skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, there were free-trade laws to protect independent grocers and the chain department stores set up in suburban areas which took away business from independent inner-city department stores (typically family-owned).

Interestingly, I think the implosion of chain department stores in the US is linked far more to growth of online sales (even though, online sales are far higher in the UK) and overbuilding of retail capacity. The UK is seeing demographic/infrastructure changes with greater suburbanization.

Stores that are in out-of-town retail parks, more like US strip malls, are actually doing very well. One example is Next, a big clothes retailer, they used to have a lot of high-street/inner-city locations but moved stores out-of-town, and they are doing quite well (they also have a very nice business online, they even do third-party fulfilment from their warehouses). And there are lots of new chains focused around retail parks that are growing very fast.

Online is definitely a factor that is shrinking the overall offline retail market. But a lot of these department store chains started having problems in the 2000s, and just imploded in the 2010s. The comparison with the US is very interesting though.
Assuming those statistics are trustworthy (which I don't necessarily, homeless people are notoriously undercounted by the census for instance and may be unevenly counted in different places), maybe more people become homeless in CA. I guess I'd want to know what % of the homeless population were recent transplants to CA vs what % of CA residents in general are recent transplants. Also, if they are homeless and recent transplants to CA, were they homeless before they moved to CA? Before assuming lots of homeless people are moving to CA more research required than that single number.

And then even if so... so what? I assume the point is doing something about people who have no homes, like reducing the number of people who have no homes. Perhaps we'd also want to know why they are moving to CA to begin with. Perhaps we'd say CA should get federal funding to deal with it's disproportional homeless problem, and then figure out the best use of that funding. I dunno.

Like, is the point something other than blaming homeless people for being homeless, or punishing people for being homeless, or make people's lives harder when they are homeless -- cause, what does that do, what's the point of that you think?
This is an unconvincing example of appeal to (internet) accomplishment.
This is a common myth and a misunderstanding I understand, I thought the same myself a decade ago. It looks like this thread is going nowhere good, so I'll just throw this over the fence quick and run away: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht...
A fair amount of those who frequent this site are purely concerned with how to squeeze the most profit out of the most people possible, no matter the collateral damage that may come from those goals.

I'm not sure how you could be surprised.
This is an important point.

I believe Chinese law is you can't hold dual citizenship so anyone with Chinese citizenship who becomes a naturalized US citizen loses their Chinese citizenship.

A shallow look at that may lead one to think there's no security issue. It's actually the opposite.

My sense is that this allows the Chinese government to entice former citizens with restoration of their citizenship if they come home, bringing all their skills and IP with them.

I'm not even sure this is explicit. It's simply understood that if you have knowledge in key industries the door is always open to your return to China.

Or it may be much more active and quid pro quo. Who knows?
But an individual person is not a foreign entity, especially not if they are a US citizen.

There is the loophole for "representing interests of a foreign principal before US government officials" though, so I guess this is written broadly enough to snag anyone who may step on some toes.
I think the answer is pretty simple… there are more homeless people because housing is very expensive.
You mean like how housing cost discussions here are always looking to blame zoning laws, to name one example? Pretty sure at this point that even HN has a heady dose of controlled opposition.
My home LAN setup has exactly that, and I even switched ISPs to get it.

My old ISP only have me a /64 which is completely useless if you want to create subnets. The new one gave me a static /48.
At this point I want to figure out a way to work 6 months out of the year at 75$ an hour or so. Then max out my 401k and take 6 months off( see my other thread , I'd do this in a cheaper country)

My theory is I'd end up paying very little taxes compared to working myself mad trying to hit 200k a year.
As long as the homeless people have been offered help and are not harming others why do you feel the need to do anything to them? Why does a class of person need to be reduced to ‘zero’? What if someone decided people like you had to be reduced to zero?
Assuming you're not a jerk and you don't say jerk things, you wouldn't have said this jerk thing being quoted. So saying you wouldn't have said it doesn't change the meaning of what was said.
Minnesota houses it's homeless in the winter. But people do migrate.
Google and other companies have paid employees in India much less than similarly skilled employees in the U.S. for some time. Should that also be prohibited?
Message Content Access Deprecation for Verified Bots
quitting is the honorable thing to do. doing a "walk out" when youre working from home and no one knows if youre at your desk at not while continuing to collect a salary is just virtue signaling
Blog like this makes me wonder if I even want to work for FAANG companies anymore. I have never worked for a big corp and never for FAANG companies in particular.

>What I found was that the decent salary and excellent benefits came at a much greater cost.

I know you can get in with a big paycheck work your ass for 10 years and get out with lot of money in your bank. Maybe it my early 20s. Now I'm 35+ I don;t have the motivation to be a Google or Apple Software Engineer. I work in small firm and on interesting problems, and I'm OK with it.

> If it was after 6PM and I heard a notification on my phone, the hair on the back of my neck would stand up. Often times it was someone from work asking a seemingly innocent question.

This happens to me at my current job. But I don't have similar reaction to it. I'm more like "Oh, someone is working late..." And I respond to their queries. I believe performance and getting your task done faster has to do something? I know Amazon PIP thing is scary place to end with. No idea just read it on HN.
Trolling is essentially online pranking. There's good-natured "smile, you're on candid camera" pranks, and then there's just being an asshole.
I mean, the human feces thing is a pretty tired argument for sure. It's not like there isn't also a dog feces problem. The fact that the latter doesn't get brought up at all speaks volumes about classism...

With that said, I don't think the property crime argument is being exaggerated at all. I have another comment highlighting my experience having lived in SF, Toronto and Sao Paulo (Brazil). I've also lived briefly in Brisbane (Australia). Nowhere else have I personally witnessed so much property crime as I have in SF.
There is some undeniable truth to this video though.

https://youtu.be/6EHPt8eoSJI
So, if there really is an exodus from California, they will drive up housing prices elsewhere and the homeless problem will spread?
The demise of the department store is largely due to them squandering their biggest advantage which was customer service and customer experience.

When I was younger, I remember the quality of service you got from a department store. The assistants would help you shop, make suggestions, were knowledgable about the products etc. You also got to know the assistants if you were a repeat customer in the smaller stores.

This model largely disappeared in the 80s when it became a race to the bottom and about maximizing ROI. As soon as this happened the out of town supermarkets won as they could always go lower.

If there is any hope for the high street it's in focusing on the customer experience rather than trying to compete on price.
I think it depends on what division you’re in and what role you have. I was TL of a team in Cloud and I ran myself ragged. I was getting anxiety attacks every day and felt a literal weight sinking into me as the bus approached the building. I took a 6mo medical leave and still haven’t really recovered.
I went to your website and pressed space. It broke :P

> An unexpected error has occurred.
This is true, or very close to true (some just break even on the food rather than actually taking a loss).

Certainly if everyone became tee total the restaurants could not afford to stay open at the prices they charge for food alone.

Source: my brother spent 20 years in fine dining up to executive chef levels.
And Haskell with the NumericUnderscores GHC extension.

https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/nume...
> but the big difference between then and now was that when I was home, I was home. Work stopped, and I could do something else for a bit and didn’t have to worry about anything until the next work day. I didn’t feel much of the mental fatigue I do now.

This really has nothing to do with Big Tech and is a nearly universal characteristic of any job that requires mental effort instead of physical. Yeah, if you're getting paid to move boxes all day, the boxes don't follow you home. If you get paid to think all day, the thoughts do. Nothing much you can do about that other than learn to deal with it.

My friends who are scientists think about their research in their free time, and worry about upcoming conference deadlines, etc. My friends who are lawyers think about their cases and upcoming filing deadlines. My friends on the business and sales side think about clients and deals and marketing. That's just how it goes. Be glad someone is willing to pay you for it and that your brain doesn't wear out from thinking the way your back wears out from carrying boxes.

This person just sounds like they have trouble setting boundaries and some general anxiety issues. I am a SWE at a FANG company right now, in a reasonably important and high-profile area, and the work-life balance is way better than any other job I've had at smaller companies both in and out of "tech".
I've been going to the beach several times a week for about 13 years, even during winter. Never seen it closed. They monitor water quality regularly and the results are readily available.
Nazi China?
> My office has a janitorial staff. Why don't public spaces?

San Francisco spends tens of millions of dollar a year cleaning its streets.

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-spent-54-milli...

> Too many people in public parks? Claw back more public park space...

The issue isn't the number of people in public parks. The issue is that people are using public parks (and other public spaces) to set up encampments, which is not the purpose of these public spaces. In fact, this infringes on the rights of the people who want to use these spaces for legal purposes.
I work at PlanetScale and this post aligns with my thoughts on https://askdbablog.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/learning-the-fun... whether you agree or disagree on some parts.
Both from reading/researching and talking with people who work directly with the homeless locally, this seems to be the crux.

The really sad thing is just building the housing would be cheaper than what we're doing currently. But as soon as the city proposes it the NIMBYs come out like a hurricane refusing to allow it.

Salt Lake City is an instructive example. They've made a huge impact on homelessness there with a housing centric strategy.
If one doesn't own a platform then one is at risk of being kicked out in the name of owners' (shareholders') profits.

This is a recurring theme and I am puzzled that there isn't a bigger dev audience at internet of ownership ( https://ioo.coop/ ) or for platform cooperativism ( https://platform.coop/ )
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.

This. Sums it up neatly. Popular wisdom says Newsom has large enough money bags to defeat the recall effort quite handily. I personally do not think Californians have had enough, despite everything we have seen over the last few years - with the wildfires, PG&E's planned blackouts, ever burgeoning taxes with jack all to show for it, school boards prioritizing campaigns to rename schools honoring racist historical figures over everything else, general wasteful expenditure & graft etc.

...the people turned on him, and even set fire to his front
lawn in protest.

That's putting it a tad mildly, given what happened.

July 2009 - Then-mayor Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer
Siebel Newsom had only just moved into a new home in the
Upper Haight when their front stoop was promptly defecated
upon.[1]

[1]

A Brief History Of Poop On The Streets Of San Francisco

https://sfist.com/2019/05/01/a-brief-history-of-poop-on-the-...
Agree, San Francisco is becoming ancapistan.
Additionally it's hard work. Creating the right tests, getting the data into the format you need to do analysis, collating it and finding the important things, explaining it.
I'm really not convinced that high housing costs accurately depict the source of the homelessness problem in CA. If it does, it certainly isn't describing the homeless people I see.

Most of the homeless people I see, the ones who are literally pitching tents on the side walks, sleeping on boxes, defecating anywhere and everywhere, passed out on park benches at 3 in the afternoon, are almost certainly not going to be benefited by lower housing prices.

These people could not afford nor likely ever would afford, a house that cost literally anything. Most of these people suffer from a mental illness and/or a drug addiction which makes holding down a job unlikely to ever happen. What they need is publicly funded mental health hospitals, like the ones that were destroyed in the 80s.

Of course high housing costs are a huge problem, but I just don't think they tell the whole story when it comes to CA homelessness. There's an elephant in the room that far too many people don't want to address. It's the aforementioned population of people who either can't or won't work and the solution we have for them right now is the street.
This is what happens when a country morphs into Ferenginar. In the U.S. one ought to have very little trust whenever money is involved.
Ask HN: What happened to the “Node with some other JavaScript engine” projects?
A couple years ago there were projects to allow Node.js to use other engines such as ChakraCore and SpiderMonkey. Now I know ChakraCore is done and dead, but what happened to Mozilla’s effort?
The problem with the kids is they are still cutting their teeth in many aspects. I worked on a core product of a very large tech company on my last run. This wasn’t my first rodeo either. I happened to build most of the product our team owned. There were many disciplines involved and trying to get other experts to evolve was a never ending battle in a losing war. I won’t go into all the glory and failure or how things made it to where they were today. Despite an income that was quite silly I had to walk away. I can still run circles around people half my age, but I can hold the hill for so long. Many of the other old guard went the same route.
You've got a link to `@babel/standalone/babel.min.js` and a `<script type="text/babel">`. Are those not being used at all? Because that's definitely "transpiling", just not with an external tool.

Did you start this file by copy-pasting the React single-file HTML template from the "Getting Started" page?
Sure, but the article doesn't attempt to classify the stress, and the stress is often flexed as a convenience to help the meter or to avoid hard -to-pronounce double vowels, not to change emphasis.

"I don't what that one; I want thee other one. Thuh yellow one, not thee orange one."
It was wrong headed because it gave a lifeline to an immoral authoritarian government. Without being allowed to participate in the WTO and the west's world order CCP would have collapsed by the end of the 90s. Once a democratic rule of law government took over then they could have become just as prosperous but without the evil power structure that keeps is here to stay. It would be more like Taiwan or South Korea or Hong Kong pre-National Security Law, prosperous and free.
It’s been a known problem for a while now.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/21/nevada...

South Park made an episode about it with the song “California loves the homeless”.

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/California_Loves_the_Homel...

California largely has weather that you can survive outdoor in year round and social programs that provide for and policies that show empathy for homelessness.
My experience, is that finding bugs is the time-consuming part.

Fixing them, is often relatively fast.

Crashes are good. If I can reproduce a crash, I can usually enact a fix fairly quickly. The issue is that "reproduce" part. For example, threading issues can be a bear. They might crash, once a week, and the crash dumps are near-worthless. I can often do better with a Ouija board.

I've always been a very good bug-fixer and problem-solver, but I've learned that the best way to solve problems, is to not have them, in the first place; so good design, and high-quality development methodology, pays dividends.

I write about my approach here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...
Discord is the reason I'm a software engineer. I joined back in 2015 and after a few months of usage I had an idea for a bot, which prompted me to learn programming and develop it. I did so, and eventually my little bot was in over 1500 guilds / servers, which eventually lead me to getting my first internship as a software engineer. Now, 6 years later, programming is how I'm able to live a life I did not think was possible to make by having fun at work every day, and I'm incredibly thankful for Discord for giving me the opportunity to do what I love for a living.

That said, I can't express how frustrating it is to see a platform you're so grateful for grow so much in such a short amount of time, and gradually become worse because of it (or, at best, see no significant improvements). Over the years I have vented over and over to anyone who would listen about the ways I want Discord to be better (not for me, but for everyone), and I don't think I have the energy to do so anymore. I could write huge lists about the basic features Discord is missing, but to me it's a slap in the face whenever Discord prompts me to "join my university's server by inputting my e-mail" (even though I'm not a student), while 6 years after launch you still cannot collapse the sidebar on the left that insists to take up 300px of your screen no matter what.

I understand that it's pointless to complain to deaf ears. Over the years I have applied to work at Discord countless times, even talking to one of their managers over LinkedIn, but unfortunately we couldn't make it happen because of USA Visa restrictions. Because of this, I'm forced to sit at home watching a platform that has given me so much deteriorate over the years. I have considered building a competitor, alternative clients, and even bridges to other services like Matrix, but alas I'm stuck here.
> Rather than asking "Who can we blame?" maybe we could start asking "How do we fix it?"

Nobody talks about the hard truth: The homeownership rate in California is ~55% and therefore over half of Californians are heavily incentivized to keep the housing crisis going. For existing homeowners this isn't a crisis, it's a free paper money bonanza. Just by living in their houses home "owners" (most are heavily leveraged) "earn" 100k in paper money year in year out - magic! Truly solving the housing crisis would mean for housing costs to go down a lot, which means house values would go down and the 55% will keep fighting that. If you want to stay long term in California and disconnect yourself from the madness that is California housing costs, you have to buy at some point and accept it as the price of entry.
Big Tech is hundreds of thousands of employees across thousands of teams with a wide variety of work environments. The author's experience sounds really rough, but it also doesn't make sense to generalize from there to this whole piece of the industry.

To give another data point, I've worked at a different Big Tech company since 2012, on two different teams, and haven't experienced anything like this. There's no pressure to work after hours, on weekends, or vacations. Just today I was debugging a release blocker with a coworker, and it got to be 4:30, which was when they had planned to end their day. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to suggest they stay late: we can pick it up on Monday and the release can slip.

I'm sure there are people at my company who have experiences closer to the author's: what I'm trying to say is that Big Tech is a big place, and if you find yourself somewhere with bad culture don't take that to mean there aren't other places you would like.
That assumes SF city politics would take over the suburbs.

The city of Indianapolis years ago merged itself with its surrounding county, to unify city and suburbs. This was instigated by the Republican suburban leadership so that the metro region would remain under Republican control. Indianapolis has been a more politically moderate city than peers as a result.
California already has a 1% income tax allocated just to mental health, and has collected $7.4 billion so far just from this tax[0]. How is that working?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Mental_Health_Servi...
I second the op, it's hard to just be homeless when it gets freezing cold. Put differently, if I had to choose a place to be homeless, I'd start by choosing a place with good weather, that's a (hypothetical) fact.
No offense, but equating housing with owning a house is part of the problem.
Hmm, this conflicts with other information out there that says Delta is 1000x peak load. Any insight into why that might be?
I'm an Asian American. I have absolutely zero confidence that racist attacks against Asians are going to get better any time soon against people like me especially when a DA like Chesa Boudin refuses to take any single form of accountability in regards to crime.

I'll happily take a smaller paycheck if that means I don't have to constantly watch my back.
There are early treatments which may help some infected people, vaccinated or otherwise, to clear the infection more quickly. They do not work for everyone, but they have been used in some countries, including India, origin of the Delta variant. Summary and links to hundreds of studies, organized by therapeutic: https://c19early.com

> Who is @CovidAnalysis? We are PhD researchers, scientists, people who hope to make a contribution, even if it is only very minor. You can find our research in journals like Science and Nature.
Too expensive for you or for Google?
Your response to

> Rather than asking "Who can we blame?" maybe we could start asking "How do we fix it?"

Is to (1) complain about a lack of constructive solutions, (2) blame Newsom and (3) not provide a constructive solution. "Hope" is free though. You can have mine, I wasn't using it.
I think you forgot to install that 3rd party dependency that does all the heavy lifting here.
This seems like mostly an Apple problem. I have not heard similar issues with Google and Facebook (I don't know anyone in the other "A" or the "N")