skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree but the "free energy principle" is first mentioned a good 1,000+ words into the article.
solution it's pretty simple, hike the fare like in comparable cities, shut down subway in night like in comparable cities, remove unlimited ticket and replace it with time/zone limited like in comparable cities. you can't eat cake and have it
Can someone explain what's funny here?
Surely both models can coexist? I don't think there should be any decrease in government science funding.
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.

Consumer-grade connectivity within tunnels is likely piggy-backed on the connectivity required for the trains infrastructure. Currently the subway operates a system from 1930s to control the lights and detect train positions. It is based on mechanical / magnetic relays, and is prone to break often.

Replacing that with redundant modern electronics and fiber optics wold increase MTBF dramatically, lowering maintenance costs and wait times. One thing that the current antiquated system is limiting is train speed. Trains used to be faster, but were slowed down because of safety reasons. If the new connectivity allows them to run 30% faster again (or even faster, where the tracks allow), that would be a huge win.

(Written on a subway train crawling through the ancient tunnels.)
You're right. Homelessness is just a symptom of other problems. Another key thing to understand is that 80-90% of homeless people are no longer homeless after approximately 4-8 months. In other words, the current patchwork system of public programs and non-profits work. Only 10-20% of the homeless population is chronically homeless. The most common issues are related to mental health, drug addiction, or a combination of both. imo I don't feel that individual states or cities can really solve the problem since they all tend to play the game of "let's ship this troubled person away from here". A long term solution will need to involve the federal gov. It's also hard to solve due to the stigma and lack of understanding from the public at large when it comes to mental illness.
We would take the switches to the labs and have the "shoot" various types of particles other radiation sources at it to check resistance in both HW and SW. Depending on what you did sometime it takes months get get the device back as it has to "cool down".

It was pretty neat.
Try bouldering! The perfect combination between problem solving, fitness, and strength.

I have been bouldering for years, and I love that you can go with people from all levels, and everybody is having the same fun trying to succeed at problems.
And a beginner that doesn't have the strength to do something can have th brains to show you how to do it.

I have brought many people with me over the years, most engineers / software people get totally hooked for some reason. I think it probably comes from the puzzle aspect of it.
>Burying your head in books and overanalyzing your social interactions isn't going to solve your social anxiety. Go play soccer.

If yours had been the parent comment, I would have responded with:

>I'm sorry - this advice, and most of your comment, is bad advice.

Your approach is the approach that is the "usual" approach that friends and family suggest - and in my experience, it often fails. In fact, I would wager most introverts have already gone that route (be it voluntarily or involuntarily).

>Most self-professed "introverts", particularly developers, spent most of their lives playing video games and sitting indoors. They're not well-rounded people in the least.

I hate to use strong language, but this is ridiculous. Most professors are introverts, for example - and most did not play video games. (Not to put too much stock in Myers-Briggs, but INTJ, while being amongst the least common types, is the most represented in academia).

That's not to take away from the authenticity of your experience. But what works for you won't work for everyone. Perhaps not even most people.
This is what's called gridlock or lack political willpower.

While I am not an American, I'm feeling one tune constantly when I talk with American professionals in China, and it is something close to this:

"I am given a terrible choice in between between living in a sad, stagnating, dysfunctional civil state with bureaucracy and fascist tendencies, or hell, but with full-blown and well run progressive fascist bureaucracy, and which is fun to live in"
A big part of the problem is the use of Revenue Management Software to set prices. This obviously ends up working like a cartel.

I note that:

-Even when nation wide vacancies were at their highest in 30 years, rental price rose.

-Even as home prices plummeted, rental price rose.

-Rent has risen 30% _nation_ wide just since 2013 so zoning an limits on building can't be the main cause.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf
SF is the worst I've seen in the US (granted, I only lived in SF and Boston). Saying it's "equally bad" is almost funny. In Boston, LA, NYC, homeless problem is almost nowhere near SF.
It also ruined the concept. In its most innocent terms, bitcoin is for sending money to people. What happens when person A has all their wealth tied up in Bitcoin Cash #1 and person B has it all in bitcoin cash #2. What coin does person C who wants to send something to person D use? With every new coin, the argument for switching to bitcoin for transactions weakens.
So what's the deal with BuckleScript? The docs are really unclear on their relation and just call it a "partner project". But it's the actual compiler? Then what is Reason?
You're assuming such a signalling system would be wanted. Do you see the problem?
Are the binary blobs staying, or are they open source now too?
A B/W randomart image which uses alphanumeric and special characters, like the one used in ssh-keygen itself when generating keys, would be enough. With current tech, Adding colors is just a recipe for disaster in environments which need maximum reliability.

Personally, I think QR codes are just fine for manufacturing but as for encodings meant for end-users, I think we should be focusing on making them more human-readable or at least visually comparable, without sacrificing bit-depth.

Still, this tech was really neat to play around with and I hope something good comes out of all the work put into it.
The problem with urban transport systems is that no one sees them for what they really are... an expensive thing that drives the economy. There seems to be an obsession in the west with making public transport pay for itself, but the reality is that a few billion invested in better public transport results in a lot more billions being made elsewhere.

We need to get away from this idea that public transport systems need to break even or turn a profit. They are there to help make money in other ways. An efficient reliable transport system should cost the taxpayer money, but they will get that back in profit elsewhere through a thriving local economy.
mea culpa: I was a naysayer to plangrid when they first started out... I had done a LOT of project build, consulting blah blah blah...

I was negative on the device requirement. Which was extraordinarily foolish on my part given what I was doing at the time (attempting to convince medical that iOS was the future)

GOOD for them.

Nothing sucks more sweetly than being proven wrong in your "space"...

I have used Autodesk products for my entire adult life... I will be connected to them until I die.
Thank you.

Not a surprise.

Bring on the 'bots!
From my perspective, a Dockerfile already is an idempotent shell script that sets everything up for me. With the advantage that I can easily write and run tests for it that verify that the app comes up just fine.

The main struggle for me there is existing apps that weren't made with Docker in mind. There, using the OS install tools can me easier. But I think that's changing. The Docker Postgres images, for example, let you configure key things via simple environment variables: https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres/

So I expect that we'll continue to see more and more apps provide Dockerized versions, gradually chipping away at the advantage built up over the years by OS packaging.
Houston is also in Texas, which has habitable land area greater than most countries.

Toronto is kind of stuck at the moment because if we want to build more housing, we have to bulldoze the Oak Ridges Moraine, which we can’t do because it’s critical to our water supply (though conservative governments often try). So our only option, like many cities, is to build up. Which is expensive and requires expensive maintenance. Which nobody wants to pay for to give to people who are unlikely to contribute back (debatable).
> I'm curious about what is there to celebrate in some huge corp using some free software in a completely cornered use that gives little to no freedom to its users.

Huge amount of money poured into development of said opensource software - including the patches in the article you're commenting on.

Major opensource projects are (and have for years) receiving most contributions from developers in Microsoft, Google, Intel, RedHat, Pivotal, and many others.
Literally the only mention of a social safety net in the linked article was "fewer people working means less income and wealth — as well as long-term economic stability creating pressure on social safety nets, such as they are."

The wording implies that there is not much of a social safety net to begin with.

Can you cite some of the actual programs? My understanding is the social safety net is the weakest it's been in many decades. Perhaps I'm wrong, but my "general feeling" seems at least as valuable as your general feeling.

Unemployment insurance and temporary assistance are both that, temporary.

Social Security Disability is, I believe, considered the most widely abused program simply because there aren't many others left to abuse.
I think you have hit many things amazingly well with Seattle homelessness.

I think one of the reasons why we get very "every person for themselves" when the price tag comes up is 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. Also it's hard to get data on who is the more representative group.
You're doing a disservice to those 99% or at least those of us that do vote by assuming this is the only issue that people vote on. There's a wide range of priorities between the 0% and 99.9% on the economic scale and what goes into most peoples' decision to vote for someone is almost always nuanced even if the newspapers and tv interviews try to make it look like everyone that voted for the "wrong" candidate only voted for them because of X issue.
Time to uncomment that code Microsoft! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494690
There are people who would work for the companies but not at their current wage levels. Increase the pay and the pool increases as well.
CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
> it's worth pointing out that nearly all transportation projects from the "old days" around the world were done by private companies, and often met a swift end in bankruptcy... Only our sepia-colored glasses and the survival bias of remaining parts makes it look like people back then had it figured out, and we don't.

This is true, but only part of the story. The private railroads (and indeed much internet infrastructure) had two phases. In the first, early entrants made big profits by picking the low hanging fruit (i.e. most profitable opportunities) in a new market.

This created investor euphoria just as the opportunities for "easy" profits were drying up. So things turned towards speculative, even fraudulent investments that left the investors out of pocket. But, as you point out, even the second phase left some infrastructure on the ground that could be operated at a profit once bought at firesale prices.
A black border with two tiny transparent, black-outlined squares next to the NE corner, one on each side. A system like this would allow different protocols and versions to use different symbols in different corners so that phones and people could recognize which it is at a glance.
Well, then Portugal (not invaded twice and smashed to pieces in a century) should be richer than Belgium and Holland (blown to bits, slaughtered and battlefields in ultra war) due to all three ruthlessly exploiting their colonial properties, but suffering different misfortune in the 20th century.

And yet this is not so - oddly the liberal democracies (regardless of imperial wickedness) seem to be doing better than recent fascist kleptocracies.

This is not a co-incidence; where people are safe and can plan they create positive outcomes. Where they have no idea what is going to happen next and are exposed to bandits they keep their heads down and look after themselves.
>I've often tried to find better methods of communicating with people, but I'm still struggling with one major problem:

It would help if you gave an idea on what you've tried.

As for your specific scenario, some points:

Don't have a telling posture. Even if you think it is a fact, present it with the posture of an opinion. "This is how I see it." Actively point out you may be wrong, and actively invite opposition "I'd like to hear other perspectives." You'll have to be sincere, because if people perceive you as the person who always wants others' opinions, but always dismisses them, people will very quickly stop offering them. I've seen this happen within a month of a new manager coming to our team.

Also, make sure you're asking open ended questions. Not questions that can be reasonably answered in a few words.
New York is the 28th largest city, with another 10 within one million.

So while it is one of the largest, it's hardly unique.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities]
You can also use the same technique to categorize your e-mail in more categories then just spam and not spam, I for example have a category for "commercial", eg. newsletters and offers, kinda like Gmail started with some time ago. But I also have more categories, like a category for each project.
You're probably not wrong, but there are a lot fewer places for the homeless "problem" to hide in SF than in, say, LA.
There's some merit to this but I'd say it's still a little off the mark. Homelessness is a condition, how people got there is one thing, the main tools to "fix it" are fairly straightforward: give people housing. Dealing with everything else (mental health issues, drug addiction, etc.) can be dealt with separately, and will be vastly easier without having the fundamental problem of homelessness.
When I buy a laptop I install whatever is the latest version of Ubuntu on it and am done. When I buy an access point I install whatever is the latest version of OpenWrt on it and am done. I've tried to do the same thing with phones using LineageOS but it's hopeless. Devices are often half broken and are never guaranteed to continue being supported because of this kernel mess. It seems there's slow progress being made which is nice. I was hoping Android One phones would at least guarantee monthly security updates but it's still up to the manufacturer if that happens or not.
Here's a hint for you: The main character of Stranger is not Valentine Michael Smith; it's Jubal Harshaw. Look at it with that in mind.
Ah, I see your point. I suppose there are folks who know GNU/Linux is a thing, but don't understand the distinction between "it uses a Linux kernel" and "it uses a Linux kernel and gnu-friendly environment." In which case they would wrongly equate Android == Linux == GNU/Linux.

> As it has been evidenced english is not my first language.

No problem, I'd say that your English seems great, better than some native English speakers I know. English is my first language and it's easy for me to be unclear :D
Unfortunately, most consumer protections for financing don't apply to businesses. Many of us here on Hacker News have benefited from seed or VC investments without having to put our house on the line, but for the majority of american entrepreneurs access to capital remains the number one issue.

I'm currently working on a startup to solve the access to capital problem for local small businesses (mainvest.com). Open to any feedback or suggestions on how we can tackle this issue. We're currently based in MA, but we're planning on bringing our product to NYS soon. Hopefully they've fixed "confession of judgement" before then.
> NYC is a machine for fleecing young people who want to move there with heads full of movies and TV and rich foreign potentates with more money than sense.

Eh, I'm actually not so sure about that. Salaries in NYC are a lot higher than in other parts of the country, so provided you're doing well (say you're in tech, perhaps!) you're not being fleeced at all.

I am a little more optimistic than you are that the subway may one day be fixed. Unfortunately its fate rests in the hands of New York State, not the city, and many in NYS government couldn't care less about fixing it (Cuomo, here's looking at you). But it feels as though we're reaching a breaking point where citizens will demand change without anyone needing to die.
In many cases, drug addiction and mental issues come as a result of homelessness itself. There is a severe mental toll inflicted on human beings that are required to live as outcasts in their own city.
Better title: Income Inequality Reaches Death Spiral In Democrat-run Cities

LA SF NYC Seattle - please dispute my claim with facts...

California is ground zero for homelessness in the industrialized world and has a veto-proof Democrat majority
> I'm perfectly happy to give back more

If you really feel that way, charitable organizations can effectively distribute donations far more efficiently and effectively than any government organization has ever been able to. I suspect that if all of the people who say they feel the same way did just voluntarily donate what they considered their own fair share to charity, the homeless crisis would be mostly solved.
A good thought experiment is to imagine a hedge fund which invests in the s&p500 all the time, but once per year takes all its capital and sells options with a 5% return and a roughly 1/20 risk of ruin. On average they beat the s&p500 by 5% every year, and only explode once every 20 years on average.

If you could charge 2 and 20 and smoothtalk investors the chances that you get rich before it explodes are pretty good.

Differentiating an investment with a negligible chance of going to zero (like the s&p500) from one with a small but nonzero chance is difficult until one of them explodes.
> Are there, though?

I live in Manhattan. Love it. The MTA fucking up is still miles ahead of every other American city on their best days in terms of transit and density. Most New Yorkers’ stories of nightmarish delays find parity with the daily commutes Americans across the country put up with as a matter of course.
The JFK AirTrain line
The problem is that the definition of child pornography is fairly broad, and the laws make little to no distinction between the various categories within it. Draconian enforcement is great for the hardened criminals profiting from child rape, but it also leads to locking up teenagers for possessing photos of themselves.
We can build companies that will change minds of voters but we can't provide homes to those who can't afford them. Mind blown.
How do you know how to position if up and down is determined by random bouts of speculative buying? Or in this case, egos clashing in a completely different crypto. There is so much more data and tangible information to guide you with traditional investments which may also have their speculative runs, but are more often based on the objective success of an asset that can be easily estimated, determined, and predicted.
Excuse me, another followup question (can't edit on mobile): can you ELI5 how do exploitation and exploration "emerge" naturally instead of the tradeoff being explicitly coded as in RL?
It comes from the magnetic moment of the electron being measured and then run through more than 10k Feynman diagrams. The second part wouldn't work if QED didn't.
> This. At some point you get tried of trying to find an underutilized box to launch a new service. This is when you should start looking for something more complicated.

But that is the point of containers. To abstract away the need to worry about "finding underutilized boxes". The second you said "find an underutilized box" my mind went immediately to a pile of what I call "special snowflake" boxes. Each one is it's own unique thing. Symptoms usually include having cute names for each server instead of random, machine generated names. That shit is hard and expensive to maintain--especially in a fault tolerant way.

The best way to treat your infrastructure is to make it as ephemeral as possible. Absolutely any part of it should be able to go out of commission at any time and a new instance should go online to replace it.

If you are loading up multiple things onto a single m4 instance, I'm gonna say right now you are using AWS wrong....
homelessness is the societal manifestation of the lower end of the bell curve. period. anyone who's interacted with homeless people knows this. yes there are exceptions, and no they do not make up the bulk of the distribution.

putting your hand in the sand and blaming "slow wage growth" or some other secondary factor instead of pointing out the obvious is a disservice to those people. and before you call me harsh, know that I mean this in the complete opposite way: acknowledging the problem with pragmatism is the first step toward its resolution.
I think the point the tuttle7 was trying to make was that this site could be implemented client-side quite easily. There's no real reason to make the translation server-side and require more server CPU resources and bandwidth.

I feel the same way about https://www.base64decode.org/ . By default, everything gets translated server-side. I wonder how many people use this site on a regular basis for translating secrets. I'd bet my life that the number is greater than zero.
Congrats! PlanGrid is a terrific concept.
This is what got me through college. Since then I've continued using it for everything from appointments to bills and I never forget to do anything I put on it.
And apples are not oranges, but they are both fruit.
>Betting someone clever on HN could invent a new signalling system for far less than $40 billion, perhaps $4 billion.

Is this a satirical comment? It doesn't matter how easily a clever HN reader could devise a new, greenfield signaling system, you can't just build and cutover to a new subway signaling system in one of the world's densest cities, atop an existing subway with over 100 years of accrued legacy signaling technologies. The MTA has tried to modernize it's signaling system twice, and each initiative was a multi-decade, multi billion dollar morass. It's just not a problem that can be solved by throwing a shiny new framework at it - not that many real world problems can be.
Public transit shouldn't be expensive. It shouldn't pretty much ever run outside the red. The whole point of it is to incentivize its use and promote efficient means of travel. The only reason to charge at all is to disincentivize unnecessary consumption of it.

If you are doing city planning you want as many people on the Subway as you can get. It enables greater density at ground level and is much cheaper to maintain (if you maintain it) than overcongested road networks and the required parking.