skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's honestly an epidemic and people have to admit it's mostly due to meth and heroin--it's not all due to housing prices. Yes, housing affordability is absolutely a real issue and there are people being displaced and actually are homeless from it--but that's not the real source if this crisis. We literally have THOUSANDS of mentally ill and criminally insane drug addicts all over the city in a constant state of anarchy.

For example, I live in a decent area (near Noe Valley) and constantly have homeless people in our carport area of our building. The landlord refuses to install a security camera, and actually removed the dummy security cameras which is now making the problem worse. I have had my car broken into like 8 times in 5 years. Every single night there are 2-3 of the same tweakers and addicts down there doing drugs, screaming all night, leaving needles and feces all over. I call the cops 2-3x a day and the cops show up probably 1/50 times but they never actually do anything but shoo them along and then they come back in 2 hours.

I've left messages for the local SFPD Sergeant, I've gone to community meetings and asking for more patrols, I've written my supervisor. NOTHING has changed. This is a miserable way to live when you already have a stressful job and have hard work. I truly do not want to live my life in a city like this. The cops do nothing, DAs don't prosecute, juries don't convict, and judges don't sentence--yet housing prices are $2.5M for the privilege of having a tweaker camp outside your house. I just don't get it. This video is of Seattle, but it's basically the same situation in SF but 25% worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
This also deters the user from speeding between two lanes of traffic that has stopped ... a deed that carries with it some risk and that probably irks some drivers.
I don’t think that’s what’s going on. I think it’s like this:

GP’s email address is john.doe@gmail.com

Lots of people are named John Doe, and some of them think their email address is john.doe@gmail.com

When those people buy something online, they (incorrectly) provide their email address as john.doe@gmail.com

Emails about the products purchased end up going to GP

Google shows GP information about products that show up in his email
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Well as for sanitary napkins they may have assumed that if you have kids, you have a wife.
Maybe they were talking about GMail offered through GSuite?
Turns out that the real productivity hack was learning to love yourself.
-their conveyor belt is far longer than most stores. You should be able to get your entire cart worth of groceries on the conveyor at once. This minimizes the slowness of people handing one item at a time to the next checker.

As others have pointed out, this isn't particularly innovative: this is the norm in large European supermarkets, regardless of brand.
He should write me a check, I’ve recommended that book on HN and offline to at least 5 new readers.
"It should be called something like Driver Assist Plus etc."

It seems to me that a feature which randomly veers into objects is not in fact a form of assistance, but a hindrance which makes driving more difficult than baseline.

It's been said before, I'm sure, but telling people to keep their hands on the wheel doesn't solve the problem of determining when to take over or resist the algorithm, since you don't know what it will do next and the time between normal driving and disaster is generally very small. A crash could be caused by the combination of actions, just like when two people both try to avoid each other in a hall, but collide anyway.
Married, yes.

Veteran also works -- I qualified not to include my parent's income. But the $10k I made the year before put be above the threshold for a household of one. I think I got a state $500/year and that was it. Everything else was loans.

It was a perverse position I was in during the 6 months between military service and returning to college. Any money I saved during that time was considered to be 100% applicable to that next year of college. So I basically had to deplete all savings before any aid or even loans were allowed to kick in.

Incidentally, the GI Bill, which is often advertised as $xxx per month is pro-rated to the day.
The one-legged Nigerian athlete who leaps over cars
Typical of the Edge -- the respondents are often impressive names.

The responses themselves often don't live up to expectations, though some do.
indeed! been a mac user for years but never used the tools provided by apple until i discovered a swift tutorial in the form of a playground recently. so now i am exploring and learning the frameworks and sdks i already have right here on the mac (well of course you have to download gigabytes of xcode).

native mac development has such a potential but i don't see people using or promoting it. i can easily blame apple for that.

my little experience is that it is very hard to find tutorials that are not geared towards iOS. just try and see for yourself... even books. it is tiring and time consuming to find the right article or tutorial for the macos right now.

funny how people go through hoops to get their ipads connected and stream it on youtube, or to get their simulators working while developing on a mac. some of the frameworks they cover could be done natively on the mac!
The uses of the words “brutal” and “fierce” are good examples of American xenophobia. Aldi pays its low-wage staff a living wage (far above the minimum required by law) in the UK and elsewhere. Walmart, no chance.
It's the only reasonable thing to do. REWE / Edeka / ... also have standard groceries (yoghurt, cheese, pasta, cans of tomatoes, corn, etc) from their discount brand which cost exactly as much as the Aldi product, but they are usually vastly inferior in taste and quality. Just go to REWE and buy a can of ja! corn. It tastes like somebody yellow-painted puffed rice.
> All flavors get the same shelf space, Parmesan Garlic always sells out quickly, and Safeway appears to be happy to forgo the lost sales of Parmesan Garlic triscuits that they could have made if they'd just had them in stock.

Imho this is probably due to the fact that they make more than enough money during the sales periods.

If somebody shows up during the sales period, with the intention of getting Parmesan Garlic, they very likely will still end up buying another flavor even if Parmesan Garlic ain't in stock anymore.

This is easily justified if somebody went to the store just for the Triscuit sale.
You can still live in a democracy with limited rights. People vote to limit their rights for the collective good. It's been done already. For example you don't have the right to murder or rob other people.
If you visit Aldi at all regularly, you just keep a quarter in the car's change drawer.
I do this with a bit of CSS:

/* Pay-Wall Domains */

a[href^="https://www.ft.com/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.newscientist.com/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/"]::after,

a[href^="https://www.wsj.com/"]::after {

color: rgba(128,0,0,0.75) !important;

content: " $ " !important;

}

I imagine there are loads more pay-walled domains here, but these are the ones I've seen frequently...

If it's not obvious, this places a red dollar sign after any links to the listed domains.
If you are paying for your email service there is a much better chance of you being the customer instead of the product.
The rules for self-published books on amazon and the rules for publishers are very different. if you have a book published through KDP you almost certainly can't offer it for free, but if you're published through through one of the big 5 then you can do whatever your deal with the publisher says.
Even in places with high employment and minimum wage?
New features planned for Python 4.0
I'd recommend removing your phone from here, and setting up 2-Step verification instead:

https://myaccount.google.com/security
One thing that enables this to work for Aldi is their parking lots are much smaller than most grocery stores. You're walking maybe 100 ft round trip to return your cart, whereas it could be several hundred feet at larger stores with giant parking lots.
No one deserves to be destitute, which is why we have a social safety net (and should have a stronger one). But as an employer, the danger of hiring someone who appears unstable is high: how will they treat their coworkers? What happens if they have a bad day right before a deadline? What if a customer criticizes them and their coping mechanisms break down?

Some jobs specifically have structures in place to help people make those transitions: lots of structure, clear direction, very specific expectations, independent work, separating customer-facing and non-customer-facing roles, close oversight of interpersonal interactions. Fewer tech companies expect to provide that kind of transitional support and most aren't willing to put themselves in a position where they would have to.

Painting a public persona that makes people want to work with you is the most basic of sales techniques. No one deserves to be destitute, but no one is guaranteed a high-paying tech job either.
Fun fact, there's a loophole on this.

Get married.

I kid you not. I got married young (my choice, still together, love my wife, just for the record), and I was exempt from this. My jaw quite literally dropped because the year before I got married I had to pay full rate on school.

So, if you're planning on tying the knot but are waiting to finish school, don't. it might cost you less.
What would you do differently about OSM contribution? Presumably peermaps pulls from the main OSM database. Would a distributed system somehow make contributions easier?
That and it also saves our fingers' lives. Seriously, formatting code "by hand" just hurts. I highestly recommend anyone concerned about developing rsi to start autoformatting their code.
It is Google for reference, but good to know on Amazon!
Oh, gotcha; boost from optimizations cancelling out against loss from patches. I would argue that that still constitutes a performance loss since before the patches you could run with just the improvements get better performance rather than neutral. But you're not wrong.
AI That Sounds Just Like Joe Rogan Should Terrify Us All
Are the downloaded pages in original or Pocket/Reader view?

You can export (with some pain) your Pocket list. Fetching sources from there is ... somewhat painful. I've done it a couple of times, but it's not something I relish doing.
Foucault's great focus on sexuality as central to happiness indicates that he never escaped the influence of his Catholic upbringing.

Think of all the things that you care about, that make your life good or bad. Sexuality is obviously one, but only one, and even it is intertwined with many others, like health, child-rearing, companionship, and so on.

But with Catholicism, or at least a rigid version, life is all about fighting sin, and central to sin is sexual desire, and hence fighting sexual desire is central to living properly. Now stick with that sex-centered view of life and just make sexual desire good instead of bad, and you have Foucault, or at least a large part of his views.

You know, someone who follows exactly what his father tells him to be in life is not free. But someone who spends his life doing the exact opposite, and never discovers for himself what a good life would be, which might in some ways agree with his father's vision, is still not really free.

No doubt some Foucault fans will claim, and perhaps properly, that I am greatly distorting his views. But as a public intellectual, Foucault had a responsibility to make his views clear enough that people could understand them and decide if they are right or wrong, and if the latter put them into practice in their lives and society as a whole. It is, for instance, pretty clear what Marx thought should happen in the world, and likewise the American founding fathers.

If it is the case that Foucault wrote in a way that predictably would lead to his being misunderstood, then I say he was being irresponsible. If on the other hand his views are not of any use to most people, then why do they matter?
I find it so weird how in the UK and much of the rest of europe, store managers and lots of blue collar jobs get paid so much more than software developers, even at large companies.
Yeah, you know, Brexit is going really great for Britain: we should definitely try dissolving the union and see if that helps.
OK, I'm genuinely curious, why the downvotes? Did I accidentally invoke some sensitive imagery?
Having somebody collect the trolleys creates a job, having somebody pack the groceries creates another job, just like having somebody do the refueling of your car at the gas station.

They are not especially demanding or well-paying jobs, but the shift to service-driven economies isn't a new thing nor particularly exclusive to the US.
… /s.

I really hate trying to turn into a spot that's flanked by two SUVs only to find a cart in the way. People are incredibly lazy. I love the ALDI's quarter scheme… it's just enough of a nudge to get people to do the decent thing.
Faulty database script brings Salesforce to its knees
>That doesn't take away the fact that n parallel requests will require n threads.

What's your point? In PHP's model, n requests will take n processes. There's no event loop in PHP.

The forked model has nothing to do with making scaling horizontally more straightforward. In either scenario, you'll end up running a different process on another machine once you exhaust your resources.
Your example is the epitome of bullshit.

There is a tremendous amount of tech in medicine and considerable investment at larger healthcare systems. If medical coding were such a simple automateable problem it would have been done (I mean it’s freaking billing... absolutely the strongest and direct financial incentives to solve).

The first mistake/flaw you’re making is that the healthcare provider uses codes. That is most often not the case. Even if they do, it gets more complicated with submitting claims.

There are plenty of LUTs in healthcare that are managed by the EMR, billing ain’t one.
"My point is this: It may not be that the labeling of the feature is dangerous. It may be that the feature itself, by its very nature of removing the less serious consequences of inattention, is dangerous."

This reminds me of sports car reviews where they talk about how the combination of extremely grippy modern tires and traction/stability control mean that there is no warning before losing control, whereas older cars had gradual feedback.
I stand corrected. I didn't see it mentioned on the page but assumed because it was a "cloud server" that they were using multi-tenant infrastructure. But apparently for all servers they're bare metal, presumably provisioned with IPMI.

I still disagree with the previous poster's claims and conclusions, but I really should've done my homework better. I tried but clearly not hard enough.
Add me to the list of people with the same problem. I actually paid for a Gmail invite when it was first launched so I could get my preferred address for my extremely common name. Oops.

It’s extremely frustrating. At least once a week there’s an attempt by someone to recover my email address as they think it’s theirs.
I do one pod per 2oz small bottle.
If you put a person into exactly same situation, with same memories, why would he make different choices? Making different choices would not be free will but absence of will/random choice.

After running the simulation once you know the outcome, but it is simply equivalent to knowing the history. And if even a tiny thing is changed in the initial conditions, you again won't know what choice the system will make.

Basically the system is deterministic, but you do not have any way to know how it will behave based on initial conditions other than letting it live and observing the result.
At the ALDI's I used to shop at in Tennessee, the cashiers sat. It was an appropriately high stool, sort of like the other poster mentions. (but they were definitely seated.)
The worst day of their career so far.
It's normal for Walmart as well. You can easily fit a shopping cart of groceries on their conveyors. There's definitely nothing innovative about it.
true, but you don't have to read 100% of them to train the spam and phishing catchers. But you do need to read 100% of the emails, i.e. no sampling, if you want get a comprehensive purchase history of each gmail user--which they seem to have.
>> Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in California [1], so it is not surprising that they would push for laws in their own ethnic self-interest. Once immigration has progressed sufficiently, it can no longer be stopped.

Am I the only one who sees this as racist?

Are there no hispanic Americans?

Can hispanic Americans not be a majority?

Are hispanic Americans not supposed to care for their near and dear when law enforcement has gone bonkers?

What makes non-hispanic ethnicities so special that they can comment on hispanics as a whole?

What makes you so special to think ethnic self interested is all there can be?
That's interesting, but I'm not sure what you mean by "compress". Do you mean data compression, or a compressing audio filter?

Web distribution (iTunes/etc.) files come from running the CD master through an AAC/MP3/etc. converter which does data compression only. But a 256Kbps/16bit/44.1KHz AAC (like you'd get from iTunes) is a lot higher quality than vinyl.
That's exactly my point. Seat belts are required by law. Obeying the speed limit is required by law. But users are not forced to obey these laws by restrictions placed on the vehicles by manufacturers. If the user disobeys the law, they are responsible. If a Tesla driver disobeys Tesla's Autopilot warning, they are responsible. Are you proposing that we need a law that makes Autopilot illegal to use on city streets? Or highways as well?
5% is one out of twenty people. That's not very rare, when you consider these things tend to have a lopsided distribution. You have to be careful with statistics, because in our minds numbers like 5-17% are minuscule, but the reality is that's not uncommon. If you were to consider this drinking pattern a disease (we'll call it "borderline alcohol abuse"), it would be considered "very common", since there are over 3 million cases (16 million +)

> Your binge frequency is 4 times higher than that of the CDC report

I think you're exaggerating a bit. I present a wide range and you're focusing on the highest end of it. The low end would be much more reasonable, though not completely healthy.

> But people who admitted to drinking a case of beer a week were very rare.

That's kinda the point. People aren't admitting it or being realistic with how much they drink (I'd be willing to bet these statistics are low also). A guy in the UK started counting and was over 100 units (~30-50 beers). Nobody thought he was an alcoholic at all. It's just a bit of fun social drinking. Of course you're gonna go out with boys after your beer league hockey game (where you had 1-3 beers in the locker room), later in the week there's trivia, and you have to go to Mark's party. Oh, and you like to have a beer or two with the game (forgetting you frequently grab 3). After a stressful day of work you have a drink or two, so what? In my experience, this kind of behavior is totally normalized; I'm not the first person to notice.
I believe the law in NY state uses the phrase "impeding traffic" and doesn't reference the speed limit. So (although I am not a lawyer) I imagine you could violate it whether you were going under, at, or over, the limit.
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223134047-Can-m...
wooow, so can we think of Black as outputing a projection of your source code in some space ?
I think it’s under-appreciated when comparing tools like this. I’ve noticed that a bit since adopting Prettier and Black and one thing I’ve noticed during code review is that usually when I end up changing code structure to get better results from the tool, it’s a refactor that I probably would felt like I should have done but might have put off due to laziness even though it’s really not that much work.

I’m kind of thinking of it as something like baking some exercise into your day by putting a walk into your commute: the little nudge of not fighting the tool on something minor means you don’t skip little things, and over time that adds up more than it seems at first.
> If a customer prefers Triscuits Flavor #5, but stores only stock popular Flavor #3, that person might not choose to buy the brand at all when they go shopping. They could reach for, and learn to prefer, a competitor's brand.

...this is exactly the situation I'm complaining about, except that the customer prefers Popular Flavor #3, which the store doesn't stock, to Unpopular Flavor #5, which it does.
People expect an instant response on chat, but reading emails from time to time. That makes a huge difference in interruptions when you work.
My preference (and argument) falls closer to global planetary government than to village-state actually...
Ugg why are people still making Mac only software. It is so easy these days to target the Unix operating systems together with roughly the same codebase.
Now that you point it out, I realize that I should have edited the parts about questionable ideology out. It was needlessly argumentative and distracts from the point I was trying to make.
I'm not clear what people with pre-existing conditions should do if they don't trust the federal government to do it right.
That's an entirely incorrect premise. Every Walmart store has cart collectors. You can see them working throughout the day, collecting carts. Walmart is the largest retailer in the world and employs by far the most people, and they still do it.

Besides, the US is inflation adjusted wealthier today than it has ever been at any other point in its history.

On the poverty front, US poverty is dramatically lower than it was in 1960, and homelessness is near record lows. If you go back to ~1960-1973, the falsely perceived peak of US wealth, it was much worse to be poor in the US. In every possible regard a poor person was worse off in the US prior to 1980, than they are today. That's due to a massive expansion of the US welfare state over that time, which has led to many improvements. That includes healthcare (universal healthcare for the bottom 25% didn't exist; even in the 1980s far fewer people were covered), housing, food security, disability programs, et al.
According to the Internet Archive, it's closer to 100 days.

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2011/11/the-average-lifespan...

https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/
Breakfast Is a Marketing Gimmick
It’s the driving aspect that adds the competitiveness. If you’re driving, a 15 minute drive can get you to a lot of different stores with the same amount of effort.
> If people were ravenous for a solution, why weren’t most people even attempting to pilot Level?

This is _not_ purely the "everyone is lying" problem, i.e everyones lack of ability to quantify the actual importance of a problem... The original questions were deceptive to both parties because they are unwittingly framed with the assumption that a "solution" in the form of a product or technology is a _valid_ form of solution.

Not all problems deserve or need technical solutions, but the subjects are denied the opportunity to consider this aspect. If you identify a problem everyone will likely agree it exists, which is useless, this doesn't qualify it for a solution let alone a solution in the form of a product.

I'm not very trusting of market research, but if I had to, i'd try to make this possibility intuitively clear by offering alternatives for comparison e.g: Do you think problem x would be better solved by a workplace policy or a technical solution / product?
Can’t recommend this book highly enough.

Unfortunately I only read it after making all the mistakes it lists - but I know from personal experience that everything it says is correct.