skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I largely agree, I’d raise some limits about the basic principle that people will move their domicile to avoid taxes. People do move to avoid taxes all the time, but it’s nowhere near as simple as saying that people will quickly move to wherever taxes are the lowest; people will tolerate some level of higher tax if they feel that it’s worth it for whatever reason.

At the low income end, that’s been CA for decades. CA is a higher tax state than other places, but they could get away with it because people wanted to live in CA, and were willing to pay for it. It helps that the really desirable areas of CA are a long way away from other states, making leaving the state kind of a pain in the butt. It’ll be interesting to see how Covid changes that around.

Even at the higher level, we don’t see a ton of millionaires and billionaires renouncing their citizenship and moving to wherever the taxes are the lowest. Some do, but a lot stay in the US because living in the US is a really nice place to be if you’re rich. They might move to the lower tax states, but that’s as far as they’re willing to go.

The issue for SF specifically is a bit like the issue for NYC; it’s relatively small and really close to a bunch of places within commuting distance that have lower tax rates. Compared to leaving even CA, leaving SF specifically is really easy.

And FWIW, I think that the tax thing is a bit overblown; I think housing costs are the real problem. I’m leaving CA (Los Angeles) next month for another state, and while I’ll save a bit on taxes, it’s nothing compared to what I’ll save on housing costs. Four months of owning a home will save me enough over my 2bd LA apartment to obliterate any difference in income taxes for the year.
>Meanwhile a friend of mine flat refused to even consider buying any such device, from any vendor, because he's concerned about being spied on.

I solved this problem for my HomePod by denying it outgoing internet access on my router. Bonjour-based AirPlay support works great, and if Siri somehow became activated by accident despite my disabling it on the device, nothing could be sent to Apple.
I was thinking the same thing, but on second thought I already have a multitude of USB-A and USB-C to lightning cables and chargers all over the house and ready to go in my backpacks.
Well, lettuce has not been inflated by FED (yet), why would stocks have been?
I live in SF, and your post is bizarre:

- affordable housing - for who? with our confines - how?

Currently 60% of the $300 million in city "homeless funds" pay for subsidized apartments, presumably low-income residents.

- public transit - is relatively good (pre-corona.) SF Muni needs to retain senior transport engineers to prevent fiascos like buying the wrong length street cars, and how to side around non-operating cars. Otherwise the problem is that the workers (unionized) are allowed to call in sick 30% of the time, so an extra 30% has to be hired.

- green energy - don't see how this is important compared to other issues. street cars are already electrified.
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Motion sensor:
https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Motion-Sensor-Installation-Fr...

Power strips:
https://www.imore.com/best-homekit-power-strips

Most philips hue products are Homekit compatible, if you have a hue bridge.

As far as the “best” lighting/switch products, I would recommend Lutron Caseta. Not cheap though!

If you’d like to reliably detect when someone is home (their phone is on wifi), you can dive into Homebridge. The plug-in you want is this:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-people

With the homebridge-people plugin, you can expose an occupancy sensor in Homekit, and trigger a scene when everyone leaves the house, for example. Or the inverse, when someone arrives home. This is more reliable than the built in Homekit location based triggers, because those work with GPS. You don’t always want your lights turning on just because you drove past your house. :)
Although the "data problem" is already well known by all ML and RL engineers/researchers (with varying degree depending on what one works on), it's an innovative and concise post that really boils it down. It's particularly important for modeling and when you have to generate all the data on your own.
Social media companies definitely won’t use this to increase the addictiveness of their product tho, so we’re thankfully safe /s
I used to use Giganews for usenet, but got away from it recently and stopped paying for reasons. Those of you still participating in usenet, what provider do you use these days?
It's also hard. I used to do the same morning cold plunge as you. I have stopped, sometime in the last couple of months, because like any good habit, it needs to be maintained.

I am going to commit to doing this again tomorrow, though, because I remember that it makes me feel good.
It does often seem that the new feature causing people to upgrade more than any other is that the new model hasn't yet been dropped--parking lot, toilet, etc. #2 is battery. "We think you'll find the new iPhone has been dropped less than any iPhone we've ever made and has a newer battery...."
Public policy is tremendously complex, and difficult to do well.

Before boiling down large, complex government programs to simple dysfunction and corruption, I recommend a read-through of Deborah Stone's book Policy Paradox. It gives you some idea of what real policymakers are up against in the real world. The city managers are optimizing for the preferences of a million people in a city with geographic restrictions and tremendous external factors at play.

https://wwnorton.com/books/Policy-Paradox

"Policy Paradox offers a needed alternative (or complement) to economics-based or rational choice books that treat policy making and policy analysis as distinct from one another—the former as a messy political process, the latter as a clinical, "rational" exercise."
Certainly not this one simple example in a single device (vehicle). I don’t know where our 3/4 G limits are but I think if you multiply the data transmission by many millions of devices and many millions of reasons to communicate, it’s possible it would put a strain on our present network capacity.
Even Sanders said he wouldn’t raise taxes under $250,000. Which shows that none of this talk is serious.
No, you inhale through your nose all the way, then exhale but not all the way out, to the point where you would be pushing it out if you let out more. Repeat 30-40 times. It is circular and continuous, you don't pause. Then exhale all the way out after your 35th cycle. Hold until you feel the intense urge to breath. Then inhale and hold for 15 seconds.

Repeat above 4-5 times. Optional: On the last rep, see how many push ups you can do when you fully exhale. Most people can do 30 to 50% past their max.
> Clearly you know more

(Guh, didn't mean to come off as pompous! I was surprised when I realized this a while back and thought it would be interesting to share).

Anyway, you're correct: low-light photography is where there's been more recent progress, but it's mostly via computational imagery. Having a depth sensor for portrait shots has helped improve the simulated bokeh, as well.

My Google Pixel 1 takes fractionally worse nighttime shots as a current-gen pixel 4. They're both usable, but the pixel 4 is much faster at getting the shot.
Because it's 2020, election season, and "hackers" should know how to recognize when an agenda is being pushed.

I stated the source of the article. And, look at that, my comment was flagged.
This is not because of crime, this is because upper-middle-class families in the US, especially in the bay area, play the "chase the school district" game in hopes that their kids will get a "better education" (which means being with other upper-middle class folks), despite it being a terrible idea both for society and for their kids.
IIRC, 'Dirty Sanchez' is a slang term for a sexual act.
Whitespace was created by Edwin Brady, notably the same creator of the much more practical Idris language: https://www.idris-lang.org/
I've spent a lot of time over the past couple of months thinking about how it would be great to move to microservice architecture to help with the "ball of mud" our codebase has turned into. The benefits seem really great, but it's such a daunting hill to climb. You can't just have a couple different services and boom everything works. You need to worry about consistency, efficiency (e.g. no database joins), and so many other things. Then there's a question of how do you handle things that used to be simple-- i.e. a POST request maybe used to return an id but now it just returns 201 and that's it since you have event sourcing and the instance is eventually created.

In the end, I wonder how many companies really need microservices. What if boundaries between apps were actually enforced?
Thanks for the explanation, this helped me understand the idea a bit better.
Buttons on both sides also completely breaks the ability to use the volume rocker buttons as a camera shutter -- 'oh let me quickly grab my phone and take a pictu--- nope, I hit the sleep wake button, sorry'

I hate that iphone 6 and onward design decision ... (design-wise pretty much everything after iphone 6 has been a regression imo, although this one looks the best that any phone has looked in a long time -- aside from the notch)
Have any good reads (articles/books) on the harmfulness of sugar? It sounds interesting to read about, but Google gives a billion results.
> This coming decade is going to be bad for SF. Shame they didn’t spend all that money making the city more desirable for reasons other than FAANG jobs.

Everyone who doesn't want to be there should move. There is 25 Phoenix in the United States and only one San Francisco ;-)
Indeed one of the best in usability and drawing quality.
>the price you pay is an exercise regimen

I read somewhere that N. Vittal, a prominent Indian civil servant, controlled his diabetes by walking a lot, daily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Vittal

>and an extremely disciplined diet (I haven't eaten rice, bread, pasta, or potatoes in 9 years).

What about other forms of wheat products like semolina, couscous, etc? Other cereal grains?
> SF is unique in that is both a city and a county,

That isn't unique to SF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_city-county
Leah Knobler of Help Scout about hiring remote talent
So you only care about what a website says, and not the living proof that your current leadership has not only -not- done those things, but apparently lied about its intentions?
Sony has had a few attempts at small phones, but now seem to be concentrating on a weird 21:9 screen aspect ratio form factor: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16089/sony-announces-xperia-5...
This is a really insightful point. I spent the last few weeks pondering on why California's governance is evolving into more ineptitude, slowness, and wastefulness, and whether there is something wrong with the democratic party values that make things worse in the long term.

The reality is probably closer to what you are claiming. And the lack of competition and accountability creates rot in the system.
This article is from August 2019, the coronapocalypse will play havoc with what's left of the city's finances...
I thought upper-middle-class families just went to private school.
Didn't we already litigate this back in the Deja days?
Just try the breathing a few times a week. Don't do it driving or close to water. I outlined it above, takes ten minutes. You'll feel great. I have beaten back colds I have felt coming on several times with it.
For those interested in early online systems, I strongly recommend John S. Quarterman's The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide:

https://archive.org/details/matrixcomputerne0000quar/mode/2u...

I lifted a copy off a friend who was thinning his book herd a decade or so back. The first edition, published in 1990, predates the commercial Internet, World Wide Web, Linux, and all of what's transpired since, though the introduction pressages much by noting the role of existing networks in the the then-fresh events of April 15 – June 4, 1989, known as the six-four incident, and culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

The book has a 15 page section describing Usenet, including user and traffic statistics from 1979--1988, mostly compiled by Gene Spafford and Brian Reid. Usenet is only one of numerous conferencing systems covered, others being BITNET, UUCP, FidoNET, VNET, and EASYnet

For April, 1988: 381 newsgroups, 57,979 messages, 130.949 MB, 4,152--7,810 hosts (depending on who counted and how), and an estimated 141,000 readers (people) from a total online population of 880,000.

Larry Wall, working at JPL, is named ... as the author of rn.

Much of the book, though, simply discusses the many many individual computer networks. The notion of a single global end-to-end interconnected inter-network was still very much a novelty.

In one section, the fact that the principle public interconnect between North America and Europe was a single 9600 Baud link is mentioned....
Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how unusual this is. According to https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezaucr/asp/ucr_display.asp about 150000 people were arrested for fraud and embezzlement in 2014 out of 328m Americans, or .0004% of the population, with 31830 employees that should be 12 a year if there's a even distribution of fraudsters in the country. Granted it's 2 am here and I'm really tired, so this might not make much sense.
After reading a lot of replies in this thread, I think people are thinking way too small. As another commenter points out, we need to zoom out quite a bit more.

SF, for example, was a popular place to live before it was a tech hub. Even if all the companies go away (they won't), there will still be plenty of demand. Maybe it will be a healthier sort of demand that doesn't push lower-income residents out of their homes. But there will still be demand, and it will grow as COVID becomes further behind us.

For a lot of the people who moved back in with their parents, I think social circles will be an important factor. I know if I'd moved away, I'd be anxious to see my friends again, and live close to them. That doesn't mean everyone will end up back where they started, but some will. Others might band together and pick a new, smaller city or town to live in. Some social circles won't get back together, and some will split into new combinations. Some might see it as an opportunity to move to a new city where some old friends have lived for years. Still others might decide to stay with their parents, especially if they're older and may not be around much longer.

Also consider that only something like 30% or 40% of the workforce has been working from home during COVID. Everyone else works in restaurants, bars, state and local government agencies, retail and grocery stores, hospitals, universities, and a host of other things that require a physical presence everywhere. There's no "grocery hub" like there's a "tech hub" or "entertainment hub". Every city and town needs a hospital or clinic and people to staff it, telemedicine notwithstanding. Those professions will continue to grow with the US's population, which will drive more demand everywhere, including cities.
A lot of people are!
Hope someone (Belkin) makes one that fits into CD slot. Vent ones seem too flimsy.
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I find the opposite to be true.
Most City supervisors run unopposed due to the high cost to get on the ballot...
Funny how those 3 cities are similarly managed politcially speaking.
>The treatment was shown to send type II into remission.

Does that mean the same as cured?

Edit: The linked article says:

>and even achieve remission (no longer have diabetes)
I’m speaking more about actually wealthy people. Having a few million dollars and a W2 doesn’t move the needle. If you are a business owner with paper assets of tens or hundreds of millions (and this level of wealth is 1000x more common than billionaires) you have many other options. For example, transferring assets to an offshore trust. You would think this would be illegal or something but it’s extremely common. You can also invest in a variety of things that use various carve outs in our Byzantine tax system to drastically lower what you pay. The list goes on and on and on - and the rich don’t even do it! Their hired guns do, they just sign the papers.

This is why the true way to raise taxes sustainably is on the common people. But everyone wants what taxes provide but even mentioning the hint of raising taxes is suicide, which is why Biden claims he will only do it on incomes above $400k. This won’t raise anything like what the country needs to pay off its debts.
Nope, upper-middle class families buy a 1.5 to 3 million dollar house "to be in the right school district" in the Bay Area. Ask your colleagues with kids :-)
Depends on the exact WFH environment. If companies go with permanent full remote option, then I'd pick an area with zero or low state income taxes, warm weather, and cheap housing. Las Vegas area, South Florida. Texas is interesting but I don't know much about the cities there, having never lived or visited.

If companies look like they're aligning on more of a hybrid model where you can WFH but they expect you to show your face in the office every so often, then I'd have to stick to $CA$ and maybe head out somewhere on US-50 between Folsom and Placerville, or maybe way up I-5 somewhere towards Shasta.
Large airports are private/independent in the US, and are funded with massive landing fees (over $10,000 per landing, depending on airplane size.)

Often construction bonds are backed by local governments, which almost ruined the economy of San Jose when they built Temrinal 3. The city found a hired gun to manage the costs from $3 billion down to $1.2 billion, but alas, nobody except the occasional JAL flight uses that terminal.

Smaller airports available for public use get FAA airport improvement funds, which is why the US has more airports than the rest of the world combined, and why Walmart can use private jets to fly managers from store-to-store, sometimes 3 in a day.

https://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/
You might enjoy this podcast[1] from the producers of Serial and the NYTimes. It deals with schools in NYC but the general idea can be applied to SF/Oakland and many other cities in the US. It's only 5 episodes and that's it.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...
IIRC, the match it generates often ends up being a dependent match using the convoy pattern once nontrivial functions start being written, which quickly gets really really hard to read. Maybe this is partly the fault of Coq's matching requiring the convoy pattern (unlike Agda's or Idris's), but I find it extremely difficult to read these terms, versus hand-written ones.
I’m the head of product for Temporal. You should check us out, have to self host (MIT) right now but we are working on a cloud. You can safely write code that blocks for years. No more job queues.
Vasili Mitrokhin (KGB archivist) and Christopher Andrew (MI5) say in one of their books that KGB provided over $450,000 to Allende.

Mitrokhin worked 30 years for the KGB and defected to the UK in 1992, bringing a collection of notes now known as the Mitrokhin archive. These notes contain the facts I am mentioning.

Some of the funds sent to Allende were raised by KGB director Yuri Andropov himself, the guy that then went to become the 6th paramount leader of the Soviet Union.

After Allende was overthrown, the Soviet Union refused to play Chile in the 1974 FIFA World Cup for political reasons.

The KGB directly supported Allende, and Allende directly received help from them. It's well documented.
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> The Hof brothers are identical twins, but unlike Wim, Andre has a sedentary lifestyle without exposure to extreme cold. The scientists had them practice Wim's breathing exercises and then exposed them to the lowest temperature that would not induce shivering. They concluded that, "No significant differences were found between the two subjects, indicating that a lifestyle with frequent exposures to extreme cold does not seem to affect BAT activity and CIT."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof#Resistance_to_cold
Maybe not 10 months ago, but a lot of people have dispersed to various places in the US, and that may continue as companies relax their in-person work requirements. Talent still has its concentration points, but its less concentrated than it was, and I expect that trend to continue.

The US vs. not-US gap is certainly larger, but I expect that US-based companies would much rather hire someone 3 timezones away than 8 or 12. Having to be on conference calls at 7am or 8pm gets old real quick.
This is something that I've been aware of for a while now. Us (Gen-Xrs) have had a rough time of it; The boomers rode the financial booms and mostly did well, and the millennials are pandered to everywhere you look, whereas we had to suffer more than one financial crash, and the media and retail pretend like we don't exist, so nothing is aligned to our values or desires.

Even worse, there's a large chunk of millenials who don't even believe that Gen-X exists, and think that the generation above them are all boomers.
For all the article’s whining about the Transbay Transit Center, the city only provided financing for about ten percent of the phase one costs. (Phase two not yet started.) The other 90% of the cost was financed through other means, mostly land sales by the state, special tax increases, and toll increases. [1]

The expected lifespan of this building at least a hundred years. Frankly $200m from the city is not bad at all.

[1]: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/project_profiles/ca_transbay_tr...
He's taken people up mountains in -15 C wearing just shorts after a few days of training. So I'm not sure it's just him being unique.
Kyle Rittenhouse won't be charged in Illinois: prosecutors
Yes, sigchecks had to be patched out of the kernel. And yes, it does not persist T2 reboot, but T2 only reboots if you hold power button for 5 sec. MacOS "reboot" does _not_ reboot T2.
I did not know that East Palo Alto had improved so much, that is great news! Can you recommend any articles on what specifically was done?
The reason it's not good for kids is that the houses with enough space are either crazy expensive or far from work. Trust me if I could afford it I would love to live in SF.
Why wouldn't you leave fuel and vehicle insurance card in the car itself?
It's because of who the author is. Bogdanovich's amazing relationship with older directors like Ford, Hitchcock, Howard Hawkes, and Orson Welles is one of the great film stories of the last 60 years. Maybe this comes across better in conversation—he's a true raconteur. There's tons of Bogdanovich telling stories on YouTube. He is hard to stop listening to.
(Smile) Take the opportunity to talk with folks who live there and like it. Maybe even visit. A big part of happiness in this era is finding someplace that fits you like a well-made suit. A place of the heart. Don’t miss out of that opportunity. Don’t just go with the default.
This is a great story, and also serves as a demonstration of how hard it is to write history - whether ancient or proximal. Everything is contested, whether documentary evidence ("you can't believe anything in a Soviet archive") or eyewitness (Gagarin's friend in the KGB).
Honestly this attitude is exactly why sf is a dump. It's not about abortion. The chance of getting a conservative leader is impossible in sf. Luckily california may turn red this year due to the hispanic vote
Honestly this attitude is exactly why sf is a dump. It's not about abortion. The chance of getting a conservative leader is impossible in sf. Luckily california may turn red this year due to the hispanic vote.
I mean when the same family has had the Governor's office for 36 years out of the past 60 years, it begins to smell fishy or at least decaying.