skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually sounds like you haven't met homeless people. I have lived in SF and LA for most of my life, and I can assure you, I know MANY homeless people PERSONALLY. What you are describing is how it used to be prior to 2010.

Right now there's rising population of relatively young, relatively healthy people who are choosing to make sacrifices. Sure it can be tough but you can't complain if you actually have options and your choice is to sacrifice some shelter for extra money. The problem is these places with homelessness crisis actually have law enforcement crisis and this increases the incentive for people to live on the sidewalk instead of moving to a cheaper city. There are hundreds of options of cheaper places to live. If you can work why choose to stay in a super expencive city that demands high skill labor?
just like most items are prime shipping after a 2-3 day delay in "order processing" ... 2 day prime coming 5 business days later is not cool.
You're missing that I'm talking about delivery speed, not about scheduling deliveries for a day when I'll plan to be at home.
You're a little out of date on Certificate Transparency.

Chrome and Safari both require SCTs (the signed timestamps which prove a certificate was logged) for all new certificates, have done for quite some time. There are CAs which issue certs without logging but largely it's for applications which themselves know about SCTs so they can do the fix-up at runtime not issuance, because again if you just added these certs to a generic web server Chrome and Safari, two very popular browsers, will reject the certificates outright.

Since they'd be next to useless to lay people without, all the certs offered to the general public these days have SCTs baked in by the issuer. Let's Encrypt were ironically among the last to do this.
Result / Either put the error condition into the return type, and thus compose better.

Checked exceptions were an excellent hack, but an ergonomic failure, despite the almost-pattern-matching of the `catch` clauses.
TVP?
Good idea. Don't have one handy, but WireGuard might be in my future.
Or because the malware author borked the decryptor.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ryuk-ransomwa...
Good to hear. I'm not really a gamer so I haven't followed it that closely although I know a few folks who were very involved with it early on.

The Chromecast model just seems so obviously right for users even if I can understand why the TV manufacturers don't like it.
The number of Amazon packages that are prematurely marked as delivered has skyrocketed lately. When I have inquired about it via chat I have been told that this is common and I will probably receive the package later today or tomorrow. Does this happen to there people? I'm going to start fire paying attention to how these are shipped and if it's via Amazon versus USPS/FedEx.
A real book "not worth the paper it's written on" simply falls out of print and is not reviewed; it does not generate twenty more pages of overpretentious literary diatribe decades later. Readers are advised to skip this article.
You can also get a smart device (Roku, Amazon Fire, etc.) and hook that up to any TV

Why should that device have any less spying or ads?
That's actually a really clever (yet simple) design. Have other languages done this before?

Now I cannot "unsee" that concept. Why isn't if/else an expression in other languages that just yields a value?! That's a powerful idea.
Or extend the support: https://9to5google.com/2019/11/05/google-chromebooks-extende...

Other than that, few vendors sell 6 year old computers. Since Apple is often put up as model company here: 2013 had the iPhone 5s which was sold until early 2016, and the end-2013 MacBook Pro (based on Haswell) which was replaced by its successor in 2014 (based on Haswell-Refresh).
Epileptic seizures can be triggered, that's the only actual adversarial attack on the human neural network that I'm aware of that actually works, and is more common than you might think:

https://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/photosensitive-epilepsy
> such an as America dealing with the fallout of specifically the Reagan administration

I mean, Snowcrash's view of income inequality, limitless corporate power, the value of the human life vs capital... I don't think they have to tone that down at all. In fact, my money is they play that up pretty significantly as the essential Neoliberal endgame.
Neither. Closing the plants in Renton and Kent might move the needle.
Thread based concurrency where everything is blocking inside the thread is the first class citizen. If you want to move to a non blocking world, then you will suffer.

Moving between Channel and Flow sucks. No async/await keywords like Python, C#, Rust so you have callback hell. try-with-resources doesn't work with async callbacks (i.e. thenApply, thenCompose, etc.).

Also, JAX-WS standard doesn't currently support Channel or Publisher<ByteBuffer> for body types.
I get your point, but in this case, that arm is operating on its own without complete control by the user (I assume). Its not the same as playing with something.

It can go very, very wrong if that arm has a bug and there's no force feedback based cutoff.
There's no reason to assume that there's real estate asset bubbles, we don't have overlending/unqualified lending. You could argue that there's scarcity in real estate, driven by local governments restricting the supply of housing through historic regulations and single family housing. And that as a result, the only time of private investment that can earn a return is luxury housing which fails to be affordable for a large segment of the population.

MMT doesn't say anything about what you use the funds for, but, if you're a Keynesian then you need to keep your eye on productivity and growing GDP, and you need to worry about inflation. Depending on your politics then you could spend on public assets like infrastructure, green energy, etc. But most MMTers suggest a federal jobs guarantee that would create a buffer for people that the private market will not employ. The job guarantee would employ people to do all sorts of public projects to anyone willing and able to work. You just have to be careful about inflation. If you spend money on steel and concrete and you put people to work in construction, you're going to suck up resources that the housing industry needs, and if you don't have the resources you're going to get inflation. Ideally you'd spend money in areas where the private sector doesn't want to or cannot deliver low costs(e.g., education, environmental cleanup, healthcare.)
Watch them ruin it.
That's the biggest middle finger in workers' faces I've seen: the re-appropriation of "be your own boss" rhetoric where in actuality you are under a very specific contract and "flexibility" is replaced by race-to-the-bottom exploitation.

Rideshare and food delivery gig companies are the worst offenders.
Westworld also had several references to Jaynes. They fitted perfectly.

Damn that series was good.
Can you even get a dumb TV anymore? I found it surprisingly difficult when I replaced mine 2 years ago. So far I've been OK with simply not plugging it into the Internet.
and according to nearly every ups/fedex/usps shipping center worker, that doesn't compare to the abuse they suffer before they're on the truck.

it's why apple put tilt sensors and shock sensors in their bulk iphone shipments overseas. they can't trust the shipping companies to not do that, unless they know they can be caught.
The performance and safety certification of the gliders seem more trustworthy than FAA and Boeing at this point. Also it is expected to get trained for the failure modes of the wing(unlike with the 737 max, apparently). Not a dangerous sport if you don’t take risks and have proper equipment.
I'm sure they'll try to convince us that it does, so that we don't resist the tracking too much.
Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131) [YouTube]
Ah, I stand corrected. The content box width is indeed based on the viewport size. My text, however, is still rendered in 14px Courier on macOS (and even given a .monospace class), so I'm not sure what's going on there.

I just updated to Chrome 79 and now the distilled mode is gone. For anyone who's looking on how to re-enable it, here's a thread: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/22576539
I resent the length of my time the author spent, verbosely and banally, telling me that he resents the length of his time Wallace spent through banal verbosity in Infinite Jest.
The next model is 10 years and north of a billion dollars away.
Discounting someone else’s experience as “not real” and substituting in your own doesn’t make their viewpoint invalid. And to throw in my own, I have never seen case sensitivity be an actual issue that takes more than a couple minutes to resolve.
> too big to fail suddenly

Also known as "a systemic risk".

This is the downside of allowing the concentration of economic power in too few hands. It's like other large scale systems. Yes there's a lot of redundancy; but that redundancy serves a purpose.
The market assumes that Boeing is too big to fail and largely ignores this news. I made quite a lot on the short term BA calls after the Ethiopian disaster. Long term, the crony consolidation of Boeing, Lockheed and Douglas commercial airplanes will probably greatly diminish the US market share in lieu of the new East Asian competition. But unfortunately no effective long-term short instruments exist (with a time horizon of 5-10 years). I think if they existed, they would have dampened the stock market bubbles.
I'm not entirely clear on how avoiding unpleasant situations precludes also working to fix those same situations.

(I'm also not clear on why this is an "inequality" problem rather than a "destitution" problem.)
The article is a contemporary review.
But the airlines know that Boeing will never go under because the US government would (justifiably) never let that happen for strategic reasons.
I actually thought LibreOffice/OpenOffice/etc was a bit newer but it seems the timeframes are very similar to MS Office around 1985ish. Excel which is the product I worked on dated to 1987 but Word is older being first launched in 1983.
The problem with this is that while it is easy to see that the success of large corporations with practices we disagree with creates the problem, it is harder to see how us stopping our support helps fix them.

I boycotted Amazon for the better part of a decade over the one-click patent. Result: they lost some amount of money they didn't notice, I lost out on all the convenience and options. They changed nothing I was boycotting about.

I boycotted Blizzard over the bnetd response for 5-10 years. Result: They lost out on me buying Warcraft 3. I lost out on playing WC3, on the related social activities, on being part of DOTA being born, etc. They changed nothing I was boycotting about.

I revisited the boycott on blizzard after the Hong Kong mess, but this time I said I'd time box it if nothing seemed to be changing.

Is this cynicism? My unwillingness top accept some minor inconveniences to be part of a group trying to prevent human abuse? Should I care that my efforts are unsuccessful if they are nonetheless the right thing to do?

Maybe I shouldn't care about sacrificing but failing, but I do. And not just because I don't want the inconvenience, but because I want the problems to be fixed. Stopping the spread of soul-crushing (and in the case of warehouses at least, body-crushing) labor is GOOD, and way more important than promoting technological equality. I want success at this!

If I'm making life harder and doing nothing to actually stop that, I want to shift my sacrifices to a more successful area.

I just have no idea how. Right now my options are: Suffer a little without helping those that suffer a lot, or don't suffer while still not helping those that suffer a lot.
Hmmm, one possibility is local office bandwidth-throttling, specific to downloads running amok.
Yeah figured they need an SSN, but remember last time I was looking it up someone claimed there's some way to run credit with a driver license... Which they make a copy of before a test drive.

Not sure how true but I know there's some companies like LexisNexis with massive databases on people, so wouldn't surprise me if there's some some other way to gather info on people.

Then I heard some luxury dealerships can be jerks if they don't like the way you dress either... Yet in some areas with major tech like Silicon Valley, Miami or Austin there are probably young people with millions wearing just a shirt and shorts buying new sports cars.
The country that closed its psychiatric hospitals
Boeing is sitting on a big giant huge bucket of assets. In the long term, this is a blip.
Now hurry up and let me take LA courses with my ACG membership :)
If someone I loved was in a hospital that might get targeted by ransomware, I'd prefer we adopt the policies that reduce the prevalence of ransomware.
That'll still hurt the margins - a lot of these cyber crimes are only cost effective at scale and only hitting a few people successfully can deter folks to easier revenue streams - they care about margins as much as anyone else.
I had the same reaction, it really is what you want to read, for me somehow 'see' became 'saw', then I did a double take and realized what I got wrong.
Wait until these companies partner with Comcast to get default access to the ever present Xfinity public hotspot.

Sure you might deny it privileged to your network but for a profit share I might let it access mine.
Have you ever tried to sell a TV? Much like diamonds or cars, it seems that a lot of their value derives from the "primary-market freshness guarantee." For base-model TVs, the secondary-market price (e.g. the one you'd get at a pawn shop) is essentially zero.

People aren't really buying base-model TVs, though. Who wants a 30" 30Hz 720p non-HDR display (let alone an old CRT or plasma TV), even for free? "I'd rather watch shows on my phone than on that piece of junk" is a pretty common thing to hear when someone is being offered one of these.

And so we still see, not only the primary-market markup effects, but also the "leading edge" markup effects, where having to have all the best features (larger size, 4K, HDR, 144Hz, OLED, curved display, etc.) that you don't have to have, makes the TV more expensive. (But not that much more expensive. Even with both of these markups, the average "good enough to watch anything without downsampling" TV is still only $500.)
fedex was also caught looking the other way when it came to illegally shipping firearms across state lines. i think they just ended their NRA partnership earlier this year?

they're just a crap company. if you ship fedex, your best case scenario is receiving it on the last possible day of their window.
Kansas City buses are like that. Outside parts of a handful of routes they're only tempting if you have way more time than money. Making them free does help the people already using them but I can't imagine it'll do much to increase use of it for actually getting from place to place (increasing its use as a place for the homeless to get out of the heat/cold, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, might happen, and isn't exactly a bad thing, though I agree that if it becomes common it might actually reduce total ridership)
The 737 Max is doomed without the MCAS, the entire reason it exists is to keep the same type rating the same to keep pilots from needing to re-certify.

Airlines will have serious reason to consider other manufacturers if they can’t just throw pilots behind the stick with minimal training.
> TypeScript can die in a fire, and if you disagree you should join it.

This is probably a poor attempt at satire, but I'll bite. Actually yes, I'd rather disagree and jump in the fire to use TypeScript than to plod along using JavaScript with its clumsy type-system, designed by a team of clapping seals and to watch all the hell it truly brings.

If you think TypeScript should die in a fire then perhaps I'll see all companies using JavaScript in Dante's Inferno.
I was intrigued by this comment, read the review, and posted it:

“Infinite Jest is one of my fave books — but it’s still fun to read this vicious @LRB review from 1996.”

Tony O’Shaughnessy
The quoted sentence is almost a tautology. If it's not providing a useful service, how would it possibly be making a [positive] impact on their lives? (If it's making a positive impact on their lives, that is, by definition, useful I think.)

In this case "first" was used as a matter of logical antecedent. ("If P then Q", rather than "first P, and later Q".)
If you liked the series you should definitely track down the original movie with Yul Brynner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(film)
Java's implementation of checked exceptions looks pretty minimal and sound to me.

How would you implement them?
Although you forgot to mention BART, do you believe such is common across US public transportation?
Prusa mini has explicit “break” in PCB to enable custom flashing
Also sales, property, and so on.
This isn't true. (https://www.rideuta.com/Fares-And-Passes/Current-Fares)
Claimed to be recycling e-waste safely in the USA. Actually shipped it to China, where workers handle mercury with no safety equipment and breathe in the burnt plastics.
Nitschke's other (previous, drug perfusion) death machine was on display in MONA in Hobart. its an otherwise pedestrian installation of a suitcase sized box, and a bag on a stand, next to a chaise longue. I found it very confronting. Normalized but somehow not normal.

He's a polarising figure. Saying something rational, but causing immense community disquiet when people come close to voting. (I believe he has the right of it, but successive State, Territory and Federal governments have shied away from the topic, the impact of the church on Australian polity is pretty big)
Popularity is a poor proxy for quality.
There's a parallel issue with traditional meat farmers banding together to prevent labelling this as "meat". I agree with them when it comes to plant based meat imitators but cultured meat is a harder sell for me. This is actual meat tissue.
You can buy more storage at Fastmail: it's the same cost as an extra user to add the same amount of storage. e.g. for a Professional account, you can add an extra 100 GB storage for an extra $9/month.

Gmail reports a combined storage with Drive etc., so you may find not all of your quota use is actually email.
I'll link to the NAS report on fusion findings. US benefits from ITER partnerships work both ways. But also recommends investments in smaller, less expensive, more innovative (and therefore competitive) designs.

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?Rec...

Just to put things in perspective. ITER budget is estimated ~$25B. Seeking to produce >500MW with a 12T magnetic field. Massive radius. Twice any previous tokamak size. Just look at the pictures ;)

JET budget was ~$5B total. And achieved 25MW with a 5T coil. But without actually "burning plasma" (Max Q < 1.0)

Princeton Plasma Physics Lab run by DoE budget is >$100M per annum. So this represents a significant challenge, and not just in fund raising.

The most promising space might be in the design of "mini-magnets"

https://nationalmaglab.org/news-events/news/lbc-project-worl...
They are all concurrent GCs though. You pay for the lower pauses with significant throughput hits.
The main issue is that historically in the US, transit operational funding is a strictly state and below matter, but the feds are happy to stump much of the bill for highways. And states and cities generally have fewer resources.

With such a strong urban-rural political divide these days, and suburban views of transit ranging from apathetic to hostile, federal support for transit operations is unlikely. Personally, I would be a fan of devolving transport funding entirely to solve this issue.
I have done this before -- but I found it to be a waste of time. The couple of times I've had a compromised card, my banks have spotted it immediately. And even if they didn't, they're fully liable for the charges by law anyway. A quick glance through my statement is good enough.
The problem with investing in a lot of low probability things is that when, say, 100 of them all fail, how do you know whether that's because they were low probability, or zero probability? Unfortunately, there's no limit to the number of very low probability things you can invest in, so nobody has the budget for them all.
Oh no, people hanging out in public spaces! People making use of the space they literally own, how terrible!

Couldn't you make the same argument for cars? We should stop people hanging out in their cars and congesting our public roads!
Seattle needs a great deal more housing.

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/seattle-sta...

The US needs to provide a national health care system. Our current system is actively part of the problem.

Homeless services need to do a better job of providing "opportunity," not just charity. Most homeless services actively help keep the problem alive, a la The Shirky Principle.

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/08/give-man-fi...

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-shirky-...
How do we make sure this doesn't happen anyway with people flying to Basel? How do we make sure doctors don't overprescribe opioids and casually assume death is the best option? How do we stop people stockpiling drugs and killing themselves at home?

You're flying a strawman, if you think this is the killer reason (hah) this idea shouldn't happen.

We're not close to seeing these on the streets as in the opening scenes of Futurama.
Yes.com
at least the packages show up on time. fedex is shitty at people AND shitty at package delivery.
You could say that all perceptual illusions are adversarial inputs for the human senses. They're just not damaging ones.

In a lot of adversarial input stuff for AI, you're trying to get the AI to misclassify something, not necessarily to damage the AI or even change its learning at all. In Snow Crash the perceptions were definitely damaging to the perceivers, but I don't think you have to go nearly that far to have adversarial inputs!
Nah, most large organizations already have kidnap and ransom policies that pay off in event of extortion.

They often also have cyber insurance that covers data leaks, but even without cyber insurance the K&R policy often covers costs to recover from ransomware, either by paying the ransom or by replacing/restoring systems.
That's not true though...

He says right there, the fraudulent payroll payments were many times the normal amount and not part of the normal cycle.

In fact, from what he described, even the bank would have picked up on the fraudulent transactions upon human review.

Small businesses are not going to confuse out-of-cycle payroll payments with normal ones, cash flow is way too tight for mistakes like that.
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I'm also not saying it's unreasonable to be suspicious of the call, but after that initial suspicion, it's unreasonable not to hang up immediately on the scammer... then make a "sanity call" to bank/payroll processor/both
Welcome to MacOS 7.1?
I work on a project that has used it in a few places such as: running graphviz in the browser, and using various cryptography libraries cross compiled from C in the browser. In my experience it's early days still. Tooling is fragile and runtime memory management rudimentary.