skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I genuinely don’t see the homelessness problem as being caused by policy, but by lack of it: California has perhaps one of the largest safety nets of any state in the US, and it is saving a lot of people who have fallen on their luck — by design.

The problem is that California, at all levels of government, refuses to fix its core issue: Housing, and the cost of living at a level to hold onto that house, is Too High. Ever notice how California is willing to try anything and everything to fix its homelessness crisis except intervene in the housing market in a meaningful way? In my view, California’s legislation in its current state is a band-aid, not a cure. But a band-aid is (temporarily) better than nothing.

Ultimately the free market (* I’ll concede an argument may be made that housing is not a truly free market, since municipalities have created strict zoning legislation to favor homeowners, but my point still stands), directly and indirectly, has failed everyone looking to build a permanent home and life in California (unless your definition of “success” includes a large population unable to afford a home where they live).

I’d imagine that without these “social programs, socialism, ... social justice policy” there would be many more homeless people than there currently are.
>I wrote technical books through traditional publishers, and one reason I can tell is that they do some of the difficult parts of the process, which I consider extremely boring: proofreading, formatting, book cover, indexing.

You can hire people to do all that -- if you expect to sell your self-published book, and still make more profits than with a publisher.
> In fact, this chart understates how badly things have gone for millennials, because it shows incomes before housing costs.

No, it does not, because the chart is weighted with CPI, which contains the housing cost. According to that chart, the millenials have the best living standards, but I seriously question the quality of the source, where the young adults take-home salary is above £15K, UK-wide.
"Do you have evidence for this?"

If anyone of us had evidence of this the cat would be already out of the bag, so unfortunately I don't.
There is however evidence that selection is deeply flawed, so I wonder why the same criteria that would have me sacked in no time by any company HR department if I behaved as such can't apply there. Racist violent people aren't usually that smart at hiding it, I know some of them and usually 30 minutes of chit chat is more than enough to expose their ideologies and how wrong would be to give them that power.
This is the big way for p-value science to fail, even if every actor is honest. It's obvious once you understand what a p-value is (it literally takes 5 seconds to understand) but nearly nobody does. Even people I've worked with at a FAANG, which you'd expect have an above average understanding of mathematics.

https://xkcd.com/882/

P values don't work at all if there's a lot of people working in a field!
Lunch with the FT: Laura Deming
True enough, but i’ve made a home and a life here, and my niche is small enough that network effects matter a great deal.
Then they can buy a commercial license and need not touch any LGPL software.
Rendeting is done in WebKit [on macOS], that’s correct.

But it’s already a lot more than a “Webkit shell”, e. g. see https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/blob/master/source/re...
Creative Commons themselves say that CC licenses (outside CC0) are not designed and not recommended for software.
Throwaway to avoid being identified.

In my company our product person was working remotely. For a short stint he was elevated to head of engineering, even though he had absolutely no idea about how engineers work. It was around that time that he presented the idea of a webcam pointed at us with open audio all day, so that he could be in the loop.

We quickly shot down that idea, together with his recommendation to "have trello constantly open in one of our monitors".

During his stint the complete engineering team including me practically evaporated, only one or two people stayed on... He's still going on, as he's friends with the CEO.

This anecdote is probably a bit off topic to the article as this was not for "security", but it goes to show how many people are so open to the idea of cameras to solve their little problems.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar or generic tangents. Such discussions get more repetitive as they get more intense, leading to the worst combination for discussion here: indignation plus predictability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doesn't handle well is not equivalent to "is uncontrollable", though.
The Switch has the standard number of buttons for a home console: four face, a D-Pad, two clickable sticks, Select and Start or their equivalents, and two shoulder triggers per side. Much of the escalation in number of buttons was done by Nintendo itself: the SNES was the first to have four face buttons and two shoulder buttons (Sony would follow up by adding two more shoulder buttons), and the N64 was the first console to feature both an analog stick and a d-pad (Sony would follow up by adding another stick). The current standard is right in the happy medium: enough buttons to enable a variety of actions beyond, say, "attack" and "jump", but not enough to overwhelm and confuse the player in the heat of play. Plus, the Switch controller can be broken into two, each allowing SNES levels of control for impromptu multiplayer play. So if it seems like there are too many buttons at times, it's because of games that deliberately use fewer buttons to take advantage of different play modes with the Joy-Con.
Yeah, I totally agree that eval + search is the first step to learn, in terms of overall structure. And this includes lots of important concepts like quiescence search etc. I just think it's worth being honest: you either need really good eval or really fast search just to give _yourself_ a good game.
They work great for first-party networks like Facebook and Google. They just don't pay out well for 3rd-party publishers.
http://archive.is/xL5FA
Right, the math is the same. We face this in physics all the time. You drop a ball and it accelerates downward. Should the distance it covers be a negative number? Well, it seems linear distance should be positive, but if it is, then does down become positive? Shouldn't up be positive? Or do we reverse from end-minus-start and make it start-minus-end?

It doesn't matter. The math is all the same with just different labeling conventions.

For the general physics of electric charges, the convention that a proton is +1 and electron is -1 is somewhat useful as a reminder of the larger range of phenomena: protons carry charge, too, and a movement of positively charged molecules makes the charge carriers and current move in the same direction.

But as soon as you start working with practical, artificial electrical circuits (as opposed to, say, neurons), the electron-is-negative is a nuisance, because the charge carriers are almost always simple electrons. To visualize "stuff" moving one way, you have to visualize "other stuff" moving the opposite direction. You have to keep thinking that when you add more you get less. Visualization of electric/electronic technology would have been a lot more convenient if the convention had been that electrons were positive, protons negative.
They did this a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOF_2eM4aKM
The redesign did not make the aircraft unstable. I don't know how this became such a meme, but it's trivial to see that it's not true. Commercial passenger aircraft must be aerodynamically stable by FAA regulation: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=14:1.0.1.3.11#se1...

The engine change really wasn't a big deal. The net effect is "flight stick feels lighter at high AoA with high thrust." That's it. My understanding is that the 737-MAX flys more like a 757 in this regard. Nothing crazy, just a difference.

Now, that's enough to require re-certification by FAA standards, because it's enough of a difference that it could cause problems of pilot error. But going on like the aircraft wants to fall out of the sky isn't helping anyone here.

MCAS was intended to be a small tweak that avoids the re-cert. And it would have been fine if they had neutered the system such that it couldn't input such extreme trim angles, or else has more reliability as needed in a system that could have such dramatic effects when malfunctioning.
I mean sure, for the specific case of storing financial reports in s3, you have a technical solution that works. My point still stands for abhorrent monopoly behavior of some US corps outside of the US.

Amazon did not get where it is by being nice (in fact, this HN post is about that aspect of their behavior). They're rational, they will abide by all laws _where they need to_, including regulations (you can't call in favors all the time). Without regulations, this behavior is incentivized. Even with regulations, there is an ultimate get out of free card if the regulation is non-American.
Companies that focus on online gambling, for example, would not be better off with a centralized database. To my knowledge, there used to be no way for someone engaging in online gambling to verify that the game is using honest odds. With Ethereum smart contracts, they can see exactly what code is being executes.
Step one would be acknowledging that a proactive solution is ok. the current policy seems to be almost 100% reactive damage control, i.e. providing food, shelter, medical care to the homeless and attempting to clean up after them without displacing them at all.
I talk with the homeless in my neighborhood all the time. I've not met one over 30 who didn't have severe mental or physical illness. Those who call it a housing problem are confusing you. This is a public health crisis in the states where the authorities have no authority to help those who can't help themselves
Please don't post flamebait rants or make up groundless allegations here.
I wonder if they would be upset if someone had multiple email addresses that they forgot over the last 5 years. I made one for my raspberry pi and I forget it. I made one to sign up for something I forget what but also forget that email. I had one I used for things like dating sites and I used it quite a bit on the web now suddenly I can not get back into it and forgot the password and made up fake details when creating it. I think I made a proton mail but if I can't find the paper I wrote the password on I have no clue even what my handle was. The US was a place I grew up dreaming about. Now it feels hostile it makes me nervous even thinking of just visiting.
Well the data here is also small and suspect. They need to separate mobile browsers and GDPR/EU regions that aren't available for OBA targeting anyway.

That's why I said scale (reach + cookies) is the fundamental problem.
Using Kustomize for Kubernetes Deployment
New way to build tiny neural networks could create powerful AI on your phone
Electronic Arts “Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment” Patent [pdf]
Amen to this. In fact, I tell people that if they're interested in writing a book they shouldn't be asking themselves "Should I write a book?", they should be thinking: "I have 18 months of free time. What could I do with it?"

That's a lot of free time. You could:

- Learn a musical instrument pretty well.
- Learn a sport and get pretty good at it.
- Become a major committer on a large open source project.
- Pick up a foreign language and achieve proficiency.
- Make a lot of money on the side.
- Go back to school and get a degree.
- Concentrate on your social life.
- Write a book.

If after considering these, you decide that writing a book is the best use of your time, go for it. Think of the money as a nice bonus.
> i stopped reading there

Ironically, if you had actually read the post you might have understood that it does.
There are several studies and pilot programs that show that reliable housing is a key component in recovery of homeless people with mental health issues. Conveniently, providing it also solves the homeless problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20056864
Targeting a subset, i.e. the "document-centric web" (no JS, only basic HTML and CSS), is not that difficult in comparison and has been done by a few others; the most prominent of these "second tier" browsers being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetSurf .

Of course, writing a text-based browser in Lisp or any other language is far simpler but also less practical.
Oversight how? If they’re not supposed to have certain recordings, why would they then admit to having them when you ask?
There is not insubstantial evidence that authoritarian countries monitor coverage of their governments, so at least one part of the claim is correct.

The other part is probably nonsense though—I see and post criticism of China very frequently.
The natural reflex in the US is to scream "Democrat" or "Republican" as the supposed root cause of every problem.

This is just rooting for your favorite team and it doesn't illuminate what policies work or don't work.

A better way would be to survey the cities of the world, measure crime and homelessness, and systematically identify the policies that consistently deliver better results.
I don’t know which city is worse, SF or LA, but at least in recent weeks/months SF OK’d construction of a new shelter along the Embarcadero despite money and outcries from nearby condo owners.

I still don’t know what the solution is to address the mental health aspect of homelessness. It’s disturbing seeing disheveled people scream at the top of their lungs in the middle of FiDi after work and no one batting an eye.
If they are replaced simultaneously the chance of them simultaneously not working the next take off is non negligible.
Article describes many more problems than the homeless, such as rampant illegal street dumping done by businesses and residents, unchecked rodent population and used needles littered everywhere which are definitely things a city mayor could do something about.
Is there a state in the US that is more diverse (geography, economy, etc)? I wonder how much that complicates things.

You can drive north for nearly 8 hours from San Diego and still be in the state. You’ll go from inner city to cow pastures and onion fields and back again.
Sure, but the whole point is that the parties choosing to adopt "Source Available" licenses are doing so because they failed to predict how their users would use and profit from it, and in response, are wanting a new arrangement that better benefits them. So in some sense, we know ahead of time that this is a group which has been upset by unexpected use of their software. Now they've created a license that specifically gives them the benefit of the doubt in such scenarios in the future (vs. MIT which gives that benefit of the doubt to the user). As such, I as a user would be entering into an agreement that specifically is weighted against me in a case that has happened before, with a party that has shown in the past to want to change the rules when they felt they were not being sufficiently compensated. This makes me feel significantly less safe without the presence of a lawyer than with a license that has lots and lots of example usage. Would you say that's fair?
I'm persuaded. Sorry!
[Fade to the regular Stallman Was Right opening credits. Theme tune plays.]
It looks like it might be a lot more physically strenuous than walking, and in that case, I can jog for free.
Why even bother including 18-22 year olds? Almost all of them have zero to negative net worth.
It's not just you. I really couldn't follow it either.
I might be dreaming but I would love for people to be more concerned about what’s right, not who’s right.
It can be both. Unsupported disability is a major cause of homelessness, but simply not being able to pay your bills can happen to anyone.

People who live on the streets are more likely to become sick or traumatized, and sick people are more likely to recover if they've got somewhere safe and warm to sleep. It's not as simple as a single root cause.
As a contracting data point, I’m still using my out of the box lightning cable of my iPhone 5 to charge my iPhone X. That cable is over 6 years old now and it did not break, stray or lost is reliability in any way.

Maybe they forgot to add the secret sauce to my copy, who knows.

P.S.: My iPhone 5s lightning port is also good as new. Just needs an occasional grime removal with a wooden toothpick.
I'm sure listening more to Stallman would have helped AGPL-licensed MongoDB avoid all this.
I'm sorry if I offended you Daniel.
I offer my sincere apologies as I've seen the good work you do here and know your job is not easy.
That being said I'd also like to add that these parasite corporations who keep pushing the
envelope in regards to maximizing profits due to tracking thier users 24 hours a day
It just needs to stop
I'm sorry if I touched nerve but this needs to be said.
I'm not going to say millions of ppl are worried about this.
I will say that I'm old enough to have followed Google from thier early days( And yes I made a bundle on thier stocks in the 2ktens)
It's a whole new world now.
Google is behaving like a parasite by hoovering up every single data point that they can,and yes it's legal and within thier ToS to do this - it's bad.
It's probably evil.
We could go on and on About it( how they destroy every single thing they touchit-And yes you can call me a hippocrate for using a Gmail Address and I accept your criticism( it's not my only one.
Daniel if you have to shut me down again because I've pinched another nerve,so be it-
I went through the visa application process for the US. Could you give an example of a more intrusive question?
> I call this “going up the rabbit hole.”

I just call it "posting on Stack Overflow"
The term AI is not very clearly defined so different people use it in different ways.
A lot of people has been mislead (by some propaganda) to think that "permissive" licenses would be enough to build a collaborative ecosystem.

Now they are starting to realize they were naive.
Time-Lapse Video of Earth from ISS
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Discl.: founder here.
This is an interesting take. I think the nuance here is that we're talking about very disparate industries. Blue collar work may benefit from such kind of monitoring, while white collar work may not (maybe it does, I don't have an opinion).
As long as a display works by shining a light through something I’ll prefer dark mode, staring into a lamp for 8-10 hours a day is just unpleasant.

I already have the gamma turned way down on my screens, redshirt installed and make sure the scene behind the monitor is well lit all of which help but a good dark code theme (gruvbox usually) makes all the difference.
The International Court of Arbitration already existed, and there were other such courts even earlier.

It may well be the case that this was never intended as a formal contract, but I am responding to the assertion that there was no way for it to be. I stand by the claim: the issue is authority/power, not the necessary legal means.
This is clickbait. Save your time: Moulding company models a dummy non-working macbook air case to showcase their technology at Computex. That's it.
+1 for 27b.6
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https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/508320e9cb732a053edd

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/65ff7cc262444447fbe6

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/bd2042c44b0bc666c13e

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/a428276d727111eb7e4d

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/6d05bda544e50a8da65f

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/a798b5db0ab33d4d76d9

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/0b0083925bc0b8a5fe13

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/298c4812853bbdca7bb6

https://qiita.com/joshua-vs-ruiz-boxing-live/items/4eaa297ad23a937a370c

https://qiita.com/Ruiz-Joshua-Live/items/ee76ed798bf884f3f1ba

https://qiita.com/Ruiz-Joshua-Live/items/c7743845d17c3def78cb

https://www.reddit.com/live/131thfmu29dq8/

https://www.reddit.com/live/131thrryfxwsn/
Live coding an assembler for CP/M
From the abstract:

“Statistically significant results were more likely than nonsignificant findings to be published in the study abstract than in only the full text (P < 0.0001).“
Bicycle helmets – To wear or not to wear? A meta-analyses on injuries (2018)
Expectation of privacy does not depend on you getting used to it. A workplace can be monitored by the business that's paying for it and is a good idea to reduce risk and litigation.

Nobody cares about a few personal tasks at work but it's important to have video evidence when something serious occurs. And yes there are false harassment claims, and having even a single case avoided because of footage is worth it for both the person and company involved.
I don't think it's racism, but I've seen people argue that since over 90% of China is a single ethnicity, there isn't a difference between refusing to do business with China, and refusing to do business with Chinese people. It seems like mental gymnastics to me, but it often feels like anti-China actions are confused with anti-Chinese actions.
Caltech is often ranked as one of the world’s top-ten universities, according to Wikipedia. It’s really strong in research and the pure sciences, which might have been what drew Feynman and Gell-Mann. (Note also that Caltech has the highest per-capita number of associated Nobel laureates in the world.)

(Disclaimer: I’m a current Caltech undergrad and am thus biased :-)).
I wish the problematic policies weren't perpetuated almost exclusively by one party, because then I wouldn't sound so partisan.

Opposition to laws and policies that set boundaries on the behaviour of drug addicts, like anti-vagrancy laws and forced rebab, comes only from Democrats.

Empowering public sector unions that make public servants less accountable and government less effective is promoted primarily by Democrats.

The creation of clusters of social housing that creates crime-ridden neighbourhoods that perpetuate anti-social and lawless behaviour, as well as government dependency, is done exclusively by registered Democrats.

Look at major cities with severe trash/homelessness problems, and how many of them are run by Democrats. In the short-term, a lot of Democrat policies help the people they set out to help. In the long run, they create government dependency and ghettos, and that harms far more people.

If you want law and order, Republicans are the party to vote for. The longer this reality is denied for political correctness reasons, the stronger the populist right-wing political backlash will be when it comes.
Is this one of the very (very) few cases where blockchain could actually make sense? It sounds like you just need some central store to get (cryptographically verifiable, with revision history) metadata.
Those who stick around are driving more than occasionally. The "vast majority" of those buying into this "gig economy" bullshit only last a few months at most.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/06/uber-fails-to...

Low wages correspond to a high turnover rate. While more than 800,000 people drive for Uber in a year, the average driver lasts around three months and drives less than half time, or only 17 hours per week.
I think the writer understands business in general. His main point is that Uber may have innovated in small ways but they failed to innovate in a way that solves the major problems of making a profit in the transport business
At least you aren't referencing the Twilight Bark from 101 Dalmatians - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-DW-2bq2U.