skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel a lot of these stories are about people trying to survive in dysfunctional environments. The other type of story they like to publish is about the glamouros lives of rich people.

What seems to be taboo is to connect these two together. You have one group of people who don't get even the most basic healthcare or go into debt over school lunches and then you have others who have more luxury you can imagine. But somehow it’s not ok to point out that maybe one has to do with the other.

It seems to me a lot of these stories are about telling poor people “stop complaining and be as resourceful as the people we are writing about. And certainly don’t ask your boss for more money or your politicians for doing a better job”
"Nonsense" would only apply if practice were as good as theory; a very very brief Google search will net plenty of results for freeway overpasses and pedestrian bridges being hit. One example:

https://www.cbs58.com/news/truck-wedged-under-bridge-shuts-d...
People vastly underestimate just how bad run-of-the-mill alcoholism was in past years, let alone more "exotic" illegal drugs. Look at the gin craze in London a few centuries ago, for example: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9a8e4e/a-gin-craze-nearly...
Why do real estate agents, in contradistinction to other professionals, put their picture on their business cards and marketing materials?
Chat is synchronous. Always has been.
Windows telemetry will know it's Tor. Irregular sleep schedules are usually very regular when looked at over a long time.
How do we know what's in WireGuard?
My bad, I was quoting from memory, you are correct about the numbers. That said, they're pretty close.

As for the weather I stand by my statement. While year around nice weather does make an encampment more hospitable, the reason why it's cruel to just bulldoze those settlements is because the people have nowhere to go. Still, I acknowledge your point, weather is surely a factor, I just don't believe it carries as much weight as it's frequently given credit for.
I keep wanting to systematically go through the old source archives available looking for gems.. There's so much to learn, be it history or interesting ideas. I remembered Microemacs largely because I once started collecting code from Fish disks that came with source, and it was notable for the sheer number of versions.
Shock! Russian (and Chinese) companies cannot be trusted, neither can American ones, but we have this messy thing called "Democracy" and "rule of law" that gives us recourse and hope. They have none.
"...these stories tell you that even if you can't change the world, you can still solve your own problems." I think part of the criticism is that this statement is false in many cases.

The psychological benefit of such stories is that we can comfort ourselves by telling others that if they didn't manage to cure their own leukemia and run a marathon while supporting three children and a disabled spouse, they just weren't creative and perseverant enough.

A similar criticism can legitimately be made of glorifying war heroes. It makes it easier to pat ourselves on the back for sending them into a situation in which they can prove their resolve by avoiding death for a while, and we can ignore all the dumb schmucks who just got blown up right away -- they simply didn't show much resolve, did they.

It's all sort of the converse of "the personal is political"...
People don't want to be judged by merit? Isn't that the essence of the value employees provide to a business?
The Roots of Infocom (2012)
Especially because hobbies and interests are influenced by culture. Even if "Jeff the HR guy" isn't racist, if he likes applicants with similar hobbies, then chances are it's effectively an ethnicity filter.

Bad things don't always come from malice.
You are right, but it still makes sense to compare. I am from Bulgaria, the poorest country in the EU and I have been living in the US for a while with an ok salary for a scientist. I keep an average (for the country) health insurance in both countries. I feel more secure when I am in Bulgarian health jurisdiction price-wise and emergency-wise (simple things like knowing no one will try to trick me into paying for an ambulance ride, that there are no gotchas about which provider I need to see, that my insurance will never be prohibitively expensive to keep, etc).
Usually European healthcare is a patchwork that looks confusing but at the end everybody gets the healthcare and you don't go broke even if you have to pay something. For example, you may have to pay up to some sum per year or percentage of your income. If you have income you don't have to pay.
Hundreds of shelter beds go empty every night in LA because many of the homeless would rather stay high/drunk than be sooner for a night. They used to be a small portion of the population but now comprise the bulk of LAs skid row population.
> How many times have you heard some politician or just an ordinary person from the south or the midwest say something to the effect “we have a great homelessness policy, we buy each homeless person a bus ticket to California and send them on their way!” They usually say this with pride or with a laugh instead of being embarrassed as they should be. In fact if i remember correctly this was part of the plot of a south park episode (although i do not exactly remember whether south park endorsed or mocked that policy).

Zero times? This seems like a lazy characterization and citing South Park doesn't really help your case. According to this Guardian article on homeless busing in the US[1], these sorts of programs tend to originate in the Western states:

> A count earlier this year found half a million homeless people on one night in America. The problem is most severe in the west, where rates of homelessness are skyrocketing in a number of major cities, and where states like California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have some of the highest rates of per capita homelessness.

> These are also the states where homeless relocation programs are concentrated. Using public record laws, the Guardian obtained data from 16 cities and counties that give homeless people free bus tickets to live elsewhere.

Key West and Ft Lauderdale are discussed in the article; Atlanta is mentioned as having been criticized for this in the run-up to the 1996 Olympics. That said, jumping immediately to "we all know how those darn Southerners and Midwesterners are" doesn't seem to jive with the facts.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
Random selection is great for hiring people that are lucky.
New York City is required by law to provide a bed for every person who requests one. When the city runs out of space in standard shelters, they literally rent out hotels [0].

It's kind of nuts, but it makes me very proud of my city. (And, for better or worse, much less sympathetic for the people who still choose to sleep on the sidewalk or in subways.)

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[0] https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor... (This is a transcript of an NPR podcast. I recommend listening to the audio if you have the ability, it's worth your time...)
In countries like Germany it is normal to include your picture. Don't see what the problem is, before you hire someone you are usually seeing them in person anyway.
Because the evidence is cherry-picked.

Humans may be doing better (for now), but it all came at a great cost to the environment.
Even shitting in the woods isn't great, it's just that most people won't use the better but grosser alternative (shitting in a sealable bag).

In parks where restrooms are provided, like the Grand Canyon, shitting outside of restrooms isn't allowed. Anywhere the foot traffic gets high enough, the park service will put in restrooms and require people to use them to defecate, because the alternative is pretty bad. Even in the wilderness.
I dislike discussing this in terms of freedom, because I feel that it misses the severity of the situation. After all, how free one is when they're dead due to lack of healthcare? The CDC estimates that 45,000 Americans die each year due to lack of healthcare [0](from 2012).

People are not going to the doctor when they have something treatable and preventable, because they're not covered. They'll go to the ER when whatever they have progresses far enough, and the associated monetary costs and risks to that persons life will be of course be higher because they let the problem persist.

I also take issue with the idea that this would cost more than the current system does. We spend almost twice as much per capita than other industrialized nations with universal healthcare do.[1] There are cost savings involved when you get rid of the middlemen and redundancy that comes along with our current for profit system.

The number I keep seeing in the media is that, for example, Sanders healthcare plan would cost 32 trillion dollars over a ten year period. Yet we're currently paying 34 trillion dollars.[2]

[0]https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/13/the-r...

[2]https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/32-trillion-price-tag-sander...
Not sure if you're being sarcastic—my experience of Americans is precisely as you say. There is a strong streak of "I don't care if it helps me, if it helps those people I don't want it to happen." Americans are also so transphobic that they'd rather have fewer soldiers defending the country, etc.
It's not a new discovery for people in marketing and sales, but the average person hasn't been capitalizing on their looks until fairly recently. 10 years ago, I don't remember encountering any resumes with photos. Even at my last job when we were hiring for a new engineer, we didn't get a single resume with a photo.
An AV that alarmed on unpatched vulnerabilities might be better. Attackers will resignature their code to evade everything on VT, then spam the world to hit whoever hasn't patched.

For ransomware anyway. If they're targeting you specifically they'll find out what you're running and customize against it.
As a matter of fact the "standard" EU CV (so called Europass) has the photo "field" :

https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/about-europass

(with a recommendation to check whether it is allowed in the specific destination country):

>Add your photo only if required. Check local provisions in the country where you intend to send your CV.
Many Common Lisp implementations interactively compile to native code.
Wasn't this also true 3 years ago? I.e. it only explains profit margins, not the absence of a price/performance drop. And, well, they have the same number of competitors in both CPU and GPU, and I think even their market shares are very similar, no?
Everything else aside if you are getting upset over someone's linkedin profile picture it could be a sign that you are at the end of your rope. Consider taking a break.. something like that should be funny or neutral. But not anger.
That's true for everything.
It seems to me you're confusing the grammar. The people are not reprehensible: reprehensible refers to the situation, instead. The situation in which two-year-olds are left without proper medical care and parents are left without any safety net is reprehensible. One should not paint the situation as wonderful when it is bad. Of course the people involved are simply trying their best, and trying to "make the best of a bad situation".
Ask HN: Am I harming my career prospects by working in computer architecture
I'm a SW engineer by trade, having worked in the area of hardware-software interface for the last decade. Recently (last 1.5 years) I've a new role that is leading to my contributing more at the hardware architecture level. I'm really enjoying it but worry that I might get pigeon-holed or it might work against me in the long term. Anyone else been through this sot of thing? Any recommendations?
Takeaway fish suppers in England go back a long way. As the legend goes, fish-n-chips (sans-chips, since potatoes, still hadn't arrived) was established by Jewish migrants (around 1500) exiled from Spain. The UK was getting more nautical att, so I assume the trend dovetailed with increased commercial fishing.

This new, cosmopolitan fish n chips thing would hundreds of years before it was more popular than the more traditional jellied eel n peas. I think that was the most popular takeaway supper until eel numbers started to hurt from industrial pollution.

Industrial-scale cod fishing started producing as freshwater and shore fish stocks declined. I imagine the batter's job was to mask the "weird" texture and flavour.

These days, picky eaters in the UK will only eat cod (or stuff dubiously labeled cod). No freshwater fish that isn't a trout is considered edible in the UK, even though Americans and Europeans eat pike, eel, perch, etc.

Anyway, preferences and availability always play on each other over time. Kalamari n' chips works for me. Make mine sweet potato please.
> entire first day to non-semi companies: Amazon, Google, Microsoft

They've given the entire first day to the semiconductor divisions of these hulking behemoths.
We may have a difference of opinion about what "medium" means, or about what "much calories" means.

When I say "medium", I mean something that is still a modest hobby, and when I say "much calories", I mean at least a few months of food for several people.
Thanks for the info. Interesting. But I assume this (i.e. the plan) is something that the employee can choose not to sign if it was not in the original contract and the law doesn't require him to do so. At least I wouldn't sign anything like that. And if he doesn't sign it then you can try firing him. Which might or might not be legal (which usually a court decides). At least that's how it works in those countries I worked in.

It's also not rare and it's actually on the news all the time all around in Europe and Japan that a company fires someone whom later the company is forced to hire back by court ruling.
In the United States it is definitely not normal to include your picture, and doing so can lead to conscious or unconscious bias against someone because of their race, gender, beauty, etc.

Germany has these problems too.
As others have said, it depends on the country. For my US clients I never add a photo, but I will offer to add a LinkedIn URL at the top. The ability for the reader to view your profile (and photo) can help them to understand that this is a real person, and my guess is it's harder for most people to say 'no' to someone they have seen (of course this is assuming several things about each party).
Replace homeless humans with sheep and cows, and you’ve literally described the basis for the phrase “tragedy of the commons”.
We all understand it, but many of us aren't as conscious about its extent. I only became truly cognizant of the privilege of beauty when I lost weight; I don't think people who have been skinny their whole lives can fathom just how different people treat you if you're overweight.
I guess I always wonder how that is better than email. Once a channel has more than one conversation going on is becomes unusable.
There are probably several resume writers that offer review services, and I am one of them. My profile has details on how to find me.
I though, one of the advantage here is, you are able to store/read metadata along the file content easy without worrying the metadata and file may desync in some way or corrupted.
This makes serve something like Image (photo dimension) or video(length) metadata way easier. Some filesystem (like ntfs) do have place to save metadata along files, but most filesystem don't have the way to done that properly
I'm seeing a trend where now first (and 2nd, 3rd level) of screening is happening sans resume - based upon Linkedin profiles. And Linkedin profiles are anything but B&W (includes lot of other signals including profile pics).
About 20% of the population has a mental illness issue. Almost 10% of the population have an addiction. Obviously the vast majority of these people aren't homeless.

Being homeless is a good way to turn a minor mental illness or addiction into a major one.
California Drinking Water: How a Combination of Contaminants Raises Cancer Risks
A related reference, cited by this book, and a bit shorter and simpler is Garey & Johnson Computers and Intractability.

It's a really good classic little textbook.
Stories about families and communities coming together to help each other out are “horrifying” because that’s supposed to be the exclusive concern of government?
So you want to put the people who can't balance a budget, or even present pricing information, in charge of a walker for a toddler? The story says they built one at Home Depot, for almost nothng, in a few hours. Do you really think a national plan could ever be that efficient? Under a national plan, it would cost thousands of dollars and take months. Does that sound better?
This isn't a good comparison. The technological ability for us to have flying cars has long since been there - VTOL vehicles have existed for some time now. We could easily create drones that could carry people, etc.

But flying cars have never been practical because of the human element and the lack of physical constraints that could readily be placed on their control. Plus, people realized that as ugly as a highway is, sky highways are a hell of a lot worse. The idea became less and less popular, and now there's no real demand for anything of the sort.

There's plenty of demand for precious metals. And the technology for asteroid mining, even largely automated, already exists. It's a matter of driving the costs down enough to make if profitable, or waiting until supply drys up enough that even if the costs remain relatively stable that it will still make money.

We already see a lot of progress and promise in launch costs being driven down. There's ambition within these companies to expand farther and do more. The technology is getting to the point where there's little question on whether it will happen, barring some sort of extinction of modern society type event, it's just a matter of how soon.

I don't necessarily expect asteroid mining to happen on any large scale in my lifetime, but, I also wouldn't be surprised at all if it does. In 100-150 years? I'd be surprised if it hadn't.
The group that stays under the radar... is likely not the same set that shits on the street?

I kid you not, there are some seriously crazy people in SOMA who have a schedule. Morning, mission and 5th. Evening, mission and 6th.
In a way, yes. I don't fill up the whole tank when I buy fuel (as do most people who don't travel large distances day to day). It's easy to add more fuel before I make a long journey. It makes more of a difference for EV as batteries have a considerably lower energy density than petrol, a couple orders of magnitude it appears: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Go look at downtown Rotterdam if you want to see the effects of WWII.
That's a failure of urban planning too. Either better infrastructure is needed or density needs to be located closer to good infrastructure. NIMBY planners in California are opposed to both. They block construction near high capacity transportation and they oppose the extension of that transportation to new places.

The whole state seems to be run as a giant housing supply restriction cartel for the purpose of enriching existing property owners and speculators at the expense of newcomers, the young, the working class, and the poor.

It's common to a lot of "blue states" but California has the worst case. It's rank hypocrisy and everyone involved should be ashamed.

I came up with a way to show the hypocrisy: point out that "red" states like Texas and Arizona are more liberal than California because in those states a working class person can afford a place to live.

Seriously... what kind of brain damage allows someone to advocate us being a "sanctuary state" for immigrants while simultaneously opposing any housing or infrastructure expansion? Where are these people supposed to live? Are they utterly incapable of rational thought?
holy cow this is a great theory. i haven't heard it before, and it would cut through a ton of noise if this could be supported by data. can it?

the disappearance of readily available plastic bags (in the trash, floating around, etc) certainly would make way more sense as something that could suddenly have a huge impact than other theories which are stabbing in the dark at higher level variables that have trended slowly over time like shelter access or density of public restrooms. it would also explain why this problem is uniquely SF -- given the social signaling that is associated with a store being seen as environmentally conscious (by abandoning plastic bags) compared to other cities, it wouldn't surprise me if the rate and degree of abandonment of plastic bags outpaced other California cities.

this certainly seems like the kind of thing that will bubble up to economics textbooks if true, a classic case of unintended consequences by tweaking incentives and regulations. i hope it gets more attention.
When I did more C++ i found it weirdly satisfying to get a few hundred or thousands of errors during build and then fixing all of them with only a few changes.
A block proposer has a small probability of being able to re-roll the random number a single time, and an exponentially lower probability of getting a second or third chance. And each attempted manipulation costs a lot of money.

Can easily put secure bounds on this and use it for most applications.
But all situations that need help are reprehensible! Otherwise they wouldn't need help.
"I don’t care that you worked at Subway for six weeks when you were nineteen."

Unfortunately if you don't, you'll get people asking you "what were you doing in 2009??"

Because apparently the thought of giving someone a job who might have once not had one, regardless of their relevant skills, is the worst thing a recruiter can think of.
Being a life-sciences refugee myself, I read this essay and noted that my intellectual response to it was very discordant with my emotional response to it.

Intellectually, I think the author did a very good job and although like any scientist I could nitpick, grossly speaking I found myself agreeing.

Emotionally, however… Having been through the wringer I would ask any reader to consider not just the “central tendencies” viewpoint but the “this is YOU going through this” viewpoint.

If you are doggedly determined and personally consumed with getting into a fantastic lab to bootstrap your career so that you can slave away for essentially minimum wage with no benefits so that you could get a research position for which you might get a job security at the age of 42 to 45… Seriously?!

For many, that prospect looks very different when you’re closer to twenty than fifty.

Here’s another view point: the system is horribly horribly broken, leaving a trail of collateral human damage… But there are so many people throwing themselves at the meat grinder that inevitably greatness occasionally arises.

Do I sound bitter and cynical? Perhaps. But living the experience, for me and many many others, is rather different than reading summaries of what the life is like.
Which effects? Amsterdam wasn't heavily bombed in WW II. Although Rotterdam certainly was and Arnhem was heavily damaged as part of Operation Market Garden.
Just to be sure - pinboard.in is not something you'd consider for this?
When I lived in San Francisco and brought family and friends to enjoy walking the streets of the city, one logistical problem was finding toilets they could use. There are, for all intents and purposes, no public toilets in the city (e.g. we went to an underground public transit station and they worker there told us there was no bathroom available); one time my mother had to use a porta potty put in front of someone’s house for construction workers doing home improvements because there just was no other restroom around.