skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
too late

the war for SF has already been fought and is over, and has been over for a few years now

Breed can engage in some feel-good measures like temporary clean-ups and crackdowns, but in the end the city doesn't have the will or means to truly reclaim itself for normal humans

every tent, needle, bit of human waste that is moved or scrubbed will come back in time

if you live in SF, go out tonight and enjoy a walk, knowing that never again in the city's history will the homeless population be as low as it is tonight
Some would probably call it stigmatising poverty or something along those lines.
Her hands were tied. She had to wait until things are bad enough that the board of supervisors - the majority of whom are hostile to her - get forced to play along.
I don’t think the Mayor cares about the Tech exodus as much as about voting residents in the troubled neighborhoods that are mentioned; only in the HN bubble would people think that.
Most neighborhoods are not the mission or tenderloin. I work in a rough part of SF, but live in a neighborhood a few miles away that is both one of the more affordable and doesn't see much homelessness. This is not to excuse any ignorance, but to say that SF can be both wonderful and terrible at the same time; just not in the same place.
The very link you posted says it's fixed in the next version of GNOME.
That seems like a very uncharitable interpretation, especially since the word itself doesn't mean anything of the sort. Basic means fundamental or rudimentary. I take "basic techie" to mean a person with many of the fundamental things that make up typical techies.

Even the most upvoted urban dictionary definition has the first definition as: "Used to describe someone devoid of defining characteristics that might make a person interesting, extraordinary, or just simply worth devoting time or attention to."

Which says nothing about someones intelligence. Granted the next definition does mention being stupid, I hardly think it's fair to interpret a comment in this context as being hostile in the least.
You are making a rather basic, fundamental, and common mistake due to modern eroded understanding of language and meanings. The effects that the fourth amendment prohibits the government from violating, do in fact include land property.
Many atheists do believe in higher powers, though. What about something like Patriarchy or institutional racism? These are higher powers that are said to exist beyond any individual, and to be propagated subconsciously and perhaps even unwillingly by people? What is a power other than something that modifies behaviour, and what is "higher" other than something that exists outside of an individual, and across multiple individuals?

Without wanting to take sides on any culture war issues, I think that people from any political persuasion will agree that such higher powers do indeed exist.

I put it to you that much talk of "spirits" is far more aligned to the kind of higher power that you already believe in, rather than the dualistic way of seeing spirits as some kind of invisible smoke hiding inside living creatures. This kind of thinking is a curse of our modern age, handed down from the likes of Descartes and the "Enlightenment".
I mean.. my simple but privileged answer is that I avoid the handful of bad neighborhoods. I have no idea why anyone would choose to live in the Mission and certainly not the Tenderloin unless that was the only place they could afford, in which case I'd probably not live in SF. My friends who love SF are the ones who can afford to ignore/avoid the ugly side of it.
before clicking: "was it insufferable nerds?"

after clicking: yes!
These days, a game has at least double buffering. This means one frame is currently displayed on the monitor (front buffer) and one frame is being drawn by the game (back buffer).

In a classic "fullscreen game" situation, whenever a back buffer is finished, the game would configure the GPU's CRTC (the hardware that generates the data stream that goes to the monitor) to read from this back buffer instead. This turns the back buffer into the current front buffer and releases the old front buffer to act as the next back buffer ("page flipping").

When this happens without any synchronization with the monitor, the buffer can be changed in the middle of the frame, causing the characteristic tearing. With VSync, the game delays the swap until the monitor is between frames.

With Wayland, the game swaps buffers with the compositor instead. Direct scanout means that the compositor will configure the CRTC to read from the game's front buffer. So this is really similar to the "classic" situation, except it involves a bit of inter-process communication.

Otherwise, the compositor has its own set of front and back buffer, and the game's front buffer is copied (composited) into the compositor's back buffer first. So we have another buffer swap that has to be done, and this is what causes the composition lag.

Whether direct scanout happens or not is transparent to the game, which does not need to care.

Wayland enforces VSync by default, though there's a protocol being designed (`zwp_tearing_control_unstable_v1`) so a game can request asynchronous flipping.
Most of those don’t hold themselves up as moral authorities.
Many people send their kids to religious schools because the quality is higher than public schools, but is cheaper than top tier private schools. The school fees (albeit cheaper than private schools) also provide a high pass filter so you end up with less riff-raff than the average public school.
You're both incorrect. Poor people are affected by the ratio of price inflation to wage inflation, which is for the first time in ~50 years flipped such that wages are growing faster than prices.

Inflation transfers money from creditors to debtors, to the extent it's a surprise. Interest rates and origination fees incorporate risk of inflation. The US government is in debt to US treasury bill holders. You could say inflation is a wealth transfer from T-bill holders to the government, but the buyers of T-bills knew the risks and made their choices.
Maybe they've even hedged. Poor people have credit card debt, payday loan debt, medical debt, etc.

I wouldn't say housing is exclusive to the upper middle class, because 65% of Americans own houses. That seems like a low bar for "upper" class.
Perhaps I'm being too US-centric but I feel like you at-best mean conservatism with a lower-case 'c'. Even then the very definition of conservatism explicitly avoids any change:

> commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation

I've never known conservatism to be anything except opposition to change as that's the most conservative thing you can generally do: nothing.
Ivermectin, zinc, vitamin d,c, povodine iodine nasal spray.
~50% of the homeless are severely mentally ill and/or on hard drugs, giving them housing won't fix their behavioral problems.
On the topic of fine-tuning I found this book from 2011 and subsequent debate quite thought-provoking:

>The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us (by Victor J. Stenger)

https://www.amazon.com/Fallacy-Fine-Tuning-Why-Universe-Desi...

>The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life ... This paper can be viewed as a critique of Stenger's book, or read independently.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4647

>Defending The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning (by Victor J. Stenger)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4359
Dream Job Alert: Senior Fellow for Decentralization at EFF
Frameworks like this are nice if a) you want your site to look exactly like every other site which uses this framework (rare) and b) every use of an element is for the exact same purpose (also rare).

I suppose if you're throwing together some hacky admin page that 2 people are going to use in a year, it makes sense. Otherwise I don't see why you don't just design your site.
I don’t think the people living on the streets of the tenderloin are there because of housing prices.

They’re there because of drug and mental health issues.

In Europe, they’re not tolerant of drug use on the streets. Even in cities where it’s decriminalized.

On the flip side, in countries with mass poverty issues and mass homelessness - the slums aren’t necessarily a place of rampant and constant drug usage. (You still see grinding poverty and families on the street, but it’s different)
The Tenderloin plan apparently has the following priorities:

Preventing violent crime;
Streamlining emergency medical calls;
Interrupting open air-drug dealing;
Interrupting open-air substance abuse;
Establishing safe passage and accessibility for citizens;
Expanding housing resources;
Interrupting illegal vending;
Improving neighborhood cleanliness;

Only point 6 is about actually helping the homeless.
Rationalism is the new philosophy :)
For a lot of people that are marginalized by the communities they were born into, I’d say the illusion is still better. Assuming they haven’t actually found communities that accepts them that is.
Thanks, now I know for sure the steam deck will just be another windows computer that came with linux. Even these assumptions about its use case were wrong. How could anyone in good conscious support switching to this? I can see noobs who think newer is better, but wow, horrid. Android is pretty smooth, I wonder if running the framework of it on linux could work lol.
This sounds like you're celebrating ignorance. There's nothing bad or wrong about learning facts and truths about the world we live in, and that includes learning about history and etymology.
Why I’m sensing a tone of desire to cancel the virus? As if, not fun anymore let’s do something else kind of canceling.

A few months back I was in Bulgaria, where the majority of the population is antivaxx virus deniers mask sceptics. It’s true that mask free virus free worry free life is much better, it was liberating to be in Bulgaria. However, at the same time everyone knew someone who died from covid. Much more than Turkey, where I have been since the start of the pandemic.

The situation we are in is not a choice. The virus is real, the damage is real and we can’t simply refuse to play. We can but a lot of people will die and I’m not convinced that this is the way to go.

I bet, when the things start getting real with other issues like the global warming, the inconveniences will create similar reactions. I appreciate the drive, the desire for freedom and convince but these things happen to people all the time when they fail to address the slow moving issues beforehand.
Sounds very SF to have 4 references to the same shit.
For many of us who moved from SF->Miami, politics had nothing to do with it. I’ve been in Miami over a year and I LOVE it. Come check it out :-)

Ps - I coorganize a software engineer meetup here. We’ve got good representation!
NASA’s solar probe ‘touches’ sun for first time,dives into unexplored atmosphere
Would you find it appropriate for automakers to charge a monthly fee to be able to simply start an automobile you bought? If no, then why are you okay with a monthly fee to do so remotely? It’s rather straightforward - you’re either for usury or against it, I guess. This is usury.

(usury is not exactly the right word, but it’s the best I could think of at the moment).
OTOH there’s no ‘while true’ or do-while or while-do, none of which are particularly fluent.
I agree.

Also they may have sneaked it in because they're implicitly acknowledging fault in their previous design decision to exclude it.
This is more about Gnome’s Mutter implementation problem, not directly problem of Wayland. There are other compositors
That's true, the only responses we can have to things are positive and affirming.
Switzerland has seen a similar rise of the unaffiliated and it never suffered mass casualties from the World Wars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Switzerland#Census...

If it's 80% retention per generation, there's no fatherless-blip needed to explain the decline since WW II. 0.8 * 0.8 * 0.8 = 51.2% retention after three generations.
You'd want to look for technologies that were used 20 years ago, that we're still using today. Chances are high that they'll survive the next 20 years.

Things like HTTP, JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Java are all still in regular use now, and will likely still be used 20 years from now.
About time. Let’s hope NYC’s new mayor follows a similar path.
I mean, yeah - sometimes you just gotta get some work done.
But what about summers?
>but it's clear that reduced police funding and enforcement hasn't been working

based on what evidence?
Right now there are a lot of people looking for a solution to the log4j problem. The more we look, the more we realize how widespread it is.
Hmm, Canonical is not what I call 'massive' at ~600 employees[1]. Looks like Red Hat is almost twice that big[2], which still strikes me as pretty small?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)#Employees

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
and guess how people feel about the groups in that list that do...
I have to think that the WW1/2 connection is a stretch (would be interested to hear more), but for anyone sceptical about the continuity of the high attendance following fathers' attendance, an article on the subject based on some survey data from the 90s: https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-05-...
gofmt -w -r 'interface{} -> any' src

Is this a real command? If so, I’m very impressed. Is there any equivalent for c++ and other languages?
>Alt tab not being stolen might be jarring.

It is jarring to need to remember different keystrokes by the compositor if you use more than one computer, especially if they're not all linux. Why do you think its worth all this pain?

Every "feature" of wayland sounds like a regression. I hope someone makes x.org in rust
> You simply can't walk down the Mission or anywhere near the Tenderloin and not see open drug use, drug dealing, homelessness and crime.

The Tenderloin was like that in the 1990s. Same with SOMA, the Lower Haight, 6th and Market, and other parts of the city as well but those were places I frequented often enough to have seen it myself.
> Securing emergency police funding

The irony of this is like looking into the sun
This.

People saying she has been forced by tech exodus or whatever are betraying a lack of understanding of how sf politics works. The recent BOS decision to reject a couple of housing developments on fairly spurious grounds has really shown how stupidly political and out of touch the BOS is; to make them get along with anything requires a crisis.

Side note: my mental model of the BOS is the Pawnee town council from the TV show Parks and Recreation; the real life folks seem to operate along depressingly similar lines.
I just want to chime in and say that the resources on your website look amazing. I spent 5 minutes poking around and it looks really high quality.

I'm dabbling in Postgres's full text search (ts_vector) for a small website, I know that is extremely simple compared to the offerings you provide, but your site has me quite interested in this space now.

Eager to learn more about this tech!
I didn’t say it would. I don’t need to advocate for a panacea to think that we should humanize the homeless and offer them permanent, private shelter.
I don't often go to parties, and I prefer to cook at home. I guess it was a mistake for me to move to SF :D

It's nice that it's not as warm as the south bay though.
Is a religion defined by its outliers, or are humans complicated? :)
That's not surprising for a system whose participants won't get their money back unless they can find new people to buy into the system. If you've ever had a relative join an MLM and start posting about the TOTALLY AMAZING products their “business” can sell you, this is very familiar except that you don't even get Target-grade home goods.
I think to say they had any colour at all in my mind might be pushing it. The way I imagine it is more like the concept of a ball and table. The imagery, while clear to me, seems fuzzy somehow if I try to resolve details. Yet I know the objects themselves are not fuzzy.

I can imagine the things you describe in a beach scene, and on the surface I feel like it's an accurate depiction of the scene. But if I try to describe it in detail it starts to fall apart and the description would be vague compared to my wife.
It's not meaningless -- the meaning is that there are bugs. That is why the version can indefinitely approach -- but never reach -- 1.
What about moonlighting? I can do that in CA, and own my output from my own time.
> Who are the two percent of people responding to this survey who have no religion and pray every day?

Nothing in particular is very different than being atheist/agnostic.

In general they are dissatisfied with organized religion or believe it is actually evil.

I know several people who would describe themselves as "christian" but left the Catholic Church during the paedophilia scandal and, hence, would describe themselves as "nothing in particular". Some of them see "The Church" as evil now.

I also know people who firmly believe there is a higher power guiding the world but don't have a particular god in mind.

I also know quite a few people who believe in a Christian God but find all of the organized religions very unpalatable and hypocritical.
If the compositor isn't synchronizing rendering it'll work fine. Options there are GPU level vsync or no sync. I think these are the "workarounds for this problem but none of them can remove all problems at the same time." being referred to though at this point I forget the downside of GPU level vsync (tearing is the obvious downside of no sync).

I don't remember if GPU level sync with compositor sync off solves VRR with a compositor on X11 though or if it did but with side effects. Been a while since I've messed with it.
> The blogpost doesn't explicitly name "facial recognition", but from context I understand she's referring to this law [0] that was frequently discussed on HN

I don't think that's right. That facial recognition bill was largely for show. Since 2006 San Francisco has had strict limitations on the placement of public-facing surveillance cameras by the city. They're virtually unheard of. There are exceptions, but as far as I can tell cameras have mostly dwindled further since shortly after the original legislation as each successive administration became less inclined to even try to seek permission to install a camera somewhere. The biggest exception by far, and also relatively recent (2016, AFAICT), was permitting the use of police body cameras.

Because there are so few city surveillance cameras, the police created a program to work with businesses and homeowners to make it easier to access their security footage. But as mentioned by Breed, in 2019 the city passed a law to limit that as well.

Anyhow, so long as people are wearing masks then facial recognition doesn't provide any benefit, presuming it even could.
We can split hairs on what constitutes experience, or when it starts. but the point still stands: We have a lot more experience with the flu vaccine.

This is the answer for why not all annual flu vaccines need clinical trials.
It seems like kids and nerds are the first to discover new trends. See what kids are into now, and adults will catch on in a decade (e.g. Roblox in 2006, Minecraft in 2011) and just now adults are discovering the metaverse.

Also nerds...I was using Zoom other video calling apps (e.g. Kik and Fring) for years before the rest of the world caught on in 2020. Bitcoin is a dozen years old and we still haven't found that killer app for crypto. Maybe 5 or 10 years from now grandparents will be using it. I had voice controlled home automation in 1999 with Homeseer and X10, 16 years before Alexa. It's getting more mainstream now, maybe in 20 years it will be the rule, not the exception.

Paul Graham said it in one of his essays that you can imagine what the future will be like and then fill in the gaps with technology that will make it happen...picture most cars are electric and self driving 30 years from now. Most lights and appliances either think for themselves or have voice control. What will change between now and then to make that future possible? If most cars are going to be electric, most gas stations might convert to charging or hydrogen stations (can you build a business that facilitates that?). If cars drive themselves, what do they do when they are not driving people around? Maybe ownership isn't as important, and there will be more car (and other vehicle) sharing.

If every light switch and appliance is smart and needs to communicate, what infrastructure needs to exist in every house? (Can you start a company that installs mesh networks or smart hubs in houses?). If crypto is a major way to pay, will there be more banks? Fewer?

If more work becomes remote and some jobs disappear (e.g. drivers, cashiers, restaurant hosts/waiters), will people migrate away from cities? What will need to happen to support that?
> Then, almost overnight, "abortion" became an issue, and religious beliefs were no longer confined to church.

Before that, the political issue churches were supporting was civil rights; a century before that, it was the abolition of slavery.

I don't think it is possible for anyone who takes positions on right or wrong to be truly apolitical: 'I avoid politics' mostly means 'I find the status quo tolerable.'
The current state of the open fields doctrine is that your home and its "curtilage" are protected, but the "open fields" beyond that are not. The wording "lives, farms and hunts" suggests that area is his curtilage because it is where he takes part in the activities of private life. Property bounds are not really relevant because 4th amendment privacy rights and property rights are not co-extensive.
Or if the traveller hides cameras that interfere with your privacy on your own land.
Idi Amin Dada is now a Diktapunk. Do you like to swim with crocodiles?
It may hurt accuracy, but there's a lot of times using a mouse where you don't need to be accurate. I've been using 3-finger-drag since it's introduction and can't go back.
Voters don't mean shit if they're mostly poor and can't pay enough in taxes to support the city's infrastructure.

You don't have to be part of the HN bubble to know that money talks and bullshit walks.
Why I am not religous:

1. Leap of faith is risky, while science is based on repeatable experiments. Kind of like when you're building a house, instead of hoping and praying the foundation is stable, test it to be certain.

2. Who knows who made these stories up? Could have been some guy high on mushrooms. I'd rather decide what's right for myself than blindly follow some unknown-source, unchanging-with-the-world and unexplained statements some dude probably made up.

I do agree with most of the ethics and morals of Christianity and similar religions. Society would probably be better if everyone abided by it.

But if they abide through religion then people would also be a little crazy because they're willing to believe things without proper supporting evidence.

What if the leader of the church says, "Yo God hit me up and said if we drown all non-believers in the holy pool tonight, we'll be chilling in heaven by this time tomorrow." I would want to know that my friends would act rationally and not do crazy things.
Furthermore SA got hit quite badly by Beta. Beta and Omicron are closer than either to Delta, so there may be some immune protection from the prior Beta wave. Beta never got established in Europe/US.