skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, that the HUD data (Point-in-Time count), indicates declines across the board over the last decade for homelessness, yet, most journalism indicates the exact opposite:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45442596

And, yet, for Portland (mentioned in the BBC article), the data suggests that the "problem people", the chronically homeless, unsheltered population went up by ... 42 (.006% of the overall population): https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566631e8c21b864679fff...

I'd admit my _impressions_ (again, not significant suggestions, I was asking questions) have been biased by journalism, and, journalists probably find the HUD data inconvenient for telling their stories.

But, I do not appear to be alone, and there are very powerful people pushing the negative narrative. Last year the PPA (Portland police union) also referred to the city as a "cesspool", which sure seems to fit with the overall theme of "homelessness getting worse": https://www.facebook.com/PortlandPoliceAssociation/photos/a....

I'd also point out that my suspicions and questions were also on the minds of other national organizations: https://endhomelessness.org/ending-homelessness/solutions/

We appear to have a massive disconnect in the narrative presented by journalists, politicians, and at least the HUD.
Housing has rules which disqualifies many. Drug use, loud noise, bothering neighbors. When you are housed, your neighbors don't move (and you don't often either). This can be a high barrier for some, unfortunately.
It makes sense for insurance to incentivize preventative care (e.g. by paying for it or requiring it), since it reduces future large claims. Otherwise it can be cheaper for individuals to forgo preventative care and wait for insurance to cover the large claims.
In CAIRO, there's no garbage collector. It's reference counted.
NASA awards Phase I STTR Proposal to the open source voice assistant Mycroft
"FF only validates the End-entity is within date range"

No, this was disabled back in 2016. The technical report briefly had this worded wrong, sorry if you read it before it was corrected.

"what is the point of the signing system in the first place?"

Like the technical report describes, things like "monitoring add-ons not hosted on AMO, blocklisting malicious add-ons, providing cryptographic assurance by chaining add-ons to the Mozilla root."

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
Why Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment? In the Long Run
Ben from 1Password here. This is absolutely the most important reason why it was done. There are of course business considerations as well, but cutting down on potential data loss scenarios is key.
I don't know much about this, but anecdotal info: my apartment (comparable to a 1-floor bungalow with lots of windows) has argon-filled windows, and it cost me around USD$1600 for the window themselves (I didn't change the frames, but my old windows were cheap/scrap).

I heat to 18oC in winter (Montreal) and AC to 24oC in summer. My electricity bill averages USD$40 per month. The windows made a nice difference, and still seem efficient after 10 years.
If only scooters could drive themselves to your doorstep... Hey wait a second, that could be it! I'll start my self-driving scooter company today.
“Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous systems.”
People often thrown them in other people's backyards, over fences, and into rivers and waterways in order to "make fun".

This business model was never going to work.
How is the battery storage only $0.013 per kWh? Is that a misprint and they meant $0.13 per kWh? Or is there some fancy accounting where they're storing only a small percentage of the total energy output and giving a diluted price with the partial storage cost spread over the total output? Or is it truly possible with massive scale to achieve battery costs this low? I can't see how this adds up without some sleight of hand, as the gigafactory production cost isn't even nearly this low yet?
No amount of syntax can change that

A framework that allows well-written, "normal" code to parse out what you want, can produce something easier to understand and maintain, surfacing this type of bug in a more obvious way.

Cryptic syntax is the main reason I avoid regexes (particularly complex ones).

Too much obfuscation between the code you write and the steps your program will take. Granted, my concern doesn't apply to master craftsmen who truly understand the nuances of the tool, but in the real world those are few and far between.

ps. I get there was a lot more going on in this postmortem than just one rogue regex.
The Ukrainian-speaking man from Japan who connects both nations
You might want to clarify this in the post. To me it reads like you knowingly had degraded infra for days leading up to an incident which might have been preventable had you recovered this instances.
Yeah. Though I also wish someone would tackle this from a hardware perspective too. I'm looking forward to being able to run various linux programs on a real linux phone, but many are never going to be touch-screen friendly let alone mobile-layout friendly. A phone with a little pointer nub and left-click/right-click buttons would be sweet to me...
It's true for anything with an obsessive self-declared owner on a subject. Political articles attract those like flies, but you'd be surprised at all the other places they nest.
Is 20% really insane? Do they also have a VAT? A VAT is often 20 or 25% so that seems like a normal tax on any product, not only cars. It’s probably high for not-very-rich country though (compare e.g with Norway’s sometimes over 100% tax).
The other thing that is happening is that solar wind and battery are naturally working forward through cost-reduction manufacturing S-curve, while fossil fuel plant tech has already hit the mature-flat portion of that curve. Renewables are basically at the point where there are easy & dramatic improvements in cost reduction by "just" volume scale up and financing, while fossil fuel plants have long explored those options and have more or less hit costs that are much more difficult to improve.
It's a fair point, but I personally have been the victim of a piece of scrap metal that flew off a truck and into my windshield.

The issue is not precisely with Bird, but that the big dogs who fund these companies can produce giant pieces of wasted material thanks to how US and Chinese monetary policy works
An interesting fact I was told: a typical American apartment uses more electricity on AC than a typical modern apartment in the Persian gulf countries.

Besides the near absence of insulation, a lot has to do with design itself. Prevalence of huge windows or glazed curtainwalls, indoor convection, exposed floor slabs, huge balconies, abundance of complex shapes, and no avoidance of West-East orientation.
I've gotten into a long, annoying fight with my insurance company about whether they would cover a certain procedure.

The dumb thing is, the bill won't hit my deductible cap for the year! (The procedure was done in 2018.) So, in any case, I will pay the full bill and the insurance company will pay nothing. But if the insurance company processes the bill, then I get the "discount".

This is mind-bogglingly stupid.
> Windows is just a spyware at this point.

I'd encourage you to avoid hyperbole, in the interest of keeping the discussion productive.
HIPAA is siloed and controlled API access, is that user-abusive?
To be frank, the src/ folder is the compiler for Mirth written in Mirth, so there's your example code. However, I do agree that a quick introduction would not be out of place.
No that's not what I said. I said the only way it unlocks a new market is if there is guaranteed availability, which is functionally impossible. It doesn't take much effort to show that if the scooters start from an area that is very useful, then end up in random locations around the city, and once they are in an unuseful location, they stop getting revenue. And even worse there's the additional cost of getting them charged and then picked up overnight and redistributed by hand.

You need to flood the market with scooters so that people get scooters when they want it but cities won't allow it. Plus, it's cost prohibitive. Creating a new market is NOT a solvable problem, especially at the scale of funding that they have received. You can't throw a billion dollars and expect that a new market will create itself. That's why Bird is going to die, probably by the end of 2020.
And the admin had hand-configured msn.com as the Edge start page?
Do you use Safari? If so that will unfortunately be coming with Safari 13.
> The bird (or lime or Voi or...) can be picked up where I need it

It sounds like the problem is that it's never where you need it. Unless you had 10x as many scooters as people and they were littered literally everywhere.
TBF it costs licensing money, like twice as much. Yes, I know, it could be chalked up as cost of doing business, I’m just saying it’s a different question than just choosing between free linux distros for a VM.
The same way tying work visas to employers limits employee mobility and increases the "slave labour" effect. People end up stuck in jobs they hate just because they have health insurance and will have to go without it for a period if they change jobs. That's utter bullshit.
this. I find it hilarious that people keep comparing a python release from 2010 with something that was released in O(months). Modern python - mypy, attr/dataclasses has come a long way. Numba has also come a long way since it's initial release.
Perhaps if GPUDirect [1] were available on consumer devices, it would be possible to DMA training/model data in from an SSD/Optane/hypothetical DRAM-based PCIe drive and scale up to bigger problems as a result.

Alas, not even AMD allows access to their GPUDirect equivalent, and I can't imagine anyone being able to drum up enough pressure for those vendors to flip the toggle to make them available on their consumer lines.

[1]: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect
It's also far cheaper, on the whole, to insure a group of people vs an individual because there is less variance in the rates of usage.
> The current system for helping the mentally ill is totally broken.

It is. But it's possible for it to be broken in the opposite direction, too - mom's getting a little funny in old age, mom has lots of assets, kids get her declared mentally incompetent to get their hands on her assets without having to wait for her to die first. Or a hundred variants on that theme - using declarations of mental illness as a tool to control or remove people that you have no right to control or remove.

The current system is broken. But be careful and cautious with proposed fixes.
>That doesn't have to be a backdoor.

It is a backdoor. The definition of the term doesn't require intent.
There's a disconnect here. Individuals experiencing homelessness have already chosen to do so somewhere expensive. Generally they have reasons for this that they find compelling. How would you propose to convince them to relocate to this hypothetical cheap homelessness-warehousing center elsewhere?
> Even if we assume that the Indian subcontractors were just as competent as their American counterparts, hiring them was a mistake simply because they added an extra link to the production chain.

The problem is how many links you have. Anyone who works with projects knows that every extra person adds problems to communication, and communication happens to be the worst aspect to deal with everytime humans are in the loop.

Afterall, it isn't easy to clearly communicate. For every extra channel, harder it gets to clearly state what has to be done.

And that's why engineering of complex things is hard and sometimes you have much more people "doing control" than doing the actual work.
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See:
https://landlifecompany.com/
On Mastodon and Nazis
Which other countries or US states with 5M ppl or less goes a year on renewable?
NetApp WAFL Patent Expires
The bidding costs for peaker plants have been beaten by renewable+storage combos for IIRC 2-3 years now for new builds of capacity. IF you think about it, the gas turbines are a fairly expensive capital cost with high maintenance vs renewables. Add to that intermittent operation and that capital costs performs even worse while adding maintenance wear and tear for startup/shutdown.
To be fair, they denied that VBA was at risk: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/architectsrule/2008/01/23/v...

But the fact is that it was missing from macos Excel for a while and they wanted people to migrate to VSTO: https://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/tip/On-migrating...
Thanks for the tip, I had no idea blender was on steam (and had beta channels there too!)

Link for the lazy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/365670/Blender/
It's the marginal price of storing a kWh of energy. Not the price of the battery capacity itself
Well, that's what COBRA coverage is for to bridge the gap between jobs. Also if you lose your job you can usually get insurance from the state at little or no cost while on unemployment.
This is an example of how it specifically is. The deal/law with the city/state/municipality/whatever is that they can't hire someone who's not associated with the union. That results in ridiculous shenanigans I just described.
The underlying HEIF container is unfortunately super complex, but the AVIF specification is based on the subset known as MIAF, which makes it a lot saner to implement.
In my experience, business success is often hinged on the reports and the insights they provide. Without accurate numbers, you've got nothing to go on.
CPython, yeah :\

I wish the pypy team had finished numpypy. Then fast numerical programs could be written in python instead of relying on all kinds of C extensions and stuff. Python would be great for numerics then.
Maybe this isn’t a problem, but I am curious about how and where all those solar cells and batteries will be disposed at the end of their usefulness?
This was the most frustrating thing for me reading this, how the issue has become artificially dichotomized. There's obvious solutions that don't involve criminalizing but also recognize mental illness as such. It's almost a made-up problem in the sense that there's an obvious type of solution that seems to be ignored in public discussions.
Are all the plotting/visualization options still half baked?
No, I definitely wasn't. The games may be running through XWayland, but my Gnome was definitely running with Wayland.
Really speaks volumes about how mature MongoDB has become considering how solid Stripe's reliability is.
Great and all, but I'll never purchase an automobile if I can help it. They are garbage, in my opinion. They feel like cheap toys, like kids' wagons. I've driven and ridden in horseless carriages and, aside from the acceleration, there's nothing special about it. Besides, as a horse rider, even the Ford Model T 0-60 isn't anything magical. It's...mundane to riders (who aren't on donkeys). The Bugatti Type 13, however, is objectively insane.
Call me a luddite, but I want to feed and care for my animals. I want an 6 or 8 horse team that puts out gratuitous amounts of power and, yes, NOISE. I want sharp steering feedback and beefy leg muscles and stiff, aggressive saddles. I don't want a damn horseless carriage, I want a real freaking racing horse with all the money poured into the performance, and none into comfort.

There are tons of buyers like me, too. SoCal has a huuuge horse culture of guys who buy old stallions, mares old and new, donkeys, oxen teams, carriages, carts. Tons of us LIKE riding. Tons of us LIKE offensively smelly animals. Tons of us LIKE manually commanding our animal to move. What about us? What happens when other people finally surrender their autonomy to shitty oil powered machines?

What Ford should really do is build a mid/rear saddled mustang-based sport carriage. Enough of the gasoline automobile nonsense. It's over a decade away anyway. Let the people who like riding, ride!
First image of particle entanglement
I don’t understand. Your link is talking about the difficulty of using these functions. But here, the functions are already being used. What’s missing is implementations of them. They chose to implement these functions without the security checks, but implementing them with the security checks is not hard.
I bet it's due to the heat island effect due to the proliferation of roads and parking lots.
Ask HN: What medical advice did you have to learn the hard way?
That's a strange statement, you're a big target because you're holding lots of peoples secret data. Doesn't matter how you model it, unless your model is to have minimal data/clients.
I actually thought about using solar to drive AC
NASA shake-up leaves space program in confusion
Is being a baby friendly hospital a good thing?
An EV drivetrain is extremely simple and reliable. They are dragging their feet on purpose to extend their returns on ICE investment, not because it's "too hard".
Who remembers RMS saying that anything non-free is inappropriate at schools? Here we see part of the reason why.

Very good decision by those schools. Hopefully more will follow and other institutions as well.
Yeah. I keep an eye on ISO-NE's (New England's grid) real-time charts (so as to reduce my impact on peak load days), and the daily peak load in summer up here is typically 17:30-18:30 or so, not the middle of the day when solar is peaking.

https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts
The “Woodstock of Physics” Is Finally Living Up to Its Promise
> the cost to decarbonize the U.S. grid alone would be $4.5 trillion

They make this sound like a lot but that strikes me as actually pretty cheap. I don't think that number can be right.

Edit: I mean seriously think. The F-35 has cost us 1.45 trillion dollars so far.

That's roughly 1/3 of the price they're asserting here. Localizing our entire energy dependence has got to have some serious national security benefits. I mean way beyond the simple evolutionary next step of one piece of military equipment.

It seems like every dollar we spend on energy sovereignity is doing like 10 or even 100 times the work 1 dollar of weapons development is doing to secure our country.
Later in the article they clarify that the batteries cost $0.187/kWh. However, the owner of said battery will be able to sell energy storage to the grid operator. I also assume that there is a synergy, in that the solar side of the installation is more valuable.
List of resources here:

https://github.com/adilkhash/Data-Engineering-HowTo

And here is a (free) book you might like:

https://github.com/andkret/Cookbook

"I get asked super often how to become a Data Engineer. That's why I decided to start this cookbook with all the topics you need to look into.

It's not only useful for beginners, professionals will definitely like the case study section."

Also +1 for Kleppmann's book mentioned below. That thing is awesome.
How'd you get around NAT?
I posted about another macOS app called “Dropshare.app” a few days ago [1].

I didn’t bother to write a blog post about it because my English is not good enough.

Basically, anyone who uses this app is vulnerable to cross-infection and data leaks. Assume that user John installed this app, then hacker Alice tricked John to visit their malicious website. In this website, they added code that sends requests to “http://localhost:34344/upload” to upload malicious files to any of the services that John’s computer is connected to via Dropshare, this includes private servers via SSH, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Google Drive, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, WeTransfer, and custom Mac network connections. The port number is also static, saving the hacker the need to run a port scanner.

I already contacted Dropshare’s developers to fix the issue, but got not response.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20399551
As far as I can tell, the main advantages of getting health insurance from an employer are 1) the tax deduction and 2) favorable group insurance plans.

For 1, it's just completely insane that all medical expenses aren't automatically tax-deductible. It's silly that it's advantageous to have my employer pay $200 a month for my insurance plan rather than just pay me an extra $200 and let me use that on whatever plan I want.

For 2, that may be a little trickier politically. Group insurance gets more efficient the larger the group, assuming there's a mechanism to prevent adverse selection. So obviously, we want to increase group size. That was one of the claimed justifications for the individual mandate.
Apple does telemetry as well.

I think the endgame you're looking for is probably Linux-based.
No, it's not. This is a build node, not a consumer PC.
Adding useful features seems to be against Strava's core principles, so it seems unlikely that this will happen anytime soon, based on Strava's track record over the past 5 years
That I can see. No shade + concrete is a nightmare. Plus wind is probably limited due to buildings.
I have the opposite problem living really high up in a condo. The heat from units below us travel upwards and in the summer I can open the door and get free cooling effect.
Right, I get that—but still don't get the math. Let's say they're buying this capacity at $300 per kWh of capacity, that the batteries last six years on average with a daily cycle, for a total of 2190 cycles. Amortizing that $300 kWh cost over 2190 cycles is $0.137 per kWh. In other words, holding the other constants the same, this company is suggesting $30 kWh batteries, which is just not yet possible as far as I'm aware. That makes me suspect they're actually only storing like 10% capacity then amortizing the cost of storage across total output, as I can't understand how else the numbers add up. Any ideas?
I think I'm missing some sarcasm here. Nuclear power plants need water for cooling. If a fish gets stuck in the cooling system then it gets ravaged. The hot water gets dumped back into the river. If the water gets too hot then everything that lives inside the river dies.
It's really a matter of how badly the community wants it I think.
Yeah, solar seems like a pretty perfect match for aircon. It's also hottest when the sun is shining...
There are a lot of NIMBYs in California. It's really easy to signal virtue but to actually follow through takes real work.
On topic of dumb exclusions, my (Canadian) health benefits cover me worldwide, except since the provider got bought out by an American company Cuba is now specifically excluded. I have to go through a separate (non-American-owned) company when I travel to Cuba.
I’m talking about the legal reason for it to exist, since employers can purchase insurance with pre-tax money, and the bigger and more white collar/younger the employer, the less their insurance costs.
Trying to start from common ground isn’t “ammunition” imho.

Although it depends on how it is phrased of course.