skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm against live-in vehicles and this life-style choice. On paper it sounds fine but in reality horrible for many reasons. For the most part, people in this situation are in a challenging state and the least of their worries is the environment around them. Is a mother of 2 living in a small RV who relies on donations going to pay for disposal service?

I live in Portland, a city that used to known for being a clean city. In the last 8 years we have had a large increase of car live-in residents and homeless population. I would not call Portland a clean city anymore. In-fact it's far from it. Homeless make up about 3% of the population, but according to a recent article they make up half of the arrests. Personally I've had car camping people outside of my house and we've been afraid of retaliation for call them in and try not to make contact.

I understand that these people have nowhere to go, but cities should create a homeless car shelter of sorts or some other solution other than just hoping for the best of people living on the edge.

2011 article on how clean Portland is(was) - http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/308068

RV issue in Portland -https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-neighbors-fe...
Homeless issue -https://katu.com/news/local/neighbors-say-theyre-getting-now...
Half of the Police arrests are Homeless - https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/07/portland_mayor_t...
Why feedback is never worthwhile
This may sound crazy, but I would consider my iPad Mini 4 (with cellular) to be my primary computing device.

To be fair, I have multiple desktop computers, laptops, and servers in my house. And for work we each get a development laptop and a desktop with multiple monitors. So I'm no luddite by any stretch.

But it fits in the front pocket of a pair of Dockers type pants. Meaning, I often leave my phone at home and carry just my iPad.

It travels with me to work and home. I bring it to meetings instead of my laptop, unless I am coding. I leave it open to skype so that conversations don't break my typing flow.

It sits in front of my computer while I am home playing youtube. I bring it onto the front porch on a cool evening for kindle and carcassonne. And it goes with me to the hot tub.

I originally bought it as a travel companion device. But found it fit so well, that I just carry it with me pretty much anywhere.
My guess is that this would work fine until the working set size exceeds available memory. Redis (unless something new has happened the last couple of years since I used it) requires that data fit in RAM. So could work well for low-frequency logging like alerts. Not as a general purpose log system.
Ask HN: Do Beta lists still work?
I have been out of the building a SaaS game for a bit and now working on a new side project (I can post what it is if anyone wants to know, but didn't want to self promote off the bat).

I remember a few years ago, a beta list was hugely valuable and signups seemed to flow in quickly and easily. Does anyone still build beta lists? Find/found success? Stories around that?
There isn't a difference, really. Inheritance is one way of implementing "units of measure".
It's great that this law has been struck down as unconstitutional.

I've slept in my car numerous times along the PCH in the past, and in SoCal it's particularly irritating how much CHP harrasses folks just trying to get some shut-eye on a road trip.

I've had CHP wake me at 3AM then force me to drive half asleep down a winding cliff-top road I had pulled over specifically to avoid driving sleepily down.

But I fully expect there to be new laws introduced to prevent these streets from becoming trailer parks. The judge already criticized the vagueness, they'll just get more specific targeting persistent occupancies.

The concern for sanitation is very legitimate. Especially for folks in cars and vans, there's no holding tank infrastructure in these vehicles. A person spending a day somewhere in a car with no public restrooms nearby is either urinating in a bottle or on the ground. And if in a bottle, the bottle is very likely getting emptied on the ground nearby.

Even people in RVs and campers have fairly limited holding capacity. It doesn't take much laziness to exhaust the capacity and regress into the same pattern of a car/van-dweller. Not to mention those systems are failure-prone and often neglected because who wants to do maintenance on a sewage system?
They have PSTN hookups, which a cloud vendor would not allow. You have to go colo for those. Bandwidth is also not cheap in the cloud, video conferencing would eat bandwidth. Looks like they spend 61 million a year for data centers, phone connections, software dev, personal expenses or pay another ~$20 million and you get just Lyft's AWS bill.
Why are his comments "idealogical battle" and the mainstream comments just comments. Clarify that for me, thank you.
Sort of, sort of not. I agree that it would be better to create more RV parks but the zoning issues are pretty extreme in that most cities are not big fans of RV parks for more historical reasons than actual ones. Sunnyvale, as a city, has preserved its mobile home parks in an effort to keep housing more affordable.

I have an inquiry out to a developer on the cost of building a 'multi-story' RV park. Not trying to recreate the "stacks" here (if you're a Ready Player One fan), but wondering if you could increase the available parking spots while not consuming additional acreage. It has to be a better use than 'public storage' buildings.
John Lilly: Altered States (1983)
I've been eyeing a tablet for a while. Unfortunately, the pickings with Android are rather slim, so that really only leaves the iPad. I haven't bought the iPad (6th gen) due to it only having 2gb of ram, but maybe the Mini is right for me.
Most people on internet pick a fairly random, gender-neutral pseudonym. Your username for instance is "the_af".

Her picking "Doreen" as a username was her publicizing her gender. She can't do that and at the same time complain about being treated as a woman.

It's not a "huge impediment". She'd just have to pick a gender-neutral pseudonym. Is it really such a big deal?
Renderific: SVG renderer for Atari 8-bit computers
I love that someone finally made a small 8" 4:3 tablet again - it seems like the perfect form factor for reading. Right now I'm still using my aging Galaxy Tab S2, but it's software support has ended.

The only serious annoyance I have is the lack of USB-C... all my other devices (laptop, phone, headphones, etc.) are on that new port now and I only have to carry a single charger. Except for the tablet :(
Costly Confusion: Medicare’s Wellness Visit Isn’t the Same as an Annual Physical
We are G-Suite at work so obviously use Hangouts Meet everywhere. However, whenever we need a company-wide meeting we switch to Zoom as apparently HM can't handle this.
You could read it as “It’s cheaper for the not poor”. Parent comment mentions that in their country, being poor has come be seen as a choice and the poor as lacking in character. So being not poor means you have high moral character.
Most people have realized it's actually complicated to do it right and just gave up on server-rendering their React apps (e.g. Reddit).
The point I tried to make: I suspect if you dug really deep into what is a character or glyph you might find "character length" is an imprecise and messy notion, with differing performance costs associated with differing definitions which may or may not apply to you.

So even if you pick one definition and decide to live with it always... You'll still have to know what tradeoffs you (or an API designer or implementer) made.
Maybe so - I looked around on practical machinist and on some of the website before making that statement and found that few items that really looked like forklifts were available that had load capacities under 3-5K, so those probably weight about 2x their load capacity. the kind of ride-behind pallet movers aren't really forklifts, but obviously do come with lighter duty availability. For reference, a pallet of bottled water weighs about 2000lbs. and most big box stores would rather operate forklifts with some capacity overhead.
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Slums constructed to hide the poor are not the same thing developers trying to sell units would choose to build. Initially developers would target the high-end (this is what they do now with supply limits in place), then when demand in the high-end is exhausted they would build for the middle class. When the middle class upgrades into newer units, older homes they leave behind will become available to those lower on the ladder.

This can be supplemented to benefit the poor sooner by eg. requiring a subset of units in high-end developments to be subsidized for people with lower incomes.
Ridiculous and pointless comparison. Germans pay 2 times as much for healthcare that is inferior to the one i get in Korea.

And guess where the korean specialists go to ? Yes it is the US of A.
Have you ever tried keeping a journal? We all make decisions based on what we know and how we feel and both of those things change over time.

With that in mind, does it really matter why you studied computer science? You're allowed to feel differently now than you did when you made the decision to study CS.
Gates-backed Lumotive upends Lidar conventions using metamaterials
Asquerosa la situacion, pero entiendo porque lo hiciste. Latinx es un termino gringo que me hace cagar de riza lol. Por el culo, somos Latinos y Latinas. No LaTiNX.
every start up is raising. they may not be closing a round this week or this month, but fundraising is a continuous process
That is interesting, I've only ever seen technology courses/opportunities targetting women/girls. Never anything like that for boys.

It doesn't matter to a boy in primary school what proportion of men there are in tech, they just want the opportunities others are getting. For some reason "other people wanted equality of opportunity in the past but didn't get it, so you can't have it now" is supposed to answer this.

Meanwhile noone seems to care that all the teachers, and all the elected governors, in the school are female; but if a lesson can't have only male scientists mentioned in it ... which seems massively inconsistent.
These fifth wheels and class As can weigh up to 24000 pounds (even if they where never legally allowed to). A moving object at that weight would make a multi-story RV park an architecture/safety nightmare.

I'm talking about east-bay area that still has space. Not sunnyvale.

- Just checked out the ready player one images - holy mother of guacamole.
There's at least one existing paper about this idea (https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05641). Also, it is possible to initialize a convolutional layer so that it passes through its input, but initializing the weights properly requires a little more work than calling tf.keras.initializers
I would likely read on it some if I bought it, but I can't stand anything other than a kindle or paper for reading for an extended period of time.
You can be an IC managing a process and not manage people. Sometimes these roles a process managers and not they don't manage people directly.
Finish high school. Then get a degree.

Don't destroy your future to build some CRUDs with popular technologies (in the worst possible sense) every day and earn _peanuts_.

The wast majority of us hated it most of the times too, just go to school, do what you must and then start doing the stuff you care about once you get out. But get a degree, you'll need it.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm :-)
Is this water really being "held"? For how long? It's pretty tough to sequester water on that scale.
I think s/he's being sarcastic about saying that moneyed people have "high moral character".

To expand in what was said, when meritocracy teaches you that hard work will always bring success (ignoring luck), then the opposite must be true: if you're poor, it must be because you're lazy.

And rich trustfund kids/lucky startup bros need to believe they have moral character instead of just rich parents/luck, so they think they're righteous people when in reality maybe they're dicks.
Why wouldn't they use VOIP instead of direct PSTN connection?
Statistically speaking, an equal opportunity workforce should be comprised of some demographic makeup. If a company deviates dramatically from that target makeup, the implication is that hiring practices are unfair. Addressing the unfairness will cause the issue to naturally correct itself.

This is a sound strategy that's commonly applied to other areas of engineering. If a company produces bearings and their QA department measures bearing tolerances from a shipment sample to deviate wildly from what is expected, then the implication is their is an issue with the manufacturing process that needs to be addressed. They don't just toss a handful of under-tolerant bearing in the shipment to bring the median value inline.

In other words:

> By not discriminating based on sex to fix a ratio/percent

...Is where your misunderstanding is. This idea is not over-correction -- you do no need to discriminate to achieve a specific makeup. You explicitly need to NOT discriminate and the problem will be correct itself.

ELI5: If a company was found to have a workforce that was too short. An appropriate response is to notice the problem an conduct an investigation, which determines tall people were put off from applying because the doors were too short. They correct the doors and the average height of employees naturally correct.

A wrong approach is to explicitly weight taller people more favorable in interviews.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1109114656944209921.html
>So tired of all this fucking comparison to software salaries.

>It's not that software engineers are payed too much, it's that it costs too much to live here.

It's simple, pay cops more and you'll attract better cops. No different than anything else. I made the comparison to software salaries because the risk involved with being a cop is much higher than a software engineer.
Yes AppExchange is run by Salesforce and they likely do subsidize the security review. They also take a percentage of revenues from direct AppExchange installs(believe 15-25%) after listing. SF wants third party devs building out functionality and the ecosystem. Google seems to be taking a different approach...
your statement and his statement are both True (Python spelling variant). Of course, I don't think there are many books or tutorials geared towards beginners that deal with manipulating binary data.

> Also many python tutorials and books fails to mentioned how to manipulate binary data
I don't understand how that is "condescending and misleading". Sometimes even adults need a bit of hand-holding, and this decentralizes the activity of reintegration, if I'm reading your comment correctly.
Sure, I was a bit surprised by that. But, there are things to consider. JS is by nature(well, until Node) open source and has a generally younger base, both which would pad its GitHub numbers.

C has two big areas I think - Linux/open source software, and embedded work. A lot of open source projects in Linux land are for whatever reason not in Github. Heck I still see sourceforge a lot. Embedded work is likely done for a company and of course wouldn't be in Github.
This is by far the best analysis of the Bitcoin market I have ever seen. Super interesting. As the Twitter thread mentions, this could actually be good news in the eyes of regulators as it means the Bitcoin price is likely controlled almost entirely by legitimate trading on legal and regulated exchanges rather than the fly-by-night places that are faking their volume.
There's a pretty strong notion in this thread that parking is valued at $0 and this is a great social injustice, but this is not the case. Try getting a permit from just about any city to reserve a parking spot for occupying (for construction, moving, etc.). The cost will likely be comparable to renting an apartment of similar area for a similar amount of time. More, if the parking spot is in a high density area (multi-story buildings).

Parking is only "free" if you share it. Perma-parking a motorhome or "building a studio on it" is not that.
I'm not going to pretend to know the specific details of every law in every jurisdiction regarding what organizational purpose or member threshold or funding source or the like is required before sex discrimination is unlawful, but I'm fairly confident there are a number of laws to that effect on the books.

Maybe none of them apply in this case. But given the complexity and somewhat arbitrary nature of the requirements, that seems more like happenstance than some reasoned choice to have this specific type of thing excluded as opposed to the others, and we probably ought to be more consistent one way or the other.

For example, if MIT (a private university) wanted to have a program like this, should it be allowed in this case but not in their case just because their institution does some unrelated publicly funded research or whatever the restriction is?

But then you're also opening them up to being an entirely or almost-entirely gender segregated school if they want to be. So which one is it?
So what is the takeaway here? Is this ETF fund trying to make their plan/offering more favourable or attractive by calling out this "fake" volume?
The other issue here is one of available housing.

Most california cities are under extreme pressure to increase housing supply, an RV lot isn't going to house as many people as a condo/apartment building. (I honestly don't even know if an RV park counts towards overall housing supply)

Though the stacks idea is interesting ;-)

There's a few buildings going up in the Oakland Temescal by Rad Urban which are modular its been cool seeing units with kitchens etc already installed getting stacked up into a larger complex.

https://radurban.com/
This doesn’t solve the original problem though, this is just a potential mitigation strategy for when/if it goes bad (e.g. the cell number is hijacked).

It’s personally annoying to me how many 2 factor equipped sites force the use of SMS as the second factor. I imagine the conversation with the PO/PM for the feature must frequently include discussion of fears that allowing customers to opt out of SMS 2FA and use their own code generation tools is risky; you are relying on customer not screwing up to keep them as a paying customer.

They lose their personal Authenticator and recovery keys, it can be really awkward to fix. SMS could be argued to be superficially more attractive in this regard, given a cell number can be reissued unlike the permanently lost authenticator device/app. Of course the security of SMS 2FA is terrible etc, but I can understand some of the fear of the alternatives if you need to keep customers happy and able to actually use your service.
Good point. There are a lot of dangerous ideas. The best way to counter them is by exposing them to debate and dialogue. Banning them only lets the ideas grow unchallenged.
>punitive is much cheaper for those of us with high moral character.

It's one of those sad states of affairs where the data doesn't at all back up the prevailing notion.

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/30/5764096/homeless-shelter-housi...
> I'd much rather give up the freedom to consume hard drugs than live free in a society filled with drug addicts

It's interesting that you wrote this in first person. You can give up whatever freedoms you want, I don't care. But what you are actually saying is that you want to take those freedoms from others too.

For some things that might be worth considering - freedom is very valuable but perhaps not infinitely so. But there needs to be an actual argument - "I don't desire that freedom so I don't want anyone to have it" is not it.
Lovely website! One suggestion: it looks like the image is randomized on each click - the UX is that sometimes it doesn't work, because the randomly chosen image is (presumably) the same one - so probably the better choice would be to randomly chose a different image.
You are the worst sort of apologist - on the order of rationalizing Hitler’s rise to power because at least the trains ran on time: Russia’s industrialization was a massive, preventable, deliberately cruel human disaster. 20 million people - arbitrarily grouped as “kulaks” - were targeted to starve to death. And you point to that as an example of socialism working!? Shame. Shame. Shame.
Take the jobs no one else wants
Netflix gives every engineer the same title: Senior Software Engineer. That worked out beautifully: everyone focuses on getting things done and doing the right things. One's total package depends on how important this person is to her team and to the company, and of course Netflix makes sure the person gets paid more than the market can offer. If the person disagrees with the market price, Netflix encourages the person to seek external opportunities.

Can't find a better system for those who don't about titles.
This is a great result, and then we get to this:

From the article -- Researchers are working with the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization to patent the innovation, and they are looking for partners to continue developing it.

What is the public good of patenting a process that would make usable water more available? Doesn't this graduate student get what they paid for? An advanced degree in chemical engineering from a prestigious school? Doesn't the school get what it wants from this, a reputation for doing solid research into big problems and coming up with good answers?

And then they want to take the idea out of considering by applying a 'tax' to it so that the university can extract some rent on work they have already been paid for. I find that so unpalatable.
Linux Basics for Hackers
Sure there is a lot of legacy work but I'm not sure it's the "vast" majority - at least, not out of proportion with other older general purpose languages.

It's still used in a lot of new embedded work. It's still the best option for a lot of HPC and numerics. Some of this work ends up being targeted mostly for inclusion in another language runtime, sure, but it's still new work.
Tize looks pretty cool. I will check it out more. Note to Tize branding folks, "get woke" as a call to action? Made me laugh but not sure if it was meant to be cheeky or not.
I don't have a strong background in AI/ML, but aren't quite a few advances in this tech driven by a "throw at the wall and see what sticks" attitude? I was under the impression that the "why" in some mechanics in advanced neural nets were poorly understood and just happened to work well. Please enlighten me if that isn't the case.
Anyone who argues that there should be "More women in tech" needs to go visit a medical college. Completely filled with super smart women interested in science.

If STEM women found Coding as interesting as they did Medicine (which is arguably more competitive and prestigious), we wouldn't have any shortage of women writing code. There is nothing wrong with either way, just let people do what they like to do.
I've got to say that I've always wanted to love hangouts but it always makes my laptop (reasonably powerful macbook pro) immediately max out CPU and make fan noise like a spaceship taking off, and for comparatively worse AV quality than the competitors. The only thing that kept me using it was that I didn't have to install crap. Just used meet for the first time yesterday, reserving judgement there, but honestly I didn't need yet another rebrand from google.

Zoom is the exact opposite: You have to get the client but it client works with minimal resources, on many platforms (phone / laptop is seamless for me) scales perfectly with large meetings / screenshare and video at the same time, laggy mobile connections etc etc. Most importantly it ALWAYS works. I never have to futz with it ever (whether in terms of connections, or "your link doesn't work", "you have to invite me", "user is from a different organization than you" etc). Just get the meeting ID and connect. This is how technology should work in 2018.
On Rising Up Against Statistical Significance