skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably the larger problem is that you (general "you" as in people like you) think this could even be a thing, like you've just completely bought into your biases and didn't do any sort of research on the topic. Your original assertion that robbery under $1000 (or any robbery, really) becoming defacto uncriminalized is so beyond the pale I'm not sure how _anyone_ wouldn't just automatically think they were being mislead or trolled, but somehow your biases or whatever on the subject caused you to not only unquestionably accept such a wild claim, but to repeat it to others.
Forever benchmarking on old hardware is counterintuitive to forward progress.
As much as I love my T400, I know someday, probably sooner rather than later, it won’t be suited to daily use.
1. Closeness to the Stanford university ecosystem which promoted tech. Berkeley isn't too far away physically, though it may not be very near ideologically. Talent helps.

2. Matthew Effect: The (talent-)rich (cities) get richer.

3. Weather. I have lived at some point in the midwest. Shovelling snow in a morning storm so that you can get in the car to go to office is not something I'd want to do again. Maybe Denver has mild enough weather to be considered a replacement. On the other hand, Colorado is a beautiful place and it'd be sad to see it overrun by large crowds of morning commuters. Austin is a viable alternative, Texas school boards notwithstanding.

4. Covid is not a long-term trend. Nothing beats the bandwidth of a physical meeting, or a discussion over coffee.
This is textbook double speak.
Internal movement was restricted and controlled in the USSR though. A creative and disruptive solution to this particular problem.
Enforcing quality of life laws. It doesn't even have to be a conservative city. Both Boston and Miami look like first world cities compared to SF and LA.
That scrolling is something standard on Macs from, well, as long as Macs have had page up and page down keys -- they scroll the screen, but don't change the cursor position. Home and End likewise scroll to the top and bottom of the document without changing the cursor position.

Those of us who started with Macs (or perhaps with WordStar, which I did actually use back in the day!) think this is normal and the Windows mapping for those keys is weird. :)
I mean Noone here is complaining about about having too many quirky stores. They are complaining about crime and homelessness. I don't think you're perspective is that different from them on what makes the city good,you just don't care as much about the bad.
You say that, but look at the alternatives. Here's the brand new Ford Mach-E: https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1368320371544428555?... (Scroll down through subsequent tweets for thread.)

Major car manufacturers see the software as an afterthought, and the result is a disaster. This is one thing that Tesla really gets right. Well designed software, frequent updates.
Starlogo Nova is the current version (web-based) https://www.slnova.org
Sweet setup. But also did I just see $7.5k shelf on there? https://vention.io/designs/modular-cabinet-w-sliding-shelves.... Seems like this isn’t exactly the cost effective solution.
They don't have to leave en massse, it's enough for a few richest individuals to leave and next fiscal year things start going even more downhill. Check how many individuals pay 80% of Cali's income tax.

But also: why does the paper assume anyone needs to be persuaded about this? Everyone knows the progressives have destroyed the state. You can argue about it forever but that doesn't change the fact that Cali is going down, especially now that it's been proven at scale that WFH works okay for 50% of employers.
> look at the public timeline of Shirley Wu,

Do you have a link to this?
They just got a huge influx of cash from Congress so the message is lost in irrelevance.
Los Angeles population is probably the same because everybody moved out and the homeless moved in. Venice beach is a homeless encampment now. And yet the rich elites say everything is ok.
If strip clubs and peep shows replace all these empty retail fronts we’ll get there.

Sounds like open liquor laws will be a go post covid. Party time.
PM should always work with/as a business analyst to figure out the business requirements. A lot of times it is the ambiguity of business requirements that leads to bad decisions.
I wish I believed giving the homeless jobs would fix the problem but I watched my dad who owns a business try and help several local homeless or down on their luck types and more often than not they just take advantage of people then go right back to drugs or worse they have mental health issues and probably will never be able to function in society.
I thought this was a twist on the card game Love Letter :(
I interviewed at a company based out of SF last week. The HR person had this long comment about diversity and how that is important at their company and asked what I've done in my career to support diversity. I told him a story about how a company I was at had decided to outsource some of the QA work to India and when the first employee in India came to the US to onboard I was very welcoming and did everything I could to help him feel welcome and part of the team including hanging out after work.

This HR guy said "Is that really diversity though?"

I guess he was looking for a more symbolic or virtue signaling example and with another minority group other than Indians. Something like "I was the first person at my company to put a BLM sticker on my cube."
Tl;dr: not the usual Californians-leave-in-droves-for-redder-pastures story. Exodus from SF city has drastically increased, but is mostly still within California, or even within the Bay Area economic area. It has also increased relatively more towards the Sierra Nevada area.
I understand that you want to do that, but any attempt to do so will be decidedly non-optimal due to how keyframes and lossy encoders work.

Even if your two files were encoded with x265 at exactly the same bitrate. It's a much more complicated problem than it appears at first glance, once you really dig into the command line options and encoding parameters of codecs like x264, x265 and vp9.

It's not as simple as concatenating two files together. You can also select down to per-frame precision using kdenlive and loading different x264,x265,vp8,vp9 files into it and cutting/editing them together. You will then need to re-encode the resulting output. kdenlive is ultimately a nice GUI front end on top of this:

https://www.mltframework.org/
This the one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_13
Functioning iPhone returned to owner after six months at bottom of lake
Come on dude. People aren't talking about the "weird" or quirky aspects of SF. We're talking about fucking needles, and human feces in the street. Stop protecting this shit by labeling it as something other than human suffering and a public health disaster.
It's not even a Rubocop alternative. It's an opinionated Rubocop wrapper.
I've thought this for a while: NIMBYism and other anti-development policies is how liberals implement "red lining" with plausible deniability... even to themselves. They're not trying to exclude the poor and minorities. They're trying to protect the environment! Never mind that these policies encourage sprawl and waste.
It’s not your choice when you’re an employee of a woke company (unless you want to quit) Don’t you know that by now?
ffmpeg seeks accurately when transcoding. [1] Cutting on non-keyframes when stream copying results in broken video until the next keyframe.

Handbrake does have a CLI. [2] I haven't used it and I'm not sure what advantage it might have over ffmpeg. I personally use mkvmerge or ffmpeg for my muxing/cutting and VapourSynth for encoding.

[1] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Seeking

[2] https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/cli/cli-options.html
AWS has Aurora and Redshift, along with plenty of other database tech.
What laws are enforced? Not shitting on the street isn't enforced. Car break ins and robberies aren't enforced. If it were so wonderful people would move in, not out.
Demis Hassabis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0962biiZa4, older https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgd3OK5DZWI (NB ‘likely’ ≠ ‘>50%’, not sure what his percentage would be)

I can give more but I did upstream link to a paper on this so it seems pretty pointless.
I absolutely agree, and the same applies to things like moderating YouTube and such. The scale is mind-boggling, and people will do anything to get past any measures you put in place. It's a hard problem to solve, and I feel people are too quick to jump to the "Google bad" bandwagon.

But that being said, by far the biggest problem is just the lack of recourse and communication. Compare this to email spam prevention and the like, which solves a very similar problem but if you accidentally get blacklisted you can just talk to the SpamHaus people or whatnot and get the problem sorted.

It's not hard to imagine how Google could improve here: send better notifications when something is blacklisted, provide a reason why, and offer a better procedure to get your problem fixed.

Yes, this will cost time and money due to the large scale of things. But if you have the ability to block parts of the internet for much of the population then you also have some responsibility here; you can quite literally kill companies with this. Email spam prevention usually step up to this responsibility. Google ... not so much.

Mistakes will still happen, and that's okay. I appreciate the hard job they're doing, which does provide a lot of value. It's how you deal with those mistakes that matters, and Google deals with them terribly across all of their products.
At this point I'd prefer it if ffmpeg included Lua and allowed you to pass Lua scripts, kinda like what ZFS did[1].

[1]: https://zfsonlinux.org/manpages/0.8.3/man8/zfs-program.8.htm...
‘Full Automation of Labor (All Human Jobs)’ pretty clearly encompases AGI.
A team can and maybe should agree on a style, and enforce it, for sanity. That can be done while still allowing all the fun parts of writing Ruby.

This project tries to go much farther.
So you're saying the homeless and mentally ill in San Francisco are just lazy and grifting the system? There's plenty of data available to show how naive that statement is. What would be your proposed solution?
No detail of SLS was dictated by any plausible mission. It had to have strap-on multi-part solid boosters solely to keep Morton Thiokol busy. It had to have SSME-style engines to keep somebody else busy; but not use actual SSMEs, for the same reason. They had to be super-expensive engines designed for multiple uses even though they would have been scuttled after a single use. Things can be "late to market" without being fake, but being late to market is an operational requirement on fake things such as SLS.

As noted, military-industrial concerns demand funding go exclusively to hot-neutron schemes. The politicians' interest is only that billions of dollars be disbursed to obscure entities over a long period that can generate sufficient regular, reliable, legitimate-appearing kickbacks.
What's up with the loaded rhetoric?

You can still do most things without card access:

- keep standing orders flowing;

- transfer your money out through the mobile app or website;

- withdraw money from an ATM using an authenticator (nation-wide example in Poland: https://www.blik.com/);

- if push comes to shove, go to a branch and withdraw your money in person.
It's important to note that digital collectables (https://www.nbatopshot.com/) and in game items (https://axieinfinity.com/aave) are NFTs are already quite common.

They don't dominate the news cycle becuase famous people aren't cashing in to produce digital art for essentially free money.
I probably agree with you more than is coming across, but I do think it useful to steelman the fumigation argument.

Burning down entire villages for fumigation even if you have a ready harvest is an extremely risk endeavor. It's no longer outright suicide, but you're still going to cause no shortage of hardship and potentially at least some lost lives.

This is coupled with the fact that pests and parasites were a pretty constant fact of ancient life and so finding, e.g. bed bugs, was kind of just something people dealt with.

Voluntarily and periodically razing entire towns for what amounts to sterilization is practically unheard of outside of the Burned House Horizon. Consider that even during various plague/Black Death breakouts, when disease was thought to be caused by various miasmas rather than infectious agents spread from person to person, and individual homes and personal property was readily burned, towns still were not being wholesale burned to the ground. That is even something as bad as a pestilence that could potentially kill half or more of your entire town's population still didn't warrant utter destruction of the town.

It's not suicide. But only just.
Allowing new housing to be built to satisfy demand.
Generally, if you have to ask that, an NFT is not a good solution for your problem. In many cases, the answer is "yes", they very likely would, but it wouldn't be easier than a non-NFT. If you were already in business with someone and both decided to use NFTs to track something, then almost assuredly.

A big problem is that ownership is proven by knowledge of a secret and you'd need to decide how would you want the court to decide if two people both present the ownership password/key? What would half-control over a cloud server be worth?

An NFT is great for a unique digital resource, where control over it and ownership are roughly the same. For instance, cryptokitties. You buy tokens which cannot be divided - you can't own half a cat - but can be transferred. Whoever controls the keys controls the cat. In this situation the token replaces a stored user credential, and a stored avatar.

In the real world though, I think they're a reasonable solution for short-lived, low to mid-value, non-fungible items, where users both want to swap their items and find doing so in a centralized way is too restrictive. Like concert tickets.
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
How big is this company
I used Nota Bene, a relative of XyWrite built on the same engine, for years, and still have Nota Bene files kicking around on my Mac -- which turn out to still be readable, since the XyWrite/NB file format is actually just plain text with embedded markup.

Odd trivia: while XyWrite is long gone, Nota Bene actually survives to this day, now built on the engine that XyWrite's last owner intended to use for a never-shipped XyWrite successor.

Odder trivia: in the 1970s, there was a commercial dedicated typesetting called Atex, widely in use at newspapers, where journalists typed directly into Atex terminals. The main developers of Atex split up in the late 1970s; one group went on to develop PageMaker, and another went on to develop XyWrite. So XyWrite ended up becoming a major hit at newspapers and magazines, and PageMaker could always read XyWrite files. (And, for a long time, both QuarkXpress and even InDesign could, too.)
You have got to be kidding. SF, and California generally, has had systemic problems that have virtually nothing to do with the recent tech boom.
If you and fellow San Franciscans were willing to think in 3 dimensions, you'd realize you've got essentially endless space as well.
One of the most strangely written cope pieces I've seen pro-SF so far. San Francisco has never been less exciting.

Sure, it'll remain the Enterprise SaaS capital of the world for a while, but all the most exciting and interesting people have higher expectations than never-ending battles with NIMBYs and deranged city councils.

It's been feeling like time for a change for years now. I'm glad to see it happening.
Yes, about 2/3 of it comes from the software/hardware stack in your computer/console.

The remainder (a few frames' worth of latency) is from the display itself. There's something like a frame buffer inside the display if I understand correctly although implementations vary widely; some displays are good for gaming and some aren't.

If you have a chance to game with original 8/16-bit hardware with wired controllers on a real CRT it's such a treat. You can really feel the difference.
Cardano is (delegated) PoS from conception, and supports NFTs
I certainly never said that homelessness is “just life.” I’m just realistic. San Francisco will probably always have this problem to some extent, and it’s our responsibility as San Franciscans to help alleviate it as much as possible.

None of this has to do with my original point about San Francisco’s recent changes, which I have personally experienced as having a much higher density of artists.
Preserving privacy and performance will protect the future of advertising
The only reason I don't use my HP-15c scientific, which I got in college well before the turn of the century as an EE undergrad, is because it has been emulated on my phone. Well worth the price:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hp-15c-calculator/id503720774

And oh, BTW, I still have my 15c.
This seems like an even better use of a state-synchronization protocol like Matrix than instant messaging, for which I think XMPP is a better fit.
If you really want weird you should try some favelas outside of Rio. You'd love it there if you're looking for weird like they have in SF!
All I can say is that my experience is much different than yours.
That’s true, the State of Jefferson folks probably won’t listen though.
I typed a long reply, then haven't sent it for a few days ... and now this happens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367747

Basically my view is that we urgently need to focus on the real world outcomes, what GDPR actually did. Consent about any storing and processing, so consequences all the way up and down the chain. Data controller, processor(s) and sub-processor(s), and so on.

The technology of data-drivenness is here to stay. Businesses will use it. Consumers will consent to almost anything for a few cents of discount. And that's the next problem. So it'd be great to simply make a few basic marketing data techniques opt-out and very much make the rest require a review/permit from some authority.

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That said I don't have much to compare "tracking today" against or with. I don't like advertisements in any form. (Billboards, TV/radio/podcast/youtube ads, native or not. Targeted or not.)

Also there are already profiles, databases, and they would be without adtech too. (Just look at China, there is no Google, but they have a surveillance state. Sure, baidu/qq/tencent/alibaba are all having their adtech, and probably the central government have access to whatever they want.)

Big tech or not, there are already fewer protected classes (in labor law) than there should be. Plus if an employer wants to fire someone, they will find some bullshit reason anyway.

Similarly, banks already require a lot of data, a signed paper to verify employment, past transaction history, and there's the whole positive-negative credit score. (And people gladly give consent to receive a small fractional percentage better interest.)

You are likely aware that many non-protected data categories correlate very highly with the protected ones. This puts many people at a disadvantage. (Yet at the same time not everyone has the same income, so not everyone has the same ability to service a loan. Of course the problem is very deep, because we know that the huge income inequality is also very much not because some of us happens to value income a lot more than free time, while some of us value free time more than income, which would lead to a "natural income inequality distribution".)

Tech (big or not) is simply manifesting deep(er) problems. Sure, this is not a reason to not regulate tech. (Quite the contrary.) But I still think keeping things in perspective is important.
A better way to think of this is because Tesla makes so much selling carbon offsets, they can afford to plow more of their profits into expansion.
SF is surrounded by water on 3 sides. Where do you propose all these new houses be built?
For someone who has not lived in either can you elaborate
Gascon isn't the DA, Boudin is (the son of leftwing activists who convicted of felony murder for killing two policemen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin). With his parents in prison Boudin was adopted by Bill Ayers, another Weather Underground leader who also made headlines for saying (in a video interview - https://daleyeagerdotcom.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/breaking-v... reminiscent of Hobsbawm) we might need to kill 25 million Americans if they resist communism and this was an acceptable price to pay to achieve social justice.

Boudin was proud of this heritage and campaigned as having impeccable socialist credentials as the adopted son of Ayers. He went on the record announcing how devastating it was to have parents in jail and vowed to reduce prosecutions. He announced a policy of not prosecuting for property crimes especially if the offenders belong to certain victimhood groups, he fired a number of prosecutors who were responsibile for prosecuting gang crime (https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/01/10/new-san-francis...), and he instituted a policy of pressuring victims of violent crime to not press charges and accept "restorative justice" programs, especially if the offenders were members of victim classes - even for murder. Victims of violent crime report substantial pressure from Boudin's office repeatedly calling and demanding they agree to diversionary programs while victims of property crime are often ignored entirely and police discourage the filing of reports. Despite this, the city now leads the nation in property crime.

Citing quotes by Gascon for a State proposition is not a sufficient characterization for the special brand of lawlessness we have here in San Francisco.
I’ve seen prices in northern Marin go up about 30-40% in the last couple months.
Isn’t SF zoning and city laws much more NIMBY and less objectively progressive than the cities reputation?

I thought that’s why it’s so dirty and full of obvious problems like petty crime and homelessness. A local political system disconnected from solving the IRL problems.

You’re right though. The solution to SF is actual liberalism of laws around the fun stuff and help for those in need to get them out of the cycle of criminality by being more reasonable with them (shelters and safe injection sites with opiate programs so they don’t have to steal and destroy i property in order to live).

I could see the latter happening like it is here in Canada (there’s always that homeless/career criminal niche everywhere) although it seems like 10x higher out on the west coast and given the tax rate as it is already super high idk if they have the appetite to do the right thing and cut other useless stuff to offset it.
"By relocating our manufacturing facility to China and laying off the corresponding employees domestically we have been able to vastly improve workforce diversity numbers".
Google Crushed Many Digital Ad Rivals. But a Challenger Is Rising
I certainly can't afford to live on Madison Ave in NYC. But instead of living in a tent on the street on Madison Ave, I live in a city that is much cheaper than NYC and I don't live in the most expensive part of town.

Should NYC provide me housing if I start living in a tent on Madison Ave?