skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A free market where selfishness is completely unleashed will not stay free, however. That leads to concentration, and then entrenchment, of power. A base set of rules for what constitutes fair play, and commensurate punishment of cheaters is essential to maintaining freedom.
>One City Hall insider suggests that San Francisco overreacts to issues that are in the national news, and designs solutions to the country’s problems rather than its own. For example, when Mr Boudin ran on his platform of less punitive justice, San Francisco already had one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country. In 2019, 106 adults were in prison for every 100,000 people, one-fifth the rate in California and the nation. If the rest of the country behaved like San Francisco, the prison population would decline by 80%, says James Austin of the jfa Institute, a think-tank that evaluates criminal-justice policies.

This seems like a very reasonable hypothesis
Socialism = communism. I won't into details, it is easily searchable, many big proponents of those systems said so themselves.

> Very very few people with wealth support ditching the capitalist system.

I also agree with this... they want capitalism, FOR THEMSELVES ONLY. In order to achieve that, they promote socialism/communism for everyone else. This is achieved by imposing regulations and taxes on small businesses, effectively crippling them, while the large corporations enjoy all the loopholes and benefits of a global market.

In order to fix capitalism, it must work for everybody equally. No bailouts, for starters, and you still need regulations to avoid the big guy from completely dominating the game. Redistribution of wealth, by definition requires centralization of resources. Resources (money, assets, etc) must flow towards a single point, and then flow back to a different location... this is a HUGE point of failure, that can be easily controlled and corrupted. The alternative is to do the opposite, and decentralize resources as much as possible.
On the one hand, I agree but on the other, this is the one case where you cannot take any chance of having your user install some random dodgy app that promises the same functionality.
Just because people vote for it, it doesn’t mean it is what people want. There is also the option that the voting system is faulty and that the voters don’t have a real option.

As an example, the city of Reykjavík has 23 representatives in the city council. They are voted proportionally from parties represented distinct views. San Francisco board of supervisors have 11 members, less then half of Reykjavík’s despite having more then 6 times the population. ~And to make it worse, each member is voted on a first past the post system.~ [Edit: Not true as pointed out in a comment]

The San Francisco mayor is voted in a separate election and is not on the board of supervisors. Since this is a position where a lot of political capital is to be gained it is often used as an opportunity for a politician seeking a career, rather then as a passive position willing to let diverse opinions and find consensus among differing views.

None of this is voter’s fault. Rather there is a systemic problem which can only be fixed by the people who are benefiting from the status quo.
That question doesn’t show understanding of the relative sizes of atoms and cells.

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-many-atoms-in-human-cell-60388...:

“According to an estimate made by engineers at Washington University, there are around 10¹⁴ atoms in a typical human cell”

⇒ it isn’t necessary to use “multi-cellular” there by a wide, wide margin.
Not sure what connection you're trying to draw; Terrific Street was far north of where the Tenderloin is.

(Thank you for the link, though; I had never heard of Terrific Street, and I'm always curious to learn something new about the city's history.)
Is there a sample that demonstrates Gilad’s ideas about parameterized modules?
Big crashes (and fast-drop bottoms) happen not because of panic selling, but because of forced selling (covering margin calls, getting liquidated, etc). Panic selling usually leads to slow grind downs.

Shorts usually cover once the rebound starts, not when things are free-falling (their trailing stops get triggered, etc)
Oh cool! I guess I scrolled too fast or something. Thanks.
it's literally in the beginning of the article

> As part of the emphasis on the Chinese market, SoftBank succumbed to pressure and formed a joint venture. In the new joint venture, Arm Holdings, the SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors for paltry $775M.
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
Reading from HN, half of Americans are either in jail or homeless dealing with mental issues. Are there proper statistics to get a better assessment of the situation?
The full company name is "Buoyant Aero" for that reason! We often shorten it to Buoyant, but may use the full name more if it's a recurring point of confusion.
Have you seen users? I have to convince users not to install random crap.
From Starhopper to SN20, a brief timeline of the SpaceX Starship development
>Let me spell it out: Chinese companies are extensions of the state. They are tools of Chinese foreign and trade policy. What cooperation you think US companies provide the US government, it is nothing in comparison.

I'm not so sure. It just goes through a few more mediators and more roundabout ways.

In the end, the fruit companies that turned Latin American countries into banana repubics, for one example, had big support from the state and vice versa. Ditto for oil, telecommunications, social, and so on.
There is a third option: believing that I have no moral standing to intervene in other people's decision-making process, no matter how much I think they might benefit from it.

We all live in a society, but that doesn't mean we all have to agree about everything, or even that we're all on the same team. To me it just means we're willing to co-exist peacefully, and resolve disputes via due process. From there I really don't think I have the right to tell others how to spend their money, or whether or to whom to sell their kidneys.
I would love to see data as well, but I don't consider self-reported origins to be all that convincing. If I were homeless and moved to a city where it's "easier" to be homeless, I would probably claim that I was previously housed there if asked.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329731
I recently self-hosted a NextCloud instanced and was surprised by the timer app.

You set your clients and projects. When you do work on a project you just start the timer and when you press stop, assign the time to a project along with a description.
Money isn't wealth. It really isn't. Anyone who thinks money is wealth is denying the existence of reality. After all, if money were truly wealth then we should try to contact aliens and sell the entire earth to them. We'd have all the wealth according to that logic.
I went to a conference in SF once and walked up and down Market Street twice a day for a week, and never saw a single pile of shit!

I was attacked by a disturbed man who chased and pulled a (probably fake) gun on me, but no piles of shit whatsoever!
PHP is webscale.
I think you’d have a hard time modeling a single celled organism
You linked to a section about outlawing dancing... over 110 years ago.

Something tells me the troubles in the Tenderloin today are not related.
Sorry, that's just not true. Twitter loves perpetuating the story of what an insane dystopia SF is these days, but if you actually live here and actually spend time in the city instead of complaining about it, you'll see that is just insanely false.

It's got problems (rise in homelessness & property crimes and the Tenderloin is as bad as its ever been re: drugs), but the gap between "big city problems" and "monstrous dystopia" is about as wide as the bay itself.
It was released back in July...

(And was shipping Debian bullseye before _that_ was fully released, so they must have had a lot of confidence in it!)
I think of Pharo as a bit like Racket: it intentionally is distanced a bit from the parent language to avoid being limited to the design of that language. For example: the word “Smalltalk” isn’t anywhere on the homepage of the project.
There’s suspected to have been a leak of US operatives in China at times past resulting in the death of agents there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
I think some of the responses here are too gloomy. Look things are bad but SF does have a lot going for it and it's a lot less bad than some people think, just don't live in SOMA or the tenderloin and you'll be a lot better off. SF has lots of wealth and resources just waiting to be tapped into, a climate that's likely to get nicer over the next several decades (maybe ignoring smoke), some of the highest densities both of people and of parks in the US. Yes there are problems deep in the politics of SF, but none of them are unfixable.
Thanks, I'll have to look into how GUIs in Rust work then; that sounds utterly bizarre to me :)

I thought you could take references to things in Rust. Also, in particular, I don't understand why you'd want to use closures -- inherently reference-y -- when everything else is (I guess?) a non-reference plain value.
(Not being sarcastic at all) I remember the times when bringing JavaScript anywhere near data analysis would be considered a cute joke.
You're linking an article lacking in data.
I've lived in San Francisco for 16 years. Yes, I have experienced the homeless problem. I had my car broken into once when I left my backpack inside. I have never been mugged or robbed or had any physical violence occur, or be threatened. We have many lovely friends who live here. San Francisco is under a lot of pressure: population, finance, environmental. It is not a dystopia. It is a community where people build their lives and deserves love and support. I have spent significant amounts of time in New York, Paris and other world cities. I do not find San Francisco to be all that different from New York or Paris.
Good to know, thanks for the correction!
That was Lenin, I think.
How many people does it take to change a lightbulb...
Yes yes, too many poor people. That's definitely the problem /s
As long as we're giving personal anecdotes, I lived in the mission (the "good side" near dolores park) for 8 years and experienced most of that list. I was physically assaulted last fall while walking back from Noe Valley at 2pm in the afternoon. Nobody answered the police non emergency number while I followed the assailant (who threw a right hook that I only partially dodged as he walked past me on the street).

Sure, you get better at dodging feces and ignoring the drug use, littering, and theft, but let's not pretend it's confined to "downtown, the tenderloin, soma, etc".

I've lived and worked in Manhattan and DC, and spent time in many international cities. I've walked all over all of them, and never felt less safe than I regularly did walking to work in soma.

SF has a unique political situation, a climate that makes homelessness "bearable" and a huge number of absentee landlords (thanks, Prop 13).

We were sad to move out in January. SF is a gorgeous city filled with kind, interesting people. "Horrible dystopia" is certainly an exaggeration, but the situation is bad and has gotten much worse in the past few years.
I think their metrics are tracked and thus they want to avoid short calls or hanging up on someone who calls in.
True, my comment was a bit loaded but 'shit' in my comment was not really mean excrements... I used it to mean 'problems' in a hard, loaded way like 'This is the shit I have to deal with' with some parallels to homelessness but if you read my comment again, it doesn't really say what you think it does
Even most beaches on the ocean have days with no swimming flags caused by algae bloom, storm drain off, excess sewage release in the area, etc.
San Francisco was brilliant before tech, and will be shining in the next boom. Some things are bigger than now, and maybe bigger than we can fully understand.

Here’s some enjoyable reading for those with a few minutes to spare: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/early.html

To me the confluence of cultures, like the brackish waters of the bay, are it’s hallmark. The issues around sudden wealth, excess, limited housing, and visionary governance seem to be more about the place than a particular moment.
This doc's a bit out of date! OSC 8 landed quite some time ago in Windows Terminal, for example.
There is literal shit everywhere. A walk down any block needs one eye kept on where you step. If it's not human shit it's dog shit because pet owners can't seem to be bothered.

There are few and dwindling public bathrooms to the point where gig workers struggle to find facilities[1] while they're out there doing critical work. Rich NIMBYs believe that bathrooms (and not the sky-high rents they seek) encourage people to become homeless, so they've successfully shut down the emergency facilities opened up during the pandemic[2].

1. https://www.vice.com/en/article/884xyp/gig-workers-have-nowh...

2. https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/San-Franc...
The debian installer was holding back bullseye release, proxmox uses its own installer (and kernel, qemu) so minimal risk as debian was frozen.
Toshiba and Seagate. Hitachi split into WD (aka HGST) and Toshiba.

This WD dumbassery seems like its mostly on the WD side. I'm not aware of any dumb decisions being made on the HGST-side of the WD company yet. It should also be noted that Sandisk is also owned by WD.
The housing crisis is perpetuated by a lack of coherent planning. It's also why transit is suboptimal. It definitely doesn't help that it isn't one big city, it's actively detrimental.
I'd expect the claimant to provide the data to support their assertion.
No city on the Peninsula in their right mind would want to merge with SF. SF has close to 10x the crime, worse schools, etc... What is there to gain?
The difference between multi cell and single cell is not the hard part.
Covid origin: US spy agencies publish 'inconclusive' report
I personally think the fact that Apple built their platform literally from the ground up is more than sufficient justification for them to maintain as much control over it as they please. Shouldn't we all just say "Hey, thanks Apple for advancing the state of the art so tremendously far" and leave it there?
It's not the first time that you see a man defecate on the street that gets you. It's the second time.

Speaking from experience of daily driving through Tenderloin.
That should be obvious. Who else would implement it? Even if it starts off well, the system of redistribution is easily corrupted and taken over because it is all centralized.
I have a set of geared loppers from Fiskars that are a joy to use when I go out and edit my yard. I've cut 2" (5 cm) thick live oak branches with it. My child loves it as well when I give her a chance to kill some trees.

Unlike the rest of the world, I have far, far too many trees, and with my recent illness, they are winning right now. 8(
Yeah, the article completely ignores that the voters are prioritizing other things.

SF voters don't want to send so many people to prison. Yes, that means that criminals and the homeless have more freedom than in other cities. But SF voters feel that the US prison and "justice" systems are too immoral to implement in SF.

SF voters also want to keep low-rise housing and prevent making it easier to change neighborhoods by adding housing. Of course, this also has the bad tradeoff of over-constraining supply, leading to ridiculous housing costs. But this tradeoff is a response to plowing highways through and dumping toxic waste in poor neighborhood.

So yeah, if you hate these tradeoffs, then you'll also feel that SF is dysfunctional. Thanks Economist for your un-insightful article.
"If China wants to impose such restrictions on Western companies, they shouldn't get access to Western markets. And that's it."

Why? Why should we prohibit US citizens from purchasing things they want from wherever/whoever they want? Why would we do that to ourselves (I'm a US citizen), and to each other?
I can only point you to the doc, which you may have already seen: https://www.bracha.org/newspeak-modules.pdf

It is worth asking on the forum to see if there is some exisiting code to show this in practice.
Oh, we've got ecological collapse too, so the eating people thing seems plausible enough for me.
Stuff like train IP is actually included in tech, same as rockets would be. My understanding is this is a legal definition of technology which can include basically anything (especially anything you might ever patent or have patented).

I also didn't mean to imply that the US has done a lot of this. I don't think they have in the free trade era. I just meant to point out that it has always been done for some stuff (one of the most controversial and what introduced me to this many years ago was the crypto export ban). The last few years have already seen an explicit expansion of much more general purpose tech being restricted, with China being a known bad actor for forced tech transfer, so it doesn't seem like a stretch that we'll see more of it.
There's no limit for array size in C++, or for any core structure. Other than the size types, which naturally scale up as we get newer architectures (obviously 2^64 for most people at the moment).
I grew up in SF and still have family sticking it out there. I don't completely disagree with the sentiment here but last I heard I thought SF had a pretty serious diversity problem. Is that no longer the case?
Our stories are similar. +1000.
in this social respect though, one party actively promotes 'diverse' lifestyles while the other just accepts them. I don't think SF would have come to be under the latter, nor could the latter exist in SF
Same can be said about China?
You want a cop to physically detain a homeless person which will just result in sending him through a pointlessly cruel and expensive criminal justice system where he'll pop-out the other side with nothing but unpayable debts that'll drive him through the same cycle again - all because he urinated on a car of someone who won't even realize it happened?
Unfortunately, Stripe does this currently: https://i.judge.sh/youthful/Derpy/chrome_TIDNqlcRvI.png
I think people are just beginning to see the tsunami of effects that starlink is introducing. Rural properties that are now starlink serviceable, that 2 years ago were unsellable dirt, have 10X-100X overnight. Land you literally couldn't give away is now going for $10k an acre.
IMO there’s kind of a lot. I live a few minutes south of SF on the peninsula and last weekend I walked around the waterfront and the mission with friends. I was struck that I encountered visible piles and marks as well as smells pretty much everywhere we walked. Like, it’s really a lot of public shit compared to any town a few minutes south of the city.

FWIW I blame systemic problems not the individuals responsible. But the problem was viscerally apparent to me.
You were the one disputing the claim, it's on you to bring the actual data. So no, you can't pass the buck.
List of Marilyns in the British Isles
Could be a sample size of one though. One of the most important things for hard drives is to keep them protected. If your shipping company screws up (see Amazon) and drops the box hard on your front porch, you may end up with a broken drive.

AKA: The issue could very well not be the hard drive manufacturer, but instead the company that delivered your hard drives to you. I prefer to pick up hard drives physically from Microcenter for this reason, it means that I can properly "baby" those fragile drives all the way home.
Ask HN: What desk do you use at home, where did you get it, and do you like it?
I'm finding it very difficult to find the right desk for me. Amazon is not proving helpful, nor IKEA or Etsy or Wayfair or Overstock or google in general. I need new ideas!
I read this a few times, looking for evidence I missed that it's a joke. Apparently not, but I can't be sure. If it's serious, it's possibly the worst article I've ever read.

> But fans of Macbeth often say its freaky qualities are deeper than just the plot devices and characters. For centuries, people been unsettled by the very language of the play.

> Actors and critics have long remarked that when you read Macbeth out loud, it feels like your voice and mouth and brain are doing something ever so slightly wrong. There’s something subconsciously off about the sound of the play, and it spooks people. It’s as if Shakespeare somehow wove a tiny bit of creepiness into every single line. The literary scholar George Walton Williams described the “continuous sense of menace” and “horror” that pervades even seemingly innocuous scenes.

> For centuries, Shakespeare fans and theater folk have wondered about this, but could never quite explain it.

The article claims to explain it - in the play, the word "the" is used a lot!

Um.. gee, in high school it was pointed out to me how constant themes in Macbeth are how unnatural things have become, how everything is strange, qualities/values reversed from normal - fair is foul and foul is fair etc, animals doing weird things, bad omens etc. It never stops, all the way through. I had to go through the play and list how many animals are mentioned, doing strange things. It's constant. People meet and it's not "Lovely day isn't it" but an anecdote about how so-and-so saw something incredibly weird and impossible happen. Over that background is the quickly escalating paranoia and madness of Macbeth & Lady Macbeth. Etc. Can't be bothered writing more, I didn't want to say just "This is total nonsense.", but it is. (Flagged.)
I've lived in SF for decades, it is hardly a monstrous dystopia. It's actually a very nice, if expensive, place to live.

There are homeless in several parts of the city, yes, but those parts are easy to avoid if that's your inclination.

San Francisco is a very liberal city, and with that comes compassion for the less fortunate. Because the Constitution says anyone can move about anywhere in the US, that means that a lot of those unlucky end up here because it is better than living in a conservative city where there are less activists looking out for their interests. San Francisco doesn't create homeless people faster than other cities, but it does attract them, simply because compassion isn't spread evenly across the country.

I'm not convinced it is as dysfunctional as the article states. And I'm very happy I don't live where people are screaming at other people because those people are (god forbid) wearing masks. All of the partisan hatred and vitriol that has consumed so much of the country hasn't really hit us here. At least not among ourselves.
Does that mean Ray Dalio is pessimistic about US prospects and thinks China will dominate the future?

But how does one invest in China without worrying about their capricious, personality-centered policies?
Even if you want you can't!

Tolerance to hallucinogens grows exponentially. If one take a blotter of LSD, wait 24h, then take another blotter, it will feel like [¼,½] of the original dose. If one wait another 24h and take another dose it will feel like [⅛,¼] and so on. With LSD one must wait a few day between doses to feel the full effects.

With psilocybin, the period of abstinence required to feel the full effect is measured in weeks.

I have no personal experience with Ayahuasca, but administered daily it is probably not too different from medical treatment with Isocarboxazid as the psychedelic component should dissapear and the MAO inhibition should persist.
It's not hard when the only other sizeable party would love to purge the queer 16% of the population. Diversity is when you elect people who actively try to make the population less diverse.