skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legal. When we are sued (we make equipment used in dangerous environments, and we have a lot of money, so if there is the slightest chance we can be blamed we will be sued) US law says we need to give all relevant information to the other side. That includes any saved chat logs and emails. However if something was deleted before we are sued we don't have to give it out.

We lost a law suit once because a [not native English speaker] wrote "the bearing will fail with disastrous consequences", he meant the shaft would need to be replaced, but when a fire started in the area of the bearing that email was part of discovery and the jury decided the bearing was at fault for the fire not the user failing to clean the area which was our story. (legal would rather I not give you the case to read for yourself)

Chat tends to be less formal than email, thus more opportunity exists for something that is easy to take out of context. By not allowing saving chat logs we ensure they they will never get to court.

We have strict rules that emails must be deleted after a few months (unless we legally need to keep them). Any information in the email that is worth keeping longer than that is put in a formal system where legal can examine the words to ensure they won't be taken out of context and used against us.
My $20 bottle of Madagascar vanilla extract was $50 last time I went to Penzey's. Just an hour ago, I bought a smaller bottle to help me ride out the price storm and noticed the price of that $50 bottle went down to $43. I sure hope it gets down to $20 again soon.

The price of vanilla beans have already dropped and I thought I would just make my own extract but I also thought I only needed one bean to so many ounces of vodka. Turns out, you need many more than that and I just can't justify the price despite what some online recipes may claim.
I've been listening to The Art of Product podcast since the start and Level really didn't make sense to me as a solution even though I understood the problem.

Most issues are around context and focus when moving from an individual contributor to a lead. If a programmer I'm leading doesn't implement a feature in a way that I expect it is because the context that is in my brain hasn't been transferred to the programmer's brain. If a feature isn't being worked on then I having communicated focus and priority.

A solution would focus on revealing context and focus by:

1) Deeply integrating with Slack, JIRA, Github, etc. The tools that we already use. A new product can't be a silo.

2) Mobile or GTFO. Leads are in meetings, on airplanes, in transit, etc.
Yeah, so don't worry about those edge cases. When their version stops working, they'll either update, because it isn't working, or they'll delete it; either way, problem solved.
You need to consider the difference between something being right and something being a right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_property

Article 23 of the declaration states:
“Every Person has the right to own such private property as meets the essential needs of decent living and helps to maintain the dignity of the individual and of the home.[10]”

-- This is not the case with real estate in America. It isn't dignified.
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> I've never heard is phrase

Based off Genesis 4:9.
I ran in to our previous PM in the Systembolaget at NK-huset a couple years ago, with 2x SÄPO:s. It was odd to see. He bought like 8 of those Stockholm 5,2.
Your story is amazing thanks for sharing. Hypothetically, if spina bifida could be detected by pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, meaning that an embryo that was destined to be a person with spina bifida could simply not be implanted, would you also oppose pre implantation genetic diagnosis?
As someone without a Facebook account, it's awkward to read these articles that assume inevitably of Facebook's influence.

You can quit. We can quit.

Sometimes I run into a group that I want to be more involved with that organizes on Facebook. When I mention I want to be involved but am not on Facebook, there is usually sympathy and a response that there are others interested in the group which are not on Facebook, either. Many organizations are multi-platform to be inclusive, and more organizations if more people spoke up to request a non-Facebook option.
So. Will you open source the code?
Not mentioned in the article, but this is interesting because Jeff Bezos invested in Convoy, a Seattle startup working to optimize freight brokerage, back in their seed or series A, forgot which.

Though I'm sure nobody at Convoy, now valued over 1BN, honestly believed Amazon wouldn't jump into a market this big and ripe for improvement.

Then again, there's almost certainly room for dozens of big players. I don't think I even comprehend how big the freight brokerage space is, but I'm sure I'm underestimating it by multitudes.
I understand why you don't like it. I asked why you think it's an ethical violation.

In case you decide to answer that question eventually, the model ethics rules are here: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...

I would really be interested in knowing which one you're alleging was violated.
It's worth asking "why" companies would do these things.

A credit card company can legitimately use fraud detection as a reason for looking at purchases. They can upsell budgeting software as another legit option people would accept.

Why would Google be tracking this information? What use is it for them if they truely not doing it for ads?

I was oddly reminded of the Selfish Ledger video that was leaked from Google... https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish...
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So, "Aldi" actually means lots of different things. Two German brothers (Karl and Theo Albrecht) formed ALDI in 1946. In the 60s, they split the company in two, resulting in Aldi Nord (Theo) and Aldi Süd (Karl). In the '90s, the brothers retired as CEOs and transferred ownership to family trusts.

The companies operate in different geographical areas. Originally, the brothers split across the Rhine, but now Aldi Süd includes North America, Australia, and half of Europe. Aldi Nord operates in the other half of Europe.

The same trust that owns Aldi Nord also owns Trader Joe's (acquired in 1979), and they use similar operational values: (minimal advertising, limited selection, private label goods, work ethic, etc)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
Where have you looked? I followed the citations on the wikipedia page about homelessness in the Bay Area and found this in about 30 seconds: https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-2...
Are these self-reported numbers or from some sort of verifiable source?

It’s plausible to consider that people being asked would be reluctant to say they are not from the locality for fear of being told to leave and “go back to where you came from”.

While resources are limited, if this cash program is shown to make improvements, then it should be considered to be scaled out to other areas, not contracted for fear of additional migration.
It is a biblical quote. Cain kills his brother. Then God asks where his brother is, and Cain says idk, he’s not my problem.
It's outdoor gear. A lot of outdoor gear shops have surplus in their name, because there's a link between the outdoors, hunting/fishing, and the military. A lot of outdoors people don't like it and would rather wear patagonia vests (like VCs do), but camo gear certainly isn't an unusual choice for outdoors types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_store
Depends on what the usage of the data would be, and who the client would be and are we talking one client or lots of clients?

A simple file that is memory mapped can be a super easy and fast, simple database. But it gets more nuanced if you say 100 users might use it, then the code required would be substantial to deal with contention, changes etc. Then you are better off just using a real database.

There just isn't enough information to give you a good opinion. If you can answer some of the unknowns like usage, read only read/write single user or multiple and where would it be deployed then it can be a lot easier to give a decent opinion.
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By your own numbers, 31% of homeless in SF, nearly a third, came from either elsewhere in the state (as OP posits) or another state entirely. That's a pretty big chunk of the problem.
Most of those things are easy to do and easy to copy.

But how do you find private label suppliers for 1000+ products, how do you know how to define great products, how do you verify that, and do you still manage prices low ?

That's a key skill aldi acquired over decades, and it's really hard to copy.
Sansa Clip+ was dollar-for-dollar possibly the best music player ever made.
Maybe it was a common attack/bug
web.dev appears to repackage google's website optimization content in a more "narrative" format: https://web.dev/learn
You don't need a time travel device, just a bayesian prior on probability of folding. (which happens to be close to one.)
At what point does Amazon get broken up? Grocery chains, freight, aws, ecommerce, each of these could be companies on their own. Seems like we're heading to a dystopian future where megacorps own you in every sense.
Maybe you could try taking out some of the details provided here? That's an awful lot of information to parse...
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Look at https://mxroute.com/

They've come in handy for a couple of my colleagues.
Got a link to the methodology? I'd be interested in knowing what timeframe they use for "lived here". 3 years, 5 years? Also, how long were they housed, and what kind of housing was it (public assistance, private room rental).
I guess I was on holiday last week :-D

My bad

Super cool though right
There are already several projects that do this. Sub/Mad/Airsonic all allow hosting your own music and transcoding with ffmpeg.
Okay so what ethics rule are you claiming was violated?

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...
I thought it was Gunvald who left??
It's big, it's technologically really old / behind the times, lots of customization.

And a lot of the human interactions are with people who have borderline computer skills, even decision makers.

It is a strange space. LOTS of room for efficiency and at the same time so easy to say "oh yeah this could be done better" and then you fall on your face because logic is not how anything / anyone works ;)
That's about 1% of the work. Email is old, arcane at times, and has a ton of interoperability and vendor-specific nonsense. Add in the fact that it _cannot_ go down for enterprise and that you have to do all of this at huge scale and it turns in to a pretty tough problem to solve.
A lot of those, I expect the vast majority of them, are in a regular 4 door sedan, or a shitty old camper that barely runs. People living in cars, on a friends couch, etc, all count as homeless.
There may be, but we'll need evidence for that. Right now we just see the trauma. Not everything that nature does is a benefit - evolution is a pragmatist. Our bipedal nature and need for a big brain requires certain sacrifices to be made. Our ability to make our skulls deform enough to give birth is the only evolutionary advantage it needs to give us to justify it - it's hard to survive as a species if you can't give birth. I wouldn't make a jump to "cesareans are bad" just because it may be right, especially without any evidence from this evidence being for that, and the evidence against being "brain trauma".
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.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California#Nat...
The cities that have to manage the people living on their streets in vans (usually much less fancy) can't treat them as anything but homeless.
There are a lot of caveats in representing a genome as some point diffs from a reference. I worry that your description might promote a way of thinking about genomes that ignores the more complex things that can and do happen.
The solution to this homeless problem is trivial.

There should be a law that makes it a requirement to have paid residency, confirmed accommodation, or a job to be in the city for more than a week. If not and you're caught there is a one way bus that you will have to get onto that ships you to a jail where they have to reside for a month.

This "jail" is actually a homeless zone outside of the city where homeless people are shipped too and given free food and shelter. They are also provided access to education and care and a dedicated team with the objective of data driven rehabilitation.

It's really this simple.

The reason why we aren't doing it is because the problem is made complex by all kinds of irrelevant issues. Do I want to live in a city thats covered in feces? or do I want to live in a city where I have all the freedom and right to use the city sidewalks as a public toilet?

Of course I prefer to have the right to take a dump where-ever I want and whenever I want. I have rights, this is America.

In singapore if you sell heroin. You're dead. Simple.
This surprised me so I checked, the detail is: "Sixty-nine percent (69%) of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they
most recently became homeless. Of those, over half (55%) had lived in San Francisco for 10 or more
years. Eight percent (8%) had lived in San Francisco for less than one year. "

So comes to 38% of homeless had previously been living in SF for 10 years.

Is Page 22 here: http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...
'Just' read the source of something you like:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/learn-to-read-the-source-luke/

Or not – you're not obligated to contribute!
OmniOutliner is another great example that I have been using for decades.

Safari is another overlooked example: the fluency of moving between Mac, iPad and phone with a shared history, tab handoff etc is fantastic.
Your source is inapplicable. You are not a statistical universe.

Also, "it's free, go away" is a straw man, because the "go away" part is also nearly universal within proprietary software. Try opening a ticket regarding a bug in Word, or AutoCAD, or so on.

The real difference? Those closed products also have closed bug trackers, so you don't get to see all the times users were ignored or told to pound sand.

This "real problem" exists entirely in your head.
Does anyone else find the term "Deep Work" to be pretentious? Most people who say they were busy doing 'deep work' makes me feel like they are a bit self important.

Why not just say you need to focus?
I built this beautifier because I'm tired of all the ugly, hard-to-use tools out there. It's not unique, but I think the experience is a lot better than most of seen (and there aren't any IN YOUR FACE advertisements).

Features include HTML, CSS, and JS beautifying, light/dark mode, one-click clean+copy, drag and drop, and basic + advanced settings. The tool uses Vue.js, Element UI, CodeMirror, and JS Beautify. I started it yesterday and finished it up today.

Any tips on improving, making more accessible, etc. are welcome!
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It's simple. Don't say ignorant things on the internet, especially when it's tied into your real life identity. Lots of people struggle with this simple rule, because they have a compulsion to share their own myopic opinion (usually the same viral opinion as everyone else in their echo chamber) and contribute to the noise. If I was a public figure I wouldn't be on any social media platform at all, at best it wastes your already limited and highly valuable time.

That being said, there's a lot of valuable information on the internet that is absolutely worth preserving. Scrape off the layer of social media and the internet is still a place of learning and problem solving. I do my own repairs on my car and the amount of times I've found a well written photo essay on a particular fix in a random honda forum, only to find the linked pictures broken, is astounding and a shame to say the least.
It doesn't say the bug was deployed on May 5th.
I'm not excited about this release either, but Microsoft is behind Hololens. I imagine that this just needed so ship to stay alive and relevant. The version I would get excited about would be paired with an affordable version of Hololens.
Tesla shares plunge after autopilot system engaged during fatal crash
"I'll just ask engineering to fix your wonky account"

"Ah yeah - it got in a bad state somehow, let me fix it manually"

UPDATE permissions SET allow = 1 WHERE user=671156 AND permission=16 AND org=101 OR 102;

Classic SQL blunder...
> it's nonsense to argue that "there is no evidence that intellectual property in any way increases production of works"

Please, offer the evidence, then. As it is nonsense to claim otherwise, it should be easy to come with unambiguous peer-reviewed research on this. (I'm not actually holding my breath here. All evidence I have ever seen reduces to assuming that IP increases production of immaterial goods. I am happy to be proven wrong here.)
The only reason I prefer JetBlue for domestic flights is because I've always flown out of BOS or NYC. If that wasn't the case then I would probably choose Southwest as my domestic airline even though I almost never bring a checked bag on domestic flights.
OP was asking why you see so many of them in SF compared to other places. Obviously there's a reason they chose that lifestyle but they still chose it. These kids are traveling from across the world to be part of it.
Indeed! One of the things I found frustrating about the article is that he talks about people 'lying' constantly... when if fact he had just asked meaningless questions.
That is a pretty wild hypothesis, but I would have to say that when we are at the point of editing genes to get rid of debilitating diseases then sign me up.

I am very happy the way I am right now, but given the choice then of course I would choose to be able-bodied. It would be asinine for me to think otherwise.

So yes, if we could get to the point where we are editing the genes of something in a test tube could not survive outside of that test tube that then might potentially go on to be a human then it is incumbent upon us to make sure they are healthy as much as we can.

If that makes any sense!
There was no way back when they were just using it internally. They'll probably open up something eventually after it has significant external usage.
You can already buy US citizenship for newborns. All it costs is an air ticket and a hospital stay.
Tesla Driver Gets License Suspended After Drunkenly Falling Asleep on Autopilot
I've had some similar experiences. When that happened I couldn't sleep very well and pretty much dreamt of code.
Ultimately, what else is 'good' other than being the foundation of further far-flung flourishing?
I walked away from a product I spent 10 years building. My advice: don't look back. It's easier and more profitable this way.
Yep. I resisted FB for years, but finally gave in in ~2009 due to pressure from old school pals, after what I thought was a thorough risk/benefit analysis.

Turns out that I _vastly_ underestimated the risk. I quit FB in ~2012, but not before I had already experienced some pronounced ill effects. Kind of like my auntie with smoking .
The difference is more epistemological than practical. Before, 6.022x10^23 was the measured value of the conversion factor between a gram (exactly 1/100 of the Prototype Kilogram) and a dalton (exactly 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom). After the redefinition, a dalton is defined as being 1/6.022x10^23th of a gram, and measured to be approximately equal to 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom. In essence, the dependency chain was reversed, so now it all flows from the kilogram outwards.
Certainly agree that 5x a week isn't normal or generally healthy.

Risk-takers and mean people are more commonly heavy consumers of alcohol. They like the feeling as it eggs them on and self-justifies their actions.

But this does not mean that heavy consumers of alcohol are uncontrollably pushed to emulate the former.

Basically, the bad folks always ruin it for the docile rest of us.
A 10-minute summary of the history of General Magic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opcuy-8VO64
If you check the histogram plot at exoplanet.eu (also at https://imagebin.ca/v/4hRAHBxEtEbv for your convenience) you see that the density is quite a bit lower. And "Fulton gap" is simply a better name than "Fulton's possibly lower density mass range".
I didn't mean we are paying cash to them, what I mean is the US institutions are investing time and energy -- yes in exchange for cash which came from them.

The experience I was drawing this from is the international students who I studied with, many of whom were really smart and who had acquired a great deal of technical skill here in the US, who then wanted to stay and use their skills here but had a difficult time with the immigration process.

To me it's crazy that we'd push high-skill people back out of the country if they'd like to stay.
It's the difference between "skepticism" and "contrarianism".

A skeptic evaluates the evidence, and believes what it tells them.

A contrarian rejects the official narrative, and works from there.
This felt like a dispassionate ramble on San Francisco's roots in 60s counterculture while also ironically offering no help to the problem of big money flowing into the Valley (and in a way, being part of the problem she identifies from the technocrats). I found it difficult to get through.
The streets in the peninsula are lined with campers and vans in varying levels of decay, but mostly functional if a bit unclean.

I've been thinking about doing a dashcam of 10 miles of El Camino Real to show the extent to people unfamiliar.
For what does it profit a city to gain tech tax revenue, yet forfeit its own society?
The University of Maryland waited 18 days to inform students of a virus
AFAIK it can't accept the $0.5bn/year government funding SFO provides the homeless because of separation between church and state.
Your local network and your existing paycheck, instead of significant expenses to relocate and then search for a job, while dealing with everyone in the new place shitting on you for moving to their location to sponge off them.
I'd associated that story with Aldi vs. Lidl. Seems the two are unrelated, other than Lidl being in the style of Aldi.
Or perhaps dark matter is just the cloak itself. It's nice an thick to provide adequate warmth
The E5 v3 is not the latest even under the old naming scheme. It is a chip from 2014. The E5 v4 "Broadwell" came out in 2016. Skylake SP came out in 2017 and Cascade Lake SP is the current SKU. The EPYC performance on that MySQL benchmark is 3 generations behind Intel.
Seems like most of the points you listed are a deterioration from the customer's perspective.
Yes I honestly have no idea what problems in our workflow chat would solve, but I can think of loads of problems it would introduce.

I have no idea how other programmers tolerate chat as a communications medium for work. Why would you prefer chat over other async mediums?
Thanks, I can hardly get my head around the fact that Apollo 11 received just 0.38 rads passing through an inner belt that can easily reach 100 MeV. For whatever this paper is worth [0], unpredictable solar activity is a major driver on coming out dead or alive as an astronaut. So manned missions are left mostly to luck?? Any details on the optimal path followed by Apollo/Falcon spaceflights or scenario analysis on solar activity impact on manned missions would be greatly appreciated

[0] Radiation Analysis for Moon and Mars Missions - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01643.pdf
Where is the efficiency in that?
Deep work is to focus as enlightenment is to meditation.

It's an asymptotic, unattainable state to strive for. You can be sure that if anyone is (humble) bragging about attaining it that they have not.