skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was born and raised in SF as well. SF is beginning to look and feel like late 80’s/early 90’s SF. Increase in hate crimes against Asians. Car break-ins. Burglaries. Fewer people on the streets.

I think part of what is happening is that criminals refocused on residents because there aren’t tourists around to prey on anymore.

Chesa Boudin made it worse. No more bail so people accused of crime are free to sometimes commit more crime. $950 and below shoplifting is now a misdemeanor.

Walgreens doesn’t even report the shoplifting anymore. They just closed stores. 13 and counting.

SF does look a little cleaner now than a few months ago. The tent city at City Hall is hidden behind a fence. The tents in other parts of town tend to be clustered in alleys instead of along main streets. Still far fewer people walking around than before. Interestingly, the Marina looks as rich and lively as ever unlike many other parts of SF.

The City feels dead. SF Chinatown looks and sounds more like Oakland Chinatown now. Quieter. Far less car traffic and traffic noise. Easier to find parking. Few tourists. Mostly locals.
https://www.vis.chat
I think it's partially a positive feedback loop. I'm not sure how to solve the problem.

But it probably goes: SF spends a lot of money on services for the homeless, so lots of homeless people keep going there to get those services. Other places don't spend any money on services for the homeless, so the homeless people leave.

If every place spent a little bit on services for the homeless, there would be just a few homeless everywhere instead of lots of homeless in a few places and no homeless in other places. But that would require coordination to ensure nobody free-rides and just lets other places take on the homeless.

$300 million is a lot though. I've worked on construction projects building ~250 unit apartment buildings that had budgets of $25 million. It seems like you could just build actual housing for most of the homeless with that kind of budget. (Of course that would require SF to allow housing to be built).
Doing god's work! It's crazy that people can be so deluded to think that actually having enforcement against such victimization is somehow negative.
Chrome was way faster than Firefox before Fx dropped its old addon system.

It was so bad that my main profile (with shittons of addons) at the time took about whooping ~10 seconds to cold-start.
It's the opposite of new-user friendly design.

For some of us, it isn't that hard to learn, and gives us an entirely new way to think and interact with a computer.

I think there is a powerful lesson for user-facing application developers here. Sometimes you're better off thinking of power users and enticing newcomers to put in the effort. Blender seems to follow that approach as well.
The way coins are awarded to posts can change over time via a democratic process facilitated by a DAO. In theory, this could create the infrastructure for the scientific community to self-govern how their work is assessed and rewarded.

Perhaps a 1-10 peer review rating would provide a better signal than upvotes? Or maybe basic research deserves 1.5x rewards because it helps to fertilize the landscape of translational research.

If the community wants to make changes to Researchhub's incentives, we will be able to iterate over time until we find a formula that properly encourages the behaviors that benefit science the most.

To speak to your example - if the v1 incentive structure encourages cheap/easy/meme science, we would be able to recognize this and make improvements to hopefully achieve better results.

This is an improvement over the current static system which values bibliometrics because it has the ability to adapt and improve over time.
They tend to trap mud and dirt easily. Also, simplicity is desirable. Less to wear out or go wrong.
> I've used Svelte in anger.

I also had a bad day (literally) figuring out how to use svelte with SCSS, TypeScript and a good routing framework but after that day it felt awesome. The boilerplate has always been a pain to me on nearly every framework and with svelte it was pretty ok-ish.

> Is the functionality of Routify now in SvelteKit[1]?

Maybe, did not know about that. Thank you, I'll definitely try it out.
Grammar's agreements were violated even by Shakespeare
If they had a charge for using the toilets, that would keep severely mentally ill homeless people and junkies from using them, so you are partially right.
I think HN just has hate for certain products and undying love for others. When you hate something then everything bothers you. When you love something you look the other way.
Devil’s advocate: a lot of crime in San Francisco isn’t reported. For example, the case mentioned in the article.
I wouldn't call it a booby trap. It's just spraying them with some stuff. They can run. They'll just look ridiculous and smell nasty and hopefully learn a lesson.

A micro solution to protect my own property would be nice until the macro solution people get their act together.

Also, same for tow trucks. They should call the number on the dashboard -- which does the least damage to the car and saves the most peoples' time, and is therefore the optimal solution -- before attempting to tow or they're in for a nice fart.
Pepper spray, whose purpose is to cause bodily harm, was included in the list of ingredients, so the described booby trap would, indeed, be a prohibited “intended to cause bodily harm” one. (Actually, not only do the general laws on booby traps come into play, but using pepper spray other than in immediate self-defense in California is a crime.)
Californian politicians are all embezzling criminals. How else can the discrepancy between the money supposedly going to these programs and these programs actually receiving next to nothing be explained?
"The NIMBY cost of living problem is definitely huge add little annoys me more." it's not hugely relevant to the problem. California is massive, and 99.5% of it's land is available for most kinds of development. Citizens of a community have every right to decide how it should be managed.

Most 'high income / high property prices' places in the US in the world do not have this kind of crime problem - generally it's the other way around.

Gentrification for all it's good/bad elements generally leads to a reduction in crime.
It gets you from A to B, it keeps you dry and warm/cool, it's cheap and it's easy to park. It's basically everything you want from a car in a European city.
A US Service member was dragged dead through the streets in '94 in celebration of defeating a UN peace keeping mission to ease an on-going famine, and those images were broadcast all over the world.

It's easy to underestimate just how powerful that image is in shaping perceptions, and rightfully so: a lot of violence has been done to us citizens by thugs and pirates using the the lawlessness in Somalia as cover.
Ton of cities? Please, elaborate. Across the world I’ve never felt as dirty and disturbed as I have in SF. No other cities with homeless have ever felt like this.
When was your last cycle? What are the specs? How heavy is the workload?
This feels like spam. The challenge is just not possible in any meaningful way. I suppose changing everything to be a clone of motherfuckingwebsite.com would technically count as a redesign. A website with any serious amount of use/functionality requires a lot of interactions and a lot of different pages that need to all work together. I think it would take > two hours to even understand the existing design much less build a credible redesign of any top website. Take Craigslist as an example. Visually oriented people might think that they have crap design and there is plenty of VC appetite to carve off parts of their business, but it’s really not that simple. Craigslist needs to work on big and small screens with different inputs modalities and resolutions. It needs to present a ton of information with a wide variety of formats from a lot of different sources. And it needs to be easy to explore areas where you’ve never been. The site is entirely links to user generated content so there need to be ways to connect strangers to one another, and pages to enable posting. The total number of page templates needed to get the site working at the basic level of functionality is larger than you might think (I counted about 20 off the top of my head) - maybe this could be reduced but that requires a pretty deep understanding of how these pages all fit together.
What you did was illegal.

Additionally, that's a misuse of "instinctive".
> Salary is the single most important thing to know about a position.

That's like, your opinion. Millions of people go on job interviews everyday without first knowing the salary offered and in fact in most meetings the salary is the last thing discussed.
Tibia
I realize that. That's why I said "annoying", not "less-than-lethal", and used glitter as an example.
I presume this is in the US? In the UK for example the HPV vaccine for gay men is free on the NHS. I'm sure the same is true for many other countries too.
'About 150,000 people experiencing homelessness live in the state, including about half the country’s estimated 211,000 residents living unsheltered on the streets or in vehicles.'

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/audit-california-track-h...

My opinion is that this is a national problem and we should revert back to a new version of JFK's 1960's model for HUD
The energy and space required are O(n) though.
All of these happened after the debacle and both parties were left to deal with their own separate networks. Unilaterally against who? They all resigned and he was the sole person responsible for the network by this point.

There's no evidence this would have happened had the initial misunderstanding not taken place: staff asked Andrew to sign over the domain, consequently locked Andrew out and further announced a reorganization with partnership with OFTC. Andrew mistakenly sees this as a coup and fights back. While staff was acting in good faith, so was Andrew. This is no evidence Andrew would fight for control had they not refused to keep his access intact as it was for years.

I'm tired of begging for evidence of Andrew tampering with the network operations at any point from 2012-2021 PRIOR to both sides believing the other one had bad intentions.

Andrew indirectly or directly sponsored freenode since 2012 and owned it since 2017. Please, point me to a single instance of Andrew interfering with the network in this period and I'll believe your assertion that he set out to control freenode, as opposed to reacting to the staff locking him out of an account he's had access for years.

And for the record, I don't expect Andrew to be a good network operator. It was already established he isn't well versed with irc and general netiquette. That doesn't mean he set out to conquer freenode, and pointing out his failures after the network operation is on him isn't an argument for his intentions, only for his ineptitude.
I can't speak for anyone else, but as far as my hiring process, I don't interview like 5 candidates to decide which one I want for one position. I interview them one at a time, and if I think you are qualified enough to meet or beat my standards, then you get an offer. The strategy closely follows optimal solution for The Secretary Problem[0], and I passed the cutoff interview years ago. (I am very fortunate in this regard in that I've never really had headcount restrictions because every company I've ever worked for has basically told me "HIRE HIRE HIRE HIRE" and I can never actually hire enough people to fill that headcount.)

With that in mind, from my perspective the goal of diversity is to increase the number of diverse candidates in the pipeline, which should theoretically lead to an increase in diverse talent on the teams. The goal is NOT to reduce the number of white men in the pipeline. In other words, if you're a cis straight white guy and you're qualified, I'm not going to say "no, I don't need another white guy" and reject you just because of your race and gender. First and foremost, that's illegal. And second, it's a dick move. And I try really hard to live by Wheaton's Law[1]. I've never done that and don't intend to ever do that. Talent is talent, and any hiring manager would be an idiot to turn it away for arbitrary reasons. (Sadly, there are a lot of idiots out there.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
[1] http://www.wheatonslaw.com/
There's one huge issue here though, especially for a nation as liberty focused as the US. Many of the mentally ill, especially at higher levels of severity, do not seek nor desire treatment.

How would one balance the issue of disrupted mental health, with clear impediments of decision-making, against violations of personal liberty, such as with forcible commitment.
Fair points.

To me, it's not the end of the world, but a recurring annoyance. And I definitely do not feel "entitled" so I am wondering how I came off that way.

[edit: I see, I said "readers deserve," ok]

I absolutely agree there is no obligation for authors to write in a particular way. That's one of the prerogatives of being a writer, they get to choose.

But: I do think there are courteous things that can be done, within reason. And you make valid counterpoints, when you don't go too far, about how some such things that I see as courteous could be a downer for other readers.

BTW plenty of people agree with me. My top level comment was one of my highest upvoted comments ever on HN. And I don't assume these people feel entitled. I think they just want writers to, well, write stuff that the reader wants to know. Again, no entitlement, no obligation, it's just what some readers want.

There is a skill in writing to mixed level readers. Many people do it very well without anyone feeling insulted. I do wonder if there's a trick to that. It's interesting how it can happen with one author, but not another. Certainly I understand not wanting to fall into the group of authors that seems to insult their readers… not a good way to increase readership.
There are problems in SF, but they are not new. Not at all.

Everyone who thinks that SF has somehow magically turned into sh*thole in the last N months: no it hasn't.

I've lived in SF since mid-2011 continuously. It's been about the same, give or take.

P.S. It is unfortunate his gear got stollen. Hope the criminals get some justice.
You can't "weaponize" social networks, as they are comprised of living, thinking human beings each with their own agency and decisionmaking ability. They're not passive objects.
The Portland Loo isn’t a den for anything:

https://portlandloo.com/

In European countries, it’s quite common to find public bathrooms with attendants who charge a nominal fee.

In Japan, public bathrooms are common and amazing. (Public trashcans are a different story.)

In cities near SF (excluding Palo Alto), perfectly nice public bathrooms are common in parks.
That may be a better way to phrase it, yes. Nobody has quit me or my org voluntarily. Thank you.
I started using vim quite recently and I have a pure opposite view point as yours. With vim, I find myself editing code effortlessly, without conscious effort. This never happened when I was doing this with other text editors using keyboard shortcuts or the mouse.
I thought I wanted a Tesla until I saw the inane techbro language they use on the centre console. They need to rollout a language pack for people with a mental age north of 5 if they want to cross the chasm. It would piss me off mighty to be confronted with that every time I got into the car.
Tribalwars: didnt change my life but man pillaging between tribes must be frustrating as fuck back then
And how is someone supposed to figure this out? It doesn't say this anywhere in the interface, and there is no manual.
Murder is not the only crime. I, and a bunch of my friends, have been attacked (punched, followed home, etc) by homeless people in SF. This has never happened to any of us anywhere else, and we are a group who travels a lot to a lot of cities, including internationally. I didn't report it to the police when I was sucker punched in the stomach by a homeless guy who ran away afterwards, because I barely saw him and what would the police do? It would just be a waste of my time. Another friend was beaten so badly he had to go to the hospital, but the police did nothing after he reported it.
Hm, okay, so let's take the pepper spray out then. Ink, honey, feathers, flour, glitter, fart spray.
So you are ok with stealing if the victims are "rich"?
My interpretation would be: voters will never wake up.
A more accurate version might be, that statistically voters can not wake up together with some consensus so the problem can be fixed. It's a feature of the system, not a bug. Citizens should accept and live with it.
Do you mean the logarithmic scale? yeah I did notice that, but I definitely did overlook the p99 2x performance difference, thanks for drawing my attention to that.

Internally I think I just had a mostly wrong intuition on how much of a technology shift NVMe was compared to SATA -- it's a bit hard to tell if we're approaching theoretical limits or if SATA was just very good for it's time.

As a side note I wish this post didn't try to fit so much in one graph, but I can easily imagine someone complaining about the exact opposite so that's neither here nor there I guess. Separation by color and shade/intensity of color rather than the line patterns might have helped. Or maybe just completely separate charts for some of the dimensions... not sure.
What does your intuition tell you? When you think about each job, what do you feel in your body (e.g. chest, heart, abdomen)? When you think about the offers first thing in the morning, what are your initial thoughts and feelings? Take note of your intuition, it is a valuable guide.

Also, what is your option "C"? Option "C" is your wildcard or, in the words of Monty Python, "something completely different."
The title is : "In the Deep Sea, Incredible Animals Abound". It's different than the HN title and doesn't mean the same thing.
Bring back Brendan Eich before it's too late.

Firefox needs someone with vision, not a bunch of SJW who want to push pocket down my throat.
There is this documentary called "Seattle is dying" by KOMO news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

The situation in this documentary is similar to SF.
> Cult of female employment as their main role in society, which, in positions of power, happens to soften the stance towards criminals and deconstruct structures (hierarchies, things that worked to develop our nations, justice system). I don’t know the ratio for Cali but in France, 76 to 81% graduates of ENM (main school for judges) are female since 1977, and we basically free the criminals because they have compassion for them.

Hmm, my first reaction to this is that it's just poorly considered sexism. Do you have any evidence that the gender of the judges is contributing greatly to the leniency crisis you seem to be proposing? And plus, it's even possible that there are some problems showing the direction of causation; for example, it could be that electorates/leaders wanting lenient judges tend to perceive female judges as more lenient. I'm naturally very skeptical that the gender of judges could have such a large causal effect.

I looked into this briefly and the two articles that I found quickly were [1] and [2], one of which finds an effect obscenity and death penalty cases in State Supreme Courts and the other which finds an effect only in sex discrimination cases. Neither seems to imply such a sweeping and consequential effect as you do.

And the apparent suggestion that women in position of power in general is causing problems for society seems to be an argument out of the last century. Am I correct that that's what your suggesting, and if so what would be the cause of it? That whole line of reasoning strains credibility in my mind.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/42864001

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-5907...
Let me guess, comments turned off on the video?

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Yep.
This is rich person thinking. Somebody who's willing to smash your car window for a camera really doesn't care if you "embarrass" them for a few minutes.
Installed the dev edition that has the new design, and I like it as well. Especially the Alpenglow theme that ships with it looks fresh and colorful.

Will it make me consider trying it again? Who knows, right now I do like that the feel of it a lot. Might use it as my secondary browser for my while to see how it feels
Well, just hide or flag the story and read something happier and more substantive, like uh...Windows vs Mac, spaces vs tabs, Emacs vs Vim, China vs US, C vs Rust, bash vs python etc.

More seriously, I found the stories on this page pretty shocking and interesting, I didn't know it was anything like that in SF. Sydney here, pretty safe at night in most areas, ...and we have (free) public toilets.
What would all those city employees who work in the homeless industry do if there wasn't a 300 million dollar budget? They wouldn't be able to afford to live in the city.

I think a lot of San Francisco's problems come from too much tax money. They have a $12.3 billion dollar budget. That's more than some small European countries! The city collects an enormous amount of taxes from all the tech money and needs to do something with it so they get the big idea that they are going to try and fix all social problems with the universal and only solution to all problems: more money.
I don't know anyone that uses Cmd+Down. Cmd+O tends to be the popular choice.

Because you're always in an app in macOS, Cmd+O is the more consistent choice: every app you're in will use Cmd+O for "open." In Finder, what you're opening is apps or files, so it works.

Return for rename makes sense in a more subtle way.

Besides opening a file, there are two "main" actions you'll use in Finder: renaming files, and quick-playing files. In a dialogue box, you'll either use Return or Spacebar (the former for triggering the highlighted button, the latter for another button you highlight with the Tab key).

Consider again the consistency-across-apps argument. "Rename" isn't a super common command in all kinds of apps (a DAW will allow you to rename tracks, but that idea doesn't really apply to a text editor or IDE), so using Cmd+R in Finder for "rename" isn't necessarily great for consistency, considering that apps in general will almost surely bind something to Cmd+R ("run" or something like that).

Due to the aforementioned dialogue box pattern, Spacebar or Return are the obvious choices for rename, simply by virtue of being used so much.

Spacebar technically makes more sense because quick-play is adjacent to opening a file, but the ergonomics of "Spacebar = play" across so much media makes it the obvious choice for that. So, Return it is.
The fact that laws on things like libel and slander and blackmail exist means that the legal system has recognized that living, thinking human beings with agency still react in certain harmful ways when told certain things. "Agency" is not an escape hatch from the responsibility of understanding the reasonably predictable consequences of your actions.