skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we could stop making it illegal. That'd be a great first step.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amid-seatt...
Actually spending targeting homelessness is fairly minimal. So, IMO it’s hard to call it a money pit.
> This is a big deal: this is by far the biggest acquisition of a YC startup with a female founder/CEO.

I feel I may be ignorant, but doesn't drawing attention to her gender like this only work to diminish her accomplishments? I feel as though she did an amazing job, and siloing it into "best of..." as opposed to letting it stand on its own seems only to lessen the significance of her work.

Maybe I am naive and do not appreciate the difficulties of being a woman in tech, or perhaps I am too idealistic to think that we should not acknowledge the tribulations of achieving this as a female...but to me it seems to cheapen it rather than strengthen it. It's drawing attention to her gender rather than the accomplishment itself.

I am aware of who I am replying to, and I truly am not trying to sling mud here and I fear I may derail this comment thread when it really should just be a celebration of what Tracy Young has done, but then again if I never ask I'll never learn.
Nice delusion
For people here who are interested in transit, I highly recommend Jarrett Walker's book "Human Transit". He really focuses the conversation around a few ideas that almost everyone can agree on (and uses them to focus
& have productive conversations in transit agencies) https://humantransit.org/

Last night I watched his talk "Transit Truths" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5AHJA2-lAc - which also summarizes the ideas in his book well.
Online censorship in Saudi Arabia soared after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
> Try encoding 1kb as a QR code; it will become pretty unwieldy, if it's possible at all.

So for reference, QR codes are specified up to 177 pixels wide, and at that size they can hold around 2KB with medium error correction.

But for practical use you probably want half that width, so a 400 byte payload is fine but not much more.
The US Kitchen Nightmares are completely faked up drama for US audiences. Watch some of the original UK ones and you’ll see how he tries to coach the chefs with comparatively minimal swearing and anger.
I've known a few people who might have ended up homeless, at least for a while, without their family or friend support systems. 'Society' just assumes everybody has that support I guess.
Wow that talk was just amazing. Instead of your usual success BS, she just stands there and tells her story in a natural voice. Truly inspiring.
I am not sure whether it is yes or no. I remember consensual adult sex workers complaining their job got more dangerous after backpage was killed. (It allowed them better check of customers, after they went by whoever said yes on truck stop - more danger) Don't know much more.
Are you suggesting that a censored network is "regular"-- at a library?
My favorite line is: "In one particularly egregious example, Mr. Cuomo’s administration forced the M.T.A. to send $5 million to bail out three state-run ski resorts that were struggling after a warm winter."
I didn't say you can't criticize it. I said you can't expect anything else. Are you going to go down the list of companies from A to Z criticizing everyone of them? Is that going to fix the problem?
Is there a short downtime when you deploy new versions of the Go application? Is the Go application directly exposed to the Internet?
What a sad state of affairs. Predatory contracts are one thing, but why on earth do we as a society more or less ignore white collar crime? The article just glosses over the fact that in the Duncan's case, the agreement sent to the court was a forgery. And I can't even blame the author for not making more of a big deal about that because most people don't see that as seriously as they ought to.

If you go into a bank, completely unarmed and pass a note to a teller demanding money, you'll be locked away for years for stealing what in most cases is only a few thousand dollars. Whoever forged that document stole ~$60,000 and no one seems interested in doing anything more than issue a sternly worded "don't do that again".

What is it going to take to get society to get its act together and actually start enforcing the law when it comes to white collar crime? If the details of this article are correct, there are several employees of Yellowstone capital that should be thrown in a jail cell for a substantial amount of time.
Being rude and aggressive would be reasonable if there was some imminent danger, but there isn't - he can calmly explain things and doesn't have to merge anything until he's ready.
Why not EB-visa though? H1B is completely useless or even dangerous for startup founders. It's easier to live in e.g. Canada and incorporate in Delaware, than work in the US as H1B and be prevented from incorporating anything, effectively ending up as a high-performing slave wasting best years on somebody else's success.
When I buy a phone I install whatever is the latest version of iOS on it and am done ;)
Can someone tell me why I shouldn't be as worried about this as it sounds? I haven't forgotten the crypto export restriction debacle. Why are we walking back into that garbage fire, but N times over?

I could very well see this as being one of those "will never see the light of day out of a congressional subcomittee" situations but I'm somewhat surprised at the complete lack of discussion on the topic.
Is that not due to simply not spending?
While 1k does sound somewhat enticing that disk was my secure storage holding all my passwords (albeit old ones), ssh keys, wallet seeds, pgp keys, 2FA backups, payslips, bank statements.. you name it it’s probably on there..

I just keep it in case I get some unexpected money that would allow me to get it fixed securely under supervision. I’m a tiny bit paranoid about that particular disk falling into the wrong hands even if it’s broken :)

And well.. I didn’t exactly loose any money on it since I didn’t buy those coins with real money so I’m not too frustrated about it.

But it was a great lesson advocating for redundancy! Now I have everything storage related in pairs. One storage server at home, one offsite etc.. (I didn’t loose everything, most stuff wasn’t that important)
The article actually addresses that - why would Google (or Samsung or anyone really) risk device issues by doing this kind of upgrade? What is there to gain on a running device except angry users due to breakages of already working functionality?

There's an upwards trend of people DISABLING updates because they tend to break tools they use in daily lives.
If you think that only donors matter, or even that they matter most, I would wonder how you explain both local (SF) results and the current national electoral mood. Donor-emphasis has poor predictive power as a political theory, which was my point.
The new ZEIT TV
Initially I was skeptical as well. One server in a colocation will handle enough traffic until you can afford to hire all the people to make you web scale. But then I started playing with the various tools and seeing how people used them, and it totally changed my view.

The key point is that many of the new technologies in operations are about simplicity rather than speed. Standing up a stack in AWS can be flipped on and off like a light switch, and all the configuration steps can be much more easily automated/shared/updated/documented etc...

It's not about any of these technologies being more efficient; it is about spending more in order to abstract away many of the headaches that slow down development.

Certainly there are some people who are prematurely planning for a deluge of traffic and spending waayyy too many engineering resources on a 'web scale' stack, but that's not the majority.
Well, that's not entirely correct. The database querying only happens at build time. The output is just static HTML/js/CSS that can be hosted on any CDN (or anywhere else) relatively easy.
Ford: Ford reiterated that it “will deliver on the company’s commitment of 100 percent connectivity of new vehicles in the United States by 2019"

I think an easy next step would be to display ads on the console when the vehicle is stopped. Would be fairly easy software wise and that ad model is already working with Waze.
I don't want to be judgmental, and say this with the mildest of intentions (grandparent is just trying to make a contribution, and it would be good advice for some people), but as you point out - "lose your inhibitions" is worse advice than "be a traitorous arse". To someone who doesn't know how to do something, 'alter your mental state and hope that works' is useless advice because holding a drink doesn't magically teach you anything. In addition, the realistic worst case scenario of "be an arse" executed badly is it doesn't work out for you and you stop. The realistic worst case of purposefully upping your alcohol intake is physical danger and lawsuits if you are purposefully exploring new levels of inebriation.

Plus the original question is office politics. Socialising is a small component of office politics if you don't want to socialise.
I think the other problem is that the more one city spends to "fix" its homeless problems, the more other areas ship their homeless to these cities with more resources. It's certainly the case in Texas, where many smaller cities and rural areas give homeless people a one-way bus ticket to Austin, Dallas or San Antonio.
There are also multiple standards for black and white 2d bar codes.

This is backed by the Fraunhofer Society and the German government, and on tracks to become an ISO standard. It will be implemented in scanners (hardware and software).
Well in SF and Seattle the spending continually increases and the homelessness problem manages to get worse every year. Sounds like a money pit.
I stayed a night in LA a few weeks ago at an AirBNB in a condo in a prime location near Little Tokyo and can't stop thinking that society would be better off if this condo were owned and occupied by a family instead of being basically a for-profit hotel.

I don't know how to stop this de facto rezoning except by imposing huge taxes on housing that is not the owner's primary residence and closing all the loopholes that come along with that. This would free up more properties for people to own as a primary residence, and AirBNB users et al could still rent out rooms in their primary residence.

It doesn't solve actual homelessness, the solution for that seems to be build more housing.
Because then people would have to confront challenges to their highly propagandized views of economics and political standards. People would have to admit that the 'free market' isn't some catch-all solution to problems and that sometimes it is the cause of problems. They would have to admit capitalism itself isn't some naturally occurring and self-maintaining phenomenon and realize how easily it can be, and is, arbitrarily manipulated by people either good or bad. They would have to confront the idea that much of what they are told is highly influenced advertising and propaganda purposefully created to mislead them into one action or another. They would need to recognize the full extent that the concentration of power and wealth has contributed to political corruption.

Nobody wants to admit that their preconceived notions might be a bunch of bullshit they were purposefully fed, and not something they thought up and devised themselves.
Interesting! When you rollout a new version, how do you coordinate docker-compose and Traefik to avoid any user-facing downtime (no 502)?
> Hence why the NYC mayor is so intent on funding worthless streetcars and ferries

I'm assuming you're using the "worthless" adjective only for the streetcars - I use the NYC Ferry regularly (a stop opened near my apt last year) and it's way better than the subway. I have to walk a bit further on the other side, but it's still way more comfortable.
Depending on where you live (like the US) your telco is happily selling of data. So unless you have your phone in airplane mode your location is out there.
It's an odd and funny argument to make that your product is working well if it's always on fire or broken, which you would think an HN commenter like a sysadmin would understand.

It just seems the margins for error get ever thinner as your system scales. Other systems have figured this out, like Tokyo where they change over a major-use track in one night. Meanwhile, MTA shuts down the L for 15 months.
> It's developer-editable - which is not even remotely close to being the same thing, except for that tiny subset of projects where end-users are developers.

There are plenty of FOSS software where one could do meaningful changes that improve your user experience without being a developer. This includes customizing the theme for your desktop, translating the software into another language etc

What do you even mean by open system?

There are plenty of regular (non-dev) people that propose great ideas for changes to FOSS programs that later get implemented, you don't get this kind of interactions with your users with proprietary sw because that your "intellectual property" and who the hell are you to dictate how to do things with my property attitude (which is, if not implied then anticipated by most users).
Like documented here:

https://roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-of-a-swindle/
Truth.

In fact, the more harsh way to frame this is people need to understand whether they have an interest in politics does not change the fact others do.

And we all live with the product of those of us who do get involved politically.

Speak or be spoken for has real teeth when viewed through this lens.
Wow this definitely raise the stakes in the construction software market. Autodesk is going all-in and poised to become the incumbent in construction software. They are seeing what many other companies are failing to see, but there are many other formidable platforms pushing hard too, including Procore, all the Oracle offering which includes the recent acquisitions of Aconex and Textura and many niche players.
4 Questions with Shantanu Singh, CFO of Taj Pharmaceuticals Group
> the loss of the C API is sad

From the article: "A lot of C API from OpenCV 1.x has been removed."

That doesn't sound like they removed all of the C APIs, unless the only C API was the one that came with 1.x? I'm not very familiar with OpenCV, but since they homepage still talks about offering Python and Java APIs, it seems likely that they're going through a C interop layer somewhere. Did they never introduce new C APIs in the last three major versions?

If there really is no C API, that's sad and kinda limiting. Everything binds to C, but almost nothing can bind to C++.

> a number of embedded systems started there and are skittish about going to C++11

I'm curious to know what embedded systems are powerful enough to do real-time computer vision, but don't support a C++11 toolchain? C++11 is pretty old at this point, and between gcc and clang, almost everything with a 32-bit or better processor is probably supported, as well as probably many 8-bit and 16-bit architectures, but I'm skeptical about how much CV you can do on the kind of processors that are built as 16-bit processors.
I'll take issue with your thesis. I was once standing in Marin county overlooking the Golden Gate bridge, there I read a plaque describing how the bridge was built ahead of schedule and under budget - in the 1930s (no computers!). Behind the Golden gate bridge in the distance you see the Bay bridge, built with tremendous cost overruns and delays measured in billions of dollars and many years, respectively.

I'll make the case that, as a nation, we have lost the ability to deliver civil infrastructure projects on time and on budget, not to mention manage them once they are operational.

Regarding NYC MTA, I'll share an anecdote. I have a very close friend who worked on the second avenue Subway line a few years back. He's a civil engineer by training and was in middle management on this project, employed by the general contractor awarded this contact. His comment was along the lines of: "imagine dozens of dump trucks full of hundred dollar bills backing up to an incinerator and dumping the money. That's what the MTA does. Burn money." The sentiment was that these public institutions are chuck full of incompetence with no repercussions for mismanagement or incentive to excel. As a life long New Yorker, I don't have to work in the tunnels to know that he's right.
A list of 2019 developer and usability conferences
This is the rub for me. If you scroll through this page, there's lot of talk about finances and upgrades without much context or understanding. And there's the usual union bashing, which may or may not be warranted.

But this is the first comment that points out that Cuomo owns the MTA, is responsible for maintaining and improving it, and has a long history of looting the MTA's funds for other projects, or forcing them to spend money on cosmetic changes (does no one remember his big announcement last year that he was going to take 200 million from the MTA to force them to make NYC bridge lights multi-colored? Really?). Service was fine before this man got elected, and plummeted afterward.

It might be that Cuomo's not to blame, any more than any other possible cause. I don't know, I'm not an expert.

But you know what I never hear? Any form of leadership or direction that makes it sound like his people are trying to fix this issue. Which again, means in some sense, Cuomo is still to blame. We don't have reliable transit, and Cuomo's answer is: "Maybe we can get a very controversial new tax passed to pay for it?" From the guy who has a habit of stealing funds from the MTA? Deblasio's condition for more funding was that Cuomo had to promise it will go to the subway and not another one of Cuomo's upstate pet projects... and Cuomo said no.

Until we have a governor who cares, I don't have much hope here. It just doesn't appear to be a priority for him. He declared a state of emergency, and promptly followed up with no headline making changes. Unless I missed something (pls link me! : )

He did, however, name a bridge after his father. Maybe the ceremony would have been better if the bridge sparkled in more colors.
> Any headline like this can only mean "about to on a cosmological scale"

Sorry, I also read it as "any day now" and I'm pretty sure anybody who is a layman on this topic also did the same. The title is plenty click-baity.
It does take land that you possess and are willing to sacrifice for long-term composting. We're passing judgement here without knowing anything about the social systems in these places.
Presumably they can't mint new coins at will unless they can back them up with dollars?

(This is of course assuming Tether is not an actual fraud, when all the evidence points that way)
That's a bit like saying "Going 50 miles an hour is a meaningless concept, you should say 50 miles an hour relative to the surface of the earth". There is an implied reference frame here.
jl is Jessica Livingston, the only female founder of YC. I, personally, see nothing wrong with her adding this detail.

It is insider info on YC alumni that I'm guessing isn't in the article and probably can't be found any other way. She is a reliable source.
This looks super nice! Found a typo on the landing page btw: "pulls-request" instead of pull requests.
Linus admitted himself that his behavior was sometimes out of line. That doesn't mean he was always "an asshole", just that sometimes he was. He has accepted that and worked to change it.

Stop trying to paint progress as a bad thing.
I'm not rooting for a future where human labor is obsolete.

Why would the machines continue to feed us if we're dead weight to the economy?
But isn't this exactly what you're supposed to do in capitalism? Use your privileged position in economy to earn money (by definition at the expense of other people)?

Now, I agree that it's not a very moral position, but we don't expect property owners in SF to keep rents reasonable. They should charge as much as they can, that's the only thing that makes sense from a business perspective!
> as it helps the signal-to-noise ratio of good values spread faster in the population

This only works if the "don't care" population doesn't outgrow them. You are pretty much betting on speeding up, outcompeting them, but that in itself is only contributing to the overall problem.

Especially considering that the "don't care" approach requires less effort, as in time and resources for the individual, thus is more likely to be practiced succeed and given on to the children, of which they very likely will have more.

Because even children are something that needs to be "invested in" to actually meaningfully contribute when they are adults, instead of being another "net negative" to the sustainability of humanity on this planet.
>The biggest problem with adoption of Bitcoin as a spending platform is price volatility

Are you sure it's not the fact that nobody seems to be able to securely store bitcoin/other crypto, and that when your bitcoins get stolen there's zero recourse, unlike fiat currency where banks are regulated?
We may well find it possible to compete with big money in politics.

Some campaigns were successful on small donations and people power.
Heinlein has a preface to one of this story collections where he claims to not be making predictions about specific dates, but rather is aiming to put many of his stories on a shared timeline for the coherence of his imagined future.

That said, he was also obsessed with 'hard' science fiction and attempting to create plausible technological what-if scenarios.
MTA was looted by the state. It is reasonably profitable but all those profits are being spent by the state for other non MTA activities.

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/infrastructur...

The best public transport model is the one in London.
Nerdwriter, or someone similar, made a video about Casey's amateur aesthetic.
I've never heard of Revenue Management Software. What effect does it have exactly?

If you own some apartments, wouldn't you just check the local advertised prices and set your prices similarly, possibly also using whatever your social network of landlords can tell you?
Spring Boot in a Container
Performance and usability of scrolling the main document vs. subscrollers
Thanks a lot for sharing this story! I started reading about clock domain crossing and metastability issues, and for the past few days I've been thinking a lot about circuit designs and FPGAs.

I posted on /r/FPGA on Reddit [1], and I asked about the best development board to start with. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that? I think I'm going to order a snickerdoodle black [2] and a breakout board, and start learning VHDL or Verilog. I think it would be a lot of fun to eventually design my own soft-core processor and compile a Rust program that runs on it. And after reading about clock domain crossing issues, I think it would also be really interesting to experiment with asynchronous circuits and clock-less CPUs. Thanks for introducing me to this!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/9yutk8/best_100300_fp...

[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle
Or you could do with Copenhagen...

I found this quote from David Lindley in a review of Adam Becker's book referenced in this thead (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10147):

"The problem with Copenhagen is that it leaves measurement unexplained; how does a measurement select one outcome from many? Everett’s proposal keeps all outcomes alive, but this simply substitutes one problem for another: how does a measurement split apart parallel outcomes that were previously in intimate contact? In neither case is the physical mechanism of measurement accounted for; both employ sleight of hand at the crucial moment."
I know what most of those words mean, but none of the sentences.