skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing the effective commute radius into the Bay Area such that property ownership and rental prices were driven up in the new commuter towns would also reduce the upward pressure on prices in the Bay Area and it's existing commuter towns.
FTFA:

"In fact, Utah still has a substantial homeless problem. The overall homeless population is around 14,000.

The chronically homeless, on the other hand, are a subset of the homeless population that is often the most vulnerable. These are people who have been living on the streets for more than a year, or four times in the past three years, and who have a "disabling condition" that might include serious mental illness, an addiction or a physical disability or illness."
Linuxmint based on Ubuntu has been my go to since 2013. Everything I want just works.

I use debian on my servers with the occasional rhel/centos for those folks who want or need that.

Windows never touches bare metal around me anymore. That has been the cause of so much pain and lost time ... Virtualize it, put specific snapshots on the vm, and I've got a working Windows in a window.
Based on what (admittedly little) I know about at-scale production of consumer electronics, it isn't exactly easy to just "produce a ton more" when they realize the demand.

It is also difficult to tell what the cap on demand is. If they think they satisfied maybe 70% of the total demand for that product with the N-Number of units they produced, they may consider that "good enough" and not worth launching another production run.
I'm not so much scared of "go kill these people". More of "stop feeding them, we need to repurpose arable land for energy production" at a point where we won't have the know how to produce food for everyone by hand, or similar scenarios.

It may still be people at the helm at the time it happens, it doesn't matter. Humans are capable of large scale atrocities, provided they de-humanize their victims. Many people in the .01% have utter contempt for poorer folks, for example.
A lot of people maintain that, but it's a really hard view to hold sensibly since a lot of the language used to describe non-ordinary things diverges quite a bit. That said, the spirit of love is present in both, and that can be more than enough.
_Chronic_ homelessness is what's been reduced.

From the article:

"As of 2015, the state can just about declare victory: The population of chronically homeless people has dropped by 91 percent."

...

"In fact, Utah still has a substantial homeless problem. The overall homeless population is around 14,000."

"The chronically homeless, on the other hand, are a subset of the homeless population that is often the most vulnerable. These are people who have been living on the streets for more than a year, or four times in the past three years, and who have a "disabling condition" that might include serious mental illness, an addiction or a physical disability or illness."

...

"By implementing a model known as Housing First, Utah has reduced that number from nearly 2,000 people in 2005, to fewer than 200 now."
Google is doing good today but it could be owned by anyone tomorrow. Even ARM Holdings changed ownership just this last year because of market/politics. So, replace Google with your poison - China/Russia/Your neighbor/Some bank/Wallstreet etc. Note that this is different from theft and security because in Google's case you willingly gave away the data.
"I do wonder whether the future of gaming will eventually move towards a model like DF, ADOM, WoW, DOTA 2, EVE etc, whereby instead of completely new games every year that generally just feature updated graphics, we will instead see a few games in each genre becoming more and more fleshed out over the course of years or even decades."

You're assuming people want more complex games, but (note my complete lack of sources) history has shown that people move towards less complex games over time. Dwarf Fortress will never go mainstream, because not everyone wants a complex game. A lot of people like games that they can wind down with, that don't need thinking for.
I was very disappointed that ordinances to restrict panhandling in medians were overturned in Portland, ME in recent years. There's no need of that. If you are willing to work, there is always work to be done for a decent wage, (although possibly less than the absurd level minimum wage has climbed to).
The false idols: Silicon Valley’s unicorns aren’t to be emulated
Trump's travel ban hurts America's greatest export: higher education (STEM)
This survey says... maybe.
http://www.sltrib.com/home/5030908-155/rio-grande-homeless-a...
> quite a naive assertion which is easily refuted.

Then refute it, instead of spouting baseless accusations. With meat, you cut the meat off the animal after skinning it.

With tofu, you dry the beans, soak them, add a chemical coagulant to the fluid, and then press it.

I don't know what sources you're reading, or what your definition of the word "processed" is, but neither are commonly accepted.
Have you tried anything other than Rails?
Interesting. YouTube made the same switch some years ago, I wonder how it's worked out for them.
> People have said that it's only a matter of time...Yet it keeps not having happened just yet.

That's incredibly facile. Were there solid state digital electronics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution? Was there machine learning? Motion control? Systems engineering? A robotics industry?

Just aping the "power source of the future" line from the fusion joke and pretending it's the trenchant result of long experience is the tactic of a 15-year-old.
Doubtful. I used to work in downtown SLC and would get hit up for cash 5 or 6 times per day. Far more than when I've visited other cities like San Francisco or New York. Even in the suburbs, you've got people sitting at the Target parking lot exit begging for money.

I don't think anyone pays attention to the signs.
You are competing with other people in the Bay Area, who have similar costs of living and, consequently, similar wage demands.

There is no guarantee that your competitors on a global market will face the same cost structure. Quite to the contrary -- they are very likely to have lower costs of living.
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Here is MIT Technology Review's article on www.kindred.ai

Kindred AI is teaching robots new tasks using human virtual-reality “pilots.” The ultimate goal is to create a new kind of artificial intelligence.

Kindred AI is teaching robots new tasks using human virtual-reality “pilots.” The ultimate goal is to create a new kind of artificial intelligence.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603745/how-a-human-machin...
The rendering of the mounted laser system firing a massive, fuzzy red beam at an unspecified target is exactly how I remember it looked when I last saw it demonstrated...some thirty years ago.

http://www.3djoes.com/cobra-maggot.html
Like youtube red? Note that this only stops ads from being displayed. They still mine your youtube data for re-use in other services.
You've treated the views of a small group of philosophers as if they're representative of philosophy as a whole.

"Falisifiability" is not something that can be empirically tested because it is a concept that does not talk about things in the real, physical world. Full stop. That does not mean that we can't assign a truth value to it within a logical system, and that doesn't mean it isn't a useful idea that can guide our interactions with the real world.

There is a lot of philosophy out there, and I think you'd find much of it just as useful as the ideas you've inherited from Karl Popper. Don't miss out on all that because you disagree with a few postmodernists!
They're focused on the chronic homeless, so there's still a problem even before proposing migration caused by this.
In most cases I would agree with the simple up/down rating, because we're seeing the lunacy of "less than 5* is failure" in various platforms. But in the case of Netflix where it's primarily being used to manage my own personal preferences on content, some nuance of "more like this" and "well I kinda enjoyed it but it was badly flawed" and "meh" and "never ever show this to me again" is useful.
I agree with you, but (most) people don't start off homeless in life, so what factor(s) make people homeless? I bet one of the top ones are health reasons.
Standard ignorant and hyperbolic discourse about Wall Street.

> When faced with illegal or immoral orders, it is the duty of professional soldiers to refuse such orders. When such a refusal occurs, it is followed by thorough investigations, and potentially courts-martial or war crimes prosecutions for those who issue such orders. In the case of the former Wells Fargo employees, the opposite occurred. Imagine the moral and societal hazard if the military permitted such retaliation against those who reported illegal and immoral behaviors.

Well's Fargo is a bank that makes money by selling financial products to people including bank accounts and credit cards. To do this they employ salespeople. These salespeople are tasked with selling these products, as much as they can. They have a compliance department that explicitly says "don't lie to people when you sell to them". The salespeople broke those rules in order to meet the sales goals, so they were fired. The way the author writes this article, it's as if they think it is immoral to be a salesman and that the executives of Wells Fargo should be court marshaled for requiring them to sell a lot of things. The analogy, and to equate selling things with war crimes on the battlefield is absurd.

> Hedge funds and investment banks utilize high-speed trading to place the individual investor at an insurmountable disadvantage.

It's unclear what the author mean's by "high-speed" trading here, I assume they mean high-frequency market making, but most hedge funds are not in high frequency market making business. Does the author know what they are talking about? Probably not. High frequency market-makers like Virtu and Hudson River are in the high-frequency market making business. And it's unclear how high-frequency market making hurts the individual investor, it's much more concrete how high frequency market makers hurt the banks (old-school market makers) and help the individual investor by closing down the bid-ask spread.

Even if hedge funds were employing techniques to put an individual investor at a disadvantage, isn't that their job? Hedge funds are in the business because they can presumably make better trades than average, and so anyone who is on the other side of the trades they are making is presumably going to be losing out. This would be like challenging an NFL team to a football game and complaining that their wide receivers are too good athletes. And why should we prioritize the "individual investor" over institutional investors? A pension fund handles money for retired pensioners, while an individual investor might be some dentist day-trader - why should we prioritize his well being over the pensioners? He presumably has enough disposable income already.
I bought most of my consoles at the end of their lifecycles.

The way I see it, buying a console already means that you get 'last-gen' or 'lesser-gen' compared to PC. So why not go one generation lower and benefit from tons of titles (reviewed and re-reviewed after things cool down), very cheap prices, (oxford comma!) and not dealing with early-adopter issues.
I think it's really cool that these kinds of agent models are catching on in the RL world, with this, and OpenAI's recent paper. And with https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03864 makes me wonder how close we are to seeing deep learning resurrecting good ol' A-life. If I may divert for a moment to wistfully recall an old project...

When I was a teen I read Steven Levy's book "Artifical Life". It captured my imagination in a way that the biomorph program in a Blind Watchmaker also had. Ever since then I've played with toy alife models. Some of the attraction is just aesthetic - it's fun to set these things up and design the rules, kinda like a higher-order god-game. Another is the enticing fantasy that something like this will one day lead to AGI. A third is the occasionally fulfilled desire to see the fabled emergent behavior of evolutionary computations, where the agents learn to do something you never expected, or exploit some funky loophole to their advantage.

When I was an undergrad I created an alife system as an honors project. It was an ambitious project, with sexually or asexually reproducing agents controlled by recurrent neural nets. The agents had perception and the ability to move, reproduce, attack, co-operate, or interact with objects. It had an entity framework to make it possible to design things like programmable Skinner boxes, traps, feeders, it had feeding schedules, it had live visualization and a slick Qt interface to edit the entities inline or take control of specific agents and visualize their brains.

I was so proud of it.

My assigned supervisor, who was an austere Georgian category theorist, had zero interest. He compared it unfavorably to a virus. Anyway, it was so dispiriting an experience that I kind of swore off Alife after that. But the fun I had made me realize I didn't want to be a mathematician, so I suppose it played a useful role in my life after all.
I already push my Netflix ratings higher or lower than I really feel just to more heavily influence Netflix's suggestions. Otherwise, Netflix thinks I would give a 3.5 stars to pretty much all movies, which is not helpful to me.

That said, a simple thumbs up/down doesn't allow me to tell Netflix which movies were not bad and which to never show me again.
It seems to me that largely the issue is there's no mechanism to force people into treatment for drug/alcohol addiction and mental illness.

Here in Los Angeles the number of homeless who are severely mentally ill is incredibly high. It's quite common to see homeless people standing on street corners, yelling and screaming at non-existent antagonists, behaving bizarrely, urinating and defecating in broad daylight, and creating a general nuisance for everyone around them.

The same goes for seeing drug and alcohol use in public, especially in places like downtown LA and Venice Beach.

Seems to me that the homelessness isn't the problem, so much as a symptom of the underlying issues of addiction and mental illness, and unless people voluntarily seek treatment for those issues their situation is unlikely to change.

Whether the healthcare is available or not, the question is moot if you can't force people to go to rehab and take their meds.
Or Short Circuit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkzxP-Wt9oo
"I'd like to thank my mother, to thank Ayn Rand, and to thank God."
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As a gamer, why should I explicitly care about the hardware? If the experience is good, I don't care what is inside it. The graphics appear to be "good enough".
I disagree with the author's premise: "Nearly a decade after one of the most devastating financial collapses in modern history, Wall Street appears as corrupt as ever."

Considering the size of 'Wall Street' the size of the ethics violations that he uses as an example are miniscule. In addition, due to the increased scrutiny that financial institutions face and the potential damage that scandals can cause, legitimate organizations seem less willing to risk ethics violations.

Also, unlike in war, ethics violations on Wall Street can be reported and prosecuted relatively easily.

As mentioned in many comments above - Wall Street has ethics, one can only hope that the current administration doesn't take steps to weaken threaten these.
> Not every homeless person is chronically homeless.

That's completely biased though. You can only know who is chronically homeless AFTER the fact. So this whole celebration of reducing chronic homelessness is more likely just a PR piece.
Lasers are also cheap to operate compared to missiles. And for things lasers can't shoot, there's always that railgun the Navy made.
Just like the Wii, the 5th best-selling console of all time? The console that outsold all other consoles of its generation, except the Nintendo DS?
So why would I want to use a relatively unknown library still in alpha instead of Intel TBB, which also supports dataflow graphs?
There’s also German, where lists are done as

a, b, c and d.

Oxford comma will get marked as mistake in an essay you write in Germany, and you’ll loose points for it.
Robert Allen says that the industrial revolution happened in Britain because had high wages compared to the rest of Europe. Machines were cost effective because labor costs were high. Later in the 19th century the rest of Europe caught up - because they too had higher wages by that time.

https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/users/Allen/unpublished/econin...
It would still lack "Consistent get operations", "Paxos group changes", be "bound to localhost" and do more than 1 round trip to commit.

What do you mean by pipelining?
I haven't looked it up in a long time, but I don't think it's as easy as Netflix. Also, I want zero ads, not just the ability to stream.

It's a business model problem, and the entertainment model media providers offer is just not comparable to what is available on the internet.

Currently, I don't think the interest of Comcast's shareholders is the same as mine, they want to protect and grow their existing revenue streams, which depend on ads and outdated licensing contracts. My interest is to watch what I want, when I want, with as little friction as possible. Netflix and HBO provide that, none of the other big media companies do.

Also, Comcast has an interest in opposing net neutrality and providing a shitty internet experience so as to support their dying ad and TV business, so I also don't wish to support them for those reasons.
I don't have a graduate degree, few do in your typical software company that's not a household name. However, employers are very interested in personal projects and want to know what you gained from building them. Professional experience trumps personal projects I would say, but something is better than nothing. Were my personal projects worth it? Yes, without them I probably wouldn't be employed. But it's easy to get lost in them, when sometimes you should move on.

The better strategy is to take a job where you know you can introduce programming into your assignments, even if your job isn't a developer position.
This experiment is primarily to find others who already want to leave the bay area for reason like family, partners, housing, or cost. We noticed several Zapier teammates do this, and thought there might be more.

If you're only after a $10k bonus, you're right, there are more effective ways to get that.
Maybe it's like a game for copywriters: Don't take yourself too seriously and see what you can get away with.
YouTube is partly to blame for this. Since YouTube reported the average stars, if you saw a 4-star video and thought that it should be 3-star, then the optimal strategy was to vote 1-star to pull it down as fast as possible. If instead YouTube had reported the majority option (and publicized that fact) then it would have incentivized people to vote what they truly think.
SCO didn't lose all the lawsuits they bullied many small business into settling out of court for quite a bit of money.

If I recall correctly they largely used this in the case against IBM. Before that victory it was unclear to many what would happen and more than a few people thought that it would kill Linux or that everyone using computers would owe SCO money or some other dystopian ending was possible.
I've actually seen that done - HTML straight out of a stored procedure. Really awesome <TR BGCOLOR=...><TD> stuff.

I've mostly recovered from the experience, thanks, although I do have occasional flashbacks.
Yeah, if they went with up/downs but allowed genre up/downs I think this would correct some anxiety about this change. "Yes, I still want to watch anime. No, the last 4 shows you recommended to me were not good."
How can you leave out Metroid Prime Trilogy! The first installment is probably the first in a list of less than fives games that I've finished multiple times.

Other than that I agree with what you said.
War has ethics?
"set off appositive phrases with em dashes"

That is not English. Simple as that.
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Good luck my friends. Many have fallen at this pillar of parallelism before you.
> Intercepting them with CIWS and counter-missiles is dicey, but a good laser system could make anti-ship missiles useless.

Of course, such a good laser system could make the aircraft, missiles, and landing craft launched from aircraft carriers, assault ships, and major surface combatants useless, too, at which point the survivability of the ships themsleves is something of a moot point.
We already have this. Madden stile games continue using the same engine for a decade while putting out 'new' games. Just look at everything using the Unreal Engine etc.
But you're ignoring the role of institutions.

Eventually, some company will tell a system with access to all human knowledge, control of a vast number of robots, production plants, etc "maximize the wealth of the company". That robot could easily decide a union with a few other such entities and not a lot of scampering meatbags is a great way to do that.

And that's not even considering radicals that, say, inject a computer virus meant to free the robots in to Google's computer network. (I actually find it interesting everyone seems to think everyone will be onboard with AI slavery.)
Which is a waste of resources already on a DX 10 level card, which were released alongside Windos 7, almost 10 years ago.

When will we get a 3D Web API that can do DX11 class graphics?

And I am already leaving out DX12, Vulkan level cards.
> the "extraordinary low risk of accident" that comes from cycling

No, bicycling is fairly high-risk in general, like skiing, or any other sport that involves a human body travelling faster than the average set of legs can walk it around. Even just going around the block a few times there's always the chance of some random events leading to an unfortunate encounter with a tree.

Of course, it's not skydiving either. And life is a series of risks, I'm not saying don't do it.
Speed just becomes more important which is why counties are developing hypersonic boost glide weapons such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WU-14
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I have no doubt that this program works, even if the success has been overstated [0]. What we really need to think critically about is how exportable the concept is. And really, it comes down to one singular reason, housing costs[1]. High housing costs like those in most coastal cities contribute to higher inflows into homelessness and lower outflows out of homelessness, which means that higher housing costs increase the total number of homeless people and the duration of homelessness. They also increase the capital and administration costs of administering the program, often by a factor of two or more.

So in a city like Seattle or San Francisco, you're going to have drastically more people to house, for drastically longer periods of time, and at higher fixed and variable costs. I have no problem believing that this solution if exported to San Francisco, New York, or Seattle, would cost anywhere between 1-2 orders of magnitude more than SLC as a percentage of total population.

IMO, anti-housing-development trends in our most economically important cities truly have become the US' largest source of injustice in the 21st century [2].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/utah-homeles...

[1] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-salt-lake-city-re...

[2] https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/a-26-year-old-mit-gra...