skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a city which basically only votes one way, your primary constituency (liberals) and your donor base become your only constituencies. Your ability then, as a member of city council / as mayor, is your ability to allocate discretionary funds (and keep that primary / donor base happy).

The primary donor base in LA lives in Beverly Hills (which isn't city of LA but often are business owners in the city of LA), Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, & Hollywood Hills. These areas are far more controlled in terms of the homeless population. Areas where the homeless population is much higher are in the gentrifying / growing middle class areas (mind you, in LA, a middle class household income is $250k+ w/ a $1M home) like Silver Lake, Echo Park, Downtown, Central LA (where I live). These areas, the home owners / renters are more likely house poor (notice I said house poor, not actually poor), and are not the heavy donors to local politicians. Here's a fairly good document outlining some historic homeless densities in the area.
http://www.vchcorp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-Homel...

The granularity isn't great, and so it's hard to point out exactly where the problem areas are. But, as someone who walks from Beverly Hills to my house in Beverly Grove, I can tell you it's night and day when you cross the boundary in to the city of LA vs. BH.

As for the constituencies that vote in primaries, I don't have a ton of data to back up my assumptions. I'd presume that areas like south-central, east LA, and other high-urban areas are where the majority of the votes come from, which can be more heavily influenced by local endorsements / interest groups (like unions) than by specific issues like homelessness. But, as I said, no evidence to back that assumption up, just instinct from living here.

So, in summary- Your donor base is annoyed by the problem (because they have to drive past the issue) but it's not a burning issue as there aren't homeless encampments in the Palisades. Your heavy voting base is annoyed, but have other serious issues that are a higher priority, like violent crime, poverty, and education issues with LA unified.

I love LA. I really do. But we've got a lot of diverse issues that need addressing on a constant basis, just to keep our heads above water.
Some people value what good family and friends provide, having experienced it firsthand. Some have experienced good family and friends but don't value it, and some haven't experienced it.

Typically, if one of your primary needs is to feel loved, valued, and cared for, family and friends solves that the best way. Assets do not.

However, not everyone's primary need is to feel loved, although there is a certain level of that needed by everyone. Your primary need may be for things to stable, organized, orderly, or for you to accomplish goals you set out for, or to be consistent with your value system whatever you set up.
it is mentioned in --help as super cow powers, and I'm glad it is.
Walmart has been working with IBM using blockchain technology in their supply chain.

https://www.cips.org/supply-management/analysis/2017/june/ca...
Thanks! I think my 6yo would like doing these (though he doesn't have a strong grasp of multiplication/division yet).
There is the freebsd libc; they run their own.
What a disgusting travesty that a single person would ever pay $5,000 to fly anywhere in 2018, no doubt to go do pointless busywork and "negotiation" that telephones already obsoleted the need to travel for a hundred years ago.

All while people starve in the streets, having bankrupted themselves paying for healthcare, while impoverished teachers buy school supplies with their own money. God damned sickening.
This isn't an easter egg, nor a comment in the code. It's dab smack in the manual. Could distract or confuse someone just trying to look up a function. I say we keep the fun expression stuff in places where it won't get in the user's way of doing their job.
From tinkering with electronics my brain has imprinted the smell of various components (resistors, capacitors), isolation. I often wonder what effect inhaling those fumes had on me, can't imagine it was a positive one.
> This puts the fault squarely on Uber’s doorstep, though there was never much reason to think it belonged anywhere else.

> This is not good.

The state of journalism saddens me.
It's my understanding of prop 13 that once a house is sold, the property taxes are re-assessed. I know some of the houses I've looked at in the past year would have had over $1,000 a month in property taxes, as an example.

Even with it being a sellers market w/ low inventory in the area, the property values tripling in the past decade have certainly helped the property tax income for the city.
How Ryan Murphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV
Thanks Jeremy and Rachel for the excellent materials. I am a beginner with ML and initially tried to start with fast.ai part-1. I struggled initially as I preferred to know some basics. So, I looked for a beginner friendly course and ended up with Udacity's AI programming with Python. It gives a pretty decent overview on the basics. Now, I am very excited to take up the fast.ai part-1 & part-2 courses.
I brought up moo because it is not related to political correctness.

EDIT:
If you're not a native speaker, I'll try to explain it better. First I quoted the statement that it was not about political correctness. This indicates that the next line is in direct response. Then I wrote "of course there is" Which is to say that of course the comment in the original post was about political correctness. Then I gave the example of apt-get moo as a joke that is very public, and not political at all, to point out that nobody wants to get rid of it.
I just tried to find a video of it, and couldn't...but, it's hard to search for "tuning guitar with fourths and fifths" because it brings back information about various kinds of tunings for guitar rather than using it as a method for tuning.

It's kinda weird; I assumed it was something common, but now that I think of it, I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it that didn't learn it from that same teacher or from me. The professor who taught it to me was a teacher at University of Miami during the Jaco/Metheny era in the early 70s, toured with Bruce Hornsby for a few years, and then worked in LA as a session musician for a couple of decades (he was never famous, but traveled in famous circles), so I assumed he got it from one of those places and that it would be kinda common knowledge.

I should dig into this more, and if it's not common knowledge somewhere I should make a video (and a cult) about it, because it's really the bee's knees, IMHO. It's super fast to use, once you've got good ears for it, and it results in any guitar, even those with poor intonation, being at least playable for basic chords and such in the first position.

It isn't really complicated. You can derive it from first principles of just knowing that fourths and fifths and octaves are perfect intervals, and then just make chord shapes that are all fourths and fifths and octaves of any other note being played and walk them up and down across the strings until you've got no beating (or as little beating as is achievable, if the intonation is poor). By the time you've gone up and down a couple of times, you're pretty well locked in and it sounds great. Even if you don't have an ear for fourths and fifths, you can still use this to "tighten up" the tuning on a guitar by doing the usual fifth fret/fourth fret tuning that every beginner book or class teaches first and following up with this method to come to a reasonable compromise with the intonation of the guitar and the oddities of wound vs unwound strings (the fourth/third or third/second string changeover is always a bit tricky even with a compensated bridge).

Anyway, I'll keep poking at the google to see if I can find this method documented somewhere, and if not, I'll write it up and make a video. It really should be more commonly known/used now that I think of it.

Edit: This Stack Exchange thread includes people who do either fourths or fifths tuning, which is close to what I'm talking about, but they never quite get to stacking up fourths, fifths and octaves in a few chord shapes (which is where, I think, the magic for compensating for intonation problems comes from). https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/3078/what-are-the-...
Translation: we see a sucker born every minute, and we have decided Bitcoin has enough to justify our involvement.
Kubernetes is actually the third system. In-between, there's Omega. Yegge must have never set up a GSLB or GFE service to appreciate the extra stuff that Kubernetes features.
I wish auto manufacturers knew this.
Wow. Books on writing copy? Either that’s what I’ve been missing, or it’s another rabbit hole that leads nowhere but self-congratulatory learning (no sarcasm intended).

I feel like I hit a wall writing thinks as they’re either technically accurate but incomprehensible, or they’re too doughy and carry too little meaning.

I feel like there is something I just don’t understand about this business, and everyone else just says, “start”.
As someone who has been running kubernetes clusters for the last 1.5-2 years. It's quickly becoming boring (in a good way). I'm at a fairly large enterprise and we're running five clusters (two gke managed, which .. is limiting, three with our own bootstrap). I'd say we spend about 10%-20% of our time actively managing clusters (upgrades, troubleshooting.. some of that time is about maintaining some value adds like automatic log shipping.. that kind of thing), most of our work is writing value-adds, helping customers onboard and consulting with teams on how to best deploy and work with kubernetes (many teams at my company aren't really familiar with containerization).

Granted we run our own bootstrap (when we started none of the bootstraps running around we're ready, we started with a terraform/make implementation of hightower's hardway and we've just kept adding. We're thinking about revisiting the space again.
I don't know what you're talking about. No one is criticizing you for stating an opinion, but for using a pejorative. You asked if it was offensive, I told you.
Their interface is a stuff of nightmares even for non tech savvy users. Their pricing doesn't boost confidence either which is very crucial in a market like ours. So I think we will have to wait and watch when it really becomes visible and starts making a difference.
Shortly before I left someone on the coding standards committee espoused the idea that good code was code where you couldn't tell who wrote it. I feel as though the last vestiges of the BillG era died that day.
Jeremy and Rachel are very active on Twitter. I learn a lot from their tweets too! Thanks!!
Nations and corporations already compete at finding means of cheap or sustainable energy production. How does Bitcoin provide an efficiency here?

Furthermore, if we can't find a stable use case for the blockchain and there are no more greater fools investing--the bubble collapses and all the ASICs end up in landfills--does society suddenly stop innovating in energy production?

Can you point me to any good literature on this? I don't understand the point.
The thing that makes fruits relatively healthy as a source of sugar is that the sugar is in a relatively low concentration that makes it harder to overindulge. If you concentrate the sugar from fruit you get fruit juice which is just as bad as soda but has healthier seeming marketing.
> 'The other two major Sunni powers in the region are AQAP and ISIS both of them are far worse than the Saud family could and would ever be.'

The world's majority Muslims are Sunni, does that make AQAP and ISIS the mainstream? Absolutely not. They have been used as a red-herring before (not that I am saying it is something that can be ignored) for oppressive regimes to continue (e.g. Egypt, Syria), as they are nowhere near powerful enough as they are made up to be. That is precisely the reason they rely on individuals to attack civilians at western countries. Also, no one is calling for a regime change, that is what US and its allies do unless they don't like the person in charge. In this case, they like Bin Salman.
A delightful thing I notice in their GitHub page is that Clojure seems to be the second most used language in Walmart Labs.

Seriously, Walmart and Clojure? Who would have imagined! I always thought of Walmart as a boring and traditional company that sells cheap goods. So when I heard about Walmart Labs, I thought all their coding must be in C++ or Java or even Cobol (who knows!).

But to see them using a dialect of Lisp like Clojure and Go more than Java and C++ warms my heart. :-)
It's nice to see "tropical geometry" get a mention. This is closely related to Dijkstra's algorithm, min-sum message passing, etc.
TLDR: Waymo #1, GM #2, Tesla=?

Also interesting that Apple wasn’t mentioned.
Why not - it’s regulated, so it can be manipulated. And the sheeple is already in the casino waiting to be sheered.
Law, and especially common law, is not a neat and logical system. It's more an attempt to approximate the idea of justice (as in being fair and just), as people see it at particular time. So it's built out if patches, special cases, and other adaptations to reality at hand.

This is likely a rather reasonable system, though: it imitates the way the biological life adapts to the conditions it cannot predict, mostly without breaking previous adaptations.

It does make the system complicated and, at tines, contradictory.
> but once it's proven safe they can get approval to fly over land

The prohibition on supersonic airliners over land is about noise, not safety.
Manuals used to be fun too - except for IBM's, those were never fun.
I guess my definition of value is purely based on effort/reward. Especially as someone in their 30s friends come and go a lot, they are not hard to pick up but are very hard to keep, and other things like building a stable environment for myself takes priority. Many of my really good friends moved away, or settled down and married and kids.

Not bitter about it but just stating the fact that lasting friendships aren't the best investment because of how volatile modern society can be.
You’re mixing up sugar and carbs.

It’s fine to eat 250g of carbs, though that seems high if you’re trying to be as far from obese as possible without being unhealthy.

It’s not fine to eat 250g of sugar. You’ll likely get diabetes.

Also not all carbs are made the same. Eating bread is not the same as eating sweet potato, as suprising as that may seem. Few carbs are good for you and you should make a concious decision about which ones to eat. Not to mention everything that usually gets added to carb-heavy food as those tend to be highly industrialized. Due to their convenience factor they’ve effectively replaced home-cooked carbs.

But perhaps most importantly, carbs have been showed to be linked to Alzheimer’s Disease though this isn’t yet mainstream knowledge:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15082091/

The cynical in me thinks “big food” must be trying really hard to hide this fact from society.
Yes, although I think this application/audience warrants visual consistency over realism.
Point taken. The meta point still seems to stand though, which is that bans are ineffective.
* I couldn’t care less about the politics, it’s the personality that’s offensive.*

Fair enough, though for me the personality is what I like. It's the same way I feel about ESR, even if I don't agree with whatever point is being made, I enjoy intelligent outspoken brashness.
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He spoke as if it's an advantage. I honestly want to know if there is an advantage in redrawing the screen and not using native elements.
This ignores both the fact that RMS is much more than just the maintainer of glibc, and the fact that 'just forking' glibc doesn't stop the maintainer from having a significant amount of public influence.

The problem is not anything to do with glibc - it's the conduct of someone who, like it or not, is a role model for a lot of people in the community, and has taken on a very public role.
Didn’t someone calculate that prime prices were too low and will rise (and were already rising)?
> asynchronous functions really are different, they really do accept and return different types of values in the form of callbacks and futures.

I'd argue that all code at some level is asynchronous. Once you start considering how the CPU executes code, and how OSes schedule threads/processes, it's not all that different. Yet, for some reason, we call that code synchronous.
As a long-time but not native Pittsburgher, I have to agree. The "Pittsburgh Left" is dangerous . There are arguments here that it eases traffic flow by "crowd-sourcing" a left-turn light or that without it there'd be a backup of traffic. What rubbish. A left turn light allows several (dozens at some intersections) make a left. A "Pittsburgh Left" only allows one reckless, impatient driver make this left. And I see it more often on four lane roads than on two lane roads so I discount the eases traffic flow argument. It's a moving violation with a heavy fine and points on your license - as it should be.
So?

Policing humor is a trope in dystopian novels for a reason.

If someone wants to make unsightly jokes, you're free to be offended. But implying that it's not acceptable to act that way is probably a bit far.
Effective Thermodynamics for a Marginal Observer
I noticed that the other day too! Dumb question but what does the rest of the world do? Do they convert inches to mm or is the inches diameter just an approximation of the more exact metric diameters?
Sorry, I looked but didn’t see it. Thanks.
Again, all this is irrelevant to me as a programmer looking for challenging work. I'll chose good work over "is it going to be open source"?
Which coffee shops in Manhattan?
Do you have some evidence that every city does it? That sounds like an unreasonable assumption to me. If it's the case I would think there would be quite a bit of evidence of various cities doing it, given how many there are.
> There have been at least 5 major extinction events on this planet.

The odds are that number six will be a) caused by humans and b) due to the same economic and industrial systems that concentrate wealth among a few individuals.

I never said Bezos was wrong to focus on space travel, just that he lacks imagination for ways he could allocate his capital. Perhaps we should be restructuring our systems to prioritise our planet above the ability of individuals to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
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> What you're looking for is a system that will automatically analyze logs and/or traffic for malicious events and alert on them.

(I don't pick on you, so I hope this comment doesn't come off that way.)

What are "malicious events" and how will you know them when you see them?

I would argue that, instead, your system should automatically analyse logs for benign (a.k.a., completely normal, expected, innocent) events, toss them out, and leave humans to review anything that's left over.

With any new "system", it will take a bit to build up a complete "whitelist" so that the amount of data to review is down to a manageable level but you'll be rewarded with much more meaningful and actionable data when you get there.
Lets think how many hours RMS has put into GNU over the years. That should count for something, no?
> they diverged from the same fully verbal Africans as everyone else in the world

As far as I understand, it's believed that humans had developed articulated speech before the first out-of-Africa migration because it's assumed that our capacity for articulated speech 1) largely preceded or at least co-evolved with our physiology for speech and 2) preceded or at least co-evolved with our extraordinary social behaviors--extraordinary cooperation and coordination beyond kin groups, unlike anything else in the animal kingdom. But there's no solid evidence for this presumption about the order of events.

There's a very compelling hypothesis that says that humans developed the physiology for non-verbal speech (i.e. singing, chanting) and developed a highly cooperative and complex social structure before verbal speech. That is, coordinated behavior and singing physiology (choral singing) co-evolved, trailed by higher-order thought and finally articulated speech. Slightly more radical, a corollary hypothesis is that the last piece of the puzzle, articulated speech, back-migrated from East Asia.

See "Who Asked the First Question: The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech" by Joseph Jordania.

Most compelling to me is that it's the first model I've seen that can explain the emergence of human social cooperation within the confines of the traditional Darwinian genetic model. Specifically, it solves the free-rider problem as in this model those who weren't genetically inclined to cooperate were immediately killed by predators.

The TL;DR of the hypothesis is that when humans descended onto the savannah a method of hunting, scavenging, and defense emerged that relied on coordinated rhythmic dancing and vocalization to intimidate predators. Those who couldn't or didn't physically and psychologically coordinate, instinctively, with the group were, much like a young or sick herd animal, more likely to be killed, especially given that their novel hunting and scavenging behaviors regularly put them in direct conflict with predators. There was no easy way avoid this selective pressure--either to fake it or silently hide in the group--beyond adopting the genetic traits that ungirded instinctive cooperation and selflessness.

The corollary hypothesis can be relatively easily tested (but hasn't, yet) and is based on the observation that articulation problems, such as stuttering, often disappear when singing, suggesting that articulated speech is relatively recent as compared to even highly complex vocalization. Furthermore, initial data suggests that articulation issues are most prevalent in Africa and Europe, and least prevalent in East Asia. Europeans and Africans are quite genetically close, while East Asians are the most distant. Similarly, choral singing is least prevalent (today and in recent history) in East Asia, which would be consistent if the emergence of articulated speech diminished the utility of choral singing in supporting cooperative behavior.
This is the kind of attitude that lead to forking gcc, the formation of the steering committee etc: https://gcc.gnu.org/news/announcement.html
Growing up poor I think I had more stress then my peers but there was also an element of street smartness which I realised my friends simply lacked. As poor was pretty shameless asserting my needs or optimising for my benefit at the expense of others where as my rich friends seemed to not understand my selfish behaviour.

For example when I was offered a job I negotiated 200% more salary upfront. The HR person was shocked but later we settled on 140% more. Where my other friend made much much less.

Poverty is a state of mind but it had other benefits too in my case.
Since Ubuntu and Debian are affected,so CentOS is affected too?
> two Bayesian agents with a common prior can ensure that they agree to within ±ε about the value of a [0,1]-valued random variable, with probability at least 1-δ over their shared prior, by exchanging only O(1/(δε2)) bits of information—completely independent of how much knowledge the agents have. My conclusion was that, if Aumann’s Nobel-prizewinning theorem fails to demonstrate the irrationality of real-life disagreements, then it’s not for reasons of computational or communication efficiency

Under the gracious assumption that your agents are implementing a reasonable protocol for information exchange :)
Code ownership and software quality
> we are a site full of programmers

Exactly! And we all know how good most programmers are at UI design ;-)