skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need to also keep things into perspective, there are an estimated 8k homeless in San Francisco, about 1% of its population.

It seems most of those are caused by just poverty, not able to afford living expenses pushed people to the streets.

Some amount of them are coming from other cities who get rid of their homeless by sending them to cities like San Francisco, but Sam Francisco also sometimes send homeless away similarly, this happens all over the US, as a kind of way to spread it out more evenly so it's not as visible in any given place.

The fundamental issues of poverty are hard to solve, obviously, every country, city, nation, has always struggled with this. It's also a little more complicated due to some of the homeless also suffering from mental illness or drug addiction, that doesn't always make them qualified to even work, so it's like poverty mixed with what to do with the people that can't contribute to the work force as effectively.

There's also the case of temperate climate, that's pretty attractive to people who live in the streets, but it's also convenient for a city, if homeless are dying of frost bites or heat, you might feel more compelled to give them shelter, but when outdoor tents suffice you might instead choose to shelter them outside like that and just keep moving them around so they don't stay to the same place too long for the neighbors to complain.

I've heard San Francisco has a policy that when they give shelter, it has to be a full apartment with social service support, whereas New York and other cities go for more warehouse shelters, beds in a big room. The former is nicer to people that get to have access to them, but it hasn't scaled, whereas as the latter isn't as nice but has had more success actually sheltering them and hiding them from view I guess.
Thank you. That is super big. I did push Wikipedia to be more in front when it is relevant. Also I did increase the column width a good amount yesterday after everyone's feedback. I tried widening it even more, but then the images felt too big and less columns are shown. I think it is a pretty good balance right now. Please try it out more now and let me know if you get used to it.
I've found decent success sharing short product features videos, always less than 15 seconds, on LinkedIn.

Making the videos run much faster than normal, at least 1.5x and up to 3x in parts means you can provide a lot more density of information.

It does require the first pass to be visually interesting, and if you don't do something to stand out in the first three seconds you risk being scrolled past.

I also use subtitles to fill in the gaps and assume it will auto replay and if they make it through one replay, that further viewings will be easier to understand what is going on.

I have a relatively small following on LinkedIn ~2.5k but can get between 200-400 likes.

I then use these short clips on my GitHub pages for my work as well.

Some examples below:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukepbutler_water-epanet-qati...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukepbutler_water-epanet-inno...

I would also recommend the Egghead instructor videos, while much longer, they still try to push the idea of short videos to get the point across
This would be a cute reply if the data supported your idea. But it doesn't.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/us-corpor...

Highest margins since 1950.

Turns out there are businesses that aren't Grocers.
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You pay for something, then you’re allowed to use the bathrooms.
> there's probably more tolerance for weird activity

Well, my Twitter account has been suspended at least 4 times for dumb reasons or no apparent reason at all.

> nothing but suspicious spam

It was not spam. Tweeting is not spam. Tweeting a lot is not even spam. Unsolicited replies, for example, can be spam. Ben's account did not interact with anyone. There was no unsolicited interaction whatsoever.

Also, there was no violation of Twitter rules.
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Over the last ten years, the market has tried to kill off the hardware, systems, network and security people, and mostly succeeded.

As a result, it's relatively easy to find someone who advertises as "full stack devops" who has never actually operated any infrastructure more complex than a LAMP webserver cluster. And it's hard to find a senior sysadmin who has enough years of experience to understand and troubleshoot all of your infrastructure from layer 0 up. People with that experience have moved into management or consulting or retirement, and there are no jobs for new folks.
I worked there in 2016-2018 and returned several times 2020-21, and yes it's been this way.

It's not very difficult to deal with, just annoying enough that at some point you might get tired of it. I walked everywhere, only avoiding a few streets. You can find the cafés or even public seating areas that are hospitable, but it may require a little trial and error.

The one actually hard thing is finding a bathroom. Many businesses don't have one even for paying customers, unless it's a sit-down restaurant.
Only some are like that.
As someone building something that's intended to be released as open-core, I disagree with this article. I've worked at and with B2B companies my entire life and specifically in that domain, there's a lot of "process-things" that are steamlined using a SaaS rather than by self-hosting. It's "much" easier to get a budget for a SaaS for $5 per user rather than have devops involved with setting up infra for a new service (and move around a hundred other priorities for them), and they'd happily say <non-trivial money> to have someone else send an invoice at end of the month for a service even if they can technically host it themselves with 90% of the core features.

Of course, there's other 'grey-pattern' techniques that open-core systems use (eg. the notorious https://sso.tax) that can also help build companies around but it's important to note that a small 10-100 person company has very different "app visibility/reporting/analytics" needs than a 1000 person corporate with multi-level hierarchies, and it's very much possible to build out a profitable company that builds a community with the 10-100 person startup via open source offerings that work perfectly for their use-cases while charging the companies that want something that "just works" for them for a lot of the advanced non-core stuff (and services).
Vampire Survivors–a cheap, minimalistic indie game–is my game of the year
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interesting idea on Nym, I'd like to discuss this further for a potential project, if you are interested you can find me email in my bio
There's a non-market, political outcome that's the dominant factor in the labor market -- the degree to which the federal and state governments enforce or incentivize undocumented workers.
> Engineers should be encouraged to control costs

For better or worse a lot of folks are allergic to this. A framing that I’ve seen is to just understand the cost drivers from a technical perspective, for example large materialized views in BigQuery consume a lot of CPU. That’s technically interesting and it’s the reason they’re expensive.
Rented for about €1200 per month per toilet. 6MM/year for 420 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette#In_Paris
It’s supposedly meritocratic by academic ability and potential, now - about 25% of pupils receive bursaries covering a substantial percentage of the fees, but that means the other 75% require parents capable of spending £45,000 pa on their education.

Given the life-long opportunities an Eton education affords someone, and the likely backgrounds of that 75%, you’d be reasonable in suspecting “a system of perpetuated inherited privilege”.
I feel like it has its place in large organization. But being a large organization means the odds of spaghetti are approaching 100% no matter what you do.
Yep, sounds about right. If you're a tourist, though, I would say that restrooms are accessible to a similar extent as any European city I've traveled to. They're perhaps more likely to be disgusting if you're in the worst parts of the city. Decent venues stay on top of it, though, and any place with a counter to order from will have a code you need to ask for to gain access.

If you're a local, there's of course social engineering tricks you can use, like going into a branch of your bank to make a withdrawal, then asking to use their bathroom.
It is the official channel of many governments and worldwide organizations. The Royal Family twitter account posted the news about Queen Elizabeth's death before BBC announcement.
> collecting profit without adding value i.e. engineers

Civil Engineers DO NOT have the upper hand in any of their designs. They propose, and upper management comments, and they propose again, and upper management comments again, and back and forth it goes. At the end of the day, all they have done is manage a series of comments, and tried to please the client rep with something like a quick and dirty fix to whatever comments they are getting.

Who has the creativity? The client rep, but he is so incompetent/overloaded/unelated that all he does is either manage from high above, or just look for ways to protect himself and the City, or ask the consultant to propose solutions and makes the smallest comments possible on these solutions, while leaving majority of the comments for other offices.

This leads to designs that hardly get a fight history. And more of a sychophant-driven approach just to get nitpickers out of the way.
Did I get downvoted because I'm right and the truth hurts or is there a disagreement somebody chose to not share? Hmm...
One gets the impression that the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing in big corporations like this. They have probably never had to call their own tech support.

It is easy to see how this could happen.
AWS Sanctions compliance team: ok, the government says we need to shut down Russian accounts, so we will lock any account using a Russian payment method. False positives can just call tech support to prove that they are not bots and have the offending payment method replaced.

Meanwhile over in support:
Boss: remember it is corporate policy that a CSR may not make any changes to billing information for a customer’s account after the stolen cards incident.
it's worse than that, if you want to appeal to "the right wing of the ring wing party in the UK", then being either a woman or a person of colour is a disadvantage with that specific group of voters, more so than with the general UK voting public.
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\u0000 (NUL) is a perfectly valid unicode character.

Though I can understand people from mostly C/C-alike background where NUL termination is the norm for strings less uncomfortable with that.
I’m not sure I’m getting the full gist of your questions, but to one point: Yes I think people generally avert their gaze to the people and the issues, perhaps because of shame or sheer disinterest. I personally want to financially contribute to make things better, but it’s unclear how to get accountability with my spending. Giving cash on the street seems inefficient and likely to be used for the ‘wrong’ things. Organizations in the city and the city itself don’t appear to be doing much at all due to incompetence or bureaucracy.

To another: The folks living in the street are generally not the same as those in the laboring class. So indeed, those without resources working especially in the service industry are declining, and this is becoming quite an issue with cost and availability of these businesses. The people on the street mostly seem to thrive off the excess wealth the city casts off. But to be clear, although it doesn’t freeze, SF is no balmy paradise.
“It is not possible” isn’t used by companies to mean “it isn’t physically possible”, it’s used to mean “it isn’t supported by our processes”.

(I’ve been in a frustrating back-and-forth over the past couple days with a company who’s quoting me an outrageous shipping fee, and keeps telling me it’s “impossible” to ship with a different delivery service.)
You can always get your own merchant account. Stripe is about being convenient since they don't due all the diligence of a bank when you sign up for a merchant account.
> I know it is fairly popular on HN to say that any party that is coded ring-wing is terrible

No it's not, HN is definitely biased conservative.
Yeah, it's a shame that social network apps, which have largely supplanted feed reader apps, never integrated RSS feeds into their products
Show HN: Transform Your City
Hey HN,

As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets.

It's "change.org for urban transformation".

It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2].

And now, we're live with our own site!

Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047412

[1] https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai

[2] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/07/28/this-artificial-intel...
My first encounter with snaps was launching gcalc, the basic built-in calculator app.

At some point after an update, launching that app would take multiple seconds. How could the most basic gtk app be so slow to launch.

Investigating further, I found the update had transformed the normal gcalc package into a snap, probably just to prove how great snaps could be for desktop apps?

What a bad way to introduce your latest tech canonical. From then on, my opinion of snaps was very negative and I still do everything possible to avoid them. Even if they are technically great or more secure, canonical messed up their introduction and are now stuck pushing a dead horse.
Making abortion an effective wedge issue was an excellent strategy by the GOP, no doubt. And continuing to pursue gun control is an unforced error on the part of the Democrats (though they eased off quite a bit on that starting with Obama, to be fair).

IMO the Democrats would have been better off focusing most of their effort on something like single payer health care, along with minimum wage and housing affordability, things like that. Those are issues that are ostensibly part of the party platform but are not high priorities.
Probably. Otherwise, it wouldn't keep happening.
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Yes. But they’re a rounding error for FAANG firms.
This arts commission is a thorn. A roadblock. And an energy drainer.
PaaS is grate, sure it doesn't fully eliminated oprations but it makes it much easier for you to do what the article described.

Like most things it comes at a cost (for a good PaaS mainly the running cost).

But I increasingly come to believe that for small startups which fundamentally don't have the resources to do what the article describes or anything close to it using PaaS and keeping operational complexity as low as possible is the way to go.
We've had NFC, banking, etc on rooted phones and even on windows desktops loaded with malware for decades now. Clearly there's a tradeoff that can be made here and the banks still find it worthwhile to offer the extra features and save money on staff even if it occasionally causes fraud.
I don't know, I'd rather them use a toilet that is self cleaning than do it on the trash bins outside my condo. I've lived in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) for a long time now, and the un-housed people that hang out up the block or sleep in the HSBC aren't happy about having to go to the bathroom in between parked cars on the street. Whenever I've walked by them while they're doing that (which is fairly often), they've always apologized. At least give them a clean, private place to do it.
"favoring" you identifying good running products by analyzing merchants sales data, then start competing with their own version for less, AND favoring
Everyone always lauds AWS for not raising prices but fails to realize that hardware has continued to get cheaper, faster, and easier. Storage especially has taken such huge leaps that I imagine all of the big cloud companies must be making money hand over fist at this point.
I'll have to check it out. I did not know that.
Replying to the top comment for visibility… the entire article is clickbait

Buried in the article is this:

> In an email to National Review Wednesday, the Recreation and Parks Department said it will consider various options for constructing the toilet, including installing a pre-fabricated restroom. The department said it budgets for the worst-case scenario, so it estimates high. “In the end, the project may well be delivered for far less [than $1.7 million], with leftover funding put toward further improvements or maintenance,” the email stated.

$1.7m is the going rate for an entire public restroom. $1.7m is not what was spent on a single commode. It is merely what is set-aside for the project while in the planning stages.
Ok, this is a pretty big deal.
The p2p networks are a salvation for the cuban freelancers.
who is pretending they're better? me?
You're right, possibly not, but it has its place.
This is going to depend on a lot of things. Size of company, cloud native or not, org structure. I mean everyone would love to live in the google world where a team of SRE's run everything. But even in the world where a Devops engineer is embedded on a team there's bus factor to consider.

I think most modern AWS services are more the equivalent of an API or a microservice than they are a server, and you need to understand the limitations of the services you integrate with. If you're a cloud native company and don't have a mature platform engineering team, devs are going to have to know alot about AWS.

If the developer has all the information necessary to create an S3 bucket, lambda function, kinesis stream, etc does it make sense for them to offload 10 pieces of information to me, or for them to learn HCL and interact with it themselves, especially if it is something they do often. Especially if there's a central dev/ops team and they're the limiting factor.
Devops taking over every infrastructure change for a broad team of devs is inefficient and expensive. It's also probably frustrating for devs that are aware of the above factors. Lots of devs I know would prefer to do it themselves.

And all of this is to mention that infrastructure and integrations with infrastructure are not static. Should I be reviewing all PR's to a system that touch the client code for an AWS service, because the dev team doesn't want to learn how that service works? Maybe, but in the end I don't know if this makes anyone happy.

Platform engineering is certainly the goal. Where ops creates a platform and dev just consumes that platform. But I don't know if it is realistic. Every system on rails is great until you try to take the rails off, and most devs I know hate rails :-) Fundamentally "devops" is all meant to solve human problems, not tech problems so it will have to be dynamic.
Because a human who can afford to live in San Francisco almost certainly costs more than this machine over 10 years (the 1.7 million is for the whole project, not just the self cleaning portion), and drugged out crazies can make a mess that would be a very hard and unpleasant job to give a human.
Or perhaps there's a selection bias in the company kept. It's easy not to find cause to interrupt if there exists general agreement and temperament.
This looks cool but I think we need a tech equivalent of "...IN MICE" warning for Apple-only products on this site.

btw there are cross-platform apps which have some similar functionality, eg voiceliner

https://a9.io/voiceliner/
This could be an article in the Onion.

And people wonder why SF can't build affordable housing ... :/
The problem with many of those unions was just that they depended on industry that no rational country could have continued to run forever. Like are you seriously going to just continue to mine coal forever, in mines that have been active for 100s of years and were just losing money.

The leader of the coal miners union didn't even fight for coal minor wages, he was talking actually revolution.

Some privatizations were sensible, lets remember that Nordics, Switzerland and so on also did that and you can do it well depending on the situation. But they are complex issues that you need to consider rationally on what you want to do.

The British government rail was probably to big, doing to many things and selling part of that and splitting it up and opening it up to some competition is sensible.

In my opinion labor in the 1950/1960 just did poorly, overly focus on some of their socialist hangups rather then making smart policy. Like Britain had debt after the war for sure, but its not like it was bombed to the ground (the Blitz was minor compared what most countries experienced), you have a rebuilding Europe. Britain had a world class aircraft industry, advanced nuclear, building lots of cars, world leading and so and so. Its had a great good electronics sector as well. Being among the best in the world in almost every major technology.

And somehow that couldn't be leveraged into much economic success. You have terrible growth and massive inflation just 20 year later. Something did go wrong, and you can't blame the conservatives. Even when they were in power for period they only slightly slow down the agenda.

To be sure, good things were done in that period as well it certainty wasn't all bad but its hard to look at pre-Tracher Britain and be overly impressed.
Absolutely media hype. Read the article. Nowhere will you find $1.7m spent on a single commode. It’s just a budgetary set-aside for a future public restroom at the going rate. Leftover funds will go back to the general fund or can be put towards long term maintenance of the public restroom.

I don’t know why people are so willing to spread right wing FUD about Sf, maybe it brings in the clicks I guess.
Probably one of the best choices of my live was moving out of S.F to Switzerland five years ago, the culture here is a lot less focused on virtue signaling and
way more focused on working, being respectful about no making a lot of noise on your house and public transport, actually having good incentives and culture about recycling and the washing machine, ultra safe place in general.

It only took me about a year of about 2 hours per day learning german as my third language to feel confident enough to apply for a job that was similar enough to what I got in S.F, I was hired in about a week at a financial institution as an applied data scientist in the fraud deparment. Could probably have tried earlier but wanted to be able to integrated decently into the swiss society without feeling I was leeching too much.
At a minimum Irene has her son blinded to usurp his throne.
SF tried those toilets and they were a failure in nearly all categories. They charged $250k in 2019, the wouldn’t be surprised if the full cost to set up is double now.

https://missionlocal.org/2019/02/how-san-francisco-flushed-a...
Men can but society certainly does not respect them in that role.

Just look at the amount of suspicion that men draw in elementary teaching roles.

This may seem reasonable but it also often ends marriages, which is arguably a worse outcome for the child(ren).