skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of places for them. Just not in the Bay Area. Leaving the bay was the best decision I’ve ever made. Second place was moving to the Bay Area from Arkansas in 2000. Get your experience and get the hell out. When I first arrived I could only afford an apartment in Pittsburg. Never Oakland and SF wasn’t even considered. Too many people boo-hooing about not being able to afford things... do something about it yourself instead of relying on the worthless city, county, and state governments to do so on your behalf.
> More broadly, democracy doesn't require anonymity. In face, it functions better when you know exactly where everyone stands

that's just false. democracy wouldn't function at all without secret ballots

> Those dudes put their names on paper and mailed it to King George.

an act of war that has little to do with democracy
If they do the same thing Microsoft did, but get away with it, they've clearly not become Microsoft.
L'Ordre des choses (L'Ordine delle cose)
Been dabbling with getting into film photography and that document looks quite useful compared to more generic "how to photograph"-books and web sites.

This books goes into the gritty details which one needs to be able to get good film photos and to repro them as paper photos etc. Things photographers just had to know when working with film.

Earlier you had to either test and document these details by yourself (one didn't have the luxury of Exif image data, one would need to jot the settings per photo into notebook etc), read them or be taught by someone who knew them, so in that sense not the typical intro textbook (ie. John Hedgecoe's Photography Basics etc). This is more akin to SDK reference + combined with Stack Overflow).

You can find old repair manuals for old vintage cameras. Found one for my dad's Kowa Super 66 which I broke after 11 rolls.
It's not like there's a shortage of work that society needs done, but that capitalists won't be able to make money off of. I think this is a perfect target for getting people on their feet.
The Week in Tech: How Is Antitrust Enforcement Changing?
They do for sale. Sacramento hasn't been a big renter's market.
My nightmare scenario is that Larry Ellison rediscovers the Oracle Turing Machine, and copyrights its API.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/supreme-court-wi...

(In the cover photo of that article, it looks like people have been urinating on the Oracle logo!)
Proximally, they are. But all too many people point to that as the One True Cause of the homelessness surge, when it is not. The two factors I pointed out - illegal immigration and an increasingly brutal workplace - are topics that news outlets shy away from, for political and business reasons. It's infuriating.

I would take all this a step farther, in fact: the recent surge in illegal immigration is, itself, a proximal cause; that phenomenon is being now driven by climate change. But again, you don't usually hear that mentioned when people and news outlets discuss illegal immigration.
I have been working on that direction with Lean Theorem Prover (https://leanprover.github.io). There is also works using Coq (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-35786-2_...)
No disrespect but that’s pretty far removed from pretty much any set of facts you can dredge up.

And “rehab resort” is the biggest pile of BS I’ve read in a while.
The trick is to make just enough people of a society interest-vested and happy, gradually you can basically ignore the rest as they are poor and underpriviledged, especially since technology is more omnipresent and powerful than ever.
Wow that cage thing he’s in is terrifying. Presumably the video was released to send a message
The UN council on climate change and all of the world's climate researchers could be a signal worth paying someind to.

By their account, we need to change the basis of our economy, and we should have started 10 or 20 years ago, so today would be the latest that can save some areas.

The power to enact this change is denied to everyone who will suffer from it.
Every time I try to argue around the subject and ask questions about it I get downvoted to oblivion or get answers like yours.

I keep doing it because every time that happens more and more people realize how ridiculous the climate fighters demands are.

It doesn’t matter how loud you scream, it won’t convince anyone other than the already converted.

If these people were actually worried about climate and all related subjects they would be working on providing actual things reasonable people could do to help as oppose to calling other names and demanding they stop using plastic straws by showing pictures of turtles.
I don't see how a spreadsheet is either bitemporal or a database. But you could do some simple bitemporal modeling in a spreadsheet. I would imagine querying to be extremely limited and cumbersome though.
Is someone suggesting burning wood?
A few notes:

> One email and 24 hours later, all the data they had about me was deleted.

You make it sound as if this is new, but this was also possible under the DPD from the late 90s. GDPR didn't improve that. (What helped is that GDPR isn't from the late 90s but was introduced in a year where privacy was already a hot topic, so it was picked up by the media and now companies actually know about it so you don't have to point out the law before they understand what you're talking about when you do an access/deletion request. But it technically hasn't changed.)

> this only works if you're in europe buying from an european store

Sort of. While the EU claims it applies to anyone, the Chinese government isn't going to give a rat's ass if you sue and win a court case against a Chinese company. However, if that Chinese company has assets in the EU, they can be seized, not to mention that they can probably be banned from the EU market altogether.

Anyone who wishes to continue selling to Europeans and not have any European assets seized would do well to comply with European law, also if their headquarters / choice of court / assets is/are outside the EU.
Have we considered teaching the homeless to code?

I’m joking of course, but I know someone’s seriously thought of this.
> Best to use a database with native bi-temporal support, a query planner can get very confused about tables with bi-temporal columns and few constraints

Why would they have few constraints, unless the DB lacks adequate support for the kind of constraints that logically apply with temporal data (now, admittedly, many databases do lack that support, but Postgres via exclusion constraints on ranges doesn't, and the functionality, while supporting bi-(or tri- or quad-, or N-, which once you start analyzing the temporal relations that logically apply to data are much more common than one might think, there's no magic universal model)temporal data, isn't limited to just that.
Well, that's the problem with states' rights. The states then can do abhorrent stuff cause it's their right.

It's one thing if the state doesn't want people to be on the cell while driving. It's a whole 'nother issue when you have "blacks-only water fountains"... And having rights means you can do horrible things cause it's your right.

I'm not sure whom I trust more: the state or the feds. At a state level I see elected officials' religion seeping in everywhere, and that frankly terrifies me.
>> For example, a normal drink can today contains 13 grams of aluminium, much of it recycled. In 1959, it contained 85 grams. Substituting the former for the latter is a contribution to economic growth, but it reduces the resources consumed per drink.

Interesting. But before I hip-hip-hurray, I'd like to know how many 13g drink cans were made in 2019, and how many 85g cans were made in 1959.
One metric which indicates "definitely super broken" is if the wet bulb temperature[1] get's to the mid to high 30's. Any regions where that happens for sustained periods is uninhabitable for mammals (which we are a subset of)

Before a region get's there consistently, it'll be that way intermittently and many people who can leave probably will because even in the high 20's and low 30's it'll significantly impact humans ability to do things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
I recommend "On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane" by Emily Guendelsberger.
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The United States is barbaric when it comes to social support systems.

I used to live in the States and I'm happy to now be in Canada for moral reasons. I can only speculate from my experience (when I went through hard times as a student working on my CS degree with unsupportive family "me being lgbt and they being religious conservatives") and trying to navigate what was available in my area while living in the USA.

I've come to the conclusion that religious ideology is to blame, as similar to rising cost of homes & tuition, and not enough jobs for everyone (when you consider most people have low skillsets); while considering not everyone can become a programmer or whatever in-demand profession because most people just don't have what it takes with age making it increasingly difficult to get into a skilled field with health factoring into the equation.

I think homelessness is rarely the outcome of drug abuse. People aren't going to drugs in a great life for no particular reason. In any case deciding to do drugs with life then spiralling downhill to where they're homeless is just ridiculous to assume is the cause. The idea that people do it to themselves is nonsensical. We're living in a harder time than the 90s, 80s, 70s, for the less privileged and the system needs to be revamped to get people into homes that don't cost them anything if they cannot pay for it.
They're absolutely arresting people and confiscating their property if they're settling in urban areas. Most major cities regularly bust up "homeless camps".

If the police run you out of any place you try to sleep and arrest you if they see you three times in a week, they're arresting you for being homeless, regardless of any specific law they're citing.
I use django for my day to day. I understand its "migration" https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations as a kind of bitemporal database. Would you mind providing more context about your use case so maybe more concrete consideration can be discussed?
Evidence/stats?
My bad, I meant class fields which are stage 3:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields

https://tc39.es/proposal-class-fields/
> The solution is nothing to do with phones, or cameras. It is about good laws, enforced vigorously.

I think this rationale is exactly what got us into this mess. Laws are sufficiently complex that navigating them successfully is only realistic with a lot of resources. Laws have become an instrument of power for wealthy people.

In order to have unbiased enforcement we need to clean up and simplify the laws we already have.
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> "To the first, the goal here is harm reduction in the form of the slowing the spread of infection, not a black and white magical changing of everyone's mind."

Of course, that argument can be used to justify "quarantining" (i.e. silencing) literally any group based on what definition of "harm" is being used, and therefore is null and void. Better hope society never changes so that your beliefs are unpopular.

Moreover, as the article demonstrates, "quarantining" doesn't even work. A lot of rights we enjoy today came about because the backers of the status quo were unable to suppress the popular movements that back them despite keeping them out of the press and broadcast media as much as they could.
> The mutex could easily have been called the afsluitdijkstra ;-)

That's amazing/hilarious :) But I bet they'd quickly shorten it to a13a ;-)
It’s ok, the other guy said We’ve just had the best decade in human history
You may want to look into Base rate fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
No, by "we" I mean humanity.

Edit: Also that graph doesn't show emissions per capita which is the metric that really matters.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Also see this about cumulative emissions:

https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/cumulati...

The US is still the country that has emitted more CO2.
Aaron Hsu, the author, is now a complete APL (Dyalog) advocate. I similarly have gone from Lisp to J, and now APL. I read the book "Mr. Babbage's Secret: The Tale of a Cypher and Apl". It is more of a history narrative melding a few things together, but it got me back on the array programming languages. I find it is true, that a single page of code is easier for me to rework when I need to review/edit it than pages of well-documented code (Python, C, or other). Racket is now being implemented in Chez.
Great points all around but I've got a nitpick about the second to last paragraph. In fact, China is not going it alone. It is something like 9 unique nations that have within the last few hundred years gone through considerable change in political control. Only in approximately the last 70 years have most been forced to coalesce by the CCP.

Alternatively, the primary difference between the USA and PRC is not that the US necessarily has more global influence, but that the PRC does not pretend to value the autonomy of its citizens.
The bias in cable news isn’t what you think
I know that, but the topic we are discussing is that this is the greatest decade. My response is in that context.
Can you imagine a parliament or Congress where every vote was anonymous?

Anonymous "ministers" making anonymous, unaccountable decisions?

"The Government" deciding what was right?

And it did too have everything to do with democracy. A unanimous vote from the states representatives supported the motion to secede.

In the United States, we know the names of everyone who votes for the president.
Yes, you might be right.

I don't do top secret work, but I do want to protect my personal, business, banking, etc. information so I fiddle around with various approaches to generating passwords.

I actually bought a small, very cheap, PC that I run Linux on expressly for the purpose of managing passwords. It never connects to a network and has software for generating gpg keys, certificates and passwords. I use it infrequently enough that each time I do it takes a lot of work to remember how I decided best to use it.

What I use more than anything for 95% of my passwords is Apple's Keychain app. The information is backed up in the cloud and is available on my Apple computers, iPad, and iPhone. It's been a very helpful application, and I like how it's integrated into Apple's software. For important passwords I resort to the box of dice or my air-gaped little linux laptop.
Sea level rise is the least of our problems.
Is there any science to back that up?

By that reasoning, literally everything is an existential threat to humanity.
Tesla Trans-Canada Supercharger route goes live all at once – mostly V3 250kW
So 'rent affordability' here means percentage of income spent on rent? Higher affordability means higher rent/income, which means rent is less affordable. This is very confusing terminology.
I agree with you, up to a point. Like you, I'm perplexed by the people who claim that the Bay Area homelessness crisis exists because "there's not enough housing." Yes there is, and it's somewhere else. Often it seems we Bay Area people think this area is some magical place, and not being able to live here is somehow a violation of human rights.

But, homelessness is also a trap. Once one becomes homelessness, life changes very quickly, and it's hard to get out of it - it's almost impossible to wash off the literal and figurative stink of it and find a way out, even when one of those ways might be moving to a cheaper state.
I'm not convinced him knowing where the prize is before opening the door matters. If he opens a door and knew there was no prize you now get the same info as if he opened the door and was surprised there was no prize. In both cases switching its better. And if he unwittingly opens the door and there is the prize, again switching is better.

His knowledge before hand doesn't matter, switching its always better.

That said, I feel like there is a limitation in our modeling of probability that this problem isn't easier. Yes anyone who knows stats can solve it, but somehow we're using the wrong "language"that the problem is still tricky. Geometry isn't tricky becsuse we have the right language for it. Geometry is "hard" when problems are hard/complex. Monty Hall the problem isn't complex, but solving it correctly is still difficult.

To take a programming term, probability applied to this problemfeels like it has accidental complexity.
I find it interesting how Google still does this on sites like blogger. I ignore the banner covering 80% of my mobile screen and read the article but agree to nothing. They'll probably still process my data despite me not agreeing to it, and when the day comes, someone will sue them, an investigation will be held, and a large fine will be collected.

What I find strange is that google's army of lawyers doesn't seem worried about this.
> Well you are very wrong there. The inefficiency is in the permit process. In San Francisco it takes years to get your project approved, and that time is money.

There is no denying that California refuses to build housing. This does raise the cost of Californian housing. However, this is characterized distinctly from efficiency of the housing regulations and building codes in most conversations specifically to avoid the dodge many developers present, "Housing codes are too strict, it's inefficient to build homes in California."

If I ended up misreading your post as a result of context, I apologize for doing so. I did not mean to put words into your mouth. But please consider that many other people may read this and read the same intent because of specific phrasing you're using.
I look for 'commercial license key libraries'.

Thanks for the hint!
Ask HN: Linux for Windows Devs
Hi,

I'm new to Linux and just setup my Ubuntu desktop for software development. Need suggestions on how to make use of Linux, tools that are available for administration, how things are typically setup in the Linux world, tools and utilities available. Are there any resources, best practices that I can make use of?

Thanks!
Yeah especially when writing cursive. It's because it's technically one character or something. It's even got its own unicode: ĳ

Not sure if it really counts as a ligature, though.
I don't know, I feel like one of the coolest things about HN is being in a community with others trying to do similar stuff. I definitely agree that it's not about just trying to hijack the top comment to get the runoff clicks, and I do see some comments here that are just links to other projects. Maybe my self-reference wasn't one that you were referring to, but I personally got a kick out of seeing another hobbyist doing something similar, and looking at their different approach to a similar problem.
"We resealed the cabinet, signed off on all the paperwork and got the out of there without any more sight seeing."

That's the NASA spirit!
Ask HN: Knowing how much equity to split when your co doesnt do the tech?
Ive worked on building the platform and validating the idea. He's been getting an audience engaged. I want to do an equity split soon but dont know how much I want to give but want him to be as involved as possible!
Not living under authoritarian rule mandating a reduction in quality of living isn't petty bullshit, so I guess get prepared for our world to look quite different.
Electron is bad enough from a user perspective, but it's downright horrible to see how it's instilled a rather defeatist approach in front-end developers.

"But I already know Javascript, it's too hard to figure out something else"
If you liked that, you might also like one of Paul Grahams pet projects, the Bel Language: http://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html

It's a specification for a new dialect of lisp, written in lisp.
It does no matter, it is a database server, the niche I am targeting (more than 10TB of SSD) is still not available to commoners.

Creating subset of the data is not really possible. And if it is the case, the existing product (free or not) can help.
Intuitively I'd think yes but only averaged over time. Waves in quantum fields should pretty much be perfectly matched to the inverse square law over any distance, but the actual observation of particles (by collapse or whichever interpretation you prefer) will obviously have variance which will only smooth out to an inverse square flux over time.
Which platforms? Do they also work if you have an American bank AND a German bank?
Try to use script files with actual commands that does the work instead of typing in commands each time. Saves lot of time and effort.
Alright, I'm not going to entertain this charade where you just pretend you are "trying to learn" any further. Crap or get off the toilet: either state your disagreement with what I've said, or don't.

I'm not arguing that there's some "ideal Earth temperature": that's your straw man argument that you're making and has nothing to do with anything I've said. I don't need to provide data to prove a claim I never made. I've made three points, numbered in my previous post. Two have data behind them, and the other is fairly self-evident. If you'd like to share which of the claims I've actually made that you disagree with, I'd be happy to engage you in a discussion where we present evidence for our respective positions, but I'm not going to answer you if you continue asking me questions of the form, "Why can't you provide evidence for this claim you never made?"
> in a way that few other environmental issues are.

I often wonder about that. It could also be that our collective attention can only handle one big emergency at the time, and we make that our sole focus.

I would not be surprised if in some years another emergency will dominate the news. Maybe its about ecocide then, large-scale collapse of ecosystems due to a combination of overfishing, poaching, natural habitat destruction and pollution. And man-made climate change only an additional factor in that.
> First - the rate of suicides at Orange during this time were pretty much on par with suicide rates in France overall. Orange has 100K employees, and there are going to be suicides every year.

There were 35 suicides in ~ 32,000 workers, not 100,000.
s/Bell/Bel/
Maybe other terms are better at describing interfaces, like "discoverable" or "consistent".

One nice thing of the first WIMP apps was its discoverability. If you wanted to learn how to use your word processor, you clicked in the icons and navigate the menus. Good apps had related actions in the same menus.
How about run-parts?
Sometimes I wonder if the current state of fintech is nothing but lipstick on a pig.

Maybe I'm being too cynical, but as someone who follows this industry fairly closely I haven't seen many companies do something actually that innovative or new. Most of it just seems to be a difference in distribution channel e.g. a website.
Not a down voter, but I disagree with you.

There's a fantastic example in my sibling post. Rooting gains you the ability to more tightly control network access. That alone is massive for privacy and security.

Obviously you have to run code with lots of permissions, which means you could be highly compromised by a malicious app. The onus on the user is much higher to vet apps. At the end of the day you have to place some trust, even if you don't root. It's a game of balancing tradeoffs.

It's overly simplistic to say that rooting dramatically decreases security regardless of background or technical expertise.