skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I would avise you not to map your own deficiencies onto others. If you don't have enough room for a 30 day supply of essentials and would think a neighbor approaching you with concern for your own safety would make them "a bit off" to the point that you would "avoid talking to them from then on"...well, not sure what to say.

I know all of my neighbors, well, at least somewhere between 30 to 40 of them. We've known them for years, decades in some cases. We actually have gatherings at each other's homes every so often. Try it, it's called contact with humanity. Not that hard. Neighbors are human beings, just like you. Sure, it requires a bit of effort, but anyone can do it.

> I think that's the paranoid thing to do

Yikes. More of the above. Sorry you feel that way. Ask the people in Wuhan it they think such a recommendation might be paranoid. Or how about the 1,000 people in Spain who just got quarantined in a hotel. Of the 300+ in Austria?

Proposing families and individuals prepare for a potentially extended quarantine isn't paranoid, it's caring enough about other to make sure they are aware of what might lie in the horizon. In my experience not everyone is well informed. I've had many conversations with people during the last few days who a) had no idea how bad things are around the world b) had no clue there's a better than 50% probability we'll have to contend with it in the US (not my words, this was said today at the CDC press conference).

> that doesn't require 30-45 days of supplies

If we get hit hard with COVID-19 in our large cities you'll be lucky if you have to stay locked-up for just 30 days. First of all, we now think the incubation period could be as long as 27 days (this is news out of Wuhan). So, right there you have justification for 30 days as a MINIMUM period. And it is worse because you can't risk re-infection. Aside from the fact that it would absolutely implode every economy in the world and cause more death, re-infection for not observing a reasonable 30 to 45 day quarantine period is just irresponsible.

Coming back to your own situation, I refuse to believe someone doesn't have the space for 30 days worth of food and essential supplies. OK, you don't have room for stake and burgers. You have to adapt. A 50 lb bag of rice will probably feed you for a month. Not ideal, but better than nothing. Add to that, say, 3 cans for something per day (soup, meat, whatever you like) and you have the basics. Do you have room for 100 cans of food under your bed, behind the TV, under the desk, in the bathroom? Probably. Not that hard.

Anyhow, free country and all that. You get to choose which reality you get to navigate. I'd rather be responsible, coordinate with friends, family and neighbors, help each other, prepare for a reasonable set of circumstances and come out of it in good shape.

Good luck.
Indeed, it’s pretty much overweight.
I mean, sure, people dislike annoying behaviors regardless of the home situation, but I think many will still treat you differently if they just happen to know you're homeless, regardless of the actual behavior, and I'd bet Doreen (the author) experienced it first hard.
I imagine you could reuse Catalyst to generate queries against JSON derived Datasets with some work. Starting point for some reading maybe? https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/e2d3983de78f5c80fac066b...
Worth noting this is on top of creating more traffic [1] and arguably decreasing usage of public transit. Ridesharing has a lot of benefits, but it's also got quite a few negative externalities that should maybe be priced into rides somehow. In theory fuel taxes would take care of this naturally, but in the US they really don't.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756945/uber-lyft-tnc-vmt...
Huh? Brave is fast, open-source, & protects privacy as well or better than any other option.

Brave's business-model experiments to support a tracker-free internet – like the crypto-tokens & user-agent-controlled ad-replacement – are opt-in.

And further: who's better for users?

Boycott Google & Microsoft, sure. But boycott tiny Brave? As Brave pushes the envelope on both privacy technology & privacy-respecting business models? That's a peculiarly self-defeating kind of righteousness.
Target Pools. Worst LB UX ever. Requires a daemon to run locally on your instance so that the instance routes traffic to a service to itself if it's part of the pool. If the service is down (say.... for maintenance), then all local traffic dies unless you stop the agent. It's a real mess.
You want a world where one powerful company can decide to kill you remotely with the click of a button and make it look like an accident. They don’t even need to be the ones to do it, all it takes is one Bluetooth RCE worm to infect all Teslas and stay dormant until a specific time and date when the payload activates and steers them all into trees at 90 mph. Hopefully the opposite of your twisted fever dream happens and we can make all forms of computed driving illegal.
Things with "considered harmful" in the title should be considered harmful.
I've followed news related to the company pretty closely, and there were not any rumors, or even speculation, that Iger would step down from the CEO role before the end of his contract in December 2021--especially not over a year and a half early.

I also read his book that came out last fall, and he explicitly said that his retirement is on the horizon, implying he was expecting to be in the role for awhile.
The anecdote implies the person may not even be homeless, they just appear homeless and crippled as a means of earning income, it's literally their career.
Do you really browse the web without an ad blocker? uBlock, Adblock, Ghostery etc. don't even try to compensate content creators. Calling Brave a bad actor is absurd.
Gotcha -- so it wasn't even trying to answer the prompt, and was just block of text that doesn't contribute to the discussion. Flagging, then. (not really, just saying ... keep your eye on the ball, commenters)
The primary issues here are the latency, throughput, and availability of information to this remote driver.

* The remote driver is seeing things 10s-100s of milliseconds after they've happened
* And somehow we're getting all of the data coming out of sensors on the car at high enough fidelity over the air
* And we're not having connectivity blips that would result in loss of remote control for seconds
Probably on the order of the number of taxis, delivery trucks and semitrailers in existence, plus some more to allow for increased demand when the cost of taxi transport gets closer to the marginal cost. It's a big potential market, and extremely lucrative if a single company gets there some years before the second-fastest competitor.
And, to be clear, people could still do bad stuff with compromised WASM.

The big difference is that the WASM sandbox significantly reduces the surface area of what bad stuff can be done.

Today, a compromise in the browser means the attacker can do whatever the browser can do (which is usually a LOT). With the sandbox, a compromise can only really affect what the sandbox has available to it. That means, if your sandbox only exposes a single method which takes in a string and returns a string, the worst thing an attacker can do is return a malformed string.

Of course, if you mishandle that returned string then bad stuff will happen but it's a far cry from the input string being able to potentially cause arbitrary code execution which installs a virus on your machine.

To really do something evil you have to not only compromise the code running in WASM, you have to find a way to break out of WASM. That's a lot harder to do.
“Known bad actor” Jesus Christ. Didn’t know they were on the HN browser blacklist!

HNers should be rooting for crypto to succeed - decentralized networks have the most promise for protecting privacy. Federated networks like email result in centralized entities - decentralized protocols like BitTorrent remain much harder to shutdown.
Go with warning flag patch also upgraded to 1.14: https://github.com/kstenerud/go#the-go-programming-language

The warning flag patch allows you to do:

go build -gcflags=-warnunused
go test -gcflags=-warnunused

which causes the compiler to only warn about unused things instead of stopping the build:

$ go test -gcflags=-warnunused
# github.com/kstenerud/go-describe
./describe_unsafe.go:8:2: Warning: imported and not used: "fmt"
./describe.go:329:2: Warning: isInUnsignedArray declared but not used

...

PASS
ok github.com/kstenerud/go-describe 0.002s

I use this when debugging or for exploratory coding.
I recently started a SwiftUI project and this is a very accurate take based on my experience.

How I spend my time in SwiftUI:
1. Wondering how I can get some conditional logic. Coming from React, this is a major issue that needs to be addressed.
2. Figuring out where and what the error actually is.
3. Restarting Xcode for my view to magically start working again.

The two-way data binding is a blessing and a curse. I like React's method of passing callback functions to keep the state logic separated. This comes up with me when working with sheets.

I see the potential. I like having an all-in-one experience that IDE + framework integration provides but the poor defaults and breaking bugs really make me question the execution.
FSF to Launch Code Hosting
They allow transfers from Google, rather than a full interview slate.

My bet is transfers outweigh anything you're praising here.
‘Mark Jurey's penny stove‘ oh lord! If the virus doesn’t get you the fire you create in your house with this surely will. Not for nothing, seriously do not do this in the house, on top of your non-functioning whatever stove. Maybe in the sink? Or better outside like the backpacking stove it is meant to be used as.

I actually have one of these I made from Guinness and soda can. It has absolutely no safety measure to prevent spilling the fuel. Tip that little can over on the top of a regular stove and you have a fire inside your stove. Ieeee
Representing shareholders and representing an entire population are two different things.
The automation of pharmacy needs to happen in two areas:

1. Count pills and package them.
2. Drug interaction detection.

1 can be automated. In fact the warehouse style pharmacy can do all that. The doctors (or you) send the prescription to the pharmacy warehouse. They ship the medicine to you.

2 can also be automated. Drug interaction are sets of rules and the detection can very well be done with machines.
Agreed. Witnessed first hand a large enterprise company was given free Azure credits in the millions. The executives loved it, until it was time to start paying.... Then they freaked out. Unfortunately for them, they had no centralized mechanism for control to reign in applications, so of course everyone said their application was critical. Part of the ever-failing multi/hybrid cloud approach.
> Or that the exploit is so difficult it is practically impossible to attack.

"That bug is so difficult to exploit, it is practically impossible to use in an attack" does not have a good track record in the face of determined and ingenious attackers. Worse, once the attackers figure out how to overcome the difficulties, that knowledge spreads and is often packaged into kits that make it easier for the next bug.

> The parent was talking about vulnerabilities, not bugs.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Bugs 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 15 in that list are serious memory safety vulnerabilities that were found in Chrome last year, contrary to your assertion that Chrome only had four last year.
Yes, and it was obnoxious.

It wasn't too long ago that nobody had running hot water in their homes either, and that also sucked.
Do you think technical progress is making life worse for the average person? I realize it's popular opinion (and I tend to agree) that it's disproportionately benefiting the richest. But that doesn't mean most people aren't benefiting from the cost/time savings that new technology has brought. Curious to hear why you think that way.
I would almost certainly start with 'The Wizard of Earthsea'. Incredibly approachable and likely her most influential work. Plus Ged is awesome.
FWIW I’ve also worked with mturk and find that to be an unfair comparison point because it basically a vestigial organ that nobody in academia actually even uses correctly.
And other clubs too. But if they are caught excluding, say, jews, it’s actionable (they can be successfully sued).
The answer from silentOpen is excellent, but I wanted to add a few things.

Hierarchy is the rule of men, not of laws. So even if there were a hierarchical relationship between bodies of law, that doesn't require a hierarchical relationship between people.

In the US, federal law can supersede state law, and state law can supersede county and city law. It does have to be written that way of course. In practice, many laws are written to allow jurisdictions to self-regulate within broad limits. For example, in California it's legal to open a marijuana store. But localities get to decide whether it happens in their city. And it's technically illegal federally, but that's currently unenforced.

But the president has no direct authority over governors, and governors have no direct authority over mayors. However much Trump dislikes a variety of San Francisco policies, he cannot just order them changed. Instead he would have to persuade both the House and Senate to pass a law, and San Francisco could challenge that law in the courts.
An absolute clown show. Straight Aldous Huxley's most horrific fever dream.
> > Linear algebra is really about linear transformations of vector spaces, which is not captured in this blog post.

> I... disagree.

This is literally the definition of the term "linear algebra".

> really at no point are we viewing what we're doing as transforming a vector space, we're just solving equations with unknowns.

You may not see what you're doing as transforming vector spaces with linear operators, but that is what you're doing. It's worth pointing out that the definition of vector spaces allows any field, including finite ones, though it's true that the intuition won't be exactly the same.

Another way to say this: if you're working on a problem without thinking about the connection to linear transformations, then it's not correct to say it's a linear algebra problem without obvious connection to linear transformations; instead, it's not a linear algebra problem at all, by definition.
This stringified approach loses type safety and IDE assistance for what benefit? Why do we want it to look like SQL? A Slick/Quill-like approach seems much safer.
Yep, in Finland its customary to nearly look down on those begging on the street, as most likely this is related to human trafficking or black market crime. We can do this because we know that a normal citizen would never need to do something like this.
The problem with clothing is that maintaining a middle class appearance essentially requires a middle class life.

My mother's mother came from a low level German noble family. My mother sews beautifully and clothes was a very big deal for most of my life. I spent some time wishing I could be an image consultant or fashion model. I still fantasize about starting my own clothing line and I recently took over r/ClothingStartups.

That background helped me pass for normal while homeless. I am capable of picking out clothes that work for me without trying them on. I was often mistaken for a tourist because I was clean and dressed casually.

But the kind of fit and social signaling and cleanliness you have in mind more or less requires housing. In practical terms, homeless people don't have the means to store clean clothes, change into a clean outfit daily, etc.

I didn't wash my clothes. I wore it for a week or three, acquired a new outfit, tried to shower if possible and threw the old outfit in the trash.

I didn't typically carry spare clothes. I typically only had the clothes on my back.

I've been back in housing for over two years. I still largely handle it the same way.

I'm in a hundred year old SRO. There is one washer and dryer for the whole building and it isn't especially clean and that's not a solvable problem because of the tenants in the building. There is one laundromat that I know of in town and it has limited hours. I'm not currently in a position to hand wash and hang dry my items.

I am still "under housed" and don't have my own kitchen and my fridge is currently dead and so forth. By some definitions, I would still be classified as "homeless", though it's vastly better than sleeping in a tent and I've always wanted to live in an SRO and it's been overall a terrific experience. Still, to have a normal job and dress like a normal middle class person for it would be challenging in my current circumstances.

I'm in the process of trying to remedy some of the issues with my unit. I'm waiting on my tax refund and when I get it I expect to replace the fridge, among other things. (Management offered me a used fridge, but I have a compromised immune system. It's not clean enough for my needs. They don't charge enough rent to cover luxuries like new fridges.)

Anyway, I do think about things like the hygiene issue. I wrote a piece about wanting to encourage hotel stays to help homeless people access showers more consistently.

But I really think we need to do things like bring back SROs and Missing Middle housing. Some things really can't be fixed while you are still unhoused. Trying to stay presentable in a "middle class person with a regular job" way is very challenging. I was only ever able pull off "Passes for a tourist on vacay, that must be why she's in sweat pants and a t-shirt."

People sleeping in their cars do have some storage. They may be more able than I was to address some pieces of this. But while living out of a back pack, there were limits to how middle class I could make myself look, in spite of having enormous personal strengths in the clothing/appearance department thanks to my mother and my personal background.
The Left Hand Of Darkness managed to be both groundbreaking and popular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness
This is true of real fighting too...
How did you meet those individuals? Have you considered that the mentally ill and drug addicts are more likely to require medical assistance, hence skewing your perception?
Not so sure about that. Having your laundry done for you and delivered is now a luxury service...
Thanks for saying so.
Why 59.94 Hz for NTSC TV? (1993)
>Brave really wants to increase the value of the Basic Attention Token by flipping the current business model of the web on its head.

It's not a bad idea, but IMO it's a bad execution.

They're effectively running a business based on extorting everyone building anything for the web (everyone from big businesses to small hobbyists trying to make something new) by flat-out replacing the most common form of monetization (ads) with their own monetization and saying, "Hey developers, I know you worked hard on that website, so if you want that money (or, at least, a cut of it we feel is fair), sign up for our platform instead".
Your browser vendor doesn't deserve a cut of the value of your attention/privacy, especially for an 'open source' browser.

Brave's cryptocurrency scheme gives the Brave owners a 30% cut of all profits.
>When CEOs unexpectedly leave, don't they usually do it because they know something

That in theater revenue is about to tank because of virus fears? Then again I have no idea how much of Disney revenue occurs at the movies.
Seems to me that by this definition, Yerba Maté and Kombucha, etc. should be regulated too. Weird.
I especially think the "your car becomes a taxi and pays for itself" gimmick is beyond fantasy.

And if it really did happen the way these people imagine, competition in the market against everyone else who has a Tesla would likely slash taxi fares down to within a few percent of your operating costs.
I do a similar calculus when learning a new game.

However, I break things down a little differently.

1) How to win. What gets counted to win, usually VPs. If you understand that, and how to efficiently accrue them, then you're a few steps ahead. Then, how to end the game. Can you control how it ends?

You use this in engine vs endgame, but I prefer breaking it out because not all games have two phases. Some simply generate VPs as you go (no compounding engine mechanic), and what you really care about is turn efficiency.

2) My other rule is compare to similar mechanics from other games.

I have heavily studied other games, so spotting how a draft system works or engine-building and turn efficiency is easily recognizable and I can calculate sorta optimal moves. Similarly this gives you an easy framework to figure out how the specifics of this game compare to each other.

3) Table dynamics. Almost always you can get a huge edge just by knowing what you need to do NOW vs latter. This is mostly about efficiency. If you know player X is going to take Red next turn, then you can decide if denying them is worth it, or that means you're safe to take/ignore Blue. So sussing out what other players are doing, especially if they're cooperating, is especially helpful.

To accomplish this, I actually try to turn the table dynamics to friendly and talkative. Usually in the guise of it's a friendly game and look at my sharing my insight/knowledge. So others freely share what they're thinking. Means discovering strategies in the game happens faster, but I also glean important tips from others.
This is a bad idea, neural nets upscale by "hallucinating" in the details. That's fine for videos for entertainment, not for medical imaging.

And this is distinctly different from compressed sensing which uses a high frequency and mathematical basis.
Crypto doesn't mean decentralized, and Brave BAT is definitely not decentralized.

Edit: not exactly decentralized in practice.
Or we could just...provide it through the government like any other sane country.
This is somewhat special in that Bob has been planning to retire for quite some time. His contract is up at the end of next year and every indication was that he intended to honor that. What feels weird is how Disney is executing the succession plan.

Again, I don't think it's scandal. If it were, he wouldn't stay through his contract and he wouldn't still be chairman. I don't even think it's bad performance, because the only hits to earnings predictions have been things outside their control, like the coronavirus.

Again, feels weird.
English is a consensus based language, not a language ruled by any official.

Words mean what people think they mean. Definitions are what the author of the dictionary thinks people think they mean.

Unless you're going to spend the time and money and effort educating people on what a word might have once meant and what you would like it to mean again, you're kind of stuck with it. Tesla has absolutely chosen AutoPilot as their name because they know some people will think it has more capability than it does because some people don't know most plane's autopilot is fairly dumb.
I think a good example that aids definition is "meta-optimisation" (aka "meta-computation).

Optimisation is a process that aims to find the best possible solution to a problem. E.g. let's use Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest path between two locations.

Meta-optimisation is finding the best possible process to do optimisation. E.g. let's use A* with a reasonable heuristic instead of Dijkstra's algorithm, because it'll be faster to run and give the same optimal result.

The meta-game here is that time-to-compute PLUS travel the path is the real thing that needs optimising - not just the path length.
All this is really saying is that people are using it because it's convenient. Don't blame Uber and Lyft for filling a void that public transit has been unable to fill. Congratulate them for improving the productivity and efficiency of our economy so that we can have the disposable income to tackle long term questions like pollution.