skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this not the problem that "credit scoring" systems are designed to solve? You've identified a major issue, certain segments of the homeless population are much riskier for "civilians" than others. The problem is the guy who couldn't make rent last week is lumped together with the schizophrenic meth addict with a long history of violence.

The solution, at least for the "harmless homeless" is to credibly broadcast to civilians and authorities their benign circumstances and histories. With widespread facial recognition and augmented reality, this might not be as hard to do as it seems. The homeless can be assigned a social credit score based on their criminal record, user rating by shelters and other provider institutions, employment history, and how long they've been homeless. Authorities, and potentially even civilians, can instantly identify and flag homeless people that are likely to be problematic.

Without a doubt, this regime would certainly make life better for the harmless and down-on-their-luck homeless types. Yet my guess is most would oppose such a system. The point is tradeoffs exist in the social design space. Most of the down-on-the-luck homeless are unfairly stigmatized because society at large lumps them in with the violent, destructive and anti-social. We can make more efforts to draw a visible class distinction between those respective groups, yet it's often homeless advocates that oppose doing so.
Didn't they just get spot instances recently?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/spot/
I spent some time working on a psych ward for a very low SES hospital. I can’t tell you how often we established a place of residence and continuity of care for patients before discharging them, only to have them more or less openly tell us they’d bail and go homeless as soon as they got out because they don’t like the rules (eg, no drugs) or resources (roommate or community dwelling situations, rather than private apartments).

Just throwing more money at the problem would have helped, but certainly wouldn’t have solved the problem.
I quit my Software job to drive the world. Kickstarting my Africa book
Gruber has mellowed out a lot. Early Gruber was definitely _not_ "thoughtfully critical", but slavishly defensive, "Apple is playing 4D chess", etc.
You are over-complicating simple advice that is perfectly reasonable and not extreme at all:

Assume stores will be closed. Plan accordingly. Be glad if things don't play out that way. No harm done. Not difficult. Not extreme. Not a big deal. Just reasonable assumptions and planning in the face of what could be a very serious event in human history.
If you disengage with flying or driving the consequences can be catastrophic in seconds.

Fewer things to hit in the sky but you can never be complacent.

Imagine playing an iPhone game while PIC and accidentally flying into the clouds? The CFIT stats are terrifying.
More time as a registered user
Definitely agree on these points! And I'm not trying to shift people to feeling guilty or pushing to "make a difference" as much as examine how inaction is also a choice that can matter.

As you point out, though, as an individual against the powers and machinery of society and businesses, often our single lives actions seem trivial in making a measurable difference.

Thus why others argue the correct solution is organization and coordination. Join party X! Donate to organization Y! Spread the word to your friends to boycott Z! etc etc. Then you are a part of the effort and your actions magnified, even if you aren't necessarily the leader expending all that energy.

Granted, the counter-point is usually that such organizations can become corrupted and serve other values such as self-existence and thus must also be seen with suspicion... but I won't go down hat rabbit hole.

Personally I think even a small personal live's difference does matter, even if only to myself. A bit of a Thoreau view. But that's just my personal take and I don't begrudge those over whelmed and burned out, nor those who continue to flood my newsfeed with calls to action for their causes.

But my takeaway is opting out is still a choice that has an effect. It lets what exists persist due to inertia, or at minimum gives away your vote to others who are more motivated. That is neither good nor bad, but another tool to remind yourself that you have.
Pretty much how it feels as a night owl forced to get up by 9am. A bit tired all day, want to go back to bed, then suddenly awake when it gets dark even though I've had no rest since rising.
Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
> and forbidding commercialization

It's nice to see the Smithsonian get over their distaste of the market economy in the US.
I comment here quite often, and people have been genuinely interested in my travels and experiences.

I'm just about finished writing a ~400 page book about my experiences in Africa. The good times, the bad times, the things that went wrong, and more importantly what I learned from Africa and the wonderful people there.

Even though they have so little money they are much happier than many people I know in Australia/Canada, and the reality on the ground was much, much different than the perspective the media had given me before I went.
As a user I bet I’d prefer the contenteditable approach. I find that absolutely consistently the cleverer a web rich text editing widget tries to be, the worse the experience is, and the more it breaks my model of how such things work on the native platform. Dropbox Paper’s is atrocious (I’ve reported several super-annoying bugs, and never had even a response). Slack’s new widget is abysmal (I haven’t even bothered filing bugs with them, because everyone else has already complained about the same things—most of all, its caret handling is quite insane). Google Docs I haven’t edited with for many years, so I can’t fairly remark on it. I can think vaguely of a couple of tech demos of not using contenteditable at all from a few years back, and at that time they were awful on desktop and entirely unusable on mobile. I don’t know if the situation has improved at all from that, but I’m sceptical.

Do you happen to have either or both implementations on the public internet? If so, I could see just how many seconds it takes me to be infuriated by them, especially by the non-contenteditable text editor. If I fail, I will gladly eat my metaphorical hat, but presently I would assign odds of well under 0.1% of that happening.

Sure, contenteditable has many bugs and inconsistencies, and Chrome’s implementation especially is a toy as regards functionality (e.g. poor table and image handling, difficulty with distinguishing a caret inside the end of one node from one after the end of that node), but much of the 60% that it gets you is stuff you can’t get at all any other way, especially insofar as it varies by platform, mostly deliberately.

pcwalton’s proposal interests me because it would actually concretely examine what can and can’t be done, and definitely identify the shortcomings. It would have a chance of actually being good.
sRGB can be stored in 8bpp. Linear can not. ALU is cheaper than memory bandwidth, and the conversion is in hardware on modern GPUs. Typically, the conversion from linear to sRGB is done as part of the tonemapping which converts from linear quantities, usually from an 16-bit HDR framebuffer target to an 8-bit one.

Mixed in with this is MSAA where the resolve is typically done in non-linear space (this is a choice to artificially boost "smoothness", this is an artifact that happens IRL) [0] https://mynameismjp.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/msaa-overview/
No, the data cited is not for online searches. I expected the same, but it goes back to the 19th century. Probably it's the frequency with which the word appears in scanned literature, which is even farther removed from anything relevant to blog, given the way synonym and idiom usage changes over time.
I also discovered that if you claim the car towing assistance/emergency roadside assistance, they insurance would file as claim and that might be possibly considered as proper paid out claim and affects your insurance premium. You can get your lexisNexis report every year that corresponds to your driver profile based on SSN

https://risk.lexisnexis.com/products/clue-auto
First of all, no one said renters are paying less than property tax? But even if they were, it's still the same logic.

That's just the law of supply and demand. Renters pay the market rate. If an owner can't afford to rent at that market rate, then as you noted, they go out of the renting business. You'll find if you run the numbers on properties in SF, landlords are banking on property appreciation. The market rents don't pay the ownership costs, usually by a huge margin.
> I am guessing the salespeople at the test drives have learned saying it gets them sales and, since nothing is in writing, it won’t come back to bite them.

Wonder if they learnt that from their CEO, who said "this year" in 2014, 2016, 2018 and again about this year?
> “It’s like, ‘If this doesn’t go well, there are 20 other guys who look like you in my inbox.’ And I’m sure they feel the same way—that there are 20 other girls who are willing to hang out, or whatever.”

Funny how inverted the expectations and realities of dating via apps are (disclaimer: for most people).
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It's interesting because the blog post is dated December 2019 and they are in "preview".

Cute strategy if they are indeed a rebrand.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-previe...
32-bit float per color channel would be 128bpp, which is really expensive. You rarely have the bandwidth to afford that.
True, for example zstd support has been in the queue for ages
How can I improve the loading speed of my Company's website?
Does anyone have any feedback?
FWIW, I think that the real issue is Bg eating things like moog mothers... I very much love mine (and could have bought either), but I can see why folks would rather spend 300 than 600.

Your point is generally good; I got a maths and a couple of other things immediately after the mother.
GNOME 3 actually does a far better job of integrating the "desktop" and "tablet/mobile/hybrid" worlds, and that's with a pretty conventional widget toolkit (Adwaita), albeit running on a loosely Win8-like shell (no "applications menu" or taskbar by default, they're replaced by an "overview" screen). So I'm pretty sure that the traditional Win32 UI would've been up to the task with a few tweaks.
A lot of the Microsoft Azure stuff is simply because companies do large volume deals with Microsoft for Windows/Office/Sharepoint and Azure becomes a piggyback. "Well we are paying Microsoft millions of dollars anyway, why not use their cloud too?".

Google could solve this by fixing Linux on the desktop, or essentially making as many parts of ChromeOS open as possible. With Windows 10's bloatware, Microsoft has made many missteps – a Google Linux that looks and works like a Mac, and has native G Suite as well as meaningful GCP integrations would be an Azure-killing app. Unfortunately chances seem very slim that Google will ever have the imagination to do something like this.
The Show HN heading is confusing. Those are just the posts with the highest number of responses. Look at the top of that page for a link to the newest posts which most likely aren't on the Show HN list yet if ever.
It looks like it has been released now.
You could make a similar analogy with the headphone jack. We know everyone wants those back but alas...
> english is way more efficient than french, spanish, german or chinese to talk about technical stuff

That's your opinion or do you have supporting research to link to?
I agree. With the the ribbon they broke their own UI guidelines and never got back. Windows 95 was a huge jump in usability but first with the ribbon and then with Windows 8 they destroyed their own progress.

Even after years I prefer menus and toolbars over the ribbon. With them you can scan in one direction whereas with the ribbon you have to up and down, left and right. I find it really difficult to find something there.
"your assumptions of "things everybody knows""

The fact that not everyone knows the same things is the whole point! And if you don't have any knowledge that is related to the interviewer's, then how are they going to evaluate you using any method?

But sure, there are specific, inflexible requirements. You have to know false precision is BS, and I have no sympathy for people who have a problem with that. You have to in general, know what you know and what you don't.
It's probably fine in the research phase, but when the tech is productized/commercialized, then it takes off, and then the money starts rolling in, the niche starts attracting social conservatives.
Pharmacy revenues will remain constant. The only difference is that instead of paying pharmacists, all that money is just going to sit in the caymans, with all the other automation gains.
> EDIT: I think I see the confusion. This project is about statistical classification, which generally assumes the data is in rows and columns.

If I may come at this from the other direction, do you mean the rows and columns of a matrix? Coming from a relational background, I hear "data", "row" and "column" and I'm thinking of something that is essentially meant to be a set of relations.

> Can you be more specific? I'm not sure what you mean

If your data is structured in a normal form, you can project it back out in a number of different ways. This is not true of most data structures, which entangle the structure of the world with the pattern of data access. Relational algebra allows a database to distinguish between the model of the world and how data may be arranged and accessed.

The flipside of this is that relational algebra is performed over classical sets and, depending on one's views about sets, they can be used to represent anything that can be represented.
Turnover in professional jobs is quite high, sometimes around 20% per annum.

There may not be many people out of work, but there are always people looking for the next job.
Googles job is to make money, which means monetizing your data. We have no reason to expect anything else from a free service. I fail to understand why this surprises people. If that does not work people can use another search engine (duck duck go or the like) and pay for email (proton, etc).
I believe you're in agreement.

The original comment said

> It's not until you reach a level where everyone around you has a mastery of the fundamentals, that the meta comes into play.

and you said

> At any given MMR bracket, everyone around you has a similar mastery of the fundamentals so the meta is relevant.

which refutes the original comment.

> However, put someone with the fundamentals of a 6k+ MMR player into a 3 or even 4k match and they'll demolish everyone else even with a disadvantage relative to the metagame.

I don't think anyone disagrees with this; I think the issue I (and the person you're responding to) have is the idea that you should ignore understanding the meta until you're 6k MMR as you say.

Both are important and you should develop both at the same time if you want to improve.
> entire anti-CAA protests are organized and funded and instigated

Or maybe the people who are afraid that they (or their friends/family) might lose their citizenship want to fight for it? Just seems like a simpler explanation.

And before you try explaining that CAA is harmless, no intelligent person falls for that. We know that it's the combination of NRC and CAA that makes it lethal.
I hope part of their plan is fixing their documentation. Their documentation is crap and they can't win if they don't fix it. Apparently GCP technical writers have not been tasked with creating task/goal oriented documents. For grins, look up how to create a load balancer. You'll find 5 different articles. There won't be one containing the specific instructions you're looking for. The whole thing needs to be torn out by the roots and recreated around achieving specific results. They are unlikely to do this, so they are unlikely to catch up let alone win.
Douglas Crockford on Monads:

In addition to its being good and useful, it’s also cursed and the curse of the monad is that once you get the epiphany, once you understand - "oh that's what it is" - you lose the ability to explain it to anybody else.

https://youtu.be/dkZFtimgAcM
Chloroquine phosphate shown efficacy treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia in studies
No, the incident happened at 8:40 and by 8:43 they couldn't pull the nose up because of the horizontal trim being pushed down. That is a very short amount of time to diagnose something completely unexpected. No matter what they did after 8:43 it was too late. You are aware what trim is right? You can't just fix that by pulling on the elevators if the entire rear airfoil is directed downward.
I'm not an expert but while less dramatic than ionizing radiation, it certainly has more effect than just heat. Think RF can induce potentials especially as it regards cells ion transport, gates. And yeah, my question is more oriented towards whether human life is adapted to RF, I'm sure some bacteria would
I have a lot of sympathy for this feeling - I am a USAA member, but through family, nothing I did. I feel fortunate that I qualify. My cofounder and I are trying to build a company a lot like you describe to bring "USAA style" to more people. We just did our launch HN last week (Goodcover). It's renters only right now so won't do exactly what you describe, but just wanted to say I totally get where you're coming from.
Exotic cars (they don't have to be expensive exotics - just something there isn't a lot of data on) + motorcycles can easily shove that figure up there. Add speeding tickets, claims, DUI, and/or crashes - you're gonna raked over the coals.

When I was looking at buying a superbike, to get full coverage - it would be $1000/month. Clean record - but 22-23. Just liability with high deductibles was around $200-300/month. I've since become older - so it's cheaper for full coverage.
MuleSoft, acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B has a team of 600ish engineers, most of which are located in Argentina.
> Staying in your lane should be muscle memory for an experienced driver

The amount of effort needed for this can vary wildly depending on the vehicle, it’s mechanical condition, and the speed it’s being driven at. Some vehicles are more prone to being bothered by wind, or grooves in the road, or require more constant adjustments to maintain lane position.

My tiredness is dependant on the vehicle.

I’ve had cars I’m exhausted from driving just after a 1 hour commute, and I’ve had a luxury sedan I could drive basically indefinitely (once did 3000 miles in 3 days, I didn’t mind it at all).

I wonder if the person you’re replying to previously drive a much less refined car, and would see most of the same benefits even when driving the Tesla manually.

Honestly the second part of their focus, simply being aware of their surroundings, should also be muscle memory for any experienced driver. That’s probably why they find driving so tiring, because they don’t plan ahead enough to keep a peaceful flow, rather than slightly too late scramble to gather information when they have to change lanes or something.
The compile target of ART's dex2oat tool is actually native ELF code while Dalvik's dex2opt only created odex files, so the on-disk cache still exists. I've found sources that this is still done on app installation. On whether it's still done on OS updates, I couldn't find sources, but I guess your experiences mean that now OS updates don't trigger recompilations any more. Thanks for the pointer!
I think the start menu is the wrong place. Desktop widgets or the notification area make more sense to me.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic
Behringer has not taken over any industry in which they have copied the successful because their quality is not high enough. It's high enough for their revenue expectations, but not high enough for the industry.
Is it extremely difficult? I’d have thought quantifying the error rate for a particular application would be relatively easy.
[DUPE] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22411395
Seattle has more or less given up on drug enforcement. This policy has increased the number of visible drug users on the street.
I wonder if all the beans and rice I bought in preparation for Y2K are still good?

There's one thing prepper fantasies have in common... the impending doom never comes. It's fun to think about. But, real honestly, if the survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were able to get by in the days after their tragedy, I bet I could figure something out on an ad-hoc basis.
Yay! I was wishing for this feature just a few days ago. It's somewhat analogous to how sorted (since Python 2.4) frees us from having to tediously make copies of lists to sort them in place.
I think that’s a fair statement.

As a human justice issue, I care that people get basic needs of living met. Whether that’s a house or some sort of communal arrangement doesn’t interest me. This is an intellectual feeling though - I have recurring donations to appropriate organizations, and sometimes I volunteer my time, but it’s out of a general feeling that I need to help my community.

But I do find it far more pressing that I not be made to feel personally uncomfortable or unsafe. That’s not an intellectual commitment - that’s as immediate a need as water when parched.

I care about homelessness; I -! Care !- about that other stuff though.

And you are correct that they are correlated but not the same. I used to live across the street from a halfway house, and a block up from an assisted living facility. It was not uncommon for people housed and fed there to come out for the day, sit on sidewalks, pretend to be homeless, and go back “home” at the end of the day. I saw it daily. They exhibited all the things I’d want to eliminate, which a casual passers-by would associate with homelessness.
Don't fully agree with this.

My last pair of glasses was from a local place that was an ophthalmologist.
Joint WHO and ECDC effort in Italy to support COVID-19 control and prevention
No, but they do tacitly agree that the economic exchange of currency in exchange for a liquid which will cause a changed chemical state in the imbiber and may (due to various factors and differing chances per person) lead to poor decisions, health issues, and addiction in said imbiber is a completely OK system.

Those who refuse to sell and/or consume alcohol don't believe it's an OK system.

Therefore, actions indicate belief and agreement of a system, in this case exchange of money for alcohol. Or, tacit agreement with the system.
What You See in the Finder should always be correct
Yes, the groups and volunteers that work with homeless people, attempt to provide care, understanding, and social services, and if possible a path out of being a rough-sleeper are generally opposed to attempting to "solve" this complex set of issues with facial recognition and augmented reality, and this ought to cause us to hesitate before we make terrifyingly glib declarations like "without a doubt, this regime would certainly make life better for the [homeless & homeless types]".
This happened to me as well. EU citizen that lived for a while in the UK. What is different is that in Google Play I still have my home address not one in the UK. So even more strange.
The impression I got from mine is that all they care about are sleep interruptions (mostly sleep apnea) which does nothing for problems getting to sleep in the first place.

They said my sleep quality was fine, but a bit less than normal which is fair because it was at a lab not at home. But no, that's pretty much the amount I get anywhere. Suggested I lose 5-10kg and see how I go. Seemed like a boilerplate response.
Guess why this was introduced! Incidents like this.

Because while they were able to get away with it, and before the lawyers tapped Elon on the shoulder, those warnings only happened and only required your hands on the steering wheel _four times an hour_.

There's TV interviews with Elon doing exactly that.