither Queens nor Fremont are representative of the other areas, neither is Brooklyn or Oakland. Or Berkeley. Or Bronx.
Is the HTML that Hugo generates semantic and does it contain the usual metadata that search engines use?
We throw away our power as engineers working for other people
Wow, where are the parents? I mean bad parents here and there I expect, but enough to fuel an international industry is a surprise...
>Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won't have a candidate to support in the general.

Who can I vote for to enforce copyright protection on my genes by forcing women to have abortions if they did not receive my permission to conceive?
Being able to make these decisions means understanding a wide variety of potential moving pieces. Getting broad exposure is a key theme.

I recommend reading this specifically; this is basically an education in production systems, and covers a lot of ground. :)

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
> It's the low frequency words that contain most information in a sentence.

This is an incredibly insightful point.