skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think the problem is at the realization phase?

I'd say we all know this to be true, but whether we care enough is another question. There's a fair amount of people in this country that see homelessness as "lazy".
I deliberately quit drinking soda for about a decade, and a few months ago during an appointment with my doctor, I realized it had slipped back into my diet. Turns out, really spicy ginger beers are still soda, and that I had become a soda drinker once again :(
Aerodynamics an/or looking aerodynamic and/or distinguishing a brand by showing of what you can build.
Reminds me of when I got rainmeter and _needed_ to display everything at all times in fancy circle graphs
If one or more parties is pushing misinformation, the only way to be politically neutral is to give misinformation the same standing as correct information. Society does not benefit from such a policy.

It is better to have a policy of factual correctness at a minimum. Politicians should adjust to accommodate that.
Defining what you mean by the term 'homeless' is actually very important to having productive discussions about homelessness. The vast majority of people are referring to people living on the streets when they take issue with the homeless. They are not referring to people who are living in their cars or whatever.
Don't they already have a corporation in Ireland with almost no employees and no profits due to selling licensed software made by the parent company at cost?
When the thing they're lobbying for has broad public support.
You missed the point - those laws have limits to secondary liability based on knowledge precisely because of that! At worst they just need to return stolen goods even if they paid for them. I am pointing out how draconian and stupid the law is. A law with similar strictness would destroy secondary markets.

This law requires websites to /know/ the copyright to be covered. And that is an impossible task if no false negatives are accepted. Old usenet pirates would use base64 strings to spread contents and there are countless ways to obfuscate to algorithms while remaining human recognizable. Which means to remain safe one needs to not even accept and display text input from users.

Copyright databases would be of no help here given both automatic copyright and the ease of dodging hashes. And a complete set would be massive and hillariously defeat the point by giving any implenter all of the media in the world.

Given that it is inevitable that it will have a bad outcome. Even if it is left to rot on the books it becomes a tool of tyranny via selective enforcement.
This is unlikely at large corporations. Projects from bigcorp that get opensourced are the ones that don't contain private information and would be difficult to monetize (or are strategically open-sourced).
That ignores the psychology of your Bezoses and Gateses, though.

They are maniacally obsessed with growing their companies as much as possible, and everything they do works towards that goal. They don't have time for philanthropy, or worrying about social issues, while they're doing that.

Gates was able to give so much away because he shifted focus after leaving Microsoft. Hopefully others like him will follow.
Is he going to start by paying his warehouse workers a living wage?
There is no political will to fix homelessness in San Francisco and it’s actually a big business and money maker for certain people. It’s just a way to funnel tax payers money to those groups. As usual, follow the money.
While cluttered and busy, yes, this shows all possible complications on the watch face. You can choose a very minimal display to this and everywhere in between.
I second this sentiment. I started paying attention to C-SPAN after watching Dan Kaminsky testify about the DNS vulnerability, and it's been very illuminating to see how both sides of the table ask questions.
FWIW, it used to be law.

Tax rate on the top-1% of earners in the US was much, much, MUCH higher until the recent four or so decades.
Your comment made me curious and I ended up finding a great article on the story behind the layoffs at SS&C.

https://www.thepitchkc.com/news/feature-story/article/210195...
I don't think his age or tenure should affect the message he is sending.
To be brutally direct, why do you think mainframes should not survive "in the coming decades"?
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

It's kind of interesting how this feels like such a relatively new problem, yet that quote is from Thomas Jefferson, 1807.
Trump claims 3,000 did not die in Puerto Rico
> 3) non-WAP browser: all phones prior to the iPhone had a wap browser.

That's incorrect. Opera Mobile launched in 2000 and was a full HTML renderer. I had it on a succession of Nokia E-series smartphones in that era. Yes, you could run apps before appstores existed...

Then in 2005 Opera Mini was released which used server-side rendering for feature-phones that couldn't run Mobile.
It’s pretty telling that his company went all out against increased taxes in Seattle to help the homeless only to then start this initiative once being attacked by Bernie.

This shouldn’t be praised as companies doing good, it’s them shirking their taxes and having enough money to start a 2 billion dollar PR campaign.

Same shit with Amazon helping start a new Insurance plan, they want to demonstrate they have an alternative solution to Medicare for all.

Heck, look at the fall out from the Facebook / Cambridge Anlytica scandal, no new regulation, just a brief verbal flogging and FB assuring they will change.

This is all a sign of the times, corporations can’t be regulated and only when threatened, or in a deep scandal, will they briefly self regulate to show how they don’t need it.

Conservatives already hate the government and liberals buy up this PR, we seem pretty screwed. Goodbye democracy hello corporatocracy.
irrespective of any of that. Respect to the guy for standing on principle and removing himself from a technology project he found ethically inexcusable. I'm also a bit surprised more Googlers haven't followed suit.
I don't think it does either, but it does affect the accuracy of the title that this story is submitted under.
Maybe there’s more than one problem worth addressing in Seattle?
Why not pay the employees?
Does he have authority to? Immediately yes, but he only owns 17% or so of the company. If he doubles / triples the wage in absence of market pressure to do so to keep competent staff in the warehouses, how long does he get to do it before the stockholders gang up and replace him?
IIRC FrontPage written-pages and hand-written (by people actually good at it) pages looked pretty similar in-browser, but the HTML that FrontPage produced was an atrocity
Finding and fixing software bugs automatically
I don't think they disagree. I think the person your replying to is writing it that way because the parent commenter are using that as anecdotal evidence for saying all the homeless they see have mental issues, without necessarily understanding a lot of homeless aren't necessarily people with mental issues living on street corners with the rest, as they imply.
In the late 1990s I used imagery (taken on films and later digitized) from the solar observatory at that site ("Sac Peak"). I later visited it for a conference. It's highly remote, and the handful of astronomers there lived in very basic conditions. I seem to remember a house trailer (i.e., a "manufactured home").

Note, Sac Peak is nowhere near the other solar observatory in Kitt Peak, AZ, and it is a daytime observatory as opposed to the much better-provisioned nighttime observatory at nearby Apache Point, NM - where the relatively-new Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope is.

It was a monastic lifestyle on the mountain there, and as the NSF has been backing out of some of its older ground-based observatories in pursuit of newer observing programs like DKIST (the big solar telescope in Hawaii) and LSST, I imagine it has become even more uncomfortable.
Watch your causality.

You know what helps mental illness and addiction? Stability.

The kind of stability you get from knowing where you'll sleep each night, knowing that you'll be safe, not simply trying to survive each day.

It is a complicated problem. There are no magic bullets, no panaceas, but it's ludicrous to think that housing per se isn't a major aspect of this issue. The threat of homelessness introduces anxiety that exacerbates mental problems and leads toward drug abuse. The reality of it is no better. Don't confuse causes and symptoms; the many aspects of homelessness are tightly linked and teasing out causality is no easy task.

We can't expect everyone to have the presence of mind, at a dark and low point in their lives, to uproot their entire lives and find new housing and a new job in a completely new area. Many don't have any kind of support network to make that work, or know of the services or resources that could make that happen, if they even exist.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
> disagreement and people being wildly wildly wrong in good faith

Unfortunately but the most important basic studies of psychiatry were bullshit. And maybe they were in good faith, but it's incredibly hard to believe that. Freud, for instance, was either serial sex offender and mass-accomplice to sexual abuse, or an incredible rube ...

You see Freud saw sexual fantasies everywhere in women. They would fantasize about getting raped by this or that family member. There's a tiny little problem with that ...

It's come out in more than a few cases that these patients were in fact raped, assaulted and ... by family members and others. Afterwards these "patients" saw everyone's intentions to be sexual and expressed that by seeing sexual abuse everywhere and worrying about what would happen to them.

Strange, isn't it ? Freud never once saw it. God knows how many women tried to convince him to help them get justice, but it must have been over 100 at least. Never once did he help.

Maybe he knew, maybe he didn't.

He did lock quite a few of them away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freudian_Coverup

But no worries ! Since then we've vastly improved efficiency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry
Indeed. IF they made an XS Mini with a good enough camera I’d probably buy it even at the Max price point.
It's a matter of perspective. You can see a thing from afar and know what it is, but when you are in it, it is extremely hard to give it a name.
While I haven't owned a statistically significant number of different smartphones, the lower-end Android devices I've owned have seemed poorly tested - especially for problems that skirt the dividing line between the phone developer's responsibility and the app developer's responsibility.

For example, I once had a device where Skype would only use the rear-facing camera. Another device received a software update which couldn't be installed as the internal storage had been consumed by updates to apps like Facebook that were _impossible to uninstall_.

Flagship products seem to receive marginally more testing; I speculate phone companies' employees mostly dogfood the flagship models.
My first professional job was to write RPG for an AS/400 mainframe (or whatever it's called these days), and even I don't know what the word "mainframe" is supposed to suggest to the modern user. As far as I could tell, it was just a single bog-standard server rack (amusingly sitting alone in a room that was far, far too big for it; a reminder of the massive bank of computers that used to do the same job) whose only interface was a green-and-black 80x24 IBM terminal emulator speaking a bespoke telnet dialect, and where nothing on the system was textual so you could only use first-party tools to modify the system (conspicuously lacking any support for source control). And I ain't a greybeard, this was in 2011! And the thing was dog slow; I took a batch job that spent hours running every night, ported it to PHP (forcing it to make database requests over the intranet now), and saw the runtime fall to minutes. I estimate that the company paid around $40,000 annually for the privilege of using it. IBM must have the best salespeople in the entire world.
Something you might not have considered are the brand value and personal network aspects of an MBA. They're tremendously helpful to gain audiences or advice you might have a harder time accessing as an early stage entrepreneur.

You may also be surprised with the changes many MBA programs have made toward entrepreneurship. There are now incubators, cross-disciplinary product launch classes, and school affiliated venture funds.
Do human designed systems always end up centralized?
"Syntax is polarizing, so we'll move the decision to the team level where they can argue endlessly about which to prefer."

Interesting project, I like the emphasis on immutable data and pattern matching.
Seems like Mark R. Heckman was trying to reconcile common cases where a company has data about their customer/user that said customer would like to control access to, yet the company is actively fighting the actual data owner.

Of course, no data-centric company is going to let you restrict or remove your data from their database easily, just look at what Google and Facebook do to their users when end users attempt to revoke access!
I tend to be fairly opposed to the do-nothing stance taken by West Coast cities with regard to homeless camping, but I don't think it has anything to do with a vote buying conspiracy. There are much simpler explanations.
Yes, and that's exactly the issue, because people living in their cars also need help, and ignoring them because they don't have mental health issues or sleep on the sidewalk compared to other parts of the homeless population is ignorant and stupid.
Ok, maybe this is a silly question, but I am a millennial.... Question: what is a mainframe and why would I want one? In my mind I think of it as a big, but inelastic, compute resource. If that's true, why wouldn't I want to use something horizontally scalable instead?
I wouldn't call them stupid. Though when irrational and unreasonable fear of a slippery slope result leads a significant portion of a population to deny the obvious to their detriment, I'm comfortable calling that a stupid action.
If BPA indeed cause those issues, we have more problems at hand than the coating in cans. BPA is everywhere those days.
A late friend who worked on type II supernova simulations was once invited to talk about his team's software with some gentlemen at an NNSA lab, Los Alamos or Livermore or Sandia (I forget which one.)

At the conclusion of the talk, the DOE guys said appreciative things about the current work, but also pointed out that certain avenues of investigation into certain characteristics might lead to the gov't declaring this software classified, and restricting who might have access to it. My friend was at the time not a US citizen, so he would have been locked out of contributing to his own work.

"Nice piece of software you have there, would be a shame if something...happened to it..."
So it’s the same, except it’s something else completely.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17978598
Addressability — 512GBytes is 2^39 bytes aka 2^36 8-byte chunks. So each memory address needs 39 bits, and each internal memory address bus needs either at least 36 or 39 wires, depending on the context — too much for 32-bit addresses.

In other words, going to 7nm makes it easier to route wide busses around the chip. You could do the same thing on a larger process, but it's less space-efficient.
I'm not 100% sure, but right now, the focus has mostly been on the use-case of upgrading to Rust 2018, which is warnings-based. I'd imagine it would eventually support both, but am not 100% sure about where exactly it is today.

Errors are a bit more challenging, because fixing an error may introduce more, new errors, making it harder to tell if applying the fix is correct or not.
I like the idea of abstracting the syntax so that if you want to program in something Haskell like you can or program in a JavaScript like language. (I had a similar idea). I hope that the developer ergonomics that this provides is enough to balance the trouble of multiple people reading different syntax .
Whether or not a company / person actually has values is completely different from what they say about having values.

If you truly have values, then your actions are aligned with, consistent with, and demonstrate your stated values.

It’s easy to talk about having values. Usually the pretense is dropped when the chance to advance self interest like money comes up.
Pretty much this. I basically steer my clients to free software, simply because they can hire people with experience in it because people can learn it easily in their free time.
The whole thread should be about the EU response and how negative it will be for most EU citizens but have less of an impact on the intended targets, aka large corporations who can afford to be compliant.

I think arguing over who has the most censored internet or the worst corporations is probably starting to veer off topic.
I think the author is not familiar with watches in general. You have always been able to choose very complex and "busy" faces if you want to have easy and quick access to information.

Just do a quick images search for "high end watch complications" and you will see plenty of very expensive watches that commit the same supposed "design crime"
In one sense, almost everything was done before.

But not in the reinforcing way. The cell plan lets you download songs over the air. That lines up the two business deals you made.

http://theconversation.com/understanding-the-real-innovation...
Interesting.

I wonder if any regulations around phone numbers is actually what it protecting Voice from getting nuked from CEO orbit.
Estimated Excess Mortality from Hurricane Marie [pdf]
oh-kumudo didn't call China poor, they said China was poor and now they're not.
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Google has more than 85,000 employees - with a good chunk of those being technical positions. And they take getting their employees to 'drink the kool-aid' very seriously. What percent of those employees do you think browse or post on hacker news?

I'm not suggesting the employees or Google are doing anything wrong but it's going to result in a visible bias that one should keep in mind.
Glad to hear that 1.29 now brings clippy to stable Rust. (Before, clippy required nightly Rust.)
> 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.

You realize that if Bezos gave all the Amazon employees 'adequate wages' that you would then still be blaming him for inadequate housing? Or at least different people in Seattle would.

> 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.

The horror. Setting up lower socioeconomic statuses for long term success.

Would it help if the article didn't masquerade this effort as a cure all?
Why is .pnp.js file and the .pnp directory hidden? Most projects are moving away from hidden magic files/dirs I think.
I've had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy and I've been homeless.

Addiction is not, per se, a major root cause of homelessness. There are people with addictions who have careers. If addiction caused homelessness, then getting addicted would land people on the street as a routine consequence.

People see homeless individuals do X and conclude "X causes homelessness" or is otherwise some inherent trait of "those people" and it's usually unfounded.
A cartogram of world population in 2018
I'm curious why you refer to it as a trap. I personally use spacemacs and am very happy with it and I also use org mode casually, though do not consider myself an expert by any means. I do think I've experienced a similar "quantum leap" in productivity through my usage of VIM commands in an emacs environment though and am thankful for it every time I see a coworker painstakingly navigating through sublime text or something similar. Definitely not a trap for me. I imagine the productivity gains heralded by fans of org mode are similar in nature, so your idea that this focus on increased automation for personal productivity should be considered a "trap" is curious to me.

I do concede that org mode and lisp in general are brought up perhaps a bit too often here at HN seeing as they're not all that new though.
This concept seems fascinating.
The important distinction of the first iPhone is that the touchscreen was designed to be used with fingers and not with some kind of stylus as was then common for mobile devices. The fact that the screen was multi-touch capable is not that important and mostly an inherent feature of used capacitive technology.
You are a mentally ill and insolent. Take a hike.
> Ban from multiplayer, sure

That kind of what they are doing. You can still play pretty much anything that doesn't run on VAC-secured servers. There are consequences on the steam community as well, though. The most significant are probably your profile being branded and restrictions on item trade/using the market.
> speedrunning is a really, really difficult thing to do with a gradient descent approach

That's kind of what makes it interesting, no? You could argue that speedrunning requires not just observing a change in score from a change in inputs, but understanding, symbolically manipulating, and exploiting game mechanics.
>An animal in the wild has freedom, but not security.

An animal that gives up its freedom for security deserves neither.

I agree that the original metaphor was inappropriate because it compares people to domesticated animals and crops that have no free will and would not exist without the farm, not to mention the personal freedom implications of equating citizens to domesticated animals.
NIMBY-ism mostly. The people lucky enough to already own property don't want further residential development. It keeps their property values artificially high. There is an unreasonable expectation that if you buy a house in a nice quiet suburb then it should stay a nice quiet suburb the entire time you are living there.

In California specifically, they voted themselves (via referendum) a law which also keeps property taxes down for incumbents

"The proposition decreased property taxes by assessing property values at their 1976 value and restricted annual increases of assessed value of real property to an inflation factor, not to exceed 2 percent per year. It also prohibited reassessment of a new base year value except for in cases of (a) change in ownership, or (b) completion of new construction. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
I know Jack and based on all my dealings with him, I am not surprised he would act on his conscience in this regard.

I'm not sure I feel as strongly on this subject as he does. Nevertheless, he is one of the finest minds I've ever encountered.
I think you have to split the question into two parts, where one is [literally] computer science and the other is computing technology. There are scads of options in the second pool, but I think the first is what you're aiming for. No one sticks out, but that's because the actual science & engineering behind applied computing technology is ... esoteric. Additionally, it's hard to find any one thing enough fanatics agree is cool & interesting in order to drive broad popular opinion.