skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe they are. I've had a college class on Homelessness and Public Policy. I spent 5.7 years homeless and got myself off the street a few months ago. I am author of the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide. Because of that site, I've been interviewed by reporters a few times. So I'm something of a SME on the topic of homelessness.

In a nutshell, there are housed people who drink heavily or have mental health issues. Simply having a substance abuse problem or a mental health issue does not per se cause homelessness.

Homelessness occurs when an individual has too many problems and too few resources or options. The difference between a homeless person and a housed person can be one more problem or one less resource.

There is a longstanding and dire shortage of affordable housing in the US. Dismissing that as a contributing root cause of the homeless problem in this country sounds like crazy talk to me. It sounds to me like someone really reaching to wash their hands of the problem and chalk it up to personal failure rather than acknowledging the systemic issues that are causing enormous stress for a great many Americans of all kinds of income levels and demographics.

Saying that mental illness and substance abuse are the cause of homelessness, so much so that we can totally ignore the issue of housing affordability whole cloth and dismiss it entirely as not pertinent to the subject of homelessness looks ludicrous on the face of it to me. But I keep hearing it over and over and over. The best guess I have is that it is a narrative that serves a desire to wash one's hands of the problem and pretend that well known systemic issues are not relevant as homeless people are "just a few losers with unsolvable personal problems and they would be homeless even if our country didn't have a dire shortage of affordable housing."
Internet exists in the physical world.
You can use extradition to put CEOs in jail.
You can use commerce treates to enforce USA to make them comply.
You can ban their IPs.
You can make Apple, Google, or whatever the platform that allows this to pay.

Internet is part of the real work, and the rule of law still applies there. Even when there is a lot of tech start ups that think the contrary.

Google pulled out of the Chinese market, while Apple complies with Chinese law.
"except when you spend 2 hours in a conference explaining why people should use free software. At that point, as a service user, RMS says something about someone else's computer."

As to "spend[ing] 2 hours in a conference explaining why people should use free software": Be careful about the trap of concision as explained by Herman and Chomsky in "Manufacturing Consent". It takes time to lay out new ideas, ideas which mainstream media never discuss. Software freedom is still (even 30+ years after the fact) regarded as a new idea.

Regarding saying something about someone else's computer: I don't clearly understand your point. Are you sure this isn't giving someone convincing reasons to favor free software? Can you point to an example of where RMS is a service user and makes demands of that service beyond recommending what they ought to do to get the software freedom they deserve?

"I agree with the logic of your argument, but it sounds like a lawyer's argument : it's ok by the law eventhough i'ts not super "ethical"."

What's not ethical about not having control over someone else's computer?
Dutch Police shut down the #Anon-IB revenge porn forum
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16931491
Per Tim beal (Asia expert), the two Koreas making peace is not something that is in line with western divide and rule policy but washington would not admit the uneasiness about this..interesting perspective.
More like 47 years ago when Boring busts were still a thing. Real estate hasn’t busted like that since then, with only a down tick in the 90s along with the rest of the west coast.
I love how people claim that MSG headaches are racism and not that MSG vastly differs from cheap salt to liquid aminos.
> ...may be a hidden treasure chest whose contents are worth millions.

In a way, the startup scene is a type of X Prize contest for capitalism. How many millions would this chest potentially hold? With the amount of time and effort needed to find it, the endeavor arguably provides worse ROI than attempting to start your own business. The level of effort and probability of success might be better for entrepreneurship as well.
Exactly. I have used Django quite a bit over the years and have maintained a few prebuilt (by previous developers) Flask apps for clients. Recently I had a need for a small web service so I thought I'd use Flask. After days of trying to get something simple running and installing numerous packages, I gave up on Flask. I had a server with everything I needed in less than a day with Django.

Some of the design decisions of Flask just don't seem logical, such as using the db instance when defining model parent classes. Makes for strange contortions when defining multiple model files to prevent circular references or db not found errors.

db = SQLAlchemy(app)

class User(db.Model):
...
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That manufacturing a car isn't something a tech company excels in even though they can build a good battery doesn't surprise me one bit.
Found it! Here's the previously mentioned bit in The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/its-like...
It's not a correction, it's a retraction. It's an admission that the story should not have been published, and that its assertions do not have NPR's standards of reported evidence.
Well, in the public's defense of being skeptical of "forensic science" has been a range of outright lying[1] to mystical beliefs that look no different than shamanism or voodoo[2].

You should also be aware that the Nation Research Council has done a study[3] on "forensic science" where DNA was the only barely reliable measurement in the entire field.

These are methods the US Justice Department/Police/Judges/Prosecutors routinely uses to destroy innocent lives and trick juries. It's not hard to see how people become skeptical.

I'm not saying this is the case with the capture of the Golden State Killer, but it's not hard to see how the public lost its trust in these institutions we hold to be accountable and make choices.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-trust-crim...

[3] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf
Your words that foreign leaders are being dishonest - is that speculation, or a statement of fact? It's not entirely clear from your words, but the context suggests you believe it is a statement of fact. I would think would be considered proper to make it clear.
It's faster with the keyboard because your hands don't leave the keyboard. There are so many ways to jump around quickly with the keyboard. In emacs I just use searching to jump around. Selecting is easy once you've learnt to navigate. The keyboard is an instrument you can get really good at using. You can't get good at the mouse. You're as good as you'll ever get already.
>they’re inspired by each other.

That is unfortunate phrasing. The Jordan, Jesse, Go logo has been used for roughly a decade and the podcast is older than the Go language. There is only one possible direction that any inspiration could have flowed.

Any one or two of these specific details can be explained away, but at a certain point the number of coincidence start to indicate that they are not in fact coincidences.
Knowledge is power!

By presenting us the full-picture, we can potentially guard ourselves in the future.
Yeah but "us" aka normal people who are not capitalists don't care. Every single person who is not a land owning capitalist wants affordable housing. If you can handle post-Marxist thought, a great manifesto called the Housing Monster addresses this. http://prole.info/thm.html
That's great if you just want to fleece the next round of VCs before you fold but cars last a decade or more and you can't just keep on building half baked junk and expect consumers not to catch on. Just because your lease ends at 36mo doesn't mean how the vehicle performs after that doesn't affect the company's reputation.
Homomorphic encryption + smart contracts = an immortal, non-subpoena-able lawyer holding your signing keys in trust, who can continue to act “as you” even after your death. That’s useful, no?

Add a cryptocurrency wallet for which the signing keys are the private keys, and now it’s more like an immortal, non-subpoena-able corporation executing your desires using its treasury assets. (Which can include hiring real people to do real-world things, and even—given that you could provision crypto mining capacity—making income to keep said corporation’s actions [relatively] self-sustaining.)
You have to let them know. Write and call your representatives.
Similarly, couldn't an attacker visit a page with lots of Pay-Per-View ads (with whom he/she profits off of)?
In that case please try to be polite at least. Your answers (in the linked conversation) really don't feel ok. Why not, maybe, think again and, maybe, apologize?
Music Activates Regions of the Brain Spared by Alzheimer's – Neuroscience News
The ombudsman also addressed it: https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2018/04/12/601650762/...
Do you mind going into more detail here? Why is removal not acceptable? If someone was slandered, why is it better to leave that slander in place with disclaimers? If it's better from the perspective of journalism, does that conflict with what's better from the perspective of not being sued?

There's an interesting tension between this argument and the ostensible topic of the original story, "the right to be forgotten". [0] Does Ervine really have a right to see that personal criticisms of his conduct are removed from the Google? Does the person who criticized him have a right to see a one-sided account of his life removed from NPR? I almost admire NPR enough to suspect that they're doing all this as an exercise in ironic criticism (which the ombudsman linked elsewhere attempts to lampshade), but I can't quite get there.

[0] "Ostensible" because the original was mostly a clumsy, credulous submarine for a toxic rich dude's latest scam venture, along with some additional knife-twisting on some poor immigrant the rich dude had gotten sentenced to federal prison.
Don't roll your own crypto, don't roll your own fraud prevention.

Stripe include very sophisticated fraud prevention in their standard pricing and charge pennies per transaction if you're on custom pricing. Numerous third-party providers offer excellent fraud detection and prevention tools for CNP transactions. Unless you're big enough to have a dedicated fraud prevention team, just leave it to the professionals.
I have very fond memories of fiddling with the Z80 and the Spectrum, when I was 12-13. I remember typing in code from a book called “What you can do with 1k of memory” that’s how much you had with the Z80. Sinclair keys were prone to popping outandcould be used as erasers! The good times! RIP.
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As long as "local control" is enshrined in California law, and anybody anywhere can come and stop development in somebody else's yard, YIYBY is an important counter to the NIYBY that dominate these meetings.

It's important to remember that NIMBYs aren't actually protecting their back yard, they're restricting what others are doing in their fully-owned backyard. So if you're going to complain about YIYBYs, then the category of NIMBY doesn't really exist, it's just NIYBY.

> enthusiastically supporting development and/or sanctioned homeless camps

These things seem quite different from each other.

And zoning should be a city wide discussion. If a city doesn't zone for density near to heavy transit, the city is zoning irresponsibly and should no longer have local control, and the State should take over zoning.
> The phrase "affordable housing" has come to mean "cheap housing for poor people."

More specifically, it's come to mean "subsidized housing for poor people". It's often contrasted with "luxury housing", which is implicitly anything new-built and market-rate.
US considers tightening grip on China ties to Corporate America
I think you make an error by implicitly assuming that calories burned (2k/day) are constant even as the weight is being gained (~300lb/30yrs). I believe that the mass being gained does incur some caloric overhead. So if you begin eating 5% more calories than you should, you'll gain weight, but the rate will slow as the number of calories your body requires approaches the number you're consuming. Therefore you could have a stable weight, while still eating 5% more than you "should" be.

All that said, I do hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong!
U.S. considers tightening grip on China ties to hi-tech
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Gosh - I was just reading about Rick the other day. He's interviewed in Sinclair ZX Spectrum: A Visual Compendium, which I recently bought. The industrial design of the Spectrum was very interesting and, honestly, it's not an unattractive looking device. Sad to hear this news.

I never owned the original Bauhaus-ish rubber key version, although it was the first computer I played anything on (Jetpac, Manic Miner, Jumping Jack) because my cousin had one. Instead, a couple of years later my mum bought me my first computer: the plastic-keyed Spectrum 48K+.

Again, quite a nice looking device. I nearly picked up one, along with a box of tapes big enough that I'd have struggled to carry it, at the same retro event where I bought the above book. The only reason I didn't is that because although I loved my Spectrum it did break down all the time and I didn't particularly want to relive that part of the experience.
My 34-year old ZX Spectrum still looks and runs like new!

Only after reading this news did I remember how much its external design and looks excited me and helped develop a deep interest in computers at a young age. I remember how its compact black form factor and silent keys made me want to switch it on three or four times every day and just type something or play something. Back then, to my young mind, it wasn't a mere tool to do something; it was much more - it was itself a source of satisfaction.

Although we had more powerful, more functional Apple IIcs and IBM PCs, their beige bulky looks never really had the same effect on me.

I had never heard of Rick Dickinson before but thank you very much for the beautiful ZX Spectrum.
So what's the real story here then? Was the alleged lie actually true? Or was NPR just unable to verify whether it is true or not?

Many people held up this story as a justification for the "right to be forgotten", but if it turns out that even a respected news agency can't figure out whether censorship was justified in this case, I think it rather supports the case against censorship.
Windscreen resistance and the car avoidance genes have been selected for?
Do you really think they will start making things ready after all the equipments are moved in?
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I kept trying reading this as a haiku.
I, for one, hated bundles. They didn't give me enough control. I'm glad they worked well for you.
Nice! I'll take a look at it!

Thanks!
> It takes a lot of experience and knowledge to make a highly optimized frame or structural component.

And if you don't optimize your competitors will and they'll deliver better value and take your market share.
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> Some people are so green, they don't even know what they are looking for.

As a junior, I've run into this, especially since I have no mentor and I just kind of have to wing it when it comes to my own education. Example, I have an Android project where I use the HackerNews API to get the top stories, but I got the IDs and then the JSON for each all in one go. At the time, my thought was that I wanted to do this dynamically; I had no idea how to describe this to people for weeks. Then someone told me I was probably looking for "pagination". Boom, that was it. Don't know how to actually implement my own pagination still because all of the articles on it are trash and end up recommending the libraries for pagination anyway, but now I know!

One thing I've been pondering is if it's possible to have a sort-of "Junior's Dictionary" where a common (or semi-common) scenario is laid out and terminology is attached to it. Would have been great to know I was looking for pagination the entire time.
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There is one argument, perhaps the most powerful one, from NIMBY that I agree with and it's about traffic. The way we handle roads and transit simply can't absorb the increase from high density. Serious transit investment must follow density when density reaches a certain point. The progression should be

- Suburb: Just roads are fine.

- Midpoint: Give a lane and make it dedicated for BRT. That's the only way people will take the bus seriously. When they see that bus zoom by while they are stuck in traffic, many will take the bus.

- City: Build rail and subway.

But high density development keeps happening without any of this. This just makes the NIMBY arguments stronger.

EDIT: Just thought of another possible solution for Midpoint: shutdown the bus system and use the funds to give everyone $X per month for Uber Pool/Lyft Line. Make using Pool/Line a requirement for using the money, since those provide the most benefit for increasing road capacity. Bus reputation is so bad in the US, something like this might be the only way.
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But NPR is asserting that its story was fundamentally flawed. Leaving it as is, even with a massive correction note, implies that the story has some worth, when in actuality it may be completely misleading because of the lack of reporting.
Here's a study for contextualizing:

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(00)44233-8/ful...

I've yet to see one that showed actual adverse effects of eating MSG via food, regardless of claimed sensitivities. I think this is the heart of the "racist" claim - there's no study that supports the existence of that sort of MSG sensitivity out there yet (that I've heard about)
hey this is really cool, thanks! will see if it provides enough utility to justify buying after the trial
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He was very complimentary of the circuit boards, saying he has no idea where they were sourced and basically saying they were the only company using cutting edge circuitry of a quality and density similar to the latest cell phones.
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If you read the other comments, you'll note that it's exactly what we are talking about: we install ubuntu because we don't want to do stuff, we want the OS to mostly work out of the box and require the least setup possible.
The "purported malicious website" is a trivial element though: This is a story about how hard it is to get something removed from Google. That story is still accurate, and still deserves to be public, but has been purged from the Internet nonetheless.
Sansar, Linden Lab's new VR platform, has tiny user numbers
unrelated to this thread...

but Adidas had plenty of soul in the 80s. RunDMC wrote an anthem specifically about the brand [0], which completely changed the Hip Hop's relationship w/ commerce.

[0] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virlWcB_G-E
I've never used stripe specifically, but in my experience its always good to have your own layer of fraud prevention, because if you have too much fraud reach whoever is providing payment processing, they will terminate your account.

Beyond that, a few simple checks will make most fraudsters move onto other websites. It's not about being bulletproof, it's about being harder to abuse than the others.
Support team didn't reply to my emails and I'm glad
> They are willing to bring MSG into their homes as a component in other foods—more than happy to accept it as a flavoring powerhouse in Doritos, instant ramen, canned soup, and bouillon cubes, or at least happy to accept its euphemisms, like “hydrolized soy protein” and “autolyzed yeast.”

Those are strawman avoiders of MSG, not everyone. I avoid stuff which lists MSG under these names. As well as disodium inosinate or disodium guanylate.

I can tolerate some MSG, but if there is too much, I get headache/nausea. That is, it's not like I can't have a few chips at a party.
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Kind of misleading title. It wasn't a mistake. It was done "...to allow the ankle joint to work as a knee joint."
Interesting.

Joy Ann Reid is recently in hot water for lying about hackers inserting homophobic blog posts in to the archive.org record of her old blog. She has now requested that archive.org stop serving archives of this blog.

I wonder how frequently mainstream media scrubs old version of stories from archive sites.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/claims-by-joy-reids-cybersecur...
Thanks for Radium suppositories! What if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy and aliens visit us then?
See also previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924587 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634
They don't really. Objective See's tools are not bad for what they are (utilities), but they are lacking in:

1. Code quality (Patrick Wardle is not an engineer and it shows in his code).
This is not terribly important for an end-user utility
but becomes very important when you're deploying kernel
modules across your entire organization that need to be
absolutely rock solid and not introduce additional threat
vectors.

2. Distributed nature (They're utilities meant to be executed
by end-users on their own machines, not distributed agents
syncing up with cloud servers)

and so on..
>And if so, why is CRISPR such a big deal?

My understanding is that CRISPR is popular because it is much simpler and cheaper than other previously available methods

"So what makes CRISPR so special?

It's much easier to employ than older gene editing technologies, and it also has a very high success rate.

Because it is more user-friendly to the average scientist, it has opened the door to all kinds of research that previously would have been too expensive or required too much time to carry out." [1]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-crispr-c...
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>Any theory is as good as any other without more data or a way to test it.

Or perhaps it's because theology majors drink more coffee.

Theory put forward to prove that clearly not all theories are "as good" even if we don't have more data or ways to test them.
Usually on the average news blog I've seen retractions in the form of "we didn't realize this author was paid by x and it doesn't meet our standards of integrity" notices, followed by "original article below".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942
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