skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is either too challenging or too complex for politicians and people to understand, the problem is one of incentives.

Those with the resources that could be taxed and redistributed do not want to be taxed and have resources taken away from them. Since they have resources they can use some percentage of them to both influence politicians and influence other people. The people who do not have resources cannot do either of these things.
> WiFi in the tunnels and installing flatscreen TVs ... less station closures, less delays, and less stopping-and-waiting-20-minutes because of track congestion

Some of these are much easier fixes than others.
Look at it from a machine learning perspective: moral hazard is the most poorly labeled dataset of all. Adding as much synthetic data to the mix as possible is the best you can do. We all acknowledge it's insufficient. But reading authoritative texts, writing as best you can, and most importantly, practicing are the only things you can do. What exactly do you want? No war? That's a political issue. No atrocities? As grandparent said, to err is human. Let he without sin cast the first stone.
There are algorithms developed by Microsoft and others which are specifically designed to normalize images as best they can before processing in order to reduce false negatives due to alterations like cropping, color shifting, watermarking, etc.

They then use perceptual hashing techniques to identify similar images. It's a game of cat and mouse but ultimately I think with ML, the mouse is going to lose.
In San Francisco is equally bad. In the morning @7am you see so many people sleeping on sidewalks like sardines, it's pretty sad considering it's a rich city.
"Houston, the fourth-most-populous city in the nation, has cut its homeless population in half since 2011, in part by creating more housing for them."
I saw them at multiple places in the stack. Usually the Host header showed my domain which rules out the network. Rarely would the Host header be the original domain though that doesn't narrow it down to the network.
The history of the future of the Bayesian brain (2012)
Will read! Thanks for the recommendation!
Sure, some sci-fi writers were openly disdainful about sci-fi as prophecy. Ursula Le Guin's famous "prediction is... not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying" foreword to The Left Hand of Darkness springs to mind. But some of them took their technology more seriously than others, and sometimes authors finding it easier to imagine a world a couple of decades away with space battles than one with ubiquitous mobile communication devices says things about their thought processes and the world they lived in beyond them simply needing characters to be uncontactable for the next event to happen.

And also, sometimes they were far more right about the details they threw in to be vaguely believable and less on the money about what they really cared about, like HG Wells' plot device for a world in which war was impossible which is believed to have been what inspired Szilard to create an actual atomic bomb (whilst the thrust of the book failed to convince enough of the right people of the merits of a World State). And Solution Unsatisfactory is uncannily closer still...
Long-time Seattle resident here who volunteered for several years in the homeless community. Homelessness has always been a thing in Seattle, but has definitely become a much larger issue in the past five years.

I'll spare my thoughts on any number of reasons as to why we got here as a city, but will say I think we are doing a terrible disservice to actually finding a solution by lumping "anyone who doesn't have a home" into the "homeless crisis."

There are so many nuanced issues across a variety of problems here. There are drug abuse issues, mental health issues, physical health issues, cost of living issues, etc., and not to mention the varying cocktail of comorbidity, that to bulk "people without permanent housing" all under the umbrella of "homeless crisis" is not going to get us anywhere. Trying to assist the single mother with children who lives in her car because she lost her job is a VASTLY different issue than trying to assist the drug addict sitting in an alley passed out in their own feces. But at the end of the day, they're both human beings, and it breaks my heart that either of them are in that situation.

Several separate issues, that need to be subdivided and approached in distinct ways if any progress is to be made on any of them. Smaller, subdivided problems should feel more solvable, too.

Unfortunately, a lot of the solutions are expensive and frankly politically toxic. Despite Seattle's deep blue on most things, suddenly we get very "every person for themselves" the second homelessness has a price tag.
If we call the moment at which the light reaches us t=0, then we will say that the supernova occurred at t=-8000, because we know where it occurred, and we know what the speed of light is.
Even on a single-node, I think Docker swarm mode is a better choice than docker-compose. Docker swarm mode is integrated in Docker. You just run `docker swarm init` to enable it. It gives you everything docker-compose provides, plus configuration and secret management, and zero-downtime deployments (docker stack deploy).
I think this is one of those things where the Anglospheric absence of notaries and generally simpler bureaucracy is a good thing - company formation cost me £25 and there's even an API for it now. For small companies the duties are simple and the required accounts basic.

Real estate purchases in England still have a number of surprises for which you have to retain a solicitor, but in Scotland the system is almost entirely standardised.

(Real estate involves not only surprises in or below the building but in feudal or other attached liabilities or easements (e.g. "chancel repair liability") - and don't get me started on the US weak title system)
> ... you don't have to be a social butterfly to do well in an office.

Indeed "social butterfly" types tend to be bad at communication in your sense #1 because they aren't clear about their terms, and don't expect it when others are.

But then highly technical nerd-engineers also often have the same problems; though perhaps for different reasons.
I mean, I think you're missing a key factor here: politicians require money to be elected. The poor (the folks most affected by these issues) don't have the money to donate. The rich (the ones you propose taxing) do. Thus, the only ones who can get elected are catering to an audience that does not want this problems solved in this way (and indeed, one could argue, does not care to have it solved at all).

Until the problem of money in politics gets fixed, your "simple" problem is largely unfixable.
"The 's' is SAD!" looks like something that our POTUS could have written. It must be nice to realize that Trump is literally tweeting at the intellectual level of someone who is literally 4-year-old.
> I see more and more that people that are on fringes don't even want to try to work anymore because they don't have to with all the safety nets in place.

See them? Where? In articles? Friends?
Tether’s market cap has been going down on coinmarketcap.com

Possibly they’re using their fiat dollars to redeem tethers at a discount? (Or to try and enforce the peg)?
Someone can be an asshole and a great leader, at the same or different times. Linus himself, to his credit, recently admitted that he's been unreasonably abusive and is trying to learn better.[0]

People are complicated. He needn't be either a saint or a demon.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
Another really amazing spot on Orkney is Maeshowe, it's a neolithic cairn (from ~3000 BC) but Vikings in the 12th century looted and desecrated it with a bunch of runic graffiti [1]. It's really cool to experience two facets of history in the same location but millennia apart.

[1] http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm
Everything that one needs to understand in order to explain why NYC subway is such a shitshow can be learned by any software engineer that attempted to change a gigantic legacy barely functioning code base of an organization with a single product that relies on this codebase which happened to still have "founders" running a show 12-13 years later:

When the company adds "new blood", everything that the new blood proposes gets tossed out for "legacy reasons". Periodically, someone floats a plan for a gigantic multi-year "keep X service but rewrite everything inside it from scratch" software engineering project. Those future "rewrite from scratch" projects are used to justify not making any incremental improvements.
> I don’t like working with ORMs for tons of joins and I don’t like denormalizing in tables, so I tend to write CTE-based JSON generating views for apps.

I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean you use database views that output json? And you prefer basing those views on select...with rather than with explicit joins? Because if they're all views on the postgres side, I'm not sure how orms affect the choice of cte vs joins?

Or are there orms that work more nimbly with ctes than with joins (or views)?

I'm currently fighting with some legacy ruby on rails apps that interface with various more-or-less legacy databases - and I've actually been somewhat pleasantly surprised by how concise some joins might be hammered out even under rails 4.
>I just read The Market Gardener

What's your impression of that book? Asking because interested in that area, have done some on it (organic gardening in general, though not the intensive kind like in that book), and have read a similar book by John Jeavons:

http://www.johnjeavons.info/

Excerpt from this page on his site:

http://www.johnjeavons.info/john-jeavons.html

[ A political science graduate of Yale University, Jeavons worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Stanford University before launching his career in small-scale agriculture education. He is the author of the best-selling sustainable farming handbook How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine, now in its 8th edition in eight languages ]
And it's just crass to claim that there's a statistically measurable number of fare jumpers.

Genuine question: why is that? I'm not familiar with the mechanics of the NYC Metro area, but I'm familiar with SF's BART, which certainly claims to have statistics on this -- about 22,000 fare jumps a day, as compared to around 433,000 trips per weekday, meaning about 5% of riders are freeloaders. (They claim this costs about $25M a year.) The San Francisco Chronicle did their own reporting on this, and at the very least it backed up the assertion there were a statistically measurable number of fare jumpers.
It's almost as though much of that productivity on an individual level is not making it back to those individuals, and going somewhere else, perhaps to others.
It is not only sad. It is mind-blowingly absurd and overwhelmingly inhuman.
Still, I highly doubt that there are not any apps that do this already. I mean, my family uses Amazon wish lists and set it so that you can't see when stuff is purchased.
I used to work for two switch chip companies also. I know both of them has SW/logic in the switch chips guard against random errors in SRAM - "Alpha particles". I have seen detail test report that ran the system in nuclear lab and graph out the level of radiation level vs impact on the system error/recoverable error rate.

I knew big customers (such as Cisco) can ask for such test reports and they do get it.

It would be very interesting experiment to position some modem/old (7, 14, 28 nm chips) electronics (cell phones, raspberry Pi + solar panels) to various distant near nuclear accident site, monitor them remotely, classify and log the failure rate over the months/ years.
I've always found this curious since Linux fans usually mention the high usage of Android as Linux usage. The people usually think of GNU/Linux when they think about using Linux but the truth is Android is far from that. Be it the lack of GNU utils, not using a mainline kernel or the myriad of blobs and proprietary stuff bolted on top.
What CloudStack really is and why it matters to you
You can read the Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst but to summarize the burst is believed to be a 'jet' this forms as part of the explosion of the spinning masses.
"Some other thoughts: - It's super important that you know that the concept of introvert/extrovert is pseudo science, same for "left-brained" / "right-brained"(Ex. https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/there-are-no-such-things-a...

The article does not offer any citations, and does not discuss the history of the concepts of introversion and extroversion. Even the most basic search reveals that the concept of extraversion is one of the factors of the Big Five personality model, the most influential model of personality that psychology has (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits). There are literally thousands of studies that have used this model.
Which is pretty much what happened before Great Depression.
NASA concerned about culture of “inappropriateness” at SpaceX
I have wondered if the aggressive response to homeless folks doesn't stem from recognition of how little it would take to end up in their shoes...
None of them were typed in. I was bitsquatting a CDN that no one would type into the browser bar. Everything was some resource referenced from a page. If you checked the original page, the correct URL was present in that page.
Might be clearing factory lines for the new VR headset?
"How to Casey Neistadt a VLOG" by Sara Dietschy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVC6WO_SEmw
The US already acts as a nanny state for it's rich corporations.
Nice to see that progress is being made on upstreaming the Android patches. Hopefully this will make it easier for ex. postmarketOS to work using a vanilla kernel, or at least to update the version used.
Cities like NYC are fine WRT density; Manhattan specifically did see a much larger population in the past.

This does not make MTA's efficiency any better, though. NYC's subway and buses enjoy a lot of daily ridership, sell ad space, and sell commercial space underground. Still these, rather large, sources of income are not sufficient, and MTA eats a lot of subsidies, because the expenses are enormous, and incentives to save are likely not there.

Cost-cutting is likely politically hard, because of pork-barrelling, the unpopularity of firing workers (especially unionized workers), and likely plain corruption.
>If enough people think rice bags or pressed and aged tea is money, then it is.

No, commodity money typically has a variety of practical functions and its function in an exchange system is born out of necessity. Not arbitrarily because people want to start doing accounting that way. I don't understand why people repeat this. It's not clever or insightful, and worse it's definitely not correct. It's gravely concerning that presumably basically educated people tout this line without a second thought when it comes to cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency finds its value purely out of someone hoping someone else will be left holding the bag, not because it's useful.
People have been already doing remittance for the last five years with cryptocurrency. It isn't too tricky to understand that someone can set up a small office in both countries, take in one currency, send cryptocurrency they already have, buy more with that currency and have the other office sell some cryptocurrency when they receive it from the first office.

This is something that does not depend on low volatility and can be done on a small scale while bypassing a large expensive service like western union.
Expressed in Millions:

Payroll: $5,392
Overtime: 811
Health & Welfare: 2,129
Pension: 1,354
Other Labor: 400
----------------------
Total Labor: $10,086

Non-Labor: 4,205
Debt Service: 2,692
BTL Adjustments for Expenses: (251)
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Total: $16,732
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There are very clear ways to fix the problem

Are there, though? You can play armchair city planner all you want, but where is the political, legal, regulatory, etc, environment that allows this "very clear" fix to proceed? Who's to say that even with a big fare increase and a lot of money pushed in, that money won't mysteriously disappear while things don't get any better - as has happened historically?

Sometimes an entity DOES need to fail, and fail hard, before it can really be restructured entirely.
It’s mentioned in this article: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/is-this-cosmic-sprinkler-surro... .

My impression is that a GRB beam is on the order of a few degrees, but I can’t find that reference now.
Gentrification and skyrocketing rents are clearly creating a crisis in many cities that impact people who need housing most. Families, elderly, those with chronic illness, etc. They need housing, and the government should prioritize this population.

The problem is, these articles and homeless advocates never differentiate this sympathetic population from the hardcore drug users, aggressive panhandlers, and people engaged in theft and violent crime. I don't blame local neighbors from opposing shelters that attract this element. My city recently relocated a shelter to a new neighborhood and surprise surprise, street crime, used needles, prostitution, and everything you might expect from this group showing up en masse followed.

There are also lifestyle street people who enjoy the lifestyle for the freedom it offers. Do they deserve services and free apartments? They're there by choice. You can see videos all over YouTube celebrating this lifestyle: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFAu5dzHq3BJvZsO58N8fXA
Same here. If you want a lot of hits, pick their cdn domains.

Get a tls cert and you might even be able to serve the original file with some additional js of your own :)
No part of taylorfinley's argument implies or requires that the American/African slave trade was the only ever instance of slavery.
This goes both ways. If the well intentioned hint goes unnoticed and the halitosis continues to be an issue, then a more direct statement is in line. There are people who can't take a hint, and there are people who can't say what they mean.
All right, now we're getting somewhere. Why?
Honestly, short of me building and running the code on my personal machine, I don't think there's any way I'd trust you on your word.
It's not clear what you are curious about. You can run GNU/Linux with out of tree modules (e.g. proprietary nvidia graphics driver). That doesn't change the fact that you're running a (now probably tainted) Linux kernel.

I don't think anyone is thinking of a GNU/Linux desktop environment when they think "Android runs Linux!", they are quite literally thinking "Android uses the Linux kernel." They are not wrong.
it's slightly confusing, because in the change the first dash on the first line is a "minus", indicating that line was removed, not part of the line of dashes. the line of dashes had one dash added to the end of it. (and it was a dash missing, not an equal)

1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
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I hear that a lot about the DC height restrictions, but I wonder if it might not have the opposite effect. Plenty of European cities have tons of density in a low-rise skyline, such as Paris. I wonder if height restrictions actually encourage the 10-story pedestrian-friendly, urban core to keep expanding into the single family home residential areas.

As soon as you cross the Potomac into Virginia there may be high-rises, but everything is built for cars, not transit.

Also, quite a bit of the metro system is cut and cover and quite shallow. A few spots were tunneled deeper to cross waterways.
A sensible question.

Firstly, from a philosophical perspective I am at no point exposing emails of subscribers to the blog owners. The communications they send to those subscribers are limited to what's published in the RSS feed (once per new post).

As for in terms of infrastructure and app design, I contemplated the idea of implementing some kind of encryption or email alias system for a while, but ultimately decided against it. Some basic reasons are the ones also shared in the answers to this question on Stackoverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/767276/what-is-the-best-...

Since there is no direct access to emails via the logged in user's interface nor is there any kind of public or semi-public database access (through for example an API – the app is entirely server-side rendered), I already limit the damage that can be done through spoofed or stolen credentials (everything from a stolen password to a spoofed or stolen auth cookie).

The database does store emails of course, but the db is isolated from the application on a different server. At launch I used a Heroku hosted database but I'm planning to provision a database environment that is only open to private network IP access.

I'm also definitely interested in beefing it up further. Any advice?
In a properly-operating democracy, politicians require votes to be elected; money helps, but isn't sufficient.

The 1% may have 50% (or more) of the money, but they only have 1% of the votes. The 99% (or rather, those members of the 99% who vote as if they're in the 1%) need to exert their power at the polling booth.
This has little to do with the MTA Union and everything to do with Blasio resisting committing more money to the MTA unless he was guaranteed by Cuomo that the money would go towards the subways and subway throughput, and not other MTA services. Cuomo Controls the MTA; Not the City, or the City Mayor, that's 99% of the problem.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s planned to add amenities like new lighting and USB ports at nearly three dozen New York City subway stations, Completely side-stepping DeBlasio.
In February, Cuomo put the vote forth to The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, (they control the MTA), voted 10-3 vote in favor, to approve 1 billion dollars of contracts to refurbish nine of the thirteen stations.

This is all apart of Cuomo's Enhanced Station Initiative which is entirely focused on cosmetics.

It's a shame.
We have a site to do that, https://www.fwdeveryone.com

In addition to sharing on social, it also supports embedding email threads directly within Reddit threads, Medium posts, etc., e.g.:

https://medium.com/to-the-best-of-our-knowledge/were-not-ok-...

Here are some video tutorials showing more functionality:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJAEYmnEjIu4--bpq5LSK...

And we'll have a Gmail add-on submitted to Google within the next couple weeks, so hopefully that will be live by the end of the year. (Since I know a lot of HN folks have reservations about OAuth and have been asking for another way to upload content.)