skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have been nice to have a link to a simple summary of what lenses are for those of us who don't already know.
> Food stamps (EBT) are a good program. You can use them to buy the same food from the same stores as anybody else and you get to decide what to spend it on.

Food stamps tend to suck for a lot of the same reasons food pantries do. You're still telling people what to buy. It's not as bad because there are more choices, but it's still the same general problem where you have a bureaucracy telling you what to buy instead of being able to buy what you need the most like anybody else.

Sometimes what you really need is food. Sometimes -- or some specific days -- you have access to food and what you really need is to save up enough for a working car or gas to put in it so you can go to job interviews. Or something else that the person in question knows they need but arbitrary politicians have no way to predict.

But if you give people food stamps, they'll buy food with it. Even if they already have suitable food, because it's free money that can only be used for one thing. Then it costs the taxpayer $1 and provides the person with $.05 worth of value, which they take because $.05 is more than $0.

Meanwhile just giving the person $1 cash would give the person $1 in value and cost the government less, because then it isn't necessary to administer a system to force people to buy the thing they needed less instead of the thing they needed more.

And eliminating that bureaucracy reduces the Shirky principle problem.
SF spends over $300M a year on homeless and we still have homeless people defecating openly on Market Street during the day. They don’t even collect metrics to figure out if the money is working (which it’s not) or have any accountability.
Just that. Maybe Word in the first place, for the spell checking. But, other than that, just use it as a plain text editor.

I also find it useful to create a new file for each chapter.
Hyperapp looks like it'd be a pain to use for anything other than small widgets.
Do you earnestly think that setting up a fine for places that continue to use plastic straws is not considerably more trivial than creating a program to pay for housing for all the homeless in SF?
At first it wasn’t clear which person was the psychopath. His refusal to simply call did not help this situation.
I want myself and others to contribute because of the desire to contribute. I don't want to bring affiliates into the equation lest it brings the wrong incentives (however glimmering it may be).

There are other ways to make money.
See my comment above. SF spends $300M on roughly 7500 homeless people per year.
I meant that you're in no position to cast judgement on the guys dosage on his first use, especially since you have no idea whether he got very high purity stuff from the dark web or a crushed-up pill, or any idea at all really: and I bet that if you're taking such high doses, half of it is likely speed.

I can't believe I'm saying this on HN, looks like it's finally just another subreddit: I have plenty experience, sure.
Yea. I built the basic idea. I'll be building features one by one. Thanks for the feedback.
Force the consumer to force manufacturers to make less shitty products. Until that happens I hope brickerbot type attacks continue to happen for the cheapo crap.

Sure good products can have a security flaw. But iot and home routers are complete garbage. The consumer should be held liable for being apart of massive disruption of the internet.

It's the equivalent of manslaughter, you might not have intended it. But in this case you didn't do anything to stop it and helped to cause millions in damage. I quite frankly don't care about their education. That's their responsibility. Just the same as you need to learn to drive.
The problem here isn't so much scummy companies like Walmart, which will always exist and make false accusations, but the police who take those accusations and without proof make arrests. They are the truly big part of the problem and need to be reigned in. They know that Walmart and other companies routinely make false reports, have no evidence, yet are more than happy to make the arrest based on nothing. Same with judges. And prosecutors who choose to go ahead with these cases. They are truly the ones to blame for our lack of a functioning legal system that tries to lock up innocent people based on some company's bullshit. Let's not pretend that these parties have to enforce these shitty laws the way they do when there are a billion other more important priorities: they choose to because they enjoy hurting people and fucking up people's lives for their own amusement and advancement. If that isn't sick, I don't know what is. Oh right, Walmart falsely accusing people of shoplifting. That's a good reason not to shop there alone. On the other hand, when a retailer refuses to refund money for a product not even delivered, that's just a civil matter and these same scummy cops won't even take a report. The law clearly does not apply the same to all parties.
You didn't at all consider the reason why food stamps might exist in the first place. I don't know anything about them, but I'd assume it has something to do with a correlation between homelessness and life problems that make financial discipline extra hard (eg addictions).

I'm not trying to imply that all homeless people are addicts (quite the contrary) but if I'm a crack addict and you give me money I'm not sure I'd be using it to save it up for buying a car one day.
>Our BeetBox CSA supports small farmers of color mostly farming under 50 acres, [...]

...

>Imperfect Produce is only able to make a profit by working with the larger global agribusinesses, not the picturesque small and mid-sized farms they project in their marketing campaign.

Can someone explain what I'm missing? They get their produce from small farmers, Imperfect Produce gets their produce from large farmers, where is the overlap?

>it certainly doesn’t help small, local farmers or address the source of waste: overproduction by industrial farms as they produce the perfect produce sold in supermarkets.

So in this context, the over production is being considered "waste" but once Imperfect Produce uses it, it's perfectly good food that food banks and soup kitchens no longer have access to.

Also, there is a lot of implication that all of the food waste going to support communities is being utilized effectively. But certainly they, too, discard some portion of food, not to mention issues with quality or sanitation.

Clearly I'm missing something. That, or they really called it on the "sour grapes" thing.
It seems you're implying that we should pull that money out of "on homeless" (not exactly sure what that means, can you clarify?)

So then what happens? The homeless die? What solution do you want?
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These recommendations are from people I follow, and I'll be gradually adding people one recommendation a time.

I couldn't find relevant information on Google for Billy G. Do you mind sharing his profile?
Ive read that Remee doesnt detect REM phase, just acts as a glorified alarmed clock. Is it actually useful? Sometimes it takes me a long time to fall asleep.
That's the dumbest and most abhorrent strawman I have heard in a while.
HUD hits Facebook with housing discrimination complaint
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>Start with the Internet of Things example. He chalks up the abysmal security record of IoT devices to two factors: it keeps IoT devices cheap, and IoT vendors don't understand history. And there's a lot of truth in both these assertions! But they are both just expressing facets of a deeper, more fundamental reason: IoT devices aren't secure because their customers don't demand security.

Its not just price though. You cant just make the devices more expensive to be able to do proper security, the bottleneck in a lot of cases is the energy consumption. That doesnt really scale with more expensive hardware. If your device needs to run from a coin-cell for the next 10 years you will be cautious with how much security you can afford. Even worth off are energy harvesting products without even such a little battery.
Exhibit: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/world/asia/islamic-state-...
I think a much more interesting case is the Satanic Temple.

On the one hand, they are pretty clearly designed with the specific intent of getting the legal protections of being a religion. And their campaigns are designed primarily as reactions to other group's (mostly Christian) exercise of religion in places where the Temple feels are inappropriate.

I'm pretty sure that one of their tenents, "One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone" was designed specifically to help their legal case for their pro abortion campaign.

On the other hand, you would be hard pressed to argue that the member do not, generally, believe in the tenets of the Temple.

I think the bigger issue is that we started with the notion that governments should not discriminate against religions, or give preferential treatment to any one religion. But over time, that has grown into the notion that religions should be granted extra rights. Long term, I think the only solution is to expand the rights we give to religions to everyone. Anything else is discrimination against the non religious.

Returning to the case at hand:

>adherents of actual religions genuinely believe in their tenets

How do you define tenets?

One could argue that the tenets of Pastafarianism is empirisism, a philisophy on how to view truth in the universe. To that end, the flying spaghetti monster is a parable, not meant to be taken literally. This is no different from the large number of Christians who would say that stories in the Bible are parables meant to teach us, and not true stories meant to be taken literally.
How about 1% of that year's revenue. Problem fixed. There should never be a false accusation by a merchant. This allows up to 100 of these atrocities before the business goes out of business which is what should happen to corporations that do this. It's amazing how simple solutions are extremely effective.
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The ants in the video appear to have been painted bright colors for enhanced visibility. It's quite striking.
I would probably not reach for curl as my first tool to interact with OAuth v2 datasources. Flickr seems to have a wide variety of available libraries[0], and they also have API documentation. Is there a good reason to use curl rather than something else?

[0] https://www.flickr.com/services/api/
P2P routing is hard (nat bypass only really works on 80-90% of networks which is not good enough and Tor is unviable for mass adoption), and decentralized identifiers are generally not liked by users

Other than that, it's doable.

Spam protection and censorship (necessary for mobile app stores) can be distributed as opt-out blacklists. If it gets to be a huge problem then a "enter this password to add me" type thing could work too.

I've been compiling a bunch of ideas as such for fully P2P decentralized/encrypted chat, but I'm stuck at the two issues I mentioned earlier.
This is interesting. I’ve opted completely for the other side of the spectrum, modeling networks rigorously to the biological standard, but this may be worth looking into.
The sorry state of the new generation butterfly keyboard
Interesting you'd flag this comment and not the parent also.
I was going to add Andreessen's recommendations this week. This helps!

Thanks for pulling the book recommendations. I'll add 'em this week as well.
Good point and it's an active concern in development economics. Most often giving people cash will lead them to either use it for not-food (incl. things that are outright detrimental to their wellbeing), or to get low-nutrition (and high-energy) food such as snacks or soda. Not quite desirable either way.
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Flagging is done by members.
Click bait, unfortunately.
Good question, for me I programatically generate a folder with the hyperparameter key - values in the name and store the checkpoints under it. As you can imagine, it can get out of control quickly if not managed well, but it works for 1-3 person projects. For anything more large scale or organized, I would recommend looking into Comet ML which lets you query and filter your experiments by hyperparameter ranges instead of manually looking at folder names.
Latex is a bad recommendation I'd say. Just use AsciiDoc. The rest I agree with.
The War on Drugs is considered a failure and in parts of the world like NSW, Australia made prostituion legal in 1979 in both cases because criminalising things most people use generally doesn't work and all you do is randomly jail people for doing the exact same thing as a large proportion of the population.
Depends on the topic. If there's a lot of math, you might as well go straight to LaTeX.
A friend of mine for this extortion letter from Walmart after being let go in the store, it's pure fear tactics
I built this with socket.io, on glitch.com!

Github: https://github.com/jajoosam/broadcast
I honestly can't tell what groups are being banned, nor what the rules are. Isis isn't banned but random right winger is. Jimmy Dore and Kyle Kulinski have pointed out seemingly random left wingers getting banned, Sarah Jeong gets a blue check. It all seems so random and incoherent. I am genuinely lost.
I think one of the most glaring differences between ancient East Asian societies and Western societies is trials and the court. To the best of my knowledge no East Asian society (or for that matter, any society outside Europe) had anything remotely resembling trial by combat.

From what I've read court decisions in ancient Korea and China were decided simply by the village chief, often appointed by the king. Which has its own set of problems, but none of this trial by this that nonsense.
Speed isn't in the definition of "working" for deep learning. Speed is an implementation detail. Perhaps a very critical one, but still an implementation detail. One can evaluate the success of a deep learning program (e.g. "is it working?") without knowing how much processing power it used.
> why suddenly are people starving again because imperfect produce found a capitalist way to reduce waste?

They don't. They wont. The article is nonsensical and ignores basic economics. Suffers from "we know better" attitude.

Small farmers are struggling. If the ugly produce helps them become little more profitable it is both good for them and also good for the food security of the nation. More available food would mean food will be cheaper for everyone. Will the world be better place if small farmers are out of business and a large businesses like Amazon takes up farming ?

Personally do not think there is anything ugly about ugly produce.

Note: I am not a rich techie. I earn less than $10K a year.
A super-efficient PHP library to make SQL databases much easier
Your favorite coding editor (intellij, vim, emacs, notepad++,...), markdown and pandoc.

Markdown lets you focus on content and structure, pandoc creates a PDF of it by using latex, which you can later use to define how the text shall be printed (twosided? Us legal/a4/a5? Title, author,... ) and gives you latex formatted text, which is always correct & professional.

Pandoc also allows tables and images in markdown.
Thanks for the response!

> The main contribution here is that only the data structures (which are reusable) need to be proven by hand; for a new NF, you only need a specification - which is, as you point out, not always easy to do.

I guess my main point is that not only is it not easy to do, but writing the spec is also an error-prone process (just like writing the implementation), and errors in the spec cannot be caught by any machinery.

Not to say that this makes the process meaningless — not at all — but simply to say that “formally verified” doesn’t mean “bug-free”, it means going from the challenge being writing a correct implementation to writing a correct specification.
The Declaration of Independence doesn't legally "apply" in the U.S. either. It's a historic document making certain philosophical arguments (inalienable rights, right to overthrow tyrannical government, etc.) and then applies that philosophy to a particular historical context.

And, yes, inalienable rights apply in China. If it is good and proper to be offended by how someone is treated regardless of legal context, there is an implicit inalienable right. Ad absurdum, we expect freedom from rape, justice broadly defined, freedom from genocide, and many other things. If Elbonia passed a law saying lynching of minorities was OK, they'd be wrong. That's what makes the relevant rights inalienable.
I don't understand. Now it's bad for people to buy food waste, because otherwise food waste is donated?

TFA smells like anti-capitalism, upset that someone is doing something profitable with the source of their charity work... And double upset that capitalists might have a (gasp) positive impact.

Personally, I am angry and upset at this Phatbeets, for taking food waste away from the hard working farmers who would otherwise use it for compost. But I'm also angry at the farmers who, by using ugly food for compost, are stealing jobs from the good folks of the waste department. Stop undermining our social systems, you capitalist farmers!
Too much Ambien.
They need other welfare services: food stamps, long-term unemployment benefits, medicaid, vocational training, minimum income guarantees, free daycare for children, etc.

These services should be provided by the local government rather than charities.
I feel like tying ips to a name and tying accounts to real people or to each other should be handled by the same entity. It could be called identity services. We need more centralized, simplified and potent identity services
Yet so many people want to live in SF.

In all seriousness, banning plastic straws is a much lower hanging fruit than solving the homeless situation. The money to build and maintain affordable housing has to come from somewhere, probably by raising taxes. Would the SF residents, lots of whom are high income earners and who ironically are the ones feeding the crazy housing and rent prices, be willing to chip in to solve the problem or just sit on the sidelines and complain about the homeless?
"What is Best" always depends on what you need. For writing a book, the final answer is probably LaTeX. That's assuming what you need is not highly simple. (However, the advice to work in plain text before you typeset is really solid)

However... for something simple, I'll point to https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ I've found that Visual Studio Code + https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Flixs.vs... make for a lovely editing experience. Basically, you write plain text, hit ctrl-s and see formatted HTML in a side panel. The homepage explains how to generate PDFs.

Here's some notes about fancy typesetting from someone who wrote a book using Markdeep: https://imaginary-institute.com/resources/MarkdeepToInDesign...
What's the reason for the downvotes and the flagging? All I've said is that people are judged for what they do, not for displays of emotions or tears. If Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, gave an emotional interview saying it's been a lot of hard work to get the company where it is- do you think that the shares of AMD would have as much as a blip? No way, she's doing a fantastic job, nobody would give a damn about her display of emotions.
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how about measuring the effectiveness of the programs using that money, and improving them at least even if you want to keep at the same budget? why is bad acceptable when you spend 300M a year?
I don't see how this is political. In that link he presents actual problems that have arisen from non-blocking versions. I'd call that a technical justification.

I don't necessarily agree with his justification, but that's also a difference in technical opinion. The only way I'd fault him is if I can come up with a an approach that addresses his concerns yet he still refuses to accept them.

Full disclosure: I've actually interacted with him on a few occasions. IMO calling him risk/change-averse would be an understatement, which partly explains this stance. While at times frustrating for us, this is exactly the quality you want in someone maintaining such a critical part of the kernel.
It doesn't matter. Stop wasting time on thinking about the right tool and start writing. Way more projects fail because they are never finished (or even properly started) than because of wrong software.
If you have time to invest, go for a TeX variant (LaTeX or ConTeXt). That gives full control over any typesetting detail.

I’d recommend ConTeXt [0] over LaTeX. A minimal document is as simple as

\starttext
Start writing here…
\stoptext

and you can go a long way from there, including making ebooks. Much better than LaTeX for layout control, language support, graphics integration, table generation, etc… It’s also intimately integrated with Lua for your scripting needs.

The documentation is possibly its weak point: it’s rich and comprehensive, although somewhat sparse and at times heavily technical. But it’s worth the effort, IMHO.

You may get inspired by the TeX showcase [1] (not only ConTeXt, but also LaTeX and plain TeX).

[0] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
[1] https://www.tug.org/texshowcase/
As a Northern Irish person born in England to a French mother, I have no stake in either side. What I will say is the marching for hours on end annoys me, let alone native Catholic Norn Ironers.

Especially when the burn effigies of young Catholic boys who had just died.

And they insist that we are eroding their "culture", how about you stop burning Irish flags (although the type of people who go to the bonfires usually end up with an Indian or Côte d'Ivoirien flag)
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"on homeless"?

I'm sorry, but are these even people to you any more? Most might say "homeless people" at least.

The current thought is not to identify a person based on their primary characteristic at all any more.

These are not "homeless people."

These are "people who are currently homeless."

Not to point you out specifically as others in the discussion are using word choices like yours as well.

Lets put the person first.
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> But the researchers recognize that their findings are purely observational at this stage and cannot prove a cause and effect of eating too little or too many carbohydrates.

Title of the article - "Low and high carb diets increase risk of early death, study finds"

Not saying this study isn't worth reporting and reading, but they could have titled it better.
The country was still adjusting to the soon-to-be presidency of Donald Trump. “It felt really wrong and go out and disappear into the wilderness for five or six months,” Ostrem says.

Seems like a good response to me
It's not the strongest supporting argument, but I think you can make the case that Imperfect Produce also do a good job of destigmatizing eating and using ugly produce.

If you look at the formation of a lot of Western welfare systems, most had a focus on dignity. It's no fun to be the one kid with the ugly produce, or explicitly going to something that's for the poor kids. We see it a lot with adults as well - how many people don't take advantage of benefits they deserve, because they don't want to be people that have to take these benefits. If we can support a culture that says produce doesn't have to be perfect to be socially acceptable, then I think everyone benefits.

While I'm sure Phat Beets do good stuff, I'm not sure if their constant refrain on helping the poor and marginalised is helpful in the long run. In my view, a good local grocery store that sells fresh produce at an affordable price is going to be a massive help, and I think both they and Imperfect Produce do the same thing.

Finally Phat Beets only deliver in the East Bay. Imperfect Produce also come to San Francisco.