skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness to all in this thread, I think the failure to define "solving homelessness" is causing some miscommunication.

The OP seems to be discussing the problem of solving it in a global sense, so that people do not become homeless. IMO, more housing is the solution to that problem.

The GP seems to be discussing the problem of solving it in terms of the existing homeless population, which, regardless of causation or the directionality of any causation, does require dealing with the mental illness and drug abuse issues.
Why Google, Amazon and Microsoft Keep Trying Their Hands at Hardware
Is homelessness in SF really about affordable housing? Obviously San Francisco has insane housing prices but there are dozens and dozens of shelters & programs (I volunteer at a couple) for homeless people to take refuge and get their life back together.

As I understand it (and as my friend who is an SF police officer where 90% of his job is dealing with the homeless), the much larger problem is SF's (& perhaps society in general's) failure to provide institutionalized care for people with severe mental disabilities.

No amount of money, support systems, or opportunity for getting off the street is going to help people with severe schizophrenia or dementia who have no family or safety net. A lot of these people the only solution is for them to be institutionalized. Unfortunately, there isn't much of a way for someone to be institutionalized against their will (unless they are causing danger of harm to themselves or others) so they continue to live on the streets.

I think what this city really needs is a place to send people deemed in need of institutionalizing, and the ability for that to be determined. Of course that would never fly in a place like SF, but I think it would be a happier life for those people than life on the streets.
oh, yeah I know - I was giving a lower bound.

Although the people who fight housing seem to not grasp this.
Italy is a net contributor to the EU.
not in my experience
This sounds a lot like the Greek culture, and I always find it a bit uncomfortable to engage in smalltalk when I travel to a country that does it. It's a very specific type of smalltalk, like what you'd do at a bus stop or at a house party, where you're just talking to the other person superficially without any intent to continue any sort of relationship after you've gotten to know them a bit.

I can't explain it very well, but smalltalk is talking to just pass the time until something else happens. We tend to think of talking to someone as a bit more meaningful, and meant to create or deepen a relationship, so if we know that we're never going to see someone again, we tend to just not make an effort to talk to them.

Your point about the "super-nice new friend" rings especially true, as that's what I find most uncomfortable. It just seems extremely fake, and that's not to say there aren't friendly people in the US, it's just that specific interaction where they're being fake-super-friendly as part of a transaction or business relationship.
What happens to Tim Cook if Bloomberg is correct?
I'm in my 50's and I've been a ham for over 30 years. I understand where you are coming from. I do also operate FT8 and have thought to myself at times how nice it was to be making contacts without having to listen to people ranting.

That said, there are plenty of hams who don't want to complain about politics, we just notice the curmudgeons more. I've had some great HF SSB QSO's lately that never touched on politics.

Some of the more technical modes tend to appeal to hams that are more interested in the technical side than the hams that frequent HF SSB or VHF FM.

There are many bands and many modes. If your VFO lands you on a QSO that you don't want to hear, QSY to another and call CQ.
The thing with the Killian documents case is that, while CBS (presumably) didn't knowingly run a false story, they were very negligent in their sourcing and verification. They wanted the story to be true too much. [ADDED: We don't know at this time whether the same can be said of Bloomberg, assuming the story unravels.]

Other news organizations were also pretty mad at CBS over this. There was a story around W's National Guard service that actually didn't depend on the Killian documents. But once those documents were determined to be fake, it pretty much blew up the reporting around the story generally.
The flaw in your logic doesn't lie in your assertion, but the opposite:

If it's indeed possible for some powerful forces to coerce some engineers into accomplishing certain goals, how possible is it for the same said forces to coerce some other people into accomplishing some other goals?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation
Or just map Caps-lock to Esc..
What's the difference with #1?
Correct, but housing is a very important requirement.
Sample-size of one here, but I switched to Fedora a few years back after growing tired of Ubuntu lagging with Wayland. I haven't had any real issues since, but I really wanted ZFS so I’m back on Ubuntu.
Former news editor here.

Perhaps the biggest danger in this and other similar policies is not how it is applied today -- removing the names of people accused of minor crimes that have had their records expunged seems like a compassionate policy, given the effects it can have on things like employment prospects -- but in how it may be applied in the future.

The idea that a newspaper archive is a collection of living documents, capable of being amended, rather than fixed snapshots of the past, is a fundamental shift.

My concern is that down the line, more alterations will be permitted to be made, and potentially for less reasonable reasons, and then it's only a matter of time before archival information cannot be trusted, because there may be no way to determine what, if anything, has changed.

That didn't used to be the case. When print copies of newspapers were used for library archives, it was practically impossible to alter all extant hard copies.

But nowadays, unless this content gets indexed and preserved by numerous outside entities, it would be very easy for a newspaper to silently modify its own archives.

I would be more comfortable if the newspaper included, as part of its policy, a requirement that a versioning ledger be published along with any altered archival stories, such as:

* On 2018-10-19, this story was edited to remove the name of the suspect, under our "Right to Be Forgotten" policy. A copy of the original story is available for inspection at our office.

That, at least, would allow people perusing the archives to know whether a story had been altered long after publication, and it would give people who really need the information to acquire it (albeit not easily).
price you pay for an unaccountable bureaucracy.
Woa, I looked for that, for years, and you use even Tomcat? Bravo!

I always see comments as more interesting than the submitted links (which most are from same sources, often submitted repetitively).

This is a kind of double indirection, as links are probably even more interesting than comments.

Something I would love is some kind of email alert about some keywords.
This does seem excessive, but I'd like to see a more detailed breakdown of spending.

SF vs. Manhattan is a better comparison as New York city as a whole has more/cheaper space available than SF.
It's not misleading. If each state is internally equal, but richer states have much higher funding, that's still a case where richer districts get more funding, just not one that's visible within any one state.

Something related has happened in recent elections: higher income is correlated with voting Republican in every state, but richer states are typically bluer. So if you aggregate by state, it looks like there's no relationship, but if you aggregate by people, there is one.

Returning to school funding, the complicating factor is that so far as costs of construction and labor are higher, New Jersey arguably would spend more per student than Mississippi in a completely equitable world. Because of that, I said that the map was somewhat conducive to your point of view, but there's still a lot of work to determine the net effect.
> the Constitution already allowed the federal government to forbid slavery

The Union wasn't (particularly the slave states in the Union weren't) fighting to abolish slavery, the Union wasn't fighting to preserve the Union, a goal to which the popular (in most of the North) cause of abolition had been deliberately subordinated in the elections prior to the war.

OTOH, by seceding, the rebel states also lost their leverage on preserving slavery within the Union, so the whole rebellion backfired. Abolition probably would have happened eventually without the war, but it wouldn't have been right away.
Not really a race per se. Northern Italy views southern Italy the same way SV views Alabama.

edit: We done fixed some grammar.
That might be a reasonable basis for a rule in theory, but it's not the issue in this case under Japanese election law. Something that has any value and counts as a gift and therefore isn't allowed, even if the value is extremely small.

There are other various other rules about campaign activity though (where/when it can be performed).
I think Bloomberg was probably irresponsible to publish the Chinese spy chip story, whether it was true or false! Here's why:

* If the story is false, it's irresponsible because it causes severe monetary and reputational damage to companies that do not deserve it (e.g. Supermicro's stock is still down ~ 40%).

* If the story is true, it's a MAJOR breach of classified information from US intelligence operations; operations which I assume (without evidence to the contrary) are operating in good faith -- in the interest of the US and its citizens. Breaching classified information of such ongoing investigations to trace supply chains of spy chips could very well compromise those investigations (which would be irresponsible to risk).

So either way, it's irresponsible IMO.

P.S. IMO you cannot justify leaking this kind of info by comparing to Snowden, for example, because Snowden was a whistle-blower revealing information about operations that compromised citizens rights, which even congress was lied to about.
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Ugh, misplaced pedantry, the worst kind of pedantry.
>we must consider the change in biodiversity and not just abundance

Why?
I think if I get cancer I'm just going to have to die. I can't leave my wife destitute.
Where are you getting that serving your time in jail gives you the right to have your actions forgotten? Society 'forgives' you when you serve your full sentence, but there is nothing stated anywhere that your victims need to forget what you did once your sentence is up.
I definitely will try to do that SSTV event.

I don't think i "get" echolink. You hook up your radio to your computer (somehow? I don't know how i'd do this with a baofeng) and talk into it and then it uses the internet to send that across the world to other peoples radios who are also connected to their computer? It just feels like a discord voice chat with radios as the input/output device. Am i missing something?
This is too minor a matter for Finns to bother discussing. Those doing the talking must be FSB infiltrators.
So the author is calling for less violence against minorities, wants to remove racist language from public discourse, but he must still be racist because he does not totally condemn racists who happen to want the same goals as he does?

Not criticizing, I just want to know if this is a fair assessment. I do not know how I feel about this in general, but in specific, his short term goal of reducing violence makes him a more tollerable enemy.
That's amazing. I had no idea data centers used so much!
Between 2006 and 2008 I spent a lot of time on the streets interviewing homeless people for a documentary film I was making [1]. One of the things they often mentioned was the "homeless-industrial complex" (a phrase coined by one of my subjects, not me). There are a lot of organizations that make a lot of money "helping" homeless people, and their continued existence depends on there not being an effective solution to the problem. Homeless people are literally their bread-and-butter, so they have a perverse incentive to ensure a steady supply of "product". Similar perverse incentives play themselves out in other areas of our society, like privately run prisons.

[1] http://graceofgodmovie.com
If you search around the 'net you'll find a number of cases in which a person's principle language has changed after a traumatic brain injury. Some people have even become fluent in a language they only recalled a pidgin vocabulary from before.

Perhaps more common, but still quite rare at about one person per year worldwide, is something called foreign accent syndrome. In which a head injury causes someone with one regional accent to speak the same language with a different accent afterward, often resembling the accent of another region. Examples have included from US to British, US to French, an Oregon woman developed an Australian one, etc.

Sensory changes, changes in personality, and other things can happen with stroke or accidental brain trauma, too.

One particularly interesting case is hinted at in this article, but if you're interested your favorite search engine should turn up many more cases.: https://www.thecut.com/2016/10/the-boy-who-came-out-of-a-com...
It's helping other search engines which was the point. You might see phones with Bing instead of Google.
Cost of housing is a big one. Low housing costs and plenty of space available make the homeless problem both less likely and easier to deal with.
Semi-related: My uncle grew up speaking Gaelic and learned English in his later teens and has become a successful musician, doing a lot of touring. He mentioned to me, over a few glasses, that the language of the US is Sports, not English. The doormen at hotels, the roadies, the servers in restaurants, the cashiers, the flight attendants, other musicians, etc. all of them 'spoke sports.' In his experience, if you started talking about the Lakers'/Broncos'/Red-Wings'/local-teams' most recent game, you'd get an instant connection with that person (and therefore a much better experience). He made it a point, while on the road, to watch the ESPN highlights back at the hotel, to have something to talk about with valets, cashiers, while standing in line, etc. For my uncle, it made road-life a LOT easier and more friendly.

So, in most of the US at least, remember that small talk can be made easier by talking recent sports news.
In a country with open borders between states and extremely cheap transportation, homelessness really should be thought of as, at least partially, a federal problem. And funded accordingly.

> [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...

i laughed when I read that title. "Tracking results" is definitely a form of overhead, so the article is literally complaining that charities are ineffective because they don't have enough overhead.

In general, "minimize overhead" isn't equal to "maximize impact per dollar". The obvious software industry exemplar is the oft-repeated complaint about companies hiring expensive engineers and then refusing to buy a $200 monitor.
Gross receipts taxes are poorly structured taxes. Because they tax all business transactions throughout the supply chain, they create a pyramiding effect that penalizes more complex industries, e.g., an aircraft manufacturer probably gets taxed more than a local dairy. I don't know whether the things the SF government wants to spend the money on will help with the homelessness problem or not; but I do think there are better types of taxes to raise that money.

https://taxfoundation.org/gross-receipts-tax-impact-san-fran...
The catch is that you can't actually measure the rule-and-compass construction with infinite precision. You can perform more operations on the construction and then measure later to verify that it produced the correct result, but so can a turing machine acting on a mere "representation" of the number.
I was in Helsinki two years ago and loved every minute of it. I said to an American friend at the time, "I don't know why, but this is a great city to think in."

This article helps explain it — there's less idle conversation, yes, but when conversing, it's actually much easier and straightforward to talk about deep and interesting things. And if you want to be quiet and just think, people are cool with that too.

It's really a lovely place. Very clean and beautiful, too. Very much worth visiting.
Rehabilitation is certainly in society's interests--I don't imagine there's any argument to be made against it.

However, the 1st amendment to the US Constitution puts strong limitations on the ability of the government to prevent or censor expression. How can the worthy goal of improving convicts' rehabilitation--albeit via suppressing news and opinion--possibly square with free speech?
Same here.

A lot are also alcoholics and/or addicts - this is one of those things where saving money is the short term (not managing the homelessness problem before it got to this point) results in a higher cost in the long term - now you not only have to manage homelessness, you also hav to help the existing homeless recover from long term homelessness.

You also have the long term costs of assisting those with mental illness (as a result of "saving money" by closing down all state level support for mental illness in the 80s - I'm not saying that was a panacea, but having the support helped a lot of people that currently get no help).

Politicians love "saving tax payer money" through short term things like this, because they know that by the time someone has to fix their mess they've moved on/retired and they don't have to deal with it.
My point is that states’ rights and freedom aren’t really related. Often the federal government forces freedom on the states against their will. Slavery is a really obvious example.
In the past, Apple has lied about a severe security incident involving Super Micro hardware.

In 2016 Super Micro Senior Vice President of Technology himself said Apple found "infected firmware." It was so bad that Apple "discontinued future business [with Super Micro] as a result of a compromised internal development environment". Strangely Apple at the time was denying the whole thing:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/02/23/server-firmware-s...
But today, 2 years later, in a statement denying the current spy chip saga, Apple now appears to acknowledge this 2016 security incident, while minimizing it: they say it was "an infected driver on a single Super Micro server in one of our labs" (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got...)

Why would Apple deny then 2 years later confirm this security incident?

As usual, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. It is very possible the anonymous sources at Apple who support the spy chip story are not technical persons and are confusing this 2016 incident with the spy chip incident (in fact it's what Apple theorizes in their statement.) It is very possible the spy chip does exist and was found at some companies, just not at Apple.

I also find it very interesting that the FBI, the one organization allegedly at the center of this saga investigating the spy chip, has remained completely silent, neither confirming nor denying the story.
The log segments committed by FaunaDB contain batches of transactions, which means our throughput is constrained not by our consensus protocol, but rather by conflicts as transactions are resolved. The benchmarked 3300 transactions/second mentioned is for complex transactions with dozens of reads and writes. Additionally, read-only transactions are not run through the transaction pipeline, since they can be served consistently with low latency from replicas using FaunaDB's snapshot storage.

More important for most applications than theoretical benchmarks is taking a sound approach and using a database you can depend on. Asking your development team to manage isolation is going to introduce more costs than benefits, except in the most specialized of circumstances.

FaunaDB's model is always ACID, so you never have to guess what's in the database, even in the presence of region failures or other anomalies.
Bloomberg listed a lot of entities in that article and every single one that wasn't anonymous has all but called Bloomberg outright frauds over it. They have all sorts of anonymous sources telling them anything and everything about this supposed plot yet none of them provided any shred of evidence to back up their claims.

Where's the smoking gun here? Why don't we have die shots of this thing? Why hasn't anyone on this very forum seen the C&C traffic from it phoning home to see if it was a target? Nothing about their explanation even seems remotely plausible. Why on earth would the attacker ever do something as obvious and annoying to deal with as what they supposedly did with altering the layout of the board and adding components instead of just backdooring the BMC? Are we supposed to believe that they were simultaneously competent enough to pull off Bloomberg's fairytale but too incompetent to have an altered BMC load backdoored firmware internally instead of off of an EEPROM chip on the board?

I'm not saying that we should rush to conclusions but Bloomberg has provided absolutely no sources with any shred of credibility. There's nothing to substantiate anything so why should the default stance be anything other than to consider that article a piece of cyberpunk fanfiction?
Nice, been looking for an open source dictionary!
Foraging cattle, allowed into the forest in the summer, are another factor in Pando’s shrinkage.

Foraging cattle in Western USA are one of the two primary threats to the ecosystem, the other being the "wild" horses that we're too stupid to cull. It's criminal that Western ranchers are allowed to destroy land that belongs to everyone in order to barely eke out a meager existence with the tiny herds that land can support, while only occasionally paying pitifully low "grazing fees". Meanwhile the vast majority of American beef is raised in the Central Timezone, by people who own or rent the land they use for pasture. [0]

Any fiscally responsible person would see Cliven Bundy and family in prison. They're already paying a pittance to destroy the environment of the West, and then they cry about even that?

[0] A guy I met from New Mexico a month ago was bragging that they could run 12 head per square mile. We can easily run ten times that density, and more if conditions are right.
HELO flurdy
WTF personal space!

:)

Small talk is a protocol. There is information exchange. Possibly the Finns are trying to out do the machine but even machines agree small talk is necessary :)
> may take a huge stock market and reputation hit

I think you can use the past tense here.
> You joined Google because you were deeply interested in Linux. Is there a technology you're equally excited about today?
This is a question which I would be curious for someone else to tell me the answer to! The closest thing I can think of is Bitcoin and crypto. I'm pretty sure they would have captured the attention of 21 year old me.

Can relate so much with this article. Maybe because we’re around the same age. Crypto reminds of me of Linux and the early days of the Internet. I see the potential and that’s why I’m working in it.
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I would be surprised if Bloomberg fell for foreign propaganda. I don't think they'd write an article like this without American sources within, or related to, the companies involved.

It's possible there was a game of telephone or something else where the sources Bloomberg spoke with somehow ended up believing foreign propaganda, but I'm a bit skeptical of that.
What kind of "interesting" data are you looking for and in what environment. I'll assume you are doing some type of forensics. Maybe these tool can help you?

https://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/
https://www.volatilityfoundation.org/