skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is income the reason most homeless people are homeless, or is mental health issues why.

And is a lack of funds the reason California can't address their mental health, or is an inability/lack of interest the reason?
I understand your emotion, it’s coming through clear. At what salary do we need to seize someone’s further income out of fairness?
D-word ain't selling me any more of their taxes and delusions.

Moving to Nevada next month.
Isn't it dangerous to walk around without being able to hear car horns, people shouting, etc.?
> Given free transcription and the drive of remote work to video conferencing, we’re about to witness a Cambrian explosion of cataloged meeting information. What was previously oral knowledge will be automatically documented by machines. We’ll see many opportunities come out of this.

Automatic searchable transcripts for video chats. Now that sounds useful!
I am not a Rust guy (yet?). Are safe and super fast mutually exclusive? As I reas the article I sensed your explanation was probably the case. Did the many safety-making patches cause the performance to go down?
Anyone using Japan as an example of housing prices does not understand Japanese housing.

Zoning in Japan is done at a national level, not local. Once an area is designated for housing, housing goes there. Because of this there is a constant flow of new housing, which drives the price of old houses down.

This is not possible anywhere zoning is done at a local level. Anytime one person has the ability to stop another from building you immediately create NIMBYdom and where the NIMBY exists, more housing does not because the NIMBY cares about nothing but their own property value. But that also feeds into the insane American idea of housing as an investment rather than a place to keep birds from crapping on you.

Until the NIMBY is eliminated, and housing is no longer sold as an investment, housing costs will not go down.
I think you're not fully understading the theory of the Boltzmann brain. A Boltzmann brain would not exist for any extended period of time. They only exist for an instant, they don't "track" any sort of existence or conciousness, they merely pop in to existence for an instant and then disappear the next.

Imagine your current mental state as a snapshot. By pure luck some atoms could arrange into the exact same state as your brain is right now. And for that moment, it would be you, it would have your full set of memories. It would be indistinguishable from your current existence.

And then the next moment it would cease to exist.

But there could be infinite many such brains popping in to existence and then disappearing at every instant, with every conceivable configuration of state/memories.
The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimization Theater (2009)
I’d love to get a network segmentation option in DO.

IAM is a big no though.
So as a rich Chinese person, you invest in western real property as a vehicle to make it appear that you don’t control money that you are not entitled to by law, or move it out the reach of the banking or taxing authority.

... that’s money laundering!
That's hilarious.

So people have to give a personal account of one voter, because there are that few conservatives.
Yes, that's a problem. Nobody that bought a home on the vague notion that they HAVE to make money off of it when they sell it will ever vote to have a homeless shelter built across the road.
Seems like it's something to incentivize owners (e.g. Abigail Disney) / founders at the expense of executives? Non-founder executives tend to be somewhat parasitic leeches / mba types, so I can't say I'd be unhappy with them getting payed less. That said, this sort of initiative seems to be part of a pattern of poorly thought out attempts to attack "income inequality".
Basically, "atheism" has several specific definitions along with the general one of "doesn't believe in god." Nihilism often wouldn't fit the specific definitions, but would the general one.
98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Isn’t the Average Anymore
No questions, but really enjoyed your blog, and your comments on this website over the past few years.
It does seem like it's open to manipulation. More money for lawyers and accountants.
He explicitly made the repo private over handing it to someone else.

https://gist.github.com/pcr910303/d7722a26499d0e9d2f9034a06f...
Pretty much. This will exacerbate the practice of hiring high paid white collar workers directly while contracting out to staffing firms for low paid positions.
Typical California, just adding another tax for the sake of taxation...

Jesus this state is doomed
This would be some sort of emergent theory of "meaning", originating from individual organisms once they are sufficiently evolved to understand the concept, much like consciousness could perhaps arise. "Meaning" then starts out as the significance that an organism attaches to its own existence.
I feel like North Carolina is the sweet spot right now. I live in Wisconsin so it's hit or miss on summers and winters being too cold or too hot. NC has very comparable summer weather and warmer winter weather, also it doesn't have absurd cost of living like the west coast or NYC.
Ah, I guess in that instance, I figure why worry? It's out of your control anyway. Worrying now can't fix it later.
I think that measuring software engineers' knowledge is still an unsolved problem. You can know concepts and things without knowing how to apply them. On a standardised test this means you can remember the answers by heart and thus pass the test without necessarily being able to apply that knowledge to varying real-world situations.

> pulling random coding questions from basically the same pool of questions

At least in my experience, my interviews had very little questions with single, defined answers and more open-ended questions (how would you design this? let's spend one hour pair-programming and set up a basic Django project) as well as being evaluated by actual developers instead of no-skill monkeys. This in my opinion tests your ability to actually apply whatever knowledge you had to real-world problems, while not disqualifying you because you are bad at memorising things (I will not even attempt an algorithm-based interview because I have no knowledge on the subject and no desire to research them either since it doesn't come up frequently enough in my job to make it worthwhile to learn them).
Don't we experience reality as if we were a Boltzmann brain anyways?

How many of us remember the first moment we became conscious?
But while your ability to get funding is 10x if you have an office in a certain geographical area, there will still be incentives to being there. Because sure, the chances of success for your gig economy app for mimes is much greater if your developers are working in the Mission and eating avocado toast for breakfast, so here's a million dollars, go build it

Yes, it is ridiculous.
There is an exploit that can be used, but it only works on old devices (iPhone X and older).
I mean if you take the income inequality argument and apply it to the world it is clear that pretty much every person in a developed country is an evil rich person taking too many resources.
That's 100% what they mean. They're a magahatter that can't keep their mouth shut but don't have the balls to open it in front of anyone that will call them on their bullshit.
The article literally talks about this. The problem is unborn children, i.e. pregnancy. That's solely a burden for the mother, who will not be able to travel and keep up with strenuous work schedules for most of the duration of their pregnancy.
Most of the property crime is see from various places around here the past couple years has been theft and damage under $500 - not enough to make it worth filing an insurance claim, and police reports don't seem to do much around here, sometimes they tell you to call back in a day or two if you do call.

So there is plenty of crimes posted on the fbook / nextdoors / stuff like that were people are feeling victimized / but these are not going to show in any crime stats anywhere. Unless fbook has some AI run through and tabulate this stuff and report it by area one day..

You also can't see the impact from some stats. A neighbor recently had a naked guy pounding on her back door, they did get cops out for that one, arrested him from hiding inside here storage shed... with screenshots of the whole ordeal posted in a group - lots of people were a bit traumatized, yet you would see in the crime stats '1 arrested for trespass' - which does not give you a good idea of the impact on the community of this data point.

trying to reply to comment below, but I guess the thread is at max threshold.

I like to point to data for calming things down sometimes like the gun violence debate.. but often times there is much missed in looking at data from a far.

Plus, a couple of mayors ago, our city mad all the cops change how they report crimes (choose the softer things to charge people with so the stats look better) - and, officers were actively asking people not to press charges for things, go so far as explaining the process, and how we would spend hours in court and they would be off the streets doing important stuff for hours if we pressed charges, and that the person was not going to be in jail anyway..

Maybe things are different elsewhere and maybe in some places they have some of the same tricky data reporting, until we have all robot cops that run the same software in all cities, some of these things are going to be difficult to compare.
Ask HN: Does environmental impact influence your choice of employer?
If [x] = all considerations influencing your decision, for example {salary, culture, location, colleagues, technology, benefits, environment, other factors}

What % of [x] = the company's environmental impact?
"> life is meaningless
This is actually objectively true"

Definitely not 'objectively true'.

It's only 'objectively true' from a narrow materialist perspective, and there are other ways to look at it.

"our life are not different to the laws of physics then a rock on the surface of Mars.

Our life is meaningful to ourselves, however."

This is really quite some contradiction.

First - the materialist assumption (which I would say is a fallacy, or rather it's only partly true) which postulates that the universe is merely energy/matter bouncing around according to laws ...

... and second - then the acceptance that 'it's meaningful to ourselves'.

Consider what 'ourselves' (i.e. life, consciousness) are - something that's by definition not possible to describe with 'physics' because we've ruled it out (energy and matter acting according to rules cannot be 'aware' or 'conscious').

Contemplate for half a second that the expression of life is the meaningful, real thing, and that materiality is just the measure of the matter it's expressed in, and that science is just a tool for that. Or at least that's another, pretty reasonable way to consider it. And there are definitely other ways.
A valid point. Every American should feel bad about the fact they were born in America, if you follow that logic.
I never thought of "The UNIX Programming Environment" and "The C Programming Language" as companion books. Thanks for opening my eyes to that.
FYI - your code does not build for me because of dependency resolution issues.

Not sure why.

I'm using latest Idea.
Coq has less built-in automation, but with Ltac it's possible to achieve impressive levels of automation through explicitly-crafted decision procedures, as demonstrated in Chlipala's CPDT and many of his papers.
The issue has been studied extensively. There is plenty of stuff available out there if you go look.
The article is not entirely clear, but I suspect that the threshold to deploy the Barnacle is lower than for towing. For example, would they really call the tow truck for a car with three unpaid tickets? And if a vehicle is parked blocking a fire lane or an entrance, they'll still have to have it towed, so there's not a one-to-one correspondence between the use cases.
The French word for work, 'travail', comes from 'tripalium', a medieval torture instrument. It's bad for everyone, and I definitely think a society where only one parent has to work instead of two is better.

A 'career' is something pop singers and top athletes (male or female) have. They even have agents to manage those careers. But most people have a job; they do work, travail, tripalium.

The fact that people confuse the two is just capitalist propaganda.
Woven: https://angel.co/joelrunyon
I can't find details on this bill, but as a former tax lawyer, I am wondering about these issues:

• Are contractors counted as employees? If not, then companies would have an incentive to keep low-paid workers as contractors instead of employees.

• How is stock-based compensation, or other incentive-based compensation, treated? Executives are compensated largely with variable compensation like this in order to align their incentives (at least in the short run) with the company's. I could see SBC being exempted from this calculation, which would render the bill largely meaningless. For example, Steve Jobs took $1 in salary for many years.

• What about stock previously owned by the executives? That is, Mark Zuckerberg owns a ton of FB stock, so any income he receives via capital gains or dividends is not tied to his role as CEO. Presumably these are not counted?
That is not money laundering. If you want money laundering go have a look at what goes on with Trump properties. Real estate changing hands with massive variances in value, well out of step with market influence.

The entire concept of money laundering requires the money be illegally obtained. Simply moving money that you legally acquired around is not money laundering. Stop using words you do not know the meaning of.
I will consider it. I guess I won't work on proof of work based cryptocurrency.
I mean it also requires the companies to be incorporated in CA, but Delaware has gone to great lengths to make it super easy to be "a Delaware company" w/o any actual meaningful proportion of the business there.
Ask HN: Looking for Some Advice
Thank you hn for everything! I appreciate all inputs.

I am a new ECE PhD graduate and I never felt more lost in my life. 1) I don’t remember anything I learned during my undergraduate degree. I remember some things, but it feels substantially less than what I knew during that time. 2) I feel slow sometimes; it sometimes takes me a while to figure something out or to look at from a different angle. 3) I am currently working in my field of study but I focus on another field during work after hours. I enjoy the other field as a hobby.

Bottom line is, I don’t feel sharp although I’m in my late 20s. Should I be worried about my future in tech? Or does anyone else go through the same thing ? Do you remember everything from undergrad sharply? Do you ever feel “slow”?

Thanks!
Which, to be fair, can only function, even in the context of the story, by relying on a fictional device that would effectively provide free energy (in massive quantities) for the lifetime of the conceivable universe, with no side effects.
That might be true for Dotnet.

But from what I heard, to get where it is, actix developer took some really bizzare shortcuts. E.g. hardcoding parts of response. On top of general unsafe usage.

I think the benchmarks are flawed, since they don't account for such "optimizations".
I am using TechSmith's Camtasia. It is powerful and easy to use.
I don’t get it. If you have luggage, wouldn’t you also have a hotel or motel room to store it in?

This sounds more like something you’d do so your buddy, Dave, could pick up a suitcase of drugs or something.
Thanks for the correction! But he also wasn't above just making stuff up to increase business. Maybe the funniest one was predicting and then faking a competing printer's death, and then claiming that someone was pretending to be him. Apparently this increased circulation for both publishers.

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

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62668/6-ben-franklins-gr...
So you are saying people who invested earlier should be penalized because they were..I don’t know..alive before you and had a life and build a home that happened to appreciate in value even though it’s a perceived value with no real liquid gains.

Maybe they don’t want to profit out of capital gains. Maybe some people love their home of 30 years and would like to spend the reminder of their lives debt free after planning their retirement.

Seniors and retirees are such low impact on society. They have savings. They pay for services they don’t use. Their pensions and ssi is based on pre inflation valuations. They don’t use schools. Probably drive less and consume less and have a smaller carbon footprint. Most importantly they have already paid for themselves and probably paid their dues to society and several batches of public school kids.

To be envious of them and trying predatory taxation techniques on them is a breach and violation of social contract.
monorepos are just a disaster
I made it up :)

Also, I don't recall anything explicit about Landmark and nihilism. It's just my opinion.
X varies and only matters at the extremes.

No matter how awesome the culture is, I’d never work at Exxon-Mobil.

A job listing from an org seeking new solutions to climate change might make my ears perk but all other factors would still have to meet my standards of sufficiency.

For 99% of prospective employers it’s a non-factor.
Ranked choice voting isn't what's stopping a third party. Majority-wins / first-past-the-post is.

There's ranked choice voting in San Francisco, and there's not a new party.
>If nothing has inherent meaning then you are the one who has power to give meaning to things. You can avoid giving meaning to mishaps, mistakes, past, nasty comments and anxiety while cherishing and making other things more meaningful (to yourself). That's one outlook on nihilism

As I understand it, that is, in fact, existentialism, not nihilism.
They are not mutually exclusive, though some people will try to suggest it.
You've misunderstood those sentences. The OP is saying that out of all the governments in the world, North Korea is the one that grants its citizens the least rights.
Unless you live in the most fashionable areas of Manhattan, the rents are tolerable. If you live outside the most fashionable parts of Brooklyn, Queens, LIC, the rents are quite okay, provided that you work for a decent wage.

If you choose to live close enough to a train station, almost everything of interest is within 20-40 mins by train. Subway is not exactly great, but it's safe and works around the clock in most places. (To say nothing of the fact that in most places the daily necessities are within walking distance, even in not-so-dense Brooklyn.)
Please run below from command line first to see if it works:

mvn clean package
Jerry Brown was a conservative by any historical understanding of the term, and he won in a landslide. Gavin Newsom is also relatively moderate. For example, he's made it clear that it's simply not economically feasible to throw money at homeless housing (because he literally tried that in SF as mayor). And hit the pause button on high-speed rail (which is basically a death sentence). Newsom rose up through the San Francisco Democratic political machine, which while liberal on social issues has been until recently predominately controlled by right-of-center politicians and interest groups. The last three mayors, including Newsom, have been opponents of the self-styled "progressive" faction. Unfortunately, Newsom has ambitions for higher office so he's not providing much leadership at the moment; just refereeing squabbles and trying to avoid bad press.

A large contingent of Republicans wanted the top-two primary system, believing it would benefit them. (Though the GOP opposed it.) It didn't work out that way. But it didn't really change the dynamics in the other direction, either; that train had been accelerating for years.

California is a one-party state because of term limits. Running for office is expensive and difficult. Few sane people, unless they're independently wealthy, wish to expend all that time and effort to serve a mere two terms. They want a political career. With term limits the only way to have a political career is to jump office every two terms. The best chance of accomplishing that--of achieving career "progression"--is to work closely with a political party, which can ensure a spot in various low-level offices if you don't make the cut for a bigger office. Term limits make the party system more important. What ends up happening is that the party with more offices and better electoral chances in the near future when this process starts will quickly build on that initial advantage, while the other parties will quickly wither. If Texas enacted term limits I have no doubt that Houston, Austin, Dallas, etc, would quickly become, nominally at least, Republican.

That said, California may be a one-party state, but there are absolutely liberals, moderates, and conservatives within the party. What difference does the label "Democratic" or "Republican" make, so long as there are free and open elections? From a foreign country's perspective, most American politicians behave alike regardless of whether they're Democratic or Republican.

One benefit of being an all-blue (or all-red) state is that there's less political grid-lock. At least, less grid-lock from naked partisanship. Grid-lock from the electorate demanding conflicting and contradictory policies... alas that doesn't go away.
I, spread across multiple ventures, spend a significant (to us) sum with DigitalOcean.

I was a bit panicked by the story and, I imagine like many, Was already thinking up migration strategies to communicate to the team in the morning.

The response given by the cofounder allows me to rest this weekend, and keeps me from harassing engineering staff while off.

Thanks.
Principia is indeed a classic, but the mathematical maturity required to follow that profoundly foundational approach is considerable. Even for professional mathematics (source: professors of mine who specialized in mathematical logic).

BLL includes several categories on logic, though, which include classics by Kleene, Curry, etc. For instance, "Foundations of mathematics" [1], "Philosophy of mathematics" [2], and "Model theory" [3]

[1] https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/browse?field_tags_tid=...

[2] https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/browse?field_tags_tid=...

[3] https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/browse?field_tags_tid=...
This seems like open and deliberate redistribution on those would vote for redistribution.
Certifications were key to my career in tech since I transistioned late from a totally unrelated, blue collar field. For me they were a way for me to convince myself it was okay to apply for a job doing something I was new at. What's weird is I see many of those who tout hands on experience and 'projects' as the only true mark of competence who routinely apply for and get jobs that they aren't exactly qualified for. I never had that kind of ego. Certs were my confidence.
California has to be one of the most business friendly states in the US. It's the #1 GDP state in the use, and the #8 GDP per capita state in the US.

There are certainly some aspects which are less attractive to business, but in the end, it's one of the best places for business.
Depends on your ethical framework. A utilitarian could claim that after the point where the marginal value of the dollar to the rich person is so low that seizing it results in higher global utility, even taking into account the angst and disincentives on the rich as a result.

Is society better off if you take 100 mil in income from Larry Ellison and Sundar pichai and build a few hundred units of low income housing? Even if it pisses off ellison and Google pays pichai less the next year?