skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are not some people homelss/nomadic by choice because they wanted to live off the grid? Does not idea like this conflict with their ideologues and individualism?

I am not discussing state of being homeless but one's choice to live independent from the majority of the society.

Source: Once helped a college friend with her thesis by helping her conducting interviews with homeless people living near our university campus.
+1

I've been asked this question in interviews on more than one occasion. I find it gives me a good opportunity to show off some knowledge, and with a good interviewer, it's a very good conversation starter for something that can end up being quite deep diving.
Well I'm 30 and I've "wasted" countless hours in projects as well that didn't give me any money back. I've started coding websites since I was 10, with the idea of making money and turning into a successful entrepreneur. Today, I write code for a living in a company. Those "wasted" hours definitely made me a very very competitive person in the job market, I bet that if did all those things you mention, that will be the case as well.

That doesn't mean I'm not successful. It just didn't work out and it is normal. For every billionaire, there is a lot of people like us.

I would also ignore the comments about not being good at selling etc, building products and making a lot of money has a lot of luck involved. There are things we can definitely keep improving, but that in my opinion, isn't what is going to get us what we want. There is a good amount of randomness and luck in this process. A lot of people are working hard, that doesn't mean a thing. Only a few can succeed.

We're just "test subjects" in this world. Don't take this too seriously as some type of failure. Just use your skills you got to make a living and if you are willing, make more products, or give up, it doesn't matter, really. And chill.

Thanks for everything that you have built that didn't work out.
Apple Exploring New Glass Panel MacBook Keyboards
In the section "Inline -> Comprehension", isn't this:

<iter> = (i+5 for i in range(10)) # (5, 6, ..., 14)

really a generator expression?
Why do you find it hard to believe that people could become attached to and invested in their town's unusual street numbering system?

People become deeply attached to all kinds of arbitrary things, e.g. the particular shade of red used by their favorite sports team, or the exact shape of the cookies their family has baked for Christmas every year.
I'm curious about peoples' views on something.

It's clear that in the future we will be able to create fakes that are effectively indistinguishable from reality. The audio in this 'Trump speech' [1] is already remarkable. So there are two ways we can go from here. The first is to try to maintain faith in multimedia. What you see or hear is probably real because we try to pass a bunch of laws making it a really bad thing to try to impersonate people.

The second is to go the route of internet speech today. If somebody claims to be somebody of note, you generally would not believe them without extensive proof. And so what they say does not reflect upon the person they claim to be. If video/audio manipulation tech was allowed without constraint, this would eventually become the same for general audio/video. Having no trust in what you see or hear is not a great thing. But at the same time, I think there's a very good argument to be made for the fact that people are already far too susceptible to fake information because we, even before the 'real' advent of deep fake type technology, are still teetering on the precipice between believable and not.

For instance this [2] famous image of "animal testing" that keeps going viral on social media every couple of years. It has nothing to do with animal testing, but people are naive. Deep fakes would throw us well off that precipice to the point that I think we'd see substantially increased amounts of scrutiny given to misinformation. The downside here is of course we'd also see substantially increased amounts of scrutiny given to legitimate information, though I'm not entirely sure I see that as a negative.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gpc_artOYI

[2] - https://speakingofresearch.com/2014/02/27/fact-into-fiction-...
> and last year voters approved a measure to raise $300 million annually to tackle the issue by taxing local companies.

> Yet there are about 7,500 homeless ...

Wait, what? 300,000,000 / 7500 is 40,000 per person.

Yes, I know San Francisco is expensive. I lived there for a couple of years (as an entitled tech bro, of course). But holy cow, if you ever wanted yet another metric to demonstrate the craziness that is SF living costs, here it is.
Discourse is pretty popular: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
If you clicked the links, you may have noticed the second one was broken, as is the one to the "rap sheet" linked in the article of The Register. However, easy to find:

http://googleopoly.net/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Googles_Rap_Sh...

Take your pick. I chose this (you have to copy and paste the shortened URL and paste it)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/google-caught-pi...

> "We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality's data and misrepresented our relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new websites. We've already unreservedly apologized to Mocality."

So where you see no harm at all, Google management is "mortified" by what employees had done. I guess a potential out would be trying to split hairs about what constitutes "Google". Not that every one of these stories ends with "oh no, what did these rascals do while unsupervised?", but for the ones that do, you could try that.
> would there have been a way for RenTech to hold the same portfolio, using the same leverage, with the same payout characteristics, that no government agency would have issues with?

Yes, quite easily. In fact, highly-leveraged portfolios like the one RenTech held are an essential feature of market making, which was historically done using banks’ balance sheets. RenTech’s shenanigans were around tax. Everything else is commentary.

(On the Senate report, the whole thing isn’t crap. But that section is crap as in it’s written for political purposes and has limited bearing with respect to the law.)
Helping a million developers exit Vim https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...
There are things like nexe[1] and pkg[2] but the resulting executables end up pretty bloated (30+ MBs for a simple hello world, cause they all end up bundling Node in some way with every executable). nexe doesn't support native Node modules either, IIRC.

[1] https://github.com/nexe/nexe
[2] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
Sad truth. A lot of the officers enjoy raids and gun battles like this.
It doesn't look good on a portfolio.

If the mockups are boring then you have done your job well. The problem is that mockups that stand out, are what gets steak-holders interested. Some of my design work involved selling concepts, and the ones that sold were those that broke the UI conventions in some way. Those features that broke the conventions were then set in stone! Instant regret.

Uniformity is bad! They want bright colors, low contrast text, and each page to be unique. If every page looks the same then they obviously are paying you too much. This is how lots of print designers get started in the web-industry, and wowing people is the main objective. UX doesn't come into it.

The other thing that I've found happen, is business requirements sometimes further complicate the UI. We had a simple app that was a report of damages as part of a return process.

This was mandated by the project manager to be displayed as a progress bar. Sofar as a vehicle that was 100% fucked would be 100% complete. I tried to push back with exclamation points for damaged areas, but progress bars were already sold to the customer.
American law enforcement agencies spend hundreds of millions on equipment to support violent raids. There is strong incentive to continue to use the equipment so that they can justify the spending as well as justify larger budgets for more spending on similar gear.

If they don't have high profile violent raids to point at they risk people questioning the armament and spending.
I never understood how scanning emails to show ads is a privacy violation? No information about you is leaking to anyone.
> But ONE System faces immense obstacles just getting people to sign up. City employees must gain subjects’ trust, learn their real name, and persuade them to join a monitoring system. Participants must sign the program’s medical-records privacy protection forms—a tough task for those suffering from mental illness. To get into permanent housing, program members need to pass a background check, which can take 45 days and requires an identification card, something that many people living on the street lack.

The article addresses that. If you thought big brother was watching you, this would seem to fit nicely into that, wouldn't it?
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The Way Superman Picks Up a Building Is a Physics Travesty
>Brave stole a lot of bitcoin from people by converting it into their useless/worthless BAT.

What is this even supposed to mean?

I'm both a Brave publisher (4 verified websites) and a Brave browser user, nothing like this ever happened

As a publisher you can choose in which token you want to be paid, BTC, ETH or else, you are never forced to accept BAT.

As you can see on this screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TKg1m0i

From the Brave publisher dashboard
The World Might Run Out of People
Actually, a private jet full of gold would be definitely illegal to attempt to fly: it would weigh more than the allowable take-off weight.

Furthermore, there is no way a private jet full of gold would actually fly. It would be too heavy to succeed in taking off. Gold is extremely dense, almost as dense as lead. You could put gold in a private jet, but it wouldn't be "full of" gold; there'd have to be a substantial amount of unused space for the thing to fly.
I'm not a lawyer, but the answer may well be "no, this isn't already covered". Especially when courts like to construe things narrowly, and that anything not specifically mentioned in a law requires relief through the legislature rather than the judicial branch. There will surely be people who claim that this isn't covered by existing defamation laws, and I would not be so sure that a court wouldn't agree with them.
I needed enough time distance to really analyze if things were making sense or not. As a generally even keel person, I didnt notice how stressed I was until I signed the offer and realized, oh yea, I was holding back a lot of my thoughts and potential.
When I worked at a web agency as a dedicated front-end developer, the projects would use any language from .NET, PHP, Ruby, etc. I don't want to depend on the back-end of the project in my front-end stack.

All of my work in the front-end ecosystem is made using JS+CSS. Why would I want to install Go or Ruby to build those? Running JS to manage my JS and CSS makes more sense...

One big bonus being that I can actually lift the hood and tweak my build system because it uses the same language as the one it will be parsing.
Snowclone is a popular term for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
I'm not sure if second level is glitching for me, or if it is supposed to be a 3D representation of a hypercube - traveling in any direction shows more cubes with parts carved out
By having each redundant flight computer hooked to completely different sensors, in case of a bad sensor the crew can bypass not only the sensor, but also any computation done with that sensor.

It's not a single point of failure as we think if it - if it starts acting up, you can easily disable the automatic stabilizer system, per the procedures. 737 stabilizer runaways take several seconds to take effect, and are recoverable afterword. Later you can switch flight computers and then be using clean data, though you are supposed to leave the stabilizer system off for the remainder of the flight.
"too obvious that US companies cannot bribe, influence, or demand justice from their own government"

In what alternative universe this is happening?!
> Well Bloomberg reporters get bonuses based on how much the their stories move the market.

This sounds made up?
Learning Rust via Advent of Code
I’m going to prefer an obvious planned and announced arrest that could go sideways to no knock nighttime door kickers where risk of issues like family, pets, getting the wrong house all together go way up.
> Pilot trained this situation and plane did X and now does Y - you don't really see the problem? - now pilot has extra burden to quickly determine if something else is wrong as plane behaves differently than pilot was trained to.

The pilots did not train for a specific root cause of a fault. They trained for a symptom (uncommanded nose down), and the procedure for that situation was unchanged.

> extra burden to quickly determine if something else is wrong

This isn't an extra burden. Pilots aren't doing root cause analysis for failures while they are responding to them. They are trained to try actions in a specific order until something works. It's not like the checklist used to have one action on it and now it has two - the solution in this case was a standard action on the standard checklist.

Pilots do not look around, say "ah, electrical short in elevator actuator" or "ah, bad angle of attack sensor" and then take a single action.
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It's not that hard to do without Google, except for search. My phone has all Google user-facing services removed. Mail is on an Sonic IMAP server and accessed with K-9 mail. Browsing is is with Fennec. Apps come from F-Droid. Navigation is based on Open Street Map. GPS assistance comes from Mozilla's location provider. No Facebook on mobile. Messaging is SMS and email.

On desktop, documents are in Libre Office. Privacy Badger blocks most of the junk. Browsing is with Firefox. Mail is via Thunderbird, talking to the same IMAP server. Haven't looked at Facebook this week yet.

ISP is Sonic.net, which just moves bits, and doesn't MITM anything. They're pro net neutrality.

Who needs Google?
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"Serverless" is just "server as a service". Horrible misnomer indeed.
Apple doesn't market the iPhone as a selfie phone. No, they wouldn't market it as a device designed exclusively for calls and SMS either, but that isn't quite the same thing since the word "phone" is still part of its name.
We had a crude version of this a few months ago:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/video-of-acosta-incident-p...
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Real talk and inspiring talk. Thank you for sharing the honest story and reflection that all in the startup world need to hear.
I'm sure this is just the "beta" of a system that the creators wish to implement on a larger scale. First it will be homeless people, because they're barely even registering it as reality. Next, it will be prisoners, those on house arrest, and people who committed a felony. Commit a crime, be watched all the time. That's the future we're heading towards.

They just started with the homeless people and prisoners because those people can't fight back.
For me, it’s about weighing your options carefully and accepting the things you can’t change. I tried to move away from the Windows ecosystem to Linux but quickly found it lacking in the areas that were very important to me, namely music production. I really love Linux and still use it for certain things (and I even switched my daughter who’s now in HS to it and she loves it).

There is certainly a duality to the walled garden paradigm - on the one hand, a very controlled environment presumably ensures quality and reliability, however it also creates an environment vulnerable to abuse, such as fixed pricing schemes. All Apple users have to accept the fact that they can’t upgrade their hardware, ever. And because Apple ultimately has control over all aspects to f their ecosystem, an OS upgrade can and often will hose your carefully configured rig. Like MS, Apple is not concerned with the hapiness of a particular segment of their user base; No, they care about pushing new features and fixing security vulnerabilities. They are just like any other big company that cares about their bottom line. I chose to accept this as the lesser of the two evils. Perhaps at some point in the future, a company will come along that actually cares about users.

Philosophyally, there is not much difference between Apple and MS, but Apple at the moment just happens to have an ecosystem that favors artists, while Linux is like the deadbeat dad that shows up
once in a while. But blaming “Linux” for lack of artist support is also unfair because Linux is not a single entity.

I make my choices with eyes wide open. I may hate
some aspects of my choices, but I am not forced into them.
Mining social media messages in “pharmacovigilance” research
The revolving door between FAA and cushy positions at Boeing is not a secret. The shortcuts Boeing has been making with the blessing ( or willful omission of the FAA ) have been discussed but with many interests in the middle, like strong competition from Airbus, geopolitics, internal politics, States outbidding each other to create more jobs, national ego, and straight up greed.

"Word on the street", is that Boeing has lost most their safety reputation and most people just do their job and try to not get burned when the planes start to crash. I want to believe most are just blowing of steam, but I don't know..
As the MASSIVE aquaducts in France and Italy clearly illustrate, as well as things like the Thermae, the Romans were keenly aware that there are things that can't be done with any amount of slave labour, and did in fact use labor saving devices.

Hell, they had the same problem we have: "automation" (massive infrastructure projects) putting people out of jobs. The solution was also similar: first, massive infrastructure projects soaking up more than all available labor for decades, followed by making the problem worse, then austerity and mass-corruption on all levels, then (let's say "todo" in our current case) revolution, followed by large scale Rome-initiated expansion wars. On the plus side: those wars resulted in the longest period of prosperity in history.
That's assuming Brexit actually happens. That seems to be up in the air at this point.
Their response would have worked to return to level flight in non-MAX variants of the plane, though. Regardless of what the manual or checklist says, they had years of experience flying 737s that behaved in a specific way, they developed an unconscious/intuitive mental model of the plane based on those behaviors (that is faster and quicker to react than consulting checklists), and then a significant and deadly change was made to those behaviors and not communicated to them for cost-cutting reasons.

There's clearly a problem on Boeing's end here.
I'll grant you there are probably router companies ripping them off, though that's true of Linux too. Your other two have both contributed much back to FreeBSD, so I'm unsure what you mean.
If you want to stay off the grid, why live in a city full of CCTV and other ways to track people? Why not live in the forest?
> neutralize

that means kill to a lot of police departments in this country, and its basically their policy and it is simple logic:

if any officer in the pack unilaterally decides that someone is a threat, then they are justified in neutralizing them and it is expected.

you as the target will never know which rationale which officer is using, let alone which department even responded and that department's current policies, let alone the path to becoming a non-threat under that specific guideline.

but maybe your family gets a settlement. maybe.
Not in the browser, but that is what all those analytics like the ones from Google and Adobe already offer since the last decade.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18950544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18933372
Why is it # ff ff 99 ff

Would # f0 f0 90 f0 not be much more logical? It it were decimals 10, 20, 30 would get a shrthand of 1, 2, 3. It would not mean 11, 22, 33. At 1 it's not much of a differenct but at f it's quite a bit.
I'd also like to point out that America's nutty televangelists are a uniquely American problem. The rest of the "western world" is not remotely as religious as America.
Stop using Google Spyware Browser. Google has abused its market position for a long time now, and we are seeing the impact. Forced browser logins, and now proposed deprecation of Ad Blocking API's are the two that bother me the most. The Fox is cool again, Mozilla has your back.
Just my opinion:
I imagine that with neuroplasticity, there are plenty of positive connections to their current positions. Coping mechanisms can attach positivity to anything, can justify attaching negativity to anything else. It seems like if they hadn't learned how to cope they would be dead. :/
As this comes up in most threads on how SF spends money on the homeless:

- The SF homelessness abatement budget includes a lot of money to support low income renters and other services that are used by people you might become homeless if not for city assistance.

- Considering that health coverage for a high tech worker with no chronic conditions can easily run 20k+, it's not surprising that an unhoused individual who may have many health conditions costs more to care for.
Me too, it is as if people stop learning how compilers are implemented.
I think it's the whole _scanning emails_. The information is already leaked at that point.
lmao, or: it is actually hard to quit these companies even if you're educated, well-informed, and set to do it. Aside from many articles[1] written precisely about this, casual conversations with anyone who tries to exercise their consumer agency and giving them up talk about why it's hard to do.

Has this author ever spoken to anyone who's tried using a smartphone or OS that isn't Apple or Google? "People love free stuff" isn't a sufficient explanation, it reads like someone trying to blame consumers, to say nothing of the ethical implications behind the conscious, deliberate decisions behind each of the scandals they're happy to wave away.

[1]: https://gizmodo.com/c/goodbye-big-five
Making audio more accessible with two new apps
The 2002 Moscow theater attack shows gas-based raids are not any less dangerous
The RP FLIP, on which the Polar Pod is based, is a wonderfully crazy vessel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shPATcV9Dzw
> Let me ask you - in your job, if someone suggests a change that will improve how things work, would you be against it because the bad way of doing things is party of the business's identity? It's nonsense, really isn't it.

So, you're already rewriting everything in Rust, then?
The “we win by default” phrase is also in some scummier payday loan contracts and is apparently legal.

But I don’t think it should be legal to waive your court rights like that.
our reality seems closer to Brave New World than 1984