skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre-COVID, the benefits of suffering downtown outweighed the detriments:

1. It wasn't as bad before. Some areas were, but the zone of insanity has grown and worse behavior is being tolerated now.

2. There was a lot more people around which made the problems less visually severe

3. There was a lively "scene". Events, experiences, dinners, whatever. Stuff was happening all the time for techies.

Now it's a lot less vibrant. SF's insistence on masks, tests, and vaccines to the very end guaranteed that normal social behavior wouldn't come back. And, surprise, it didn't! All of the people who live for that stuff and organize it... moved away!

On top of that, SF was drunk on power and money in 2019 and implemented all manner of taxes to punish tech companies. Well, the tech companies now have their options and they aren't choosing the jurisdiction that hates them.

I don't expect that SF will return to its peak 2019 level of hegemony at any point prior to a political and social revolution in the town.
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I've had a couple of shootings outside of my apartment building [0], other than that Toronto is the safest city I've lived in, second only to Singapore.

[0] - https://www.toronto.com/news/young-man-shot-to-death-at-yong...
> more expensive

There's pressing a flat circle in a factory somewhere, and there's

- printing album art, making sleeves, etc.

- storage

- distribution

- retail space

- "shrinkage" (ok, stealing a CD is easier)

- ... ?
Imagine a Congress that actually looks like America. It's filled with nurses, farmers, engineers, waitresses, teachers, accountants, pastors, soldiers, stay-at-home-parents, and retirees.

Imagine walking into a job where you were selected precisely because you have no idea what you're doing. Imagine that you don't know any of your colleagues. Imagine that none of them have any experience, either. Imagine being put in charge of a trillion-dollar organization that manages a tens-of-trillions-of-dollars nation. Imagine that people's lives depend on your doing this correctly; people literally die when you do it wrong.

I'm hardly one to defend the Congress, which has a justifiably low approval rating -- even though most people approve of their actual Congressman. But most people seem to have no idea what the Congress actually does. They seem to believe that it's just like arguing on the Internet: a bunch of people who have no idea what they're talking about, followed by a binding vote.

You won't fix Congress without knowing what Congress' job actually is.
It's all still owned by Disney, though, right?
> Because things go “puff” and you can’t seem them doesn’t mean the problem is gone.

What makes you think anyone who suggests this is a good idea is under the impression that incineration makes things go away?
Well, this is what I have believed, but I can't make work wireguard for my setup:

https://serverfault.com/questions/1098093/how-setup-wireguar...

The combination of wireguard + firewalls and the complexity of iptables is not intuitive at all...
I think the word "ritual" indicates it's forced. Maybe not forced by management, but if 80% of the team is doing it, there's a lot of pressure on people to do the same.

I share details of my personal life with my team, but it definitely isn't a ritual in any sense of the word. People share when they feel like they want to.
I've never seen a loose stray. SF has a relatively high rate of dog ownership and there are inconsiderate dog owners (to the extent that I see people putting up signs in front of their houses asking others to not leave dog poop by the sidewalk tree)
I’m more amazed that their data source OpenBenches exists.

> OpenStreetMap has a list of (nearly) every bench in the world – but they don’t record whether there is an inscription on it. We tried to send a Freedom of Information request to Westminster Council for a list of their benches – but they don’t keep that information. […] So now it is time to crowd-source the data!

https://openbenches.org/
The lack of good modelling is no reason to do less to reduce emissions. Poor modelling can mean that the problem is worse than the models predict. Every time we improve our models the predictions seem to get worse.
What do your anecdotes have to do with progressivism?
As in, if a company as 500 (now 2000 I think) options-holders, the SEC will start regulating them as if they're public? I don't think that's true?

Double-trigger RSUs are AFAIK just a way to avoid paying taxes on illiquid assets. The reason to shift from options to RSUs at all is (I think) that once the company's FMV gets high enough, the strike price and taxes due for the options will be so high that employees won't be able to afford paying them if they leave the company.
Was I the only one that felt uncomfortable when looking at all these animations of unstable objects?

I see how this can be a chinese water torture kind of device [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_water_torture
There are no shortcuts in the stock market, and this person is clearly selling a shortcut.
Same with Seattle. It’s better to just leave your car unlocked if you don’t want your windows broken. Sadly even if you leave a sign that nothing is inside and car is unlocked they still break the windows.
This isn't true. It basically breaks down like this:

* Property crimes are much higher in cities than anywhere else

* Violent crime rates are highest in cities, but the difference isn't as stark (though still pretty big)

Source: https://twitter.com/RyanRadia/status/1461904766238404611

But even this is too kind to cities, because while the average rate of crime in cities varies a lot from neighborhood to neighborhood and city to city, all the most dangerous places in the country are in cities.

There is no rural area with a sustained 60+ per 100k homicide rate, but you'll find that in North St. Louis.

Source: https://twitter.com/RyanRadia/status/1510472732089241603

Similarly, when you're in the Tenderloin in San Francisco you are in one of the most dangerous places in the country. There is no rural area that even remotely compares.
You "flood the zone with crap" to shut it down. And that's what's happening. The above coppypasta is a prime example.
This is very fun. I get tripped up where my "control" line is and often make mistakes because the "control" line is not moving with the direction. For example, a shift to the left leaves my mind assuming the y-control line would move left as well so I could make a subsequent down shift on that column.
They just don’t support Dolby TrueHD or 5.1 PCM
Ron Gilbert said on Twitter that they are considering MI3 canon, so not sure this affirmation is still true.
I'd rather see again the show where Bill Gates announces upcoming Windows 95. You know the one where he claims that the Internet is just a fad.

In all fairness, I don't know whether he actually believed such then or whether development of the TCP/IP stack was behind of schedule and he just wanted to set expectations.
Did I say LA Times did all of those headlines? Nope.
SF has a crime problem and citizens recognize this in polling [1]. They are responding with a Recall of The District Attorney [2]

1. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-residents-unhappy-poll-says-17045784.php
2. https://www.safersfwithoutboudin.com/
The danger to your personal health of poop is approximately proportional to how close that animal is to you on the family tree.

So human poop is worst, and insect/reptile/fish poop isn't really a worry.

The "ewwwwe" factor pretty much matches up with that, and I'm sure an element of that is evolutionary.
gas being expensive doesnt make destroying indigenous lands ok???? this is incredibly disrespectful to anyone who fought for the environment and for indigenous sovereignty
Nice game! I'm not on mobile so I don't know how swipe actions work. Looks to me like it would be easy to program selecting the axis you want moved by selecting a piece in the same row/column and then swiping the direction you want it to go in.
The closest there is for media files: http://m-tags.org/
Sounds like they're trying to find a legal loophole to break a very expensive 10 year lease
My guess is that the problem isn't with this line per-se, but that some of those components in that string of dots are unions, that the program is doing one of those things with unions that have always officially been undefined behavior (so older standards aren't going to help) but which used to happen to work reliably, and that that's tripping up the modern compilers.

I'd look at the types of hash_ptr, hash_ptr.parm, hash_ptr.parm.v, and hash_ptr.parm.v.p; I'd try building without optimizations (-O0) and see if that changes anything; and as others have said I'd try pulling it up in a debugger so I can poke things.
> As in there's danger in cities, which I don't think is a false or disagreeable statement.

If this is truly what you're saying then why say it at all? What value do you feel it contributes to the conversation?

Yes, there is danger in cities. Sometimes it rains in small towns. Restaurants serve food, some of which is good and some bad. All equally useless statements.
Yeah, I think that’s the joke.

The skull is being irritating bringing it up so he hits it into the water.

Basically “yeah I know what I said, but fuck it”
That's making an interesting comparison b/t the population density and economics of SF/NYC/etc and... Laredo?
Fair enough. Many of our users used to do what you do.

Reasons they sometimes switch from long-lived Meet calls:

- Free up 200-300 MB of RAM when in call.

- Features specific to coworking (e.g. shared music DJing) or eng pairing (e.g. multi-way screen share).

- Presence when out of video calls. For example, you'd see if anyone on your team is in the Meet without having to ping each other. Leads to more unplanned hang outs.
This makes no sense. The “capital tied up in the home” is the reason that the home was built — obviously someone had to pay for it.

So what you’ve stated is effectively a tautology. Either ownership embues the owner with the right to rent their property, or you don’t believe in ownership at all.

You vote where you live, not where you own. The “local land owners using political power” is a trope posted here often, but I’m pretty sure it’s the renters who are electing the local politicians.
Did HD-DVD use Java like Blue-Ray? To this day I found it absurd that they require publishers to ship a Java application along with the content. It is probably the reason there are so many lousy menus. 4K UHD is even worse as many publishers have downright just given up. Everyone is using the same sample code. At least DVD did something interesting when it was released.

I don't know if this is a problem that can be solved. The framework has to accomodate the lowest common denominator and you know some manufacturer will cut costs to the bone so you can't mandate some fancy graphics chip in the spec because it will kill the format before it can become the standard. Is this why they went with Java?
I am shaking! I am shaking!
Yes, that's exactly what you claimed.

> Here are some of the many of Los Angeles Times’ newspaper headlines that they used to help with their circulations:
I am all against trash incineration. The bulk of it is hydrocarbons (plastics/paper etc). Burning means turning solid or liquid carbon into gaseous CO2. Imho a kilo of carbon buried in a landfill is less damaging than a kilo of it floating around the atmosphere.

I've started to see a degree of synergy in landfills. Carbon is extracted from the ground in solid or liquid forms (mined coal/oil). Burning it into CO2 causes climate change. But landfills bury carbon back in the ground from whence it came, at least out of the atmosphere. Turning trash into invisible CO2 might look good but is doesn't help the climate. We might not like the sight of trash piles but we need to have a serious talk about whether burying is actually worse than releasing yet more carbon into the atmosphere. Nothing ever really goes away.
As someone living in the third world let me assure you those living in poverty have more pressing challenges for themselves and their children. They are fighting raw nature daily for survival and your attempt to redirect attention away from, say, business and work creation to your "end of the world (maybe)" fears is not going to go over well.

What I don't understand is your lack of doubt that they would (or should) care. The conviction is something analogous to religion.
Your ISP can also block the IP via reverse DNS if they want too.. If you don’t trust your ISP only a vpn will save you
somewhat (un)related, is there any particularly interesting alternative to cast iron and ceramic as alternative to non stick pans that isn't a new kind of chemical where we don't know if it is as toxic as Teflon?
Golden Gate Park? Only if you have something against intact car windows.
I was going to start a business in this space, and I can sum it up as broadly this:

- It saves all the details needed for 1-click, not only your card (which is just PayPal). So: shipping address, name, possibly even 'pre-done' age or fraud checks, etc.

- It 'maps to' the business's API far better than a browser's autofill can do, which only has some random HTML tags and a helluva lot of guessing. (In other words, users won't have to keep filling in the, like, 4 out of 9 inputs that it didn't understand.) Your advantage is that the merchant itself does the integration work themselves - though ideally your API/SDK will make that as easy as possible.

(Essentially, it's just: "user has a third-party cookie for your site, comparable to SSO, and you charge their saved details and call the merchant's API on the backend [or, for small businesses, a Shopify integration or whatever fresh hell the Fast engineers must've gone through]".)

It's an enormous potential market, though that's also true of the shipping industry and it doesn't guarantee big margins. I'm interested to see what comes of it all. I expect something boring like "Yeah, eventually [company X] got big enough, that's why Apple released the Apple Pay Checkout Fields API for JS".

As a footnote: Amazon has actually offered this as a service for ages, which I know because of the precisely one website I used which happened to offer it. If it weren't for the terrible antediluvian UX and the lack of any evident marketing, it probably wouldn't have been such an open goal for these startups. Here, this is what Fast was trying to sell a shittier version of, without a user base: https://pay.amazon.com/what-is-amazon-pay
I actually prefer the style in MI1 and MI2, but having played them first, this is not really surprising.
I don't see how that's meant to be a rebuttal. I don't know the figures, but I wouldn't be surprised if hydro (replacing carbon) has saved a lot of lives. My quote was referring to people claiming that per unit energy, renewables are dramatically safer. Hydro is great where available, and renewables are important. There just isn't a compelling reason to rule out nuclear energy at this point.
Does anyone else find these kind of horrifying in a very difficult to explain way?
Depending on your definition of simpler, everyone could just pair off and shake exactly one hand.
Anecdotal, of course, but my wife used to wander around downtown and SOMA when she would accompany me on business trips circa 2011-12 to SF. When I went back in 2019-20 after not having been there for 5+ years, I was shocked. I did my best to avoid being outside my hotel, and had my wife come with me on those trips, I would have stayed outside the city and commuted in.

On a single trip from my hotel about 4 blocks away to our offices, I saw a guy tweaked out unconscious against a parking meter with the needle still in his leg, was accosted by a mentally ill dude trying to get me to take dope to a guy on the next block, saw a pretty obvious pimp give a stack of money to a young girl who should have been in school to run it somewhere, and two open drug deals happening literally right on Market by the Westfield Mall. I also saw a couple of tent encampments, folks starving on the street, and an incredibly long line for food at a soup kitchen. I was so...perturbed? Upset? by the whole experience that I kind of lost it in the bathroom when I got to work. The amount of human suffering one can witness in a 15 minute timespan there is just...galling.

I don't think folks who live in SF have Stockholm Syndrome as much as it just becomes part of the scenery in some weird disconnected way. When I brought all that up to folks at work, they were like, "Oh yeah that's just how it is here" and dismissed it. I remember seeing two of my co-workers sipping coffee looking out the window of our expensive, air-conditioned office surrounded by pricey furniture and motivational posters, pointing out the various tweakers and drug dealers who were harassing folks trying to get food from the shelter nearby. It was just a snapshot of a mindset of disconnection about it that I still don't really understand.

I guess at some point you just have to shut your brain off to the horror you're witnessing in real time or you will eventually snap, but I just couldn't do it. I asked on my next trip to stay at a much closer hotel, and when I left that company, if I'm honest, that was a not-inconsequential part of why.
Compilers are pretty good at telling you what they’re unhappy about these days so you’re well on the track as opposed to chasing bugs in gdb.

Usually when I get to the stage where whatever I’m working on is ready to build I pipe stderr to a file and just go down the list fixing all the little things until it works (or usually segfaults).

I’ve successfully updated quite a few super old codebases to play around with by just fixing each compiler error until it works or I have to go hunting real bugs.
There certainly is a connection but not necessarily the one you’re suggesting. “I called the cops and they didn’t show up therefore progressive justice policies are bad” is quite a leap. Can’t it also be that cops are just jerks, who largely don’t live in the city, who are happy to collect the paychecks and watch the city fall apart because they are personally invested in the political narrative?

There are plenty of videos floating around out there of cops refusing to take reports on break-ins and robberies and even assaults. It’s really odd to me that anyone on a site like this would take the side of the armed authoritarian gang in this debate.
In general, cities are more dangerous:

https://twitter.com/RyanRadia/status/1461904766238404611
Are you including cardboard with that statistic? The majority of plastic packaging (at least where I live) are absolutely not recycled
Same, sometimes circles won’t reappear from the opposite edge boundary
Seems so, but the situation is generally unclear. This is what the Ars Techica article says about it:

> In the years since that post went live, the Disney-helmed Lucasfilm Games has been more generous about helping its most venerable alumni re-release original games with minimal interference, and the company also increased its efforts to put its biggest properties in the hands of new developers. [...] Gilbert hasn't said what deal he struck with LucasArts' rightsholders, but it's arguably good enough to make him eat some very famous "not making another Monkey Island" words.
I wouldn't use tinc, particularly version 1.0. Its protocol is weak. [1]

(Every time I see tinc mentioned, I'm frustrated 1.1 hasn't been released. I made contributions to it 15 years ago that still haven't been released.)

[1] https://www.tinc-vpn.org/pipermail/tinc-devel/2006-January/0...
Curse was also my first, and my only fear with this project is that Gilbert will think we need to go back to the nine-option interaction system for the first two games.

The three-option interaction medallion was actually quite clever, and I really don't want to be stuck staring at a piece of the screen deciding if I should "use" it, "push" it, or "pull" it.
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ads disguised as hn comments is really proof hn has jumped the shark.
I've been coding some 10-15% of my two-decade coding career in C (and C++), and have been mentoring people over video conferencing and a shared server accessed via VNC. Usually I do that for pay, but I'm interested in programming language implementations (I'm doing some of that myself)[1], and I've occasionally been working on implementing a Forth-like language myself[2], and so I'm willing to spend some time with you (say, 10 sessions, ~2 hours each) for free. Let's see what we can achieve, and I'll tell you at any point what the best way forward will be. I don't really share the opinion with some others who suggest to re-implement it in another language--for that you really have to understand the original code base first, and if you do, then it shouldn't be hard to fix the issues in C, either. I personally will probably suggest to leave it in C, it will most likely be less work, and it will have lighter dependencies. You can find my contact info from my profile.

PS. some of the first things to do will be to:

- if there's a way to get hold of previous versions, make a fresh Git history that includes them, so that the changes can be correlated with release notes

- use the sanitizers offered by today's compilers, or valgrind if having to compile it with old compilers.

- read the code about how it encodes pointers, and adapt that to 64 bit if needed

- maybe instrument the garbage collector if issues show up there, maybe move to allocating memory via malloc so that the memory sanitizer will catch violations

- write documentation about the workings that we study (that helps getting a clear mind and staying focused, and may help people in the future)

[1] https://github.com/pflanze/lilyvm
[2] https://github.com/pflanze/copycat
You write as though there were a wide array of businesses that accept crypto. In reality, only a vanishingly small number do so, and many of those that used to accept crypto do so no longer. Tesla, for example.

Bitcoin, at least, is much too volatile to serve as a useful medium of exchange.
I think people sometimes forget that tons of high-traffic sites used to be served from what would, today, be laughably weak machines and very simple architectures (say, just a failover second machine, or LB between just two servers, or sometimes even just a single YOLO server).

No, they didn't get the traffic of a modern Google, say, because not as many people were online, but they did receive as much traffic as an upper-mid-tier modern site, and served it with machines weaker than a lot of modern phones.

Just serving HTML and small media files is something computers are very good at, if you get out of their way.
I would add a vote system to decide who has won, and set the fights with a limited time like 5 minutes.