skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article criticizes Sanders' proposal for allocating a large government benefit disproportionately to the middle class. I'm criticizing the proposal for the same reason.

My point about taxes is the flip side of the same criticism. "Progressive liberals" view the upper middle class as a marginalized class that should receive government benefits, not a privileged class that should pay for them. That's why Sanders' proposed tax brackets are the same as Trump's until above $250,000.

> Income bracket Tax

Lower limit Upper limit Rate
$0 – $18,450 10%
$18,451 – $74,900 15% <--- German 42% rate starts here
$74,901 – $151,200 25%
$151,201 – $230,450 28%
$230,451 – $250,000 33%
$250,001 – $500,000 37%
$500,001 – $2,000,000 43%
$2,000,001 – $10,000,000 48%
$10,000,001 – 52%

Put differently, upper middle class "progressive liberals" only believe in a progressive system to the extent they are on the receiving end of the welfare system. So that someone who paid $100,000 for college and has a $100,000 job in New York is treated as the proper recipient of government welfare, at the expense of those above them. But taxing that guy like the privileged class, to support the people at the bottom who truly need it, is off the table.
I believe you'd need to expect significantly better results elsewhere and/or an easy transition. For somebody with a well-paying job in the US, few other countries promise an equal or better future. For somebody that struggles in the US, transition to Europe for example isn't easy, and it's not like they could reasonably expect to make a lot more money there.

Pretty much everybody from, say, Ghana, can expect to have a better life that is worth the transition in Denmark, but few Danes can expect to have a better life in Belgium that offsets the cost of moving, learning a new language and switching cultures. If European cultures were more similar to the US and there was no language barrier or bureaucratic difficulties, I'd expect more migration, similar to how people will look for greener pastures within their home country.
Except.. that's pretty much how raw images are represented. Substituting "integers" for "bytes" if you want channel resolution, or leaving integers if you have 32bit pixel depth.

https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_image.h#L120

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Surface
POTS = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service for those unfamiliar with the acronym.
> a huge repeated int32 stuffed with random numbers.

Is this not exactly the behavior you'd see if you used UUIDs as your keys? Asking honestly.
how did you do this? amazing
Elixir 1.9 Released
1 - Kids' desktop (Raspi3)
2 - Kodi (Raspi2)
3 - LAN print/automated backup server (Raspi1)

I've order a 4GB Raspi4 to upgrade the kids' desktop and 1 GB Raspi4 to upgrade the automated backup server (Gb ethernet + USB3!). Kodi will get the old kids' desktop.
It is and it isn't. The provider is still in the loop for the signalling portion and that happens to be the part that does not work. So likely all these alerts will appear after the problem has been solved.
I can't believe this. I had the same idea and I've been working on a demo. The abstract and introduction of this paper could be describing my project, verbatim.

Well, there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. This is going to shake up anything that operates on hierarchical data in passes, because traditional structure layouts have everyone doing a lot of pointer chasing. That approach got old when CPUs got fast.
Getting Started with GraphQL in React Native
Detecting Facial Manipulations in Photoshop
Haha, yeah, US banking is pretty awful in terms of ease-of-use.

I don't use Venmo myself - I'm at a point where I'd rather just pick up the check that try to split it (using any method). And let me friends pick up the next meal.
That's grounds for a GDPR complaint against TRUSTe and Forbes.

Opting in or out must not be a condition for accessing content, so a popup that covers the page is problematic. Opting out should also be as simple as opting in, not a maze of options with progress spinners.

File a complaint folks.
Tracking aircraft within radio range and feeding data to ADSB Exchange and Flightaware.
Serious dude? This article published out at science?? Do you really know about Chinese behaviors? Why should call the owner as the index? Serious again??
Waiting for the inevitable "it was contractors" cop out. I'm surprised it wasn't in this Forbes story as these events happened over a year ago; they've had plenty of time to work up the usual narrative about negligent contractors.

And so the the cycle continues. Now we'll have hearings; "it was Republican budget cuts; we need a more funding."
There's a much more tolerant attitude towards drug use, we've got a milder climate, San Francisco specifically doesn't prosecute quality of life crimes, and it's significantly harder to commit someone against their will or mandate that they continue to use psychiatric medication.

Notice the comment on this thread about how in the poor areas it was unpleasant to get lunch? That attitude carries over. Starting with the fucking super bowl there was a very dramatic effort to shoo away the homeless people from where 'super bowl city' was. The net effect was a dispersal of homeless encampments the likes of which I've never seen. Combine that with stagnating wages at the low end and rising cost of living and you have a lot more people on the streets. Make no mistake, the homeless population in the whole of the Bay Area is growing dramatically.

Meanwhile in some "street photography" (but really mostly creep shots) group a couple people have been posting pictures of indigent folks from the 90s. The difference is pretty dramatic. From a friend who works for the city -- both meth and heroin have hit San Francisco very hard. The type of people that you see on the streets these days has changed.

San Francisco is also paralyzed by extremely aggressive NIMBYs. Shelters are at capacity, but the city's efforts to build more shelters (e.g. Embarcadero) are being battled by carpetbaggers. A while back the idea of "wet houses" was floated to get addicts off the streets (where folks will call 911 and tie up a large chunk of SFFD/paramedic resources). Of course that didn't go over well with the punishment first crowd.

New York is also facing record homelessness and is actually buying property to house homeless folks — San Francisco is…
I did not intend to express agreement with the OP's stupid comment.
https://handshake.org
I dont see the reason why sw should be open source.
theres a tweet thats been blowing up among us kids/post grads

https://twitter.com/yaboyjaeb/status/1142137347456344064
That behaviors can leave genetic marks that make them transmissible to offspring
Note that although OP's parents are Turkish they say they have never lived in Turkey before, so there may have been a certain level of underestimation about various factors of living in Istanbul (which is one of the most beautiful and vibrant cities in the world IMHO.

* Traffic: For those of you who complain about SF traffic, Istanbul traffic jams has to be experienced to be believed. In addition, people drive, how to put this mildly, out of the norm. After living in the US for 20+ years, it takes me 1-2 days to get accustomed to driving there (I go back twice a year and learned to drive in Turkey)

* Salaries: Although I only have anecdata, I think the engineering salaries are not very low, e.g. compared to Europe. In the US and esp. in the SV it's relatively easy to find people who'll work for chicken feed for a while at a startup to gamble at a chance to be millionaires later. IN Turkey such exits are exceedingly rare so many young people want to play it safer (the talent is absolutely top notch, however).

* Food: This is very cheap and great. 'Nuff said.

* Rent: Rent in Istanbul, depending on the neighborhood, can be stratospheric. This plays into the traffic problem: In order to avoid traffic you want to live closer to your office (at least on the same continent!) but this can be costly.

* Other: I left off the political situation from the discussion. Depending on your leanings, this may or may not be a problem.
It's because it's saying the solution is the ephemeral voluntary charity of some billionaires to the problem of wealth concentration. It's idiotic because: a) they're never going to give away so much money as to make themselves anywhere near not the among the wealthiest humans that have ever lived. b) only the civically minding among them will do it meaning the more amoral you are about wealth the better you do under the 'charity taxes' model. Finally c) that charity is inherently unpredictable and is likely to dry up when it's needed in national coffers the most so it's nothing to build a budget on.
Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
> friendzoned

I've been where you are, and I suggest you consider that you're setting yourself up for failure through very poor internal monologue/narrative of what's going on. Dr. Nerd Love's videos [1] and blog on this and other related topics are highly recommended.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMKMG71NYI
The first is a common doctor situation in the USA. The second is a common paralegal. Both were taken from people I know.

The interest rate environment right now means that many of my high earner friends are not in a hurry to pay more than the minimum on their loans. Debt forgiveness for them will be a straight cash infusion against their net worth.

No idea what the percentage of each is.
Sold out in any of recommended stores already.
My empirical study for this is as follows:
I have 7 phones on and around my desk, of which are 3 iOS devices (4s and newer), and 4 android (4.4 and up all different manufacturers, sony, samsung, hmd, one plus brand) with different or no operator sim installed and all but the 4s got it.

I guess it is cell related in that case.

edit: the 4s was subscribed to the kpn network. Others were not or I can no longer check. Strange thing is I'm getting them first through my personal phone's second sim (vodafone, primary is t-mobile).
I was surprised to learn the suicide rates were so much higher before WWII. I suppose that's not too shocking given the events of the time, however I never see todays suicide rates noted in that context.
Did anyone figure out what to do with failing SD cards and USB keys? I gave up trying to reinstall everything on my Pi after (almost) every power loss.
(C) NYC has a right to shelter law.

Combine that with your B and you can start to see the outlines of an actual policy decision.
It was the same for me. I was in Manhattan two years ago, and I was amazed with how much worse the problem is in SF.

This was a sharp contrast to the mid 1990s, when I lived in New York. I found aggressive panhandling to be more prevalent in NY than SF then, with panhandlers following me for blocks, approaching me at the counter of coffee shops (once crowding me as I attempted to get my change from the cashier, quickly picking up it up when I dropped it, and then asking me for it while holding it away from me).

I'm always a little skeptical about anecdotes, though, as the "homeless" population, ranging from non-addicted or mentally ill people who are temporarily without housing to severely addicted and mentally ill people engaging in criminal level harassment of people, often clusters in a few neighborhoods in a city, sometimes at the outskirts.

I met a man from Paris who refused to agree that San Francisco has a worse problem than Paris. He said that he believes that in Paris, the severe poverty is pushed out to the edges of the city. I don't know if this is true, or if he didn't want to criticize too much, but it is an interesting observation, at any rate.
Yes, access to the base stations in the network still goes through the provider and apparently that is the layer that has problems with interfacing to the outside world. Intra KPN traffic works just fine, including SMS.
Apples and oranges. Most of those things aren't fungible like money is. There's no moral hazard involved with someone receiving a new elective surgery. There's no opportunity cost to someone not receiving a non-existent vaccine.

GI bill is a disingenuous comparison because those people made pretty tremendous personal sacrifices in service of the country.
There are a wide variety of taller bottle designs used. Nalgene-style plastic bottles, blender bottles, and other flip-lid bottles are very popular here. The new refill stations accommodate all of those.

I'm not sure I've ever seen the design you're referring to. And "canteen" style bottles are impractically shaped for existing infrastructure like cup-holders, etc. Maybe not crucial things, but definitely finicky.

The idea being keeping the barrier of entry as low as possible for people who are otherwise probably more resistant to the conditions you outlined.
Listened to a Gavin Newsom interview a while back, where he had some pretty decent insight.

The interviewer challenged him on the homeless problem in SF. His answer was basically, "Yes, there are homeless people in SF now. The challenge is that during my tenure as mayor, we got people off the streets, but X x 2 homeless people came to SF from other places."

Newsom was far from blameless, but his point that homelessness in SF can't be solved on a SF level, or a bay-area level or possibly even a state-wide level, but needs a more global solution rings true to me.
Absolutely this.

I’m still one of those who think that what Volkswagen did wasn’t cheating anything. They basically “studied for the test” in order to pas it.
Consider what does it mean to be rich? Rich is when you can afford the necessities of life: Shelter, food, water, transportation, medical insurance. Rich does not mean having lots of Money (just look at venezuella where they were handing out trillion dollar bills but everyone was extremely poor). SF has a lot of money and dollars but it is NOT Rich. Yes, if some of the residents left SF they'd be rich, but not while they remain there and certainly not the average person in SF. We have a serious lack of wealth problem here in SF and it's all directly or indirectly caused by the housing crisis. Throwing more money at it won't solve the issue, you need more actual "wealth". Wealth is not dollar bills. Wealth is houses, apartments, etc, that's what we need so desperately and it's not being allowed. SF really needs to take a good long hard look at why building costs so much in this city. Why do developers need to spend 1000$/sq ft just to break even? SF needs to start learning from other cities that have done it right, like Houston (building here costs less than 1/10th as much), Dallas, Chicago, etc. And, no it's not just because SF is landlocked - we have the same self imposed problem over here in the east bay where there's miles and miles of empty space right off the 7 lane highways.
This is expected. Any manual work will have errors and lots of them. If you want a system to be robust, you have to engineer it in a way it stops working if one of the prerequisites aren't satisfied. It's costly but there's no way around it afaict.

In this case, you wouldn't allow a device to access any information on the network without a proper certificate. The public systems need to learn from private companies in this regard.
Hi, all. Thanks for the upvotes. This little demo is something I created in 2015 because my then-girlfriend liked to play point-and-click games, and she had an idea for one. The idea never got off the ground, but at least I got a fun portfolio piece out of it.
I actually wrote a much longer reply that I was going to post, but maybe it's easier if I just give you the point you are looking for.

I don't want an open exchange of ideas.

I think that the Republican party is a cancer on the body politic. I grew up in an almost 100% R state. You won't change my mind. I'm not a Democrat because I like them. I'm a Democrat because I hate the Republican party.

We aren't going to agree to disagree. We are in opposition to one another. That's just life.

Can we stop now? Go ahead and say something clever back. You can have the last word.
A photo app that takes out every human from the picture
You're really ignorant and terrible. Would you please go away with your prejudice against China? Can any idiot be a "scholar" now? Do you know how many people can be misled by an article like yours that doesn't have a scientific basis?
You might not have it enabled? Do you have a recent Android/iOS device?
I am a voluntary youth minister at a local low-to-middle class church in Mexico so I have a lot of contact with adolescents (Which is unusual because I'm married, almost 40 and have no kids of my own). And what I've seen is that it has become cool or fashonable to be depressed, anxious and to have some mild mental disorder like TOC or ADHD. Kids "brag" about it on social media and sometimes discuss who is more miserable and make fun on people who are "wholesome" or "happy" as being shallow. They constantly make jokes about being worthless and wanting to die and being secretly sad (even when they are broadcasting it on the internet).

I'm not saying that they are faking it, and I know their lives look significantly shittier than mine at their age and the future looks bleak for most, but I have a theory that when it becomes viral some people try to act depressed and end up being depressed for real. Like, when I was adolescent I knew a lot of girls with eating disorders (bulimia/anorexia) in my immediate circle (before social media) but I don't think I know anybody with those problems today, because having those issues became uncool, now you have others to pick from.

So yes, what I'm trying to say is that I had paralyzing social anxiety before it was cool.
What was wrong with transferwise out of interest?
Neither hardware IMHO.

Unless, you could somehow prevent competitors from stealing I+D. Which you can't. So closed source it is (that makes things harder for competitors).
Stunning Visualizations of Gold Shows Its Rarity
But Google switched to OpenJDK a while ago, and since that has become the reference Java implementation, how could Java be monetized nowadays for mobile devices?
Ignoring the politics behind this article, it still has a point in how fake, scripted posts alter the global conversation.
I care about 2 seconds.

Tech should be instant. 100ms is near enough instant in my book. Anything more is sub-par. It's wasting human time and attention. It's slowing people down from doing what they want to do.

Imagine pages loaded in 100ms. You could flick through them by holding down a key like scrubbing through a video for a scene you like. You could eliminate tabs in a browser because there's no need to have many open at once when you can switch to any webpage with no delay. Think about it - tabs are simply a crutch to have a small set of webpages ready-loaded and quick to switch to! Thats how badly we need instant load webpages - we have invented workarounds!

Just because people have become normalized to something taking too long isn't a reason to not strive to make it better.
Are those on KPN? If so then that is interesting, if not then that is pretty much in line with the article. SMS and voice traffic within the KPN network is just fine, going outside or dialing in is not working and SMS traffic from the outside in also does not work (so far).

No SIM is only interesting in sofar as those phones have attached themselves to the KPN network, they could choose any network for emergency services.
I run a Newsreader server. It collects news from many hundreds of places and at any time offers a beautiful timeline view for all my screen devices: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2381...
NYC gets cold in the winter, which helps to manage the problem somewhat as a forced migration occurs. The west coast doesn’t get very cold in the winter, meaning Seattle, Portland, Sam Francisco, LA, and San Diego are all nice places climate wise for homeless year round.
That's not an unreasonable view, but there's a big problem with how people measure the value of experience. The value of a younger programmer's work is relatively easy to measure. Not quite lines of code, but something reasonably close to it. As one's focus shifts - e.g. organizing, mentoring others, guiding technology choices, flagging code that works now but will break next year - those results become harder to measure. Just because it's harder to measure doesn't mean it's less, but that's a common kind of error. Under-valuing the contributions typical of older workers vs. those typical of younger workers is still ageism, but of a less conscious sort. As with most kinds of discrimination, people don't usually discriminate in a direct way. They do it with their assumptions, priorities, and assignment of value which just happen to produce disparate (but "rational") outcomes.

Note: I'm not saying that older workers (I'm 54) deserve everything they get. There definitely are and have always been some older laurel-sitters whose friends pay them more than they should, and I was acutely aware of that when I myself was younger. I'm just saying "but they don't give proportional value" is often less true than people think.
> 2.) A general laissez-faire attitude toward the homeless. [...] There's widespread opposition to criminalizing homelessness and say arresting or tazing homeless people.

I want to point out that it is a departure from laissez-faire to criminalise, arrest, and taze the homeless, but another conceivable departure from laissez-faire is to house them.

EDIT to clarify.
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Yeah, because Sun never did wrong stuff and everyone was queuing up to buy it.
Were this similarly true for management types I would be more likely to accept it, but the people with the cash pay themselves first.

Also, my generation was screwed out of future wages by offshoring and the incredible number of H1Bs that were brought in to accomplish that very thing: Kill our earning power.

ETA: Outside if SV, there's nobody I know making 200K as a developer. NO ONE. We're all fixed in that 130-150 range and there we will remain until we either start an S Corp to grab a few more pennies in front of the steamroller or we smarten up, get out of tech, and do something totally different in our lives.
This is absolutely fascinating to me. Is there any hypothesis as to why this is?

I think its a damn shame where the conversation on depression is going. Depression is tested and diagnosed by a questionnaire (presumably well-designed, with redundancies to make it robust). Antidepressants are serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a drug inspired by a monoamine hypothesis now discarded. We still prescribe them because they modestly lower the score on an observer rating scale better than placebo. If you take an SSRI, it should be bioavailable instantly! Why does depression take months to recover from?

With this all said, all severely depressed people should get medical treatment; moderately depressed people should consider trying it. I also don't want to strawman medicine, science or psychiatry, and claim that they think we are serotonin vessels. They acknowledge all the stuff I said above. I just don't know if its communicated to the layman or the media, especially when we see horrendous, exponentially growing rates like this.
"intense academics stole my childhood and didn't have the value that the adults believe they have"

Exactly right. We put people on the moon and we did it without grinding 8 year olds with hours and hours of homework.

These parents are absolutely relentless on their kids. It's a really sad expression of 'keep up with Joneses'.
> Sorry it's a bit complicated; turns out that funding opensource is not trivial...

You explained it well, and you're definitely correct. Appreciate your time! I look forward to being able to buy a tiny (ie 2 or 3 person) slice of Modular.im :)