skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's hard to think of the single mother living in her car while working every day because the most visible members are the addicts sitting in the alley passed out in their own feces next to your stolen bicycle

I think this is what's going to result in a rather massive upheaval in the next city council elections in Seattle. There seems to be a belief--right or wrong[0]--that "the vagrants are taking over, the community is sick of it, and our generosity is at an end." (In quotes because it's a characterization.) There has already been one candidate for council in district 6 (Ballard, Crown Hill, Northwest Seattle), who subsequently dropped out because of other political drama, that made his main plank that he was going to do nothing except push to roll back spending at every opportunity and get ordinances passed requiring the police to actively go after "vagrancy."

He didn't get very far, mostly because of the aforementioned drama, but that he got as much attention as he did is telling. I think if a more viable, or at least level-headed, candidate starts to challenge the district 6 incumbent (I'm picking on district 6 because a lot of the noise about this problem has been coming from there and 6 includes Aurora Ave N) on the basis of this belief that the problem is too far out of control and must be stopped with a big hammer, the divide between the two groups will become pretty stark. And if that challenger doesn't win, it'll be a pretty close race.

0 - I happen to think this belief is wrong.
You could look at it that way!

Some might describe Gartner as a company that dispenses reasonable advice on demand to companies who need guidance on subjects well outside their core competencies. This is very much making money from incompetence, but it's the sort of profiting from incompetence that every expert adviser does.
I was more acknowledging it's not that easy to put a single number on that spend. The low number is a little over half that 11 billion I mentioned, but you can easily come up with other metrics which provide vastly larger figures.
The HN crowd, me included, are real humans with real needs and smartphone apps and convenience brings a real value to my life. For one, transparent syncing of photos, notes, basic spreadsheets and many others is a huge selling point of iCloud.

It's not about if I can buy a cheap FreeNAS rig -- an i5 CPU and 10-year old motherboard with 16-32GB of DDR2/DDR3 RAM -- and gradually add WD Gold hard drives to it. It's not about if I can use Syncthing and a command-line password manager. It's not about if I can use PostmarketOS or LineageOS and thus only buy Android-enabled devices (yay Linux freedom?).

I can do all that. But it requires more manual management. And I just don't have the time and energy for it.

It's strange to me to imply that the HN crowd are some sort of world-changers that never have financial struggles and live in beach houses a la Iron Man style with 3x independent gigabit fiber links and 500 sq.m. of home labs that rival Mythbusters' space -- and are constantly busy disrupting an area.

Truth is, even though in principle you are correct -- and even though I really would like to only use free [as in freedom and not a free beer] hardware and software -- the reality is that we all have jobs to do. And most of us actually love the people we live with and would want to spend a chunk of our free time with them. We all would love to get a normal amount of sleep and invest in the knowledge necessary to get proper nutrition because we're literally a hugely complex chemical compound and we better put the right chemicals inside of us...

...etc. etc to infinity., I can go on all day and night but I am pretty certain you got the point.

The HN crowd is certainly much more aware than many other crowds. Doesn't automatically imply they have the means to change a lot of things. Trust me, I'd like to live like Tony Stark and invent a ton of stuff that can change the world -- that includes his house and a lab -- but I am gradually coming to terms with the fact that I'll very likely stop at having 7-10 profitable consultancies and/or lifestyle businesses that will give me a peace of mind even after retirement.

Life is short and many of us don't want to work 24/7. More power to the people who can maintain a good living AND be inventors and disrupters. I have big respect for them.
It was an api endpoint making a number of db and other network requests. The garbage was the accumulation of temporary and response objects that were held for the long duration of processing, up to half of which could be in the ruby code not waiting on i/o. If the code ran faster there would be more time for gc and handling the incoming request volume.
Uh, their contribution is inspiration?
I take some Ebastine when an allergic strike hits (Pollen and dust).
Tried other anitihistamines but ebastine doesn't make me drowzy.
Hurray digital signal synchronization!
> takes enormous amount of time to go through each line and each file

>My thesis is that there are lots of folks out there just trying to brag to be "contributor" for popular open source projects

Do you have an example of this? All I could find in your top 3 repos was one pull request updating the readme and its only 8 lines.

https://github.com/sytelus/CryptoJS/pull/3/files
> Not all social media bots are malicious. And not all social media bots are posting content from low credibility sources.

The collateral damage from banning them all may be worth it, if they're a major means for pushing low credibility content and disinformation.
In Tokyo, the rail transit system (including subways) is operated by a network of private companies. These train operators make a net profit from fares and other revenues, and the system is generally well liked by its customers. Even if the idea of privatization makes you cringe, the idea that public transit is inevitably a money pit or loss leader is misguided.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/10/why-tokyos-pr...
"...when it comes to my area of expertise"
It's actually indefinite by adding more slave blocks, the spec example shows how this works up to 60 blocks, but the algorithm holds beyond that.
I'm reasonably certain it can be run on the H7 but not sure about the H4. It is one of my test cases :-). Note that these chips also include a DDR memory controller so you can put 16MB of RAM on them pretty simply, some of ST Micro's 'Discovery' cards come with this populated, but that is not used on the H4 or H7 camera.
Show HN: Big data for peoples voice
I'm the OP - jsut because the context is so striking... could've been shorter, I suppose.
I’m wondering what sort of physics research this opens up before the burst. I imagine it’s still producing energy levels otherwise difficult to create.
It's a basic electronics knowledge that there's a danger in physically damaging a chip if you continuously feed it less voltage than it needs.

What Apple did is to prefer to have people's devices run slower compared to breaking them.

What they did wrong was keeping quiet about it. I ain't ever disputing that, it was a really bad decision to hide it.

The reasoning to do it however has solid foundations in physical reality. Even I that I know nothing of electronics went out of my way to read about it and asked several electronical engineer acquaintances of mine and they all said Apple did the right thing by slowing down the devices.
> Humans have, to date, seen no sign of any extraterrestrial civilization.

We do not know that and it may very well be false.

Yeast was known of and observed for thousands of years, but was not discovered to be life until the 1800s. The signs of life were there, but were not recognized.

It is just our human bias to envision complexity as only occurring on earth-like planets, on human-like time and size scales, communicating over the EM spectrum, formed of baryonic matter...

We don't ask what Great Filter prevents the aliens from speaking English. But we might if English was the only language known on Earth. What languages other than DNA are spoken in the universe?
Or if she got corrupted by the dark side and works for FB now!
Gartner provides plausible deniability for inevitable leadership mistakes. "Hey, it was in the Magic Quadrant! It wasn't our fault our implementation failed!"
To explain quantum mechanical observations you need "collapse" (i.e. the projection postulate: immediately after a measurement the state of the quantum system is the projection on the corresponding eigenspace of the operator). I don't know what do you gain by saying that it's not "real" and that it's just "as if".
I think part of the problem is that there is a certain percentage of homeless people that are just completely irredeemable.

Anyone that’s spent some time riding on the NYC subway can attest to this. No matter how much money you throw at them, they will keep begging or acting crazy.

Short of locking them up, what do you do with those people?
I use (neo)vim so that I can have a consistent editor experience across any *nix machine I’m on, be it my MacBook or some remote VM instance that I’m ssh’d into. Copy over config files and ready to go.
If you're doing surprise holiday night-shift overtime, you should probably be getting paid 3x your base rate.

Comparing the annual salary of someone who clocks in their 9-5, and goes home on Thanksgiving and Christmas, compared to someone who is doing 60 hours a week, twenty of them from 3 am to 9 am, on Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday... Is comparing apples to oranges. [1] But it sure drives the outrage! Look, and be outraged at the annual take-home of that bus driver! Ignore the part where he worked like a dog, and gave up all life outside work for it!

Rates for hour worked, in equivalent conditions are the only fair comparison. And, unsurprisingly, they aren't high for MTA employees - especially in a city as outrageously expensive as NYC.

If you want to stop paying public servants overtime, then don't expect public servants to work outside of core business hours.

[1] Most salaried employees don't do unpaid overtime, period. Overtime, even paid overtime, is incredibly shitty, doubly so for holiday and night shift work, triply so for holiday night shift work. People should be compensated more for doing the same job at 2 am on Christmas Saturday, then for doing a 9-5 on Tuesday. [2]

[2] If your job expects regular unpaid overtime from you, you should either have an ownership stake in it, or get a new job, or have a really high on-paper salary.
Cars and roads have plenty of problems, sure, but I have no idea what you mean by this "illusion of freedom".
Yes, it is sad. OpenCV has a code-gen for Java/Python but they are hard to work with. A number of projects in other programming languages (Rust [1], Go [2]) has to use custom build wrappers.

[1] https://github.com/nebgnahz/cv-rs
[2] https://github.com/hybridgroup/gocv
I'd challenge you, as a thought experiment, to try and inwardly answer a question s.a "should we pick azure, aws or gcp". You may use your vast knowledge of O notations.
Nobody expects the NYC subway to "break even or even turn a profit." The subway historically recovers less than 50% of its operating expenditures from fares, compared to 70% for Berlin, 88% for Amsterdam, and over 100% in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio.

MTA is broke because it costs several times as much for MTA to do anything compared to its counterparts in other Europe: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-....
One thing to keep in mind is that the network protocols usually use quite weak and similar checksums. To the extent that there are layer combinations that reliably produce errors that are not detectable by TCP checksum.
Let me prioritize the usual academic processes first to make sure the outcomes are more persistent and visible, given we are talking about a publication under review or a draft. I will reach out to the paper's primary contact.
Since this a crazy hard problem that won't be solved in a comments section, how about playing with a completely silly idea instead:

> Outlaw rental housing - force everyone to own their residence

The people we're most interested in helping are those pushed out by rising rents. Rents can't rise if they don't exist. New migrants can't drive rent up if rent doesn't exist - to the contrary, they would be increasing property value for all residents.

I'm confident we can make this work, people.
"See this? We just need to change one little thing. There is a problem with the program and we can fix it: the president variable is orange. Let's work on that"
I'm okay with this as long as he names each iteration after a U.S. President. So we'd have "Washington Starship", then "Adams Starship", and so on.
Hence why the NYC mayor is so intent on funding worthless ferries;

Worthless? The ferries are one of the few unequivocally positive things to have happened to the city in recent decades.
The FCC’s plan to fight spam texts could give phone companies more power
What it sounds like to me is better optimization of vacancy. If you can raise rent by 50% and only lose 25% of tenants, you have increased revenue while also decreasing expenses.
Simple. Put a ceiling on rents. Allow no-one to own more than one home and insist they live in the one they own. In the UK we have a "bedroom tax" but it is aimed at the poor, not the rich as it should be. Make it illegal to discriminate against anyone based on their income source or the state of their health. Build housing exclusively for low-income occupants instead of throwing everything onto the insidious property market. Ban property markets altogether and replace them with government-regulated allocation. No. Thought not. No-one is really serious about solving the world housing crisis. So long as politicians rely on the comfortable middle-class for their survival nothing will change.
Limiting the text box will protect you against the most naive DoS attacks, but you need some kind of limit at the API level (request size, etc.). Never trust the client.
> Mobile reception and wi-fi on stations, and displays with helpful info and arrivals / departures are very welcome additions, and likely did not cost a lot.

Installing countdown clocks on only the lettered subway lines cost $209 million. This doesn't include the numbered lines which have had them for about 10 years which also cost hundreds of millions. In all the project took 29 years. [1]

If you want to know how much it cost to install WiFi is was budgeted for $200 million and ended up at around $300 million. [2]

Remember how that healthcare.gov Website cost hundreds of millions and was a failure? It cost $250 million and came with a $75 million maintenance cost. And then a small group came in at the end and fixed it for $4 million with yearly maintenance of $1 million? Well, the MTA has a ton of these projects.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-d...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/17/engineering-against-all-od...
They are a consultant like any other. End of the day they are best used as a tool to use as part of a procurement or strategy making process.

Being able to talk to someone with some clue and have access to generally well thought out papers is useful. If you’re an SME in an area, they may give you additional perspective.

If you just read the Magic Quadrant for Business Process outsourcing or whatever and just call the top one, you are dumb. Conversely, if you’re going to be making a purchase in the space, and have never heard of 2/5 vendors on the top right, you may be missing something.
The workers might be working in order to make money though. Making a profit isn't just for businesses.
This isn't true though. They said the same thing over a century ago, yet if you took those people and plopped them into the present they'd be unable to explain such an important everyday technology as GPS, because it requires an understanding of general relativity to work.

We don't know what we don't know. It's very likely that more discoveries will result in obvious changes that are visible in everyday life, like GPS.

My bet is on quantum mechanics. There's a lot there we don't understand or don't know how to make use of quite yet that nevertheless seems likely to have a very obvious effect on everyday life in the centuries to come.
Is science stagnant?
Ahh, I wasn't aware of that as I haven't used BTC with them. Thanks!
Just two years ago in Seattle, the University Link Tunnel was completed ahead of time and under budget, while all media attention went to the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Tunnel (Bertha) which was over budget and massively delayed.

The former was a relatively standard tunnel using standard machines, while the latter was the largest single-bore tunnel ever attempted.
The key difference with Tokyo probably isn't privatization, but that the rail operators own the land around the stations, so often get to charge both ends of each trip: the rider and the business the rider travels to.
All of capitalism is making money on incompetence (which you might lazily use to lump in lack of information on the part of a party in a transaction).
AWS AppSync Releases Pipeline Resolvers, Aurora Serverless Support, Delta Sync
Oh please, you know exactly what I mean.
If that is the actual reason, then wonderful. But if their homeless went elsewhere or, worse, were moved elsewhere, not wonderful.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Talking about the "speed of light" makes perfect sense when there's a propagation delay between when the light is emitted and when it is perceived by an observer. And how can something be said scientifically to occur if it hasn't been observed yet? Whether or not things are actually happening but we can't observe them is moot, because it's not possible for us to observe them before we see them.

I'm not sure where the confusion is, except that you're trying to apply a common-sense notion of "time" and "events" as things that happen independently of the observer. But in fact Special Relativity makes some very bold statements about how integral the observer is to the process of observing both time and events.

I can understand the desire to apply common-sense definitions to things, but please understand that "event" and "observer" and "time" have very rigorous definitions in science, and that these definitions are constructed into a system of equations(a model) which has great predictive power but which does not always line up with common-sense notions of these words.
Semaphores (Linus Torvalds)
> Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a "humane" way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area.

This is just provably false. Utah solved it's homelessness problem by just giving people homes. And it was pretty effective.
If you are praying for business, you shouldn't run one.
At the same time, I've yet to see an American complaining that the government is spending too much money on roads because it's riddled with potholes.
You seem to be taking my point as prescribing what everyone should want. But that's not what I'm suggesting at all. I think well designed consumer software and hardware ecosystems that get out of the way are great. I don't want a world where there's no iPhone experience that has all that value in integration that you're describing. I'm not an OSX user but plenty of family members are and they seem to be well served by exactly that.

My point is that if the world's #1 computing platform only has that choice then we lose the ability to get some kinds of innovation driven by the few percent that care and have the time to tinker. And HN has a much larger proportion of the kinds of people that will want to do that innovation or at least value that it's possible. We wouldn't have gotten Linux if Linus couldn't develop on his hardware.

But maybe we've just been spoiled with mass-market general-purpose hardware up to now and this is the new normal. I shudder to think that but maybe it's true. At this point I don't think I'd much care for a smartphone if I didn't need it for work. And it's the stuff of nightmares for me particularly if that was also the case on the PC/laptop side of things.
Isn't it more susceptible? The structure of Romaine is such that contaminants can fairly easily get "inside", but are not easily washed away.
All I know is that if we're going to locate or communicate with any other advanced civilization out there, it's sure not going to be with radio waves. It will be with something a little more subtle that may not necessarily be constrained by gravity or the speed of light. Just my $0.02
Note that the original title was too long for submission:

"Poor news curation at Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters creating misleading iPhone supply chain panic"
The employed architects I know are mostly miserable designing medical office buildings and similar crap, where design = shave a few hundred bucks off of the cost of every aspect of the project.
Here's one you can submit, from the same file near the top in the ToC. It's missing two spaces after the header number. This line is sad because the lines above it and below it are able to stay lined up, but this line looks out of place. Being different may be a good thing for people, but it is not a good thing when you are talking about alignment in the Table of Contents.

---1.9 Ext4 file system parameters

+++1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
That’s definitely a dark magic! Thanks for sharing this.
Funding for mental health / universal health care would take the riskiest cases off the street. This would allow the existing safety nets to function better. Also, basic income.
Using throwaways to post handwavey flamebait will get your main account banned too, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I believe "curbing" is simply a nod to the fact that the people/groups controlling these bots have no interest in turning them off, and are unlikely to change their opinion. The harms this article shows are, after all, their purpose.

The actors who may be motivated to mitigate these harms, i. e. the social networks and possibly governments would face problems very similar to those with (other) spam, namely identification. Of course the history of spam filters makes me optimistic that it's feasible put a rather significant dent in the problem with even just modest efforts.

Summary: It's more of a semantic difference, arguably more precise because there is no off switch as such.
I think the author and commenters here are missing something. To make something viral, you have to make it addictive. To make it addictive, you have to make it rewarding. To make it more rewarding than the rest of the competition, you have to make it unique.

The fact that he's "breaking expectations" is what makes his content unique. What makes it REWARDING to watch is that it allows viewers to live vicariously in situations that they would never have the guts (for lack of a better word) to do themselves. Defying the NYPD. Proving the cops wrong. Sticking it to a big corporation like Nike. Being a thief and getting away with it. Again...sticking it to big corporations - Apple. Have you noticed that every one of these gets one over on the entities that most people feel keep them down? Nothing is more rewarding than winning, and his content lets people vicariously feel what it's like to win over the thing that they really hate. They thing that they subconsciously blame for all of their problems. The authority. The man.

This is what the author has completely missed. I could make a video where I turn on a light switch but instead the radio turns on. That breaks expectation, but it is not rewarding. If you want the viewer's reward system to fire, you need to engage their mirror neurons. You have the let them see you doing something they wish they could do. You have to get them to feel reward that they find missing in their lives. THAT is the real key to viral videos.