skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I mean relative poverty.

Many years ago, I saw a study that indicated that less than 1/2 of 1% of Americans were poor by the standards of India. Even homeless people in the US typically ate better than people classified as poor in India.

But we still have homeless people here in the US. They typically have serious personal problems, such as serious medical conditions. Being homeless in the US is a genuine hardship and it's partly caused by the lack of cheap, small housing.

We've torn down about a million SROs.* There are homeless people in the US who could afford an SRO if they could find market rate SROs.

If you live on Social Security as your only income and can no longer work, we don't have any market based housing for you and many government housing projects have wait lists that are years long.

We've raised the bar so extremely high in this country that it's a genuine problem for a high percentage of the country. It actively creates hardship and privation in a wealthy country that really ought to be able to virtually eliminate homelessness.

But we don't. And after tearing down a lot of very basic housing for literally decades, when someone ends up homeless, we don't blame the lack of housing supply for people with low incomes. We say they have a personal problem and are probably just a junkie.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
Yes, this was my first job as an 'employee' of a staffing company. They took $11/hour and gave me $7/hour to re-package and re-palletize boxes of P&G products. Literally we would open a box of 4 shampoo bottles, take the bottles out and then repackage then into a box of 6 bottles and stack them back up on a pallet. To open the boxes we put them on a conveyor belt that went through an oven to melt the glue on the box. I had to stand at the exit of the oven and grab the scalding hot glue and rip the tape off the boxes as fast as I possibly could. The scalding hot glue would stick to your hands while hot air was blowing in your face out of the oven. No AC. 8 hour shift 7 to 3 with no lunch break, only two 15 minute breaks to use the bathroom (couldn't go otherwise). No AC in the warehouse in the hot summer in the midwest.

Another fun job was to re-palletize boxes. A forklift operator would lay an empty pallet on the ground, then put a row of 25 full pallets next to it in a long row. You had to unstack the 2nd pallet onto the empty one using a new stacking pattern that was more stable. Then the 2nd pallet would be empty. Repeat the process down the row as fast as you can go getting cuts on your hands from the cardboard boxes, leaning over your back lifting heavy boxes without AC in a hot warehouse.
> It's unfortunate that, unlike the IOCCC entries, BootOS is not open source.

It's not? What's that asm file in there? It looks like it's the full source code for the image. Or do you mean there's no license file, so it's not free-software/copyright?
> millennials have no power,

Millennials are on the cusp of displacing Boomers as the dominant power in society, bypassing Gen X completely (as it was always clear would be the case.)

> there's the potential that what they've done (while being tracked and recorded every moment of their lives) could be used to blacklist the entire generation by zombie boomers and their xer children

Boomers' children are often Millenials, just as plenty of Gen X have Silent Generation parents. But, in any case, no, there's not, because Millenials are increasingly the ones running the show.

> They've already come of age during a ruined economy,

When they wouldn't have had much even if it was a good economy; meanwhile, GenX got wiped out mid-career by it, and Boomers facing retirement.

Sucks for everyone, but I'm not convinced it sucks worse for Millenials.

> Xers will live long enough that they could skip most of the millennials in favor of their kids

Except Xers will never be the dominant political, economic, or social power group, at best being #2 behind Millenials once the Boomers die off sufficiently.
AAPL's capacity for sustainance is doubtful, when they are giving money back to investors. What is the growth path for them ? They will continue to milk successful product but no "next" strategy in sight.
I wouldn't put too emphasis on the plain text — we started logging back when carrying everything via JSON would've been going against the grain. These days it might've gone the other way (I'm not sure).

One point that I'd try to convey is that the canonical line technique works for any kind of structured format. We use logfmt in all our examples, but JSON would work just as well.
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Several ways around CIWS. Simply having enough missiles in the air works, but you can also do things like add armor or even forgo high explosive payloads relying instead on kinetic energy.

Aircraft carriers are huge targets and it's the weapon systems you don't know about that are the largest risks.
Apple probably sells more watches at a healthier profit than console makers sell. Should the console makers stop selling game systems?
A cult is on some level total bullshit. A religion is just when that person who knows it is, dies. Use care when starting things larger than yourself.
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Now if only those in upper management and bean counter division got this memo.....
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proper security has always been "state-of-the-art"
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The numbers vary so much because they're (nearly) all fabricated by whomever was interviewed. The Ethiopian government is notoriously corrupt. Lots of talking heads who contribute little. They're just trying to one up each other with fabricated statistics.
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They used to cross certify each other's planes. Probably not anymore.
Encouraged by the "new, more intuitive UI" points I gave it another try. Background: I did lots of 3d coding and have used several 3d modeling packages, all a while ago. I've tried to learn Blender years ago and after lots of RTFM I could do some things in it back then, but I forgot all about that.

I still find the 2.80 UI unintuitive. Clicking now selects, which is great, but it's weird to me that clicking on the background and then dragging doesn't move the viewport but does a selection box. Neither ctrl-drag nor any other modifier and drag moved the viewport either. After some more trial and error, apparently swiping on the trackpad rotates the viewport and shift-drag moves it, but I couldn't figure out how to dolly after some more trial and error.

IIRC Blender is the only program where I couldn't figure out basic actions without RTFM. It's a bit better now, but that's still the case.

Don't get me wrong, it's really impressive that they're able to do such a big UI overhaul! But at least for me, it feels there's still a ways to go.
I'd like to see how busy Japan's police would be if they were more accepting of refugees, immigrants, and foreigners.

Japan's high degree of order works because everybody is culturally on the same page. If you throw trash on the ground, 100% of the people around you will give you a disapproving look.

Inject millions of immigrants into their society to upset their homogeneous cultural order and I bet the police would be a lot more busy.
You describes how mathematics can be used to create a new programming language/style.

The OP describes how using current programming languages requires very little knowledge of mathematics.

Both of those perspectives can be true and from my own personal experience the OP's perspective rings true.
Happiness isn’t just a factor of compensation, it’s also if people enjoy what they are working on, how they work, and the people around them.
On the order of many dozens of fields and it's a pretty good mix of all of those.

Lots of low cardinality fields, lots of counters and numbers (e.g. request duration), and quite a few high cardinality fields too. e.g. IDs, IPs.
> What happened to Vietnam and Afghanistan?

My understanding of Vietnam is that the US was defeated politically, not militarily. Afghanistan poses even less of a military threat than Vietnam.
They do have ARKit going, which sets them up with a platform to do it on.

They also have the H1 chip in the AirPods, which could potentially be a stepping stone to streaming video from your phone to your headset via an H2 chip.

I don’t see them doing a stand-alone device, or a device with a cable, for awkwardness/dorkiness reasons.

Glasses that are indistinguishable from normal glasses but just pair with your iPhone is the play.

They will make a fortune on premium frames.

Seems like battery size is the limiting factor, but who better than Apple to squeeze a crazy amount of battery into a tiny space. Then there’s heat though. That’s a tough one.

Doesn’t feel like a “this year” thing to me. Feels like a “we’ll release it when the battery/chip tech hits a sweet spot” thing.
It's a complicated issue.. but every person or family that makes a level up transition (without rent-seeking) like.

poor -> middle

middle -> upper

upper -> rich/millionaire

millionaire -> billionaire

have my respect.
Maybe they were referring to Khan Academy?

https://www.khanacademy.org/math
The grass is always greener.

But in the case of the US, it usually is when the grass is the rest of the developed world, sadly.

After staying in Japan, there is no doubt that I would live there if I were Japanese. It is even a consideration as a non-Japanese.

Quality of life seems to be a lot better there, even if there aren't as many job opportunities.
Tell you what. Check on the elderly sole survivors who don’t have anyone checking up on them. Bring some community to them. Help them with their emergencies, things they have difficulty executing.
Oscar Toledo is very talented to write minimal code, but it does mean either his entire family is a society of wizards or they can build a computer or develop browsers, these "achievements" are urban legends without any proof.

> Unfortunately, they live on the outskirts of Mexico City, not Sunnyvale or Boston, so the public accounts of their achievements have been mostly written by vulgar journalists without even rudimentary knowledge of programming or electronics.
It would be a valid reason in '80s
When I found out about this conlang several years ago I thought it was the most amazing thing. And so I adopted the name for my email address. And a variation for my HN account. I was hoping people would read about it and automatically become smarter. Lol.

I did receive a couple of emails in Russian that seemed to be about the language. But after browsing back like 95,000 gmail messages back to 2007 I am not able to find them. I just looked at like 30 pages of older messages, not all of them. I don't know how to search for Russian text in gmail. I tried Google Translate for hello but that just showed all messages that said hello in English.
You should not use it at all.

If the ratio of disabled facilities to able-bodied facilities is n:1, then your wait time for an able-bodied facility is 1/n, but the disabled person will have to wait for 1 unit of time.

Add to that that disabled people more often have medical needs around toileting (pain, urgency, uncontrollability, catheters or ostomies full or failing), and that extra wait can turn into somebody's nightmare day. For the sake of fractionally less wait for you.

It's the same reason why you should not use disabled parking spaces, even when no other convenient parking space is available.
dumb question: what is a "'silver bullet'" in this context?
There is a Kickstarter attempt to use LoRaWAN from a satellite. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ambasat/ambasat-1-an-ed...
Smartphones also largely killed off the watch industry but they where happy to jump into that market. It’s just a question of positive ROI not the ultra long term.
The same can be said for the organization distributing E2EE messaging app binaries (or source + compiler) even without any official backdoor.
We have a variant of Expertrec for that.
you can read more here.

https://blog.expertrec.com/how-to-create-an-unlimited-ad-fre...

We are planning to go with shared indexes for these large websites to keep the cost low, so no control on ranking.
This absolutely has to be the single most idiotic thing i've read on Hacker News ever. This argument is so broad that there is almost no way to even try to counter it in any meaningful way.
Libertarians and conservatives, are we pretending otherwise?
> The defense hopes to prove government agencies were more influenced to investigate Theranos than other companies based on communications with Carreyrou, as opposed to pure suspicion of illegal activity.

"Your Honor, the suspicion of illegal activity wasn't generate by the FDA from first principles, therefore is not valid, as it warped the agency!"

This is (one of) the leg[s] they are standing on?!?
She had to know deep down fairly early on it was all air, that's the crime. She's now using the old tactic of distancing the trail from the events.
If that's the outcome we are headed towards, then I'd say it's an inevitability, and the problem is not with the business model of news providers.
Nyt needs to show a bit better restraint before I can consider funding them for 'good journalism'. I can and do subscribe to/fund what I find to be reliably good journalism.
At the same time, lack of foreign talent caused their innovation to stagnate - as compared to the United States for instance.
In short the problem I'm addressing is that the interpretation of the experiment assumes that the system is memoryless, so that the only thing being measured is the interaction with the particles being measured.

In the experiments generating the photon pairs from parametric downconversion, for example, does the entire system start up, send 1 photon which gets split into the entangled photon pairs which then go to the detectors -- with no other photons generated?

If there is a warm-up period for the equipment or other photons are emitted or absorbed then there is the potential for memory effects that could interfere with the measurements.

For instance if we treat light as a wave then the cosine correlation with angle we see in the basic "two entangled photons with polarizing lenses experiment" is exactly what we would expect to see. The difficulty is simply resolving this with the particle nature of photons. If the experimental system has memory then it could easily have the phase of the effective wave or some other function of the history of photons encoded in the state of the system.

There are probably some ways to compensate for these memory effects and demonstrate their (non)existence, but I am not a physicist.
I feel your pain, it's my number one problem with the Touch Bar, the second being that it's almost entirely useless in its default mode.

I have two solutions for you, though: firstly, download BetterTouchTool[1] and install the GoldenChaosBTT[2] preset. It's the killer app for the Touch Bar, it turns it into a genuinely useful feature that you'll find yourself using all the time, and BTT in general is an incredibly powerful tool for customising the way you interact with your Mac.

Secondly, switching Caps Lock to the Esc key[3] has been one of the biggest productivity improvements I've made in the last decade, seriously. I wish I'd done it sooner. I've made the switch on every machine I use, even the ones without a Touch Bar.

Hope that helps!

[1] https://folivora.ai

[2] https://community.folivora.ai/t/goldenchaos-btt-a-complete-t...

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/127591/using-caps-lock-a...
I wouldn't be so cynical. The real goal is to catch stupid criminals. Not all criminals are stupid, but most are.

Of course governments cannot stop tech people from using e2e encryption. That's not what bothers them. What bothers them is that e2e encryption is the default. They want to change the default to be insecure.

The people who demand these laws are tasked with making various statistics change, such as crime rates. They are metaphorical paperclip maximisers: a surveillance state is not a goal, it is just a means to an end, a way to make their numbers look better.
Why is the number of lines of code particularly relevant?
The way i'm trying to learn math right now is with https://ocw.mit.edu, then you can look up into CS or Math programs to progress with other courses
Initially I thought this was really good, and it really is.

I will say, some of the crimes investigated seem to be a waste of time and money.
for example
> In one recent case, she says, they arrested a group of people who had shared the cost of renting a car, deeming the arrangement an illegal taxi.

and

> One woman describes how five officers crowded into her cramped apartment after she reported her knickers being swiped from a clothesline.

I hope there has been a push to use this manpower in other, better ways (such as how the article mentioned they were better handling domestic abuse).
This would seem to lend more evidence against the Late Heavy Bombardment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
Presumably GP means the latter. Without a license file, the author retains all copyright, you can’t reuse or redistribute any of the code. So it’s source available, not open source.
Heaven save us from law makers and enforcers with too much time on their hands.
I don't know if what you are saying is true. Where is the data?

But I do believe in the long run, you will be right. Software is saturated, and a lot of the infra has been built or commoditized. The value will be there for people who can analyze data.

Too bad I don't find analyzing data as fun or as interesting as banging out a programming problem.
Makes me think, are they already the first Archivists. Preserving the manufacture of usable computers when the rest of the support infrastructure for modern tech no longer exists. That might just be me projecting my own thinking onto what you've suggested about this family though.
Thanks to the self-serviceability of Thinkpads, replacing the keyboard is pretty easy. My Thinkpad gets a lot of use so I replace the keyboard about every 12 months. I do wish it were easier to order parts directly from Lenovo, but you can find them on Amazon and many other e-retailers.
> Are we taking AOC seriously on anything related to economics?

AOC has at least studied economics at Boston University and has made it a goal to go after corruption and corporate greed. Just because the source isn't coming from Wall St or Corporate America doesn't make it invalid.

It's not clear how much of the research behind her reasoning and arguments come from her or her team, either way if you have a counter argument that contradicts her points make them, you've added nothing of value with your prejudices in trying to disparage the source.

Parent was asking what's wrong with Buy Backs, to which she's presented a negative side-effect of them that you wouldn't hear from Wall St who stands to benefit from them.
Things look pretty bad so they're looking for any legal rationale they can come up with to try to keep themselves out of jail.
What if those desires happen to be illegal in your country of residence? In some locales plain homosexuality can get you in trouble.
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I know specious politicising of stories is bad, but the inclusion of backers from the US political spectrum moved over into their (real, longerm) corporate/relationship/lobbying role really is part of the story: she had access -The difference between the small con and the big con, is that the big con has access.

I would reach further and whisper Ivanka but I think thats probably not sensible. But I do see the parallel. Believe in yourself and anything is possible is true for people with access, except for the wise words of Scotty about the laws of physics, and medicical diagnostics from blood is just applied chemistry which in the end, is physics mapped into the biological world.

She used access to sell shares in a model of science which at root, was a-scientific and because she had access, the model was believed despite the evidence, and the FDA in the end had to act, but because she had access, it went on far longer than it should have.
By virtue of a more rapidly increasing population, maybe.

The interesting thing about Japan is the poverty level is estimated to be relatively high. In general we see that crime scales with poverty, but not as much there. That should be subject to more research.
Quality if life seems better everywhere when you are a tourist. I think people in the USA work crazy hours and take no vacations. How does Japan compare?
They seem to allow enough of their pages to appear to enable Google to see it. I can always see the first few sentences and the titles of WSJ articles, that's probably what google can see too.
Well, everything has trade off.
Juicy like the tales around aromatic amine dyes, or beryllium, or tetraethyl lead, you mean?
If you have your income generated by something other than participating in the salaryman culture, sure. But I'll take my worklife without a serving of karoshi.
> If you throw trash on the ground, 100% of the people around you will give you a disapproving look.

http://buzz-plus.com/article/2018/10/29/garbage-shibuya-hall...
> I’d be curious to see how often a civil suit is brought after a car accident in EU vs US.

Depends on the country of course (UK is probably closer to USA instead of the rest of EU with civil law), but in general that would very rarely result in a dispute that needs to be resolved in court. The mandatory liability insurance would cover the usual claims without a civil suit, and unusual claims are unlikely to succeed and expensive to pursue, so they aren't.
Yes and the Apple Watch is a wearable computer that does a lot more than just tell time. What do you propose they bring to the standalone console, TV, or camera market that will make a declining market make money?
Ring has enormous control over the ways police partners can portray its products
Do you have any data supporting your suggestion that areas with more diverse populations tend to be less disapproving of littering?
Even burner phones were a technically state-of-the-art which was a story which underpinned an entire season of a TV show's plotline (and title).

Cellphones became so cheap and widely available you could buy and throw them away efficiently to not get easily tapped and still make enough money, even as a low level drug dealer living in low income neighbourhoods. That wouldn't have been possible years prior.
Every time I came across a new book on HN, I feel more needs to be done in my rest of life :)
> You act as if there is a difference.

There is a large difference. One is an automatic app update while the user continues working. The other requires the user to stop everything they're doing and reboot their device.
I've lived on an American military base with a crime rate so low that the military police spent months determined to track down some guy who robbed the liquor store because it was the most exciting thing that had happened in ages.

There can be a real downside to police officers overzealously looking for someone to bust just to have something to do.
Chrome uses a LOT of automation to do what it does

The actual number of lines is not important
Google penalizing publishers for something, legitimate or not, sounds like a good way for google to get another few billion in fines from the EU.
The financial industry is broken, though. :P
The economy cannot be separated from the government. If large capitalist interests exist, they will exert power with the government, in the form of influencing regulations or other rent-seeking. Thus you cannot have a "fair" capitalist economy.

It would be nice if capitalism worked as it did in econ classes, but it doesn't with real humans.