skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone think it’s not just the cost of housing driving this but largely driven by meth and heroin and mental illness? The visibly homeless people I see on the sides of the road in tents in California aren’t just becoming homeless due to a rent increase—-their drug addiction and lack of treatment for mental illness are the bigger issues. Lack of universal healthcare means if you’re poor and mentally ill, you can easily end up on the street if you don’t have family to care for you. Since Prop 47 passed, heroin and meth are basically decriminalized and openly used on the streets in front of police. Likewise, Prop 57 decriminalized theft up to $950/day so now we have an epidemic of car break ins and theft from stores and no real police response. So I think the people we see on the streets would have been in prison before prop 47 and 57 passed. We definitely need more public housing and to build more houses, but I truly think meth and heroin are the elephant in the room that we aren’t addressing. We just keep giving out needles and don’t even arrest the dealers. It’s insanity.
Here's an opinion on it.

Haven't gone out and done my own validation, or checked other sources, but it'll give you somewhere to start

https://youtu.be/oG19fCFSamQ
There's an audiobook version of "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman.

The book per se doesn't have much to do with programming per se (at least directly), but Norman describes a couple of mechanisms how humans interact with tools and describes some simple formalisms around them. I personally believe that it's a very useful book to have read (or listened to) if you're going to write any software that humans interact with -- be it UI driven or APIs.
I believe it's more accurate as "I exclusively eat sauteed onions in my checkered kitchen".

The only one it's not compatible with is 4, in that case the word "uitsluitend" ("exclusively") would appear elsewhere in the sentence.

Each of the others are ambiguous when written, but should be clear given pronunciation (emphasis), or the tiniest bit of context.
FWIW, I think the idea he presents of performing algebra (or other formal syntactic or semantic operations) to derive and transform programs deserves more attention than it seems to get.

I was doing some experiments with Joy ( https://joypy.osdn.io/ ) and some meta-programming that would have been pretty gnarly in most other notations was very straightforward:

https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Quadratic.html#derive-a-defi...

https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Recursion_Combinators.html#d...

https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Generator_Programs.html#maki...

https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Newton-Raphson.html#finding-...

Joy is similar to Backus' FP and to the point-free Haskell of Conal Elliot's "Compiling to categories" http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/ https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Categorical.html
This is a problem of supply. “An unprecedented $1 billion” will buy you at most three thousand new dwellings, probably fewer given high cost and inefficiency of housing construction in California.

California has been under-building housing for decades, to the extent that people will call this current activity a housing “boom” even though it’s only slightly above historic lows.
The ideal temperature for humans and the ecosystems we depend on is probably fairly close to what it has been since the last ice age, so for the last 10k years or so.
Alright! How do we fix it, then?
Yes, but.

Yes #1 is that this is mostly Drifting techniques, which are mostly for show/style competition. The tyre slip angles mentioned are around 40deg, far past the optimal level of grip.

Yes #2 Racing techniques are more explicitly seeking to optimize for maximum grip, often found around 3 to 6 degree slip angles (depending on tyres, tyre pressure, tread & road temps, road cleanliness, dryness, etc.).

Both still are in the ranges of tyre slippage, at the edges of control, and burn tyres at crazy rates vs street use (drifting just insanely so).

Moreover, as someone with race training & experience, I can say that anyone doing full race/drift techniques on the streets as an ordinary practice is a real a*hole & a hazard.

BUT, all that said, it is absolutely critical to have thise techniques in your bag of tricks, available to use when something exceptional happens. In those rare-ish events, being able to use the full performance envelope of the vehicle is a real life saver, both for you and the others nearby.

So, for sure not every day, but these guys are absolutely right about the need to work on the full dynamic range of the performance spectrum.
Hi, and thank you for all your intriguing messages and thoughtful arguments!

I've heard that Actors don’t have an identity, only addresses:

https://medium.com/@alex_karaberov/everything-you-always-wan...

>Each actor has an address. In various implementations an address can be a direct physical address (e.g. MAC address of the NIC), email, memory address, some id and so on. Multiple actors can have the same address, and one actor can have multiple addresses. There is a many-to-many relationship here. Address is not a unique identifier of the actor. Actors don’t have an identity, only addresses. So, when we step back and look at our conceptual Actor Model, we can see and use only addresses. We can not tell whether we have one actor or multiple ones even if we have one address, because it can be a proxy for the group of actors. All we can do with an address is send it a message. Address represents capability in the Actor Model. Mapping of addresses and actors is not part of the conceptual Actor Model although it is a feature of implementations.

So I was wondering if you're the same Carl E Hewitt as https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=carlehewitt and as your user name professes, or if either or both of you are actors? ;)

And have you ever played Santa Claus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtnBumt82_Y
Back in the late 70s, my high school driving instructor said "don't tell your parents, but the best way to learn how to control a car is to go out to the school parking lot on a snowy night and spin donuts." Funny that they are finding that artificial intelligence can use the same method.
This article is rather thin on facts connecting the rise of California real estate to homelessness. There's a passing mention of a WaPo article that mostly lists addiction and legal hurdles as the reason for homelessness.

How did this reach the top posting while being...so thin?
What is authority if not a kind of power?
Show HN: Fancy Font Generator
> Much easier to send a registered letter than waiting on hold or searching for an online option that was deliberately made hard to find

This hasn't changed. Every EU country implemented the Data Protection Directive and you could just have sent a letter since the late 90s (the exact date depending on your country).
Yeah, I very much agree. I just didn’t want to jump in with the point that this stuff is basically righteous reassurance porn for the centre-right.
To me, it looks like a basic overview-level book on photography, with a focus on Kodak. Aside from the recipes and datasheets, the general information is nowadays available in Wikipedia with a bit less structure but way more detail (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration).

I'd consider it an introductory textbook on photography, not documentation.

More importantly, this seems to be an external, public book, not internal documentation for engineers documenting the in-depth stuff that wasn't public. That would be interesting to see!
Other problems with using Google as a reference:

- You may find search results that exactly match what you're looking for, but are wrong or useless. They may refer to an obsolete version of the software you're trying to use, or they could take you to a question on Stack Overflow that has no answers, or they may have been written by someone who didn't know what they were doing but just wanted to blog about it.

- Google is distracting. It's filled with ads, and with interesting stuff that you're tempted to click on that's unrelated to what you're currently doing. Your own notes are much more focused on the tasks that you want to accomplish.
I'm not sure that's clear from the data, but even if it is true the problems remain related. Families cannot afford to house relatives who might not be able to support themselves.

Ignoring that, many folks of sound mind and body are homeless. They live in cars and borrowed spaces, and suffer greatly for it. All because Californians refuse to build adequate housing.
You're going to need to explain in what manner and to what extent the victim is experiencing difficulty.

Its possible to have had a stroke and not experience any long term effects.
I suspect that housing is available, just too expensive.
Victim's feelings are not an excuse for censorship. Just simple as that.

Free speech will ironically protect victims because it allows us to uncover more accurate truth. Falsehoods like fake news, especially holocaust denials can't win against truth, but with censorship it can.
In Ruby, nil is a singleton instance of NilClass, and defines #nil?, as well as methods to cast to different types e.g. nil.to_a == []. Rails goes a bit further and adds #blank?, which is handy for things that might be nil or empty strings.
What does a cashless future mean? The Economist
There's something there -- if you can translate time or resource savings into value
Number 4 would be "Ik eet gefruite uien uitsluitend in mijn geruite keuken", though.

It mostly gets confusing for me because of moving back and forth between English and Dutch grammar, but any bit of context would make it a lot less ambiguous :)
In LA nothing has been done since I was born it just gets worse and worse but ultimately the homeowners and landlords control the government and you'll see any change over their dead bodies. In California high taxes make it such that most jobs no longer provide enough income to pay rent or purchase a home I work 2 jobs and most of my income goes to pay taxes and back taxes if not for my mom I'd be homeless myself but I moved back home.
If you're sincerely asking these questions, I suggest you read up on climate change at large. This an incredibly large and dense topic and simply asking "how do we fix the planet" as though it's some busted code isn't productive for anyone involved.
> How did this reach the top posting while being...so thin?

people upvoted it.
He should do a suggestion box for new pieces... ‘The plucky resilience of poor children who still drink tap water in Flint, Michigan’, ‘Why we are better off without polar bears’, ‘Are snow capped mountains really all that?’...
I really don't understand people who believe this kind of thing. Existential means existence, yet not a single scientist believes global warming threatens human existence.

Where exactly are you getting this from? It's certainly not from the science.
Interrogated because he complained about the police. They were oddly specific about the time the message was sent - yesterday around 9. Impressive turnaround for pursuing a thought crime: <24h.

This is what all countries can look forward to when encryption is restricted or not end to end.

It’s also a good reminder to treat fellow humans with respect even when you vehemently disagree on controversial topics. The right to expression must be protected.
That depends on what you would deem acceptable "impact" to our existing ecosystems.
Yes, people who are highly invested in beach resorts in Siberia will benefit by climate change.

Countries with an aggregate population today of roughly six billion will suffer for it, though.
Without actually reading anything more than the headline

Edit: Sans real data, this article just fuels anecdata based political pissing matches. This article is flotsam.
An earlier article by the same author:

Why climate change is good for the world - "Don't panic! The scientific consensus is that warmer temperatures do more good than harm" https://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/10/carry-on-warming/

His tenure at Northern Rock does not inspire confidence:

The man who crocked Northern Rock - and how the scandal will cost £55 BILLION https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026384/The-man-cro...

Lessons of the fall - "How a financial darling fell from grace, and why regulators didn't catch it" https://www.economist.com/briefing/2007/10/18/lessons-of-the...

Northern Rock chairman quits after crisis https://www.euronews.com/2007/10/19/northern-rock-chairman-q...

Matt Ridley would turn planet into Northern Rock https://theecologist.org/2018/nov/05/matt-ridley-would-turn-...
Why is Forbes.com prompting me to "Install Crypto Wallets" when I visit the submission link?
> All marketing email has an unsubscribe link if it didn't before

GDPR says nothing about marketing emails. I can only speak for the Netherlands, but our laws about unsolicited commercial communication is what applies there.

What GDPR has to do with it is that they need your contact details to send you anything, so they process personal data. The predecessor to GDPR (called DPD, from the late 90s) also required companies to ask consent if there was no need to process your data for things like fulfilling a contract (same as with GDPR: they only need consent if it's not for a certain set of exceptions).

> You also know you can get all the information a company has on you

This was also the case under the previous law.
Why? Vacancy rates are near all-time lows in California’s major cities. Most cities are around 2-4% vacancy whereas you need about 10% vacancy to operate a healthy market.
If that were the case, shouldn’t supply/demand fix it? That is, available housing would get cheaper if not being utilized, right?
> inefficiency of housing construction in California.

California housing isn't "inefficient." The housing codes are made with the idea of keeping houses up through natural disasters and serviceable for a long time. We might modify that last provision (as Tokyo does, for example) but it comes with it's own problems.

The idea that somehow housing regulation increasing costs is the core or even a major contributor to the problem is one that requires substantial evidence.

Unless you're referring to "Californian contractors are overpaid," which seems more like a reflection of the expensive cost of living here than "inefficiency."
I was just compiling a list of "good things that happened this decade"...
> an inevitable consequence of democracy

This is why we don't typically practice direct democracy and instead have safeguards. The idea you're getting at is typically called "The Tyranny of the Majority" and is something the US founders were very cognizant of. It's why we have a split congress (house/senate), why we have the rights in the way we do (not given by the government but granted a priori to the government) and so on.

Populism can be a result of democracy, but is often times a way to subvert democracy and instead install a dictator. Thus why it's derided (on top of it's direct consequences) and why we should have safeguards in democracy.
With two children in the school system now, teachers are not doing their job well. Observing first hand.
Housing is too expensive because not enough is available.
I’m torn about this. While nothing good ever came out of drug abuse, even less good comes out of giving the government more power and the “War on Drugs”.

I’m okay with decriminalizing drug use but not property crime.
Pair Programming vs Pull Requests
When I was a little boy, I heard a myth about argument between the US and Japan, The US said, we can remotely bomb any place that has a Television, and Japan replied, we can remotely bomb any place that has a Transistor Radio.
I totally believed that back then.
The very best way to deal with black ice is to avoid it entirely, simply do not drive if the conditions susceptible to generating it are present.
If you like these kinds of stories, Boris Chertok's memoirs have a lot more from the Russian early launches during the space race. He was in charge of electrical systems in many of the Russian rockets.

NASA history has an excellent four volume translation of his memoirs. In volume 2 he describes the development and testing of the R7 (Soyuz) rocket:

https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol2_deta...
If it's supply, why are there high numbers of homeless in lower cost areas like Sacramento that have lots of supply?
I've also found Twitter to be very valuable in my own profession.

I've found it to be a toxic hellhole of shit for everything else.
I haven’t read it yet, but IIRC from previous discussions Thinking Forth is similar in spirit.

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

Certainly the language itself has that philosophy: a small number of constructs composed into more complex concepts.
More Than a “Manager” – How to Be a Career Coach
Firing for poor performance is easy enough when you can prove the low performance and reluctance to improve.

The more it gets touchy feely, the harder it gets: for instance the goals you set were blurry or contestable, you don’t have any track record of how the employee has been doing until you wanted to fire them, the improvement plan you set up is properly followed but you still want to get rid of them etc.

I’ve seen someone basically fired on the spot for critical fault, and another worker let go after a first warning, a 3 month recovery plan and not reaching the goal agreed upon (set on the base of the other employees goal at the same pay level). It’s really not outlandish, and it takes you 3 months to fire your employer, needing 3 months to fire an employee is fair enough.
It's a mistake to conflate the highly visible homeless with unhoused people in general.

For every highly visible homeless person there are probably a dozen that try to keep out of sight.

And I would also point out that it's far far easier to fall into drug addiction, and for mental health issues to take over, when somebody doesn't have housing or their basic needs met.

When you lose your apartment because you can't pay rent and an unexpected expense has tapped all your money, you look to all the resources you can to survive. Maybe you start couch surfing, but eventually you exhaust all your friends. Then when you're on the street, and it's clear that you're unsafe, maybe you look to new groups to hell get by. In that setting, starting down the pa Th if heroin is far easier than when you're working long hours and struggling to make rent.

The path from working a job to ending up in a tent in a visible area doesn't happen overnight. It's a long path.

And there's a huge amount of flus of people I to and out of homelessness. The counts they do are a point in time, and don't count the much larger number of people that become homeless then figure out how to get out or get assistance.
>These days, RAM hangs off the CPU -- and even "DMA" involves data passing through the CPU.

Not for the microcontrollers I was talking about, it doesn't. They have built-in bus arbiters to manage access to the internal RAM across the CPU and each DMA channel.

Not every "CPU" is an application processor. But thank you for the history lesson! I guess the term "DMA" has become sort of generic these days.
> This is populist lynching.

How so? It seems to have been an orderly trial.

> 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.

One could argue with this characterization that Lombard himself made all the time. But at any rate, they weren't prosecuted for the suicides, only for institutional harassment.

> An 'easier' route would have been for Orange to simply have done a big layoff.

This is indeed what Orange did in every other country but France. You can look up what happened in Poland to TPSA for example, and it took place everywhere else.

Orange was not able to do layoffs in France because of statutory employment guarantees provided to much of the civil servant workforce.

One can certainly disagree with such a policy — it is nuts to guarantee jobs for life in an industry where the jobs 10 years from now are completely different from the jobs to do now — but it is another thing to use a disagreement with this policy in order to justify rolling out harassment techniques as a way to downsize. It's like faulting the employees for taking a good deal decades ago — the government didn't have to offer the deal back then.

There have to be limits to management's ability to instill a climate of fear, as the consequences are real (not talking specifically about the suicides here, as the policy had many other negative outcomes).
It is an honest question. I have read a bunch about the subject and I can’t find any answer that tells individuals what they can personally do without forcing anything into others.

Do you have suggestions?
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You literally just answered your own question -- the other decades since the cold war, meaning the 90's and 00's were obviously far, far better politically.

But I'd argue that what's particularly scary is the fact that things have gotten worse politically. It's not that the 10's were improving less fast -- it's that long-trusted political institutions are falling apart, and nobody knows how much further they have to go, or if they'll be able to be put back together.
> 6000 m: "More people have been to the Moon than the Hadal Zone."

I wish some bored billionaires would take up the challenge and pump their billions into deep sea research. Like some others do for space exploration.

> "So little is known about life in these deep environments. Almost every expedition uncovers something new."
Nationalist Anthems: Remembering a time when composers mattered more
I haven’t read those articles but I can think of a few good points behind many of those titles. It appeared the Amazon fires weren’t worse than any other year, wind turbines have lots of challenges that make them pretty much unsuitable as a primary source of energy at scale, as for hunting, it seems counter intuitive but it is often what supports financially many natural reserves, which happen to also require population control.
If you're only going by visual indicators then you're going to get a terribly skewed sample. In most municipalities it's illegal to be publicly homeless for any length of time. So all you're going to see is folks living in defiance of those regulations.

A homeless family trying to keep their kids warm and fed is not going to risk being sucked into the prison labor racket if they can possibly avoid it.
There's a certain amount of self reinforcement in this. Once a person become homeless, it taxes them psychologically, leading to further issues with mental health and substance abuse. There are success stories of the chronic homeless being able to overcome their situation but for the most part the earlier an intervention happens, the greater the chance of success. The truly difficult part in all of this is that we are an individualistic nation that puts high value on freedom, including the freedom to enter into a downward spiral of self destruction.

Freedom of movement also complicates things as those jurisdictions that offer the most (productive or not) are often swamped by those who became homeless elsewhere. We hear a lot about cities dumping their homeless on each other but Megabus can be as cheap as $1.50. The freedom of movement and the low cost of it does more to move the homeless around than any "clean the streets" initiative a city engages in. Homelessness will never be solved at the local level. Though local services can help address the symptoms of homelessness, no local entity has the power to address the root causes nationally.
Given this is obviously too vague/broad a question to be answerable, I get the feeling you're just asking so you can say, "Gotcha, you don't know, environmentalism is bullshit!"

On the off-chance that you are actually asking this question in good faith to try to learn something, I'd start by looking at the Wikipedia page on Global Warming[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming