skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an understandable thing, at times. I know I became significantly less friendly towards encampments after one sparked a wildfire that posed a non-trivial chance of affecting the building I lived in.

I first went through a phase of "but why can't we just get them into housing?". Eventually I realized that helping the current members of the encampment would address the issue for a few days or a week, but that a new set of vulnerable neighbors would occupy the same space in short order. This cycle would repeat until who knows when, which did not strike me as an attractive proposition.

The other residents in my building followed the same thought process, and decided that the best thing for them was to advocate for the owner of the land to clear encampments. I kept my mouth shut. Nobody was going to thank me for telling them that the morally superior option was to risk having their homes burned down and their children burned alive.
Step 2 - ?
Quick HN search later... it may have been this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099488 but I haven't had a chance to read through it to confirm, so might not be. I may also be imperfectly remembering what it said... so I hope I wasn't too wrong in my previous comment! Although, scanning the comments, that doesn't sound like what I remember...
Most psychiatrists I talked rejected the notion that cannabis causes schizophrenia. They mostly claim genetic causes. My personal opinion from observing close people to me is that if you have predisposition, a psychoactive substance can be enough to nudge you over the edge into psychosis. It's a snowball effect. Of course, more likely is it would be something that raises your dopamine levels, like speed (amphetamine) or cocaine.
This is why I think debuggers are necessary. Without being able to see a full stack frame of information about variables it can be extremely difficult to debug when using other people's code. So many errors boil down to assumptions about what is in a value.
Personally I think adding him in as a sticker pack is a cute way to embrace the joke and keep him around for the more nostalgically-inclined, in a nonintrusive way. The "brand police" clearly don't understand that people like to see a human side of the soulless corporations they buy software from.
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I noticed this weird trend with portas and how people treat them. I volunteer with orgs that put on big events and rent lots of portas. The attendees are "woke", and we give lots of warnings to not throw trash in the portas, to not deface them or stop them up. But they get destroyed anyway, and then we have to clean them out to avoid getting big cleaning costs from the porta rental companies. If, however, we have an event with "regular" bathrooms, they don't get as destroyed.

One solution may be to construct "alternative portas" with a different name, that look and feel more like a european or asian home-model toilet+shower combo. I think this might cause people to abuse them less, if they think of them more like their own bathroom.

This doesn't solve things like the laundry issue, or, well, housing. But most other developed nations have decent public toilets, and we should too.
Are there non-authoritarian governments?

If they force you to do something, how can you find them to be anything else?
I still don’t get it...

EDIT:
the first paragraph in the linked article was very insightful

Purdue University researchers have developed a process to remove nearly all traces of oil in produced water.
Your insurance numbers sound more like yearly numbers than monthly... Or are you really paying $25k per year for insurance?
>> And there is of course mental health

Mental health is THE key issue of the homeless population in Germany. I know some social workers who work with the homeless at the train station in my home town. Its frustrating to see how often these people are ignored with an attitude of "... ahh gee, its sad but what can you do?". There is a basic social security safety net, but if you are unable to even fill out a basic form -- let alone be prepared to fill it out in the first place, because THEY are our to poison you[1], no help that is given to you can help you.

This is also the issue I have with "Basic Income". No form of "Basic Income" will help those people, because they don't need money but treatment and some semblance of dignity in their life -- no basic income can give you that.

[1]: This is not an unusual sad story. Untreated and/or undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia is pretty common on the street.
I've switched to Mobaxterm; https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net.

It's not open source, but the free version has minimal limits and it's way easier to use and includes a portable version.

I like that I can pop open a local terminal and scp files from my windows drives. It also includes x-forwarding, although I mostly handle that with x2go.
PC gamers are a tiny minority of computing device owners. This is for people with phones.
That article is 17 years younger than the OP. I agree with you today, but was that just as true back then? I’m not sure.
Read my comment above where I explain why it was a pointless move:

>Those exact same insecure string concatenated queries are still being executed via mysqli_ and the PDO libraries. In my experience, binning mysql_ didn't make a damn bit of difference when it came to sql injection attacks.
I don't think this will go over well here, but....

These homeless people need to learn a base level of personal responsibility. Not "shitting where you sleep" is about the most basic human precept. Even in third world countries, where conditions are terrible, the people have managed some basic sanitation in most cases.

I'm sure there's all kinds of excuses we can make for the homeless people's behavior, and emotional stories we can trot out to justify it, but at some point I lose sympathy. I've seen them do absolutely in-defensible things.

The current mantra of "it's not their fault" is why the problem keeps getting worse.
Do you have an opinion about situations where 'tracking' is really what is needed. For example, keeping track of a referral from a partner, so that you can pay them for converted customers?
I love Gnucash. I love it so much I've learned Scheme to be able to write my own reports. I am now hacking Scheme, fixing bugs, and dragging this application forward into the 21st century. There's a lot to love about it, and the user community is superb.
In a lot of these sorts of situations land ownership is a bit different. In the UK (and I assume in the US) there just isn't anywhere you could construct something like that without being moved on.

Here in the UK, the major issue for home building seems to be less around the physical construction of houses (there are lots of low cost ways we can and do build), it's securing land to actually build on and that you can get planning permission for.
Slight counter-point:

Boeing hid the new system so that they could avoid the regulatory process that makes it very difficult to introduce anything new. Hiding the new system was the problem that cause unsafe situation.

Another problem of same regulatory process: most private airplanes manufactured today use leaded gas combined with 80 year old engines designed in the 1950's. These engines have carburetors that are quite finicky.

Other aspects of this problem:

Most of us speed about 6 miles above the speed limit on the freeway - if you travel exactly at the speed limit you'll have a new set of problems.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I think it's necessary to suspect that regulations that are over-burdensome can introduce odd behavior and counter intuitively make the very problem they're trying to address (in this case safety) worse.
Related thread about more efficient ways to broaden your horizons than traveling around the world for a week:

https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/885211413618212864

She lists examples like reading and hanging out with different people, but I'd love to hear more alternatives. Trying new hobbies is another great one
This is where part of the industry is going. There’s a high demand for cores with low licensing costs. Think of how many cores you have in your cell phone or laptop… dozens? Hundreds? (Honestly I have no idea.) The CPU and GPU are just a small part of it. A company that makes baseband processors, SSDs/HDDs, GPUs, network equipment, etc. needs a bunch of cores. The cores aren’t big or powerful, they don’t need to be. RISC-V means those cores have zero licensing costs for the ISA, and you get good toolchain support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produced_water may help?
I suppose Rob Pike has a R in it, but the R in K&R usually refers to Dennis Ritchie. This should probably be K&P.
The data might depend on how well it is gathered but it could be true: The mentioned safety-net is rather bureaucratic and if you don't comply with orders (like getting a job, showing up for dates) they can scrap it completly for up to 3 months - including rent! That causes homelessness and then there are lot of immigrants (not asylum-seekers) from other EU and non-EU countries that have no right to these payments.

The rising prices for rent in cities are maybe also an factor. Besides that most homeless have some psychatric issues like addiction or psychic-problems (not everyone of cource but it's a factor) and while there is treatment available it's often not accepted and not always successfull.
When bump mapping was starting to become a thing, every surface had to look ultra glossy for a while (example: http://mojolabs.nz/screenshot.php?id=1740). Eventually the excitement subsided and people used this effect more tastefully. I think most people are just happy with more natural looking lighting though.
Housing market in any major city in most developed EU countries is notoriously inaccessible and expensive, while the media PR of their social systems promise the moon.
According to the USGS, 1-2% of induced earthquakes are caused by fracking. [0]

Apparently the rest of them are mostly caused by a similar process of injecting wastewater deep under ground. Of course, fracking is a major producer of wastewater, so it is therefore an indirect cause of many more than 1-2% of induced quakes.

[0]https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/myths.php
Step 3 - PROFIT!

Joke aside, not everyone can afford time off vacationing from work, and even with PTO covering their time off.
There is housing like that commenter describes in some of the largest and densest cities in the world, like Manila.
I did some fact checking on the article you linked and it turns out it's garbage. Their own sources disagree with them.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19463425
and yet despite that, we have yet to see significant effects on any of our daily lives from any of it.
If you want to see how a justice system can work reasonably well, including when incarceration occurs, look to countries in western Europe.

America is pretty close to the bottom of the pile when it comes to their justice and incarceration system, to the point that their allies are actually refusing extradition requests on account that "US prisons are unconscionable and medieval." [1]

The very idea of locking someone up for more than 10-15 years is crazy enough. Add in the bail system, plea bargains, elected judges, understaffed public defenders, civil forfeiture, private prisons, prison labor, disenfranchisement, onerous and obtuse probation conditions, pre-trial incarceration (this is the absolute worst), and you have a system that actively causes injustice at every turn, and ensures high recidivism by producing a population with nothing to lose, nothing to live for, and the sword of Damocles ever hanging over them.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/british-hacker-wont-be-extradited-to-the...
> [Boeing's] own engineers ... “concluded that the system complied with all applicable FAA regulations.” Four years after the engineers wrote that opinion, the system failed twice, killing more than 300 people.

It is a really big leap to conclude that this system would not have failed 4 YEARS after inspection if the FAA had done the inspection itself. This conclusion assumes that both:

1. FAA certifiers would have found something that the Boeing engineers did not.

2. The system was not modified for four years.

#1 is debatable and hard to prove. And I doubt #2 is how things work in the real world.
There's work pending to improve Charts :P and a responsive devteam who fixes bugs, and a passionate user community who keeps pushing the envelope :)
How much of that is because the inhabitants don't own the land their house is on? Each situation is different so I can't comment on what you saw, but in many cases the people don't own the land their house is on, thus they build cheap because when the police they can pack everything up and leave quickly are so are out almost nothing.
> At the very least, rehabilitation doesn't work very well.

Citation please? For serial murderers or serial rapists - OK. Probably a screw loose. For drug abusers and the associated foibles that go with it (theft, prostitution, etc) - why would you suggest rehabilitation can't work?

That's ignoring the societal pressures of kids who have no means to sustain themselves beyond illegal activities - just assuming that they wouldn't act different if given the choice is... quite pessimistic.
I like travel. I like traveling outside of the US. It undoubtedly does all sort of great things. But first you have to realize, that paid vacation isn't even guaranteed in the US, at least 1/4 of all workers get no paid vacation, and of the ones that do the likelihood that it is enough time to get to another country and back is pretty slim.

Edit: typos
My opinion is the best in my opinion, so the best interpretation of the opponent's argument will match my opinion. Is this how it works?
That does not surprise me. I didn't think Germany was that bad, but my anecdotal experience staying the night at an immigrant heavy area in Frankfurt was that they had quite a bit of what looked like drugged up and/or homeless people laying around. I didn't see any homeless camps, but this was also in the middle of the city. The strangest part was that just a mile up the road there were hundreds of well-off younger people partying into the wee hours, and quite a police presence near them. Didn't see a single cop in the homeless populated area.
Spirit? Supposed to spur innovation, but turned into a remote-control-car event by dry unimaginative robotics folk.

Nobody was unhappy; folks were smiling. Just pedants on HN that have an issue far as I can see.
We got home robots, my Roomba works fine most of them time.. only get stuck rarely.

The problem is that we imagine smart home robots as something that can do what humans does.
I'd wager that those on those "safety net" programs with the allowance of an apartment, etc, are still technically considered homeless and counted into those statistics.

I'd be curious to know for sure. It certainly sounds like the suffering and shame would be reduced, and for someone truly down on their luck it would make it easier to get back into working and life in general if you have an address to point to. Also, it reduces those sanitary problems.

I also wonder for how long the average person is homeless in Germany.
East coast cities don't have as many homeless as West coast for a single reason. Weather. Pretending like there's something inherently wrong with West coast cities is disingenuous. You even have cities bussing them out to SF. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
If you look at videos of factories in poor countries that make textiles, trinkets, and other low-margin goods it is extremely labor intensive because labor is so cheap. Eventually, as the world continues to be lifted out of poverty, robots will be cheaper than labor. But they aren't cost effective for many tasks right now.
Zelda 64 is a particularly interesting case, though. As such a beloved title with a long-standing fan following, there has been an almost endless parade of remakes/demakes over the 20 years since it came out.

If you thought the official 3DS one was pretty, wait until you see the fan work done on a UE4 version:

https://youtu.be/OrMRjK_5RRU?t=113
There are a number of them like git and bitcoin which start out with one guy building a novel algorithm and then releasing the source to the world afterwards.

The definition of open source might include such a thing, but a project that originates from a lone genius rather than a community is not what is usually meant when people speak of open source.
It does seem better than purposely releasing the big one, or doing so accidentally, which would be a risk until we can build much more sophisticated models that would guide these release efforts.
This is a good point I hadn’t thought of that much. Ray tracing is more easily able to get to ‘stereo correctness’ than all the screen space effects and other great tricks that have worked so well for games.
I've never heard of tail recursion being used as a performance optimization. Generally it's required to prevent a recursive function from blowing the stack.

Iteration is usually more performant than recursion, but doesn't mix well with immutability.
Well, we already watch reviews of $1k phones, $2k laptops and >$40k cars that many of us will never have.
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This is a great point that I hadn’t considered.

If this is a concern, you can do variable pricing based on IP! Though I’d be willing to bet that at this time the creator is more interested in having a profitable business than serving every possible customer. That can come later when cash flow is stable and abundant.
I don't know enough here to comment on who's right, but when the magnitude of catastrophic failure is large enough, model error is appreciably important. So in those cases past experience is a very important input into the decision, even if not perfectly correlated.

If anything, it proves that identifying all failure modes is challenging, and theoretically safe is not the same as practically safe.
> because THEY are our to poison you[1], no help that is given to you can help you.

> Untreated and/orundiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia is pretty common on the street.

There is nothing paranoid in it. Imagine being homeless while being abused and threatened probably multiple times. What guarantee one have that the food pieces given by passerby or anyone generally are good to eat?
Nazis. We’re talking about Nazis. And white supremacists. And “provacateours” or trolls or whatever they’re called this week.

There was a time when the world didn’t just ostracize people like this, the entire planet went to war to stop them. So, yeah. Silencing them on a social media site seems like a decent first step.
I've thought there are three ways to view the Principle of Charity, depending on what you think its aim is. The exegetical aim is to accurately determine the author's belief or intention. The pragmatic aim is to conduct the most fruitful discussion of the matter in question. The ethical aim is to be duly respectful of the author. Moreover, it strikes me that these three aims overlap in practice for the most part, but not entirely.
The most numerous robot in the world is a vacuum cleaner. Autonomous cars are seeing huge investment.

Basic needs are gradually being addressed, but it’s true that you don’t see it. As soon as something robotic works, people forget about it, and this is how it should be.
Spot on!

I give it 15 years my parents will have a robotic vacuum cleaner :)
Swift used to have a special syntax for defining automatically curried functions, but it was removed in Swift 3: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
> I'm generally liberal

I don't think liberal means what you think it means. Liberals are fiscally right-of-center capitalists.
Gmail might have been best of breed in 2004 on the basis of its superior spam filter, but that's certainly not the case now. In fact, with the recent change to the UI, Gmail now loads incredibly slowly or not at all on Firefox. It's bad in Chrome too, but much closer to unusable on FF.

No other webmail service I've ever used has given me the lag issues Gmail has.
I think it's incomplete to characterize the state of the industry today without discussing how those consumer perceptions of value were intentionally created. If you worked in the music industry for 10 years then your experience almost completely post-dates these efforts.

Starting even well before Napster, investors and technology companies saw the opportunity to change the allocation of value from artists and producers, to distribution. To be clear, that was not the allocation 30+ years ago. Record stores and radio stations did not make immensely more money than the labels and artists.

Tech companies and investors worked aggressively to "commoditize their complement"--that is, depress the value of art on their platforms, so that they could reallocate consumer spending to their products and services.

"Buy a computer and Internet connection and you can have all the music and movies you want for free" was explicitly advertised by technology companies--see for example:

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

I think this historical perspective is crucial for understanding how we got to today. Music files are small, so the music industry was attacked first. The large size of video files kept them safe for long enough for visual artists and producers to understand what was happening and counteract. That is why you see producer-owned distribution channels for video today (Hulu, HBO Go, Disney+, etc), but not label-owned distribution channels for music. This is why Netflix, Amazon, and now Apple have had to get into original video content. They were not able to beat the movie and TV producers before the producers could figure out the technology themselves.
That doesn't help before you open the comments section though.
Precisely. I think we're heading into an era where we need to have a "hunker down for the long haul" mentality, and yet we're heading into this at a time when our culture is particularly impatient.

The industry is up against several Hard Problems, and it may be a long while before any real gains are realized.
Exactly, I went down the rabbit hole, saw $69 Book of Mormon Broadway tickets; decided to do the clickthroughs. Took me to headout.com where the listing occurs, boom total price $162 for 1 ticket ($130 ticket, $32 fees) - I don't even know where they got the $69 from without pulling out of thin air.
Unfortunately I've found that there is no remote replacement for real face to face interaction. Once people have good relationships, remote communication via video conference works well. Until these relationships exist, a few hours face to face can save weeks of email.

Edit: Remote working can work well - provided that there are regular face to face discussions.
I volunteered at my local PBS station in high school during pledge drives. This was 2001. Rick was there once, talking about the DVDs of his show you would get if you donated. After his segment, he hung out and talked with every volunteer. None of the other hosts ever did that. Love him so much.
Or blonde white people.
yeah but we're not three years old afaik
I kept track of all my personal expenses in ledger for I think 4 years. And then I had twins (plus a 2 year old) and my free time to keep it up to date went out the window.

I learned a heck of a lot about our spending habits during that time though. Super useful and nice that I could look back on cumulative effects of things over time and mix and match the queries different ways to answer different questions.

One of the main things I learned is that cars are really expensive. I brought up the numbers one time to some co-workers and they all insisted they spent nothing near that on their cars, even though I lived closest to the office and had the oldest car in the group.