skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is substantial research. Years ago, I had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy through SFSU. In a nutshell:

1. Most homeless people have one or more intractable personal problems, such as a medical problem, mental health issue or learning disability.

2. They end up homeless when their intractable personal problems finally cause them to run out of all resources and options and causes their social safety net to fray and come undone. When no one will let you sleep on their couch one more time while job hunting again, etc.

3. There is a huge and deepening affordable housing shortage in the U.S. This goes back decades. Homelessness is a growing trend nationwide because a growing percentage of the population simply cannot afford housing. It is too expensive. Addressing this piece would go a long way towards easing the burden on people with other unsolvable problems. But there is no real will to do so.
اعمال واقتصاد newsa
Roads are cleared of snow way before sidewalks / bicycle lanes are.
I'm speaking of this quote as it applied to the internet in the mid-90s. Back then there really was this idea that the internet would have changed everything. Not just for those who were naturally curious and wanted the information but for those who didn't even know they wanted it. The idea was if only people knew this information was out there they would naturally seek and spread it.

You need to look at who the original people using the internet were. Generally speaking they were the students of research Universities who would be naturally inquisitive. Their bias for learning blinded them from the realities of most people who simply don't care. The truth has no direct use for them.

I also don't think seeking out validating information is the wrong choice for most people. If you weren't going to do anything with the information anyways you might as well get the endorphin rush validation brings.
I've had this option several times, however I never actually used it...
Posted on her behalf:

https://www.patreon.com/MicheleinCalifornia

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/
It's easy to knock them in retrospect, but around the time MSFT was making the decision to produce original shows, the Xbox platform was accounting for a healthy proportion of total Netflix watch time. MSFT believed that this was a key differentiating factor, and that it presented Xbox the oppprtunity it needed to win the war for the living room as a total entertainment console.

In hindsight, we see how that decision looks naive. Xbox was always about the games, and the Netflix consumption was incidental. But original programming wasn't a completely stupid idea on its face back in ~2008-10, or whenever it was. In fact, it's possible they could have succeeded; they just never seemed to be able to get the studio off the ground.
AI FOR GOOD INTERVIEWS: JOE KONSTAN, Professor, University of Minnesota
Good point. I've been asked several times in Medium comment threads to write a non-biased comparison between React and vue. Since it seems like it's so difficult to find an article like this one without bias, I may just write it. I'll also ensure that I research any use of either library.
Pwgen as a service
AI Vision System PIXEVIA Recognizes Cars and People on Video in Real-Time
yea, I'm convinced it's possible to at least save a ton of work there. Probably not for optimized libs, but something is much better than nothing.

Rust though might be an example where such a thing wouldn't work (had it already existed), since the type system is legitimately different. But some things might work, and even a test suite you could develop against would be wonderful.
In the US, the problem is nationalism.

See, we have a national costume that happens to be a 2 ton motorized suit of armor. And if you aren't wearing it, your loyalty is suspect.
Fucking stupendous. Stripe is continually pushing the envelope. Outstanding work.
| "Women being more emotional"

You just cited the same argument to justify why the argument isn't true.
David Graeber – On the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations
Python: interactive glue language between high performance C libraries. It's funny how we have converged on this solution, I use it daily so I'm really not complaining but I really didn't see this as one of the logical outcomes of the various programming language streams.

But when you think about it it is kind of logical: inner loops and low level code tend to be fairly static and are often re-used so it pays of to write them in a language that maximizes for that use-case, but structure can be executed much slower and re-use is relatively low when going from one application to the next so it pays of to write that in another language.

So we get this split roughly halfway down the application stack where we switch from interactive and interpreted high level language to compiled low level language.

It's a very interesting optimum.
Eh, more like:

3) "This person is struggling, we can't help them in ways that are too paternalistic or agency-denying, because that will ultimately just end up harming them".

E.g. You wouldn't tell your child that his economic outcomes are completely unconnected to his own choices or work ethic.

If a kid has trouble at a task, we don't just tell them that the task is stacked against them and that they can do nothing to alleviate their failure. Telling a kid that over and over would border on child abuse.

Yet some people seem to think that telling the poor this overall - that they have no control, that their choices mean nothing, that the locus of control is 100% external to them - is somehow good. It's bizarre.
Calling something a "choice" really does not capture the complexity of what it means to be human. "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." Romans 7:15.
Also just a crowbar can be used instead of that jack. Small ulocks do help. But they have their own problem: they increase the chance of you being unable to lock your bike at all. Sometimes your destination doesn't have great bike racks, and you have to make due with something a small ulock won't fit on.
Robot Uses Deep Learning and Big Data to Write and Play Its Own Music
'I personally believe that the "mysterious creature" concept stems from women being more emotional'

Why do you think women (as a gender) are more emotional?
> I finally lost my commit rights to the /google GitHub org about a year ago, 2 years after leaving Google.

That looks like pretty serious security lapse on Google's part without further context.
New – Managed Device Authentication for Amazon WorkSpaces
Just take a couple more steps, and stack things into big buildings. You'll save even more space, and get things even closer together. It would certainly be more efficient (although, also more similar to a lot of places I've chosen to avoid living in...)
It would be fun to actually write the RFCs for those services. Besides, perhaps they could trigger open source and federated alternatives.
I was surprised Stratechery didn't talk more about the warehousing side of the grocery industry, which is a huge business unto itself.

Given the huge scale of Amazon's fulfillment centers, those are the businesses I would think should be the most afraid of this news.
> Such thinking is the problem, it's juvenile, simplistic, and wrong.

I have three questions:
>Such thinking is the problem - What problem?

>It's juvenile - What makes that idea juvenile?

>and wrong - What does this mean? I hear religious people use wrong this way often, but do not understand what it means.
Poorly at present, but it runs as a website on anything with a recent browser: https://kybernetikos.github.io/sinkless/ and you can copy and paste, or there is a node script that will generate the same passwords.

I'd like to make the UI work better in general, but in particular on mobile devices. But then I have many projects I'd like to make time for, and this one is probably usable enough for me for now.
The Business of YouTube: How to Create a Successful YouTube Channel
You mean, immutable pages -- it seems the link was the same (unless the spammer did a 301), it's just that it was loaded with ads after it became popular. FWIW, this is a reason Facebook uses to advocate for its Instant Articles platform (and Google advocates for its AMP).
That's basically what Java does. Java class definitions contain the full, reified type information, but when the runtime loads the class, those types are lost. Only the compiler uses them.

There are some ways to introspect generic types in Java, but you need a concrete binding. For instance, if a method returns List<Integer>, you can in fact see that it returns List<Integer> and not just List. Method.getGenericReturnType() would return a ParameterizedType with a List raw type and Integer type arguments. But that requirement for it to be a concrete binding means it's not really helpful from the context of writing a generic class or method in the first place.

Using the above example, I'm not sure how you could desugar that without having the type known to the runtime. The generic method is going to be the same code no matter the type provided, but the type provided is necessary in order to know the type to construct. So either the runtime must provide the type, or it must be given as a parameter.

Additionally, glossing over the issue like that creates a huge trade-off. Now programmers must build a mental model of when the compiler can and can't do the type binding. The difficulty of building such a mental model accurately is one of the central complaints against Rust's borrow and lifetime checker(s).
I hear your concerns. The key I found in certain airports is that one day immigration might have no wait, but another day you're stuck waiting for over an hour. For people who travel relatively frequently, especially business travelers going long distances, seeing that line is a nightmare.

To your point, $210 in HK isn't for everyone, but a number of people find the cost quite reasonable for the time savings and safety factor.

We're new and still crafting our pitch, so I definitely appreciate your feedback there as well!
That and its proven to work, has a ridiculously long track use history (for software) so the bugs are fixed or well documented, and pretty damn hard to exploit. It's not like anyone is going to plug an 8 inch floppy disk they found laying in the rural Wyoming dirt parking lot into the nuclear silo master computer to check what's on it.
Well,

Unlimited power may cause some lack of capacity but it's worth keeping in mind that extreme powerlessness may also create actual neurological problems also - see the learned helplessness hypothesis [1]. Of course this doesn't take away from the point that equal relations are probably the most healthy - even on a neurological level. But it makes who really understands who a bit more complicated a question.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
I would also add a third problem: scalability.

A story like this presents a way out of poverty and homelessness ... for a few people. Which is great, saving a single person is always a victory. But it doesn't scale.
It doesn't help that the unsupported extraordinary assertion here casts aspersions on people in poverty. It's one of those things you really want to be sure you're right about before saying. Hence: downvotes.
Fractal World
But then if you want to start a conversation in a channel with no unreads, you have to go digging for it.
> Now if you TW, where would you rather spend your $100 Million on original content and shows?

That depends on the nature of the content and who you were trying to reach.

If they want to reach me, put it on YouTube or Vimeo. My kids? Snapchat. My parents? Put it on Facebook or cable TV.

Plus, just because they are pouring $100MM into Snapchat doesn't mean they aren't also placing big bets on other platforms.
I can vouch for it. When you're over people, they're never going to give you their version of the unvarnished truth. You always get the PR-filtered version. Stay in this scenario long enough, and it's very easy to start actually believing the toadies.
Actually, it would be more like telling your child with ADHD "You just need to study harder at school and the beatings will continue until morale improves. No, we won't give you ADHD meds nor hire you a tutor. Buck up and grow a spine, you whiner."

See also my other comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590486

Your remarks are incredibly ignorant and are being downvoted because it is the sort of attitude that allows privileged peoples to wash their hands of dealing with very real systemic problems that are an excess burden for the people whose lives come so unraveled that they wind up homeless.
It’s not stupidity. It’s obviously calculated.
It was definitely planned as a more personal computer. Bear in mind that the iPad was the original product, and they switched to a phone because the iPad would be too expensive to do at the time. So "phone" is the afterthought.
Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based digital ID network
Couldn't a little toolbox of helpers take care of those allocations? Or would that turn the whole thing into something too complicated?
Locomotive Acts
Go is a prime example of "being backed by Google is even better than worse", which is why it's popular.
As a counterpoint, this:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/sex-offenders-ca...

Social media allows users to gain access to information and communicate with one another about it on any subject that might come to mind... By prohibiting sex offenders from using those websites, North Carolina with one broad stroke bars access to what, for many, are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge. These websites can provide perhaps the most powerful mechanisms available to a private citizen to make his or her voice heard.

That's from the decision itself.
I hate dealing in stereotypes, but even if we stick to stereotypes, the idea that men are "less emotional" than women is hilarious.

Two stereotypical emotional memes for men:

- men think with their libido, and will throw away their life for a shag

- men have fragile egos, and will pick up a fight over a perceived injury to their honor

The sexist stereotype "women are emotional" just doesn't work.
It's funny you mentioned smoking. I thought the same thing

It is early in the FB life. Perhaps more social violence and death will have to happen. Will the surgeon general (or net equivalent) find FB has their own holes in cigarette filters (1) so to speak?

How many more teen suicides from social media have to happen before everyone likens FB to cancer sticks (cigarettes)?

(1) https://www.google.com/amp/www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/fe...
Internet of Things: Safety, Security and Privacy. Interview with Vint G. Cerf
"TWC has skin in the game to explore a new channel." <-- IMO, piece that holds it all together. all media cos have a huge interest in finding and maintaining channels-that-are-not-Facebook - newspapers/magazines/print already nearly live/die by FB's feed (mostly the latter...and the living are now trying to figure out ways to diversify, i truly wish them luck!), and TWC needs to figure out a way to avoid that same dependence as video continues to move more and more online. snapchat is not facebook, and that is worth TWC trying to make work!
By "... this kind of thing" do you mean creating businesses around books and readers or something else?
Very informative article, in particular I wasn't aware of the fact that Hong Kong was compounded of differents parts and that the larger one was the one problematic as being leased to China and set to expire in 1997. I don't really see how the outcome could have been different, by this simple fact China had the upper hand on any deal.
"from the DMV"? no.

> DMV.org is a privately owned website that is not owned or operated by any state government agency.
China's quantum satellite clears major hurdle on way to secure communications
Do you mean this series of MediaTek SoC?

https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=917
There’s a constitutional right to use social media, US Supreme Court says
>> the Windows monopoly is almost broken

> Oh, how I wish that were true.

Windows lost mobile. They lost pads. More people than ever are using Macs. More people than ever are using Linux and various nixes. Linux, Macs and other nixes are considered cooler than Windows.

Windows lost servers, although Microsoft seems to have won a good chunk of developer mindshare with Azure - running mostly (AFAIK) Linux.

Yes, a lot of legacy systems still use Windows but it seems less and less need Windows every year.

Except from Manic time and Microsoft Office I cannot think of any software that I personally would need Windows for at the moment.

Netbeans and Maven run better in Neon. Same goes for Node and a lot of other software I care about AFAIK.

Even CSGO seems to work better on Linux for weeks (until next bad update, I think last waa when sound was messed up probably back in March.)
I'm looking at building a Hackintosh. Otherwise, yeah, Ryzen would be the way to go.
> You assert that, but I have no idea why you would think that.

Why I would think what? That this is true or that you think so too? As for the latter, because you said so...

* "Some of us are bootstrapped in a cut-throat market and can't afford to plan employee retention 10 years into the future; And neither are most employees interested in that."

* "All I said was that I cannot, at hiring, offer a 10-year growth plan for a person."

* "There are so many people who just want to clock in, do their job, clock out and get paid."

* "The latter costs money to the employer, which some can afford and some cannot"

All of which seems to say to me that a person better come with all of the skills that they could ever possibly need now and in the future because they're not about to get any support from their employer or teammates. Just sit down, shut up, and mash on that keyboard. What you seem to advocate as growth and education is something that a person should do own their own time and at their own expense. People who aren't willing to attend meetups, read research papers, work on side projects, etc. after hours are just a bunch of clock punchers who go through life without contributing much. This sounds pretty horrible to me.

"10 years" and "the costs" are just rhetorical attempts to set the bar so high to say that it's just not possible or too unreasonable to care about lifting up your teammates. This is easily provable false simply because of the companies that do this already no matter the tenure of their employees and at very little cost.

As for the former, I say there are far more important skills that an interview should focus on rather than if someone can recite the pros and cons of different sorting algorithms and their Big O costs because this is easily teachable. But when you don't care about growth and education, or just simply teamwork and collaboration, you want to know if candidates already have the answers to the problems they'll encounter, which, of course, is totally ridiculous to me.
Maybe you missed the part where they said they are not from the US?
> Haskell had almost 20 year head start over Go.

Doesn't mean a thing when Google enters into the picture; and, in a way, it is not exactly true. Go can be regarded as a new version of Limbo.
I'm surprised to see that. See for comparison:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-18... has the Ryzen 7 1800X beating even the i7 5960X when compiling the Linux kernel.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/956-13/compilation-visual-st... has the Ryzen 7 1800X drawing around even when compiling Boost (under both MSVC and MinGW gcc, so it isn't just a compiler difference).

I wonder if it's linking the huge binaries at the end of the compile that makes all the difference, especially with the difference in L3 caches? I'd be surprised if the individual compile units were that much larger as to make a difference.
The 11th major version, but version 12 actually. (DirectX 4 was skipped)
What’s Next in Scaling, Stacking -Semiconductor Engineering
In particular, the decision addresses the question, and scope, of necessity of use of social media:

"Social media allows users to gain access to information and communicate with one another about it on any subject that might come to mind... By prohibiting sex offenders from using those websites, North Carolina with one broad stroke bars access to what, for many, are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge. These websites can provide perhaps the most powerful mechanisms available to a private citizen to make his or her voice heard."

This answers a frequently-heard claim that restriction (or abstension) from use is any more a reasonable choice.
Ok, I should have worded that more carefully. That plasmacutter cuts 1/2 steel like it is cardboard at pretty good speeds and cost < $8K to build and processes 8'x4' sheets.

A lasercutter of similar size would be a lot more expensive even when homebrewed.

Though I'd love to have one :) 4x4' would already be a really nice size.
Yeah it’s pretty great having the whole device covered in display.
How does figure out the location? Somehow it thinks that the Champs-Elysées is in Brasilia, Brazil?
http://eventregistry.org/event/eng-3221578?tab=articles&arti...
Anything written by Doug Hellmann (author of the aforementioned PyMOTW) is well worth a read.
(1996) Neal Stephenson: Mother Earth Mother Board
Buy parts and run your own firewall/dns setup to drop anything odd.

Its honestly the only way to be "sure" if worry about a manufacturer doing that sort of thing. It won't be perfect but the odds of someone targeting you for hardware spyware is prettttttttty low. And most manufacturers of comp enthusiast parts know its suicide to do it mass-market like that.
how long ago was this if you don't mind me asking?
Typically management at financial institutions see "security reasons" as a quick way to end questioning from a customer.

Legacy software or partner integration requirements are almost always the reason for arbitrary changes within financial institution.

Anecdotally, I've never seen a scenario myself where this wasn't referred to as a "security measure" or similar. This includes within the institution to all non-technical employees.
When you first share a page Facebook seems to cache it once, and after that you have to tack on the ?v1 or something to the end of the same url to make Facebook re-scrape it or whatever you call it (to get OG meta tags/image to fill post).

Wonder if they could do something similar, cache the current contents of the page.
Don't want your freedoms threatened? Avoid attention by never exercising them!

I reject the argument that those who aggregate vast troves of data about people, publicly available or voluntarily shared though they may be, are exempt from any sort of responsibility for the curation and deployment of said data. Informational asymmetries lead to power imbalances, and sufficiently severe power imbalances lead to oppression.
Regardless of whether I agree with the parent comment, I'm inclined to agree that it shouldn't be downvoted. Even if the opinion itself is inflammatory to some, it seems to be expressed in as conscientious a way as possible, and the reasoning (whether you agree with it or not) is explained. You could certainly argue that there are flaws in the logic, lack of evidence etc., but IMO it does at least add to the discussion. If unpopular opinions are regularly downvoted, people will stop expressing them, even in the cases where they might be right, or at least useful to the discussion.

I really like the metric that downvotes should be for comments that are uncivil and/or don't add anything of value to the discussion.