skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that makes sense. So it is any decline in equity assets through which the rate of selling is faster than the decline in the underlying assets (presumably...if the rate of selling was slower then the ratio would be less than 50%?).

I still have the same problem. The reason cycles cycle is because of the movement in money demand...which tend to be correlated to everything else. Being able to predict who will panic-sell could be correlated to other things (always a problem in financial economics).

I will need the read paper properly but would be interested to see how they deal with cash coming into and out of the account.
I was thinking of making the move to SF for the higher income. Seeing the past few years of the city have completely changed my mind though. Chesa Boudin physically makes my head hurt so much.
"Nor are the police blameless. In the fourth quarter of last year, the “clearance” rate for robbery (which measures the share of reported crimes that result in an arrest) was half that of New York City. The police are notoriously unresponsive."

This. Not only do I RARELY see a police officer in SF, but when I do, they look "beat down" or ambivalent. I'm sure years of police being the political "whipping boy" has taken its tole.
I think you'd find Judea Pearl's work interesting.
> Matt Haney, who represents the troubled Tenderloin neighbourhood

I love the characterization of the neighborhood as "troubled" like it was an accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrific_Street#Demise
Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan practiced corporatism[1] rather than capitalism

[1]https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm
Huh? The primary issue with San Francisco is that you are in fact not insulated from human misery at all. If you want insulation, check out Atherton or Woodside 20 miles down south.

In addition, the wealthy of San Francisco live in giant single family homes. It’s not a big skyscraper culture.
But was that the driver or was it cheap labor for immediate quarterly profits?
It COULD be written to be infinitely scalable in size (up to allowed memory) but that comes with a speed cost.

I remember something about NSArray switching its layout (and speed characteristics) after adding certain number of items, but I can't find a reference now.
I get a strong sense that SoftBank is maybe just... not very good at this whole investment side of things?
>Here's where I think this will first come to a head: I believe the US government will at some point soon decide that any person born in mainland China is a security risk as far as working on anything national security related.

I was at Google during the Project Dragonfly revelations. My name is on this petition [0]. Internally, I expressed discomfort at cooperation with a state that (among other things) sets up covert Communist Party cells at American universities and requires Party members to write reports on other Chinese students' political speech and activities. After sharing this concern, a fellow Googler reached out and told me earnestly, "don't worry, none of us writing those reports took it seriously."

This was cold reassurance.

[0] https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-e...
> For the record, the rust community has mostly settled around dual-licensing under MIT/Apache for what you can call "foundational" crates ("libraries")

That's just your opinion, there's no such thing as a blessed license scheme by the community. GPL is a perfectly valid choice if you feel like it
> people are willing to put up with a lot in exchange for living in a diverse and beautiful city.

You mean in exchange for living in a city with high paying tech jobs?
A huge chunk of it is QE and everyone knows QE is a meaningless operation.

Here is a simplified example. Banks grant $4 trillion in credit (mortgages and other loans). They also create bonds worth $4 trillion. The central bank does QE and buys $4 trillion of bonds. This entire process injected $4 trillion into the economy through loans but it increased the supply of credit by $8 trillion.

Of course from the perspective of the bank its better to mix the urine in a huge pool...
Use of "the" considered harmful. :)
There's definitely dysfunction caused by lack of planning at a metro level; many of the problems are arguably burdensome for any one county to address, but aren't high enough priority to attract attention to force coordination at a state level. Merging all the counties into one is certainly one approach to solving it, and would make the governance more addressable to a larger number of people who work in the area, versus the much smaller number who live there.
There is no economic tie between US/Soviet and nothing happens. 40 years of trade with China had propelled China to the number 2 economy in the world while sacked American manufacturing some projected China will surpass US in the near future. middle class American suffered and they voted Trump. is gig economy all that's left for middle class? while rich get even more rich from US/China trade.

American reap what they sow i guess.
I've lived in Toronto, SF and Sao Paulo. In 18 years living in Sao Paulo, I've witnessed one gun-related incident and was victim of robbery once (I lived near Heliopolis, one of the largest slums in the city). In 18 years living in Toronto, I was involved in zero. In my first 2 years in SF, I was harassed twice and witnessed retail theft 2 times.

SF is "not bad" in the sense that you won't get shot in the face. It is however quite bad in the sense that the amount of petty crime is so off the charts that you can't even compile accurate statistics because security personnel at retail stores don't even bother reporting it anymore.

A few months ago, I witnessed another theft in inner Richmond (one of the nicer neighbourhoods), the security guy did a half-ass attempt at running after the guy but gave up and came towards the customer support desk I was at. I asked if that was common, and the security guy literally just shrugs.
I will note that California seems to be America's dumping ground for the nation's homeless problem. There are also long-standing federal and state housing policies impacting San Francisco.

I have no idea how dysfunctional the local city government is in this case, but there are things going on here beyond its control. It's not fair or reasonable to act like the condition the city is in is entirely due to local government stuff.
> Buoyant has built and flown four prototype airships. The most recent sub-scale ship that went to air is 20 feet long, with airspeeds of up to 35 miles per hour and a payload capacity of 10 pounds, but the ultimate aim is to build an airship that’s capable of delivering up to 650 pounds of cargo at a cruise speed of around 60 miles per hour.

For depot to depot delivery, how does that compare with an 18 wheeler truck with 30,000 lbs carrying capacity going down the road at 60 miles per hour?
The idea is they aren't delivering to houses directly, they're moving packages between shipping facilities. So, they can presumably having landing pads on either side that aren't near power lines.

675 pounds isn't much, but if you have a high-priority delivery that's not very heavy it might make a lot of sense. Especially in remote places; they're particularly interested in serving places that are currently served by planes and helicopters, like remote locations in Alaska.
And C# since 7.0

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/csh...

First time I saw it was in C#, I love it personally
Sounds like a false flag.
The Peninsula is generally much better run than SF.

It kind of helps that it isn't one big city. It forces the cities to compete and makes the democracy more direct and participatory. It also limits the blast radius of bad decisions.

Also, because of the greater percentage of kids, the parents often vote based on what is best for their kids.

The issues are much more
mundane. Better roads, funding for schools, etc...
I would say devops is the most stressful role in the tech industry out there. If something goes down on a Sunday morning, you have to fix it; and sometimes the fix is not an as easy as restarting a server.
"In the EU" and "outside the US" are not synonyms.
Soylent Green also presents an exaggerated but somewhat plausible view of the cities of the slightly distant future(stepping over piles of homeless people to get out of apartments, not the eating people)
Can confirm. In general, unless you actually step into them, human feces are not a problem. Just watch your step and be alert. How difficult can it be?
Could you clarify how you're getting snark from me? Just FYI - I didn't downvote you.

My observation is based on the fact that most companies in mid-west (even Chicago yes) use Office generally because they're migrating from on-premise Microsoft solutions. I'm not passing any judgements.

Cargill, Old Republic Insurance company, et al all use Office365 or Microsoft solution.

Excel is indeed ahead of G suite offering but my post never made any indication otherwise.
I'd like bundle Oakland (across from SF on east bay) with this as well. Totally useless government, unbelievably filthy, utterly third world and embarrassingly woke. Yes, I say this as a liberal who's never voted for Republican candidate ever. Portland, Seattle, LA and SF - this is a west coast phenomenon and a policy-induced suicide.

> In 2017 Portland ranked third. Now it has dropped to 66th out of 80.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-...

Democrats need to get to the bottom of which policies caused the west coast to all simultaneously degrade. May be we should look at other democratic cities and some republican cities and adopt their policies.

Let's start with criticizing our own policies. By pointing fingers, it ain't gonna solve itself.
I mean it's hard to argue that it isn't the voters fault. Whether that is because they are not electing a conservative enough mayor or not isn't the point of the article.

Vote in non-corrupt officials who are willing to clean house and you start to make a dint in the problem. Ideology is irrelevant as a qualification for the candidate. The fact that they choose largey based on ideology rather than integrity is the problem.
No, it’s actually crazier in a sense. The contrast between the populations, the “virtual fences” created across main streets where you have chaos in one side and first rate everything on the other, seeing all the crazy on the backdrop of Twitter and Uber buildings and ultimately recognizing the futility of a place so rich destroying itself like a misdirected, spoiled trust fund brat. It’s the city that had everything going for it other than a common sense. I love SF but get it the fuck together.

The article touches on why that won’t happen though. Voter demographics won’t allow that. It’s either radical and young liberals which would go for every insane policy or the old and entrenched.
The dysfunction is definitely not isolated to just certain neighborhoods in SF. It goes beyond the tenderloin now.
It depends on the country. You will have to renounce for some even for S.
I get where you’re coming from there, I really do, but I gotta say, the little crosses gave me a good laugh! If only, right? :-)
There are better words for a conflict that's not currently active warfare. The US and China can disagree and take action that isn't mutually beneficial without it being a war. How we talk about things reflects how we think about them and limits the solutions we consider.
I agree. I think the only explanations it gives are that the city has no middle class and politicians try to solve national problems with local solutions. Neither are root causes in my opinion. The former is explained by a lack of new home building which is a statewide and national problem and the latter is explained by the fact that the San Francisco political machine generates a lot of national political candidates! The city is hugely over-represented in national politics. I have no clue why, and the causes of both are probably more explanatory than whatever the article provides.
"Closing off and turning inwards"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
San Francisco is what happens when so many of your citizens are rich enough to opt into private everything and not have to deal with the effects of or take seriously the policies of the people their money puts into power. It’s a type of oligarchy and plutocracy where the patrons can pay to be seen and “adored” by the political class for social standing but can opt-out of every policy choice.
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What more disturbs me is that, if this is a factual representation that we really don't know, that means that we have no meaningful HUMINT intelligence capabilities in Nazi China and are relying on SIGINT alone.
Could you clarify? In my experience most non-costal entities outside of education space do tend to use Office as opposed to Gsuite. I'm not passing any judgement about midwest vs coastal cities.
SoftBank sold ARM to Nvidia. And I thought Nvidia is Taiwanese since the parent comment mentioned China but maybe I was wrong. It seems like Nvidia is American. Why he mentioned China?
I take your point, but wouldnt categorize what looks like on paper the largest ever theft of intellectual property in the history of the world as "drama"

I would expect some western sources to back those claims. Otherwise they look like run of the mill chinese propaganda
Er, what? Anyone who has walked through SoMa or the Tenderloin or the financial district or... quite a few other neighborhoods knows that no one here is "insulated from human misery".

Also what "gleaming towers"? We have, like... 5 of those in the entire city? Most residential stock is low-rise or SFH, and the rich certainly mostly live in the latter (see: Pacific Heights and parts of the Sunset).

I'll be the first to not only admit, but scream, that SF has a ton of problems, but you have not characterized them correctly at all.
Indeed - you'll want to upgrade to Basic.
At this level of evidence, every problem in a nominally democratic society could be explained by “voters” in the abstract. Would you blame local discretion over land use, Prop 13, or CEQA - semi-permanent features of the Californian democratic system - on today’s San Francisco voters? How about the lack of national healthcare system that can support drug abusers and other mentally incompetent which drives a lot of net migration of homeless people to the city?
Also, I think there's something to be said for scale and context when it comes to regulation of this sort of marketing. Another poster here put it quite succinctly saying, I'm paraphrasing, "You don't expect them selling guns at the candy store."

So the App Store is something which a large subset of the global population has shoved in it's face, just for having a phone; which society expects of them. It's not people seeking out a "gambling-type" experience.

There's a greater onus of care to be a responsible player. I guess then they'd sell less of the self-help and counseling apps on the store too though.
People are willing to put up with a lot if it means they don't give anything to someone that doesn't deserve it.

'I will walk through a pile of shit before my money is used for you to shit somewhere else you lazy fuck'
Seriously doubt there are more than 30% of Microsoft customers who ran CosmosDB with a wide open firewall. Any serious corporate customer would be in breach of even the most basic security/compliance rules.
Yes, it gives an error -- if you want decimals, you can't use leading 0's:

Python 3.6.3 (v3.6.3:2c5fed8, Oct 3 2017, 18:11:49) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.2.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: 01
File "<ipython-input-1-3351d58b1d3b>", line 1
01
^
SyntaxError: invalid token

In [2]: 0o1
Out[2]: 1

In [3]: 0o10
Out[3]: 8
Full surface including oceans. I actually got something like 6.6 * 10^17 per mm^2, but who's counting?
Not sure I’d call a city which had one ruling party for forty years “diverse”.
Noe Valley resident as well. But you have to realize that Noe is very segregated from the rest of the city.

Mainly it's the hills. Hard to be homeless and hike up the castro hill. Same with why Bernal is so clean.

But anywhere in Mission or along Market gets pretty sketch.
huh, that's strange. I've never seen any page on the forum take longer than a few ms to load. Just navigated through a couple of threads and all appeared nearly instantenously. Can you share a bit more about your hardware/setup?
Yeah, I agree. The poster above is a nut.
The "bad / dangerous" part of the city is now significantly larger than it was even three years ago, when you moved here. It's been expanding rapidly the past few years.
One clarification, the full-scale version's max speed is ~75 mph, and typical cruise speeds will be 50-60 mph. The 35 mph number in the article is our subscale prototype. We loose range in a headwind, but on most days the aircraft has more than enough range to complete our target missions. And on the days the weather's too bad to fly, many other small aircraft are grounded too.
- Joe from Buoyant
I keep hearing this. Do you have any citations for "America's dumping ground". How many homeless are migrating to California?

> As the data shows us, most of the homeless people you pass on the streets every day are in fact Californians.

> Less than a fifth (18 percent) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht...

Everytime this argument has been brought up, instead of owning to the responsibility of causing homelessness, Californians love to point out how kind they are to homeless and how they're a "dumping ground" for homelessness. It is a cop out.
You don't actually live in SF or you would know that there's not actually literal piles of shit everywhere.
There are homeless encampments and tents on streets in the Marina district now, so these issues aren't isolated to "tourist areas".

Yes, some parts of the city definitely have it worse than others, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss these issues on the basis that there are small residential enclaves that are less affected.

If you want to enjoy SF's restaurant scene, nightlife, hiking, etc., you will inevitably have to go to areas where this crime is rampant. And this crime should not be happening in an American city, let alone one that is so rich.
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In their Q&A thread the other day I believe they said that helium price isn't likely to impact them all that much in the short term. Maybe they'll use hydrogen at some point in the future, but it seems like they don't think it's necessary for their business model to work, given the relatively small size of their airships.
That's why NameCoin .bit domains should become widespread. "Privacy" and Freedom conscious browsers (Brave? Firefox?) should enable .bit resolving by default. In this day and age, we already have the technology to avoid these types of censorship.
They are not required to. However, it is a courtesy to encourage responsible disclosure. Like a reward for returning a lost wallet.
I can sadly relate to this. Before the pandemic, in my tech company’s offices you could sip free cold brew looking out at the beautiful city from way up above. But if you looked directly down at the plaza below there was a growing sea of homelessness. Often needles and shit littered around them. Everyone seemed to just “tune it out” and pretend they weren’t there, because otherwise you would have to face that we were living in a dystopian reality.
GDPR tried to do that, and the governments charged to enforce it decided to not enforce it. It is one of the primary reason why there are people saying that only a few single digit percent of websites actually comply with GDPR, and why consent popup that most sites use do not actually conform to the law.
I've visited SF four or five times and the last time, I was waiting downtown (sorry I don't remember exactly where, but a high wealth, high traffic area) and a man who was clearly down on his luck came up to me and yelled at me. This was about five years ago.

I've lived in NYC for ~9 years and that's never happened to me.

It was genuinely shocking and very worrying.
What kind of level of literacy is expected of someone transferring from a webdev environment. Would financial knowledge/certifications help?
> regulation against e-gambling like online poker.

nit - playing poker against other people isn't gambling, it's a game of skill. Much like chess, if you're better, you win and can earn a living. No one earns a living playing roulette.
"im not doing anything wrong, i have noting to hide"
I was watching a twitch streamer who lives in SF, and he told a story about a time he was walking down the sidewalk at night and saw a homeless person peeing on someone's car. He said there was a cop nearby that saw him doing it, but he told the streamer that the homeless guy looked gross and he didn't feel like dealing with him, so the homeless guy just walked away when he was finished.
I knew several colleges that had the entire campus on a flat /16 network. Dozens of buildings, 1000's of computers. It worked fine. Well, except for the "no firewall" part (this was mid 90's.)
Another thing which would be a responsible play by Apple:
For those unlimited-in-app-currency purchases, have a no-questions-asked automatic refund process which is available for 30 days after purchase and causes the app to be either permanently removed from your library or made unavailable for reinstall for a minimum of 90 days (and perhaps all other apps with unlimited in-app currency).

This would show Apple's commitment to avoiding encouraging regrettable addictive behavior on their platform.
Not on device they aren’t. (I hope)
Yup, this is basically it. It's impossible to compete with a truck that's fully loaded, but there are tons of short middle mile trips where trucks aren't fully loaded (LTL or less-than-truckload freight). This type of freight is surprisingly inefficient, particularly in low density areas.
>In England and Wales private schools are confusingly known as “public schools”

This is flat out wrong and I'm amazed to see it written in a British publication.

There are plenty of definitions of what a "public school" is but I've never previously heard of anyone suggesting that it's just a private school.

I'm not going to get into how you define a public school but most people would agree these are : Charterhouse; Eton; Harrow; Rugby; Shrewsbury; Westminster; and Winchester, and that while there might be one or two other contenders there certainly aren't many. Just to be clear there are many hundreds of private schools in the UK besides these few.

If you're interested to know more the wikipedia page for Public Schools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) gives the background, in particular the passage relating to the Clarendon Commission.

EDIT: Changed "is is" to "is".
> The contrast between the populations, the “virtual fences” created across main streets where you have chaos in one side and first rate everything on the other

San Francisco was this way since forever. The poor have been systematically corralled into the Tenderloin for over 100 years. The divisions between neighborhoods elsewhere were why San Francisco was always considered so "charming"--you could cross the street and enter an entirely different world.

Setting aside the tremendous increase in drug abuse and homelessness, it's the tearing down of those virtual fences, especially around the Tenderloin, that is really causing people to freak out. It's just that their freak outs are coded in the language of social activism. Excepting the Tenderloin, every other part of San Francisco has become systematically homogenized, not to mention seen increased wealth.