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Nice article. Concise. Code examples. The plots look good. I like the way the author takes several passes on each problem--'do better' as the author says.

Even when focused carefully on the coding and choosing the right plot for the data, an article about plotting is still so much about the data. And so, it's ultimately disappointing if you can't relate the data to your most common problems.
Yes they can. It’s called an 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement.

Most don’t or won’t.
You did read the link to the rules, no? Make a demo please

And this is the second time you've posted this in a couple days; you're a company not a person, so it sure appears you are just marketing around for signups, not trying to share your project
You don't mention pinning, do you support that/is it on the todo list? I notice you have the switch that Inbox used for toggling pinned only, what does that do here?
The main thing I've noticed, as someone who works at a company too small to have cheap insurance and is too well off to get subsidized insurance, is that people who work for big companies genuinely don't think health insurance is a problem in America because their employer is able to get bulk plans where they are paying something like $100 a month out of pocket for absolutely amazing coverage.

Then you have the people who used to have great coverage, but it's slowly gotten less good and more expensive over time. They are mainly worried about doing something that will make the problem even worse.

Then you have people like me, who are paying ridiculous money for what is basically "catastrophic" insurance, and like to complain loudly any chance we get, mostly on deaf ears because people hope the problem won't come their way if they just ignore it and carry on.
Yeah, how else can we use big data to figure out where to build new public toilets?
To me, many worlds + time (as an inviolate observed vector) being merely a consequence of our inability to observe without moving foreward in time based on our entropic process driven cociousness, seems by far the most comprehensive explanation of observable phenomenon.

That observational uncertainty increases as the probability of direct interaction decreases (distance, time) strongly supports the hypothesis that observable phenomena are dictated strongly by the presentation and characteristic relationship of the observer to the phenomenon.

We know on the micro scale that all possible states exist simultaneously.

It seems logical, even axiomatic then that on the macro scale the same applies, but that we can only observe the bandwidth of states in which it is possible for us to exist to make the observation.

To claim that this state uncertainty is magically resolved in all cases and coherently for all possible observers into a single set of states seems an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.
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Plus, home ownership also reduces your mobility. With rent I have a lease I can typically sublet or end. If not, I'm at most liable for the remainder of the lease. If you ever want or need to move, you have the liability of selling your home, managing a mortgage plus rent, etc. on-top of finding a new position, moving, and everything surrounding the act.

The obvious downside is you'll never get any ROI beyond having a place to live like you may with property ownership. Homes are great when you have financial stability and freedom but can become a big shackle if you don't.
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I love this idea. Thank you.
Words do fail us sometimes. However, I do like what you're saying. The subtitle should be clearer.
I will think about it, to try and come up with the best description I can - I'm open to more suggestions though!
Thank you again for yours.
Rates of homelessness in the Netherlands are overall the same as in the US.
> Reformers who seek to abolish tribalism usually find that they've simply redrawn the boundary lines and replaced one set of tribes with another.

Yup: Also known as, "I can tolerate anyone except my outgroup" - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
> You send a trained mental health nurse and/or social worker to talk to them, several times a day if necessary. If they don't want to engage, you work with them to build a relationship of trust. You work with that person to get them back on a suitable course of medication, or to help them manage their symptoms and manage their life while unmedicated.

Serious question, would you be willing to do that job? For what price? For how long?
That is something different than USA. There even my laundry guy was day trading with margin, believe me or not.
>Zeno's paradoxes are soluble by basic calculus. Once you distinguish between countable and uncountable infinities, the problem of crossing a bounded interval in finite time ceases to be paradoxical.

They're not mathematically paradoxical, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the paradoxes are solved, because there's more than just math going on. A lot of the paradoxes hinge on the question of whether it is in fact possible to traverse an infinite series of positions in space or moments in time. I have no idea whether it is or it isn't, but the issue isn't settled by calculus. Calculus allows you to figure out what the result would be if such a traversal were to occur.
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StackOverflow/Python version of Eternal September.
If you ever ran into a space leak in Haskell, you would see how having unresolved thinks can use more memory than eager evaluation.

But that has some merit to it in that you can describe QC as merging equivalent paths and then sampling from a wave distribution afterwards.

One fun variant on the double slit experiment is taking a coherent laser beam (everything is in phase) and splitting it, sending it through two paths, A and B, then merging it and shining it on the wall.

If the two path lengths are equal, there is no effect from splitting it. But if we make B take slightly more time we can get a interference pattern. If we have it get shifted by half a wavelength the light will cancel out!

Now if you insert a polarizing filter along path B, when you merge the streams, you could tell with path the light came from, and the interference pattern disappears. This is not exactly measuring which path it took, but making it possible if you added a sensor to tell.

Observation is not required just making the streams distinguishable.

But now if we add another polarizing filter downstream we can erase the distinction between them, and now you get interference effects again!
This is 100% true, but I wonder if the right level of abstraction for the 3rd largest country by population and 4th largest by area.

The USA undeniably has a low macro rates of homelessness overall, but I wonder if it has high micro levels of homelessness, e.g. Sydney seems to have lower rates of homelessness than San Francisco or Seattle, even though Australia has a higher homelessness rate than the USA overall. I wonder as I can't find any data that uses the same measurements across cities and countries and is easy to compare.

On numbers, Seattle has 12,000 homeless according to wikipedia, and I can't find similar numbers for Sydney. Given Sydney is about 15% larger than greater Seattle, it would need to be closer to 14,000 to be the same. I doubt Sydney has that many Homeless, but with no data I guess it may.

I could be completely off base here, but I do think the USA has some really concentrated pockets of homelessness, and that skews people's views, in both directions, based on personal experience.
Congrats on the launch. Would you be able to recommend off-net sms providers that you have had good luck with?
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I went looking for a property manager when I was trying to rent out a flat, but it wasn't worth it. They charge 8%+ but the real problem is that doesn't include costs (eg. they won't do repairs) and most seemed as if they were just an expensive middleman who would simply pass on tenant requests to you.
Another subtlety to the taxes and cap gains: the building per se can depreciate while the land value appreciates. This can make a big difference when it comes to selling. Highly recommend talking with an accountant.
> After renting for two years I was evicted with a 2-month notice for what was essentially a simple disagreement with the landlord. They didn't even attempt to resolve it: they just evicted me.

Were you actually evicted, or did your lease simply expire without an option to renew? Because even here in the US, it's very hard to impossible to evict someone who has a lease and is still paying rent and isn't flagrantly violating laws or destroying the dwelling.
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Hi,

I had already posted yesterday, but maybe it's of some value for some of you, I still hope at least :-)

Sirix.io is all about efficient versioning of your data. That is on the one hand it reduces the storage cost of storing a new revision during each transaction-commit while balancing read- and write-performance through a novel sliding snapshot algorithm and dynamic page compression. On the other hand Sirix supports easy query capabilities for instance to open a specific revision by a timestamp or revisions by a given timespan, to navigate to future or past versions of nodes in the tree-structure and so on. It basically never overwrites data and is heavily inspired by ZFS and borrows some ideas and puts these to test on the sub-file level.

It all started around 2006 as a university / Ph.D. project of Marc Kramis and I already spend my Bachelor's Thesis, Master's Thesis as well as several HiWi-Jobs on the project and I'm still more eager than ever to put forth the idea of a versioned, analytics plattform to perform analytical tasks based on current as well as the history of the data.

I've been working a lot on Sirix.io the last couple of months and spent most evenings after my day to day software engineering Job. I had already posted around christmas, but now I've added a native JSON storage layer besides XML, that is the storage itself, XQuery extensions for JSON for joint XML- and JSON-querying, a RESTful-API also for JSON, added a website, a forum and first documentation... :-) and last night I release version 0.9.0.

So, any feedback, comments, suggestions, just everything is more than welcome. I'll happily (try to? ;)) answer any questions you might have. Happy easter everyone :-)

kind regards Johannes

https://sirix.io

https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix
I've had this conversation with people in other countries when they ask why there are so many homeless in America. I ask them what their country does with mentally unstable homeless? They're response is they are not allowed to live on the street and they are "picked up".

We can decide to let people have complete autonomy or they can be "picked up".
Sorry, I meant $1/month difference not per year.

I personally just think mobile apps run smoother and faster than mobile websites, plus in this case notifications are key for me.

For services or products that I ue at least on a weekly basis, I always prefer an app than a website. But maybe that's just me :-)
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For anyone using this model to make a decision: it looks like it doubles your rent input (maybe assuming two units?). Also not taking into account tax on rental income. You can work around these in how you set your parameters.
The value of git is the tooling around pushing code to a central place. Version control is a relatively minor (albeit occasionally very helpful) part of the value of git.

I’d argue that central storage (somewhat ironically), open source support, CI automations (esp. web hooks), issue management, etc offer far more value.

In other words, GitHub (and friends) are the value worth spending time in, rather than being in the weeds of using Git “perfectly”.
These numbers are absurd. There aren't nearly enough homeless people to drive taxes up by that degree; it'd still be well under 1% of your total tax burden. Plus, we're already paying for homelessness and mental illness anyway in the form of tax money that goes to the police, jails, and hospitals. A lot of people say that it would be cheaper to provide housing and support rather than continue the cycle of police, jail, and emergency medical treatment involvement.
The landlord wrote down some stuff. I asked afterwards, he mentioned one thing, we discussed another thing and he seemed to agree with me, and that was it. Talking to some other people in the last year about this, it seems there are loads of people with stories like this in the UK. I've had friends where the rental agents filled false complains about "marijuana smell" after a small disagreement. Really petty stuff.

The dispute service of the deposit protection services are completely useless as well. They took over 4 months to reply, didn't address half the stuff I had sent in, had no way to see what the landlord sent in, and made some spectacularly wrong decisions. The entire thing felt like it was rushed by an intern.

I think the problem is that as a landlord/rental agent you have a lot of power, especially in a high-demand market (I lived in Bristol). My apartment was listed as "let agreed" just 4 days after I left for £75/month more. Power corrupts.
Leave Shenzhen and you will see it's not all like this.
I'm still using a program and occasionally updating it that's mostly in FORTRAN 77. Originally written in FORTRAN IV. Ah, gotta love the nuclear industry. Good code though.
I agree. The majority of homeless people I encounter in NYC are mentally ill. Many are drug or alcohol dependent. It's not uncommon at all to see someone having a shouting argument with themselves. Most reek of urine. This is not how a humane society deals with this issue.

It is also not safe. Although most homeless people in the city are non-violent, it's not uncommon to read about a delusional person slashing someone across the face with a knife or pushing someone in front of a moving train.

Involuntary commitment with compassionate care, properly funded with ethically-aligned incentives, is the most humane solution. Doctors should be the ones to recommend who among the patients is ready to reintegrate into society, and those individuals should receive an apartment and a job with some kind of state or federal work program to provide a routine, though they would of course be free to seek out alternatives.
Yeah they keep saying "they could have easily used native digital redaction" but that clearly isn't as easy as they think because there have been numerous instances of people screwing that up.

Maybe those people used the wrong software or buggy software, but how do you know software is buggy? Much easier to print and scan than to dive into the PDF file on a really low level.

They could however have just converted it to PNG and then back to PDF digitally to keep the quality good. No need to physically print and scan it.
> Very typical of engineers who just want to pad their resume at the expense of unsuspecting business people.

Or they were given the same PR crap you always get from sales people that they’re just days away from tripling the number of clients and by next year they should be 10-20x the number, so they went ahead and “built it right” so they wouldn’t run into the inevitable scaling issues they were supposedly assured to hit in short order?
Oh and I forgot... it for sure supports Diffing capabilities (even an import algorithm for XML-documents currently that tries to find the minimum edit operations to transform a tree into another version of the tree). Once several revisions are stored in Sirix unique IDs are used for comparison and optionally stored hashes can be used by the diffing-algorithms to skip the traversal of subtrees (if the hash-values match). That said, for XML I'm outputting an XQuery Update Script and for JSON-data I have no serialization format as of now. So it's up for discussion basically :-)
It's a nice app and all, but the rigorous calculation for these kinds of things really needs to consider tax implications (both depreciation deduction & property taxes), liquidity value, and expected outside returns. It's not a simple thing to simulate even without getting into exotic scenarios.
It looks quite like the base in The Martian movie.
That does happen and it is considered intentional, but, no I meant the staff themselves damaging them. Drawing on them (the screen in particular, which often doesn't come off cleanly), popping the keys off and on until they break, flexing parts of the case (hinge covers) until it breaks, getting angry and hitting the computer and breaking something. Anything you would expect a kid to do we've seen teachers admit to doing themselves.

Kids do that stuff too, but they also do stuff like break headphones off in the jack, punch a hole in the screen with a pen, gouge the screen with scissors or a hobby knife, smash them on the ground, stand on them, sit on them, etc.
>Why as a society have we decided that libraries are where hurting people are to be herded?

We didn't. We instead decided that we have no right to interfere with decisions made by adults who cannot make decisions on their own.

>We need more and richer commons, and particularly places that encourage healthy people to stay healthy and sick people to get well.

Like what? What is an example of 'commons' where drug addicts or sufferers from schizophrenia can decide to go 'to get well'.
I am American and moved to Norway. If you didn't know, Norway is known for high taxes and a quite extensive welfare system. I lived in Indiana. In neither place have I had a good-paying job.

But hands down, Norway is cheaper. Taxes include healthcare and my tax rate has been just slightly higher than it was total in the states, and many times lower than taxes + health coverage + deductibe + out of pocket.

There are lots of hidden consumption taxes: VAT is 25% on most things, 15% on food, but there is none on books and newspapers. A TV lisence is a thing. On the other hand, they try to make sure poor folks have internet and phone service.

I do think the top tax rate is about half of one's income, which is fine with me if I'm making more money. I'm fine with VAT and things like that.

The thing folks also forget is that some things are actually cheaper when centralized and spread out and coordinated. This works really well in health care because you can do cost evaluation on costs of covering a home nurse a few times a day vs a nursing home.

Americans also forget that one of the missing bits in American society is trust in the government. Folks here don't believe the government is perfect, but most of the bureaucratic bits just work, and lots of them are online and easily accessible.
Don't forget that in Germany your taxes pay for more services than in the US, like universal healthcare. Once you deduct out the cost of all the extra services that your taxes provide for you in Germany (and that they don't provide here), Germany wins. Healthcare is insanely expensive here in the US -- over $10k per person per year (so easily $20k per year for a family plan or more), some of which is born by employers.
> There aren't nearly enough homeless people to drive taxes up by that degree

Sure, but a welfare state isn't just about open homelessness, it's about free education, free health care etc as well.
Following your argument, soon enough librarians will be in charge for cleaning the manure after fauna which evolved enough to make libraries their natural habitat.
Umm... if you spend money on tax deductible stuff that you don't need, I don't think you end up with more money than if you pocket the cash and pay taxes on it...
Do you mean for the frontend- or backend-development?
Picked up means that they are taken freely to an hospital, they give them a bed, food, they check their conditions and can sleep there a night or two.
At least in Italy, where my parents worked in hospitals and took care of many homeless or just troubled people.

It's not like the Nazis taking prisoners to the camps...
The media, and the NYT in particular doesn't deserve too much charity here. They are almost all members of the Democratic Party, and heavily invested in the outcome of the primaries. They're in a unique position to shape the national conversation in a way that favors their favored candidate (e.g. by deciding what is or is not newsworthy), and they frequently use that power. Do you remember how Howard Dean's "yee-haw" was a sign that he was dangerously unstable? Do you remember the moral panic about misogynistic 'Bernie Bros'? Why after all these years did the media suddenly notice Joe Biden is kind of handsy? I don't think it's too cynical to believe that the media is trying to play kingmaker (or queenmaker) in the Democratic primaries. That's more or less their favorite hobby.
I’d contend this personally. You can employ disk, or row compression on PG if you want. Compressed disk will actually make your queries faster. You can use cstore for ORC based column storage with PG if you want.

Presumably the cost of a few TB on EBS is the least of your worries.

Finally, the time saving of full transactional support and constraints + sql to write etl in will drastically reduce the amount of work needed to write etl.

IMO, if RDBMS is an option for you, do it whilst your data is small enough.
Mhh, in my country they're only picked up when its too cold to stay outside. Other than that we have many shelters where people can stay overnight for a euro or so.
Only $50/mo - I'm not the greatest marketer
> like universal healthcare

Nope, we pay that on top, currently ~14% of your salary (half of which is paid directly by the employer), the same goes for pensions etc. You do get free healthcare only if you're unemployed, but that's not reality for most Germans.
These are two different things.

A coment in code describes the state of the code as it is. A commit message describes a change in the code, a delta.
>and in the extreme cases, institutionalization.

Worse than that, the family and loved ones of the homeless individual have almost no rights to institutionalize them to get them the care they need. It is unbelievable that we're OK with it.
Right now load times are linearly related to the amount of comments. I have some ideas in the works to make this better, especially when a page hits like a thousand comments.
I'm not sure about the statement that people have less empathy these days. I'm also skeptical when people say this or that group has low empathy.

Rather I think all humans have a store of active empathy which they can spend or allocate in different ways. most common is empathy to family and close friends and then to the neighborhood. Active empathy is where empathising does something.

That some groups of people seem to show lack of empathy could be a sign that the observer should empathize more with that group to locate where and how their active empathy is.

Empathy is neutral too. The worst "monsters" of nazi regimes were often fuelled by empathy.
I could be wrong, but I have a different understanding on how all of that works. You keep talking about basketballs instead of waves or probability fields and I guess this is where we diverge.
I absolutely think the ping attribute is preferable, but several of your solutions are to avoid conflicting with other tracking solutions that are in place already. How would you address that with ping attributes?
Yeah, it's much easier for homeless to put a bread on the table by becoming computer scientist in SF. That's why they congregate there.
Much like malware protection ceased to be a reliable symbol of user intention the moment Microsoft turned it on by default.