skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the different perceptions really depends on what part of SF you spend your time in and what parts you avoid.

Yeah the city is only a 7x7 mile square. But block by block it can be dramatically different.

Check out the map of violent crime halfway down this article: https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/bob-lee-killing-viol...

I lived on Nob Hill for 7 years, it was fairly quiet, always felt safe. We had one unhoused guy who was harmless, you'd see him around.

Go down the hill, and cross Geary and you're in the Tenderloin. Violent crime on that map goes from 64 to 361. People are passed out on the sidewalk with needles hanging out of their arms. There are tents, trash, squalor everywhere.

Go over the Pacific Heights and it's $10-20M houses everywhere.

The Richmond and the Sunset are like any suburbs, just a tiny bit more dense (houses are touching but they often have back yards). Low crime. Sleepy.

After Nob Hill I lived in SOMA for 5 years, just half a block from 6th street. I once counted 12 tents on my block. A guy was tapping the street light for electricity. Needles in arms, people screaming, the sidewalk is a bathroom. Go east of 5th street (or maybe east of 4th) and it's all modern buildings. In the time since SalesForce tower went up, that area completely transformed. It's hyper modern full of high end office and residential buildings.
(This is the area where Bob Lee was killed

When I lived in Nob Hill, I felt like I was in this great dense walkable urban neighborhood. Then I made the mistake of moving to SOMA, it was nice that I was close to so many tech jobs, but being exposed to what went on there made me grow to hate San Francisco.

A lot of people just actively avoid those really bad areas. So they never see it. Unfortunately I either lived in the middle of it, or regularly walked through it.
> The former not requiring you to spend all your assets (okay, you can keep $2000)

Medicaid is a state-federal program, and states may have higher asset limits (Californa, for instance, raised it from the federal baseline $2000 individual/$3000 married couple to $130,000 + $65,000 for additional family member.)
This. You can try lowering your salary for the job req but you’ll end up with unfavorable candidates. So you go for the good ones and the good ones know what they are worth and are holding out collectively. Strange how economics works sometimes. Now, ask me again in a year.
If you remove the "/old" from the URL, you can do just that
Request for help: We lost all our GitHub stars in one click, please re-star us
Hey everyone, we were doing some repo admin and briefly changed the visibility of the repo from public -> private and back to public, then discovered in horror that we lost ALL the github stars and forks! Googling suggests that others have ran into this issue too and github is not able to restore it (see https://www.qovery.com/blog/we-lost-3800-stars-on-github-in-...).

Could you help us by starring our repo and perhaps spread the word? Would really mean a lot! https://github.com/useVenice/venice

PSA: Never change a public repo to private, not even for a moment, because doing so means you will irreversibly lose ALL your github stars and forks, there is no going back! :(
AutoGPT vs. BabyAGI vs. LangChain
The experiment described in the article uses ultracold atoms (tiny fractions of a Kelvin), so it's not relativistic.
most criticism I've read seems to boil down to: he's not a macchiavellian eel.
This is how I start with libraries. How do I want to use it, and start with some code that will eventually compile. It acts as an integration test too. But this starts to expose issues earlier with my understanding. Then if the interface doesn't work, it's easier to fix earlier.
I honestly don't care about his political views in my choice of social media (and I'm not aware of any views he holds that I would find extremely objectionable in any case).

I care about being able to choose between "For You" and "Following". I don't want an algorithmically curated feed which includes things I have consciously chosen not to look at. And I don't want people who follow me not to be able to see things I link to because of a pissing contest between tech companies.
Building a PLG Content “Machine” in Your Organization
What is the actual tweet that is being "withheld globally"? It's impossible to fairly judge who's in the right here without knowing that.

Shouldn't this info be published elsewhere if it's actually that important?
I think much more common after one visits this site.
What do you think those 16-core Neural Processing Units that ship in every Mac are for? They're not waiting to see, they're waiting for everyone to discover their lunch has already been eaten.

How do you get around privacy concerns for using the big AI models? Run your own. How do you get around the compute requirements for training? Push to the leaf nodes. How do you solve for personalizing AIs? Have personal AI models running locally... And wouldn't it be nice if there was some dedicated hardware those AI models could inhabit...
So? You ignore everything else I wrote which even more directly addresses your point so I'm not sure what you are trying to say besides just hating on Yoko for the hell of it. Yawn, oldest shtick out there.
>... because we get paid more.

Genuinely curious - who is "we"?
Htmx has such an old man yells at cloud vibe. People don't like fat js clients because of "view transitions", they like the developer experience, composability of components, and benefitting from a vibrant ecosystem that is constantly innovating.
Also RIP the Conlang community on Twitter...
Tell us more, who are the "rebels" in this story and what arms did Merkel send?

(Is this what news in the PRC feel like?)
> He wasn't doing a great job

The previous DA was doing a fantastic job, he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism. Doing this is difficult because people will (as they did!) post videos online of petty theft or “unruly” people in the streets and people who do not understand how safety is actually created are never going to listen to people who are actually informed.

> he had picked a fight with the police chief.

This is not true. He prosecuted a police officer for murder and put pressure on the police, which have a long history of corruption and rampant racism, human trafficking, etc.. But police unions have a lot of power and influence, the average person thinks that police create safety (they do not! if they respond at all to anything, they respond after the fact with a pencil and paper, and their behavior is often very dangerous - e.g. speeding around the city running red lights when they clearly are not headed anywhere).

The police in SF do not have a tough job, and police everywhere, always slack off. The SFPD famously went on strike some decades ago and were basically shooting out streetlights and holding the entire city hostage, eventually culminating in a bombing on the mayor’s front lawn.

SFPD do not live in SF, almost any of them, they aren’t members of the community, they do not have the community’s best interest at heart. They are bullies who come from the suburbs and basically view all residents of SF as dirty miscreants. If you ask them for help in a violent situation, they will likely threaten you with violence or arrest yourself.
It won't be (3).

It's not about genetic fertility anymore, it's about conscious choice.
Amazing. This is fantastic. I like reflecting on the fact that an ancient Greek kingdom used to border ancient India — and that a Greek king became Buddhist before Ashoka—and that Ashokan pillars had Greek written on them.
Ok, probably a poor word choice by me. I guess what I was trying to say is a number of people that left came across as self important and that Twitter would somehow be less good without them and someone else taking their space.

The truth is, very few people are missed. Others have filled the gaps. The algorithm wins.
In the land/labor/capital triad, the only thing that will be post-scarcity due to AI will be labor. Anyone who lacks one of the others will be screwed since the only they have to trade - their labor - will be worthless.
I hold out hope that when the tool is in a market that delivers actual value functionality and usability still tend to win out.

I think that a lot of software is inherently low (or even negative) value and thats why shiny wins.

Could easily be dreaming tho
While this is true, the amount of blatant denial about SF in particular is ridiculous.

The city is a place of both incredible wealth and incredible human misery. It’s shameful to not acknowledge this or the fact that whatever the causes, nothing anyone is doing seems to be making it better.
Being asked for a refund because my writing was “AI Generated”
I mean, the fact that the Ukraine re-armed itself after Russia invaded their territory isn’t news, is it? I think it was reported on pretty substantially. And a good thing too since they were invaded a second time, this time with a strike towards their capital. I sort of assumed that was obvious public knowledge and don’t understand why people are making it into a “story.”
I mean John broke it up for reasons beyond him just being difficult. It's been deeply analyzed by many, I think the One Sweet Dream podcast gets it best where John is hurt by his relationship to Paul and the notion that Paul might not need him anymore.
I encountered a bat many years ago acting erratically inside the house. It had evidently entered in my sleep.

I looked up the cost, and found out the household would be bankrupted by the shots and we would end up homeless. I calculated the danger from homelessness outweighed the risk of rabies. I guess the bet paid off, as we're now well past the 99th percentile of incubation period.
Does Musk care about censorship or not? It sure seems like he cares only when it's convenient for him.

Twitter should fight against this censorship, and if needed apply the minumum amount, which would almost certainly not be a _global_ block. They have geo blocks for exactly this purpose.
Its about the same?
How to Build a Strategic Narrative
> Do you really think the execs at Visa and Mastercard are puritans and not profiteering capitalists that will process payments for NSFW content if they were able to?

Pornhub was blocked by Visa and Mastercard after an op-ed in NYT generated a lot of outrage
> if you're wealthy enough to make a down payment for is practically free given the rate of land appreciation throughout most of the Bay

Is this going to continue for much longer?
You're truly distorting his words.
> A non biased article would've mentioned how much Bitcoin mining accounts for the total energy used in US. And that would've been compared to the energy used in other industries. Take videogames for example. Just that datum would've changed the whole narrative of the article. The article does mention something in passing about how other industries at least bring jobs. I guess that's a net positive then.

How would this be useful? Just comparing it to random things that also use electricity?

You need to do a like-for-like comparison. Bitcoin's ostensible purpose is as a currency, or some sort of financial trading instrument for speculation, so it should be compared to the energy efficiency in other financial systems.

It is, of course, woefully, embarrassingly inefficient when compared on energy use basis. The only thing that matters is: what does this energy inefficiency give you in return? The answer is 'decentralisation'.

As always, the question is about whether or not 'decentralisation' is useful, important, valuable, whatever. For most people, today, it simply is not, as evidence by the fact that absolutely nobody uses Bitcoin for any sort of practical transactional stuff.
> Difference between Word Processor and text editor is in WYSIWYG mode of operation. At least for most of people.

As someone who used DOS-based word processors like WordStar, and before that, a Brother word processor that looked like a typewriter with a two-line display that let you edit a whole document, funky inline formatting symbols and all, and then hit "print" when you were done, I think this statement ignores a lot of history.
Ask HN: What does your ideal User Interface language/framework look like?
With so many options for rendering user interfaces, is there one that you've found to be perfect?

If not, why?

If you could have any amount of funding and any number of talented people working on a replacement, what would your ideal language/framework look like?

Would it look something like Flutter? Or JS(X) like React? Would you support multiple platforms, or just stick to the web and web technologies?

Would you create a whole new syntax/language? Would you separate out logic and templating, or keep them together?

How would you handle styling? Logic?

What would you prefer HN?
Writer wants to make Portal 3, but Valve's 'flat structure' makes it a challenge
In what sense do you think Twitter‘s business doesn’t have a large technical barrier to entry? Perhaps having a low-volume version makes it a lot easier and skipping all the ads stuff reduces the work.
So, uh, is that cost a “SAML is a compatibility minefield and requires constant tweaking” cost or a “we need to allocate some of our people to figure out the network setup together with yours” cost? Or something else entirely?
I used to advocate for the sharp kerry but I've had two completely stop feeding official pentel leads and need replacement from pentel for no reason. They are shorter lived than even the graphgear 1000s, and I've broken the plastic parts on those too.

The graphgear's retractable tip has never put a hole in my pocket, and I can always clip it to the top of my pocket (with the pen in the pocket) if I'm really concerned.

The biggest issue I have with the graphgear 1000s is that the texturing on the barrel just isn't very comfortable for extended duration use. I always end up putting a stupid puffy piece to make them easier to use for long periods of time.

Lately I've just given up on all of those and end up using 2mm lead holders. I've probably got $150-200 worth of fancy pencils and the 2mm leadholders get the most use.
I guess you missed Java Applets and Java WebStart…

The web browser is still the most terrible "application platform" as it's at its core still a document viewer, and not an application platform at all.

The pic with a lot of lipstick analogy is pretty to the spot, imho.

You can abuse any Turing-complete environment any way you like. But this doesn't make it a good idea in the first place.
A lot of the top writers have large guaranteed incomes and related incentive structures. The 20M is not all revenue, some of it is a cost for Substack.
Just in case anyone is curious, it is on Telegram and various western commentators' Patreon accounts. Probably unsurprising, but you will see people die if you watch it.
Huh? Do normal people like microcontrollers these days? Maybe I should go outside...
According to a posting on yelp (https://www.yelp.com/biz/harvest-urban-market-san-francisco) Harvest Urban Market was shut down recently by the city due to major vermin infestation.

Also it seems like they were threatening to close in 2019 due to exactly the kinds of issues that Whole Foods says is causing their closure: https://abc7news.com/south-of-market-sf-san-francisco-soma/5...
Again I don't know if it is the best for their current use case but you could probably make something that is quite elegant in htmx.

There are a few actions that are exclusively client side, like opening a context menu, that I'd use a "sprinkle of JavaScript". There is a recently added htmx attribute "hx-on" that might work well for those cases.

I'd also not discount doing a round trip for some of that. Those GET requests can be very fast and will be cached. Given the poor performance of many SPA's a quick, cache-able GET request might look pretty good.
I didn't know that. Very interesting!

Isn't this actually prove that creating desktop grate applications, like a graphical word processor form the late 90's & some colab backend, is still infeasible with web tech?

Doesn't it also prove that it's still easier and faster to create a proper app and GUI toolkit yourself and just render pixels to the screen (as all desktop GUI toolkits do these days) instead of fighting the browser tech idiosyncrasies, even a proper app and GUI stack isn't trivial in itself?
Demo of the simulation can be found here:
https://reverie.herokuapp.com/arXiv_Demo/
Streamlining Mobile App Development with CI/CD
okay and if they never make a recovery, lose an eye, etc - what kind of compensation would they be looking it?
The rebels are right-wing paramilitary groups. And Germany didn’t send any weapons during 2014-2022, but she said in a Der Spiegel interview from Oct 2022 that during the Minsk negotiations, it became clear that the US’ objective was to buy time to secretly arm Ukraine (which is newsworthy because this would imply a violation of the Minsk agreement).
Doesn't need to be parole. It could be home confinement under the CARES act.

Michael Conahan from kids for cash was sentenced to 17.5 years and only served 10 before being allowed to go to home confinement - I'm sure Elizabeth can find a way.
Form follows function.
AI generated Techno is already a thing, and I can't tell it apart from actual Techno, as per the xkcd cartoon.

https://xkcd.com/411/

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1sHVw5K6w
He’s talking about people getting $10 million plus. Not the scraps like you and I.
Does anyone else get frustrated when they see, in blogs, articles, or books, introductions such as this:

> Computers are common in today's world, as they are able to perform a wide variety of tasks quickly and accurately. They are used in many different industries, such as business, healthcare, education, and entertainment, and have become an essential part of daily life for many people. Besides this, they are also used to perform complex scientific and mathematical calculations, to store and process large amounts of data, and to communicate with people around the world.

Anyone who would open this book must already know all this. Is there anyone who does not know that computers are everywhere? Does any prospective reader of a book on programming feel that computers are not essential? Does anyone doubt that complex scientific and mathematical calculations are made on computers? Who is this paragraph for? Who has taught us not to proceed straight to business?
I have access but don't have a box with Edge running on it nearby to use it. What about it was worse? A few friends tell me that uniting chat with the LLM makes it hallucinate a lot less and makes it easier to check its work, but they only used it a couple times.
You'll pry my EnerGels out of my cold, dead left hand.
Up until recently I'd have agreed on Apple's.

Increasingly Apple seem to be blocking tracking, noteably from facebook, to make the most profit of that tracking. I've read claims that apple made between $5B and $20B on advertising in 2022. It's far from clear that Apple's view on privacy is going to stay the same.
SSO: Single Sign On

Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems.

SCIM: System for Cross-domain Identity Management

System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems.

SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML, pronounced SAM-el, /ˈsæməl/)[1] is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider and a service provider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_for_Cross-domain_Identi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Lang...

(if you work at SpaceX, SSO might also mean Single Stage to Orbit, which is lots more exciting - but since Elon banned acronyms maybe it's not used)
Good to see a Kiwi making waves in the industry! And who knows, this could play a role in the colonising of the stars so we can all have our own little slice of heaven ;)
I hate people asking what I do for a living, especially women, because it's code for "If you're rich, I'll pretend to like you." To reveal the real character of a person, there are 3 ways: go to war with them, let them believe they have an untouchable advantage, or alcohol.

5 years after my mom had a stroke, he moved out and served her papers while she was visiting her dying mother. Shortly after and during the pandemic, his mother was dying and he stole roughly $1m USD from his family. I blame myself for not being more suspicious of him and allowing my mom to rush into retirement and cohabitation out of the area.

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I'm also annoyed by the assumption that I must work for someone other than myself: it's orthodoxy of the meek who play it safe while handing piles of treasure over to others.

Outside of work, who really wants to be reminded of or talk about it? It's one of the problems of attempting to socialize with coworkers: they can't leave the office at the office. When I'm not working, I don't want homework.

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PS: Never get involved with investors, cofounders, or spouses you don't completely trust and know for years. It's marriage. Keep liabilities away at arm's reach at least.
> Work is just the shit you do for other people to stay alive. If a robot is doing that thing, I'll do something else. If robots do everything a person can do for zero marginal cost, then the we are in a post-scarcity utopia, why is that bad?

We already live in post-scarcity thing(don't know if it is utopy or dystopy, but for some people it's former while for some later, for some reason I think dystopy have higher population), but the surplus of production is destroyed/put into landfills(with police security so no one can steal it from trashcan).
Really quite amazing how she was literally convicted more than a year ago, and has been able to remain out of prison since then.

When plenty of people - generally lower income - end up in jail before they've been to trial, let alone be convicted - that someone found guilty, and with the ability and repeated attempts to leave the country is allowed to stay in a palatial mansion is utter BS.
input youtube thumbnail of cat in the hat enraged "DR SUESS CANCELLED?! TWITTER WON'T COMMENT!" ragebait youtuber.
“Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And VC” is pretty good. Used it when raising a round of funding.

“The Power Law: Venture Capital And The Making Of The New Future” is also good. It tells the story of the evolution of VC over the last 70 years. It is interesting that funding terms seem to be becoming more and more founder-friendly over decades.
Ahead of Ethereum Blockchain's Shanghai Upgrade, Regulatory Turf War Heats Up
I don't to digress too much but I strongly belive y'all need to review your approach to caching. This kind of stuff is literarly unheard of among competent engineers. No insult meant, but this is hilarious.
> I can’t think of a single car that has been protected by a car alarm since they were invented.

Many insurance companies offer lower premiums if you install a car alarm. So I guess they work at least a little, otherwise they wouldn't lower their premiums.

It may not actually stop a thief, but it may get a thief to chose a car that doesn't have an alarm, or maybe it is just a correlation, but there is at least something.

Still, I think they should be made illegal, they are a nuisance, there are already laws against making excessive noise and car alarms should be included. And if they create an arms race, by getting thieves to prefer cars without alarms, that's even more reason to ban them.
I was specifically referring to the "armed guard" aspect. You bet the public response will be different to a Walmart LP person using physical force to detain a shoplifter vs. Whole Foods.
This reminds me of TIG welding, but on an even more refined level. What an art!