skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government website stats support the claim: ~29% of the entire US homeless population is in California, which is disproportional when compared to other state population densities.[1] That said, the piece doesn't offer much constructive advice on how to fix it. Californians have been witnessing the very real, large increase in tent cities, addicts, feces, ... for years now, but so far they still vote for the same people and policies that create the problem.

In the Bay Area, they at one time had "Sit/Lie" laws prohibiting loitering -- but the locals condemned them as cruel and inhumane. Instead, they advocate that it's ones right to camp in the public park.

Even when Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Fran, he tried to enact a "Care not Cash" program to get people into mental health services instead of cash handouts; the people turned on him, and even set fire to his front lawn in protest.

Californians are getting precisely the kind of world they've voted for. It's ugly, and it literally stinks. Yes, how to fix it is the question, but I'm not sure the people have had enough yet. The recall election of Newsom next month will be an indicator. If he's recalled, then a new day of hope begins. Hope, anyway....

[1] https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca
Meanwhile, I see fleets of user-bots happily chugging along under the radar hoovering up data. Just like the post author said:

> the crux of malicious bots were, and still are, user-bots.

Seems almost laughable that Discord is making hoops for legitimate bot developers to jump through while taking little action against user-bots.

I suspect that Discord wants to get a chunk of the big money that game bot developers are making, and are pushing bot developers into a more rigid API that will eventually include in-app-purchases. The article author also said:

> No longer will bots thrive with a sandbox limited only by your imagination, but instead Discord is now the sole gatekeeper of approved use cases. The future of Discord bots relies solely on the interaction system; things have to be explicitly written and supported by Discord employees
What I’m learning from reading these kinds of posts over the years: whenever possible, don’t let your passion have external dependencies.
Yep, for sure. My point isn't that SF doesn't have problems, but that people form misimpression's of just how bad they are and those views get concentrated in places like hacker news
"Skills follow activity, they do not lead activity. You learn by doing."

Nicely put. Thanks for pointing that out. That really resonates for me as I think about my career and skillset. I'm where I am now because of building things with somewhat inferior skills (risky) at the start and growing my skills . I need to repeat that with new tools/processes now. It all seems obvious looking back.

...Perhaps another skill is having the foresight to see what will be needed in the next phase. I did it then, hopefully I'll be able to do it again. A bit like running a small company of one person. Where is the next investment made?

China - the populace - seem to be pretty good at this.
Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China all using seal/stamp
Photoshop isn't heavy nowadays. Games are, yes, but the vast majority just work natively.

Also you really miss a lot of Linux if you're running it terminal only without a GPU. Being unable to use the Jetbrains IDEs on Linux is the biggest one for a developer that's universal to any field.

Also if you have to do something heavy, it's almost universally better to do it on Linux, ie, higher speed and better reliability.
I thought they recently abolished this bullshit.

China has been making a joke out of foreign entities for years with this blatant rip-off.
Stressed "the" and unstressed "the" have different implications for meter. (And meaning.) "The" has two pronunciations in English. "Thee" and "thuh". The former is stressed, the latter not. While part of it follows the same pattern as a/an governed by by the initial sound, some of the rules are complicated. "Thee" is also used for emphasis as a demonstrative.

"Give me thuh cat toy." (Some ordinary toy.)

"Give me thee cat toy." (The one with special powers.)
You are suggesting "let them eat cake".
Mate - you're making $4k/mo. Budget some Operating Expenditures! Check into "Profit First" to ensure you're handling your business finances in a proper manner. A healthy allocation of OpEx is 30% of your revenue at your size. Start saving $1200/mo for all OpEx, and use some of that to build your Android app. It'll pay dividends!
Well let's work on building the political will then? It is true that individually we're unlikely to have much impact, but there are organizations and groups working for change and they've been having results.
This is one of the main reasons companies love hiring 20-29 yo people. They work their ass off because that is all they know, as well has having the time to do it. Once people hit 35-50 people realize there are more things to life.
Maybe next time we can bully them into changing their name to "US Taipei" or something.
They still own 49% of it, so are still entitled to a share of the profits. And if they prevail in court (assuming that court action is initiated), they can regain control of the subsidiary as well.
It's only screwed if regulators don't have the balls to take down Google.
Yup, me too. Have always met or exceeded expectations working a straight 40. This article is trying to generalize their experience on a bad team to the 500K+ people that work at Big Tech companies.
> So, recently I achieved happiness because I just don't care about the job anymore. I didn't even do my performance self review, and I wrote a poem instead. I got a Meets-Most, and I've never been happier.

You can't do that! Hey, come back here! You're not allowed to do that! Can you hear me? Get back over here, don't walk away. Don't keep walking away. Stop!
Google "install ansible" then follow the instructions for your OS. I'm sorry you can't read.
No, it sounds quite serious to me actually. I don't joke around like that even with my friends.
There's no transparent support for anything GUI or GPU related. There's no ability to use another hypervisor without rebooting the machine and changing a flag and then changing it back. There's no seamless access to the same filesystem. There's no seamless networking. There's no interprogram communication across the OSes without the (kinda broken) network.
Quotes like this bug me:

> If you find yourself in this type of situation, please do what’s best for you and get help if you are feeling stuck or overwhelmed.

Get help the !@#$% where? There isn't a magic American "help" fairy who bails people out of trouble.

These issues are complex, and therapists/counselors/psychologists suck up time and don't really address root causes.
If you have an Apple keyboard it ought to be left of the letter z.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards
Japan was famous for copying.

They send their businessmen into trips trough Europe and the US with cameras hanging in their necks taking pictures of the factories and taking notes. When their hosts waited orders from Japan, they build factories and started competing.

Industrial Revolution in the US started with stealing. Samuel Slater – "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" ("Slater the Traitor" in the UK) didn't invent anything. He just memorized and copied British cotton spinning mill designs, especially the water frame and moved to America.
Ironic. Desktop UI APIs used to be designed around enums of messages as the primary surface (e.g. Win32), but then UI frameworks wrapped all that to allow us to write code that looks exactly like you suggested. Now it's back to messages again... I wonder when we get back to wrapping them. ~
Sounds like they're fixing (what discord considers) some major security issues in basic discord, but the project management is a disaster, and there are no stakeholders that care about api access actually working for developers. That doesn't sound fun.
Hydrogen can be made safe, and is renewable. For something like this to work we need to move past the Hindenburg.
In case any Discord employees are reading this: please don't remove the ability for bots to read message_content , or make me jump through verification hoops either. Reading raw messages is absolutely crucial for moderation bots and, well, just about every other fun and interesting bot.

I don't write discord bots so you can type a slash command to do a thing. That's boring. Good bots can read messages. Discord will be very "not dope" and "not cool" if bots are forced to become a sterilized pick-list of interaction options.
Of course Linux's ipfw has remained entirely consistent for its entire lifetime.

Excuse me, I meant ipchains.

Oh, silly me, iptables.
Most databases rely on OS filesystem cache, which is very compatible with the way buffer caches manage data with fixed-size pages/blocks.
You can get a cheaper one and you can actually negotiate long-term rates too. But yea generally they’re not that cheap especially b/c the price shown never includes things like occupancy tax and “resort fees”.
Not really my experience at Google tbh. I've been at Google for a little under 4 years and been promoted twice but only work about 4 hours a day. Sometimes I don't do shit for weeks at a time and things seem to pan out ok. I'm not trying to humble brag that I'm 10x or anything--im not, I'm a B grade engineer at best. Sure it can be stressful sometimes, but I'd say that 80% of the time it's really chill.
Now it's too late for a trade war with China. We already gave them all of the ammo over the past 60 years.

Our systems are going to collapse before long and China will be ready to take the reigns.
As a little boy's dad, thanks for the link, that was deep, and what a writer, Orwell, better known for his novels but also a formidable essayist. In this vein, I would like to recommend Montaigne's "On the education of children" (yes, I know that showing gratitude is discouraged in this forum)
Could tech and manufacturing combine to become automated high-end tech?

Could robotics and aggressive automation of production lines make this shift? ...Or is it in fact more complex than it seems and the lead times for setting up these kinds of businesses too large to have a useful effect in the short/medium term?
A lot of this rings true. But I also can’t help but think (I’m not FAANG), given the kind of pay at these companies couldn’t or shouldn’t one treat these gigs like 3-4 year tour of duty, and have enough to go away and refresh for a couple of years (with a ton socked away for nest egg/ retirement?)
I like how the next thing you do after "inventing the universe" is "bake an apple pie"
BASIC was a backronym, surely.
It's the requirements that kind of bubble up from very far away in a large org that cause the most stress. Almost no one wants their reports or close colleagues to feel inundated and always scrambling but in a big org it's still really hard to mitigate when the originator of a request is a few teams away from the one that is made to feel like a bottleneck (actually there'll be a ton of people feeling like the bottleneck on any project which is by definition not true). Actually the originator might not even feel it's urgent it just feels a little more escalated all along the path.

If you firmly say "no" or "I can't" people will be a lot more accommodating than you think. Easier said than done in the actual situation but it seems almost always true.
Since he's stepping down, I hope he opens an avenue for donations. Watching some of the earlier drama as it was happening (fwiw only hinted at in the gist) was disheartening. I'm surprised that he managed to not only make it through 1 rewrite but almost make it through another, of a relatively complete codebase too.

Even though unpaid in the programming field, very much a professional IMO.
we're not disagreeing here - I'm saying he's being sarcastic and rude. the tone of that message is patronising and it's just an unnecessary jab.
While saying that they might know where the virus came from seems to be allowed, saying for example “I think China created the virus via gain of function research” would still get you banned from Facebook today according to these rules:
https://m.facebook.com/help/230764881494641
I think that may be a bit of an unfair statement. They do note just above in the public instances the following:

> Note: Use public instances at your own discretion. Maintainers of Whoogle do not personally validate the integrity of these instances, and popular public instances are more likely to be rate-limited or blocked.

Having tested with various search strings, the time to first search-result paint for the the first public instance [1] feels just as fast a Google.

[1] https://whoogle.sdf.org/
Exactly. Why are companies and their governments still falling for it?

Contrast with how Chinese companies operate in the west, essentially imposing a system of apartheid between Chinese bosses and western workers.
>> This is made possible because I'm old enough with enough assets that I can quit and retire

This is the life changing part.
The arrogance of these corporate reps is incredible. They clearly do not care about supporting bot devs.

Perhaps the goal is to kill the bot dev community in order to centralize it around Discord corporate, and then start putting more bot-related features behind Nitro and other subscription paywalls.

Seems like a nasty way to go about it, but I can't imagine any other reason to behave this way towards a community of unpaid volunteers who add tremendous value to your platform.

I think there's a lot of potential for a VC-funded startup to pour some cash into Matrix and then swoop in when the Discord ecosystem eventually starts falling apart.
The US went through exactly the same phase after WW2: suburbanization, increase in car transport led to the death of single-location department stores which were concentrated in the city centre.

This didn't occur in the UK because of better public transport, and less suburbanization (marginally).

All of the stuff you say is correct but local councils, generally, didn't approve retail parks...they just couldn't find a good enough reason to say no or they were built just outside the council area. And now councils are reaping what they sowed because they stopped houses going up in cities...now the locus of money has moved to the suburbs as new houses get built (and, somewhat unbelievably, councils made this worse but shutting down car parking on high streets during Covid...the economic mismanagement is staggering...but all due to their greed around house prices and trying to restrict cars to boost house prices in the areas local councillors live).

For a roadmap, look at the US after WW2 (we are somewhere in the 60s when independent department stores started failing en masse). We had department store chains built up in inner city areas so the collapse is, if anything, more violent. Most high street areas/shopping centres will fold, Debenhams was an anchor tenant in so many shopping centres. Tier 2 cities/towns high streets will be literally deserted in a few years. Most retailers that anchor shopping centres will fail (the big one that hasn't failed already is M&S, even Sainsbury's is vulnerable because I believe they anchor some small shopping centres), and you will see new chains thrive as retail parks spring up. I live near a town with under 10k people, they have put a retail park there with 4 stores, and before they all opened they added another two units. Aldi, Home Bargains, Food Warehouse...all fast growing chains offering products that undercut all the old economy shops.

It is really great to see. A lot of these chains are offering real value. In the town I mentioned, it was only Tesco who was known for gouging in locations where they were the only shop in town. Now they are being overrun: Tesco, Sainsburys, Aldi, Home Bargains, Food Warehouse.
... because it's not possible to load the whole thread at once, so the normal scroll bar will be jumping up and down as you scroll to load content on demand. And really, if you want to jump to a particular post in a long thread, the special scroll bar is easier than pages anyways because it's continuous.

Really, the scroll bar IS a fresh take on the page list, except it's actually useful for navigating the thread and doesn't force readers to deal with the useless concept of numbered pages when such arbitrary divisions are no longer the primary way of navigating the thread. Once you choose to not implement explicit pages (and accept that it's not possible to load the whole thread in one request), the thread scroller is a natural consequence.
This seems like a move designed to head off antitrust issues.
There are some policy issues at play, particularly the ones that essentially allow people who are in difficult circumstances to completely avoid any kind of consequences for anti-social behavior. For example, Chesa Boudin’s refusal to prosecute quality of life crimes because they would negatively impact those who already have very little. That’s great in principle, but in practice it means that society has no effective way to deal with people who can’t or won’t abide by the basic tenants of societal living. Everyone else’s just has to suck it up and deal with it.

Beyond that, though, there’s a whole complex web of other causes that have converged at this moment in time. These include:

- A massive meth epidemic, which in turn fuels an epidemic in theft and visible mental illness.
- Ditto for the opioid epidemic.
- Inadequate mental healthcare, especially inpatient services.
- Laws and case precedent that makes involuntary commitment of the mentally ill next to impossible.
- The Martin v. Boise ruling, which disallows police from stopping people from camping in public if there isn’t a viable alternative, such as shelter space.
- An extremely vocal activist community that will fight tooth and nail against anything they perceive to be “the man” or “the system” committing anything they perceive to be “injustice” against anyone they consider to be “the downtrodden”. Often these are reasonable things, like sweeping a homeless camp that is openly using intravenous drugs from a public park or the playground of an elementary school.
- Police that avoid anything that could draw the ire of the activist community, or draw condemnation from city leadership. In practice this works out to be just about everything you would normally expect the police to do.
- A populace with a strong sense of learned helplessness who won’t even bother to call the police because they know the police won’t come anyhow.
- A culture that disincentives people from speaking out about social problems, except when blaming systemic causes, for fear of being perceived to be conservative.

Edit:

On top of all that, you also have the systemic stuff, like:

- Severe lack of affordable housing with massively inadequate government intervention.
- Everything that COVID brought.
- Police that run the gamut from exemplary to active white nationalists.

Each of those feeds and is fed by all of the others.
They are citing their high vaccination rate. Here are a couple graphs comparing Denmark (71% fully vaccinated) to other fairly high vaccination rate countries (Portugal 72%, Spain 68%, Canada 67%), and also to Israel (60%) and the United States (52%).

Here are new cases 1 week average normalized by population [1]. Here are new deaths 1 week average normalized by population [2].

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri...

[2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri...
Universal Music Group Has Copyrighted the Moon
This type of state is typically used for "interface state", e.g. "is this toggled open", "which menu item is selected", etc. It's definitely normal to combine that with a 'database' style model layer, as you say.
I wonder if they were giving their full official seal? I suppose if you're signing a ton of documents, handing that over might be needed. It would be interesting if there were a system to register certain seals with only some permissions (for example, manage business but not personal assets with a green seal). You could create a document stamped with your most important seal that indicates which seal is permissible for which purpose.

In Japan, the official "hanko" seal with red ink carries the force of a signature, but other seals do not carry as much or any legal weight.

https://www.nippon.com/en/features/jg00077/

That article talks a little bit about a similar system to the one I mentioned, where one seal is used for banking, one for title transactions, etc. Something like that but more customizable could be pretty useful.
That sort of response isn't very professional, and I'm perfectly aware of Discord's "playful" culture, but it was out of place when someone was trying to discuss something seriously.
> China simply stole an entire business division.

One guy in China (with dual US citizenship) went rogue and refused to step down as CEO of a joint venture after board members representing most of the shareholders (including Chinese shareholders) voted to remove him.

He could only do that based on a legal technicality and the shareholders can still oust him via court action.
I searched and saw that too. However banning the article isn't the same as banning users who post the article, so I was curious if there was a source for that.
And Fansy the Bard. Sometimes trolls really can make an online community a better place.
Thank you for this explanation. I must admit that not being able to use the power of closures feels like a huge disappointment. Unless anybody can convince me otherwise, I think I'll write my GUIs in a language with a garbage collector, and perhaps use Rust for smaller projects which are at a lower level.
Perhaps... but I think companies like FB also get (total guess) thousands of resumes per day. So, for every engineer that walks away, many more are knocking at the door.

So, I think in management's eyes, very very very few people are irreplaceable.
Well, they did say it was for hackers.
Edit: Leaving this comment up, but my updated understanding is that Discord's policy change only effects bots >100 servers. So it's less applicable to the 'learning how to code' demographic.

It seems to me like Discord has, for some reason, decided that small bots are a problem. Which is a bummer.

I've been on Discord since 2016, in programming and academic circles, and the grassroots bot community has always been amazing. I'm in a server with 30 of friends, which has 4 bots made by members of the server.

Something about the simplicity of listening for messages, parsing them how you want, and sending back text that shows up just like a user is really satisfying. I know it's been a motivation for many people who have little to no interest in programming anything else.
As long as they aren’t harming anyone why can’t you respect their wishes and leave them alone if that’s what they want? What if someone decided you needed help even after you made it clear you didn’t want it?
Also, the vast majority of websites for online clothing stores are complete garbage, slow, messes, that feel actively user hostile.
I suspect that long COVID risk is lower in vaccinated individuals (and hope so as an expat who traveled halfway around the world to get vaccinated) but the risk should be quantified.

There are a growing number of reports of people with breakthrough infections who are experiencing symptoms that aren't "mild", and some reports of people with "long COVID" like symptoms. It's not reason enough to panic, but it's concerning, especially in light of the fact that until very recently, health experts and the media kept telling us that breakthrough infections were "rare" even as it was becoming evident they weren't.