skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that the biggest problems for the visibly homeless are mental illness and substance abuse.

I think there's some reasonable evidence that housing first approaches are extremely helpful in addressing both mental illness and substance abuse.

Housing creates an opportunity for both stability and routine, which are incredibly important for getting help and treatment for mental illness and substance abuse.

I don't think the evidence is 100% conclusive yet, but I don't think a housing first approach can absolutely be helpful for both populations (but for different reasons!).

I do think it makes sense to think about both of these populations, because they definitely don't have the all of the same needs. Pretty much everyone needs shelter and at least a small place to safety store items.
> and I have no idea why there hasn’t been a movie made about him.

because hollywood would never tell a tale that shows the founding fathers as being pro-slavery.

Reparations is still a hot topic in the US.
A sort of paid-worker panopticon situation is how I see it. I did the cube farm thing back when I worked for UUNet, and it sucked. Everyone talking, prairie dogging talking to the guy in the next cube, people farting out loud, the stinky food, the phone conversations of the admin next to you trying to work out some awful multi-spoke VPN issue with a distant office, cursing all the while and everyone within earshot hearing it. Not a good scene. One of the senior admins got a talking to for one night on his shift printed out name tags with "Winston Smith" and taping them over the 90 cubes in the office.
I guess it depends.

Compared to React, Hyperdom:

- does not require any state management beyond regular javascript

- is fast

- has a built-in router

- has input bindings

- has a small, concise API

is 9k gzipped

As for Mithril, there is a great write up that goes into a detailed comparison on their website - https://mithril.js.org/framework-comparison.html#react. One thing stood out for me personally - and it's true for both frameworks - it's pragmatic. There is just not much to it. There is just not much to building SPAs as React might make you think.

On the other hand, React has a massive community and a whole lot of complimentary projects that solve all sorts of problems - I am thinking of styled components for instance - and so perhaps, from that point of view, React is rather pragmatic.
I meant no disrespect, I'm/was curious to know about your experience with windows. Personally I use linux distros 95% of the time and notice a significant increase in battery life and decrease in ram/cpu utilization compared to when using windows on the same system. ~8Gb (or more) vs 2.4Gb for the ram and 80% cpu utilization vs 10-15%. I'm curious how much of that difference is the background processes installing candy crush etc. But good on you if your system meets your use case and what not.

edit: clarify utilization I've experienced is cpu
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Nah, smartphones have much better data logging especially with ML sensor fusion.
They are far worse than Fox news, because at least you know what you're getting with Fox. Sinclair uses local branding and trusted voices to sell propaganda.
"Somewhere between Hospital and Jail" was supposed to exist. When mental institutions were essentially dismantled in the 70s and 80s, the promise was to move towards a more community-oriented system of specialized housing, counseling, and in-and-out-of-home mental care.

To the surprise of no one who knew better, funding for those initiatives was never put to those uses, and instead was funneled into law enforcement activities. When we treat mental health and drug addiction as criminal matters instead of public health matters, we get the sorts of outcomes we are seeing today.
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This is a really simple problem that for some reason Americans just can't get their heads around.

We have eliminated virtually every government intervention besides police power. We have also seen our social institutions significantly divest their social contributions.

Therefore the criminal justice system has become the catch all. It is expected to handle the mentally ill, the homeless, the drug addicted, problematic families, neighborhood disputes and more.

Every now and then, we see the consequences of that divestiture and it shocks us. We see people who only really need mentorship, medical care or friendship being treated like hardened criminals and we see how that treatment corrupts these people with otherwise fairly socially benign failings.

So we pull back on the leash of the criminal justice system. These people begin to rejoin our society but with no assets, no standing, little to no mental healthcare. And unsurprisingly this influx of invested citizens gets people's attention. And regardless of whether crime genuinely increases these people are newly visible and easy to associate with any anecdote of crime and violence.

So people predictably turn against them and against the pull back. But to fix this problem you have to do two things Americans are loath to do. You must tax and spend money to build institutions that are not police. And you must give those institutions some power to intervene sometimes against the will of those they are intervening with. And I have no illusions. Involuntary commitment to mental health care and drug treatment and community involvement are often ugly but Americans make it clear over and over that even though vagrants and homeless are generally not a problem that much affects those other than the vagrants and homeless themselves we will never collectively tolerate their presence.

The options seem to be building institutions to specialize in the assistance and care of these people or continue to use one monolithic system and continue this cycle.
I see this sentiment a lot, but you’re ignoring that electric motors are much more efficient and we’re therefore operating in the «this barely viable» regime with EVs and batteries.

These two factors mean that many small, single-digit percentage improvements caused by better optimization and equipment integraton will yield a double-digit improvement in vehicle performance.

This is readily evident in BMW, Audi and Jaguar’s current inability to compete with Tesla on price and performance in their EVs. Add to this the growing role that software plays in cars, which is very hard to do right unless you make a very focused effort.

My strong suspicion is that a «we will build this from commodity parts» approach is obsolete for a couple of decades, until general battery pack cost & performance is multiplied from today. And for software, until someone makes the Android of automotive software, if anyone will ever have an incentive and ability (pending manufacturer cooperation) to do that.
Using a throwaway account to not get ourselves cut off too..

I run a website in a different industry but the danger of being cut off from the api feeds we need to provide our product is a threat we fear every day. We work hard to comply with all regulations but this often means these other much larger companies can whenever they decide to change their minds force us to change things on our website else cut us off completely.

I guess it's the nature of the business when you build something as an extension to something else and do it so well that you become a threat, but still I feel for Relive. We're basically building and market testing a product for free for the "parent" company and if it does too good it's really in their best interest to kill the little guy off and make it their own sadly much of the time. :(

Edit: We can also confirm "ghosting" is a real thing. Typically the larger companies refuse to have conversations with us because they know they're being a bully and a human connection will make them feel bad.
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Hemp gives you all those things and grows extremely well hydroponically.
Or better yet, just a URL that collects a ton of telemetry. In most cases, their curiousity will win out and you can get browser/platform/ip address details that might help suss out the attacker.

I'll do this with a simple PHP page that records everything useful from $_ENV and $_REQUEST.

Bonus: it's legal.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.environment...

https://www.php.net/phpinfo
That narrative of the post-PC world collapsed when the sales of tablets like iPads collapsed.
> But the problem is those workout files are actually your data.

I'm a long-time fan of DC Rainmaker, but here he is just wrong. Once you put that data into Strava, it's not yours anymore.

This is the fundamental conflict with all of these services: your data doesn't belong to you, it belongs to them.

You can argue all day that it shouldn't be that way, but Strava pays to host the data, to store it in perpetuity, to (theoretically) keep it secure, and to enable API integrations that cost bandwidth. And you don't pay for it. Not with cash money anyway. You pay by surrendering your right to use your data as you see fit.

Edit for my downvoters: I agree that this state of affairs is messed up. I'm just noting the reality of how these services operate.
Guess who's on the board of the Linux Foundation?
Agreed, most "cloud" software slowly try to lock you in, only to lose it in a few years when they get sold, or shut shop, or don't get the next round of funding.

It's a pain, and I now wish we just have internet connected hard drives where we can save whatever we want.
I have no personal experience with mental illness, but judging by your story it seems that part of the problem was your sister's lack of willingness to seek help. Most health insurance plans cover some kind of mental health services, but the afflicted person must actively seek out such help. Compare this with a broken leg: if I stepped wrong off the curb and broke my leg, I'd be in in pain and clearly unable to walk. I would call 911 and have them pick me up, take me to a hospital, patch me up, etc. The system to make all of that happen is there.

It would appear that mentally ill individuals are unable to seek help. Is it not the case that psychiatrists and mental hospitals exist and are covered by health insurance? It seems unfair to point the finger only at the system without acknowledging that helpers can't help without explicit consent on the part of the person being helped, or without some legal means by which they can be coerced to accept help.
Wasn't it one of Methodius' students that created Cyrillic though? When and why was there a void? Maybe I am misunderstanding you comment though?
If you're willing to commit to the Garmin ecosystem (fitness trackers, bike computers, sensors) then it can track (almost) all workout data across multiple devices. They've been around for years and probably aren't going anywhere. The down side is that their device firmware QA is rather weak and updates often introduce new defects.
The Samsung Galaxy J7 and Moto E5 Play (both free under 24 month commitment on T-Mobile) have removable batteries.
Linux machines are fantastic if you don't need to use commercial software for things like graphics, as many web-focused developers do.
That's what I'm trying to understand, it was an honest question.

So, who does need to be provided with a copy? Just the 'administrators', the people using it to send email?

What about if I modify it and repackage it as monklist or whatever, and charge people to use it. I must give them the source code for listmonk too, and, since another requirement is same licence, the source for my modified version? i.e. monklist couldn't be closed source, but myapp that happens to use listmonk unmodified for sending emails can be?
That doesn't have to be a backdoor. Remember the wave of bugs caused by hardcoded secrets in Cisco hardware?

Might just be some leftover debugging account or for service.
What news sources would you recommend that are not propaganda in your view?
So why use a third party API in the first place? For something like Strava, what makes their API so much better than say, OpenStreetMap (or any similar free dataset) that anything else would be unusable?

And if no free dataset exists, why not create one? Rally the competition and the community for a free dataset that benefits everyone, and sell the product on top of it.
I'd really recommend anyone doing mildly numerical / data-ey work in python to give Julia a patient and fair try.

I think the language is really solidly designed, and gives you ridiculously more power AND productivity than python for a whole range of workloads. There are of course issues, but even in the short time I've been following & using the language these are being rapidly addressed. In particular: generally less rich system of libraries (but some Julia libraries are state of the art across all languages, mainly due to easy metaprogramming and multiple dispatch) + generally slow compile times (but this is improving rapidly with caching etc). I would also note that you often don't really need as many "libraries" as you do in python or R, since you can typically just write down the code you want to write, rather than being forced to find a library that wraps a C/C++ implementation like in python/r.
Let me ask you this question differently: lets say you are exploring a new market opportunity for the an exciting product you want to build. Would you rather spend cycles building what AWS has done already and thus delay speed to market or would you rather use what has already been done by AWS managed services and build what nobody has done before? Surely, this architecture will evolve over time, but it will only evolve as the startup quickly discovers what the market needs.
Note: Golang's stdlib regexp (https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/) is guaranteed to run in time linear to the size of input. Russ Cox has a detailed article https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
> still a single point of failure. What if they have data loss? What if that data loss causes local data to be lost due to a sync operation?

Local data should be backed up as always, don’t rely on a cloud service to sync.

Personally I use two hard drives on my machine with time machine and regularly rotate them to ensure I have a recent backup and a less recent, network disconnected backup in case something like this should happen.
Oh gotcha! Sorry, posted that somewhat late at night for me haha.

Did you use Tuya's API to control the smart plug?
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> But activists are more than willing to conflate the two cases.

I work in philanthropy and this is absolutely the case.

To most donors and laypeople, a person is homeless if they sleep outdoors, in a car, or in a shelter.

But to people who work in this space, a person staying with friends or extended family members can also be considered homeless. This greatly increases the amount of people considered homeless in their reporting.
Note that Julia 1.2[1] is on the verge[2] of being released. Also, it is interesting to see the list[3] of GSoC and JSoC (Julia's own Summer of Code). A lot of projects target the ML/AI applications. Personally, I am waiting for proper GNN support[4] in FluxML, but seems not much interest in it.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/30

[2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-2-0-rc2-is-now-av...

[3] https://julialang.org/blog/2019/05/jsoc19

[4] https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl/issues/625
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This reads like the marketing/PR teams wrote much of it. Compare to the Cloudflare post-mortem from today: https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage...
I'm wondering if starting with better categorization of "homeless" would be important, I'm thinking of something like ETHOS (https://www.feantsa.org/download/en-16822651433655843804.pdf)

Ideally, you figure out how mental illness plays into the different categories, and you may be able to understand effective prevention.

My sense is that this goes beyond mere "we need some mental health facilities", because preventing someone in a less secure housing situation from becoming totally roofless may end up being significantly cheaper, i.e., not require specialist mental care and hospitalization, but just a subsidized housing and someone stopping by to make sure the person hasn't regressed.

Sadly, it appears nobody with real resources in the US wants to invest in understanding homelessness, so we just lump it all together and try to find ways to let the police deal with it.
You can still use relive if you import the rides into relive
> who even needs localized Visual Studio srsly?

What's not to like on Oracle's localized error messages that you can't google because all the documentation is in English?

Even more because some on my language omit useless words like the equivalents of "not" or "can't".
I was just being cheeky.

But I'm sure it would be used that way no matter where the authors are from. It's unfortunate. Those kinds of groups don't often care for "minor details" like ownership, patents, copyright, and the like.
You can't.

If your baseband is pwnd -- and it is to some definition of pwned. The unit can appear off and still be recording.

Citation: The NSA document leaks.
TIL! Thanks! This is exactly what I wanted.
The kind of app that fucks up the API call is probably also the kind that hardcodes IE.
I think part of the problem, though, is that any individual city (or even state) that attempts to solve this problem by giving more resources is doomed to fail, because it ends up attracting more homeless people and making the problem worse.

This is not hypothetical. In Texas there was an exposé done recently about how churches in a bunch of small rural towns were buying 1-way bus tickets to Austin for their homeless people, as Austin has generally better services for the public (and just passed, extremely unwisely in my opinion, a city ordinance making it legal to camp in any public place as long as you aren't fully obstructing a sidewalk.)
The ads were because they had, for some reason, launched a browser, and the default homepage had ads. I'd like to know how this browser launched and why before I'd point fingers.

Windows does have an annoying feature (which can be turned off, but it's not obvious) where apps will relaunch after reboot, perhaps that was the cause, but we don't know.
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Anybody know what database they’re using?
Funny, you seem to be working on systems very similar to Palantir (twitter handle on HN profile):

https://twitter.com/FogbeamLabs/status/1086757478312960002

What safeguards do you have in place to make sure that personally identifiable information of customers that companies using your tech have is not aggregated and pulled together for nefarious use? For example very targeted lead sourcing or targeted advertisement?

Oh, none, you actually advertise that you are mining all the databases for:

> Prospect and identify leads

But I understand that it can be hard to see certain things when your income depends on you not seeing them.
Thanks. I tried to use Outline for it, but it wouldn't work.
The joke.
Actually, it would be interesting to experiment with coloring all the abbreviations separately. P, then MUL, then H, then U, then W (or UW altogether). Not sure if it works, but it's something worth trying.
There was a FORTRAN compiler for the IBM 1401 that had 63 passes (they called them phases). See this paper from 1965:

http://ibm-1401.info/1401-IBM-Systems-Journal-FORTRAN.html
Yes, it is unfortunate that Cycles no longer supports OpenCL on macOS. There has been talk in some of the Blender groups about porting it to Metal (Cycles was designed from the ground up to support multiple platforms like OpenCL and CUDA), and they were speculating that it could be done by a skilled developer in 3–6 months [0]. Hopefully there are enough Blender users on Mac to justify this effort. Anyone here have ideas about organizing / funding this?

In the meantime, check out AMD ProRender [1]. It appears to be a viable alternative to Cycles for most things and can run on Metal on macOS.

At any rate, for more substantial renders, I strongly recommend cloud farms. You can make your own using spot instances to save money, and fire up more servers to get your render done more quickly. Getting an overnight render done in less than an hour (without tying up your workstations) is super helpful since it gives you more freedom to iterate. This kind of task (where you need a huge amount of processing power periodically for specific jobs) is where cloud computing really shines.

And there is also Eevee, which is not a Cycles replacement, but I believe it is fully supported on macOS.

[0] https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2018-Decem...
[1] https://community.amd.com/docs/DOC-2183
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Scihub has a CAPTCHA so you can't really automate it.
Basic security tooling to remove hard coded keys of any kind need to be in the process. I bet shops like Cisco/Linksys, Neatgear and others at least make some attempt of this in their CI process.
You can already use native av1 to display images in browser. You simply encode your image to a single frame av1 webm with ffmpeg. Browsers will automatically display the first image fully rendered, because it acts as a thumbnail. Afaik no need for autoplay privledges.
I honestly thought this was about the graphic API and resource management, I'm impressed by my own restricted imagination at this point.
If you listen to NYC traffic reports on AM radio(1010 WINS)where this bridge is mentioned almost daily its pronounced "Koz Cuse Ko." I have never heard anybody use the pronunciation you are referring to.
But these weren't ads on the start menu. He was talking about ads in a web page that the browser he chose to run (Edge is now the standard browser, not IE) displayed.
Because it's not a public dataset, it's the specific user's data that only lives in Strava (or one of the other platforms that they integrate with).
I’m not sure what Python’s goals are to be honest. It seems to me that the language is outclassed in every way by better, more consistent, more powerful, and more performant languages.

Python programmers seem content implementing the same things over and over again. Like, for example, flattening a list/monad.

List of things python doesn’t have but should: pattern matching, multi-line lambdas, more data structures (look at Scala for an example of what kind of data structures a standard library should provide), real threading, options, monads, futures, better performance, and more.
I don't think a datapoint about a bunch of airport security guards paid minimum wage with minimal training is relevant to the intelligence community.

At least I hope not.
fair point - not sure why you are being downvoted.

Lets say SF to Chicago, then? Its about 2000 miles.

I was trying to illustrate a more general point that speed isn't necessarily the best or most optimal criteria even for long distances. My choice of example could have been better.
I love cities, structurally. But I find the people soul-killing. I just have very little in common with young, childless people anymore. Even when we're experiencing the same things, we're not really experiencing the same things. If I go to MOMA, it's because I want to show my daughter Starry Night. I'm scoping out tickets to take her to Hamilton, because I feel guilty for going without her. My kids are super well-behaved, but I hate going into a restaurant with them in tow and watching young childless people glare at me. I know brave souls who are toughing it out in cities with young children, and more power to them. Meanwhile, there are 8 small kids and two teenagers on my block of 15-20 houses. I walk into the Whole Foods, and see other parents from my kid's school. The default is people like me.