skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the source. I will look at it some more when I have time. But on initial skim, it is a count for a single night in January from which they extrapolate for the whole year. Furthermore, it outright states that actual unsheltered people has risen by 2%. What has gone down is people in the shelter system.

I have been seeing a lot of articles about the rise in evictions, among other things, and I left downtown San Diego when I did in part because homeless services were suffering distress and were less and less useful to me because they were overwhelmed. But I will dig into this and see if I can come up with a more nuanced and accurate means to convey my point.

We have a very serious housing crisis on our hands. People who are homeless per se are merely the tip of the iceberg.
How did Docker jump from 1.x to 17 so quickly? Anybody have a link to this and the reasoning? Is it similar to what Elastic did w/ their jump from 2.x to 5.x?
> I was pleasantly surprised that the "relevant stories" area actually shows _real relevant stories_ instead of the insane clickbait you see on every site nowadays.

I didn't see a "Sponsored by (Taboola|Outbrain)" there, or any other credit to an outside site, so I'm guessing that the site is choosing relevant content themselves which is probably why it is actually relevant.

Do Taboola and Outbrain and the like actually try to tailor their links to the content they appear on, or are they just general interest clickbait?
articles always overhype these types of advances. Specifically in materials science, they ignore:

1. ease of synthesis. Many of the cool materials with nice properties you read about in these articles cannot yet be produced easily at scale, at requisite purity, and cheaply. Tying in to...

2. cost. Even when new materials are strictly better than widely used ones, they can still go nowhere. Obvious but everyone seems to forget this.
Just in case it's interesting to anyone:

As far as I can tell, the internal 'talking' I do when counting in my head (I was unable to disable it, though I could tap numbers on my fingers without talking just fine) is like a 'test activation' of my speech muscles. The same way you can.. Imagine moving an arm, say, and it feels like it involves a communication with the muscles in your arm but they don't actually fire. Counting feels like it's imagining activating the muscles to say the words for the numbers, without actually doing it.
"Quotes are not arguments. Quotes don't begin to convey the real cost and toll of working for a wage that can't support basic needs and services, let alone an indulgence, which all lives occasionally need. Quotes in no way capture the totality of a human life, its compassion, its motivations, its missteps, its passions, its reasons a person might work a certain job, market forces be damned. Quotes takes take the words and works of people who dedicated their lives to a search for the truth and reduces them to ammunition by people who have plenty, and want to keep it that way. Quotes are intellectually bankrupt. Quotes mirror the bankruptcy of those who wield them to keep a broken status quo. Quotes think you should go talk to a person hustlin' to sell Adidas shoes to get by, rather than post quotes on the internet." -- Quotey McQuoteface
WaPo is being contradicted by a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research...

I typically avoid this, as the HN guidelines specifically say not to, but you didn’t read the article, did you? I say this only because the WaPo article, by my reading, is a direct response TO THE VERY ARTICLE YOU REFERENCE.
What do the models say? I'm not an economist but I always feel like decisions and debates like this are based mostly on people's limited ability to reason about a very complex system (and probably more so, their biases and personal interests).

A minimum wage is likely to have a complex and unexpected impact. So what can be modelled? What experiments have been done where we can simply observe the impact?

Also what are the goals and how are they prioritized? Do the rights of wealthy individuals to keep every penny of their earnings outweigh (I hate that I can't use 'trump' anymore) a societal goal of eliminating poverty or making sure the poor have a decent standard of living (health care, education, safety, etc)? Obviously everyone wants both these things (right?) but how are the weighted?

Aaagghhh!! (Our world is so far away from anything sane I just can't stand it this morning.)
If both studies are so flawed, it seems indefensible to draw _any_ conclusions right now.
The public editor, in private communication, attributed some of this delay to his difficulty in finding independent experts who hadn't signed the open letter.

Apparently if you're so wrong that an entire field disagrees with you, you can get anything printed in the Guardian.
Ah, suddenly I feel all my 1337 cross-platform skilz could remain useful. I do like standards, but I absolutely do not like monoculture implementations, particularly when they have often been crappy (eg 90% of Microsoft API calls NOT behaving as the little-if-any docs suggest, as used to be my experience).
Props for providing the scraped data set as well!
- Learn to save money and stop desiring things you do not yet own.

- Stop telling people that their problems are pragmatically easy to solve.

- Find a mentor in whatever currently interests you.

- Learn to collaborate.

- Hesitate to start intimate relationships; be a friend,
first and foremost.

- Stop believing you are alone in the world.
Wow, this is a horrible interface
As somebody who has been on both relatively low and high ends of the earning spectrum, I'd say that the vague promise of a better job is far better than some of the alternatives. Very little is stopping these people who live minutes away from the "Paris of Appalachia" from pursuing education and improving their chances elsewhere in a manner they couldn't reproduce even in the presence of their "entire social support" systems, which I might add seem to be coming up short in the first place.
Job interview matching platform TalentWorks raises $2.4M
Perhaps you're right.

But the content is about if CloudFlare will kick off booters off their platform. And he defends them, EVEN after saying they don't even pay.

This isn't a "Should we let the KKK march in the streets?", or "Should $sexist group be able to spread propaganda?". This issue is directly about people who harm the fabric of the Internet, and the companies that knowingly allow it and continue to propagate it.

I get defending controversial things in terms of defending Free Speech. But these skiddies want to precisely use their "Free Speech" and actions to deprive others of it.
GC has been a future goal since mid-2015 [1]. At some point in the future when (if?) that's supported then WASM may become a better target for compilers than JS is today. Until then, I don't see WASM as super compelling.

Think of it like this: WASM is effectively a subset of JS. If you're compiling to run in a browser, by targeting that subset, you don't get to use any of the features outside of that subset that browsers already have high performance, battle-tested implementations of. Worse, you then have to reimplement those features yourself and ship them down with the application.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/commit/b2ea1983c0c0e9e...
But the burden of proof lies on the side making the extraordinary claim. In the case of flipping coins, there is no extraordinary claim, but there sure is in the case of psychic energy or whatnot.
The was a reason for that particular story, true. But Abraham couldn't have known it. He believed he was going to kill his son.

The person who kills their child today, upon hearing instruction from "something," is in the exact same position, right up until the act is completed.

At that point it's really too horrible to even contemplate that it wasn't God.
Use Redfin instead of Zillow/Trulia whenever possible. Starve the beast. (Zillow makes its money off of income from realtors seeking leads, RedFin makes its money off of actual real estate transaction fees [discounted compared to traditional commissions])

EDIT: Just read the end of the post: "Meanwhile, another organization that does understand copyright and fair use much better than Zillow is EFF. And EFF is now representing McMansion Hell."

Zillow has brought a knife to a gun fight.
Some would argue that in prison, room and board is provided, so the 30¢/hr is a "living wage".

I don't agree, because there's nothing consensual about the situation...
It's not a retraction.
The article provides no evidence for the claim made in the title. Even if it were to do so, the article leaves the dangling question of why bother to include the ransom component at all.
I'm more or less sympathetic to the idea that the Seattle minimum wage experiment can be having negative effects. Card/Krueger has to have a limit somewhere, and I suspect certain jurisdictions are approaching or exceeding that limit.

That said, excluding multi-location employers from a minimum wage study just seems to me to be so obviously flawed as to border on pure dishonesty.

I'm truly curious how things like this happen. Did UW publish this as a reasonable study with limited findings only to find the press massively misreported it? Or did the desire for media coverage lead the researchers to overstate the findings just to get in the press? I personally don't think political bias drove this. It looks like researchers at UW made a perfectly reasonable small limited study that added a small amount to our knowledge, but then either the researchers or the university or the press advertised it as an exhaustive answer to a complex question.
Yes, but you'll note that those arguments did not ultimately hold water on appeal, Microsoft was never broken up, and the case was eventually settled.
I've been against systemd since day 1, because implementation issues aside, the entire concept is flawed and totally against UNIX philosophy: do one thing and do it well. UNIX, and by extension Linux, succeeded because of this philosophy.

It's also fairly transparent that RedHat would like Linux to be more obfuscated so that more enterprises will have to depend on it for support. But that's no surprise. What was surprising was that the Debian foundation not only opted to adopt systemd, but did so long before it was anywhere near proven to be stable, reliable code. This is contrary to their longstanding methodology. Ubuntu's adoption of systemd was simply the result of following Debian upstream. If only enough people could organize Debian to reverse course on systemd, if only until systemd proves to be stable and reliable (likely never). However, let's not pretend this is the first time that Linux has deviated from traditional UNIX and compatibility. There's always been Linuxisms, systemd is just by far the most egregious case.

FreeBSD has really come of age with pkgng though, and I'm happy to see it garner more attention now due to systemd woes. It has always excelled in certain ways, which is why Whatsapp was able to scale to millions of connections on a single box way back in 2012, its process/thread scheduling resulting in more responsiveness under load, better packet filtering, containerization much earlier on (jails), native ZFS, etc.
A study by NASA found that the optimal time for a nap was 26 minutes.

The lengthy study can be found [here](http://www.jetlog.com/fileadmin/downloads/NASA_TM_94_108839....).
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I just read an article from that site (Blade Runner) which prompted this post!
Pope Francis Defrocks Italian Priest Found Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Minors
That's BS. Whether a claim is extraordinary or not is opinion.
> for operating expenses

that raises some eyebrows :P

Why this qualifier? What do they receive tax dollars for?
Want to second the drinking/bar/club/happy hour comment. It turns out that drinking is a surprisingly cheap hobby, but as mentioned it has little return.

At about 24 I consciously ended that period of my life. At 27 I have my scuba certs, pilot's license, a piano that I'm finally learning to play, a hang glider, a 4x4 which I used to take off road regularly before I got all the other stuff, etc. These have even led to several related career opportunities.

The only caveat is that these things do take money and time, and you will need strike the right balance with work. If you find you don't have enough time for something, cut your losses and focus more on what you do have time for. It's probably more important to you. I'm only just now selling the 4x4 ...
Check in with Bruce Damer at digibarn he has a huge collection. CHM doesn't show anything related to or even mentions Jef. One of his daughters was on their teachers advisory committee. They are good people but don't really put in a lot of the controversial.
If I'm not mistaken the new minimum wage is not yet fully implemented and small businesses got a temporary reprieve.

As to WaPo: the new release of Google News finally lets you ban the news sources you don't like. After removing WaPo, HuffPo, CNN and NY Times, my news feed is borderline useful again. Thank you, Google!
This is pretty much our household.

As an aside, it's interesting to see how others introduce new foods to the rotating menu. I'm pretty conservative: cook a new dish and serve it on the side on night T, and if it works, it becomes the main dish on T+1.
It's the year, like Ubuntu.
Sadly, the best CG is paid for and expensive, thus not available on YouTube. I also don't know where the best CG in recent movies is, because I can't tell it's CG, and they don't always talk about it.

You can find lots of articles like "10 Scenes You Didn't Know Were CGI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ETzC1UbM4 I doubt this meets the criteria or will satisfy @sillysaurus3, they're almost all a mix of real footage & CG.

http://area.autodesk.com/fakeorfoto is one way to see if you can identify stills with 100% accuracy. I didn't.
The UW study was actually able to duplicate the results of previous studies, and had an explanation of why the results were different -- previous studies haven't actually known what wages people were getting and what hours they were working. This study did. Much better data gives you the ability to ask better questions. There are still possible flaws with the UW study, but the UW study addresses many criticisms in advance, and is much more worth a read than this WaPo article.
Which other infosec stories did the Guardian screw up?
>The money's gotta come from somewhere

Profits:

https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mdraca/mi...
I assumed some knowledge of Hamill's personality (or at least the one he cultivates publicly), which is that he's a pretty big ham for this sort of thing - long attendee of fan conventions, well-known for indulging in fan service, etc. Essentially, I might agree with you for an average person, but for Hamill specifically, there's a decent amount of evidence that he'd appreciate this.
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AWS as a career path
I'm a software dev working on a legacy platform (AS400) for about 10 years now and I want to move out of this position into something more "trendy" or "in-demand" tech. I'm based out of the NYC area and I was hoping to start with something like learning to use AWS (using the free tier).

I was thinking of taking up either AWS Software Associate/Developer certification and trying my luck with applying for jobs that were looking for AWS devs or something similar.

Does this sound feasible?

Edit:

I'm also struggling with selecting the correct certification to start things off - Software Architect or Developer?

Also, when I do learn some of the bits with AWS and try to get these certifications, how do I sell myself as an AWS dev/something since I would not have had any "corporate" or "real world" experience of AWS?

I might be jumping the gun a little here but I do want to set a goal for myself that I can chase/achieve.
It's their institutional lack of "old-school editorial rigour" that got them into this mess. The article gives no indication of what they have done or will do to prevent such poor reporting going forward. In the six months it took them to publish this they could have taken some steps to ensure their team has the resources it needs to better report on these areas in the future. Unfortunately, I think this op ed is too little too late for the Guardian as far as their credibility is concerned.
Sorting into sets would be a lot harder. Just grouping by similar pieces is a fairly fast, automatic process. I could just sort of zone out and run on pleasant zen autopilot. I didn't need to keep running counts, etc.

I found that by looking for pieces with certain shapes, my brain/eyes would lock in after a little while and it got really easy to spot them as I sifted through the pile.
Are there packages for which one could trade cost for time, by shipping from USA to China (or more realistically, Mexico) first and then shipping back?
i'm dismayed at how thrilled i am to see such an attitude as yours, as if i never expected to see such a thing.
They are in a great position with WhatsApp and Messenger to take advantage of the close-ties transactional behavior of the future.

In short -- they are extremely well positioned for the next 10 years.
Ask HN: What's the current state of stateful container platforms?
I was reading this article https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/21/i-want-to-run-stateful-containers-too/ and I realized that since it was published in the end of 2015, AFAIK nothing much has changed when it comes to container solutions for running stateful containers in a HA way, specially when you are dealing with databases and auto-failover mechanisms the options are almost non-existent.

The only project that I know that's trying to address this is Flynn.io, they try to solve it with a state machine that keeps data replicated but even trivial mishaps (like the cluster restarting at the same time) will render the cluster permanently offline.

Are there are self hosted PaaS that are able to provide high-availability and failover support for the most common stateful services (databases and files)? Are the big guys (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher) trying to address this somehow?
> you can make up the difference by increasing prices by 10%

LOL. Beautiful. Just beautiful. With no insight what so ever into the profit margins for a business, you've managed to solve all the Corporate world's problems. LMAO!
Have you been to digibarn? It is really fantastic. It is run by Bruce Damer
At least a combi-oven like that can brown. The problem with traditional slow cookers is that the results you get by just dumping everything in and walking away aren't great. You really want to brown meat first, etc. Slow cookers are still useful but they're not a magical one pot device.
I'm pretty confident in saying that 95% of companies have worse endpoint protection, local network protection, cloud protection, or the intersection of any two or three of those things than Slack does application protection. Maybe more than 95%.
Frankly, I'll be happy when the US gets out of this mandatory tipping culture BS.
Trump Accuses Amazon of Not Paying 'Internet Taxes,' Which Aren't a Thing
The government, by definition, operates at a loss. It isn't a business.
Not that bad. Usually a couple of hours in the evening after the kids went to bed for a couple of weeks.
Sad, grey, big company people can't imagine that anyone could ever be any other way.
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It wasn't dishonest - they didn't have the data for those multi-site employers b/c of how Washington state keeps records. The authors are upfront about this and try to address the limitation by adding a a survey component---they talked to these employers to see if their responses to the MW were different.
Building an image as a person who's interested in the company , not just banging on their bit of code, is a really good idea career-wise. When management is thinking who to promote, the person who always seems to care about the business is a natural choice.
I can't speak to the state of your memory, but I've seen headlines on it, and I know of worse humanitarian disasters since WW II. So I do consider it clickbait.
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
It astonishes me that the Readers' Editor, someone with long experience in journalism, thinks retracting this story would mean taking it offline as if it never happened.

Frankly, I think this is a weak response. There is nothing in this investigation they could not have cleared up in January; instead, they dawdled and now they equivocate.
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1. Zillow should have to pay a fine for getting the law so wrong.

2. There needs to be proper legal protections for people against Big Co. doing this. Maybe a third party set up to look over the C & D's issued to bloggers. I don't know how this should or would work, but something needs to change.
Check out Steph Davidson’s portfolio. Bloomberg's team went with something experimental, one-off and an interesting distraction for office workers.

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/steph-davidson-bloomberg...
Indeed it was.
What's stopping them from pursuing online education or skills training in their current location? That's what I did when I supported myself at a minimum wage canvassing job that really sucked. Why are they only worth helping if they live in cities?

> "entire social support" systems, which I might add seem to be coming up short in the first place.

I doubt very much you'd make the same statement about the urban poor.
It's not just a matter of having less people, it's also a matter of having less full timers (which saves on various costs as well as lessens the likelihood of unintentional overtime). Great flexibility for the business, sucks for the employee.
I'm sure plenty of people would be up for living in the ghost towns around the country if it weren't for the issue of needing access to food and services (utilities, medical care, etc).

On one hand, you want to think its a great idea to take all the poor and homeless and disenfranchised and just pay to let them live in these houses otherwise decaying for nothing.

But then, at the same time, you realize the real cost isn't in the houses anyway. It makes way more financial sense to keep them where they are, ramp up the residential density, and let the abandoned houses and towns degrade. Maintaining their infrastructure and supply lines, especially across vastly low density areas, is an insane expense - on the orders of hundreds of billions of dollars of wasted expense annually - and trying to artificially maintain that circumstance to use up poorly planned real estate of yesteryear is asking for financial troubles.

The real impairment holding back American prosperity is structural, but it is more in how we don't promote sustainable and affordable living. We artificially constrain population density for NIMBYisms, build cities around cars instead of people, and run infrastructure deficits in almost every county in the US that leads to the degradation of society as the bridges between us, in all their forms (digital or physical) crumble with age and disuse.
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Your LAN is protected Only if you know that no workstation which connects via VPN, WiFi, or cable can ever be compromised elsewhere and then connect. Which is clearly not possible unless your workstations are air-gapped and immobile, with no USB ports, etc.

The majority of non-trivial breaches involve some sort of pivot or lateral movement inside the "protected" LAN. These often originate from a workstation.
Take out as many Student Loans as you can. Dump it all into Apple stock (which was <$10 at that point).
They can also be electrospun into fibers.
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