skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it like this everywhere? What are other cities doing right that SF isn't doing?

Of the big cities I've visited (in CA, OR, WA, IL, DC, NY, CO, NV) and in other developed countries, I think SF is by far the worst, with Seattle a close second and Portland not far behind.

There's a bazillion variables to consider when discussing the livability of a city, but it seems like there is something in particular going on with the major West Coast cities, especially the ones with a lot of income inequality like San Fran and Seattle, where all the nice places are owned by rich tech people and there's not much left for anyone else. On paper they all claim to be solidly leftist, but their realities on the ground are much harsher, with people shitting and shooting up and dying left and right and no real feeling of community or solidarity. They to have very car-dependent cultures too and inferior public transit, which seems to decrease the likelihood of seeing "regular" people walking on the streets.

It was a very different feeling from, say, Chicago, where, yes, there's also crime and mental illness, but most parts of the city felt incredibly safe and warm and neighborly. I felt much more uncomfortable and unsafe in SF than I ever did in Chicago or DC or Denver.

I grew up spending much of my childhood in the SF Bay Area, but it's gotten so much worse in recent years, seemingly in line with the tech booms and then especially the COVID exodus (towards rural communities and WFH). I don't know whether this is a failure of policy or planning or politics or something else, but it's so sad that a city with so much money can fail so badly at being livable. I don't know how the richest state with all these amazingly smart and wealthy people can just turn a blind eye to all the suffering there, unable to provide even basic shelter to so many thousands. Every time I visit Europe or Asia, I become ashamed of the US (and myself).

Are there no objectively testable and verifiable "best practices" for city management? How do other states and countries manage these same issues? We can't be the only ones facing drug use, homelessness, etc. But we are definitely one of the richest societies, so it's not just a problem of budget. What sorts of successful implementations have been done elsewhere?
SF bigger? Not if the current city government has any say, which is a large part of the issue. Why invest in SF with their 16 new units of housing a year when you can just invest in san jose which is increasingly the center of gravity of the bay area, especially the longer the government of SF acts like toddlers?
This is interesting in that two or more parties agreeing to the Checked belief receive an unchecked state at different moments, and thus act in a way where the checkbox is inadvertently toggled despite the best of intentions.

A "signal lag" for a single signifier leading to unintended consequences.
Further simplifying self-referential types for Rust
> Russia wants a land bridge towards ...

A man in Finland can take a bike and ride through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia and Austria to the southern tip of Italy, then head west to visit the westernmost point of Europe in Portugal, and return home following the Atlantic coast through Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden without being distrubed, stopped or questioned even once. No-one will ask who he is and what he carries in his pockets. He does not have to apply for visas, he does not have to get permits nor go through any ID checks. And not only can he bike through Europe, but he can also move to any place for work, study or leisure as if he was moving to another town in Finland. The Schengen agreement provides undisturbed travel across Europe, and European Union's four fundamental freedoms guarantee the unrestricted movement of people, goods, capital and services. Countless academic, business, cultural and other kinds of relations stand on these foundations. Foreigners from other European countries can even vote at local elections if they are permanent residents.

Russians never had anything comparable, nor will have anytime soon no matter how many people you sacrifice, because your Führer with his "land bridges" is an uneducated moron who doesn't understand how the world of the 21st century works. He has failed to take advantage of the opportunities it offers. He is a Soviet dinosaur who has literally never experienced any of it. Never took a free semester in another country under the Erasmus program, never held Eurail pass or backpacked through Europe as if national borders didn't exist.

The 30-something countries in Europe have achieved through peaceful cooperation much more than Russians ever had through violence, at any point in time.

I find it incredible how you take the stance that "In the 1990s, we were weak and stupid, but now we're smart and strong!" while still acting like total morons, incapable of developing past the ridiculously obsolete 19th century gunboat diplomacy that keeps the entire country retarded. Only complete losers talk about "land bridges" in 2024. Winners talk about AI, chipset designs, clean energy, electric vehicles and reusable rockets, and not of the kind that blow cancer-stricken children into tiny pieces as they rain down on hospitals.

For countries that are run by smart people who are good at diplomacy, national borders lost any real meaning a long time ago.
thank you for your sacrifice and for the resulting correction to my error
When I purchased the base model Ram Classic pick-up in 2021, it cost $27K. It has the same engine and drive train as the $50K model, just not as pretty. A buddy of mine wanted to know why I did this and I told him both trucks do the same thing, but I have all that extra money in the bank. He just blinked at me and walked away, because he's an idiot.

I also needed the truck, he didn't need his, he just wanted to have what his other buddies had.
Just a heads up: Muni is quite cheap and fairly reliable, with most of the city being within a few minutes walk to a stop. While cheap, I believe it should be 100% free, especially since fares are ~70% tax-funded anyway.

BART is quite expensive, I agree, however it stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit and is not actually managed by the city of San Francisco, but rather the multiple SFBAY counties it serves. That's the one that's used the most by workers coming into and out of the city and there's little SF can do about BART's pricing.

BART itself is facing a funding crisis, and there's a lot of chaos on the trains regularly, unfortunately, which deters a lot of people from taking it.

The solution isn't to subsidize driving + parking even more than it already is, but to fund public transport properly so that more people can take it easily.
I think you could achieve this in Wezterm, which is configurable with lua. Not on my laptop right now but will try to get it working later. I have other keybinds that run specific lua functions.
LiveNation (who owns Ticketmaster) acknowledges that they do this with the artist's consent. https://archive.md/1JeG5
"seems wrong to disturb people minding their own business."

I suspect the protestors feel like they are the ones being disturbed.
Are you able to sponsor VISAs?
The best metaphor for this is the concept of resonant yaw.

Make one small 1 degree mistake on a rocket launch, you will end up hundreds of miles off target.

Make a small mistake in an organic system and you'll be fine, you can just iterate. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to get it perfect.

The trick is knowing which situation is which.
Good grief, you're my hero! But seriously, that kind of talk could get you elected.
I have a cute somewhat related story. I wanted to make really unique rings, so I decided to make them from some random metal from the forgotten realms of the periodic table.

I asked for a site that sells many rings of many different metals, with no luck. THIS metal, it turns out, is really difficult to cast. After many months with the idea shelved, one day my girlfriend found some chinese company that managed to do them. US$ 2k rings, and ugly as hell... but at least unique!

The girlfriend soon left me, but, well at least I still had the rings... until a few weeks ago when I noticed that I lost them too. C'est la vie :-)
Location: San Diego, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, Supabase, Firebase, NoSQL, SQL

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NHKPxcB73xFLRJ06Vf6Ju7ut...

Email: carrillo.jason.e@gmail.com

I’m a full stack engineer with 3.5 years of high-level ownership experience.

Throughout my career, I’ve owned, built, and deployed to a prod environment 6 full stack tools/products to cloud providers like AWS and GCP.

Currently working on a B2B micro-SaaS mentorship solution, conducting user interviews, performing hypothesis testing, and building out the MVP using Supabase and Next.js.

Currently looking for a full stack engineer role or a engineer manager/coach, still getting to get into the weeds with a team.
I have `set -o vi` so, `esc` and `$` takes me to the end of the line. `ctrl-e` is unused for me unless I bind it to something I think is useful.
Yeah they'll have him take a polygraph next.
Great post. While I'm all for messing up greedy companies, this is a clear example of why JavaScript should never be used for security. Executing the code locally, plus the ability to read the source code, fundamentally goes against securing your application. It doesn’t mean that not having those will make the application more secure, though.
Are they going to sue Microsoft next since the database is available publicly on the web?
“Fundamental” is carrying too much weight in your argument

You’re supposing that the binary classifier is the most accurate starting point.

I’m suggesting that you should assume that this is a biased starting point and shouldn’t have any power as a benchmark or reference frame in any dimension

The same way we don’t use ideas like humors anymore because they are based on bad assumptions
I would buy it just because it’s not Adobe.
Societal trust is extremely valuable. Policy decisions that weaken it should be scrutinised extremely strictly.
„ In comparison, in the context of the European GDPR, the Article 29 Working Party[6] considered hashing to be a technique for pseudonymization that “reduces the linkability of a dataset with the original identity of a data subject” and thus “is a useful security measure,” but is “not a method of anonymisation.”[7] In other words, from the perspective of the Article 29 Working Party, while hashing might be a useful security technique, it is not sufficient to convert personal data into deidentified data.“

https://www.gtlaw-dataprivacydish.com/2021/03/what-is-hashin...
Love it. Simple, straightforward advice. Thank you.
that doesn't work in terminal emulators because the terminal emulator doesn't know how to delete the selected text in whatever program drew it there (which may no longer even exist)
> IP-intensive industries contribute 41% of the US GDP and employ 44% of the US workforce [1]. If you abolished IP all of that would go away.

That's right. Change the rules and 44% of people would instantly — instantly — lose their jobs. The US Economy would tank like a torpedoed ship overnight! Gone in a flash!

Or ... maybe what you wrote was a little overhyped, and perhaps when the rules changed the Market, as they say, would decide.
For paper books, the publisher covers cover art, design, and layout. They cover promotion (although authors complain they have to do their own these days). Most importantly, it covers printing, making the physical book, and shipping it to the stores. 50% margins is pretty common for goods.

Authors get higher royalties for ebooks, 20-25%. The big part is that the Amazon wants a large cut for running the store.

I read the self-publishers get 30-35% royalties (Amazon offers 35% or 70%). But for that they need to pay in advance or do it themselves for production. And the editing can be bad on self-published books.
It is, but we don't really know anything about Ladybird at this point. I hope for the best and wish Kling nothing but success. They have shown themselves as an exceptional and committed developer.

I hope for a future where I've got even more options, but right now, it's a baby project. Getting standards-compliant rendering working is step zero. Things like site isolation, hardware video acceleration, and extensions that have enough access but aren't running wild with permission are really where a browser in the modern world shows its metal. Not to mention multiplatform support.

An OS isn't just a kernel, and a browser isn't a just rendering engine.
I remember using this back in the day, cool stuff!
Managers like being in an office.

Coders like being at home.
I don't think this is accurate. Ticketmaster/LiveNation control most good/big venues so artists have to deal with them in some way. Artists generally don't want to charge market clearing prices to their fans (for niceness and PR reasons) but Ticketmaster is happy to be the bad guy and do that via exorbitant fees. I'm very in favor of breaking up Ticketmaster but we should be clear-eyed about what that will do: it will transfer money from either Ticketmaster to scalpers or transfer money from Ticketmaster to artists.

Fundamentally, if there's someone out there willing to pay up to $x for a space-limited event, they will find someone to give that $x to. I'd rather that person be the artist.
Vancouver’s office sector has a higher fraction of occupants who cannot work from home, such as digital animation and effects companies and video game developers, who have special on-site tech and extreme confidentiality requirements that preclude WFH. San Francisco’s typical firm is more likely to be WFH-friendly.

I’d say another factor in Vancouver’s favor here is the concentration of people who live downtown amongst the office towers. San Francisco’s downtown is relatively empty by comparison. So when the office workers left, it hollowed out entirely.

These are just some anecdotes. But I would tend to agree with your comment that it’s unlikely just the drugs and crime keeping offices empty in SF.
Neither? The article's argument is that the market is down overall, with most firms cutting down on real estate, and AI firms are the rare exception that's still expanding. But this isn't happening because AI "works" or "doesn't work", it's happening because AI firms are flush with VC cash.
What goes around, comes around. When you build a platform predicated on the idea that nobody else can profit off of your product, you better be ready when a regulator tells you that business is off-limits.

This becomes immediately obvious as soon as John-Deere gets brought up. Not only do people realize that outlawing repairs should be illegal, but they actively admit that the world would be a better place if spiteful conduct was made illegal.
> We could make $5K glorified golf carts street-legal

They did that: https://www.cato.org/blog/im-government-im-here-give-you-gol... (the article is kind of snarky but 100% accurate).

And I know people who bought those free golf carts (that's how I heard about the program in the first place - if I had a place to park the thing I would have done it myself), drove them around a little and then they broke and that was the end of that.

Nice waste of government money.
> Need a name for an operating system? OS/1! Oh, there’s already one of those? OS/2!

The OS/1 was actually PC-DOS / MS-DOS. OS/2 began life as IBM and Microsoft's shared desire to make DOS multitasking. The rarely adopted multitasking version of MS-DOS 4.0 (sometimes called "European MS-DOS 4.0", since it was mainly used in Europe) represents an early phase of it. (As distinct from mainstream DOS 4.0, which was single-tasking – and, unlike most versions of DOS, was actually developed by IBM, not Microsoft – single-tasking MS-DOS 4.x is Microsoft's fixes/enhancements on top of IBM's PC-DOS 4.x codebase.) It went through various internal names with IBM and Microsoft, including "Advanced DOS" and "CP/DOS" (Control Program for DOS–a name inspired by IBM's use of "Control Program" for various mainframe and minicomputer operating systems, and possibly also by CP/M), before they eventually settled on "OS/2"

> Database? DB/1! Oh… OK then, DB/2!

Just like OS/2, there never actually was an IBM database product called DB1 or DB/1. But, the "DB1" was meant to be IBM's IMS hierarchical database. The idea being conveyed is that DB2 as a relational database is a successor to "DB1" the hierarchical database.

In the wider industry, network model databases (as in CODASYL) represented an intermediate phase in-between hierarchical databases such as IMS and relational databases such as DB2 and Oracle – but IBM themselves never really got in to network model databases, although network model databases from other vendors were popular on IBM mainframes (particular IDMS–now from Broadcom, formerly CA, and before that Cullinet, who were originally called Cullinane)
Would love one that looks as slick as Supabase's web ui
> dismayed with their purchases

Software updates throw a spanner in the works.

They were not dismayed with their purchase - presumably they liked the product they bought. Then Roku changed their purchase through a software update to something they thought was worse. The same would be true if a software update removed motion smoothing as an option if you like it.

You can understand how this is behaviour from companies - removing functionality from products through software updates - is something that pro-consumer countries might want to discourage?
... perhaps. I'm less optimistic.

Detroit wasn't very springy.

30+% vacancy means it's still vastly overpriced,

Alternative theory: As WFH improves, WFH will increasingly mean "Work from Ukraine," "Work from India," and "Work from Ghana." It will be hard to justify SFO salaries.
I think its a generational thing? I use way more emoji in chat than anyone older, and I assume the same thing extends to logs.
There's pretty clear, stat sig relationships between personality traits like OCEAN/Big 5 and lifetime income. Even less scientific categorization like Myers-Briggs have the most successful types earning double the least successive types in massive surveys.
Xpra's headline feature is persistent remote applications; does waypipe let you disconnect and reconnect to applications?
A lot of small towns depend on predatory law enforcement, especially civil forfeiture. With depressed tax revenue they are incentivized to rake people over the coals.

https://cei.org/blog/charlotte-area-police-departments-are-r...
A net negative to society, but a positive for the wealthiest.
This video isn’t really worth watching in entirety, but it’s one clip with motion smoothing on and off, so you can skip around to get the idea: https://youtu.be/INQrxHREmJ0?si=E5v3L-gZ__BrUHyC

This video has a longer explanation: https://youtu.be/62noXbp-l9o?si=aZqIre3sJy2SpOo7
50 points and over 40 comments on Hacker News. I wouldn't call that dumb.
I'm a big fan of compiling my own kernel with all needed drivers compiled in, with the EFI stub compiled in, no initram, no grub, a fixed cmdline that works 99% of times.

This allows a boot to happen in less than 5 seconds.

The 1% of times I need something different, I use the boot selector provided by the firmware to boot to grub (that's installed anyway), where I have the usual plethora of choices.

Is there a key to be pressed at the right moment? There is. I even have to insert a password. So what? I can go through such ordeal once in a while for that 1% of "special" boots.
I've never successfully used discord, sure I have an older computer and slow internet but I just don't understand why facebook and the like are fine but discord never displays for me.
Yes, most people here are probably salaried workers with little or no exposure to the film industry, so we have little understanding how it works, but you're right, these kind of people probably have a lot of other paying work they do that isn't as obvious as directing a full-length movie.
There were way more than 10 people who read, commented on, and liked that Verge article.

Both your assumptions (that we're an extreme minority, and that Roku thinks that way) seem to be only supported by the conclusion you make from them.

All that said, putting the feature in enabled by default and seeing how many people end up disabling it would be how they could be grounded in reality and avoid creating a shitstorm.

Put another way, the best explanation for a metric not being collected is that it's not going to reflect well on the decision-makers.

A way more realistic scenario than what you suggest (i.e. that it doesn't hurt Roku, or even makes business sense) is that it's an outcome of a promotion-driven development.

Someone's getting a promotion for launching that "feature", and statistics that show that people turn it off the moment they realize it's there wouldn't bode well with that.

Instead, it appears that the new feature has a 100% adoption rate among the targeted userbase.

Modern problems require modern solutions, you know.
After having worked with Gradle for many years, I think there is a lot packed into this statement:

> 1JPM is a comparatively new project, thus does not contain all the functionalities of the other major build tools like Maven and Gradle, however should provide the basic and most used functions.

Gradle can do an insane amount of things. I would be surprised if this tool is capable of even 5% what Gradle can do.

That being said, I actually see this as a feature. I think Gradle would actually be better if it could only do 10% of what it currently does. As is it’s so complex and powerful it’s tempting to pack all of your build logic into some impossible to understand and maintain Gradle configuration. Having a pure standalone Java file that people who are familiar with Java can work with seamlessly and is easily integrated with existing test suites is probably better in the long run. I’d rather see the “cruft” of build tooling lifted into a higher level of abstraction than the quasi DSL that is Gradle - IMO it’s too similar yet different to Java/Groovy/Scala that it’s too tempting to create an unmaintainable mess otherwise.
People don't understand that the free market system is essentially a law of physics. You saying that a producer/seller of a limited good (in this case, space in a concert venue) cannot choose their own price is true, like it's also true that a person can't decide whether gravity pulls them down or not. You explained it pretty well yourself, the effect of supply and demand is unavoidable
How is that any worse? It just sounds like you're mad that Apple refuses to admit their own wrongdoing, not that the EU isn't trying.
Only a few people per month pay above asking price. Sometimes it's $6 or $7; usually if it's over $5 it's $10; once I received $25.

From my dashboard right now: Sales - All time $27,732.69
> san jose which is increasingly the center of gravity of the bay area

[citation needed]

IIRC Google halted their SJ mega-campus plans, are there any other major moves happening?
Data engineering feels like the DevOps of AI/ML. Important, but you have to have the right interests for it.

This comes from someone doing web dev after studying data science, so I don't know how well it reflects reality as I've never worked as a Data Eng. myself
Crime for one, can be addressed fairly easily at the current levels it exists in a city like San Francisco. The ease with which people are able to smash car windows in SF is ridiculous. The problem exists because of the lack of enforcement at all levels. I can guarantee that 95% of the smash and grabs can be attributed to maybe 200 individuals at best. If you start rounding them up and make sure they don’t get away with a slap on the wrist, you’ll immediately see the difference. And no, heavy fines and jail sentences for repeat petty crime is not morally questionable.