skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the SciAm article:
“The hygiene situation is just horrendous” for people living on the streets, said Dr. Glenn Lopez, a physician with St. John’s Well Child & Family Center, who treats homeless patients in Los Angeles County. “It becomes just like a Third World environment where their human feces contaminate the areas where they are eating and sleeping.”

My son gave me an eye-opening book this Christmas: "Righteous Dopefiend" https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520254985/righteous-dopefie...
"This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detailed field notes, and critical theoretical analysis. Its gripping narrative develops a cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexuality, family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality, and power relations. The result is a dispassionate chronicle of survival, loss, caring, and hope rooted in the addicts' determination to hang on for one more day and one more "fix" through a "moral economy of sharing" that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal."

Personally, I'm now convinced the most practical short term solution is for the city of SF to
a) allow use of IV drugs without fear of arrest, and
b) provide a clean, dry place to shoot up and nod out.
Most all of these are expected of principle if not senior engineers across the board. I think the point of a distinguished engineer is more about accomplishments and value generated for a company or industry and less about exhibiting all these qualities. But I understand the frustration.
I get that anti-vaxers are considered dangerous. Equally dangerous is the revolving door between the CDC and vaccination companies which prevent correct levels of scrutinization when batches of vaccinations or specific vaccines are deemed unsafe. Without this comfortable level of accountability, vaccine companies can move forward indefinitely without supplying realistic testing which could prevent detrimental affects that very rarely occur, but can happen. Furthermore, sending bad batches of vaccines downstream to poorer countries should be illegal. Certainly things like this have happened historically.

Additionally, the way the government has cozied up to vaccination companies to prevent nearly any lawsuit from taking place related to vaccines seems ridiculous. Vaccines do represent a public good, and as such some protection seems appropriate, but to make it seem like the best possible thing we could ever do to protect populations? I think that's a touch overreaching.

People should use vaccines, absolutely. However, vaccine tech has not progressed much in 50 years and part of this may be attributed to the protection of vaccine companies.
"So in those cases past experience is a very important input into the decision, even if not perfectly correlated."

Of course it is, which is why modern reactor designs have incorporated safety features based on these accidents and older designs have been retrofitted (with some exceptions that are legitimately concerning). It's entirely true that it is impossible to predict every mode of catastrophic failure, but that does not mean it's impossible to create designs that are resilient to unplanned disasters. No type of power plant can be perfectly safe, but
for assessing practical safety records, in terms of deaths / TWh generated, even estimating conservatively nuclear power is safer than any other source of power (including wind and solar). Some references for this:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...
i think it devolves into semantics at that point. when each line is doing some DB query or remote HTTP call it rarely matters if it's in a monad or not
> we might finally start to see some progress in this area.

You just ignored that the washing machine itself is a special purpose robot. Same with the dishwasher. Some progress already happened.

Go back a generation or two in the US, or live like the majority of people in the world, and you'd notice that laundry and dishes are very usefully semi-automated today.
That is a pretty narrow definition of robot. The term is often used to describe programmable, but not artically intelligent, machines. Like robots used in car manufacturing. I agree that washing machines shouldn’t qualify though.

I think robot implies complicated actions that are reprogramable to perform a wider array of functions.
I agree that a world without advertising or news or reviews would be bad.

Your thought experiment isn't very useful for picturing a world that only lacks advertising.
1. She stated it was her opinion. She’s not forcing you to do or think anything.

2. Her assertion was that she thinks it’s overrated, costly, and inefficient. You did nothing to address those points.

If you think travel can be cheaper at achieving the premise, is not overrated at achieving the premise, or that it’s a more efficient ways of achieving the premise of “broadening horizons” than alternatives then that’s a relevant conversation. If you can effectively make those points then we’d have a real conversation on our hands.

Saying it’s “stupid, self-back-patting” is not productive and misses the point entirely.
I get this recurring dream of a retrofuturistic world where intercontinental travel serviced by nuclear-powered ocean liners. For nonproliferation reasons, there's only a handful companies operating them, one for each theatre. It takes ~4 days to get across the Atlantic, so some amenities are inspired by cruise ships, but optimized for less crew. It's an intriguing dream, but in our current world the economic and regulatory barriers around nuclear propulsion for civilian use make it impractical. More on this later.

I believe economic forces and regulations will be the primary drivers of changing modes of transport, so if it makes economic sense to keep operating jet fuel aircraft, that will be an option for those who can afford it and don't have misgivings about it. But for planning and resilience, there's value in envisioning how a world with very limited jet fuel air travel would look like, and whether portions of its role ought to be taken over by other modes of travel, or if societies merely need to adjust to its loss.

Our world's globalized economy greatly depends on the movement of goods and sometimes people, but for goods, the pace of water transport is often good enough, coupled with its much lower cost per amount and time. Much of this transport uses some of the lowest grades of fuel you can get from fossil oil. To change this, the price of these fuels would have to soar or the fuel would need to be banned. Let's suppose this extreme case comes and fuel oil is no longer an option. A rapid migration to nuclear propulsion for merchant fleets is both politically untenable and economically improbable. Solar/battery propulsion doesn't have the energy density, which leaves wind-like propulsion as one of the only contenders, with the others being simply higher grades of hydrocarbons like gasoline and compressed gas. One's carbon-free, slow, and presents a significant change in show ships are built, while the other needs changes only to the engines, fuel lines, and fuel tanks, re-uses existing industrial expertise, and maintains the pace of travel -- but isn't carbon-free. Which one do you think companies would chose?
His argument was some vehicles had flaws and that can be avoided. Who avoids it? That's not even a partial twist.

Moreover, both of your responses ignore my original point of customer satisfaction. If this were a major problem, why would they have among the highest satisfaction?

https://insideevs.com/tesla-model-3-consumer-reports-owner-s...

How do you reconcile those positions? All Tesla buyers are so blinded by the cult of Musk that they tell everyone their car that they hate is great?
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Having an in-memory datastore that is compact and supports fast queries and flexible data types is very useful.

I use sqlite for this purpose, essentially as an in-memory cache of data populated from disk and incoming server packets. Having redis as an option to replace mysql (or at least to compare memory use and speed) would be great.

I looked for an embedded Redis fork and came up blank, do you have links? I found Vedis, but I would rather have something built off of the Redis code than a re-implementation.
Sure, not compared to Asian American as a whole, but having incomes over the median is a significant sign of progress. After all by definition having everyone have an above average income is an impossible goal.
This is mostly observation from myself and people I've known. Most of them, when referred to a psychologist, simply go through therapy sessions. Definitely if there are issues that are likely not treatable through talk therapy options they would be referred to a psychiatrist, but I've never seen someone walk out of a psychiatrists office without a prescription or a recommendation for one.
Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU – The Activation and Its Derivative
In this thread: zero mentions of the word capitalism.

Which is very much like a conference about pollution that lacks any mention of industrial production.
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In the mean time, just have an office near each port that contains short-range drivers that can hop into the driverless trucks for the last couple miles.
Here's two medical doctors that say the science isn't settled at all. In fact that the vaccine usage in it's current form is anti-scientific.

Dr. Richard Halvorsen (England)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMs1ue8j9CM

Dr. Suzanne Humphries (USA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFQQOv-Oi6U
You are saying people are not getting booster shots? My parents and I have ours roughly every other decade...
Sure, some can, why not. Or you bring your own. When you get to the boaster seat age, it is not a big deal. If city street speeds were limited to 20 mph, would car seats be necessary? You don't need a car seat when boarding a bus.
> If it's the best way to find truth, ego is not relevant in that pursuit.

I think this is completely true. Also, it fully validates the point you were responding to.

We can be in a situation where we simultaneously realize two things:

1/ the sole remaining obstacle to agreement is our discussion partner's ego, and

2/ our partner is not yet ready to confront the truth of 1/ for reasons outside of their control.

If we do realize these two things but continue to demand that the other side dissolve their ego right now or else they're not meeting our standard of good-faith (although 2/ clearly says they are), then that would be an example of our own ego getting in the way. Which shows that your criteria is valid and fully affirms the grandparent post.
The idea we can just correct people who have non-factual beliefs with facts and they say, "oh ok, guess I was wrong" and change their beliefs is plain wrong. It doesn't happen, it doesn't work that way. In fact, it has the opposite effect: the non-factual belief gets stronger.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/

Anyway, GoFundMe isn't in the business of informing anyone about anything.
Kids are gathered in groups from daycare -> high school. In daycare illnesses spread quickly because of kids putting things in their mouth, and hygiene only improves slowly into elementary school.

Furthermore younger kids are more likely to be killed or seriously affected by illnesses than healthy adults.
Shopify's point of view on the situation here:
https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-Apps/Here-s-why-Mail...
A huge industry trying to sell a product with no legal liability has nothing to do with "science".
Except, this isn't censoring. It's a private company refusing to let an individual or organization use it's service for fundraising for a cause they believe to be harmful.
I'm just salty, I read through the article got interested then you said I have to sign up for your email then wait to get the answer. It was super annoying.

Then went on your web page, and kept getting prompted to sign up for your email list what felt like every 30 seconds. I tried googling the answer to no avail. Keep your secrets Kevin!
Have you ever built a web application with java?
I don't think servant is "really easy to use" for beginners. Even though you might not need to understand how it's implemented, you have to work with type-level code which is no intuitive for beginners.
I really don't get the point of a blockchain in these situations where you start with a hard requirement for a central authority.

What advantage does this offer over a normal database ledger, in this situation?
A whole lot of the benefit is the added "normal and roughness maps for added surface detail."

If they hadn't done the hard work of basically retexturing every single surface, it wouldn't look half as good. Without depth, ray-tracing looks incredibly flat, like this: http://builder.openhmd.net/blender-hmd-viewport-temp/_images...
Finally! Comrades, the reeducation of the people has begun, and enemies of the people are being silenced. Our glorious revolution will prevail!
>That is fascism...

So is telling private companies what they have to do with their property.
Earthquake magnitudes are in logarithmic scale so magnitude 1.0 difference is 32 times more energy. So to break up a 7.0 earthquake into a series of 5.0 earthquakes, it'll take 1000 small earthquakes. With our current technology it's not very feasible.
>If it is truth, It'll prevail.

If more people believe the Earth is flat today versus 20 years ago, the truth is not prevailing: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/28/americas...
I can see you are vaccinated ;)
> If it is truth, It'll prevail.

How so, exactly? I don't see any reason to think that the truth tends to prevail, except in processes where people are genuinely interested in discovering the truth. In fact, if you're not interested in discovering the truth, I would say that the truth is mostly powerless.
I would add to this the following points:
- being 5 minutes ahead of your customer in terms of what is hot and useful (or: the second part is super important)
- constantly ensure that your deliver value to your client ( if they negotiate you on price, bring it back to the value your deliver )
- good communication skills (the capacity to explain your thoughts in plain , concise language)
- good situational awareness (understand your clients problems and solve for that (not the tech that you want to test)
- get your ego out of the way, if your client or someone on their team doesn't accept your solution, raise ) argument once or twice, then stop. Your client understands his/her context better than you. If your solution is not retained, it is not a reflection of how good you are.
- steernaway from internal politics.
- build good personal relationships with people (your client, their employees, other providers / consultants) this will help you build your network and get more work.

Hope that helps.

Personally I had great projects and others were lawyers were involved.
But all in all, switching projects every other month, meeting new people , playing with different architectures ... It keeps me sharp and super happy.

Again hope that helps.
I find it so fascinating though! During the New Years 2016 - 2017 I found myself sucked down the Youtube "Watch Next" Rabbit Hole™. I spent hours watching video after video by these folks. At first I was convinced that it was a massive troll. But the more I watched, I came to realize.... wait... these folks really _do_ believe this crap! It got old after awhile and I moved on to more exciting things. Youtube is still sure that I want to see this genre however, so I often have a few conspiracy-type videos over there in the right column.
That only works with a small number of transmitters. If Samsung or Apple released a phone with native satellite default support, it would be impossible to police.

Censorship is doomed.
Some places are great enough to survive their hype. Not many.
Why exactly are programmers' opinions more important and refined than anyone elses?
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You do that by having strict standards. Boeing was allowed to skirt the standards because the FAA is in shambles.
Your condiment preferences are subjective, and your campaigning against mustard threatens to make the world a blander place.
They aren't issuing loans with JPM Coins, because those coins would have to either be transferred into USD by the loanee or accepted as currency by the school, home seller, etc. Which won't happen.
I'm in Venice right now and while there are many tourists (this city survives entirely on tourism) it's far from overwhelmed. We haven't waited in any lines in Italy as a whole -- the only real line we encountered was at the Colosseum, and that took about 20 minutes.

There are certainly places that are less busy but I wouldn't outright discourage anyone from traveling to the popular places. It's not that difficult to avoid the crowds and there are tons of things worth seeing.
> This is not a free speech issue, it's a public health issue

It is both. What it's not is a First Amendment issue. GoFundMe, a private entity, is deciding not to do business with a group of people. Anti-vaxxers are not a protected class (like race). This is totally legitimate and a healthy part of a democratic society.

One's view have consequences. The First Amendment just says they shouldn't have consequences from the government.
Or make owner-less decentralized platforms where a few humans can't be coerced into cherry picking content to fit a particular agenda.
Here's mine. I graduated school in 2013 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, but at the time of graduation I already knew I wanted to actually work in software.

Year - Age - Total Income - Role

2014 - 23 - 36k - Test Technician in Santa Barbara, CA

2015 - 24 - 40k - Test Technician in Santa Barbara, CA

2016 - 25 - 46k - Finally made the switch to software, worked for a couple different startups in Portland, OR.

2017 - 26 - 38k - Full-stack Developer for couple more startups while I honed my skills

2018 - 27 - 87k - Landed a contract with a large apparel company

2019 - 28 - 111k - Converted to full-time with large apparel company. Senior Software Engineer.
Complete conjecture, I am not the GP.

Hydrating/deserializing data from Sqlite into types/objects and doing whatever goodness those need, then using Redis to make "updating the database" super fast (in memory after all) and let Redis write it back to Sqlite as there is IO/time/lull in traffic.

Kinda like how Epic Cache does its transaction journal flushing every X minutes?
None, but it's blockchain so it gets a thread on HN
You can define anything as advertising if you try hard enough. That's not very helpful for trying to strike a balance, though.

Of the ads I see, if we exclude the drug ads that really should not be allowed, I'd say that an extremely small fraction are telling me about solutions I didn't already know existed. The "useful" case should not be so rare.
Countering “misinformation” by correct information is a far better approach than censorship

I'd like to see a reference for this -- there's plenty of evidence in favor of vaccinations out there from legitimate government and commercial sources, yet many anti-vaxxers dismiss those sources as "biased" or "in the pockets of big pharma", so it's not clear how presenting more of the information they already have access to will change anything.

But I can see how presenting less anti-vax "data" would be beneficial to public health.
I don't disagree that people are complacent, but on a factual level, most kids who don't get vaccinations do not get measles. Most who do get measles have a few weeks of discomfort and get over it. Most who do get measles do not give it to anyone else except maybe other unvaccinated kids.

In the years before a measles vaccine, there were about 500 deaths per year from measles (in the US). This was when the population was about half of what it is now, so if we returned fully to that rate, there would be about 1,000 deaths per year from measles today.

There were no deaths from measles in the years 2016 or 2017, per this document from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/measlesdataandstatssli...

As I said, it's dumb not to get your kids vaccinated. I wish I could get vaccinated to more things! It's like a super power!

But the amount of actual harm that anti-vaxxers are causing is miniscule, certainly deeply out of proportion with the hate that they're getting.

And if you do sincerely desire to keep as many people as possible from getting the measles, rather than desire to feel the rush of heaping hate on people, then again, let me suggest that the current tactics are not working, and that de-escalating the rhetoric around this will do much more to let anti-vaxxers relax and start listening to your data.
Good thing the 13th amendment allows slavery for inmates!
Measles was mostly benign before some money making corporation told you otherwise: https://youtu.be/d3hP84qQz4o
Sorry I don't have links since I did not track such forks in the past. However I've a question: for your use case, isn't it an option to have a library that looks like Redis from the POV of the API, but actually stores objects in memory as data structures native to your programming language? This way the API looks like a mental proxy for the DSL to access Redis and the time complexity you expect from given operations, but you are just writing to local objects.
Sorry. I found some mistakes in my reading of their article as well and excluded those Table 1 examples from my initial post.

Though I added something I previously excluded for Table 2, which I'm still unable to find in their sources.

About your reading of the sources though:

> They picked the number of "ex-prisoners" that become prisoners again (i.e. actual reconviction)

No that would be Table 2, not Table 1. Table 1 is about "ex-prisoners" that got convicted of any offense again, not necessarily a prison sentence.

> you picked the number of "adult offenders" that become prisoners for the first time.

That's not what Table 5.1 [1] is at all: "Reconvictions as a result of any crime, not disposed of through an acquittal, a dismissal by reason of unlikelihood of conviction, or any other technical decision."

> 35% is the average including fines (recidivism: 29%) which make up for the vast majority of sentences. For adult prison sentences the recidivism rate is 45%/39% and for youth prison sentences it is 64%/62% (without/with parole).

Yes. This is where I messed up. Though note that that recidivism rate (45%) is "ex-prisoner" -> any conviction (incl. fines). Which likely fits what they wanted to show in Table 1.

[1]: https://www.wodc.nl/binaries/factsheet-2011-5a-def-4apr2012-...
> Maybe it's not the blockchain as storage that matters but the programming API

Even if that was true, you could easily implement a compatible API that doesn't use a blockchain under the hood, especially seeing as it is centralized by JPM.

I see this as JPM just trying to ride the hype wave, and as a contingency if blockchains go mainstream (spoiler: they won't).