skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you know that we feed prisoners food? Surely that's rewarding the behaviour of being in prison and thus more people will prefer being in prison rather than out of it because they get fed.

The proposal is not to give people better houses or more money than they would have if they were not homeless. It's to raise the floor a little bit such that they're able to live a little longer and better their search for gainful employment. Their lives would still be better and more rewarding if they were able to support themselves and live in a larger home with more money for incidental expenses.

This is not a "reward" relative to the "reward" of living a self-sustained life, but rather it's a bit of humanity to make their troubles less so.

I could only see your objection being reasonable if we gave those who were not gainfully employed more money and better housing than you could gain by being gainfully employed, at which point sure, why get a job. We clearly don't do that, or else you'd hear of people quitting their minimum wage jobs to become homeless and reap the rewards.

For what it's worth, there are several studies and anecdotes which show that providing homeless with housing and money does result in a larger percentage of them finding jobs and escaping the viscous cycle of homelessness (who would have guessed, getting a job and a home is easier when you have a home). The most referenced of these studies is this one I believe https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2772270

Now, of course, you could say that those studies may not capture everything perfectly, but at the very least I'd like to convince you that it's not as cut-and-dry as you seem to think .
The US Govt. cannot keep information about their own SPIES sent to FOREIGN SOIL safe.

We’re supposed to trust them with encryption skeleton-keys that can open any phone or web traffic in the world and trust them to keep it safe.

Do they know that we live in a world where Nations burglarise from individuals?

North Korea for example funded their missile program from criminal activity on the internet. Can you imagine what will happen when they steal the skeleton key to intercept credit card traffic worldwide??

Sigh.
Sure, it's not a permanent solution but should we really only focus on long term and structural solutions and not also on things that temporarily alleviate some problems? We can walk and chew gum at the same time here, we'll have to if we want to solve any serious problem.

I don't think anyone would advocate that we all go home and say problem solved after this shelter goes up, and I doubt anyone will really forget that Amazon contributed to the issue in Seattle.
I believe there is a similar story about a man who made window seals for planes.
> or you’re just loading the same sites over and over again.

That's right, I am loading the same sites again every day consuming different data. Both for work and fun. That was the whole point.
The Problem Isn't the 'Merit,' It's the 'Ocracy'
A hacky python wrapper around bluetoothctl that lets me use aliases as addresses. So I can write `connect {niss}` to connect my phone instead of `connect 12:6a:78:c2:74:d5 (ref. to one of childhood favorite books, Startide Rising).

The script then runs "devices", looks for an alias "niss", and substitutes in the corresponding address. I use expect in Python to script it all together.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, while I'm a markets-first person in general, either the city itself needs to build the housing itself, or it needs to reduce the cost and difficulty of getting permits so the market will work. The reason we're in this boat is because the existing locals are rent-seeking, and don't want to live in a denser city - which causes a crisis elsewhere, because the people keep coming.

In general, West Coast Cities seem to have this idea, that if you ignore the problem of insufficient housing - be it the symptoms (high rent, no affordable units) or the causes excessive permitting costs/lengthy approval times and restrictive zoning, it'll just go away. There are prosperous bustling big cities without housing affordability issues, they build housing, either in the city, or in nearby suburbs.

The reality of it is people are moving there whether they like it or not. Seattle has had 20 years of almost continuous growth, with little housing expansion, and almost no affordable units (compared to growth. it can't pretend to be an ocean liner, and pull up the gangplanks and go "oh, sorry, we're full now, maybe you should try Portland? best of luck to you!"
No need to use Qt creator. Most C++ build systems support moc out of the box, or with minor adjustments.
I'd bet on latitude, myself. If the object of the game is to more-or-less match daylight hours, it's nice to know what daylight hours are going to be.
Ahahaha Maybe they did not read to that part. I think no one reads past your job experience so you may write just about everything down below and no one will bat an eye. I also recommend that use some tools to check your resume, there is whole bunch of them, https://resumecvwriter.com/free-resume-review for example
Easy, just build a fusion reactor capable of eventually producing vanadium from hydrogen, and you got yourself a stew going!

Edit : Method of producing said reactor left as an exercise for the reader.
The replacement state --so long as it has a pro-building policy-- is arbitrary. Whether it's Arizona, or Nevada, or Texas, etc. could be up to debate. These places look mighty appealing for households that don't earn $300k/year, which is most households.
> in the devtools console

Wow, you are right, thanks. Lesson learned.
I was paying 1900 or so a month in an outlying suburb and that was cheap for the area - the best you're gonna see for a one bedroom within a 20-25 mile radius around seattle is about 1200 a month, a two bedroom about 1500 a month.

Public assistance pays nothing, and section 8/housing authority has years or decades long waiting lists.
Almost certainly a newly issued Lebanese passport.
A substantial percent of households have two or more vehicles. These households do not need all of their vehicles to be able to do what gasoline powered vehicles can do--just one of them. So one of the vehicles can be a small electric car with limited travel distance capacity for commuting, general errands and charged overnight.

Gasoline prices are low now because of an excess of oil extracted from the ground because of fracking. This can't last that many years.
Cool, reminds me to check out OpenStreetMaps again.

P.S. Title should include "2012".
Is it possible or ethical to offer a research option to f.lux? Like you would let the user pick that option and have the software dim the luminosity with or without cutting more specifically blue light then have them report and if they felt any difference after a week/month or a month, repeating the process for a few months/week while either alternating or changing the mode.

Maybe it is a dumb idea as it is too easy to tell whether the software is in full effect or not.
> Housing becomes affordable by filtering down the market, long after it has been built by "return-oriented" developers.

And long after today, most of the homeless people, or the people currently getting displaced, will be dead or gone.

YIMBY people don't seem to understand that this response is the housing equivalent of "let them eat cake". People who are at risk of displacement are not really interested in hearing about the affordable housing they might be able to afford twenty years from now if they have to spend the meantime picking between sleeping on the street and leaving.

We obviously have to build our way out of an incredibly tight supply. But talking past people and basically ignoring their concerns is not going to get people on board.
Starting your argument with "in general" and following up with a self-admittedly extreme example is... not good argumentation. The fact that Softbank threw money away in a rather spectacular fashion doesn't at all speak to whether typical CEO compensation is fair.
This’s an essay on the short relationship between psychedelics and the Western culture.
I agree with you to an extent - but you cant criminalize just being homeless either - and thats the problem, thats what many cities were effectively doing (see Los Angeles).

It's a multi-pronged approach to solve the issue, which prongs you use is a matter of how aggressive you're willing to get to solve it however.
I'm using a script that will request an AWS spot instance for 6 hours, reporting the address when fulfilled:

https://gist.github.com/nl5887/56912b70b782baa4bd580ae22bde6...
The Peltier and Seebeck effects are so grossly inefficient that even an order of magnitude increase in efficiency doesn’t bring it into reason for basically any purpose. I’m not actually aware of any device ever made that uses the seebeck effect in any substantial way other than the little heat powered fans people put on wood stoves.

The peltier effect is just down right awesome, you put power in and now it’s cold!? Reality steps in at some point when you need to drive down the efficiency even further to get large differentials and ugh. They’re insane to deal with, any amount of thermal load worth speaking of means you have to use a phase change system.

It is very handy for camera sensors though and other scientific gear. There’s a world world of CCD sensors that act in a vacuum with peltier devices driving them below -30c to reduce the noise produced by the sensor.
They weren't. That's the problem, because the actual diplomats were.
it works similar to a thermocouple. A normal thermocouple needs a voltage bridge to increase the voltage with a millions to get anything that can be read by a digital 5v meter. These materials don’t need that. And a couple of degrees could produce a workable voltage. But the title Of the article states that the material is meta stable, unsure if that means it will work for a couple of seconds then die. Also, vanadium is used which makes it quite costly.
OK, good info, thank you. So let's say we carpet bomb the area with new housing capacity and cut rents in half. How does that help with the homeless situation? Doesn't really make any sense to me.
The Case Against WikiLeaks: a direct threat to our community [36c3]
Which one of his passports did they keep though?
There are more than one kind of homeless, for some a reliable shelter accommodation is enough to give them stability to rejoin the workforce, which may enable them to afford housing.
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What are the reasons for cheque bounce?
Since hyperlinks can link to any document, not just children, shouldn't the data structure be a (not necessarily tree-shaped) directed graph?
As someone who lives in a very touristy city with a lot of hot spots for crime that locals know should be avoided, a navigation tool that knows how to take extra factors (like safety) into consideration when path-finding would be a real boon for the vacationers. So many times I've asked Google Maps how to get somewhere and taken a completely different route in the interest of my own safety, and there is no way for someone who is not local to know which areas to avoid.
It's not just laziness, though that helps. It's also bunch of other idioms and features. (I've programmed in a strict variant of Haskell for a while.)

Ideally, a language like Haskell would actually be total by default; ie all computations are finite. For those computations, the compiler can freely choose evaluation strategies without affecting semantics.

For potentially infinite calculations, you'd go into a mode that's somewhat similar to how IO is segregated in existing Haskell.

(There's some more complications about things like infinite event-loops, that can be solved very similarly; and for some things you might want the user to provide proofs that they are indeed finite, instead of just overriding the compiler's judgement with an unsafe cast.)
And with orgzly on mobile it works like a charm, I manage the synchronisation with git (one advantage of using plain text)
I don't think the research is intended for large scale electricity production. It's for small sensors and processors and that won't cost much.

This opens up a quiet a few possibilities like buy a temperature sensor place it somewhere and it starts feeding data into your home WiFi. No wires, no batteries.
Some space craft have actually had full reactors on them believe it or not.
Obviously in America it depends on the state. My experience in CO is the opposite, lines are always short or non-existent (except during peak hours). Prices are cheap and concentrates are even cheaper. (It's cheaper than alcohol for sure.) Most stores have sites that show their inventory (TBH it is kind of so-so but honestly almost everything is high THC/low CBD anyway). Purchase limits decent; 28g/1oz flower/8g concentrates is a lot to go through for most people.

Only inconvenience are: Some puritan counties/cities have banned recreational stores. Prices in turist/ski areas can be a bit more expensive depending on supply/demand. And I think higher CBD stuff is getting divereted to the medical & CBD oil market but that's just a theory.

The illegal market obviously varies dealer to dealer... not everyone has that same kind of stay-and-chill relationship with their dealer.
Very early in my career, I started to get RSI issues (before it was a well known phenomena). I limited my typing speed to 32 WPM and also enforced a rest every 30 seconds (originally by beeping the speaker every 30 seconds until I got used to it). I now type very slowly while programming, but usually I'm thinking continuously. Often I'm not thinking at all about the thing I'm typing -- the typing is waaay far behind. I'm convinced that this strategy both saved my hands/wrists and improved my coding.

Interestingly, I stream some free software coding I do on twitch (usually about 2 hours a day). I should watch myself and see what I do now, because I haven't really paid attention to my typing for at least a couple of decades. Though, my streaming dialog easily takes half of my brain, so maybe it's not what I normally do... ;-)
It really is because a) traditionally tims used to be really good. b) tims is literally everywhere. I don't think there's other fast food or coffee chain here that is so omnipresent c) they were a Canadian brand and still try to portray themselves as one even though now they are owned by a Brazilian company.

It really isn't that cheap tbh. A coffee at McDonalds is gonna cost about the same price, and starbucks is like $0.5 more.
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A little context from a local (me).

Amazon is doing this in part because it gets a ton of heat for its part in the somewhat overheated Seattle land economy. Housing costs post-recession have skyrocketed and it has reconfigured the local housing system. Too, Amazon is not particularly known for corporate do-gooding (vs, say, Microsoft, Boeing, or Alaska Air) - so this shift is welcome. And Mary's Place is relatively well regarded locally.

Happy to answer any questions from a local techie's perspective.
I use git to sync between desktop and mobile and there is an android client for that called MGit
> Can one still side load Signal via adb install?

Yes, you can download the APK from the Signal website (https://signal.org/android/apk/) and install it with adb. If you have trust issues then you should think about compiling the source code yourself—it's very easy in Android Studio—and installing with adb.
They have also made a talk about the the design process of the squoosh webapp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipNW6lJHVEs
Commercial vanadium metal, of about 95% purity, costs about $20/lb. This is a tiny layer, so even at the 99.9% purity level cost of $100/oz, materials cost is not likely be a critical factor. The main constraint is that it's not making much power -- at this level it's really for very low power applications, especially things like sensors and comms.
Vanadium is only $6 per pound. About as expensive as street price of ice cream. It's not a rare earth element or anything like that.
I think western companies avoid them because they seem like little-company names. I see a lot of small businesses named “Quality Plumbing”, “First Rate Contractors” etc. But if they do well, they’ll change their names to “Plumbz” and “Cment” (you’ll be shocked to learn I’m not a marketing expert), or no one will trust them outside their home town.

Note that this wasn’t always so: Standard Oil, International Business Machines, General Electric, Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph were branded quite differently.
>inequality driven by Amazon's low wages for non-programmers

i think it is absolutely disingenuous to blame it on corporations playing by the rules clearly and explicitly established by the society. It is the society who bears responsibility for the ugly situation that the minimum wage is many times below living wage. The minimum wage must be at least $30-$50, especially in the high cost areas. I don't understand why the people at the local Starbucks who work much harder than me are making on the scale of ten-folds less. The society explicitly and intentionally maintains that situation by maintaining the very low minimum wage. The only reason i can find is that the society seems to want the social darwinism of the 'rat race' and achieves that by maintaining the large gradient between supposed "losers" and "winners" (which i think is almost medievally cruel) which powers the miracle of American economy. Looks like the society is pretty sure that nobody is going to work hard, or at all, if there were a generous safety net, a minimum wage allowing for normal life, etc ...
From mucking about with the device efficiency formula from wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_materials#Therm...), and a change of zT from 2.5 to 5, we see a maximal possible efficiency increase of 38% (when T_c == T_h).

Wiki also tells me that the best TEG modules currently lock in around 8%, so we're looking at like 10-11% at best with the new material.

So from a bulk scale electricity standpoint... the needle probably hasn't shifted at all. From a small scale? In the IoT like applications (as mentioned in the press release), that extra 30-40% is nothing to sneeze at.
This is called “progressive enhancement”, and is, in fact, the way that you’re supposed to write webpages: they should come pre-rendered, and only if
the client has JS enabled do you enable more dynamic features. You fall back to full pageloads to handle form submissions with not-very-clever coding, and can usually preserve most of the functionality of a webapp even without JS.

Until about 5-6 years ago, this was the way people tried to write webapps (they didn’t always get there, but at least they aimed for it). It’s really startling that it’s something that people have already forgotten.

It really isn’t terribly difficult to do this. Frameworks like Rails make it pretty easy to do, out of the box.
>Do these articles assume that engineers are incapable of thinking flexible

There are some developers that are like that, they read in a book about some patterns or idea and then in code reviews will jump on you because you did X wrong and not followed his bellowed pattern from the book.
Yeah I'm also wondering what happened... I was going to share the CCC page with friends, but the talk is missing from the 363C list (https://media.ccc.de/c/36c3). Feels weird sending around backup mirrors...
My biggest gripe with MOC is that it makes it no longer C++ and if I just want to quickly throw together some sample code and build it with a makefile I can't. This still requires the use of a separate header file with is annoying but a lot less annoying than writing in a language which is not c++ and which does not work with a simple toolchain.
>I still feel very strongly that prevention is the key

In case it didn't come through I'm 100% agreement with you on this. Learning about TIL and CAR-T therapies now, but in general feel that cancer vaccines would rival any pharmaceutical on the market in terms of profitability and net decrease in global misery.

Just trying to optimize the time between now and that (IMHO) inevitable day.
If you are not familiar with RL, I recommend first reading the two articles that the author links to:

- https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html

- https://himanshusahni.github.io/2018/02/23/reinforcement-lea...

They are no so recent anymore, but still capture the problem well.

Long story short: RL doesn't work yet. We're not sure it'll ever work. Some big companies are betting that it will.

> My own hypothesis is that the reward function for learning organisms is really driven from maintaining homeostasis and minimizing surprise.

Both directions are actively researched: maximizing surprise (to improve exploration), and minimizing surprise (to improve exploitation).

See eg "Exploration by Random Network Distillation" for the first, "SURPRISE MINIMIZING RL IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS" for the second.
A large percentage of cancers have infectious origins as well.
I really recommend Lynda ( now linkedin learning) not free (but remaking accounts works ofcourse), unless you signup via new york or LA library. also khan academy: information theory is really great: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science
I was trying to figure out how to do MOC from gnu make when I came across this, the only other option I saw was to run qmake and then run that generated makefile from my makefile. Of those two options verdigris seemed to be the better choice to me.
No, that would get him into even hotter water, especially if there is a 'non disparaging' clause in the termination papers. You are not a lawyer, so don't give advice that will most likely lead to the OP being sued by his former employer, especially not an employer that has already been shown to be all too ready to blame the OP for their misery.
See also Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolution. It’s the book that popularised the term ‘paradigm shift’.
And the AI would be able to outsmart a human attempting to shut it down.

https://intelligence.org/why-ai-safety/
Sometimes, send a letter is the best way to do.

Some systems fail to even implement the concept of reward (and punishment) and the agent is not even 'aware' of what is a reward (or a 'punishment'), and so the agent don't even know he is being rewarded (or 'punished') is in the first place. Then the system has to be redesigned to optimize the code.

Sometimes AI is the least straight forward solution, the most expensive and the less efficient in matter of result.
You must have grokked dimensional analysis from your strong EE math background which made the class a piece of cake?

Maybe you should try organic chemistry, the curves in that class are brutal and it's almost impossible to know everything intuitively to do well in tests the first time you are exposed to the material and concepts. Fun class and topic for the intellectually curious mind.
2019: A Year in the Verge Illustrations
Not so much - as the article notes the police still visit and sweep the place, they just don't arrive with guns drawn, and they even send plain clothes police instead of SWAT teams.

My question, though: what makes someone likely to be swatted? Is it their online expression of an opinion? Membership of a certain online sub-culture? A high real-life profile?
right to repair certainly helps, but wtf is this about:

> [...] Tesla isn't allowed to operate company-owned service centers in Michigan.
Checks out - I didn't realize we actually did fission... in... spaaaaace!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_space#Fission...