skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read the article. I've also had a college class on Homelessness and Public Policy. I spent nearly 6 years homeless and got myself off the street without going through a program. The programs are often revolving doors that don't really fix the intractable personal problems that are a root cause of homelessness.

The other two big issues: inadequate income and lack of affordable housing. Bezos is directly responsible for his employees lack of adequate wages, an issue he won't fix.

No, he is going to build preschools in poor neighborhoods so that poor kids can get properly educated and break the cycle of poverty 2 decades from now when they grow up.

Conveniently kicks the can down the road and does nothing to solve homelessness in the here and now, plus comes with all kinds of plausible deniability. "Just wait 2 decades! You'll see! It will help them... Eventually!"

"The beatings shall continue until morale improves." and all that.
You could make that argument as well, but I'm specifically talking about Amazon's underpayment of workers and efforts to kill taxes that would fund efforts meant to curb homelessness, among other things. Some of the other replies to my comment have links to articles about these.
There should be an option when the box comes up next to not ask again. At least I have one on iOS 12 Gmail.
Sounds quite interesting
Try to hustle your way into a Research Software Engineer [0] role somewhere. The role isn't formally acknowledged in the U.S. (outside of Google) but you can usually find them posted on university job boards as "Programmer/Analyst" or something similar. Downsides include crap pay and the potential for your job to spontaneously disappear after soft money [1] runs out.

[0] https://rse.ac.uk/who/

[1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30621/what-is-a...
I don't believe these externalized 'throwing money at things' solves much.

What he can do is find innovative solutions within is own organization for the wellbeing of his own staff.

And given his power in the value chain, start to demand basic rights in the crap countries of the world where the crap he peddles is made.

Steve Jobs had so much power that literally in one, single email, in one sentence, could have changed workers rights globally. His supply chain would have had to bend to his specific requirements and it would have propagated. A simple 'charter of workers rights', you know, like the 'right to go to the bathroom' and to 'not be woken up in the middle of the night' etc. would have been nice to see.
People always say this, but the problem is that it's not true. A majority of homeless people are not mentally ill.
This isn't much different that what both Windows and macOS do whem trying to scare users into using app store software only. Macs use some rather scary language (scary when you are not a "computer person") to dissuade people from installing binaries from outside of the app store ecosystem. Microsoft does the same thing, even worse if you have one of their Windows 10S versions which locks you to app store software only.
> If the solution were technical we would need a combination of 2 and 3. Distributed hidden services. Is this even possible?

It is possible.

> The problem with technical solutions is basically Child Abuse Images.

This is a fake reason which is only used as a justification for censorship technologies. In practice it's better to allow distribution so that it happens in the open and new images can be discovered sooner and traced back to the perpetrators who created them. If you shut down a distribution network every time you find it then the only ones that exist are the ones you don't know about, which means you have no source of evidence to make cases against unknown active pedophiles.

The FBI had a successful campaign where they quietly seized a distribution server and then continued operating it so they could collect evidence and make cases against those using it. Naturally the headlines were "FBI distributes child pornography" rather than "FBI arrests many child pornographers" as though preventing distribution is somehow more important than arresting the creators and rescuing the children.
Bad actors must be held to account even if they occasionally do good things. I see no compelling reason to withhold criticism of Amazon because of this.
X used to own a bookstore. It was good enough to put him in middle class. Then the culture changed, it was easier for people to read reviews online and buy, than to shop in book stores. His shop has to close down, now he drives for Uber and tries to make ends meet. He is no longer in middle class. Not homeless, but I'd imagine if there are more competition for unskilled labor, more people would be squeezed into homelessness
Hi there, I'm Tai and I wrote this article.

However, Oscar's hackathon is the second healthiest hackathon I've ever attended.
- It's closed to employees only.
- It's opt-in only.
- We get 2 workdays dedicated to the projects and there's no expectation to stay after work.
- There's catered healthy food as usual (via soripe.com)
- The deadline is soft and you can do work ahead of time. If you don't finish your project this hackathon, you can pick it up in the next one.
- You're encouraged to work on passion projects that are not directly related to your team
- There are prizes for not just Judges #1,2,3, but also People's Choice, Best Design, Best Product, and Best Engineered.

Any competition can be good, bad, or rotten.

I agree with you! It is quite incredible that a health startup like Oscar Health would actually encourage hackathons. And it's more incredible that Oscar seems to be doing it right.
This isn’t popular, but I’d challenge anyone who thinks homelessness in Seattle isn’t primarily an addiction and mental illness problem to go spend a few afternoons in areas with significant homeless populations (3rd Ave in Pioneer Square is a great place, if you need a suggestion).

It’s not that affordable housing isn’t a problem in Seattle. I know people who couldn’t live on their own in Seattle anymore due to rental increases, including members of my extended family. But those people either move away to more affordable areas, moving in with family or friends or into (sometimes questionably legal) group housing situations, but they don’t live on the street.
Some working categories have it, some don't. IT didn't back in 2013, the period when I decided to pack my stuff and go. Now I believe it has been incorporated in the metalworker category (see below).

Minimum salary for year 2018/2019 (hourly/monthly)

Clothing and fashion	6,60 €	1.144 €
Agricolture	7,13 €	1.235,87 €
Tourism	7,17 €	1.242,80 €
Metalworker	7,32 €	1.268,80 €
Construction	7,59 €	1.315,60 €
Food industry	8,21 €	1.423,07 €
Finance	11,11 €	1.925,73 €
Everybody’s pointless political comments get downvoted. When I make a dad joke about Trump, it always ends up with -2 karma. (Still I come back eventually because something about that orange real estate baron just shuts off people’s better instincts.)

Constructive comments about the EU’s failings seem to often hover near the top. It’s all in how you present your negative opinion.
Cheesecake Factory?
Reducing Latency – Video Streaming Without the Delay
You might enjoy reading Diet for a small planet. It gets remembered as a vegetarian cookbook, but the first half of the book is about international politics and how food aid is part of the problem.
Looks like this was cheaper than upping the salaries of warehouse workers to get them off food stamps and provide healthcare. For Bezos this is just another calculation, nothing more.
$2 billion is, like, 1.5% of Bezos's net worth. I would like to hope that many of us have given at least 1% of our net worths to charity.
When parts of your city flood every king tide that's a constant problem because that threat has not gone away.
It's less seamless and user-friendly to have to install F-droid and deal with whatever OS permissions are needed before installing Bromite.

The earlier concern about data sharing and privacy by advertising companies is not an identical problem to users being served ads.
So basically what we're seeing is publish or perish on steroids by your assessment?
> The point of political discourse is never to change your opponent's mind, it's to sway the undecided people to align with you instead of them.

In the US, it's mostly not about that, either; it's about creating enthusiasm in those already aligned with you or dampening it in those aligned with your opponent.

(Pretending to try to sway the opposition but using arguments which primarily resonate with your base so it just makes your base more angry with the opposition for their obstinacy is a common tactic, here.)
Your comparisons of one event to other catastrophic events are not apples to apples.

3000 died, on TV, in a first world, far from war, in an act of war, in one short hour, with few survivors.

250,000 died, in "lean world" regions, in an act of God, across several hours, with many survivors.

Rwanda massacre happened, in culturally tense environment, in Civil War, over many months, with many survivors

Ongoing genocides, in culturally tense environments, in unsafe crime/war zones, when everybody very well understands how bad it is, with many survivors.
The idea in this case is that you'd have a bit of JS that would take care of updating the DOM, binding event handlers (which is specified and taken care of server-side), and so on.

How Phoenix.LiveView would do this exactly is still being worked on, but [Drab](https://github.com/grych/drab) will probably offer some inspiration.
It's called a metaphor, typically children start distinguishing them in written speech at about 4yo.
Sounds nice on paper, but that's not how accounting works.

While Bezos' wealth has skyrocketed in the last year, the portion of that wealth that actually came out of the Amazon ledgers was under $2 million in 2017. [1]

Since it is the responsibility of the company to compensate employees, at most Bezos' cut is taking $2 million out of the pie, which divided across the several hundred thousand Amazon employees would give each worker less than $20 per year. Not exactly life changing.

Regardless of whether or not Amazon should pay employees more, basing that argument on the CEO's capitol gains on long-standing investments is ridiculous.

[1] https://www1.salary.com/Jeffrey-P-Bezos-Salary-Bonus-Stock-O...
So shame on them as opposed to most of society that has an indirect role and we therefore are not part of the problem? Society keeps buying things from Amazon. We as society created Amazon. I don't have a lot of sympathy for big corporations but also dislike when individuals try to disproportionally blame them without taking a look at what we do at an individual level to make a difference. By almost any standard I'd consider the average HN'er 'rich' (myself included) and benefiting of the same conditions that are in some way also responsible for the same problem (tech bubble, big tech corporations) Amazon is allegedly guilty of.
I think criticism of Amazon is still fair, criticizing Bezos personally is something different.
The context doesn't change the meaning. The previous sentence talks about engaging in a (separate, different) standardisation process with others, and this sentence then does a jarring context switch by instead talking about a seemingly unilateral action (albeit thankfully in the negative, so only the tone is of concern).
>>I mean it's much easier to donate to charitable causes when you have more than enough for yourself and your family so that's not an apples to apples comparison, but he's also donating less than 1.5% of his wealth

So he should donate 99% on that cause and today? No tomorrow, no other worthy causes? Bezos, alone, cannot solve all the world's problems. He should be commended for his donation and willingness to help solve the problem. Haters gonna hate...they can't sleep well at night unless they do that.
Before you downvote me, please, go hang out in Pioneer Square in the middle of the day.
Who's building a true “Metaverse”? Expert says Dual Universe comes closest
Agreed, Musk was initially just trying to create/enlarge a market to bring forward the switch to pure electric cars.
Taking other people money by force is even more dangerous for democracy and economy.
succeeding too much by being to useful and employing too many people, and failing to respect modern cities inability to grow
You can't provide provide specializations for generics in C# and that often leads to performance penalty (for example you can't provide a specialization that would avoid boxing).
Russian bomber runs near Alaska have been ongoing since the Cold War
Be wary of the legal implications. At minimum GOOG can probably claim copyright and do a DMCA takedown.
Hyperlinks work just fine though. Who saves an image of code? For what?
What exactly do you mean by syncing with the existence, through pitch frequencies of the body?
At some point in the next decade, I believe shareholders or the govt will break up Amazon into retail and aws. There’s just too much unwanted public attention at this scale.
I recently moved away from Seattle but that seems correct to me.

I don't think the problem is REALLY Amazon's fault per se, since they are just paying people more than other companies in the area which I think most people would agree is a good thing.

I think the problem is more that we in the US treat housing as an investment which makes people more willing to pay higher prices and to borrow money to buy a house. When people see the housing prices increase then that further raises housing prices.

The issue is that housing prices, and subsequently rent, increasing is not a good thing for society. Even though the value of the house has changed, the house itself hasn't changed at all, and yet people now have less money to spend on other things. The only thing it really does is make banks and people who were already well off enough to buy a house wealthier.

Sadly I have no idea what we can do to solve this that isn't communist.
I work adjacent to some satellites that do visual-spectrum imaging of the earth, and even we fall under these regulations.

In addition to all the NOAA licensing for imaging the ground, you need extra licenses for taking pictures of space. (it's useful, for example, to image the moon as a way of calibrating cameras & telescopes without atmospheric interference, and tracking stars is one of the most reliable ways to determine spacecraft attitude)

One of the requirements is that if we take a picture of space and there's anything moving in the picture (presumably a near-earth satellite), we delete all copies of the picture and forget we ever took it, but only after offering it for sale to the Air Force at a commercially reasonable price.

I'm sure there are additional layers on top of it, that's just the facets of it that I've been exposed to in the mandatory company-wide regulatory training.
Yeah, I should have anticipated stirring up a debate with somebody who has read the book more recently than 10 years ago. I should have avoided mentioning it; the book as a whole contains a great deal of practical information.

Anyhow, I think we are fundamentally in agreement that all of the spokes in the wheel are in tension at all times. I am not an engineer, but I did run this bit by an engineer. He was in agreement that the fact that the bottom spokes are under less tension does not mean they are supporting the load via compression.

At best, the passage is a bit misleading; none of the spokes on a bicycle wheel are ever in compression (or as Brandt rightly claims, they would buckle). Claiming that the reduced tension (again, correct) supports a "compression load" is misleading.

Sorry I can't stick around for further discussion; I'll check back later.
I don't think that was the only reason and since it came back up that still shows there is an issue with how the media drives stock.

Not that there is anything new about that observation, that's how it's always been but the puff was literally everywhere and in combination with the leaving I am fairly certain it had an impact since it's now back up again.
> vested interest in the problem not being solved

That's why surgeons always leave a little cancerous tissue, to maximize their chances of getting paid to do another operation.

(Since HN probably won't get that: it's a satirical joke meant to point out some flaws in the commenter's argument. There's no evidence at all that the people involved in, say, providing services for the public have any desire to see the public suffer more so that they can roll in that awesome $30K/year social worker salary for a little longer. Pretty sure that the folks that run soup kitchens would be very happy to close up shop if the need disappeared. Etc. The idea that this is some initiative of Big Homelessness to rake in the gravy is..... sad.)
I wonder how a Vietnam vet felt on 9/11? Or a WW2 survivor, for that matter.

I don't think it's a matter of US / non-US, but rather generational. It's one thing to be aware of war and death, and another to see dead bodies in the street. And it's not just the 3000 people that died, but the millions who saw the destruction first-hand, and the hundreds of thousands that lost family and friends that day.

For me, the question is not "why do Americans feel 9/11 so viscerally" but rather "why don't we feel the same way when similar events occur around the world?"
What's even the point of government services then?

If I use roads or public parks, or my social security, does that mean that my employer never paid me enough, then?

And we already have a concept that covers this. It is called the minimum wage. It makes no sense to talk about government services that people are using when you should instead just raise the minimum wage.
Protolock: stop breaking your Protobuf API compatibility
> these hearings are made up of a gang of angry old people with God complex that not only do not understand technology, but don't really have a desire to understand it nor the desire to really change anything.

Those angry old people were chosen by their constituents to represent them in public affairs. Supposedly their roles and their actions are the basis of a democratic regime.
AIUI it seems that one of the issues that Rust is having right now is that it actually has more precise information than LLVM is really capable of taking advantage of, which makes sense given that LLVM was originally intended to take advantage only of C's coarser restrict semantics. It's sort of a funny situation where the fact that Rust could improve on C's optimization capabilities is the same reason that it can't yet do so: it's using an optimizer designed for C!

That said, I'm hardly an expert here and the situation on the ground may have changed since last I looked (or I may be completely misunderstanding the discussions that I've peeked into). An example of the problem in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53105
TIL Opera for Mac still exists.
>At this point, I believe that this was a fairly orderly shutdown (temporary or permanent) that wasn't communicated very well. The "FBI" and "Blackhawk helicopter" were probably federal employees removing federal property from the observatory's antenna arrays before handing it over to the university. I suppose it's possible that some of that could have been classified, since it's situated within line of sight of a military base where project testing occurs and it's conceivable that they might have used that site to received telemetry, but I don't see any reason to think that it's anything more than a case of poor communication between agencies and a pile-on by people who aren't familiar with the details and who want to see something that isn't there.

Also, it's really common to go overkill for training purposes.

For example, sending two F15s to go sit on the ground at an air show includes them refueling mid-air and intercepting a B52 that's also headed to the same air show so they can check those training boxes.

Sending the Navy seals to fast-rope in to an observatory and recover the federally owned gigabit switches from the telecom closet is the kind of overkill you get in the name of training.
Look at their home in Seattle. The influx of people is pushing up housing prices to pretty unbearable levels. It's not as bad as the Bay Area, but the homeless situation there has been bad for a long time.

The large Seattle companies also work in discount deals for housing, which is far from ethical or fair:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/is-it-hou...

People are critical because Amazon has rarely given to charity, or when they do it's something like letting a charity temporally use an existing building before they renovate it:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazons-donating-a-buil...

I mean, maybe we shouldn't be so critical if Bezos is legitimately concerned and they're doing something, but I can understand why people are skeptical based on their track record.
But was that on purpose or only incidentally?
I agree, I'm happy to give a few dollars to Canonical or Elementary every time I download an ISO from them. It's important to support high-quality software design.
Those attempting to make a science more reproducible are not behind the crisis, they are part of the solution.
Its not like we needed bezo's to come down from the mountain and tell us all what a terrible scourge homelessness is.

You are fooling yourself if you think this 2 billion comes anywhere close to correcting the level of homelessness amazon generates.
Another problem for another thread. This will not silence the critics of salary issues at Aamzon warehouse. Give it a few weeks and you will read it for yourself in the news.
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Not nearly as much as mobile web.
Lived in California for close to two years and I agree.

The streets may not be the best sample though.

There are homeless people who work and live in their cars.

Getting government and NIMBYISM out of housing policy will lead to affordable housing and is paramount to fixing this.

Opportunity Zone Investments should also help some.
A lot of human speed-runners exploit glitches to achieve record times and even more so with TAS runs, where you can exploit glitches that require superhuman input sequences. It would be very interesting to see an AI discover and take advantage of such glitches in video games to improve its speedruns.

Actually, just the idea of having an AI discovering glitches at all is an impressive use of AI.
Sounds like you got the reaction wrong. If you do it correctly, it should be possible to mafipulate it into powered embenzalmine nitrotamine.
Heh, HN is great at downvoting without making a counterargument :P
One would be using Amazon's money and would affect Amazon's ability to continue growing and employing more people, the other is using Bezos' money, and does not, except by maybe affecting the share price as he sells more of his holdings. They're not the same thing.
Sorry about that!

I didn't mean to scrutinize - I just know very little about browser exploits, especially details, and thought there was some specific attack for browser history.

Cheers.
How expensive is the most expensive iPhone XS around the world?
I can honestly see him being withdrawn as just not caring or not wanting to be apart of the company or the culture. He shows up every know and then again just to keep his standing. He can reap the financial stability it offers and still work on his moonshots or other pet projects.

I know a lot of college buddies who were some of the smartest people I knew. When they hit their 30's, they just had enough of the go go go lifestyle and they suddenly wanted to be alone and just enjoy life either by themselves or with a very small group of special friends.

I can see Larry being like this. He just wants to be by himself and out of the spotlight.