skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That list is a great example on how you have to treat wikipedia with a healthy dose of scepticism. It's original research of the worst case: A list of figures from different decades(!), extracted from random news sites, without any trace of even trying to explain that there is no globally accepted definition of homelessness and that those numbers likely measure very different phenomena.

Furthermore, most of these figures includes people that are insufficiently housed like on a friends couch, in a windowless room, in temporary shelters and such, and do not tell you much about the population of people "on the streets".
Yaml engineering - now with inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Soon, we’ll move on to functional and immutable configs augmented with environment variables.

Good times.
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It is exactly what happens in most countries here in Europe

It already exists, you don't have to invent it.
Tenancy lengths are rising in US because rents are sky rocketing due to low inventory.
In benchmarks I've seen CStore is about 50% slower than Parquet on Spark.

Where is the transactional requirement? This person is working with a copy of the real data.

ETLs only need to be written once and if he decided on a PSQL approach he'd be writing ETLs to send the data there too. He's probably going to find a number of consistency problems so trying to normalise all this data again will just result in more work that won't make his team of DS' more productive.

If he's at ~1 TB of data today, where will he be in a few years time? What's the point of putting infrastructure in place that won't last for the next 10+ years?
Hello fellow statistician (whether by training or habit). For everyone else, note that this approach is not limited to landlording.

Excellent exposition!
honestly, I moved from the states to Norway.

I'm pretty certain I'm paying the same or less overall. This is especially when I consider my healthcare is included in that tax. This simple things means I'm not as stressed as I would otherwise be.
As there are in LA and NYC. Many people don't want to go for whatever reason so they stay on the street.
On the whole, I think those other factors you named adjust the result a little bit up or down, but don’t make a significant difference.

At least as far is house value is concerned (deducting depreciation raises your wealth, but it hardly increases the value of the house).
>and for good historic reasons.

Is it? I'm not convinced that we haven't over-inflated the harm of psychiatric institutions from 50s and 60s and 70s. I wonder if the spate of horror movies set in mental institutions are partly to blame in addition to over-focus on practices that have long been banned.
The government, 5G/wireless industry perpetuate scientific fraud
And what is the plan for getting it to mars? Cart before horse.
The thing is that the taxes you pay in Germany don't pay for national defense - that's something that Germany gets for free by free-riding on US taxpayers. And the healthcare you get in socialized healthcare systems like the NHS or what they have in Germany is just barely sufficient - you could get the same deal in the U.S. by signing up with a HMO, and no one does because of how limiting it is. It's basically a wash, and the U.S., while worse at basic healthcare provision (due to pervasive regulatory capture in the whole system, which raises costs far higher than elsewhere) is still better at many other things.
Where could they get their oxycontin, then?
Malware distributors are getting younger and younger, often infecting themselves
Sorry, where is the “pseudoscience” from Damore?
> would argue that in most cases most function arguments should be of the pos_or_kwd type.

Oh, that’s definitely the case. My point was: why would you have a function that had three different kinds of params: pos only, keyword only, and pos_or_kwd. That would be insane. You probably wouldn’t. That it’s allowed (after this PEP) is an consequence of this change which is just more evidence to me that the PEP isn’t needed.
One of the things that might not be obvious is besides being examples of 1970s concrete brutalism, the waffled arched ceilings in the Metro are meant to evoke the similar waffled ceiling of DC's historic Union Station (which in turn are a reference to ancient Roman architecture). So you can pretend you are living in a world where Rome didn't fall while waiting for a train (not sure if that's better than bad SF).
I did this back in 2010 or so. I wanted to diversify out of the stock market so I put some money into 20% down on a single family home. My sister was a single mom at the time renting an apartment in a good school district for her daughter. I told her "go find a house you'd like to live in", bought and rented to her. She was agreeable. Our plan has been for her to buy the house at a discount when she's able (a little rent to own) but that hasn't happened yet.

Financially, from principal paydown I estimate about $400 a month profit from the deal. Last year the house required a new roof, which was $5000 after insurance covered less than half, and broken pipe flooded a bathroom and adjoining bedrooms. So that was my profit for the year.

Overall it's been a net gain, but my money would've performed much better in stocks during the this period.
I first built Mimiran (https://www.mimiran.com) because I just wanted to know if and when prospects were reading my proposals. Since then I’ve added features by customer request to the point that it’s a crm, but really designed for consultants and other service-focused people, rather than traditional sales teams. It’s fun (usually) to get to do everything from coding to customer support. The feedback loop is very tight, especially because I’m user #1.

If I could be so bold as to pass along advice, I would say:

- keep the app itself as simple as possible. “This is so simple, even Steve Jobs would say it’s too simple” simple. This makes creating, testing, describing, and supporting the app as easy as possible. And if people can use it and provide meaningful feedback on what else they need, you can always decide to add it later.

- don’t try to reinvent the wheel on marketing. See what has worked for similar products (indie hackers is awesome).

- make sure you talk to prospects, customers, friends, and family. Don’t just sit there writing code. Having lifestyle flexibility as a solo founder is awesome, but it’s important to make time to be social. As much as I don’t miss commutes, office politics, etc, we are social creatures, even us introverts, and if you’re just coding or emailing or whatever and not actually talking to people, it’s going to be hard.

- try to pick a market where you enjoy talking to your customers. I really like this part of my job. I know some other people who for whatever reason tend to have unpleasant interactions with their customers and it's not nearly as fun.

So I’m told. :)
I used to have Fortran77 notepad for hand writing code — later I would type it in. Always began in the 8th column if I remember right?
Is there a good reason not to make the base mostly under-ground, if you have the technology to dig it up?
Who lives in their home for free? I didn't know that was possible. Children maybe.
I'm finding this to be pretty accurate for python viz, but I gotta say, when I was working in R, I got to the point where I could make most graphs without looking at the docs.
I'm not sure if "evict" is the correct legal terminology; probably isn't. But it is what it effectively amounts to, so it's what I'll call it.

Details: https://www.gov.uk/tenancy-agreements-a-guide-for-landlords/... – tl;dr is that after 6 months you can just end the tenancy agreement with a 2 month notice.

Assured shorthold tenancies are pretty much the standard; you don't have a lot of choice. Either sign a contract like this, or don't have a house to live in :-/

The entire thing is seriously fucked up if you ask me, because at the slightest hint of being "difficult" (e.g. because you demand they actually fix things, or because you object when they act like assholes) you just get evicted :-/
In this sort of context, "most questioned" is probably not much more than a synonym for "most popular".
Do they get them of the streets, permanently? How about the neighbors?

Or how about we collectively got our shit together and realized that it is _not_ wrong to require certain things of people, and to enforce consequences when they don't obey them.
Obviously it’s a possibility, but in my experience, in the several jobs that I had in my life I experienced 1 or 2 source control migration in pretty much each of the places that I have been, and a grand total of ZERO issue tracker software change between all of them. It’s obviously anecdotal but pretty much everyone is migrating to git, changing issue tracker is something that you experience much less.
And even if it happens a proper migration would preserve the ids, so nothing is lost if it’s done correctly.
This could help someone get started
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/fortran95/
Specific software for a specific use case for college departments.
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Well, turning on TearFree option as advised by the Arch Wiki did solve tearing on my old HD5500.
Who do you think Scribd are? A government agency? They're a private-sector business. If they don't want to host your document for a good reason, a bad reason, a reason you don't agree with, a mistaken reason, a false reason, or no reason at all, then that's their decision (except for protected categories for the purpose of discrimination, which do not apply here.)

They’re not stopping you copying anything - they just don’t want to host documents they’re not sure of the status of in their automated system.

Host your own documents if you don't think they’re right.
They are caught downloading images of children being raped?

Yeah, I reserve my sympathy for the children.
Driving? The Kids Are So over It
A simple architecture should be able to carry this to 10x and even to 100x if you really want to push it.
Where do you get revenue from? Ads?
It sounds like you already have an idea of what you want to do, but I think you should pause and think more deeply about what you have, vs. what you want.

What I would want in your situation is:

- All the data in one place.
- An easy way to explore the data.
- A single source of truth for transformed data.
- Metadata to explain the data model (ie. documentation).

What you're proposing does some of those things, but it also:

- Adds yet another maintain-forever technology to your stack.
- Adds yet another pipeline (or set of pipelines) that does the same thing.
- Moves from an architecture that is clustered for scale (ie. spark) to one that only scales vertically (postgres).
- Potentially introduces *yet more* sources of truth for some data.

> I was thinking that in a first iteration, data scientists would explore their denormalized, aggregated data and create their own feature with code.

^ Moving data into postgres doesn't make this somehow trivial, it just enables people to use a different SQL dialect. The spark API is, for anyone competent to be writing code, not meaningfully less complicated than using the postgres API.

I appreciate the naive attractiveness of having a traditional "data warehouse" in a SQL database, but there is actually a reason why people are moving away from that model:

- it doesn't scale
- SQL is terrible language to write transformations in (its a *query* language, not an ETL pipeline)
- it's only vaguely better when you have many denormalised tables, vs. s3 parquet blobs
- you have to invent data for schema changes (ie. new table schema, old data in the table) (ie. migrations are hard)

More tangibly, I know people who have done exactly what you're talking about, and regretted it. Unless you can very clearly demonstrate that what you're making is meaningfully better, it won't be adopted by the other team members and you'll have to either live forever in your silo, or eventually abandon it and go back to the old system. :/

So... I don't recommend it.

The points you're making are all valid, and for a small scale like this, if you were doing it from scratch it would be a pretty compelling option... but migrating entirely will be prohibitively expensive, and migrating partially will be a disaster.

Could you perhaps find better way to orchestrate your spark tasks, eg. with airflow or ADF or AWS Glue or whatever?

Personally I think that databricks offers a very attractive way to allow data exploration without a significant architecture change.

The architecture you're using isn't fundamentally bad, it just needs strong across the board data management... but that's something very difficult to drive from the bottom up.
Seems like a more featureful version of something I wrote a long while ago to ease testing, fakettp: github.com/sethgrid/fakettp. Mine requires a json config and can act as a proxy, intercepting given paths and overriding responses. Not sure if I added dynamic response based on an http header. The post's utility seems really polished with a nice ui.
Wow, skeptical comments like this strongly reinforce the article's point. To question whether empathy is helpful and suspect the motives of those who are promoting it? Ammon Bundy is a fellow human being with struggles of his own - isn't that enough? It doesn't mean you have to agree with his choices (you can even call them morally wrong).

Empathy is merely a concern for fellow human beings, not emotional manipulation, despite the fact that some people attempt to manipulate others.
Install Ubuntu minimal, build sway, install the packages they are using for system configuration and basically you're done
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Maybe you could get people to enter values for companies. Sort of a glassdoor for values.
Develop the proper scheme and put the data in BigQuery. From there, you can use Google Data Studio or Tableau to explore. You can stream in data with pub sub. You can use SQL on BigQuery and you’ll be able to query it all very fast somewhat regardless of size. Then you won’t need to support the old infrastructure and can buy yourself time to figure out if you want to stay with that ecosystem.
Shut up nerd
It's a good point that uncertainty relations exist for all kinds of physical observables. But whether they're expressed as commutation relations or as in Heisenberg's original formulation, or whatever formulation you choose (wave mechanics, matrix mechanics, dirac representation, qft, or anything else one can think of) it's still asserted, rather than derived from an underlying set of fundamental physical objects and interactions.
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I wonder if there's a r/applecirclejerks subreddit.
In America, I imagine this is why people promote Nationalism -- to build a sense of the American Tribe. This seemed to work especially well while we had the Soviet bogeyman. Today, attempts to describe others as 'not real Americans' is fracturing tribal unity.
NASA’s Mars Odissey MARIE experiment showed daily levels 2.5x above the ISS, with spikes up to 1000x during solar events. Those are all low orbit measurements, but you can imagine it would translate to ground levels quite well.

Most of the colonization sketches from MS all include a multi-purpose underground component. The rationals for not building everything underground are the difficulty of doing it, even on Earth, and our lack of knowledge of Mars underground.

All that is to say that the first few batches of Mars colonist should only expect a one way ticket. We could obviously bring them back to Earth, to die from cancer here, if they wished to, but they might as well get morphine up there and keep on martianing, I know that’s what I would want to do.
Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth
If I were a trained mental health professional who had also been trained on emotional regulation capable of doing this job in a society where mental health professionals are equal to nurses and doctors I would definitely do this job for the salary equivalent to a nurse or a doctor. I’d be contributing to the greater good much more than my current position writing software that will never change/save lives.
None of that matters. It's a hundred gigs. You can store it in a textfile and read it in its entirety if you want. It fits in RAM.

It is perfectly reasonable to store this in a database. If and when you change your mind about the data format you can just scrap it and start over.
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Didn't know that anyway. Thanks for the link
Any Q&A board is going to run into this problem. It takes a lot more work to become an intermediate or advanced user. Given enough time and popularity a topic will be overwhelmed with beginner q&a.
Unfortunately the "but I worked for my money, so you can't give people money for free"-attitude prevents these sort of pilot programs from moving forward. Never mind that you're actually saving money, giving the homeless a better quality of life, and reduce nuisance for the rest of us.
I just love it that Fortran is #1 on the front page.
> IF THEY CAN'T CONTROL THEMSELVES

bold added.

This comment about sex offender lists being full of people who had a single piss in public, but whenever I've asked for evidence people post maybe three or four examples.

Feel free to show me research that these public urinators aren't people flashing to children.
The most notable thing I spotted is they have deleted the arithmetic IF from the language, which must be one of the more characteristic features of classic FORTRAN.
One thing I don't understand regarding resume padding like this (which I do think totally happens) is how do you justify it when someone asks questions about whether it was necessary? It could be very subtle too if they know their stuff and want to see if you know it.

It seems like this would come back to bite in any decent interview.
For perl, a lot of my searches end up at perlmonks. A lot of great answers for more arcane :) perl.
I think a good way to look at it is to think of "explain why" in commit messages as explaining why the code was changed from the previous state to the new state. This may need explanations on how some of the code works, but it doesn't have to.

The "explain why" that explains how the current code state works however should sit next to the current code.
And Nissan Leaf has outsold Tesla in number of vehicles.
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I started with python 1.7, two decades ago, and I don't find it any harder to use than back then. The language is pretty much the same as in the late 90s, complexity wise.

But back then, it was an insider's language, my teachers didn't know it existed. Then, year after year, I saw it become more and more popular.

But it is still so easy to use. Nowadays, I use it to teach programming to teenagers, and in less than a week I can teach them pretty cool and complex stuff (UCB algorithm, markov chains, simulated annealing, traveling salesman problem) because the language is so easy it does not get in their way.
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One of the best things about Matrix is its encryption and focus on security while supporting modern features users want. Not sure why anybody anywhere should have to settle for garbage like XMPP. Hell, this is one of the purposes of Riot or Matrix existing. Providing an open source implementation and design as a basis to build whatever an organisation or person needs. I'm not sure I see the problem.
I freaking love the idea.

Raw i3 sucks, you spend half of your time trying to configure Bluetooth, wireless multi-screen support, etc..

Now I use Ubuntu Mate with i3wm support and it's awesome, will try this Insha'allah.
It's not actually. You never call dunder methods directly, you use them through the built-in function or operator. So it can be neither myvar.len() nor myvar.__len__
Silly Americans.
> Tribal instincts are super strong

> I'm not a fan of any religion myself, as for Islam my main beef is it doesn't distinguish between the religion and the secular state. It can therefore be called a form of totalitarianism.

I think one major shortfall of modern discourse is that we've largely lost the ability to debate ideas (including religious claims) without incorporating tribalism and a "those people are bad" mentality. It's entirely possible to have empathy for people who believe something else and yet strongly disagree with their beliefs (and politely tell them so).
Modern FORTRAN looks more like Matlab than FORTRAN 77. The syntax has been completely overhauled since at least ‘95.

For a while I was translating my Matlab codes to FORTRAN; it was surprisingly easy. But I was being too naive with array resizings in Matlab and most of the speed gain (which was like 2-3 orders of magnitude) could be achieved in Matlab itself by preallocating memory.

To this day I have the nervous tick of initializing arrays with zeros even in numpy.
Not in Uk
A comment in the code can do both, and it should. You should explain why your code is the way it is, not just what it does. Anybody can see what code does by just reading the code.
Is that the equivalent of 6.5 years of normal aging-related cancer risk (spread over ~1.35 actual years), or does risk scale non-linearly?

If it's a normal +5 bonus years of risk, it seems like something that would be acceptable for such a voyage. But you'd be a bit hard-pressed to find something worth it on Earth, it would have to be something truly spectacular.
You can have sympathy for both?

Besides, it's not even about "sympathy", it's about preventing crime and general nuisance (like for the librarian in this article). I don't think anyone wins by making circumstances for sex offenders so hard they're living on the street. I'd much rather have these people in a safe environment with proper counselling/therapy.
I've known quite a few people who were suicidal who had a hard time getting care.

One 30-something women who was on medicaid, suicidal, history of opioid addiction and (I believe, based on her living with us for 1.5 years and my reading everything I could about psychiatric diagnosis) schizoaffective showed up at the hospital and got discharged 48 hours later.

She killed herself a month after that. She was unable to work, even unable to get up in the morning and smoke a cig sometimes even though she was addicted to tobacco.

A 50-something man I knew drank antifreeze, presented at the ER. Was discharged 48 hours later. His family wondered where he was in that time. People in the ER don't take suicide attempts seriously because they have a few "frequent fliers" who take a handful of pills every week.

He gets a referral to a psychiatrist two weeks later. Has to fill out his name and birthday 20 times, gets asked questions like that over and over again, has an argument with a nurse, is underwhelmed with the doctor... That night we get a call from his wife and they don't know where he is. We told her to call the police, she did, they kicked down the door to the garage and found he was hanging.
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Apologies, I misunderstood your exact meaning. But I think you misunderstood my point that 'society loses' is a non-sequitur in any case.
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I'm completely ignorant of the topic. Are Chinese auto safety standards any good? Would these cars be allowed on North American or European roads?