skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I lived in the Tendernob neighborhood of SF for almost 10 years. I’d always pass by a lot of what you’re talking about...

- At one point I did a lot of walking there and to keep myself entertained I started tracking PPM (poops per mile)

- one day I walked by a woman peeing between two cars, and she noticed me & apologized. Later I walked back that same route and saw her again. She thanked me for not yelling at her, as she had no where else to go :(

- one day while walking to work, a guy facing away from me pulled down his pants and leaned over. I had to dodge what he launched out the backside. It was maybe the most disgusting thing I’d ever seen.

- I gave a beer to a homeless guy, and he chugged it & threw the can into the street. I asked him why he didn’t put it in the trash can right next to us, and he explained that he didn’t want the tiny Asian women who forage for recyclables to get stabbed by the needles in the trash cans, and that one of them would be along to get the can shortly. Sure enough, less than 5 minutes later, a woman pushing a shopping cart full of cans walked by, picked up the beer can, and continued on.
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I wasn't a huge fan of most of the UI refreshes lately in both Chrome and Firefox, but this is definitely the least welcome so far. I do not really expect these tabs to grow on me.

(Also, it obviously looks fine, but I really dislike the new trend of adding a bunch of empty space for no real reason other than aesthetics. The first thing I do in Firefox right now is remove the spacers next to the address bar...)
Needs a "video" label, there's no content without the video.
I'd really like to see somebody claiming right now that Chesa Boudin's policies and their results are "the way of the future".
Same as in France:

- Being lenient towards criminals because we need to have empathy towards all humans (real victims being forgotten here);

- Encouraging “deconstruction”, deconstruction of family values, of masculinity, of marriage, of traditional rules, replacement by state-sponsored benefits, which break the social fabric (a human as a free-spinning electron without roots may be healthy and wealthy, but at extremely high risk in case of unexpected event);

- 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.

- Immigration and being ostracized when pointing out illegal immigration or rules about it, which leads to unreasoned immigration. Which turns into people with broken social fabric, which means they weigh on state sponsored rescue instead of family.

But the biggest danger about a California is that it impacts the whole rest of the world: they apply their cultural pressure using the soft power that is social media, which puts the sane parts of the world at risk of having the same ideas.
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NFTs are pretty dead at this point, so I suspect the buyer doesn't think they will ever get their money back.

Probably just bought it because it was funny or something else (it's abundantly clear to everyone in crypto that NFTs are a fad that has already passed).
Ah yes, we have no money so let's invest a ton of work into something that will do nothing to bring in new or lost users, but, given our track record, has the potential to alienate even more of our ever fewer remaining users.
Yup. And given that an almost exactly inverse group said they're more conservative than average, that's a hot take on how tech libertarians view themselves if given a binary choice.
In that wikipedia article, sort by "Larceny-Theft" descending. San Francisco is number 2 per capita.

The issue with San Francisco is that, like this author reported, you see so much brazen property crime, in broad daylight with tons of people around, in otherwise upscale and/or touristy areas. Most of the crime in other cities is concentrated in bad neighborhoods (that is pretty much what makes a bad neighborhood bad).

Years ago I was in a packed Starbucks in a somewhat touristy area of SoMa, when a guy came in and pulled a gun on someone working on a laptop closest to the door, just grabbed his laptop (ripping the plug out of the wall socket) and ran, and there were tons of people on the street.
Well, it's not a mode. It's recording, but you can freely change between modes while recording and this will be part of the recording. I believe you can even start a recording in one mode and exit it in another, although this has limited use.
Probably just that the contrast is so stark.
The politicians would find a way to charge you for it, because the law in the USA is applied in an arbitrary and capricious manner. If you're not a political opponent of them, they'll let the law operate (or not) as it normally would. If you're a political opponent, they'll scour the laws to find something to get you with, or at least prosecute you until you're bankrupt even knowing they won't convict.

See also:

"By the people" by Charles Murray

"Three felonies a day" by Harvey Silverglate
My superpower is to take a good long walk. No music, No phone, no distractions.

Walking helps my brain juices flow.
fwiw: this is a new account, about 5min older than this post
Every announcement makes me happier that I disabled auto updates several versions ago
Been using it for quite a while with the Developer Edition and I have to say while the tabs looked weird at first I absolutely love the new look now!
I just wanted to thank you for creating and maintaining the croc infrastructure. I get a ton of value out of your utility.
> Why would anybody want to recall him for doing exactly what they elected him to do?

Because people thought that what he promised to do was good until they saw firsthand the consequences of it.
That sounds like American coming to the USSR, seeing a line in from of the bread store and saying "well, it must be some stupid store manager that forgot to order enough bread, he'll surely be fired soon after citizens complain, and everything will return to normal!"
I have not defended forcing down planes in the case of Belarus. More so in the case of the US persuing claims that other nations agree too.

Snowden said he wanted to go to Bolivia... There is no proof he actually intended to go there or that the Russians wouldn't be waiting to work with him there.

Regardless of Snowden's original intentions, he has no power to refuse cooperation with Russian intelligence services. At the very least, he has been trotted out for propaganda reasons like a trained pony. So in essence, yes, he ultimately defected by not standing trial.
The NIMBY cost of living problem is definitely huge add little annoys me more. I do wonder though if that's truly the cause for the high homelessness. Where are the homeless from? Are the from SF or other parts of CA or even came there from other states because of good weather and comparatively soft treatment they receive in SF? Genuine question. I've on several occasions tried to find statistics on this, but failed.
To me it still seems fairly clear which tab is being focused since it's the only one outlined.

I think separating the tab into its own bubble may pave the way for more interesting UI in the future. These bubbles could be stacked or displayed vertically while remaining aesthetically consistent.

These tabs also seem to more clearly communicate that they can be dragged around.
just draw a square, select it and hit "resize viewport to selection"?
You are right, but I don't think that's only what this advice is saying though.

It's more suggesting the thing that makes your stomach sink, that thing you want to procrastinate most on is also the most important thing you can possibly do.

And if you pick only one thing to do each day, prioritizing your tasks in that order will be a good start. While the reverse, the piling up of these tasks can be detrimental.
But do they? I'm still not sure they actually do.
I'm pretty excited about this. In general it looks fine, but I really gotta ask - why do browsers always redesign tabs? They don't change in functionality for the most part and yet they always get refreshed. Regardless, excited to try the new design, hopefully they really have streamlined it. I personally find the firefox menu navigation a bit weird and hard to...well navigate through so that's what I'm hoping has been cleaned up.
It was my last day in SF after a semester-long internship, and I decided to take photos around downtown. I was passing through Union Square on my way home when I saw a guy weaving through traffic, with two people chasing after him and yelling at him to give something back.

I instinctively started booking it after him, caught up to him in the middle of a food truck area, grabbed him by his hoodie collar, and pinned him down while I waited for the pursuers to catch up. It turns out he ran out of their shoe store with a pair that he was trying on. While I was holding him down, I realized that I still had my camera in my hand, and I instinctively took photos during the whole ordeal [1].

Between this episode and others I’ve seen or heard about (buckets of literal shit in the streets, friends-of-friends getting mugged in broad daylight, sometimes right outside their apartments), SF is really low on the list of places I want to live in.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/BrtlSaPAMNG/
Oh he absolutely knows it's bad policy, however he also knows it wins votes from people in San Francisco.

The problem is a large numbers of voters in SF don't realize it's bad policy, and maybe a bigger problem would be why are district attorneys elected positions in the first place?
Never left the Palisades, have you? SF has tons of property crime but much less of the violence you'd find in hellholes like St. Louis, Missouri or Baltimore, Maryland.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
I don’t know why you are saying inheritance was invented for performance reasons? Is there any evidence behind that?

Everything I was taught when OOP became mainstream in the late 80s, was that it was a performance trade off to afford code organization insight, while preserving encapsulation.

This statement about “performance reasons” is quite baffling.
How’s that working out in practice in San Fran?
Has defunding happened in SF already since the protests? If there has not been a significant defunding, then this is the police failing at the one thing they were hired to do. Why is no one else in the comments section here asking why the police are not responsible for cleaning up this mess but instead it is all the fault of "progressive politicians?"
> There's nothing at all wrong with the behavior, and it's perfectly logical once you understand what is going on, but it's certainly not intuitive.

I find the "app-less desktop" of Windows and all the Linux DE's I've tried (i.e. the big ones) far more weird and infuriating. It's easy to lose context of what app is focused, since a slight dimming of buttons isn't quite as obvious as I'd like. Reading the word of the app in the menu bar, even if it's just through my peripheral vision, makes the focus behavior far more obvious.

And an "app-less desktop" more or less necessitates that you now dedicate an entire meta/super/Windows/whatever key to the window manager, which is just such a waste of keyboard real estate, as well as a driver for key command inconsistency. In macOS, Cmd+N will (nearly) always make a new window for the app that you're in; Cmd+W will close it; Cmd+Q will quit it. In Windows, Cmd+N works for everything, but to make my first file explorer window, I have to hit Windows+E. And to quit an app, it's...Alt+F4, for some reason?

The trickle-down effects of this design are endless -- I've just laid out the basics of the basics here.
It is possible that it is bad intentions.

If the consequences of peoples' actions are externalized, if they are relieved of any responsibility to provide for themselves, and if they are brainwashed from birth into believing that they can't help themselves but all their fortune is determined by the prejudice or benevolence of other races or classes of people, the results are not slightly surprising to anyone with a vague grasp of human nature.
I lived in San Francisco for 15 years, and it’s getting pretty nasty in some places. When ever I meet someone who’s visited San Francisco, almost without exception, they comment on the homeless problem. The problem is SF is so bad you can’t help but comment on it because you’ve likely never experienced anything like it elsewhere in the USA. Who wants to visit a city where the first thing you experience is aggressive panhandling and streets covered in poop?
I was sceptical but this actually looks fresh and makes my visual system relax into the simplicity. Yay for going forwars bravely.
The current crop of California politicians are extremely noisy on Twitter and social media congratulating themselves on how great everything is but are very well protected from ordinary people. Another villain is the supervisor for Venice Beach in LA, a former bucket list tourist destination and now a massive homeless encampment. Supervisor Bonin refuses to talk to his constituents. People are getting very angry...
https://vimeo.com/532718306
Their video on the front page contradicts itself. They highlight the UI coded by "user interaction" and no surprise, the Pocket button in the URL bar has tiny usage. And yet, in the new design? It's bigger and more prominent. And they try to say this is data-driven in the voice-over.

Now, yet again, I'll have to just pin Firefox and stop updating it everywhere for a few months until the inevitable "undo all these changes" plugins are ready.

Update: Just tried the new design. As expected, the new tabs take up substantial vertical space and even compact mode (now hidden behind about:config) barely helps. Time for more userChrome.css...
Wasn't there a big redesign just recently?
I have been hearing people saying this for over a decade now...
Is anybody else getting tired of the constant stream of inflammatory posts ragging on San Francisco or the Bay Area? I feel like I've been seeing one every one or two days that make it to the top of HN.

These types of posts just seem to fit into this ongoing narrative that SF (and relatedly, silicon valley), are all falling apart due to poor governance. It's beginning to feel like a strong echo chamber in here.
What really irks me though is on this and the recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27241085 the associated comments and discussion don't really seem to have any real substance to them, and seem to revolve around one side saying "I visited and it is horrible!!!" vs the other side saying "I visited and it isn't horrible!!!".

This type of pure anecdotal arguing irks me because I really do love Hackernews as a source of interesting and rational discussion, and keeping ourselves to that standard would be super amazing, especially with complex topics like this one. Homelessness and crime in SF are not single cause topics, (it's not just bad governance that causes them) and the tech exodus does not mean the city is dying.
SF voters made their bed and now they get to sleep in it.
Honest question, why would police arrest people that won't get prosecuted as a matter of fact. It's effectively not a crime if the AG officially states that he won't prosecute an entire category of crimes. But even if just arrests (followed by immediate release) alone were enough of a disincentive for petty criminals, it would be the police arresting people for the sake of arresting people, for what is effectively not a crime.

The role of the police is not to "punish" in a judicial sense so it's disingenuous to blame the police for not doing the job of the AG. & it's a weird way to deflect the responsability from the population who voted exactly to not allow that "job" to be done.
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Great intellectual. It must be noted that he and a number of Palestinian nationalists criticised the Oslo agreement as a sell-out, which it essentially was. It legalized the occcupation and promised nothing for the Palestinians, benefiting mainly the corrupt leadership.

In the article I see Arafat compared to Ben-Gurion. One of the best books on the Israel/Palestine conflict is Noam Chomsky's book "The Fateful Triangle: Israel, the USA and the Palestinians. (Intro by Edward Said)".

At one point he compares the struggle of the Palestinians for their state to the struggle of the early Zionists for their state, and notes they had a lot of similarities, including the use of terrorism.
Shel Silverstein and the Missing Piece Meets the Big O
I enjoy working with React (and Next.js when I need server-side-rendering).

I like that JSX is close to native JS and doesn't have weird syntax like `v-bind`, `v-if` or `bind:value`.

Basically for learning, getting better at React means you get better at JavaScript.
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Insurance is just a loan that you prepay small amounts for until you make a claim and then repay larger amounts for.
Do you think they're doing that because they haven't considered alternatives like the one you've proposed or because those have been considered and found wanting for their target audience?
California already incarcerates 5x more people than any European country, and 10x more than the Nordics:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/CA.html

There are many, many problems in CA, but putting more people in jail is not going to solve any of them.
I have some questions about the cryptocurrency component that I could not see addressed on the website.

1. Where does RSC originate? I see that there are 1 billion RSC in existence. Can more be mined? Do you just generate new ones at will? Is this basically a 100% pre-mine of a token?

2. Who owns the RSC that exist? You plan to distribute some proportion of them. Presumably these can be converted to fiat dollars at some point. Supposing they become valuable, can you just sell off the 99% or so that you haven't freely distributed? What keeps the DAO acting in the community's interest?

3. Popularity is a poor indicator to choose to optimize for if you're looking to incentivize high quality. Even if you were able to build a rock-solid system free of bot accounts and manipulation, which is not your current system, the research and summaries receiving the most RSC would likely be clickbaity papers or those which can appeal to the widest audience. Do you have a way to address these issues?

4. What gives RSC a real-world value?

5. How do you ensure the right person is rewarded RSC? If I upload someone else's paper and get a reward, that doesn't seem right. Especially if a few months down the road they wanted to upload the paper themselves to profit in RSC from it. But presumably you would discourage duplicates, so they couldn't re-upload even if they tried. Similarly, how would incentives be structured for collaborative research? 3+ authors to a paper is not uncommon. It seems like the current system is just to reward the uploader, whoever they may be, like earning a "finder's fee". But then you just end up rewarding whoever can scrape and upload papers the fastest rather than those who put in the work to produce quality research.

I welcome the idea of a community built around open and accessible scientific research. But when you add financial incentives, especially when they're this easy to game and with a cryptocurrency entirely controlled by some opaque entity it raises some major red flags. Hope you have the time to answer some of the above.
The epidemiology of that says that they're so few of those cases that it wouldn't even relate to a sports case because there wouldn't be enough of them to compete in sports unless they all got together like midgets and lived in the same place
Voteing Democrat has consequences.
The same could be said for the pill and heterosexuals, no?
Thanks. Where can I order this as a poster-sized print for my office?
I suspect they mean that some people in the area have an aligned agenda (not necessarily conspiring, just aligned) of trying to push the tech industry back out of the city, because they resent the gentrification. Can’t speak to the life depends on it part, but I suppose it’s an allusion to the dangers of crime.
As a person whose family is from East Africa, saying that you would literally live in Somalia over the Bay Area is really goofy.

There's a GDP per capita of ~250 bucks, the 4th lowest in the world. Even if you lived in some western enclave of Mogadishu, your quality of life would be so much lower that it's incomprehensible. You think the poop in the streets in the Bay Area is annoying? In Somalia 1/3 of people have to defecate in the open. 50% of people don't have access to a basic water supply. The government is still trying to contain Al-Shabab--bombings and skirmishes still happen. As a westerner, especially if you're white, you'd live in constant risk of being kidnapped for ransom.

I don't like the bay area either, but at least keep the criticism tethered to reality. Somalia isn't Syria or Venezuela, you probably wouldn't be murdered but it would be a very dangerous situation.

https://www.unicef.org/somalia/water-sanitation-and-hygiene
> A new study from MIT researchers has confirmed that coronavirus skeptics and anti-maskers understand science and data better than their political opponents

I've always found it disturbing that some people view wearing a mask as political, rather than a health/safety measure
It’s just Hacker News confirmation bias. San Francisco has roughly the same level of property crime per capita as Toronto, Canada.
> There are understated psychological consequences to casual sex, particularly for females. Only in my 30s did I begin to understand the damage that my ostensibly harmless casual relations caused to many past partners, particularly those who grew attached before the end of the casual relationship.

Do you have any reading material on this to suggest?
The UI heatmap shows that nobody clicks Pocket, but the video highlights that pocket is "refreshed" and is part of the new design. Dear Firefox, that's not how things work.
Following this story has prompted a few questions, figured some HN users would have the background to fill it in.

What is the value in owning Freenode IRC?

What is Andrew Lee trying to achieve here?

From the outset, the most likely outcome seems to the one occurring. Disruption of the existing organisation following by splintering of the user base and forever declining relevance of the organisation.

But unless that was the goal, I'm confused as to why.
Is it not an obvious question to ask whether this is really just about "progressive politics" and not actually about "pandemic and lack of social safety net + police unions responding to protests threatening their jobs + insane cost of living?"
I disliked the new tabs at first but after a few weeks I'm totally used to them.
In the good old days leaving a severed horse head on someone’s bed was just “intimidation,” “mafia tactics,” and perhaps a bit of extortion or blackmail.

We regarded intimidation as a criminal behaviour rather than a political strategy to be rewarded.

This is separate from standover tactics where you would physically invade another person’s “personal space”.

“Bullying” was low grade psychological and physical abuse. Still unwanted and discouraged but at no point we’re you worried that you would die, lose fingers or find severed animal heads in your bed.