skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may seem that way, but at least here in the UK homelessness is a huge problem in the immigrant community. It is virtually invisible though. You can get kicked out of the UK as a migrant (even from the EU) for being homeless, so keeping a low profile is essential.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/st-mungos-ho...

https://www.homeless.org.uk/connect/blogs/2018/jan/10/migran...
Yeah, the more I dig around how perl shops work, this seems endemic.

Now, I work in a heterogenous Windows/Linux shop with non-paleo hardware. We're even deploying on AWS in a limited fashion.

This place has its warts too, but everywhere has something. But that previous place... I'm surprised it still hasn't crashed and burned. Their networking was solid tho. Just anything with Linux was a tire-fire.

And as one more gem, there was a program that terrified the fuck out of me. A fellow engineer showed me this update tool that would update a router remotely. Great. Well, if you add the -n (customer) flag with the customer number, it would update all the routers for that customer!

It was spectacular, and terrifying at the same time. I asked them for their testing procedure, and it was a -t (customer-testing). If they forgot the -testing, well.....
Someone tell me how to migrate all the PL/SQL I've written and I'll be all ears.
I understand that but was pointing out how close to doom we are very frequently in traffic. Cars avoid head on collisions by single digit feet at relative speeds of 100kph, controlled by barely-trained, tired and distracted people and this is totally normal. Get just a bit closer and it’s totally terrifying.
To me ‘magic’ is the gap between our internal models of the external world and reality.

You stand before a magician, he is holding a card. You believe this to be true because some photons entered your eyes and your mind constructed a realistic simulation that conforms to the sensoral input.

The magician waves his hand— the card disappears — in a very real sense. The simulation that your consciousness creates and inhabits has updated and erased the card from your reality.

That it is in fact behind his hand and that he was able make your internal model of reality diverge from actual reality with some words and a gesture is what creates magic.

So how does this apply to technology — if the technology is so advanced that your mind can’t model it’s behavior — then it perpetually creates that divergence by merely existing. You’re always going to have to update your mental model to account for what it does.

But I think that sort of magic is fairly temporary, because people are nothing if not adaptable — hand an iPhone to a toddler and it’s simply another new thing to explore and understand, no more mysterious than the light sparkling from a glass of water or a leaf blowing in the wind.
Holy smoke, talk about reinforcing stereotypes about Indiana
SETI in Vivo: Testing the We-Are-Them Hypothesis (2017)
Human time is most valuable compared to the various waste you mention (cycles on CDNs, power, heat, etc).
Google serves ads, they aren't (generally) the one's creating or doing the advertising. The only time they are advertising is when they are trying to sell a product, which is way less often than they are serving someone else's ads.
I disagree. I'm not asking for one to implement ACID transactions. Rather, just understand why people did it. I'm building a system which is relaxed down from ACID, which depends on idempotency and a single coordinator process to keep a cluster of servers from trampling on each other.

You need to know the rules and the reasons behind them if you're going to start "breaking" them. Otherwise, you're just acting in ignorance.
The way how that's usually done within smart contracts relies on a trusted (the key word here) "oracle" that is considered to hold the truth about reality.

E.g. you may have a smart contract that's conditional on the price of some stocks in the future or on the result of some sports game. It'll get the information about the price of these stocks from some place which is assumed to tell the truth, that's the oracle - for example, it could be some NASDAQ service or the sports league website. However, it's obviously not guaranteed to tell the truth about the reality, you need to trust it, because if it lies, there's no recourse afterwards.

If I make a "real" bet on the superbowl results and bribe the superbowl website admin to publish a wrong result on the official site for 5 minutes at the right time while my bet is settled, then the bet will be revoked afterwards by the courts; however, if it's a smart contract looking at that site, then once I've cheated the escrow service, then I've won because it was falsely trusted.
In San Francisco, nearly $40K is spent per homeless person. How much money do we need to spend and how should we spend it?
Every time I see a deleted comment and a reply like that, I get so morbidly curious what was said, and yet, I've _been_ a moderator on a forum, so I know for certain that reading it would never make my mood any _better_, just worse.

Is this just me? I know it's self destructive to seek out negativity like that, but that curiosity just won't go away.
Who is this really for?

Students who have a cheap Chromebook and couldn't write / test code due to OS restrictions?

Developers who have a Chromebook (and love it) and wanted to use it for everything?
Though to be fair it's not obvious where to encode validation. You're saying it should be intrinsic in the parsing rules of ipv4. But there are reasons why you would want to validate in a separate pass.

For example, the more errors you parse, then the better error messages and introspection you have (structured data) when you want to validate.

It's a classic trade-off.

You're right though, doesn't make a very good example.
Quality Engineering with Docker Compose
Is soy associated with lower levels of testosterone?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that protected mode existed in old Unix systems and so was not delineated between user space and kernel space as described.

Protected mode and the separation of kernel and user space was only available since 80286 processors starting in 1982.

Refs:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_mode
Parens of the Dead (2015)
I learned I have a little bit of Jewish and Arab ancestry, wouldn't really say that I was surprising though. I also found out I have something called Alpha-1, unfortunately there is not much I can do for this condition but it did provide me with a reason to lay back on the cigars and whiskey.
There’s also google cloud’s distroless project: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

We’ve used the Node.js containers in production and investigated the other languages, but never deployed them. We did have some issues with devops not being able to log into the running containers, but always found a solution that I believe in the end was a better long term pattern for ops.
> "Videotaped"

haha. Seriously? It was on tape?!
Sources? Have you been to China? It's only in some major cities that places have toilets, otherwise you use a hole in the ground!
I'm thinking of getting a Chromebook for dev work, with the view of just using it as a dumb client for terminals and browser to cloud servers. I'm worried I'll buy then wish I bought a proper machine. Anyone thought the same then regretted it?
I always thought "pizzabox" was a Mac term - you had machines like Centris/Quadra series where if you wanted expansion card you had to get a riser card where you mounted the cards horizontally
Author of the Library here:
I can't fully agree that HyperLogLogs are good for intersections, that does not mean it can't be done, just there is always a high error rate. The easy way to do that is to maintain a separate MinHash sketch per HLL and use the Jaccard Index of several of those HLLs... an even more naive just use the Jaccard Index with the HLL registers but good luck getting good results out of that. This library is based on https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.08436v4.pdf which has the benchmarks...
Also I will be taking a stab at http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1097-nazi.pdf very soon :)
> Homeless people are not going to kill you

I understand a lot of the insight this person has provided us about homelessness, but I beg to differ on this point, and I'm sure it's location dependent.

I currently live in Santa Monica, and the vast majority of the homeless here clearly either have substance abuse problems or mental illness(I'm sure it's often both at once). I've had countless instances where a homeless person will step in front of my car, blocking my way into an intersection or parking lot, and try to intimidate me by shouting obscenities. The other day, I had to tell off a homeless man who was standing at an outdoor cafe and rambling on about how "women are whores" and other wisdom in front of women and children(not that men should be exposed to that either). Yesterday I witnessed a homeless man urinating in the middle of the street in broad daylight.

When I was living in Pasadena earlier this year, I worked next to a homeless shelter. For the most part it was safe, but there were days where we were warned to be on the lookout for certain characters who were harassing people on their way to work. There was the occasional rape and the occasional stab, although it was almost always homeless-on-homeless. Down the street there was a vacant restaurant where a homeless couple sneaked in and lived for some time, until it turned into a murder/suicide and they had to put up extra fencing to prevent such incidents from happening again.

One of the biggest reasons that people drive instead of take the train in LA, besides the fact that our civic planning has a history of sucking, is the fact that the homeless make many train rides very unpleasant. I don't have enough fingers on my hands to count the number of times I witnessed homeless individuals, sometimes barely clothed, out right screaming and threatening random passengers. In my experience, this sort of thing happened at least a few times a week. It happened enough that there came times where I thought "fuck this shit" and decided to start driving to work again.

The homeless aren't viewed as dangerous for no reason. Even if they aren't technically dangerous, many of them are legitimately scary. There are places where the homeless are mostly people down on their luck or living that way by choice; I grew up in a town where the homeless are that sort of benign. But in cities like LA, the word "homeless" has an almost completely different definition.

Sorry, but I'm not about to throw out my pepper spray.

ADDENDUM: The reason I bring up relatively harmless behavior like the public urination is that when the average person sees that, they're going to think in the back of their minds that "If he's going to do that so brazenly, what else is he capable of?" Add to that the perception that the police are ineffective against the homeless, which they are, and even small misdemeanors can seem as signs of danger to the non-homeless.
I have a mutation in the MTHFR gene, which causes my body to be much less efficient at converting folic acid to folate than most people. It is also the likely cause for why I have low B12 on blood tests. Solution: eat lots of leafy greens and take a folate (not folic acid) supplement.

23andme doesn't report directly on this variant, but it is in the raw results. You can run your 23andme file through promethease.com (for a small fee) to get a report on variants like these.
Where did you get that stat? Not debating it, just curious about this data and what else it has.
This assumes you're healthy and have no other responsibilities. A minor health problem would lead to ruin with this lifestyle, and it's just not possible if you have to care for family members.
Myhrvold & Company poured cold water on the idea that grapes and raisins help a starter get going in Modernist Bread. I believe they went into detail on a "Bread Crumbs" podcast you can find on Heritage Radio. Probably this episode:

http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/mother-may-i/
Preschool: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
My spouse did it and the results provided by 23andMe were next to useless. It told her interesting facts like that she likely has no dimples (she has them), and other meaningless crap.

However, she downloaded the raw data and ran it through Promethease[0] and it did supply some useful info about potential drug interactions, which has been useful.

She supplied a fake name to them, used a gift card to pay for it online, and told them not to use her data for ancestry and to destroy her samples after processing. We've since learned here on HackerNews from people who claim to have worked there that they do not follow-through on their promises to do those things. I have no idea whether that's true or not, but it certainly sounds plausible and is infuriating.

[0] https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease
I'm not sure you two actually disagree, but rather that you're thinking on different scales. Make it right, then make it fast is usually talking about specific snippets of code, rather than the whole program, so your whole program should be "made fast from the start" because you went through the process of making it right and then making it fast on the components themselves.
I'm still waiting on good Docker support. Word is it's close, but I don't know if it's there right now. Really all I need in a dev machine is a Unix + docker + IDE, so this is pretty interesting.
I generally find it interesting to know as much about myself as possible:

- Found out I'm the most neanderthal of anyone in my family who has been tested.

- that I have the "short" genes in spite of being quite tall compared to average and the tallest in my family in my generation, my siblings have the "tall" genes in spite of being closer to average or below average respectively.

- that I'm related to celebrity chef Mario Batali -- sort of cool before he turned out to be a rapist.

- that I have increased warfarin sensitivity... not relevant now but maybe someday.
On XBox and PC, the free space requirement is 60gB; on PC the game folder winds up at 49gB.

The PS4 needs 96gB free because its digital installers work by downloading everything, then copying things to where they need to go, and then deleting the download. At 99.99% installed, there are two copies of the game on disk, and if there's not enough space for that, the install fails.
Installation theory by Saadi Lahlou (2017)
I highly recommend uploading your 23andme data to Promethease, which dramatically increases the amount of research matched to your genome and provides a better interface:

https://promethease.com/

I discovered that I have one copy of the Delta 32 mutation. Two copies provides nearly complete immunity to AIDs, but being lucky enough to have just one copy means that it will take significantly longer to get AIDS should I ever get HIV.
Knowing that I'm resistant to noroviruses also makes me more comfortable about traveling.

I discovered I have a 7x risk of going bald, which wasn't exciting.

Beyond this, results have been too contradictory to make use of. Genetics are interesting, but our behavior has a much greater impact on our lives.
Microsoft AirSim now available on Unity
Samsung Galaxy S10's Exynos 9820 chip unveiled with a dedicated NPU
That's progress, I suppose. But that still feels awful steep to buy as an individual / hobbyist. And I still believe that POWER needs to reach a point where the systems are accessible to individual hobbyist / experimenters in order to really take off.

If I were already convinced that I wanted to adopt POWER, then as a company, I could possibly justify buying boards at that price. But as somebody who just wants a POWER system to fuck around with and evaluate, that's a tough pill to swallow.
> I have put fintech cybersecurity forward as the most liquid and possibly the richest niche out there for a 3 years attempt.

Do you think "a couple of young engineers" can build that kind of expertise in 3 years?
6. Manager of manager asked him to change the relationship.
I'd read a little about the problems caused by involuntary commitment. Even a novel like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman or Woman on the Edge of Time might give you a different perspective. I understand where you're coming from, but making it possible for people to get others committed against their will has historically not worked out.
I wonder where he is now, though? $50k these days will only get a person so far.
Yup, in static vs dynamic conversations, I invariably see someone dismiss the value of compiler enforcement by claiming that you should be writing unit tests to cover these cases anyway. Every time I say a silent prayer that I never end up working with the person I'm talking to haha.
Yeah iirc Call of Duty 2 had 5 discs on PC
Sorry for your loss and thank you for sharing your story.
Blue Apron is laying off more employees – Audio
I know some people disapprove of it as a tactic, but I think it's been shown more than once that Greenpeace's shaming campaigns can be quite effective.
Your operating cost appears to be 100% capital costs. What about, you know, operating costs?
Fourth idiot here!
What astounds me are the ones with really loud stereo set ups that are twice as loud as the engine! Troll indeed.
> Standard response from Chinese companies

To be fair, it’s the same excuse Facebook used in Myanmar.
Curious about the below, what happens on Oracle?

>>> Pay attention to any left joins. If a column from a left join is used in a where or select clause it might be null.
Too late. They are already doing that and will continue to do so even if they get everything they want in telemetry.

The solution is to push back on everything because they never yield power unopposed.
We analyzed 275,045 recovery campaigns to find out what kind of discounts work
Toxic relationships with other homeless people. Desire to avoid the substance use of peers. Inability to gather enough money for the first, last and security deposit. Lack of large apartments that are affordable. Inability to coordinate a group of people who have strict shelter schedules. Discrimination by landlords.

(I worked in a shelter clinic for 2 years--these examples come from conversation and experience working with homeless people.)
Chrome OS has a better Window manager, better monitor support, better polish in general as a Desktop.

Compared to MacOS, I'd say probably just cost.
> Find the one that is the most restrictive in what it protects and make that your policy. ;)

Pretty much. As an example, see how car manufacturers follow California's emission standards nationwide, because it's easier to just do it for every car than to make compliant cars just for California.
Crostini is a VM solution (the container is in a VM). It's by no means a second class citizen. The Files app for instance shows Linux apps along side your Chrome OS apps. Other integration pieces are in the works. Why choose Chrome OS? It's the only mainstream OS with security at it's forefront and 6 week release cycles. Also, the battery life is amazing and there are a range of devices from low end to the higher end pixelbook. (some of the low end ones may not get Crostini yet). If you want a nice travel device you can get a low end Chromebook. If you want a no hassle internet solution you can get a cheapo Chromebook for your folks. Now if you want a Dev environment you can get a higher end Chromebook as well.
> It is a little more nuanced; the hype is dying (or so the writer believes).

Which would correlate with the title: "Blockchain’s Hype Is Dying According to Corporate America’s Earnings Calls"
Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code
Precisely. Regulatory adoption won't be much different than how government has responded to ridesharing today. Highly fragmented but typically open.
You got it backwards, Go used to do raw system calls on macOS, and binaries were occasionally broken by kernel updates. Now Go uses libc on macOS, and binaries are forward compatible with future macOS versions just like any other C/C++/ObjC/swift program. OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) is the current minimum supported version.
Probably pretty OK considering James Gosling (founder and lead designer of Java) now works for AWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling
Do you believe a person can have negative productivity after their employer takes into account costs of supervision, losses arising from poorly done work, and suchlike?

Seems to me you might get some rough sleepers into work by lowering the minimum wage, but so long as there are rough sleepers with untreated mental health and/or addiction problems, you're never going to get them all into work even if there was no minimum wage whatsoever.
I got a chromebook because I needed a device with a keyboard I could use from my couch/patio.

I've been extremely impressed - I can use Android apps, and they work well, due to tablet mode support. Being able to have a Linux laptop that just works is really awesome.

I think you could make the argument that ChromeBook is just as versatile as Windows now - huge app store (Play), great browser, and a Linux terminal. So I guess its for everyone that Windows is for.
After watching this session and having seen the focus on making Android apps better citizens shown at Google IO and Android Developer Summit, I got this gut feeling that Chrome OS might actually be where Google is heading to, and not Fuchsia.

I don't envision they will keep three development teams doing OSes for the same hardware form factors.

Now regarding ChromeOS vs plain GNU/Linux, macOS or Windows, I don't see a value, specifically given the prices of Chromebooks able to have Crostini enabled.
People who want usability without security being an afterthought.
Because the economics frequently don't work out? Because you need a lot of documentation to rent an apartment, and saying you want to move in with a bunch of other homeless people isn't going to make a prospective landlord jump up and down with excitement?
does it not dawn on you that perhaps this is the wrong way to think about solving the problem?
To live in, In SF. your choices are a 1.5 million dollar condo or a 50$ dollar tent. Seriously people, we need to allow for more choices than that. I'm sure builders and entrepreneurs would line up around the block to build solutions that are cheaper and more cost effective, but you first have to make it legal (get rid of the mountains of regulations and zoning headaches that make this problem so insurmountable), without that, will never make any progress on this problem.

Why do you think the internet took off as quickly as it did? or the facebook app store in 2008, etc. It's because there were no regulations (or almost none). This allowed thinks to take off very quickly.

Let's designate a section of several cities, say a 1 square mile section as regulation free, with an absolute minimum of zoning requirements, and almost 0 regulations. Then let the market have at it, see what gets built. Sure, maybe you don't like what happens in version 1. But, if we never iterate on this problem, we'll never make progress on it and in a 100 years we'll still be talking about this same self imposed problem which is completely solvable.
The benefit that the technology brings, sans speculation, should be the same regardless of whether it's a bear or bull market though. What about blockchain technology development that isn't tied to a tradable token?
(I'm crostini developer)
Chrome OS has some natural advantages as an OS e.g. it's always updated and secure, device drivers just work. Chrome OS is also the only desktop OS with Android support maintained by Google. Because Crostini uses Linux containers, more Linux programs can be used in development than MacOS, and any linux distribution that runs under LXD can be used. Chromebooks can also be found in certain places more commonly than macbooks, e.g. at schools or as part of a company's fleet of hardware.
definitely not this. unless you already have deep pockets.